Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-15
SHORT NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
Items Gathered From the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
eian Lands.

country home of ID. G. Reid, the mil
lionaire steel manufacturer and rail
road man, at 1rvington on the Hud-
son. He was struck behind the right
ear by skyrocket The sharp stick
of the rocket penetrated the skull,
causing bad fracture of the base.
Within short period the United
Fruit CO. will establish throughout
the entire scope of their distribution
in this country the system of selling
bananas by weight instead of by the
bunch This will involve the sale of
millions of dollars worth of fruit and
will place the entire method of auc-
tionng on a different basis.
Thirty-five hundred packing house
employees in East st. Louis, ILL.,, have
voted that the wages of the laborers
employed at the packing plants must
be increased from 15 cents an hour to
1917 cents. The resolution adopted
announces the purpose of the men to
strike in case the demand shall be re-
fused. Similar meetings have been
held in Chicago, Kansas City, st. Jo-
seph and Omaha.
Operations have been suspended at
the four steel hoop plants of the Car
negie Steel Co., two at Youngstown,
o., and one each at Girard and War
ren, Pa. These are the only works
of the big steel concern that have
been under the wage scale of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers. All the other
plants of the company are operated
on a strictly non-union basis. The
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shut down of the mills as a lockout.
John j. Smith, policeman who
was shot on the aqueduct bridge at
Washington, d. c., while trying to
disperse a crowd of lettering soldiers,
died at the Georgetown University
hospital. Samuel R. Young, a cav
alryman, is under arrest and has ad-
mitted shooting the officer.
Justice Gavan d. Burgess, of the
Missouri supreme court, has suf-
fered a stroke of paralysis at his
home in Jefferson city and is in a
serious condition. Judge Burgess is
now serving his second term on the
bench. He was born in Kentucky in
1885 and has been engaged in the
legal profession in Missouri for so
years.
Alexander Fischer, an importer of
automobiles, was found dead in his
home at the residence of DR.. David
ID. Stevens, with whom he lived at
New York City A bullet wound in
his head and revolver clenched in
his hand led TO the belief that the
man had committed suicide. There
were no letters of any kind found
f,.;1 DO 80
give any reason for the act. Fischer
was so years old
Advices received by cable are to
the effect, says a dispatch from San
Francisco, that the port of Cham
perico, Guatemala, was almost, if not
wholly, destroyed recently by a
tornado. Details are lacking, but the
few words received indicate that the
landing facilities were swept away
and in such an event the buildings
ashore must have suffered consider
able damage.
Robert B. Taylor. who was arrest
ed for passing bank notes that were
irregularly signed, had preliminary
hearing before Commissioner Babbitt
at st. Louis, waived examination and
was sent to Jail in default of a bond
of $4,000.
The paraffine plant of the Atlantic
Refining Co., situated in the south
west section of Philadelphia, was to
tally destroyed by fire recently. The
loss is about 100000.
The jewels OF the Marquis of An
gelesey, one of the chief assets re
lied upon by his many creditors il
England, have been discovered to b,
made mainly of paste. The workman
ship is so exquisite that experts ol
making a first examination were de
ceived and valued the famous jewe
collection at SS50,000. They are nov
found to be worth 5000
A daylight robbery in the City o
Mexico, in which the thieves obtained
$4,000 in gold, caused great excite
ment. The robbers engaged a room
in the Maison Dore and cut hol
through the wall into an ADJOINING
building. Then the robbers cut hol
through the floor into the money eX
change and cleared out the place.
Miss Bertha Dolber, 25 years of age
OF San Francisco, the daughter of tn
late S. F.. Dolber, millionaire, O
that city, committed suicide by
jumping from ninth floor windo,
of the Waldorf Astoria hotel at NeN
York City. Nearly every bone in he
body was broken and death was in
stantaneous. Since her fathers deaf
year ago, it is said, Miss Dolber ha
suffered with melancholia and ha
needed constant watching.
Angered because his wife tried t
keep him from entering a saloo
while he was on a spree, Harry Bol
and, a bartender in New York City
struck her blow in the face. Tn
woman pitched across the sdewall
her head crashed against the curbin
and when several onlookers reache
her side she was dead. Boland wa
arrested.
All the ladies' garment workers 4
the 25 shops in Chicago, 2.200 men an
women, have been ordered TO strik
for the "closed shcp" and recognitio
Ct the union. Those who will go ou