Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-09

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| Mount Vesuvius is again in activ-
ity. Flames, ashes and stones are
rising from it to a considerable height
and wide stream of lava is issuing
from the crater
The United States has protested to
Russia against the seizure of the
cargo of the British steamer Calchas,
which was captured while bound from
Puget Sound to Japan by the Vladi-
vostok squadron.
Fire swept the business portion of
Gem, Idaho, and large part of the
residence district, entailing n loss of
$150,000, destroying 100 houses and
rendering scores of people homeless.
The houses were occupied for the
most part by miners.
Fire in the chair factory of P. Derby
& Co., in Charlestown, Mass, ruined the
stock and finished product of the COM
pany and burned out the upper floors
of the building, a five-story brick
structure. The loss is estimated at
| 100000. During the fire three men
were injured, none fatally.
On both sides of the building trades
! fight in New York City there are
strong indications that settlement is
| in sight, and it is possible that thou
sands of the skilled mechanics now
idle will be at work under a revised
plan of arbitration within the next
two weeks.
Eight persons were injured by tor
nado and lightning at La Crosse, Wis.
Six people in one house were burned
by shock of lightning, while in an
other residence flying debris struck
and injured two.
That there will be q government
mint in full operation at the Lewis
and Clark exposition is the assurance
given President H. w. Goode by Sec
retary Shaw, of the treasury depart
ment, The mint will be an active ex-
hibit and will be placed where the
processes of making money may be
viewed by all.
Agents of the Panama republic en-
| trusted with investing nearly $1O,O00,-
600 in New York City for their gov
ernment have nearly completed the
task. The fund is a part of the $4O,-
100000 paid by the United States for
the Panama canal.
Philip Caldwell, elevator conductor,
was killed and eight persons were in
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elevator in the store of Sears, ,iRoebuck
& Co. at Chicago. The car fell from
the fifth floor to the basement.
Venezuela is doing better than was
expected in the settlement of the
judgments rendered against her by
the mixed commissions, and instead of
taking ten years to dispose of the
claims of the allied powers-Great
Britain, Germany and Italy-it ap-
pears that these will now be settled in
full in about two years.
The monthly report of the chief of
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of agriculture shows the average
condition of cotton on August 25 to
have been S4.1, as compared with S1.2
on August 25, 1903, and a ten-year
average of 1872.
A general strike order has been is
sued by the Sheet Metal Workers
union at Philadelphia. This action is
the result of the manufacturers re-
fusal to meet the employees in confer
ence unless an arbitrator is first Sc
lected to decide all questions upon
which conference committees might
differ. The strike will affect 500 men.
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his 2-year-old boy by giving him a
dose of paris green, Theodore Hauld-
schmidt took his life by cutting his
throat. Hauldschmidt was a gardener.
His wife had left him and it is suppos-
ed that her desertion had affected his
mind.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, has refused to
call meeting of the national eXecu-
tive council to recommend general
sympathetic action of unionists in
support of the packing house strike.
The maritime supremacy of Mar
seilles, the second city in France, is
threatened with extinction owing to
the continuance of the strike and the
tieup of the entire marine industry.
Much traffic has already been diverted
to Spanish and Italian ports.
Bobby" Walthour, of Atlanta, Ga,
won the 100-kilometre motor paced
professional bicycle championship of
the world from Simar, of France, at
the Crystal palace in London by Az
lengths. The time was / hour and 33
minutes.
An official report of the last census
of France, begun in 1901, shows the
population to be SS,9G1 ,945, or a gain
of only 444,G13 in ten years. Com
parative tables disclose that there is
no other European country in which
the population increases so slowly.
The Sharon, Pa, steel hoop mill,
which was closed on account of
scarcity of steel, has resumed opera
tions in full in all departments, af-
fecting 1900 men. The company does
not expect in future to be Handicapped
by dearth of steel and has orders
booked to run for months.
Thomas Nolan, of the central ex-
ecutive board of the Bricklayers'
union in Greater New York, has mail
ed an important communication to the
members of the Building Trades EN-
ployers' association. 1t is said that
the $4,000 bricklayers have decided
that unless the employers called to-