Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-06-10

seon, o., fell in and one employe, carr
Bradley, was caught under 1t and In
statly killed.
At Fairmont, w. Va, four people
were fatally hurt and eight others
seriously injured in an explosion of
natural gas which wrecked large
boarding house.
During the annual field meet of the
high school at Bad Axe, Mich, ham
mer slipped from the hands of one of
the contestants and went into the
crowd, struck A. Frost, boy, and
crushed his skull. His injuries were
fatal.
Since sluicing began in the Klon-
dixie on May s, royalty has been paid
on 57,753 ounces of gold, or nearly two
tons. This is the largest amount ever
produced up to June in that dis
trict. Last year only 1900 ounces
were taken out in a similar period.
A movement is under way in
knights of Labor circles to have Ter
ence V. Powderly, formerly general
master workman Of that organization,
assume the leadership once more.
The chief of the bureau of statistics
of the department of agriculture esti-
mates the total area planted in cotton
in the United States this season at 3d.
73O,371 acres, an increase of 2,S23,016
acres, or 9.S per cent. upon the acreage
planted last year.
Frank Niezorawski, former member
of the Milwaukee board of public
works, convicted of bribery, has
been denied a new trial and sentenced
to pay fine of 81, 900 and costs. Niez-
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brib9 of $500 in connection with the
| awarding of a contract for public
school building.
After five days silence out of fear of
the kidnappers, Mrs. Felipo Basso, an
Italian woman living in New York
City, reported to the police that her
daughter, a pretty child of 13 years,
was stolen. 1t is said to be the fifth
case of the kind within fortnight.
A charge by police reserves was
necessary to drive away thousands of
persons blocking Central park, New
York City, in front of the home of
Hannah Elias, the octoroon who is
charged by John R. Platt, an aged mil
lionaire manufacturer, with having Sc
cured from him by blackmail nearly
100000 in cash and real estate.
Mounted police headed the charge.
A freight train collided with a work
train on the Southern railway near
Harrodsburg, KY, killing two train
men and injuring six others. John
Scarion, engineer of the freight, was
roasted to death under his engine.
Samuel Williams, engineer of the
work train, was crushed to death and
the work train was reduced to ashes.
The successful treatment of milk
fever in cows by the injection of ELL
tered atmospheric air" into the udder
is announced in bulletin issued by
the department of agriculture. The
air treatment described is simple, and
the experiments have been successful
in every instance. Milk fever hereto
fore has been fatal malady, infiict-
ing great havoc in all large dairy dis
tricts.
While at work on 20-story build
ing in New York City, John Sullivan,
laborer, fell five stories and lost one
of his legs in mid air. AS he dropped
down an open shaft Sullivan struck
an iron girder with great force. 1t cut
off one of his limbs above the knee
like knife. Sullivan probably will
die.
Fire at the blackberry mine, Big
Bug district, Arizona, destroyed the
hoisting plant and resulted in the
probable death of three miners. The
hoist house was located directly over
the shaft and when the fire occurred
the men were at work in the mine and
d were completely cut off by the fire.
Mrs. Samuel M. Clemens, the wife
of Mark TWAIN" the American
author and lecturer, died recently at
Florence, Italy. Half an hour before
her death she had conversed cheer
fully with her husband.
James E. McGarr, formerly a we'll
known ball player of the National
league, is dead at the Worcester
(Mass.) insane hospital, of paresis,
aged Al years.
In order to curtail expenses on &C
count of the depression in trade, four
; of the large steel plants at New
Haven, Conn, will lay off 1000 men
July /.
) The department of agriculture has
been advised that DR.. Cook, who has
discovered in Guatemala an ant that
: is fierce enemy of the boil weevil
has started from Guatemala for the
cotton fields, carrying colonies of ants
with which experiments will be made
in the weevil-ravaged sections.
Fire practically destroyed Wood.
SIDE" the mansion of j. A. Burden, q
millionaire iron manufacturer al
> Troy, N. Y. Many valuable paintings
were destroyed and the building
which was the finest in that section
: was flooded by the firemen. Loss
100000.
Potatoes are selling at New Yorl
(, City at the highest prices on record
= and housekeepers are told there is NJ
\ immediate prospect that they will bt
cheaper. New potatoes are selling OF
the dock for $G.25 barrel, so cents
u above previous records. Retailer
: are obtaining nearly twice the price
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