Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-05-20

ers returning to work, having aban-
doned demand that all members of
the Chicago Typotheta should agree
to the closed shop. Conditions that
existed prior to the strike will con-
tinue
Mack Wiley, colored, and his sister
Hattie have been sentenced to the
penitentiary for killing Chief of Po-
lice George Airey, of Norris Park,
ILL.,, during a Halloween disturbance.
Mack Wileys term is for life. His
sister received an indeterminate SEN
tence.
AT CRANKY, Conn, the old Newgate
prison building, a relic of colonial
days, which has been visited annually
by hundreds of people from all parts
of the world, was gutted by fire re-
Gently and most of the valuable arti-
cles of historical interest contained in
it were destroyed.
Steamers on the Volga river are
stopped and searched before passing
the bridges, on suspicion that Japa-
nese agents may be on board with the
intention of blowing them up, which
would impede the progress of trains
bound for Siberia.
Albert, alias Dutch" Fisher, under
sentence of electrocution for murder
committed in Toledo, o., has made a
formal request that the date of his
electrocution be changed from July
to June II, on which date three
others are to be electrocuted.
Ice manufacturers at Columbus, O.,
who have been at loggerheads for
months and have been selling ice in
small lots for % cents hundred
pounds, have reached an agreement
whereby the price will be jumped to
40 cents as soon as weather condi-
tions are such as to create univer-
sal demand for the product
The officials of Independent tele-
phone lines in the middle west ad-
journed after a meeting of two days
at st. Louis, having reached an
| agreement whereby a long distance
telephone communication will shortly
be established between Pittsburg and
Kansas City, taking in many of the
larger towns in the circuit.
At Munising, Mich, Bert Taylor,
| aged 80, shot his wife and then shot
himself through the heart, dying in
stantly. Taylor also shot at his A.
year-old son and at Henry McCann,
proprietor of the Munising hotel,
where his wife was employed and
where the shooting occurred. Mrs.
Taylor cannot live. Jealousy is sup
posed to have caused the crime.
The crack of a pistol instead of
the graceful waving of palm leaves,
as was the custom at the opening of
the Olympic games of long ago,
marked the official beginning of tho
series of athletic events at the Stadi-
um, which will continue throughout
the worlds fair at stated intervals.
The Olympic games will comprise re-
productions of ancient and modern
athletic contests.
The Wichita Indian women at the
worlds fair have completed the ex-
terror of the grass lodge, for the con-
struction of which lodges the tribe
is noted. 1t is the first grass lodge
ever shown at an exposition and is
| shaped much like a mammoth bee
hive. The floor diameter is 25 feet
and the apex where the smoke from
the lodge fires escapes is over 20 feet
from the ground.
At Charlton, Ia, fire of incendiary
origin damaged all the buildings on
two sides of the public square. Two
men who were caught stealing goods
| from one of the burned stores are
suspected of being incendiaries.
Temporary curtailments are being
made at the mines at Iron Mountain,
Mich, and all along the range owing
lack of stock pile room, due to
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lakes. Business is suffering greatly
In consequence.
Georgiana, dowager countess of
Ravensworth, has startled society by
marrying her coachman, says a dis
patch from London. The bride is
nearly 60 years old, leader of one
of the most exclusive sets and re-
garded as one of the staunchest de-
tenders of position.
Scoring has been completed in the
rife and revolver match between
French team of Is shooting in Paris
and an American team at New York
City On total points the Frenchmen
won by 439. The American team
beat the French 81 points with the
revolver, while at rifle targets the
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net victory for the Parisians.
Alonzo Bristow, of Bedford, Ia, has
reported to the police of Chicago the
loss of $10,700, which he received
from the sale Of SO horses at the
Union stock yards in Chicago. He
says he had the money in a small
satchel and that the thief slashed the
side of the bag with knife, thereby
lenabling him to insert his hand.
AS result of a protest of the
Washington union of musicians
against the acceptance by members
of the United States Marine band of
positions in the orchestra of a local
tbeater, President Roosevelt has or.
ldered that no member of the band
shall take the place of any civilian
dismissed on account of a labor dis
pute.
Gen. John B. Sanborn is dead at st.
Paul, Mimi, aged rs. Gen. Sanborn
was brother of Judge Walter Fl.
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