Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-28


Ing Co. II is alleged that Pierce and
johnson offered members of the
Portsmouth city council sums of
money to help in securing contracts
for paving city streets.
In an explosion of flash light pow
der with which he was experimenting,
w. d. Grant, of Chicago, and his wife
%ere probably fatally injured. The
force of the explosion wrecked the
furniture, shattered every pane of
glass and tore great holes in the walls
of the studio where the explosion oc-
Cured The flash light powder was
Grants own invention.
This years total registration in
Greater New York was 6SS,775, which
exceeds by nearly $4,000 the record of
G40,522 in 1900. Each of the boroughs
showed a substantial increase over
the registration of four years ago.
At Atlanta, Ca, Samuel F. Ring
stabbed w. e. Hopen through the
heart with a pair of scissors. Both
are white BARRIERS and the murder oc-
Cured in the shop of hotel.
Negotiations for the sale of a ma
jority of the capital stock of the New
York, Ontario e Western Railroad Co.
to the New York, New Haven G. Hart
ford railroad have been practically
concluded.
l.. Herzfeld, of Chicago, was shot
and fatally wounded while endeavor-
ing to rout three masked highwaymen
who had invaded the grocery of his
father-in-law, A. M. Tubin.
Fifteen earthquakes have been re-
corded on the sesmograph, or earth
quake machine, at the Johns Hopkins
university in Baltimore since April
last
Rendered uncomfortable because Of
leaves on the track Boston & Wor-
cester electric car slid down a steep
hill on Boylston street, Boston, and
crashed into another car that was
stalled at the bottom of the hill.
wrecking both cars and causing pain
full injuries to eight passengers.
Two million dollars is the amount
of damages asked for ore alleged to
have been illegally extracted from the
Nipper mine through the under
ground workings of the Parrott claim
in 1902 by representatives of the
Amalgamated Copper Co., according
to a complaint filed with the federal
court at Butte, Mont.
Allen Parker, the defaulting cashier
of the First National Bank of Tulla-
homa. Tenn, gave himself up recent
ly. He said he lost about $4,000 of
the banks money in Chicago bucket
shops. Parker, in addition to his
banking duties, was deputy revenue
collector for the Tullahoma district.
A gang of robbers who have been
terrorizing southern Ohio made raid
upon Wheelersburg, o. They bur-
glarized the stores of w. H. McCurdy
and Mccoy Brothers, securing several
hundred dollars worth of merchan-
disc and considerable money. They
also secured much plunder from sew
eral residences and escaped.
Two delegates from the British
trades union congress to the next
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor have sailed from Lon
don and upon their arrival here plans
will be discussed for an amalgama-
tion of the English and American
longshoremen in an international
union with about 10000 members.
Ranchers arriving at Big Pine,
Wyo,, from the vicinity of Gray's
river report pitched battle between
the sheep and cattle forces between
the river and Piney creek in which
700 sheep, the property Of the Butter
field outfit, were driven over high
cliff and killed.
DR.. NJ F.. Weyman, private patient
in the insane asylum at st. Joseph,
Mo-, eluded the guards and wandered
through the city. The police tracked
him by the garments and other arti-
cles which he had thrown away
among the discarded effects being a
$1,000 bill and $491 in bills of smaller
denomination. All but about so cents
of the $1,000 he had was recovered.
Frank Gustafson, a convicted mur-
derer who was to have been sentenc-
ed to death in the electric chair, COM
mitted suicide during the night by
hanging himself in his cell in the
Tombs prison at New York City.
The new Kanahwa hotel at Charles
ton, w. Va, has been damaged by fire
starting from electric sign wiring on
the roof. The hotel was full of guests.
The damage, $4,000, caused mostly
by water, is covered by insurance.
Wrenching himself free from the
grasp of two men who had OWNED his
purpose and seized him, an unknown
man flung himself under an elevated
train at Forty second street, New
York City, and was crushed to death
in the presence of scores of persons
who crowded the platform.
DR.. Van Telburn Hoffman, surgeon
of the Atlantic Coast Line railway at
Sumter S. c.. beat his wife and then
blew off the top of his head with a
shotgun. He was very prominent and
the act has caused a great sensation.
Fire Commissioner Hayes, of New
York City, has announced the discov-
cry of plot to obtain from firemen
on the eligible list for promotion to
higher grades large sums of money.
The commissioner was informed of
the matter through knowledge which
came to priest in the performance
of his church duties.