Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-25

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The malt house of the Frank Jones
Brewing Co.'S immense plant at Ports
, mouth, N. H., was ruined by fire, en-
failing a loss of S150.000.
Eight of the principal business
houses of De Witt, Mo-, burned with
their contents. Loss $4,000, partly
insured.
Six thousand garment workers have
struck in 20 factories of Chicago, fol-
lowing walkout of $50 cutters.
The naval estimates for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1906, aggregate
$114, $780, ,63S, an increase of $17,372,44S
over the last appropriation.
More than score of passengers
| two fast passenger trains on the
Wabash road near Betten, Ill.
| Jack Brown, barber, of Houghton,
Mich, has been shot in the head and
killed. His wife is accused of the kill
ing. Jealousy is the alleged cause.
A dispatch from Victoria, B. c., says
that the American bark Makaweli has
been wrecked off the west coast of
Vancouver Island and that her crew is
lost.
William S. Steedle, aged II years, of
Riverton, N. j., was killed in foot
ball game played at Beverly, N. j., be-
tween the Riverton and Beverly
teams.
In an encounter with a negro rob-
ber, Hyman Isaacs, Chicago pawn
broker, was beaten over the head
with hatchet and probably fatally in
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drawer He was arrested later.
The Foster furniture store at Lafay-
cite, Ind, was completely destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at $780,
900, with $4,000 insurance. Benja-
min O'Connor, fireman, was fatally
injured by fall from a ladder
There has been no rainfall of con-
sequence in Kentucky for more than
two months. Only 81 of an inch fell
during October, which was the dryest
month on record and barely a trace
of rain has fallen during the present
month.
The strike of the furniture team
sters at Chicago is ended. The men
went on strike because the employers
refused to sign an agreement with
them. This the employers finally
agreed to do. The question of the
open shop" was compromised.
Reuben Loree, aged 55, and his son
Fred Loree, aged 80 years, were suf-
focated to death in the lookup at Co.
lumbiaville, Mich. They were intoxi-
Gated when locked up for beating
set fire to their bedding, which was en-
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Gated them to death.
Thomas Shepardson, Peter Miller
and Michael Dowd, election officers, of
Denver, Col, have been adjudged-
guilty by the supreme court of substi-
tuting ballots and swearing in an cleo
ton clerk wrongfully at the recent
election. Shepardson and Miller were
| fined $1,000 each and sentenced to Jail
for one year. Dowd was fined $3.50 and
sentenced to jail for 60 days.
Three hundred men and girls en-
ployed in several manufacturing con-
Germs in a five-story building on the
Bowery at New York City were
thrown into panic by fire, but by
prompt work on the part of firemen
and volunteer rescuers all were taken
out in safety. The building was prac-
tically destroyed.
John B. Brownlow, of Tennessee,
who was dismissed from The postal
service by order of the president, de-
nies that he refused to furnish the de-
partment with detailed statement of
his receipts and disbursements while
acting as disbursing officer of the de-
partment at the ST. Louis exposition.
Dell Darling, the once famous base
ball player, is dead at his home in
Erie, Pa, aged 49 years.
1t is announced at the White House
that Attorney General Moody has de-
cided to remain in President Roose-
velt's new cabinet.
The Japanese navy department re-
ports the capture of the German
| steamer Batelan while attempting to
run the Port Arthur blockade.
Gen. Louis Palma Di Cesnola, di-
rector of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York City, died from an at
tack of acute Indigestion. He was ~
years old.
AT the unusual age of 107 years,
Mrs. Julia Zounski, probably the old
est white person on the Pacific coast,
Is dead at st. Joseph's hospital, Ia
coma, Wash.
A movement is on foot to get Pres
ident Roosevelt to arDitrate the diff
ference between Panama and the cor
poration of foreign bondholders in re-
gard to the Colombia debt.
Staunton military academy at
Staunton, Va, was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire recently. Many of the
boys lost all their belongings. Dam
ages $4,000, insurance $4,000.
A sub committee of the house ju-
dietary committee has resumed the in
vestigation of the impeachment
charges against Judge Charles
Swayne, of the northern district of
Florida.
Property lying unguarded in the
public street, whether it be in front of
an express Office or a department
store, has been declared "lost' within
the meaning of the law by Magistrate
Whitman, of New York City.