Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-19
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
items Gathered From the Different
Sections of the United
States and For
elgn Lands.

Gu llle ClOJllIB WOIhtIS SlIlhS az Shl-
cago when two local unions called out
all members employed by firms who
have adopted the open shop policy.
The executive council endorsed the
strike of the cutters and bushelmen
and called out all of their finishers.
This adds a considerable number OF
women to those now on strike, as most
of the members of the two unions are
persons employed in sewing and fin
ishing garments.
Prominent negroes of Washington,
d. c., are inaugurating movement
for the creation of "a law and educa-
tion fund" for the protection of per-
sons attacked by mobs. The men be-
hind the movement desire to incorpor-
ate a "law and order" building and
loan association, with a reserve fund
of $4,000. Law abiding citizens of
the United States" are to be protected
by the new organization. A reward
ranging from $3.50 to $500 is to be paid
for the arrest and conviction of the
leader of any mob which destroys the
life of an American citizen"
James H. Montgomery, vice presi-
dent of Allegheny college at Mead
NAllS, L a., anu Il oSlIhllol VI udIlOndl
reputation. died recently.
Jacob Tugant, aged 20 years, an in
mate of the soldiers home at Hamp-
ton, Va, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head upon being re-
fused a drink of liquor. Tugant had
been spending n 80 days furlough
with relatives at Copley, Pa.
The populist national committee has
chosen Peoria, ILL.,, as national head
quarters. The committee has issued
instructions to Kansas populists that
new state ticket be nominated or
that the present fusion ticket be filed
again under a populist name instead
of under the fusion name of union
party" The committee fears that
without the name 'populist" the ticket
vii! lose votes.
Beginning August Is the 81 mines
of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. will
suspend operations for a week. Fif-
teen thousand men will be idle.
David Kelly, member of the boy
bandit" quartette of Chicago, has been
found guilty of completely in the mur-
der of John Lane, stage carpenter at
the Illinois theater, by jury in Judge
Chytraus' court and was sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
Prince Henry of Prussia, his wife
and eldest son will leave Germany in
two weeks for q tour of the United
States and will come after his arrival
IN New York directly to st. Louis.
The st. Louis board of health has
decided to present a bill for $4,000 to
the government for the maintenance
of Filipinos housed at the quarantine
hospital since July 5. The Filipinos
were taken to the hospital to be treat
ed for smallpox. All but two, who
died, have recovered sufficiently to be
returned to the reservation on the
worlds fair grounds.
The Carbon steel works in Pitts
burg, employing more than 1000 men,
has started up double turn in both
mills. One of the mills has not oper-
ated double turn for more than year.
Police Commandant Torres, of Agu-
as Calientes, Mexico, and the two po-
licemen who killed Clarence Way and
Edward Latimer. Americans, have
been sentenced to be shot.
Michael Burns shot and killed his
wife at the residence of her parents,
MIR. and Mrs. George Jordan, in Chi
cago. The man had been drinking
and it is thought quarreled with his
wife while drunk. He escaped arrest.
At Meadville, Pa, the strike of the
machinists of the Phoenix iron works,
inaugurated April l, has been declared
off and the men have returned to
work, the differences between the
strikers and employers having been
amicably settled.
Giuseppe Massaro, 80 years old, and
his brother Philippe, aged %, both
tailors, with shop in New York City,
have been locked up at police head
quarters there on charge of eXtor-
tion. They are accused by Ruggiero
Nicosia, barber, of sending him two
letters signed "Black Hand" demand
ing $4,000 or the lives of himself and
his three children.
The British cruiser Tribune recently
landed a party at AYES, or Birds ISL
and, 127 miles west of the north end
of the island of Dominica. and annex
ed it as British possession. Guns
were hauled through the surf and
landed, the British flag was hoisted
and royal salute was fired.
John Tongondt was instantly killed
Tonic Zulio shot through the shoulder
and David Jackson shot through the
hip in a revolver duel over stolen
chickens at Midland No. 2, a coal
town near Cannonsburg, Pa. zulio
and Jackson claim that they fired in
self defense.
Following the abolition of the lock,
step and the cropped hair in New
York state prisons, stripes on the
clothing of first term convicts will be
thing of the past after October
Three thousand suits of dark gray
without stripes, are now being made
by prison workmen from cloth woven
in the Auburn institution.
Three negroes, Israel and JOSEPH
Timbers and Horace Robinson, charg
ed with aiding to escape the men who
attacked Mrs Charles Biddle, neal
Burlington, N. j., several weeks age
when lynching was narrowly avert