Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-29


hondon recently. He underwent an
operation for cancer July 20, and the
doctors said after a few weeks rest
Barrett would be all right and able To
carry out his intention of producing a
new play in September.
George Farrier, of Jersey City, has
been arrested by postoffice inspectors
on charge of conducting q lottery by
using the United States mails. The
authorities assert Farrier is the head
and front of the San Domingo Lot
terry" and has been sending out tick
cts and alleged drawings to all parts
of the country.
Plans are being perfected by which
general merger of the interurban
railroads of central Ohio will be ef-
fected soon. The Appleyard system
will be the dominant factor in the
movement and the Ohio Union Trac-
tion Co., incorporated some five
months ago, will be the operating con-
cern.
At Alexander, Ca, Sampson Flour
noy, negro, using a double e-barreled
shotgun, fired upon party of fisher
men, killing James Minor and Evans
l OWllUS, anu
ward Minor. The negro escaped.
The steamer Post Boy, while enter
ing the harbor of Saugatuck, Mich,
struck a snag, causing a bad leak.
With the boat in a sinking condition
the captain ran her three miles up the
river and landed 75 passengers. Five
minutes later the boat sank.
The name of Victor C. Lewis, sec
ond lieutenant of the Twenty eighth
company of coast artillery, has been
dropped by the war department from
the army register, on account of alb
sence without leave for three months.
He had been ordered to Honolulu and
disappeared at San Francisco.
Mrs. r. F. O'Brien, who came to
Omaha, Neb., from Canada to attend
the funeral of her father, Patrick
Ford, was arrested at the grave in st.
Mary's cemetery, South Omaha, on
the charge of forgery and taken di-
rectly to the Jail in Omaha in the car
riage that bore her to the cemetery.
An Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
passenger train eastbound from Colo
RADIO was partially derailed five miles
west of Kinsley, Kan, while running
at high speed. Express Messenger
Sewall of Kansas City, was killed.
Several other persons were seriously
injured.
The supreme tent, Knights of the
Maccabees of the World, has adopted
a new schedule of rates. Whole life
insurance will hereafter be furnished
new members at rates ranging from
. = 4 Af ot hn
age of Is to s2.75 at the age of so.
The Portland reduction mill at Colo
RADIO City, Col, owned and operated
by the Portland Gold Mining Co.,
which was closed three weeks ago,
has resumed operations with non
union men. Members of the Mill and
Smelter Mems union, which is affili-
ated with the Western Federation of
Miners, are refused employment. This
completes the non -unioniZing of the
four ore treating plants of Colorado
City. The Portland mill employs 1I5
men.
A petition in bankruptcy has been
filed against the Southern Textile Co.
by attorneys representing several
small creditors. 1t is alleged that the
company is insolvent. A receiver was
appointed in New Jersey. The COM
pany is a New Jersey corporation or
ganized a year ago with a capital
stock of $14,O0O,O0O as holding COM
pany to combine cotton mills in the
south for the sale of their product
through one house in New York.
President Roosevelt has completed
the speech he will delived on the 9th
inst. on the occasion of his notification
of the action of the Chicago conven-
ton. 1t is about 5000 words in length.
Sixteen automobiles piloted by
members of the Automobile Club of
America have started from New York
City on the long run to st. Louis. The
entries originally were G1 in number,
but for various reasons only 1G start
ed. There We're two women in the
party.
A mob of 5000 strike sympathizers
attacked bread wagon of the Heus-
ner Bakery Co. that was returning
from making a delivery of bread to
the Chicago stock yards, land, after
beating the driver and his companion
cut the horse loose and set fire to the
| wagon.
Shot at five times with a rifle in the
hands of an ambushed assassin, Will
liam Dunn, caretaker of the Theodore
B. Willis property at Mount Kisco, n
Y, narrowly escaped death when
seated on the porch of the house with
his wife.
The pushcart peddlers of New York
have declared war on Commissioner
Woodbury., of the street cleaning de.
partment. They charge him with fla
grant oppression against them and de.
clare he is using the cloak of his office
to drive them out of business.
1t is announced that the ST. Clair
Tunnel Co. has decided to abolish the
use of steam power and adopt electric
ity for moving trains through the
Grand Trunk tunnel under the st
Clair river. A three-rail system will
be put in at an expense of 100000.
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