Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-16
NEWS NOTES.
polNGS IN THE BUSY WORLD
cHRoNicLED.
items Gathered from the Different
Sections of the United
States land For
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the period from September 10, 1904,
20 September 20, 1905, the Jewish year
5665, contains statistics showing that
the Hebrew population of the world is
now 10,932,777. OF this number Rus
sia has 5,1S9401, Austria Hungary
2,076,37S and the United States 1,253,-
21S. Germany comes next with $780,
94S.
The appointment of a receiver for
the United States Sumatra Tobacco
Growing Co. is an indication that the
raising of Sumatra tobacco under
tents is not financial success in the
Connecticut valley. When the depar-
ture from the old way of growing to-
bacco was made in 1902, Connecticut
farmers invested heavily. 1t is now
believed these people will lose hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
While the British gunboat Comet
was engaged in firing practice off
Spithead the breech-lock of one of
her guns was blown out, killing three
seamen and injuring three others.
Acting under the orders of Attorney
General Crow, representing the state
of Missouri, Sheriff Henckken, of st.
Louis county, has arrested three of
the toreadors who have been partici-
pating in a series of bull fights in an
arena near the worlds fair grounds.
The arrests were made in the arena
just before the finish of an exhibition.
Fifteen hundred dollars was secured
in gambling room at Springfield,
Mo-, recently. A stranger, after play
ing poker for time, pulled out re-
volver and commanded all persons in
the room to deposit their cash and
valuables in his hat, which he placed
on table and then backed up against
the wall to prevent anyone taking ad-
vantage of him. The boldness of the
robbery dazed the gamblers, and all
dug up" He then went down stairs,
warning his victims not to follow, and
escaped.
The commander of the French mail
steamer Oceanien, on arriving recent
ly at Marseilles from Yokohama, COM
planned that his vessel was held up by
four Japanese warships outside of
Yokohama and that she was detained
and searched for five hours.
Four prisoners, one forger and
three burglars, sawed their way out of
the Sheboygan, Wis, Jail while the
sheriff was playing with his twin
babies in an adjoining office. All are
supposed to have escaped from the
city on a freight train.
New York unions of the bricklayers
and masons in the international union
have rejected proposition to join the
American Federation of Labor. The
proposition also has been lost by the
vote of other cities and has been
finally defeated.
A dispatch from Tuscola, ILL.,, says:
Joseph Elsie, an aeronaut, was killed
while making an ascension and de-
scent at the Douglass county fair.
While descending his parachute was
caught in the top of tree and he fell
100 feet, breaking his neck.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Prince Alert
broke the pacing record for geldings,
going the mile at the state fair track
in 1;59R, which beats the record by
one-fourth of a second.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
notified the foremen of it's shops in
Harrisburg, Pa, to largely increase
their forces Immediately.
While kneeling beside a grave in
Washington cemetery at Gravesend,
N. Y, Yette Beikowatz, 1S years old,
was crushed to death by the family
monument, a heavy granite shaft,
which toppled over.
By means of a series of expert
ments, which have been conducted in
Narragansett bay, it has been shown
that a system of communication under
water between submarine boats, or
between a submarine boat and the
shore, or between a submarine boat
and warship, is possible. The sys-
tenn used was the submarine signal.
which has been developed by a sub
marine signal company.
A fine of $4,000 has been imposed
on the Royal Exchange Assurance
Company, of London, transacting
business in Massachusetts, for violat-
ing the state law.
Three persons have been injured in
a collision at Pittsburg between a
large racing automobile and park
trap. All probably will die.
Forest fires are raging again on the
shores of Spirit Lake and near Couer
d'Alene City and Rathdrum, all in
Kootenai county Idaho. Wild beasts
are being driven from the timber into
the open and five bears, fleeing from
the flames, were killed near Athol,
Idaho.
Frederick Book, who attempted to
end his life by shooting, at his home
in Newark, N, j., last June, has recov-
cred from the effects of a shot which.
the surgeons say, passed through both
sides of his brain. When he was taken
10 the hospital the doctors declared
there was no hope for his recovery.
Accused of bigamy, released from
custody by a writ of habeas corpus,
and married five minutes afterward,
has been the experience of David Met
calf, printer, of Chicago. Metcalf
married the woman who caused his
arrest, the judge who granted his re-
lease performing the ceremony in the
presence of his first wife.
Andrew Baunach, of Catskill, N. Y,
is dying in hospital from injuries re-
ceived in falling SO feet from a rail
road bridge over Croton creek, where
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