Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-01-01


ported from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, special train left Halifax and
il rushing across tho continent to
Esuuimalt, B. c., with two batteries
of royal garrison arG'lery. The
train will run through only Canadian
territory.
The Sharon, Pa, plant of the Amer
lean Foundries CO., which has been
closed for two weeks pending n set
tlement OF a wage scale for the mold
ers, has resumed operations, an
agreement satisfactory to both sides
HAVING been reached. 1t is stated that
the men accepted II cut of 10 per
cent, effective from December 1.
A strike of 5000 carriage drivers
and teamsters in st. Louis is threat
ened. 1t is stated that if the Citizens
Industrial Association of st. Louis,
in it's announced purpose to enforce
law and order, interferes with the
proposed strike of cabmen and car
riage drivers, which has been set for
January i, 5000 men will refuse to
work.
Lawrence o. Murray, of Chicago,
has been chosen as assistant secre-
tary of commerce and labor.
Hiram w. Bccltwith, law partner
of Abraham Lincoln from 1856 to
1861. is dead at Chicago, aged ~.
The directors of the Lake Shore
Railroad Co. have declared per
cent. semi-annual dividend. The last
dividend was for 3h per cent.
Announcement is made of the APP
pointment of C.. NJ. Waters, as super
intendent of the division of salaries
and allowances of the postotlice de-
partment to succeed George w.
Beavers, to take effect January /.
Mr.. Waters is now acting superin-
tendent of the division.
At Bennington, VT, Mrs. Mary a.
Rogers has been found guilty of mur-
der in the first degree in killing her
husband, Marcus ii. Rogers, on
August IL, 1902. The verdict carries
the death penalty.
News has been received of a double
killing at Whiteside, Tenn, in which
white man and n negro lost their
lives. The two were gambling when
dispute arose. The negro grabbed
poker and rushed at his companion,
who fired into the negro's breast.
Fatally wounded, the negro struck
the white man over the head, killing
him.
The secretary of the interior has
revoked the order under which final
action on entries under the timber
and stone act were suspended and all
such entries, aggregating large
number, will now be acted upon in
the regular order by the general land
office. The order involves several
| Il Nf lN1t
domain in the west.
At Sullivan, Ind, Miss Ellen Sim
clair, the school teacher who was
ducked in the ice-cold water of n
pond by certain of her pupils, has
filed suit against six of them for Sl0,-
600 damages.
The Japanese press is urging the
immediate dispatch of troops to
Corea, where, it is asserted, japanese
interests are menaced by Russian
military pressure in the north and
Russian intrigues at Seoul.
w. T. Sherman Doyle, general coun-
sci for a Washington, d. c., corpora
ton, was robbed of $3.50 in a sleeping
car between Council Bluffs and Oma-
ha. He believes the money was taken
from his pocket by three men who
iostled him in the passageway of the
sleeper just before the train entered
| Omaha. The robbers made their es-
cape.
Secretary Cortelyou has ordered
the deportation of the skilled glass
blowers from Stourbridge, England,
who were detained at Ellis Island I'M
der the alien contract labor law
| lon of
bound for Corning, n. Y.
The Mexican government has
granted the eXtradition of Charles
KratZ, wanted in st. Louis for alleged
connection with the franchise sean
dals in that city.
Three men were drowned by the
sinking of the dredge General Poe in
Boston harbor. Twelve others were
rescued.
In response to request from the
: Japanese government Brig. Gen. Johr
Chase, commander of the Colorado
: national guard, has selected three
members of the guard and will select
three more to receive commissions il
the Japanese army.
The steamer Kiowa, inward bount
from Jacksonville, Fla, and Charles
f ton, S. c., was rammed and sunk b,
e the steamer Admiral Dewey in Bos
q ton harbor. All on board the Kiowa
$ numbering 30 persons, were rescued
s by tug.
[ In their effort to hide the lynchin!
e of Arthur Stuart, a colored prisoner
5. whom they secured from the Jail 4
y Pineapple, Ala, a mob is thought u
have fired the Jail, which was de
n stroyed by fire, together with eigh
: warehouses and the postoifce, value,
Il at $4,000.
It Maj. Malcolm Mcdowell, widel
known as an iron and steel expert, j
[. dead at Chicago, aged Is years. ii
O was the youngest brother of the lat
=, Maj. Gen. Mcdowell, who commando
l. the federal troops at the first battl
a of Bull Run. Maj. Mcdowell was aide
de-camp on his brothers staff durin
q that battle.