Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-03-11

cell. Durrant was stabbed to Heath,
while Jones is in n critical coniision.
The bodies of the men are eorered
with stab wounds.
c. H. Sparks, n negro murderer, was
hanged ut Opelil<a, Ala, under eNcit-
ing circumstances. Before being
taken from his cell Sparks assaulted
and severely wounded one of the
guards with knife. Sparks was
then pinned to the wall with pitch
forks and the sheriff and deputies
overpowercd and handcufed him, af-
ter which he was led to the scaffold.
Terrence Flood, a timeReeper at
| Cramps shipynrd in Philadelphia,
has been arrested and held in $4,000
bail for n further hearing, charged
| with embezzlng $1,000. The officials
suspect the existence of conspiracy
TO defraud the company. Padded pay
rolls is said to be the method en-
ployed in the alleged embezzlemcnt.
Otto Pierce, of Port Huron, and
Orrin Ranse were burned to death
seven miles north of Grayling. Mich,
when the Claude Thomliins lumber
camp was destroyed by fire.
One priest and two servants were
| killed and two other priests were
severely injured at fire which de-
stroyed st. Patrick's Roman Catholic
church and the adjoining rectory in
Long Island City, n. Y.
Il. ID. Atwood. of Salamanca, n. Y,
one of the oldest and best known
railroad men of western New York,
shot himself on his daughters grave.
1t is supposed that he took his life
while temporarily insane.
A general strike has been ordered
by the Sign Painters union of
New York City. There are said to be
about $50 men involved. They de-
mand n signed agreement from their
employers guaranteeing them 81 per
day during the coming year. That is
the scale now, but the Employers re-
fuse to bind themselves.
At Chicago John johnson and Louis
Tilford, both colored, have been con-
victed of the murder of Policeman
Dennis Fitzgerald, and sentenced,
Johnson to hang and Tilford to II
years in the penitentiary The two
men ovcrpowered Fitzgerald when he
attempted to arrest them for a bur-
glary, beat him into insensibility
with his own club and then shot him
three times.
Attorney John NJ. Glover, Il former
congressman from Missouri, has filed
suit in the district court at Cripple
Creek, Col, against Gov. James H.
Peabody. Col. Edward Verdeck berg,
several mining companies, and a num-
ber of officers and members of the
Mine Owners association, asking
damages to the amount of $15O,0O0
for false Imprisonment.
AS the result of an explosion of
powder and dynamite at the maga-
zine of the II. S. Kerbaugh Co. at
Heads Hill, Pa, one man, Patrick
Quinlan, was killed and 81 others
were injured. Jacob Squibbs, who
was in his home half mile from the
scene of the explosion, was so badly
thurt by his house being carried from
its foundation that he will die.
An open war has been declared on
certain pool rooms in New York City
by the telegraph company which sup
plies returns from the various race
tracks. More than 100 rooms were
thrown out of business until the
larger concerns established telephone
connection with rooms in Chicago
where the necessary news was OBJ
tanned.
Arrangements have been made by
the Santa Fe Railway Co. for the es-
tablishment of two large Dunkard
colonies in northern Texas and in the
Pecos valley. Between 300 and 500
families are expected to locate in the
colonies.
In n collision between Wisconsin
Central freight trains near Auburn
dale, Wis, Fireman Charles Kelly and
Brakeman Herbert Mccarthy were
killed.
Mark Dunn, convicted or the MUIR
der of a wealthy farmer named Fen
ton, two years ago, and sentenced to
be hanged March IL, has escaped
, from Jail at st. Joseph, Mo.
Eight hundred finishers employed
by the Cement Contractors associa-
ton of Chicago have struck for a
wage increase of ten cents an hour
The men have been receiving so cents
an hour.
Three trainmen were killed in a
, rear-cnd collision between freight
/ trains on the Missouri Pacific road in
the tunnel near Moreau bridge, iour
miles from Jefferson City, Mo.
} One man was killed and several
others were injured in fire which
destroyed the malt house of George
, Bullen & Co. at Chicago. Loss $4,000
Pneumonia and grip have spread to
? such an extent in New York City as
to be practically epidemic. There
t are about 800 cases of pneumonia in
! Bellevue hospital, and other hospitals
| have a proportionate number. Pneu
z monia has attacked persons in all sta.
tions of life. The mortality among
I the poor is almost unprecedented
= and the number of deaths among the
J, well-to-do is unusually large.
In a collision off Fort McHenry
? near Baltimore, between the Norwc
J. gian steamship Iberia and the Nor
wegian steamship Simon Dumois, the
I former was sunk. The latter was
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