Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-05
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
Items Gathered From the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
elon Lands.

MIN MAD as ne lay In Z4-lnCn water
main 300 feet from its mouth. Barrett
was foreman of gang of pipe
layers engaged in laying 1000 feet
of pipe from Beaver Lake to the
Beaver reservoir, in course of con-
struction between Derby and Ansonia,
Conn.
Marine insurance companies report
n sharp rise in war risk rates during
the past week. as direct result of the
action of Russia in holding up British
and German merchantmen at sea. The
war risk rate demanded by the major
ity of the New York companies is l per
cent, but within a few days it may be
expedient to demand 8, 5 or even 10
per cent.
All the principal window glass job
bers in the United States have de-
cided to advance the price of window
glass in all shapes from 5 to ~ per
cent. In addition to this increase it
was decided that within 80 days the
price should be advanced 10 per cent.
more. According to the jobbers they
have been selling glass at loss for
over year.
In a collision between passenger
trains on the st. Louis, Kansas City &
Colorado road, near Jeffriesburg, Mo-,
]. H. Esseman, farmer, of Belmont,
Mo-, was killed and Engineer N. ].
Clary was probably fatally injured.
The United States is preparing to
take a strong position for the protec-
ton of neutral ships carrying Ameri-
can cargoes. This is indicated by the
fact that the United States has made
an official inquiry of Russia regarding
the British steamer Ardova, seized by
the volunteer vessel Smolensk in the
Red Sea, which had American govern
ment stores on board. The Ardova
had already been released when the
inquiry was made.
Washington's elm, famous old tree
which has stood at the corner of Elm
and Morris streets, Morristown, N. j.,
for more than IT'S years, has been cut
down. Washington had his headquar-
ters there during the winter of 1779-S0.
State Bank Examiner Bergh has
taken charge of the state bank at
Mauston, Wis, and closed its doors.
The liabilities of the bank are stated
to be $137,901, f which amount $780,
704 is due depositors.
Hitched to a sulky cultivator Will
liam Hoyt pulled his wife and their 4
ILL.,, to the worlds fair Mr.. Hoyt set
out upon wager and covered the dis
lance of 315 miles in just one month,
thus winning his bet of $1,000.
A strange epidemic has appeared
among the cattle at Newport, r. /.
DR.. William T. Bull lost five animals.
Dogs also are affected and several
have died. The disease acts upon the
spinal cord, and paralysis of the hind
limbs is the principal symptom.
Mrs. Davis, a Syrian peddler, was
found dead in bed at Brownsville, Pa,
with a bullet wound in her right
breast. Her son Michael has been ar
rested, charged with the killing. 1t is
claimed he shot her for refusing to
give him money.
The New York Central Railroad Co.
Is reported to be negotiating for the
purchase of 47G milas of trolley lines
including the Albany & Hudson VAL
ley. the Schenectady, the Utica &
Mohawk Valley, the Syracuse Rapid
Transit and the Buffalo International
railways. The Syracuse Rapid Tran
W
lines are the only ones bought so far.
After years of suffering from an ill
ness which several physicians said
was consumption, Miss Iva Brakeman,
% years old, of Newton Upper Falls,
Mass, has coughed up penny, and
her health is rapidly improving.
Samuel H. Cordell, an insurance
agent at Dallas, Tex, shot and killed
his wife while she was asleep. Cor
dell then shot himself through the
head, dying instantly. Jealousy is
given as the cause.
Judge Lochren, of the United States
district court at st. Paul, Mimi, has
decided the case of the United States
against Russell Sage, as assignee of
the Hastings & Dakota Railway Co..
in which he orders the defendant to
restore to the government certain
tracts Of land which the railway com
pany gained title to enormously
through the fault of a clerk in the
land Office. The decision settles six
other cases involving 1920 acres in
all.
w. Fl. Miller, a telegraph operator
from Erie, Pa, who has been employ
ed in Joliet, H.. hanged himself in tht
woods adjoining the penitentiary a
Joliet. He had received news of the
death OF his only child in Erie, anC
meeting a child near his boarding
house which he said resembled hi
own, he was overcome by grief
Geirge f. Hammond, one of tn
bandits who dynamited q Northern
Pacific train near Bearmouth, Mont
on June 1G, has made confession L
Sheriif Doust, of Spokane, Wash. Tn
highwayman says the booty was ubou
$4,000 in money and 400 small dia
monds. In the division, he got all tn
diamonds and 81 500 cash. The bandi
guided the officers to his cache lea
Couer d'Alene City and they dug u
$3.50 diamonds and 1925 in money.
According to the schedules of tn
estate Of the late William C. Whitney
which have been filed at New Vor
City. the estate is estimated ut $21
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