Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-30

road captured, after a fierce fight, q
man who gave his name as John Spell
man and said his home was in Cleve-
land.
Three masked men who broke into
the house of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Gibbons. residing near Vosburg, Pa.
tortured the aged couple in an effort
to find hidden money. The robbers
kicked and choked the wife until she
became unconscious and probably will
die. The robbers fled, but one was
captured and taken to Tunllhannock
Jail.
Ten prisoners, among them some of
the most desperate criminals ever
confined in the Yellowstone county
prison, made their escape from the Jail
at Billings, Mont, and are still at
large.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, eX-Alder-
man Abraham Ghysels was sentenced
in superior court to pay fine of $500
for accepting a bribe in connection
with the Lake Michigan water deal.
He paid the fine at once.
The steamer Celtic, which recently
arrived at New York from Liverpool,
had on board the largest number of
passengers ever brought to New York
on a single steamer Her passenger
list consisted of $40 saloon, 239 second
cabin and 1880 third class passen-
gers, total of 1887, which, together
with her crew of 3S1, made a grand to-
tai of 3,S1S persons.
Fire caused by furnace sparks COM
pletely destroyed the structural build
ing at the Bethlehem (Pa) steel
works, together with the paint, car,
carpenter and pattern shops. The loss
probably will reach $250,000.
Emerson Rumsey, Benjamin Dove
and George Crothers, strikers at the
Pittsburg steel foundry at Glassport,
Pa, have been sentenced to short
terms in Jail for contempt Of court.
Rear Admiral Jewel, commander-in-
chief of the European squadron, has
informed the navy department that he
will hold the autumn practice of his
squadron at Aboullir bay this year.
Gen. Harrison Allen, deputy auditor
for the post office department, died
suddenly at his residence in Washing
ton, aged 90 years.
The northbound flyer" on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas railroad ran
into a string of freight cars at Lewis
station, Clinton, Mo-, owing to mis-
placed switch. Engineer John Shane
was killed after having reversed his
engine. Three others were injured,
but not seriously
A specially chartered train on the
Pennsylvania railway has made the
distance between Philadelphia and
Chicago S22 miles, in 16 hours and 50
minutes, breaking all previous rec
ords.
A general order has been issued at
the navy department that greatly sim
plifies the method of contracting with
the railroad companies for the trans
portation of officers and men. 1t is
one of several moves recently made by
Secretary Morton to cut out some of
the red tape which clogs the wheels of
the departmental machinery.
Numerous additional applications
have been received at the navy de-
partment for the the command Of the
North Atlantic station, which will be
vacant upon the retirement in March,
1905, of Rear Admiral Barker. AL
though no decision has yet been
reached, there is authority for the
statement that the name of Rear Ad-
miral Robley d. Evans is now promi-
nently under consideration.
Fire caused by mysterious explo-
sion at Peoria, ILL.,, wrecked the hard
ware store of H. Sendmeyer G Co. and
partially destroyed the stocks of ].
Schradzh and the Grand Union Tea
Co. adjoining.
Work has been resumed after a
brief period of idleness in the car
shops of the Pullman Co. The COM
pany put 1000 of it's former employees
at work at wages lower by 10 to 20
per cent. than they were receiving
previously. They will be employed in
the repair department.
At Middlesboro, KY, Jefferson Etter
killed Max Wolf in a fit of jealous
rage and also shot and slightly wound
ed his wife. In his dying agonies Wolf
managed to shoot Etter through the
abdomen.
Impaled upon the stump of tree
by large splinter that penetrated his
right breast to the lung, Alphonse
Pede, of Brooklyn, n. Y, died in the
presence of a score of Mortified boys
and girls with whom he had been
chestnutticg near Jamaica. Pede had
been sitting on the branch OF tree
knocking the chestnuts down to his
companions when the limb on which
he sat broke and he fell face down
ward upon jagged stump below.
A desire expressed by DR.. George G..
Conant, who died at New York last
week, that his brain be delivered to
the department of physiology of Cor
nell university in the interest of scien-
tific research will never be fulfilled.
His body has been cremated by order
of his relatives, who objected to the
fulfillment of his reported wish re-
garding the disposition of his brain.
Cows on the track caused the de-
railment at Lynwood, Mich, of a
through Michigan Central passenger