Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-19

received q reward of 500 from the
Woodlawn bank for the recovery of
,satchel containing nearly $4,000, lost
on an elevated car. The valise is said
to have been lost by messenger of
the bank. Eight thousand dollars of
its contents was in gold and the re-
mainder in bonds and checks.
In the United States district court at
Wilmington, Del, Judge Bradford
named Howard T. Wallace, president
of the corporation, and James p. Win
chester, the president of a national
bank, as temporary receivers of the
Diamond State Steel Co. Bond was
required in the. sum of 100000. The
receivers were authorized to continue
the business of the concern.
The secretary of the treasury has
forwarded to Lieut.. David H. Jarvis,
Lieut.. e. p. Bertholf and Surgeon
Samuel j. Call, of the revenue cutter
service, the gold medals voted to them
by congress for heroic service per-
formed by them in rescuing the i'm
periled whalers at Point Barrow, Arc
tic Ocean, in the winter of 1897. The
medals are of solid gold and are worth
about $210 each.
Howard Crews Is dead at PittsbIrg
and his wife and sister are in a criti-
cal condition from what the physic-
ians term ptomanie poisoning caused,
it is believed, by corroded coffee pot.
Charles H. Reilly, employed in an
automobile garage at East Orange, N.
j., was killed by the overturning of
machine which he had taken out
secretly to entertain party of
friends.
At Kansas City, Mo-, James Wagner,
aged As, was accidentally shot and
killed by Alexander Brown, a non
union employe of Swift e. Co. Wagner
was attempting to show Brown how to
repel supposed attack by strikers
when Browns revolver exploded and
killed Wagner.
At Knoxville, Tenn, the joint wage
scale conference of miners and oper-
ators of district No. 19 adjourned
without reaching an agreement. The
operators insisted upon reduction in
the present scale and the miners want
an increase. The present contract eX-
pires September 1.
Sir Alfred Harmsworth and a num-
Der of other newspaper proprietors of
London have just closed negotiations
for 1,500 square miles of timber areas
in the interior of Newfoundland, on
which they propose to erect the larg-
est pulp mill in the world.
The Paraguayan revolutionists are
rapidly approaching Asuncion, the
capital of Paraguay. One officer and
Is men were killed and several others
wounded in an attempt to board a
rebel vessel. An attack on the capital
by the insurgents is believed to be
imminent.
The coal miners of Kansas, Indian
Territory, Arkansas, Texas and a
part of Missouri, have voted in favor
of accepting the operators wage
jority of 1924 votes for the PROPOSE
ton. The proposition was for re-
duction of 5 per cent. in wages and af-
fects $4,000 men.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Skinner have ar
rived at Chicago on a trip from Cali
fornia with a horse and buggy. They
| left Los Angeles on December 2 and
will go to Akron, Mich, where Mr..
Skinner, who is rs years old, will visit
comrade in the Seventeenth Michi-
gan infantry. Four sets of wheels
have been worn out on the journey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Skinner intend to return
home in the same manner.
Reports to the International Mer-
camille Agency from commercial GEN.
ters indicate increased distribution Of
merchandise at the west and SOUTH
with excellent outlook for brisk fall
trade.
Miss Clara Bourland, the 16-year-
old daughter of Hon. w. E. Bourland,
of Dixon, KY, was killed by lightning
while talking over a telephone during
heavy thunder storm.
Fire in a four-story brick business
building in the heart of the New York
City wholesale district resulted in one
death and caused damage estimated at
| $4,000. Two firemen were overcome
by smoke on the top floor and had to
be lowered to the ground with ropes.
At Goldfield, New, w. l.. Elliott, a
saloonkeeper, shot and killed Jack
Madigan and probably fatally wound
ed John Hamilton. Madigan had re-
peatedly threatened Elliott, and when
he and Hamilton went into Elliott's
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At Toronto, Ont, builders laborers
to the number of about 1,500 are on
strike for an increase in their wages
from 25 to 2S cents an hour. Their ac-
tion may involve all the different
building trades. Should it do so the
bosses will declare a shutdown.
The General Trades and Labor
union of st. Louis has voted not to
participate in the Labor day celebra-
tion at the worlds fair On the grounds
that the exposition is conducted along
the lines of an open shop" by per
mitting the employment of both union
and non union labor.
A check for 100000 has been for
warded to the United States treasury
by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Co. as the third of the stipulated $780,.
600 bi-monthly payments on the loar
of $4,600000 advanced to the worlds
fair by the federal government. The
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