Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-25
INTERESTING NEWS NOTES.
HAP PENINGS IN THE BUSY
WORLD BOILED DOWN.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Recent Events that Contain the
Pth of the General News
for the Perusal of
Our Readers.

Two masked men rODDed Jraln on
the miniature railroad at the worlds
fair. After securing money and valu-
ables amounting to 500 the robbers
escaped.
car of Italian miners being taken
into Zeigler, ILL.,, Joseph Letters min
ing town, was fired into from ambush,
one man being killed. 1t was Balti-
more & Ohio car from the east. About
25 shots were fired.
Neill Sellers and Dave Brown, ne
groes, convicted Cf the murder of Mrs.
George Parker, near Clarkton, N. c.,
in September, were hanged on a
double gallows in the Jail yard at
Elizabethtown, n. c. Both protested
their innocence.
Although lacking official confirma-
ton, it is reported that wire products
have been advanced So ton by the
larger manufacturers. Sheet steel has
advanced 81 ton and tin plate SO.
At Alexandria, Ind, three non union
flint glass workers who were going to
Elwood, Ind, to take the place of
strikers were badly beaten by mob.
A riot call was sounded and the mob
was driven off.
for game of football, to be played in
the stadium on the worlds fair
grounds, between the Carlisle Indian
school, of Pennsylvania, and the Has
kell Indian school, of Kansas, on No
vember &c.
Eleven Japanese and six Chinese
who arrived at San Francisco on the
steamer Manchuria, have been denied
a landing by the United States immi-
grant bureau because they were af-
fiicted with trachoma, contagious
disease of the eyelids.
Thirty hospitals in various large
cities in every section of the country
have promised active cooperation in
the pneumonia investigation recently
begun by a special commission of
eminent specialists. Twenty thousand
cases will be studied in period of six
months.
Ambassador Storer has cabled the
state department from Vienna that
the Austro- Hungarian government is
willing to participate in the second
Hague peace conference called by
President Roosevelt. This is believed
to be the first official acceptance of
the invitation.
w. S. Lang, superintendent of the
coal mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron
and Railroad Co. at Blocton, Ala, who
was shot from ambush recently, is
dead
Jewels valued at $4,000 have been
stolen from the New York apart
ments of Miss Eva Lorraine-Beatty, a
well known society woman of Pitts
h,,r
with the theft of the jewels the butler
disappeared. His wife, who was en-
ployed as housekeeper, was arrested
and confessed that her husband was
guilty; that he had disposed of the
plunder and intended sailing for Eu-
rope.
Frank ]. Hecler has resigned as a
member of the Panama canal commits
sion, owing to i'll health.
The government of the Netherlands
has advised Secretary Hay that it
gladly accepts the suggestion that the
peace conference be reconvened at
The Hague.
A revival of business on the rail-
roads entering New York City has re-
suited within the last six weeks in the
unemployment of more than 10000
men who were dropped from the pay
rolls during few months ending with
June / last.
The Central Vermont railways
freight steamer Mohawk was burned
off Horizons Point, Long Island. The
Mohawk's crew with the exception of
the watchman were taken off by the
steamship Boston and taken to Fall
River. Mass.
Henry Meldrum, formerly United
States surveyor at Portland Ore, has
been found guilty of forgery on 81
counts by a jury in the United States
district court. This is the first con-
yiction in the so-called land fraud
cases now pending before Judge Bell
ing.
With capital stock of $25, 100000 a
company has been incorporated for
the purpose of building model Ori-
entail city on the bay shore at South
San Francisco and moving the Chi
nese quarters to that place and to
transform the present district known
as Chinatown into a residence neigh
borhood.
Rt. Rev. P. j. Donahue, Roman
Catholic bishop of Wheeling, w. Va,
will receive the major portion of the
estate of Sarah c. Tracy, valued at
more than $25O,0O0, under the terms
of the will filed in the surrogate's Of
flee at New York City. The money is
to be used to found school and or
phan asylum.
A number of the ships on the Rus
sian naval program for next year will
be laid down abroad and several OF
them will probably be constructed in
the United States. Lewis Nixon, OF
New York, has already contracted to
build several torpedo boat destroyers
but the larger contracts are yet un.
placed.
The Newfoundland schooner Volun-
teer, from Harbor Grace, for Sidney
stranded on Lingan bar near Halifax
N. s., and became total loss. The
crew spent terrible night on the
craft, over which the sea broke with
great fury The vessel held together
and the crew was rescued.