Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-06-24

and killed Roy Martin, a white high
school boy in April last and who mar
rowly escaped being lynched, has been
found guilty of murder in the first de-
igree. In Kansas this means life i'm
prisonment.
BY the capsizing of rowboat near
Grand Rapids, o.. M. N. Bryan and
daughter Gertrude, of McComb, and a
Mr.. Bruner Holbrook, of Hoytsville,
o., were drowned. Mrs. Bryan, who
was in the boat when it capsized, was
saved.
Lieut.. Raymond Stone, young
naval officer, as acting governor of
Guam has forced food trust on that
island to reduce prices on the neces-
saries of life sold to the natives.
Two-thirds of the Roumanian wheat
and hay crops has already been lost
owing to the prolonged drought, and
the maize crop is in great danger.
The Shenango Valley steel plant, of
New Castle, Pa, controlled by the
Carnegie Steel Co., has closed down
for an indefinite period, throwing
1000 men idle.
AT st. Louis, after pursuit of
more than l 900 miles, Sheriff Morgan,
Of Mills county, Ia, arrested Clayton
c. Potter, clerk of that county. on
charge of embezzling $4,000 of the
county funds.
Banker A. Sadis, of the Hungarian
Banking Co., of Allegheny, Pa, has
been missing for two weeks and the
bank which was conducted by his
wife during his absence, is now closed.
Depositors aflege that $4,000 is unac-
counted for.
The board of ordnance and fortif-
cations has made an allotment of S16,-
500 for the purpose of a test of the six
6-inch wire wound guns designed by
Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance of the
army, who has presented his patent to
the government.
The rod, wire, wire nail and bloom
ing mills of the Carnegie and Ameri-
can Steel and Wire companies at
Sharon, Pa, have closed down. 1t is
stated that the shutdown will be only
temporary.
Rev. Decatur Edwards, pastor of the
Falmouth Baptist church, while shoot
ing at cats in his back yard at Fred
ericksburg, Va, accidentally shot and
killed Mrs. Lucy Mann, who was
standing on her back porch in an ad-
joining premises.
Zach Mulhall, live stock agent of
the st. Louis & San Francisco rail
road, shot three men. One of them,
an innocent bystander named Ernest
Morgan, is believed to be fatally
wounded. The other men are Frank
Reed, boss hostler of the Wild West
-, 4. Co
Murray, one of the cowboys.
H. H. Rogers steam yacht, the Kan
awha, won the Lysistrata cup and $500
offered by eX-Commodore James Cor
don Bennett, of the New York Yacht
club, by beating F. NJ. Smiths Hauoli,
her only competitor, by three minutes
and 40 seconds in a G0-mile race off
Sandy Hook lightship. The race was
the second of the series. the first of
| which was won by the Kanawha last
season.
The British steamer South America
which arrived recently at New York
had a narrow escape from what might
have been a serious accident. The
steamer encountered heavy tog after
leaving Shields, England, but on June
13 it became so dense she was brought
to full stop. Shortly afterwards the
fog lifted, showing an immense ice
berg scarcely $50 yards ahead. This
iceberg was fully 1.000 feet long and
from $50 to 200 feet high.
The Employers Association of Chi
cago has set May Is, 1905, as the date
for general contest with the Team
sters' union. The organization in the
meanwhile will prepare for struggle.
In street car accident on the Chi
cago, & Joliet line near Lockport, ILL.,,
two men were killed. their horse
killed and buggy demolished
Secretary Taft and the commission
ers for Panama have concluded ar
Irangements for a currency system for
Panama, which is to be submitted to
the Panama legislature for ratifica-
tion.
Harry Bullock, aged 8, and Ernest
Rich, who tried to save the boys life
when young Bullock fell into Bitter
Root river. in Montana, have both
been drowned and companion of
Rich, Miss Anna Strong. who tainted
when she saw the two drowning, has
since lost her reason.
Soule Smith, attorney, jurist and
perhaps the best informed Mason in
the United States, dropped dead at his
home in Lexington, KY, of heart dis
ease. He had held nearly every office
of honor in the Masonic fraternity
and had written largely on that sub
ject. He was a writer for years in
newspapers and magazines.
By the endorsement of a new clause
in its constitution. the Chicago FEEDER
alton of Labor has committed itself to
the sympathetic strike. The section
provides that if one agreement is vio-
lated by an employer all other agree
ments between that employer and
other unions are thereby abrogated.
crushing bow fell on Albert
Kraal, an ivory and pearl inlayer,
when he reached his home at Middle
Village, l. L., and learned that his en-