Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-08
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
Items Gathered From the Different
Sections OF the United
States and For
elgn Lands.


The seizure is valued at more than
$4,000 and is the largest of the kind
ever made at that port. Besides bales
of silks there were many cases con-
tanning Chinese antiques and curios
which were taken from the palaces
and temples at the time of the oecu-
patton of Chinese territory by foreign
troops.
John Sharp Williams, aged "a, son
of Farley l.. Williams, general coun-
sci for the Oregon Short Line railway,
committed suicide at SAT- Lake City.
He put the muzzle of a rifle in his
mouth and the bullet tore out almost
the whole side of his head.
The international strike of the ele-
vator constructors against the Otis
Elevator Co, called on June II, has
been abandoned by the executive com
mittee of the union.
violin made by Antonius Strad-
avarius has been sold for $4,000, says
London dispatch. 1t was once owned
by a street musician well known to
Londoners. He bought the instrument
originally for Sc and sold it, after sew
eral years use, for $125.
Another train load of deported men
has been sent out from Victor, Col.
with orders to unload the men at
Colorado Springs, but upon the arrival
of the train there Capt. Moore, in
charge, was met by Chief of Police
Reynolds and a force of policemen
and ordered to not permit the men to
leave the train.
The gunboat Woodruff, the first war
vessel built by the army under the di-
rection of the quartermaster's de-
partment, was launched recently at
Manila. The vessel, which is named
after Lieut.. Woodruff, who was killed
by Moros, will be used by Gen. Wood
in the rivers of Mindanao during his
campaign in that island.
Despite several suspensions of
payments by industrial companies and
occasional omissions by railroads, the
total of July dividends apparently will
fall but little below the record figures
of last summer. Dividend payments
due July l are estimated at $5S,5O9,-
900, and interest payments at $780,
250,000.
Two children were perhaps fatally
injured and several others less seri-
ously hurt by the blowing down of q
school house five miles north of Hast
ings. Mich.
A great rush of applicants for posi-
tions in the new department OF
licenses, which has supervision of en-
ployment agencies, has caused new
records to be hung up by the New
York City civil service commission.
Sixteen inspectors are to be appointed
and there were exactly 2,100 appli-
cants. Five hundred went away dis
couraged, but the others took the ex-
animation, leaving 100 seekers for
every job. The salary ia 81 500 q year.
Two men were killed, third is not
expected to live and another was seri-
ously injured as the result of train
on the New York Central road run
ming through gang of track hands at
Rochester. N. Y.
Lehigh Valley railroad firemen
have been notified through their
grievance committee that slight in
crease in wages has been granted.
The advance applies only to men do
ing certain classes of work. The
working time of others has been re-
duced.
The treatment of alcoholism by
hypnotism, which began at Moscow
in 1896 and has been tried at other
places since, has been inaugurated in
st. Petersburg by DR.. r. u. Bakoff
who investigated the results and
claims there have been 70 per cent. OF
radical cures for that system against
30 per cent. in the cases of other
known cures.
Because he pasted advertising slips
on United States half dollars, d. T
Phalen, of Harvard, H., was arrested
He admitted he affixed to the coins
some slips stating that, If the none!
was brought to his store, he would
give it's value in clothing. Phalen wa!
released on bonds.
The Gloucester, Mass, fishinG
schooner Harry G. French was sunl
in a collision with the steamer
Deutschland about ten miles west o
Nantucket lightship. Capt. McKa.
and his crew of 16 men were rescued
by the Deutschland, but they lost al
their personal effects.
The negotiations which for SOM
months have been in progress be
tween the city Of Chicago and thu
Union Traction Co., which operates
the surface lines on the north ant
west sides of the city, regarding tn,
renewal of franchises, have beel
broken off and the city will order tn
tracks of the company to be torn up a
rapidly as its franchises expire.
A letter from sailor on board tn,
Norwegian steamer Fortuna, whicl
left New York June g for Cork Ire
land, says that the submarine boa
which was on board the Fortuna wa
purchased by Russia and was shippe,
on the Fortuna to Cronstadt, whence
It will be forwarded by train to Vladi
vostok.
Gates at the worlds fair have beel
equipped with electric coin contro
turnstiles, which obviate the necessit
of purchasing tickets by visitors an
result in saving much time whe
crowds are entering the grounds
Seyenty-hve machines have been pu
in operation.