Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-09
NEWS NOTES.
DolNGs IN THE BUSY WORLD
cHRoNIcLED.
Items Gathered from the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
elgn Lands.

A message from one OF the princi-
pals in the shipping conference at
Frankfort on the Main indicates that
practical settlement of the trans
Atlantic rate war has been reached
and that the terms of compromise
arrangement satisfactory to both
sides will he announced in few days.
Alexander Dickinson, 12-year- old
boy, was driven into the Bronx river
by swarm of hornets and drowned.
The boy, with several companions,
stoned hornets nest until the little
insects came out in swarms and chas-
ed the boys toward the river Dickson
stumbled and fell into the water. The
hornets lowered about, stinging him
viciously when he came to the sur
face. The other boys fled in terror
and did not return until Dickinson had
drowned.
Albert Sachs, a giant German black
smith, of New York City, whose alleg-
ed cruelty had driven two of his wives
to death by carbolic acid, took his own
life in similar manner while in n
drunken frenzy after his third wife,
who had left him. refused to return.
Returns from the biennial school
census show that in the last two years
the minor inhabitants of Chicago have
Increased in number nearly 8 per
cent. and that the greatest growth has
been in the crowded foreign settle
ments. In Chicago there are ESQ.,
persons under 81 years of age.
While incarcerated in jail at Wei
mar, Texas, Oscar Lee Tucker, a II
year-old negro under arrest for at
tempted rape, was mysteriously lynch
ed. The officials cannot determine
just how or when the act was COM
mitted.
Two Japanese residents of st.
Petersburg have been arrested as
spies 1t is said that some of the let
ters seized on board the steamer Prinz
Heinrich in July last by the volunteer
fleet steamer Smolensk, were from
them.
James B. Hawley, a prominent poll
tician Of Detroit, Mich, committed
suicide recently by taking strychnine.
The deed is attributed to remorse for
having shot and killed his brother,
April IS, 1902. At that time James B.
Hawley was exonerated by coroner's
jury on the ground of self-defense.
State Treasurer Wickser, of New
York, has received a check for $500
from a firm of New York attorneys
with n note saying that 1t is for the
conscience fund" The senders said
it had been placed in their hands by
Attorney John T. Doyle, of San Fran
cisco, acting for client.
The question of working on Sunday
has been brought to an issue by the
BARRIERS of Jersey City. Members of
the union there have notified the boss
BARRIERS that no members will work on
Sundays after September II. A COM
mittee from the union has asked the
chief of police to help close the shops.
All grades of refined sugar have
been advanced five cents a hundred
pounds.
Men who have been paying alimony
TO former wife, married after getting
her decree, are celebrating over the
new state law which went into eff
feet in New York on the 1st and cuts
off the incomes of thousands of di-
vorcees now living with their second
husbands. According to the new stat
ute, alimony payments assessed
against an eX-husband are to continue
only so long as the woman shall re-
main unmarried.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment of Earl Grey as governor
general of Canada, in succession to
the Earl of Mimic.
Probably the largest single order
for railroad equipment for export ever
placed with American manufacturers
has just been closed. 1t comprises GAO
freight cars and 3S passenger, sleep
ing and baggage cars for the Argen-
tine government railways. The Amer
lean manufacturers secured the or
ders in the face of strong competition
on the part of British, German and
Belgian manufacturers.
Grrson j. Newwitter, doing bust
ness as the Imperial silk mills in New
York City and at Astoria, l.. l., hls
filed a petition in bankruptcy, with
liabilities of $123,700 and assets of
s105,500. Newwitter has been identi-
fed with the silk trade for 80 years.
Because Youlden, Smith G. Hopkins,
a firm of teamsters in Boston, refused
TO discharge a driver who would not
join the Team Drivers union, and
who was working at a scale lower
than that demanded by the union, S5
employees of the firm have been called
out on strike.
The steamship Alaskan, which ar
rived at New York recently with a
cargo of sugar, made nearly 100000
for the owner of her cargo by being
delayed in storm. The rise in sugar
added to the value of the cargo by
$29,120. 1t was the most valuable
shipload ever sent from Hawaii.
Announcement is made by the
worlds fair management that the ST.
100000 loan applied for more than a
month ago to be used in case of emer-
gency, will not be needed. 1t is stated
that the revenue of the fair has ex-
ceeded expectations and the total
daily receipts, in round numbers,
amount to about $4,000. The cost of
operating the fair is $4,000 day.
Antonio Giorglo has been put to
death in the electric chair at the Au-
burn, N, Y prison for his mart I'm the