Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-07-22
short NEWS NOTES
Happenings in the Busy
World Chronicled.
Items Gathered From the Different
Sections Of the United
States and For
eian Lands.

Burmah. He has made a substance
from the cultures which he calls lep-
rolin and which, when injected into
lepers. has marked beneficial action,
alleviating the symptoms of the dis
ease.
Five more deaths were added re
Gently to Chicago's list of Fourth of
July victims. Four died of lockjaw,
while the fifth succumbed to wounds
caused by the explosion of toy can
non. From other cities in the coun-
try two deaths from injuries and five
from tetanus were reported, making
the total of lives lost in The patriotic
celebration" 81.
In circular just issued by the state
board of health it is shown that in
Illinois consumption is responsible
for more deaths than typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, all forms of
bronchitis, influenza, measles and
smallpox combined. 1t is further found
that those dying from consumption
were usually in the prime of life.
A block of ten four-room houses, all
under one roof, owned by the Merch-
ants Coal Co., has been burned at the
company's No. 8 mine, two miles from
Salisbury, Pa. General Manager Stir
rat claims that the fire was of incen-
diary origin. He says his company is
determined to operate No. 3 mine and
If necessary he will install flashlight
and rapid-fire gun TO protect the prop
erty and men. The strike in the
Meyersdale region is now in its sew
enth month.
A recently enacted state law re-
quiring journeymen horseshoers to be
registered has been declared uncon-
stitutional by the appellate division of
the supreme court of New York.
Officials of vegetarian societies in
New York are in high glee over the
predicament of the meat eaters and
insist that the butchers strike, in
stead of being a hardship, will prove
ultimately two-fold blessing in edu-
eating the people to adopt their the
ories. Living expenses, they argue,
will be greatly reduced thereby and
the health of the people vastly i'm
proved.
Edward r. Taylor, city mission
ary of Plainfield, N. j., has just ended
80 days fast and appears none the
worse for his ordeal. When he started
TO abstain from solid food he weighed
220 pounds and now he weighs 25
pounds less.
AS soon as the retail butchers in
New York City learned that strikes
had been ordered in the meat packing
plants in many of the large cities, they
at once began to advance the price of
meat from two to three cents a pound.
Reports that the boundary dispute
between Brazil and Peru has been
definitely settled are confirmed
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon has de-
clared his intention of taking an ac-
tive part in the campaign this fall,
making speeches in Illinois, Wiscon-
Sin and Indiana.
The Baltimore & Ohio grain ele-
Vator at South Chicago was burned re-
Gently. A quantity of grain was in the
building and the loss is put at $780,
600.
The first payment of 100000 on the
government loan of $4,600,0O0 to the
Louisiana Purchase exposition Co. has
been deposited in the sub b-treasury in
st. Louis.
At Warsaw Va, three daughters
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kemmon and
Mrs. James Hubbard and child, of
Meter, Va, were drowned while bath
ing.
At Brewster N. Y, the mansion of
Mrs. William b. Fasig, widow of the
well l-known horseman, was burned to
the ground. The servant girl, Annie
O'Brien, was burned to death and Mrs.
Fasig narrowly escaped similar fate.
The house and contents were destroy
ed, the loss being estimated at S35,000.
John j. Rossiter, who, since he
came to this country in 1867 as an
Irish political refugee had been
prominent in Irish and Catholic So
cieties, is dead at his home in Newark,
N. ]. He was one of the charterers of
the whaler Catalpa which sailed to
Australia in 1876 and picked up eight
well known Irish political prisoners
who had escaped from Freemantle
prison.
Two men were killed snd a third
seriously injured in the wreck of
passenger train on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Shippen, Pa.
With record of nine convictions
and as many terms in prison, George
w. Johnson has applied to Police
Magistrate Ommen, of New York
City, for refuge in the penitentiary
because he is unable to earn an hon
est living and must either steal or
starve. The magistrate granted John
sons plea,
Jesse w. Shields, a member of the
Cooks and Walters union, has been
arrested at Silverton, Col, on the
charge of having murdered Arthur
Collins, the English manager of the
Tom Boy mine at Telluride, who was
shot from ambush about a year ago.
Shields is also accused of having
killed j. w. Barney, a deputy employ
ed at the Smuggler Union mine near
Telluride, who disappeared three
years ago.
All the union iron and steel plants
in the Pittsburg district have signed
the new wage scale of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers.