Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-03-04

Western railroad. Seventeen build
ings, all of them frame structures,
were burned, causing u loss of $40,-
600. An overheatcd stove in the resi-
dence of DR.. Kelly was the cause of
the fire.
The bureau of commerce and labor
has published n table showing the dl-
vision of the worlds merchant ma
rine among the several nations.
Great Britain has 5,02o steamers of
100 tons and over; Germany 1,103 and
the United States SAC. The gross tom
mage of these vessels are: Great
Britain 13,966,972 tons; Germany g.
767,463, and the United States 1,610,-
466.
Bishop yierney has given away
$4,000 which he received recently
from the priests of the diocese on the
occasion of the celebration of the
tenth anniversary of his consecra-
tion as bishop OF the diocese of Hart
ford, Conn. He has given $4,000 to
st. Thomas seminary and $4,000 to
St. Francis hospital. Both institu-
tions are located in Hartford.
More than 100 employees of the
American Steel and Wire Co. at Don
ora, Pa. have quit work in conse-
qence of reduction in wages.
Count Leo Tolstoi has contributed
thousand sets of his works, the
profit from the sale of which is to be
expended for the benefit of the Rus
sian troops taking part in the cam
paign in the far east.
The battlcship Wisconsin has beat
en- the worlds record with 13-inch
guns, its expert gunners having made
nine bullseyes out of ten shots fired
within ten minutes.
j. f. Jones, paymaster of the. An
chor coal mines, was on his way from
Centerville, Ia, to the mines near
Sioux City, Ia, with $4,000 to pay the
miners, when he was held up by two
highwaymen. After being fatally
shot he whipped up his team and es-
capped with the money. Both robbers
were captured and are in Jail at Cen
terville.
Gustav Sundstrom, boatswain's
mate on the battleship Mnssachu-
setts. and Mrs. Matilda Friman, the
| wife of Oscar Frman, former ship
mate of Sundstrom. with whom the
latter occasionally made his home in
Brooklyn, n. V, were found dead re-
tcllIlN III Il ElHldn ; IL dpdTlInellS. l. he
couple had taken carbolic acid.
Fire in the big plant of the Nation
al brass and iron works at Reading,
Pa, resulted in the partial destruc-
ton of the property, causing loss of
$lj0,000, covered by insurance. Sew
eral hundred hands were employed in
the works.
The Wisconsin state capitol build
ing was practically destroyed by fire,
with loss estimated at S1.O0O,O0O.
The state carries only partial insur-
ance, being in the process of chang
ing from insurance in companies to Il
| system of state insurance. The fire
involves the building OF n new capi-
| tol, a special session of the legiSla-
ture and the probable renewal of the
agitation in favor of the removal of
the capitol from Madison to Milwau-
kee.
Garment cutters in the clothing
| factories at Minneapolis, Mimi, are
on strike. Three hundred girls left
| their posts because some of them
were asked to accept 25 per cent
reduction in wages. One firm was
willing to pay the union scale, but re-
| fused to sign a contract to that ef-
| feet.
Fire in the sub-cellar of the 23-
story building of the American Tract
Society, New York City, filled the
| lofty skyscraper with dense clouds of
smoke, which found its way to every
| part of the building and into the al.
! joining building, both being rendered
uninhabitable.
The arbitration treaty between
| Great Britain and Spain has been
| signed.
In an cndeavor to cover up the at
tempted robbery of the Camden
bank, a branch of the Baltimore
Trust Co. at Camden, Del, robbers
started fire which did about $780,
600 damage.
Mrs. Ada Crutchfield, wife of David
Crutchfeld, senior member of the
banking firm of Crutchtield & Co..
was instantly killed by falling from
window of her home in the eighth
story of an apartment building at
New York City.
Twenty-eight days have been con-
sumed by John Krayzenslti, Pole. 2.i
| years old, in making almost the en-
| tire distance from New York to Chi
| cago on foot in an attempt to locate
his father and brother, who are liv-
ing, he says, in South Chicago.
The supreme court of Porto Rico
has confirmed the conviction of Pedro
Diaz, who was found guilty by the
lower court OF the murder of boy
! during IA political riot at Humacao
last August. The execution of Daz
will be the first hanging under the
new code. unless, as is considered
highly improbable, Gov. Hunt inter
| vcnes.
After police employers and friends
had searched for him in vain for
weeks, the body of James Elicl, a
! Northwestern railroad freight con-
drctor, was found in the drainage
canal near Chicago. There was n
deep cash in the forehead and all his
money except a little change was
gone. The police believe Flick was at