Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-02

mime SWlnule, mas Deen sentenced 10
three months in the county Jail at Des
Moines, Ia, and to pay fine of 5000.
AT Dunkirk, N. Y, Lake Shore lin
tied train No. %, eastbound, running
at high. speed, crashed into the
chemical wagon of the Dunkirk fire
department at the Central avenue
crossing, killing Frank Miller, aged
23 years, a fireman. and injuring four
other men.
The vote cast in Virginia for presi-
dent has been canvassed. Parker re-
ceived S0,664, Roosevelt 4S,1S1, Swal-
low 1885,
The pressed steel car works at Nc
KEGS Rocks, Pa, has resumed opera
tion with COO employees. The mills will
be run night and day.
Russia has accepted the invitation
of the United States to conclude an
arbitration treaty on the lines of the
American French treaty.
Gen. Kuropatlsin is the possessor Of
new 20 horse power automobile with
which he is able to rush at high speed
from one part to another of the line,
% miles long.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors has decided to prepare a
river and harbor appropriation bill to
be presented early in the coming ses-
sion of congress.
G. j. Warner, q bookkeeper, was
killed and IA other passengers were
bruised and cut in street car that
jumped the track at st. Louis and
overturned. None of the injured will
die.
In battle between n posse of citi-
zens and three robbers at Fonda, Ia,
one of the robbers was shot and
wounded. The other two escaped. The
small amount of booty secured was
found on the wounded robber.
The record breaking drouth in Ken
lucky is beginning to decrease the
milk supply in Louisville. Several
dairies have put their customers on
half an allowance and confectioners
are unable to secure enough milk for
use in making certain kinds of candy.
Judge Emory Speer, of the United
States district court at Savannah, Ca,
in charging the grand jury of that
body recently, referred at great length
to the lawlessness existing in all sec
tions of the country. He spoke par
ticularly of the recent outrages at
Statesboro, Ga.
A letter from Boris Sarafoff, the
Macedonian leader, says it is the in
tention of the revolutionary commit
tee to defer the next general rising
until the spring of 1906, after the eX-
piration of the two year term of the
Austro- Russian reforms. Sarafoff
adds that the reforms are utter fail
ures.
President Roosevelt has issued an
order amending the civil service rules
SO as to include within the classified
service the positions of deputy col
lectors of customs and the chief col
lector at each sub port. Future ap-
pointments, therefore, must be based
upon competitive examinations. The
order affects about 400 positions.
Mrs. Maria B. Wilks, the oldest
actress in the country, is dead at the
Prince of Peace hospital, Philadelphia,
at the age of SS years. She retired
from the stage many years ago.
Archbishop Ireland denies the state
ment sent out from st. Paul, Mimi,
that Father John T. Harrison, former
pastor of st. Joseph's parish, had
won his appeal to the Holy See at
Rome.
Between $4,000 and $4,000 persons
attended Thanksgiving performances
in the New York theatres and, count
ing the matinees, $4,000 paid admis-
sion. The total amount taken in at
box Offices aggregated about 100000.
A wedding party near Monastir,
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tered by Greeks. Thirteen of the
party were killed and five were
wounded.
Refused permission to do hard labor
at the penitentiary at Joliet, ILL.,, two
confessed murderers have begun pro-
ceedings in the circuit court to secure
their freedom.
The official vote of Iowa shows:
Roosevelt SO7,9O7, Parker 1914,
Swallow 11,601, Debs 14,S47, Watson
2,2O7 Roosevelt's plurality over
Parker is 15S,766.
James W. Hendricks, the oldest man
in Louisville, KY. is dead at the age
of 101. Mr.. Hendricks had never been
Ill day, had never spent cent for
medicine nor consulted a physician.
A collection Of caricatures in oil,
pen and pencil, the property of Chaplin
& Gore. was ruined in $4,000 fire
which started in the Rubel &c Allie
gretti chocolate factory at Chicago.
Lack of oxygen in the room where
he slept caused the death of Charles
Krasny, machinist, living in Newark,
N. j. The one door and window were
so tightly closed as to make the room
practically air tight.
Stockholders in the South African
Boer War Exhibition Co., worlds
fair concession, have filed a petition
in the circuit court at st. Louis asking
that receiver be appointed to take
charge of the assets of the concern.
Ground has been broken for the
first building of great negro educa-
tional institution which the Freed
mems Aid and Southern Educational
society, an auxiliary of the Methodist
church, will erect at Spalding, Ala.
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