Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-02
NEWS NOTES.
DolNGS IN THE BUSY WORLD
CHRoNIcLED.
Items Gathered from the Different
Sections of the United
States and For
eien Lands.

yardS, caused loss eStlmateu At
100000.
In collision at Havana between
800 wharf laborers and strikers ono
man was killed and three were
wounded.
A passenger train bound from Jer-
sey City to st. Louis was held up
more than an hour on the trestle over
Newark bay while man who was
walking on the track and had been
knocked into the water was being res
cued. He was a tramp. His com
panions, an alleged burglar. newspa-
per man, an oysterman and two trav
elers figured in the rescue.
At Eldora, Ia. NJ. s. Boody, a specu-
lator and stockman, shot and killed
himsel; in the presence of his wife.
No cause is given for the act, though it
is supposed unfortunate speculations
prompted the suicide.
Ernest Clegg, a 13-year-ol boy,
supposed to be the son of a wealthy
Philadelphia haberdasher, has been
found in the reform school at Louis
vile, KY, by his parents after the
youngster had for eight months been
cared for as a homeless waif. The
bog claims that last November, while
viewing Christmas toys in the shop
windows, he was kidnapped by two
blind mendicants
At Stamford, Conn, Joseph link, an
itinerant tailor, was suffocated in a
fire which gutted a three-story build
ing occupied by the Salvation Army
and several families. link was a
lodger in the army barracks. William
Ferguson, another lodger, who has
two artificial limbs, reached n second
story window and dropped out, being
probably fatally hurt. Many of the
other occupants of the building re-
ceived bruises and burns.
The steamer Asia, which sailed Au-
gust II from Liverpool for Calcutta,
has arrived at Port Said and reports
having been detained two hours while
her papers and cargo were examined
by the Russian cruiser Ural. The
search took place 60 miles east Of
Cape st. Vincent, Portugal
The Allan line steamer Victorian,
the largest turbine vessel yet built,
was launched at Belfast, Ireland, re-
Gently 1t is expected that she will be
ready for service before the end of
the year. She is $40 feet long, has 60
feet beam and her depth is 40 feet
inches.
Within the last week the traffic to
st. Louis has assumed such proper
tions that passenger men have been
compelled to make repeated calls for
more equipment and it is said that
even now the passenger equipment of
almost every st. Louis line is taxed to
its capacity. Railroad men generally
state that more visitors have been
brought to st. Louis than were carried
TO the Columbian exposition in the
same time.
The failure of rival window glass
workers organizations to obtain the
cooperation of the parent body in the
plan to form one solid association of
skilled workers in the trade resulted
in the filing of bill in equity in the
courts at PittSburg asking for the dis
solution of tho old association, known
as local assembly No. 800, knights of
Labor, and the appointment of re-
ceiyer. Irregularities in the last two
elections of officers are alleged.
Judge Julian Bennett, of Water
town, S. D., is dead of heart failure.
He weighed 440 pounds and was
known as the largest judge in Amer
lea.
Charles R. Stewart, of Sussex coun-
ty, Va, has been arrested, charged
with numbering Miss Annie Boiling
and afterward burning her body in the
woods near Stony Creek. June 2G.
On the ground that the agreement
is not mutual one, Supreme Court
Justice Dickey, of New York, has de.
MED an application by the mosaic and
encaustic tile layers for an injunction
TO restrain the Building Trades En-.
ployers' association from Ordering
maintaining or continuing" a lockout
in alleged violation of an arbitration
agreement entered into between the
association and representatives of the
labor unions on July 8, 1903.
Three persons have lost their lives
by drowning near Edinburg, in the
Adirondacks. They were: Adele
Sturdevant, of Brooklyn, daughter Of
a well known real estate operator
Harris S. Sturdevant, a well known
resident of Rome. NJ Y; James A
Sturdevant, student, of Brooklyn
The men were Miss Sturdevant's
uncles. All three were thrown into
the water when their sailboat cap
sized.
Fire has destroyed the Benjamin
Schenck homestead, one of the oldes
houses on Long Island. 1t was built {
mile from Sycamore Hill 1872 year!
ago and contained highly priced col
lection OF curious old furniture anC
heirlooms.
George r. Beach, lawyer of Jersey
City, has been appointed receiver fol
the International Mercantile Agency
of New York City, by Vice Chancellor
Garrison. The application for the re
ceivership was made by John Enright
of Jersey City, on behalf of certain
stockholders of the concern.
At Atlantic City, N, j., Alfred Davis
one of the oldest life guards in the
service, was drowned while attempt
ing to rescue bather who had gone
beyond his depth.
A general strike of all the purse an(
bag makers in Greater New York ha!
begun. 1t involves 5000 men who de
n