Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-12


rival at st. Louis has been reported to
the bureau of insular affairs at the
war department, will be placed in edu-
cational institutions throughout the
United States with the opening of the
school season this fall and then will
go through n four-year course of
study. They will spend six weeks at
the st. Louis fair.
Abraham Schlossbach, of Asbury
Park, N. j., has reported to the police
that boarder in his house made him
unconscious by an electric shock and
while he was helpless robbed him in
his own room of over $1,000, The
stranger represented himself as the
discoverer of new electric process
to cure rheumatism and offered
Schlossbach the treatment gratis.
In a At of remorse for having been
found intoxicated, arrested and SEN
fenced to 80 days in New Haven
county Jail, Theodore Daenekindt, of
Meriden, Conn, refuses to eat, drink
or even leave his cell.
Gustavus w. Nagle, a noted bridge
builder, is dead at his home in Elmira.
n. Y. During the civil war he organiz-
ed and superintended the bridge corps
of the United States military railroads
department.
Scores of people were rendered
homeless and nearly 100000 worth of
property was destroyed by fire that
swept Black Bear, a small town in
Idaho. Only a dozen small cottages
were left standing.
Edwin E. Brophy, conductor on
the Sea Gate & Manhattan Beach line,
Coney Island, returned to it's owner a
pouch containing $1,000. The owner,
a well dressed woman, attempted to
reward his honesty by offering him a
silver quarter.
Union men laid off by the Pullman
Co. when the working force was de-
creased have protested to the Chicago
Federation of Labor that they have
been told they will not be re-employed
unless they make application for work
through the employment bureau of the
Chicago Employers association.
The United States geological survey
has issued a report on the production
in the United States during the year
1908 of petroleum, which was 100, ,461,-
337 barrels. valued at S94,694,050.
Eight men were badly injured, two
fatally, in East New York in the col
lapse of wall of a two-story brick
building. Six of the men were buried
under tons of beams, masonry and
flooring. All would have perished had
not policemen and firemen assisted
the workmen in the work of rescue.
The authorities of the reformatory
at Jeffersonville, Ind, have discovered
that Parker and Gatewood, escaped
prisoners, crawled 800 yards through
an 1S-inch sewer which leads to the
Ohio river, and then cut their way out.
Senator Foy, of Egypt, Ga, has
been brought to Savannah under ar
rest by federal officers on a charge of
holding negroes in bondage. Foy is
one of the wealthiest men in south
Georgia and is democratic leader.
He conducts several large turpentine
farms near Egypt, and federal officers
assert that,h is holding many negroes
as slaves.
An old, dilapidated house on wheels
has reached Middletown, n. Y, from
the state of Washington. The house
is occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. E.
Lasley and five children, a son-in law
and his two children. On March %,
1894, the party started from Fort An
geles, Wash, on the trip to benefit
Lasley's health. They proceeded as
far as Maine, then back to Kansas
City, and afterward over various sec
tions of the United States.
Three hundred and ten houses out
of total of $50 at Illsfeld, Wurtem-
berg, have been destroyed by fire.
There were few fatalities, but many
persons were injured by falling walls.
Chairman Cortelyou has announced
that the republican national commit
tee will not interfere in the factional
fight in Wisconsin, but will leave the
matter entirely in the hands of the
courts, where it is at present.
EX-Secretary of War Lamont is
quoted as having declared he is not a
candidate for governor of New York
on the democratic ticket. 81 am not a
candidate and / believe this is year
when no man should seek Office" he
said.
Robert Hess and Edward Chester,
two prisoners confined in the Malheur
county Jail at Vale, Ore, for horse
stealing, made daring escape. Dep
uty Sheriff Thomas was giving the
men their breakfast when he was seiz-
ed, bound and gagged by the two men
and locked up in cell. Then the men
secured arms and horses and started
for the hills.
Fred Winters, a member of the
West Side Athletic club, of New York
City, has made new worlds record
at weight-lifting With one hand he
tossed dumbbell weighing 141
pounds above his head from the
ground, beating by three pounds the
best previous record made by G. w.
Stoessen in Madison Square Garden,
December II, 1897.
Dispatches from points in southern
Colorado tell of the heaviest rain and
wind storm that has swept over that
portion of the state in years. Floods
caused considerable damage to prop
erty Of all descriptions and seriously
interfered with the running of trains.
Nearly all lines loading into tho cnuth