Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-06-24
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
items Gathered From the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
elen Lands.

The award of the king OF Italy in
the Anglo Brazilian arbitration re-
garding the frontiers of British Gui-
ana is in favor of Great Britain.
The Kentucky court of appeals has
refused a rehearng to James How
ard, sentenced to life Imprisonment
for alleged completely in ,he Goebel
conspiracy. Howard will carry his
case to the United States supreme
court.
The cotton fields of the south are
face to face with a new disease which
threatens to be far more serious than
Noll weevil. The disease is what the
farmers call sore shin" 1t destroys
the entire plant. Too deep plowing,
together with continued wet weather,
is the supposed cause of the trouble.
At one time a lieutenant in TIE
French army and now guard on a
Brooklyn rapid transit train, Desire
Bretiginere has heen notified by mem
bers of his family in France that his
father is dead, leaving an estate of
which the guard is heir to the extent
f 100000.
The third and last section of the
river was sunk recently and it is ex-
pected the tunnel will be finished in
side of six weeks. The work is an en-
gineering feat which has attracted
much attention The total length of
the tunnel is $500 feet 1t consists of
two cast iron partial cylinders, each
cylinder carrying a single track of
railway.
A movement as been started in
Weehawken, N. j., for patriotic dem
onstratton on July 8, in commemora-
tion of the one hundredth annivers-
AIRY of the death of Alexander Hamil-
ton, who was killed in duel by Aaron
Burr.
The Lake Erie & Western Railroad
Co. has declared Semi-annual divi.
dend of / per cent. on its preferred
stock, reduction of / per cent. from
its previous payment.
A passenger train ON the Big Four
road was wrecked near Indianapolis
The engine was overturned and the
express car was thrown from the
track. Five trainmen were slightly
injured. None of the passengers was
hurt.
ton, ILL.,, of the State Sportsmen's as
sociation worlds record for target
shooting was broken The record
breaking was done by team of five
men, who succeeded in breaking $50
targets.
On the occasion of the tercenten-
nial celebration of the discovery of
the st. Johns river to be held at Ann
apolis, Nova Scotia, June 20, the Uni
ted States will be represented by two
warships, the Detroit and the Topeka
DR.. Nathan Smith Davis, one of the
most prominent physicians in Amer
lea, is dead at Chicago, aged 81 years.
He was in good health and in active
practice of his profession almost I'D to
the time of his death.
Fire at Morton, Wise county, Va,
destroyed the whole business section
of the town, causing loss of about
$150,000, partly insured. Two men
were seriously injured.
A cyclone accompanied by unprece-
dented rains caused great damage and
loss of life about Santiago De Cuba.
The telegraph lines between Havana
and the Santiago end of the island
cation was interrupted for 4S hours.
At Goodland. Ind. the doors of the
Home bank have closed, The where
abouts of F. d. Gilman, president and
cashier. are unknown.
The Mississippi democratic state
convention has instructed the dele
gates from Mississippi to the national
convention to vote as unit for Judge
Alton B. Parker as long as there is
any chance of his nomination.
William e. Hermon, city marshal of
Pitkin, Col. and deputy sheriff of
Gunnison county, has been shot and
instantly killed by Tim Sullivan,
whom he was called to arrest for
threatening his wife. Sullivan esoap-
cd, but officers are on his track.
The grand jury at Denver, Col, has
returned 20 indictments for election
frauds The charges are based on al
legged frauds committed at the cleo
tion for supreme justice last fall and
the several charter elections.
The strange sequence OF aIoplexy
cases in the village of Eastport, Long
Island, is still running. Five cases
among the members of one family
"d'S uSSu lepOIteu, lne ldSL NlCIlHl DE-
ing keeper of the life saving station.
SoHe of those stricken are recovering.
The one hundred and twenty ninth
anniversary of the battle of Bunker
Hill was celebrated in Boston and in
many New England cities. A monu-
ment was dedicated at Roxbury,
Mass, to Gen. Joseph Warren, the
revolutionary leader who fell at
Bunker Hill
Lying asleep on the front porch of
her home at Mackay, Ind, the 9-year-
old daughter of Fred Burnett was bit
ten by huge rattlesnake and died.
The mother found the child curled up
on the mat and by her side was a
rattlesnake six feet long, it's fangs
fastened in the arm of the child. The
father killed the serpent.
dispatch from Cape Henry, Va,
says that quantity of burned wreck
age. cabin furniture, several cases of
oil and passenger check of a steam
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