Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-04-29

of the molders has crippled the plant,
necessitating an indefinite close
At GAINESVILLE, o., after attempting
to commit suicide by cutting an art
terry with broken glass, Edward Hen.
nike, of Detroit, aged 3S years, fought
back five nurses at the City hospital
and jumped down an elevator shaft, a
distance of 10 feet. He died shortly
afterward.
Three fremen were killed and Is
| others injured at a fire in a siX-story
brick building at Newark, N. j., oc-
cupied by Wiener & Co., saddlery
hardware manufacturers. While the
| fire was at its height a score of fire.
men went on the roof of a one-story
| brick structure adjoining the Wiener
| building An explosion occurred in
the Wiener building which blew out
the wall of the adjoining building and
three stories of the side wall of the
| Wiener structure crashed down on
the firemen.
President Roosevelt has removed
Maj. Albert M. Anderson, Indian
agent in charge of the Colville reser-
walton in Washington state, as the re-
! suit of an investigation of gross ir-
agency affairs.
Gen. Thomas Brady, who was sec
ond assistant postmaster general un-
der President Garfield, and who fig
ured, with Stephen Dorsey, in the
star mail route Nals, died at a Jersey
City hospital recently.
Richard Saltonstall Greenough, the
American sculptor, is dead at Rome,
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born in Roxbury, Mass.
Rather than face term of 20 years
in the penitentiary as sentenced upon
| conviction of criminal assault, Syl-
vester Beck, mulatto, killed himself
in the jail at st. Louis by leaping
from the third cell tier to the stone
| floor, so feet below.
The contract for the construction
nike, of Detroit, aged 3S years, fought
| 10, N. " authorized by the state, has
been signed. The monument, which
will be of marble, will cost S93,S90.
Not wheel is turning at the big
| plant of the Glucose Refining Co., at
Joliet, ILL.,, the 500 employees having
| gone on strike. The men assert the
company promised an increased wage
, scale, effective April l., but has not
yet put 1t in force.
At Pueblo, Col, Mayor B. F. Brown
has been indicted by the grand jury
on four counts, three charging false
| pretenses and one alleging forgery.
| All the charges grow out of pay rolls
| in the city departments. Alderman
| Thomas Flynn was arrested on % in
dictments, charging false pretenses
| in the same connection.
| In deciding a case of western turf
| investment concern, Assistant Attor-
ney General Robb, of the postoffice
department, holds that the business of
receiving bets to place on races is a
violation of the law prohibiting lot
teries and games of chance. The con-
Germ therefore is prohibited from
using the mails.
The secretary of the interior has
approved the order of the commits
sioner of the general land Office pro-
viding for the opening of 24S,743 acres
of land of the former Chippewa In
dian reservations in Minnesota on
June 15 The opening is to actual set
tiers only. under the provisions of
the homestead law.
Robert Nicholson, chief boatswain's s
mate of the United States gunboat
Petrol, after % years of honorable
service in the United States navy,
shot and killed himself at San Fran
cisco rather than face charge of
having brought liquor on board the
ship.
tronado passed over Jefferson
tounty, Texas, killing two negro chill.
dren and doing heavy property dam
age. At the town of Sheriff. many
buildings were blown down.
At GAINESVILLE, Wis, the fact has
developed that the fire which destroy
ed the art study plant there was
caused by burglars blowing open the
safe. The loss by the fire was $780,.
600; insurance $4,000. There was nc
money in the safe.
Fandals entered the French pavil.
ion at the worlds fair and destroyed
|, two of the most beautiful of the Pari
an marble statues in the sculpture
exhibit. The statues had been thrown
!; to the floor and broken into bits. 81,
rose trees from the French garden
were stolen.
, The plant of the American Bridge
J Co. at Philadelphia, known as the
) Pencoyd iron works, has resumed op
) erations after having been practically
closed since last October About
1000 hands returned to work. The
suspension was due to scarcity OF
orders.
A tornado passed three miles cas-
of Mexia, Texas, demolishing the
houses of A. b. Shanks, r. b. Baker
: George Wolf and DR., Bachelor Miss
Jennie ShankS WAS nrobahlv fatally
injured and all the members of the
Shanks family were hurt. w. e. Bon
ner and his daughter were blowr
: from carriage and seriously hurt.
William Devere, an actor who tool
part in many farces written by the
: late Charles Hoyt, is dead at New
York City. Devere was once sheriff
. of Colorado county, Col, and achiev
ed considerable fame as a guardian o.
; the peace among the frontiersmen.
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