Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-21

DaSed on time ana accuracy, ever made
with guns of this calibre, either in our
own or any other navy.
The Pittsburg Automobile club,which
has in its membership most of the
wealthy men in Pittsburg, has decided
to take novel stand against the fast
driving of automobiles. Counsel for
the club has announced that the latter
will pay $3.50 for the arrest of each
person speeding beyond the legal
limit.
e. d. Fulford, champion trap shot,
died at his home in Utica, N. Y, after
brief illness, of pneumonia. Mr..
Fulford was an inventor of some note
and had patents upon many improve
ments in guns.
About $50 telephone girls have gone
on strike in the general offices of the
Pacific States Telephone Co. at Port
land, Ore, completely tieing up the
telephone system of the city.
Wilhelmina Masur, aged so years,
wife of John Masur, one of the Oldest
newspaper men of Pittsburg, was
stamped to death by a bull in the
stable at their home in Allegheny.
Ex-Gov. Alonzo B. Cornell is dead at
his home in Ithaca, N. Y, after an ill
ness of several months. He was 70
years Of age.
The schooner Billow, bound from
Lockport, l.. l., for Portland, Me-, is
ashore on Little Beach island, off Bid
deford, Me-, and is total wreck. Capt.
X. A. Nash and his crew were saved
by the Biddeford life saving crew.
John Creech, of Watervliet, shot
Martin Lavendusky, of Troy, N. Y,
and then turned his pistol on himself.
Lavendusky was not seriously wound
ed, but Creech was instantly killed.
The shooting took place on Franklin
Square, in the busiest part of Troy.
An attempt was made recently to
blow up with dynamite the Glassport
(Pa.) hotel, which harbored 40 non
union men employed at the Pittsburg
steel foundry works, where there is a
strike. The building was partially
wrecked and the sleeping inmates
thrown from their beds.
The Carnegie Steel Co. has started
two more open hearth furnaces at
South Sharon, Pa, making eight out
of IL in operation. 1t is stated that
the entire plant will be running in full
by the first of next month, affording
employment to over 1000 men.
Judge Barber, Of the common pleas
court at Toledo, o., has decided that
the Toledo Fire Underwriters associ-
alton is an illegal body. His conclu-
sion is that the object of the combina-
tion is to maintain rates and to elimi-
nate competition, and that the scheme
is unlawful and the compact between
members is null and void.
The British steamer Hubert has ar
rived at Barbados and reports that on
October she sighted the British
steamer Kelvin, abandoned, listed to
starboard. On account of boisterous
weather and heavy sea the Kelvin
could not be boarded. The Kelvin sail
ed from New York October for Mon
tevideo.
Plans have been adopted for me-
mortal to Andrew H. Green, known as
the father of Greater New York" q"
who was murdered at the door of his
home by a negro last year. The site
chosen is one of the entrances to Gen.
trail park. 1t is estimated that the me-
mortal will cost $100,OO0 which will be
raised by public subscription.
At Peoria, ILL.,, the jury in the Cor
rington will case, in which the heirs
sought to break the will, returned a
verdict giving the estate to the heirs.
The will of the deceased bequeathed
the entire Corrington estate of $780,
900 for the establishment of uni
versity-
A British ship has been wrecked on
Terra del Fuego, near the Straits of
Magellan, on the Pacific side. The
vessel is a total loss. No loss of life
was reported.
Ebenezer B. Beecher, well known
match manufacturer and a son of
Anson Beecher, whose invention of a
machine completely revolutionized
the match making industry, is dead
| at New Haven, Conn.,, at the age of "a.
Four Japanese students employed
as meat Gamers at the Chicago stock
yards had hand to hand engagement
with number of Russian packing
house employees and suffered a COM
plete rout. One of the students was
taken to hospital severely injured.
AS precaution against disastrous
fires, automatic alarm lines running
direct to the fire department are be-
ing installed in Chicago theatres. The
wires are connected with the sprink-
Ter systems, and when the atmosphere
becomes heated beyond a certain de-
gree the alarm is turned in automatic
ally.
The safe in Faust's restaurant at
st. Louis was forced open and $4,116
in currency and checks taken from
the cash drawer, while $50, the per-
sonal savings of the head barkeeper,
was left intact. The police are search
ing for the assistant night barkeeper
who, they assert, has disappeared.
William f. Fette, aged 80, one of
the pioneers of Milwaukee, Wis, was
recently found dead from asphyxia-
tion and his wife was found unconsci-
GUS in their home. Mrs. Fette is not
| expected to recover. The gas was
found turned on, but whether by acci-
| dent or with suicidal intent is not