Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-10-14
NJ EWS NOTES.
DciNGS IN THE BUSY WORLD
CHRoNicLED.
Items Gathered from the Different
Sections of the United
States and For
egn Lands.

III SSNeIdl HuHuTSu luHdDlldHlSi lS III
the throes of a terrible black diph-
iberia epidemic. There are score
down with the disease and several
deaths have already occurred. The
schools have been closed for week
for fear of spreading the disease.
Union bakers on the West Side in
Manhattan and the Bronx have started
a strike in several plants against the
open shop and for the enforcement of
the ten-hour sworkday. So far the
strike has affected only 300 bakers,
but it is possible the trouble will ex-
tend through Manhattan, as the en-
ployers refuse to renew the agreement
with the Bakers union, which ex-
pired last week.
Louis Golden, of Jersey City, who
has been in Jail in Hudson county,
New Jersey, for the past three months,
charged with abusing a 12-year-old
girl, and who was in imminent danger
of being sentenced to hard labor in
the state prison at Trenton for five
years, will be given his liberty. The
girl, Lizzie Wooden, who was adopted
by Golden's brother, has confessed
that the shocking accusation which
she made was false, and that she made
it Just because she couldn't help be
ing bad"
1t has been decided that the United
States government shall not at this
$ime intervene in the administration
of the Congo state as requested by the
distinguished memorialists who re-
Gently petitioned to the president to
investigate King Leopolds admins
tration of affairs there.
The Republic Iron and Steel Co.'S
officials have completed negotiations
by which the company will be able to
tensions of its plants.
Benjamin Baron, a clothing merch-
ant residing in Oakdale, suburb of
Mobile, Ala, shot his wife through the
lungs. The husband and wife got up
to frighten a burglar and the woman,
in the darkness, was mistaken for the
burglar and shot.
William Herman, bartender, aged
% years, was found dead in the base
ment of the saloon at 140 Gratiot ave-
nue., Detroit. His head had been near
ly cut off and the cash register in the
saloon had been robbed.
Jack Ellis and Walter Reidy, living
near Holdenville, I. T., have been shot
and killed at their respective homes
by Billy FiXcat, a full blooded Indian.
The weapon used was n shotgun. Fix
cat is said to have been intoxicated
A jury in Judge Chetlain's court at
Chicago has found Charles Phelogn
Truman H. Wilkinson and William
Irwin guilty of highway robbery and
fixed their punishment at imprison-
ment for life. The action was in ac.
cordance with the decision of the
states attorneys office to demand the
extreme penalty in all robbery cases
where the accused threaten to injure
their victims with revolvers or other
deadly weapons.
Charles l.. Knoedler, of New York,
has received from the French govern
ment medal for bravery. The honor
was conferred for saving people in
peril of death by drowning in 1901 and
for courageous conduct at a fire in
Neufchateau. in 1908.
Preliminary surveys by engineers in
the employ of the city of New York
are being made and reports have been
submitted to the aqueduct commits
sioners to increase the yield of the
Croton watershed by building therein
another enormous reservoir nearly
seven miles long and which, it is esti-
mated, would store more than ten
thousand million gallons for use in
Manhattan.
For abusive language from the con-
ductor of Brooklyn trolley car and a
refusal to give 20 cents change, wo-
man has secured damages of $1,000
from the company.
BY the explosion of a boiler at the
Stratton ice works at Pensacola, Fla
five persons were seriously injured.
James Wilson and nephew, both
from Pennsylvania, who were travel.
ing in Yellowstone Park, came sud
denly upon bear in q timbered part
of the park which attacked them. The
boy was crushed to death and Wilson
was so badly torn and bitten that he
died soon after.
Five submarine torpedo boats built
in Massachusetts have been shipped
by rail from Jersey City. West OF
Chicago" is the destination expressed
upon the way bill. Valued at nearly
$4,000,000 the torpedo boats occupied
II new steel fiat cars and six box cars
the appearance of the entire train be
fng not unlike the caravan of circus
The boats were shipped in sections.
Secret service operative John Il
Washer, who was on duty at Oyster
Bay during the summer and who was
brought to western Pennsylvania IL
hunt alleged counterfeiters, has ar.
rested six persons charged witt
counterfeiting in the last rwo weeks.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York City
has removed the entire civil servics
commission. Park Commissioner vii
liam p. Schmitt. of the Bronx, alst
was dismissed. The removals werc
made on charges preferred by the
Civil Service reform association, tha
the officials removed have been In col
fusion in certifying to Illegal pay
rolls in the park department.
Charged with forging the name o
ex-President Grover Cleyeian> to