Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18
NEWS NOTES.
polNGs IN THE BUSY WORLD
cHRoNlcLED.
items Gathered from the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
eiqn Lands.

Peter Johnson, q resident of Ho-
boken, N. j., narrowly escaped n liv-
ing death in a swamp near his home.
He had sunk to his chin in the quick
sand when rescued.
The plant of the Watson Stillman
Manufacturing Co. at Aldene, N. j.,
was burned, causing loss estimated
at $65,000. Fred Hamburger, of New
ark, spectator, was injured, being
hit on the head by an iron plate which
fell from the roof.
The annual report of Gen. F. G.
Ainsworth, the military secretary of
the army, the first issued from his
Office since its creation by congress at
its last session, gives the total
strength of the army at the close of
the last fiscal year at 3,S71 officers
and 6S,946 enlisted men.
The investigation of the beef trust
instituted by the bureau of corpora
tions at the instance of congress has
been completed. The report will be
presented to the president and it is
quite likely that it will be submitted
TO congress shortly after the opening
of its session in December.
The dead body of Mrs. Henry H.
Donaldson, wife of Prof. Henry H.
Donaldson, of the University of Chi
cago, was found hanging by a rope
from rafter in the basement of the
Donaldson residence at Chicago. 1t
is believed she ended her life while
deranged.
Two miners were killed by an ex-
ploson in the mine of the Peabody
Coal Co. at Sherman, ILL.,, and the
ware room and tipple were destroyed.
President Roosevelt will recon-
mend to congress that authority be
given the Philippine commission to re-
wise the tariff now in force in those
islands.
Nearly a dozen countries will be
represented this year in the annual
Six days bicycle race at Madison
Square Garden. The race will begin
December and end on the night of
December TO-.
Senator Redfield Proctor has an
nounced that he will give $4,000 in
cash and the house in Rutland, VT, in
which he was born, valued at $4,000,
for the establishment of home for
INDECENT and worthy public school
teachers who have passed the age of
usefulness.
Pessimism as to religious progress
on Manhattan island was expressed
by several speakers at the twelfth an
nual meeting OF the New York City
Baptist Mission society. Baptist con-
ditions in New York were declared to
be perhaps worse than those of any
other Protestant body.
Judge Cady Herrick has filed with
the secretary of state statement of
his campaign expenses as democratic
candidate for governor of New York.
He certifies that he contributed s., 900
TO the Albany county democratic COM
mittee and spent $500 more for photo
graphs, travelling, stationery, etc.
The idle plant of the Carnegie Tube
Co. at Carnegie, Pa, has been leased
by A. M. Byers & Co., independent
tube manufacturers, and the works
will be placed in operation at once.
The plant has been closed down two
years. The resumption will give en-
ployment to 500 men.
Plans are about complete for the
building Of an electric railroad from
Cleveland to Meadville, Pa, 1t will
Meadville Railway Co.
The Bank of Rio, H., was robbed
by eight men, who secured $4,000 in
cash and escaped. Rio is a small
town on the Burlington railroad
about ten miles north of Galesburg
After blowing open the bank with
dynamite and securing the money, the
robbers boarded handcar and rode
rapidly away towards the south.
Elmer Wright. an employe of the
Union Telephone Co., of Erie, Pa.
was perhaps fatally shot by A. H
Wright about half a mile north OF
Shadeland, Pa. The wounded man
was member of a gang that is recon.
structing the long distance line from
Pittsburg to Erie, and the trouble
arose over an attempt to erect a pole
in front of A. H. Wright's home. The
men are not relatives.
George Lennox Watson, the yacht
designer. is dead at his residence In
Glasgow, Scotland. He was born il
1851.
The small steamer Wyoming foun,
dered in Lake Huron, five miles of
Point Aux Barques, recently. Hel
crew of 13 men was rescued by the
life saving crew from the Point Aua
Barques station.
Owing to the lack of officers ant
enlisted men in the navy to meet the
actual needs of the service, it has
been found necessary for the navy de
partment to order at least three war
ships out of commission in order Il
man warships which have Just beer
completed and are now awaiting com
mission.
The report of the steel Soundriel
that are members of the Steel Found
ers Society of America shows tha
the business of that class of stee
trade has been most unsatisfactory
The associations report covers tn,
fiscal year ending June 80, 1904. Com
pared with the year preceding, the re
port shows decline in output of from
3S TO AZ per cent. The heaviest