Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-22

four years. He was hurt in street
accident and several times the sur
geons believed they had effected a
cure. The case attracted much at
tention among medical men.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Prinz Heinrich from Hamburg for
Yokohama, was stopped in the Red
Sea by the Russian volunteer fleet
steamer Smolensk and compelled to
give up 81 sacks of letters and "a
sacks and boxes of parcels, all in
tended for Japan.
Three soldiers imprisoned at Gov
ernors island, N. Y, for desertion
tried to escape in row boat One of
them, Private Alfred Bostwick, was
shot by a sentry. The bullet passed
through Bostwick's jaw and he will
probably die. His two companions,
when they saw Bostwick wounded.
stopped rowing. They were over
hauled, taken back to the island and
| put in the guard house.
Although Chairman Cortelyou, of
the republican national committee,
will spend the greater portion of his
time at the New York headquarters,
to be near the president, the coming
campaign will be conducted largely
/ from Chicago.
The employees of the Pittsburg steel
foundry at Glassport, Pa, were paid
off recently and notified that the
plant would be operated non-union
unless a reduction of 10 per cent in
wages was accepted. The men de-
clare they will not return to work at
the cut.
Lee H. Davis, aged II, and George
w. Davis, aged 13, were drowned by
the caps2ing of a canoe off Bois
Blanc island at the mouth of the De-
troit river. The boys were sons of l..
l.. Davis, manager of the Detroit cigar
box factory and had gone to Bois
Blanc with their Sunday-school
teacher.
d. C. Boyd and Robert L. O'Neill
were drowned in a slough in the rail-
road yards at East st. Louis, Ill. The
men were night telegaphers employed
by the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad and were taking a
midnight swim when they lost their
lives.
Alleging fraud and undue influence
on the part of the executors before
the will was signed and delivered,
Nicholas o. Cline, of Frederick, Md,
has filed bill in the circuit court at
Chicago to set aside the will of his
brother, George T. Cline, the mil
lionaire real estate operator who died
about year ago, leaving an estate
estimated at almost $3,000,000.
Train No. on the International &
Great Northern railroad was held up
ot 90,
west of Palestine, Tex. Five bandits,
all young men and apparently anna
teurs, shattered the express car with
dynamite without deatching it from
the train and blew in the end of the
second class coach, but without in
juring any passengers. One of the
robbers apparently was injured. The
robbers secured nothing.
An eastbound passenger train on
the Rock Island system was wrecked
four miles west of Havana, Ark, and
81 persons were injured. The tender
of the locomotive left the track just
before reaching a bridge. The bridge
was broken and the baggage car and
smoking car were thrown over the
embankment.
The advance of the British mission
on Lhassa, the capital of Thibet, has
commenced. Col. Younghusband has
issued proclamation announcing
that it is the intention of the British
government to secure reparation from
the Thibetans for their covert acts of
war"
Charles and James Wilkinson,
)rothers, aged 16 and 10 years re-
| u,l,; hot
ng in mill pond near Laurel, Del.
Pasquale Vergilli is dead, several
other men have bullet and knife
wounds of more or less serious ma
ure and II Italians are under arrest
IS result of row in a saloon at
Paterson, N. j. None of the dozen
men arrested could tell what caused
the trouble.
John Flanagan, of the Greater
New York Irish Athletic association,
the American champion, in throwing
the 5G-pound weight, has made new
worlds record in hurling the missile
with unlimited run and follow" His
distance was 40 feet 2 inches, or 81
inches better than the old record
Owing TO the agreement among the
5000 kosher beef dealers of New
York City to buy no more beef until
high prices created by the strike
shall have again become normal, all
but ten kosher shops are reported
closed.
Lightning struck two of the Enter
prise Powder Co.'S mills at Grace
dale, Pa, exploding COO kegs of pow
der. The mills were destroyed and
those adjoining damaged, while every
house in the town was more or less
damaged. No one was seriously in
jured.
Seven lives were lost in a cloud
burst which occurred at Valparaiso,
Chile. All were women, drowned in
their residences. Hundreds of com
mercial houses and private resi-
dences were inundated, causing great
damage. Many poor families were
left destitute, having had barely time
enough to save their lives.