Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-02

one of the largest individual owners
of real estate in the United States.
j. A. Ellis and A. @. Schmidt have
succeeded in making a new automo-
bile record between Chicago and New
York. They covered the distance in
72 hours and 46 minutes, beating the
former record three hours and Ia min
utes.
Mrs. Hannah Claspy, so years old,
was burned to death in her bed at her
son-in-law's home in Harlem, N. Y,
as result of her fondness for smok-
ing a pipe.
At Sisseton, S. D., William Fitz-
patrick has been held guilty by
coroner's jury of the murder of l.. M.
Hanson and is lodged in jail. Hanson
recently fell heir to an estate of $110,-
900.
BY the bursting of a rendering vat
at the Dalton packing plant located
west of Negaunee, Mich, two of the
employees were burned so severely
that one is dead and the recovery of
the other is despaired of.
The battleship Louisiana, sister
ship to the Connecticut, being built at
the Brooklyn navy yard, was success
fully launched at the Newport News
(Va) shipbulding yards recently.
By referendum vote the miners OF
| the Crooksville, o., district have re-
jected the proposition of the operators
and the strike will continue. The
men have been out over five months.
Over 1000 miners are involved.
Forest fires are raging in British
| Columbia more furiously than ever.
1t is estimated that millions of dol
| lars worth of timber is burning. The
last fire to start was at Point Grey, a
short distance from Vancouver Seven
miles of forest are burning at this
point.
Two men were killed and two 9TH
ers fatally injured by the falling of an
elevator at the Babbitt soap factory in
New York City. On the elevator with
the men when it fell was a carboy Of
muriatic acid. This broke open and
all four men were badly burned, one
of them having his eyes burned out.
The Lake Shore fast mail, No. 1856,
going east, ran into a switch engine,
two miles west of Sturgis, Mich. The
baggage car and mail car of the train
were derailed. One person was ia
tally injured, three seriously injured
and half a dozen more were badly
bruised.
An agreement which ends the lock-
out and strike of 1900 plumbers in
Brooklyn, N. Y, has just been reach
ed. The master plumbers consented
to increase the wages from $3.50 to
$4.15 a day, beginning January 1, the
agreement to run for two years. The
men had demanded an immediate in
crease to $4.75, and So a day after
May /, 1905.
William F. Fuller, bookkeeper of
the Second national bank of Balti-
more, has been committed to Jail on a
charge of stealing $2,500 from the
bank. After his arrest Fuller admitted
his guilt.
Robert Parrot. discoverer of the
famous Parrott mine at Butte, Mont,
is dead at Des Moines, Ia, at the age
of rs. AS young man Parrot went
west and while prospecting discover
ed the great copper mine which bears
his name. He did not profit greatly
by his discovery and his estate will
not exceed $4,000. He sold his mine
in a few years to Marcus DAILY.
Private Costello, Company G, Ninth
infantry, stationed att Madison Bar
racks, Watertown, N. Y, who was
shot by Sentry Plopfert after having
thrown pepper in the sentry's eyes, is
dead. Plopfert has been eXonerated
by military court.
Lee Realty, o. Sharpsyille, Ind, los
= fine Hereford. bull, valued at $1,000
IA q way that was extremely peculiar
The bull placed it's nose in galloI
bucket filed with molasses and the
, fange Of the bucket caught on it!
nose When the animal attempted t.
open mouth the fange, which
turneI in, cut into the flesh and hell
it tighter. Unable to breathe because
of the molasses in it's nostrils, the bul
smothered, and when Beatty found i
the animal was dead.
Stepping upon a loose plank, which
slipped from under his feet, Henr.
Comensky, 40 years old, plunged
head foremost down four stories int
the basement of the new Bausch
Lomb Optical Co.'s building at Roch
ester, N Y, and died shortly after.
Murder and an attempt at conceal
ment is the theory of the police in tn,
police in the case of Maynard Bixby
whose mutilated body was found OF
the Michigan Central railroad tracks
near Orion, Mich, recently
/ Gertrude Sawyer, the young heroine
who recently piloted party of five
, children across the waters of Greer
. Bay during a heavy storm, is to re
ceive a gold medal for her bravery, t.
, he purchased by funds subscribed b!
, citizens of Menominee, Mich. The
, young woman saved the entire part!
? from an almost certain death.
The largest sugar factory in Ger
many near Thorn, West Prussia, wa
burned the other night, involving {
loss of $1,250,000. The fire caused ;
! rise in the sugar market at Hamburg
, of three cents hundred weight.
The Russian government has giveI
assurances to Great Britain that there
, is absolutely no ground for the charg,
t that the Russian warships are dis
a eliminating against British shipping
! in favor of German or other shipping
in connection with their operations Il