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

sustained the demurrer of the Jersey
City & Bergen Street Railway Co. in
the suit brought by the city against
that company to recover unpaid car
license fees of $40 per year per ear,
amounting in all to nearly $lOO 300.
The demurrer set up the statutes ns
limitation and under the courts de-
csion Jersey City can now prosecute
it's suit to recover these unpaid fees
for the past six years only.
Michael McHale, 2S years old, said
to be mining engineer whose home
is in Denver, has been saved by tug
crew from drowning in the North
river near New York. McHale had
just alighted from a train in Hoboken,
having reached there on his way to
Ireland for visit, when hallucina-
ton that he was being pursued seized
him. He ran down large pier and
plunged into the river.
Two "bucking" bronchos were re-
sponsble for the killing of one man
and the serious injury of two others
at Chicago. The unruly animals
baked on railroad grade crossing
and a Grand Trunk freight train
crashed into the buggy containing
John Cannon, William Donovan and
William Donahue. Cannon was crush
ed beneath the wheels of the train
and killed. Donovan sustained scalp
wounds and internal injuries, while
Donahue suffered broken leg.
The trial of Nan Patterson, who has
been in the Tombs prison at New
York City since last June, charged
with the murder of Caesar Young, will
begin November 15.
Two lionesses, two monkeys, two
ostriches and zebra, which were
presented by King Menelik of Abys-
sinia to the president of the United
States have arrived at New York on
the steamship Minneapolis, from Lon
don. One lioness died during the
voyage.
The Bessemer Pig Iron association
has sold to Independent concerns
Jones & Laughlin, Lackawanna Steel
Co. and Youngstown Iron Sheet and
Tube Co., $4,000 tons of Bessemer
iron. The price was $3.50 at furnace.
Small lots have been sold at $14.
Mrs. Julia r. Reano and her grand
sen George Kirk, 4 years old, were
burned to death in the Reano home at
Chicago. The grandmother rus ed
into the burning house in an attempt
to save the child.
The sensational trials of Coils. Daul-
rich and Rollin and Capts. Francois
and Mareschal, officers attached to
the French military information bu-
reau, charged with appropriatinS
funds which were used to secure evil
dence against Dreyfus, came TO an
abrupt end recently, when the govern
ment announced that it had abandon
ed the case.
The American navy will be invited
to send representative as a member
of the Anglo Russian inquiry COM
mission which will investigate the
Dogger Bank affair. 1t can be stated
that Admiral Dewey will be given the
refusal of this mission and his accept
ance will be most agreeable to the Of
ficials. The admiral has given no in
timation as to his decision.
The announcement that the basing
price of whisky had dropped from
$1.24 to $1.23, making fall by sue
cessive stages of five cents in about
two months, has created a sensation
in the ranks of the independent deal
ers. The Independents say that the
trust has begun war of eXtermina-
ton.
The war department has sent Or
ders for the court-martial of Capt.
David B. Mulliken, Twenty
infantry, now stationed at Fort Sheri-
dan, ILL.,, on the charge of deserving
his wife whom he married in the
Philippines and also for duplicating
his pay accounts.
At Charleston, S. c., the collapse of
scaffold used in stating a roof re-
suited in the instant death of white
contractor and the serious injury of
three colored workmen, one of whom
may die. They fell 40 feet to the
ground.
1t is stated that Thomas E. Watson,
of Georgia, candidate of the peoples
party for president, will after Decem-
ber l mako his home in New York
Whether he will take up the practice
of law or newspaper work is not
known. y
One man is dead and two others
are seriously scalded as result of an
explosion in the boiler room OF the
tug Warwick, of Toledo, as she lay at
the plant of the Great Lakes engineer
ing works at Ecorse, Mich.
A dispatch from Evanston, Wyo.
says: Mrs Leon Demars, shot in a
duel by her neighbor, Mrs. Nancy
Richards, is dead. Several times the
women had come to blows and each
had warned the other the next en-.
counter would be with guns.
The three -mGsted schooner Chal-
lenger, from Port Blakely to San
Francisco, lies on the bottom of Viii.
lapa river opposite South Bend
Wash, in "a feet of water, where she
was sunk in order to eXtinguish {
lime fire in her hold The fire hat
been burning four days.
Cress Unger, seizure clerk in the Of
flee of the collector of the port at SaI
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