Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-05-13

every shingle mill in Marinette and
Menominee. They demand 15 per
cent increase in wages. Similar de-
mands will be made by the men in 40
other mills belonging to the North
western Cedar Mems association in
northern Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota.
John Campbell Smith, of New York
City, formerly paper merchant, who
inherited more than S1,000,000 flve
years ago, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of $4S,300 and
assets doubtful. Friends attribute the
lose of his fortune to the slump in
cotton following the Sully failure.
sensational killing occurred at
Luling, Tex, S. l.. Nixon, a member
of the state democratic executive
committee, shot and killed r. w. Ma
lone and Col. Veasy, two prominent
citizens of Luling. Nixon is wealthy
planter.
The activity of burglars has made
burglary insurance in Chicago un
profitable to the companies that have
been placing it. A new high sched-
ule of rates on burglary insurance
will go into effect there on June l.
Alfred Mccarthy. a stone mason,
shot and killed William O'Neil in a
RoXbury, Mass, barroom and before
any of the spectators could interfere
fired a bullet into his own head, caus-
ing instant death. The men had been
eRemies for some time.
AL Woods, a convict who escaped
from the Ohio penitentiary November
10, 1903, has been captured at Athens,
o. Woods was finishing a ten-year
term and, having committed several
burglaries at Athens, will be returned
there for trial after his sentence eX-
pires.
At Wabash, Ind, while Christian
Holiness people were in the midst OF
an enthusiastic revival meeting at
their tabernacle an unknown person
dashed big bottle of choroform
over the congregation. A number Of
persons were so overcome that they
had to be dragged to the doors before
they revived
The needful appropriation of $10,-
100000 having been voted by the
board of estimate, work on the struc-
ture of the new Manhattan bridge
over the East river will begin July l..
When completed it will cost $12,000,-
900 and from the standpoint of ca
pacity will be the largest bridge in
the world and probably will be COM
pleted by January 1, 1909, There will
be eight railway tracks.
Two French fishing vessels have
been driven ashore by ice foes on the
west coast of Newfoundland, whittier
they were bound to secure bait. Their
htt hn n1Q
were destroyed. Seven ocean steam
ers bound into the Gulf of st. Law
renee for Montreal are fast in the ice
off Cape Race.
A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal,
announces the death at Pasadena,
Cal, of Andrew McNally, head of the
Chicago publishing house of Rand.
McNally & Co. Mr.. McNally was one
of Chicagos wealthy men and was
rated well up among the city's mil
| lionaires.
After struggle of several weeks
duration in which a non-union man
was killed and much other violence
done, the striking hack drivers of
Kansas City have admitted defeat and
the strike has been declared off. The
Hack Drivers union advised the
strikers to resume work, each man
being allowed to arrange his own
wage scale.
With a satisfactory readjuStment
of the differences between employing
plumbers and journeymen plumbers
| by which 800 men resumed work, it
is announced that the shut-out in
volving $500 laboring men in Des
Moines, Ia, is practically at an end.
A dispatch from ST. Petersburg an.
nounces the death there of NJ. Pleske
late minister of finance.
Renewed energy is being expended
on the preparations of the second Pa.
cilc squadron, which will consist OF
II ironclads and II cruisers, says q
dispatch from st. Petersburg.
AS an Offset to the recently formed
Married Mems Anti-Euchre and
Home Preservation society, of Bay
onne, n. j., the wives of some of the
organizers have announced plans for
the formation of an anti-lodge club.
Quarreling over a 5O-cent jack poi
in penny ante" poker game, Harry
Simmons, circus aeronaut, shot l.
B. Wickman. a waiter. of Chicago
through the heart, killing him. Sim
mons escaped, but later surrendered
to the police.
Edward A. Gott, a we'll known law
yer of Detroit, Mich, formerly con
nected with the Wabash legal staff
there, has committed suicide at his
home.
Timothy Murray chief master al
arms at the New York navy yard, sale
to be the only survivor of Admira
Farragut's fleet at the battle of Mo
bile Bay who Is still in the navy, has
applied for retirement Murray as
powder boy was member of Ad
miral Farragut's own crew on his
flagship. Since then he has seen serv
ice in the navy the world over.
A massive gold seal, worth intrin
sically $4,000 and one of the priceless
treasures of an ancient Chinese
dynasty, has been offered for sale II
San Francisco to a smelling company
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