Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-02
INTERESTING NEWS NOTES.
HAPP ENiNGs IN THE BUSY
WORLD BOILED DOWN.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Recent Events that Contain the
Plth of the General News
for the Perusal Of
Our Readers.

are being recruited from the national
guard of Oregon and it is said that al
ready about 25 members have made
application.
Prompted by jealousy Frank Sayler,
a negro farm hand living near Phila-
delphia, shot and killed Henry Hen
derson, aged 90 years, and when he
was overtaken by George Henderson,
Henry's uncle, fatally shot him also.
Ample employment for the furnaces
and mills is now practically assured
for the winter, which is usually faced
by the industry with doubts, The buy
ing movement has spread in all direc-
tions and has assumed somewhat sur
prising proportions.
Milt Shaw, prominent lawyer Of
Hickman. KY, shot and killed his
uncle, Robert Buck. The plea is self
defense.
Thirty-five new churches are to be
built within the next few months in
the Bay City, Mich, district of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Mrs. Lizzie Court, Al years old, lost
her life, and her husband and infant
child were probably fatally burned in
n fire which partially destroyed their
home at Chicago. The fire was caus-
ed by kerosene oil lamp explosion.
The largest number of steerage pas
sengers with two exceptions ever
brought to New York in one vessel
came in recently on the steamer
Main, from Bremen. There were 1851
names on the steerage list.
Paul Kruger, the late ex-president
of the Transvaal republic, left a for
l. l.
queathed $125,000 to various societies
in Holland and sums to all the funds
opened after the South African war
for the support of Boer widows and
orphans.
Secretary Hay and the Viscount De
Alte have signed an arbitration treaty
between the United States and Portu-
gal.
Thirteen deaths resulted from foot
ball this season. The casualty list is
the same as last year, but the number
of serious injuries during the season
just closed will exceed that of any
year since the Introduction of the
modern college sport. The players in
jured number 296.
The North Sea convention has been
signed at st. Petersburg by Foreign
Minister Lamsdorff and Ambassador
Hardinge.
Secretary Hay has received from
the German government cordial note
accepting in principle President
Roosevelt's suggestion for another
conference at The Hague.
The Big Bend national bank of Day.
export, Wash, has been closed by di-
rection of the comptroller of the cur
rency because of insolvency, and a re-
ceiver has been appointed.
Frank Duncan, notorious safe
blower who murdered Policeman G..
W. Kirkley, was hanged recently at
Birmingham. Ala. Duncan escaped
from Jail there in January, 1902.
BY the overturning of a patrol
wagon carrying seven police reserves
of the Canarsie police station, Brook
lyn, N Y, the driver and three of the
reserves were seriously injured.
A story of Sickness hunger and
starvation has come to the state de-
partment from Mr.. Norton, the Amer
lean consul at Harput, in report
upon the condition of the population
in the Mush district. The consul says
of the 10000 survivors of the recent
massacre few saved anything but
their lives.
Unprecedented snowfalls continue
in the British provinces. Many places
and villages are isolated and every
where in the north railway communi-
cation is delayed and in some parts
entirely stopped.
The rail and steel mills at South
Chicago of the Illinois Steel Co., a
hrnnnh nf tho ITnitpI Stotnc Stnnl Cor
poration, have been closed for an in
definite period, throwing 5000 men
out of employment.
Fourteen treaties of arbitration
have thus far been signed between the
various powers of Europe and the
United States. All the treaties are
practically identical with that of the
French treaty with Great Britain.
The official count of the vote cast in
Illinois for the leading candidates for
president in the last election is as
follows: Roosevelt 632,745, Parker
32S,006, Swallow 34,759, Debs 69,225.
Roosevelt's plurality over Parker 304,-
739.
Charles Werner, aged 33, of Canal
Winchester, o., lost both his hands in
a corn husking machine while feeding
1t. The machinery caught Werner's
coat sleeve, drawing, one hand into the
cogs and in endeavoring to extricate
himself the other hand was caught.
Miss Nellie Stover, of st. Paul,
Mimi, laughed so heartily at a story
told by one of a party of friends at her
home that she dislocated her jaw and
could not close her mouth until q sur
geOn had reset the law.
A. E. Schwan, of Butte, Mont, after
being shot through the heart in a
quarrel, lived for three minutes and
walked through three rooms and q
hallway, finally falling to the floor and
breaking his neck.
Total abstainers in the matter OF
spirituous and malt liquors are likely
in the near future, to be given special
low rates by the leading life insurance
companies.