Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-05-20
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
Items Gathered From the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
elen Lands.


Granite City Manufacturing Co.'s
plant at Granite City, H., caused a
free-for-all fight. Several men re-
ceived bullet wounds and a number
were injured by missiles.
George M Porteous, for three years
a pupil of Bertillon in Paris, and the
man who introduced into the United
States the Bertillon system of meas
uring criminals, has been arrested at
Chicago on a charge of embezzle-
ment. When Bertillon made public
his system about ten years ago.
Porteous was a Chicago detective.
He went to Paris, spending three
years under the master of criminol-
ogy. Returning to Chicago, he was
placed in charge of the national
bureau of identification.
The board of health at Neenah,
Wis, has issued an edict against kiss
ing and has asked that the custom
be discontinued for the general good
of the public. 1t is claimed that the
practice is dangerous in more ways
than one and that It is the direct
cause of the spread of contagious dis
eases.
The French line steamship La Lor-
raine sailed for Havre from New
York recently with $9,S00,000 in gold
bars and specie in her strong room,
the most valuable shipment Of gold
which has ever gone out of New
York. Considering the value of the
ship herself at $4,000, 900, her general
cargo at $1,000,000 and adding these
to the sum represented by the gold,
La Lorraine, as she sailed is the
most valuable ship which ever put
out from New York.
Gov. Odell has vetoed the Remsen
East river gas bill, measure de-
signed to confirm old privileges
granted to the Consolidated Gas Co.,
of New York, legalizing alleged de-
fects in its charter and permitting
the company to lay pipes under the
East river to Astoria, where it had
purchased an immense tract of land
upon which to erect all it's various
plants.
The eliminating tests on the Isle
of Man to decide which cars will rep
resent Great Britain in the race for
the James Gordon Bennett interna-
tional automobile cup race, ended
final speed trials a car driven by C.
carp, one of the prominent competi-
tors, collided with wall and was
completely smashed up. carp and
his brother were shockingly injured
and some of the spectators sustained
injuries.
Influenced by an eloquent sermon,
Frederick Beach, well-known So
ciety man Of Chicago, has been led to
a confession of embezzlement, and,
as a result of the self-imposed accu-
sation, is now under arrest awaiting
trial. In addition to embezzlement
charges he may also be tried on
charge OF bigamy. Beach formerly
held a position of confidence in a
Chicago mercantile house.
At Milwaukee, Wis, suit has be-
gun in the superior court against
Zeno NJ. Host, state insurance COM
missioner, by the Prudential Insur-
ance Company of America for the
recovery of the alleged fees, aggre-
eating S21 ,000 said to have been lille
gally charged by the commissioner
for examining the affairs of the com
pany.
Rejected because she wore a glass
eye, LebuZ Derer, only three weeks a
resident of America, has begun suit
in the circuit court at Chicago for
$4,000 damages against Phil Jara-
bak, a machinist. Jarabak and his
fiancee were happy in the rush of
wedding preparations until, 1t is said,
friend of the bridegroom to-be dis
covered the defect in Miss Derer's
beauty.
The grant of the Carnegie Institu-
tion to Wesleyan University at Mid
dletown, Conn, for use in the expert
ments of Prof. w. o. Atwater with
his respiration calorimeter has just
been increased by $1,000. The orig
inal grant was $4,000. Improvements
have been made in the apparatus and
it is now proposed to go more deeply
into the investigation.
There will be no signs at the
worlds fair warning visitors to
keep off the grass" The inviting
grassy spots and shady hooks may
be sought out and enjoyed by tired
visitors. Guards will not interfere.
Some especially prepared lawns will
be closed to the public, but, generally
speaking, the plots of grass will be
of free access. The embargo against
smoking has also been lifted.
At Norway, Mich, the Loretto mine
has shut down. throwing about 200
men out of employment. Other mines
are closing and miners are leaving
for Europe on account of the general
depression on the range.
Arrangements are reported to have
been made for the flotation OF loan
by the New York Central & Hudson
River Railroad Co. 1t has been gen
orally estimated that the company
needed for terminal improvements at
New York City, and improvements
at Syracuse and Buffalo, as well as to
provide for the floating indebtedness,
from S40,000,000 to s50,O00,0O0. The
loan. it is said will be about S25,0o0,-
900.
One of the largest dry goods job
bing houses in the country, Sweetser,
Pembroke e; Co., of New York City,
established in 1854, has adopted a
policy of gradual LIQUIDATION.