Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-09-16

indicate 1t will surpass in beauty any
thing hitherto attempted by the gov
ernment and that the main exhibit
building will establish precedent in
architectural beauty for government
exhibit buildings.
The Macbeth Evans Glass Co. has
perfected arrangements for operating
it's big chimney factory st Charleroi,
Pa, on non-union basis, the old en-
ployes having refused to return at the
company's terms.
Judge Parker has no intention of
going to New York to personally take
charge of the campaign, as recently
reported from New York.
Nine persons were injured, three
seriously, by the engine of miniature
railway jumping the track at Olympic
park, pleasure resort IS miles east
of Pittsburg
Judge Anthony Thornton, the oldest
lawyer in Illinois and said to be the
oldest Elk in the world, is dead at his
home in Shelbyville, H., aged 80.
Judge Thornton had been a demo-
cratic member of congress and a
member of the Illinois supreme court.
! The bank at Murphy, N. c., has
been robbed of $4,000. The large
vault and safe within it were COM
pletely demolished.
DR.. William l.. Buechner, the Oldest
medical practitioner in Youngstown,
o., has been killed by being thrown
| over an embankment in runaway ac-
cident.
Three of the six bandits who held
up the paymaster of the O'RourEe En-
gineering and Construction Co. for
| $4,000 August "a on lonely highway
in New Jersey, are reported to have
been traced to the Italian quarter of
Paterson, N. j.
James Mcintyre and Patrick Henry,
young men who recently came to Phil
adelphia from England, were found
unconscious in bed at their boarding
house, suffering from the effects of IL
Illuminating gas. Mcintyre died and
Henry is not expected to recover.
The steamer Longfellow, of Will
ington, Del, bound from Philadelphia
to Lake Superior with load of dyna-
mite, sank off Highland Light, Mass.
There were 16 men in the crew. All
were saved The cause of the disas-
ter was bad leak which caused the
i Longfellow to founder.
The Pullman hotel, on Pullman ISL
and, st. Lawrence river, was destroy
ed by fire recently. The few guests
and employees escaped in boats. The
hotel was named after the late George
| M. Pullman, who entertained Gen.
Grant at the dedication exercises. The
| loss is $4,000.
Two firemen were probably fatally
injured, nine buildings were COM
pletely destroyed and four others
badly damaged by fire at the plant
of the HARRISON Walker Refractory Co.
at Haysborough, Pa. The firemen were
injured by falling smoke stack
Pending the rebuilding of the plant
600 men will be out of employment.
The property loss will not exceed
| $4,000.
Two thousand men were killed and
1000 wounded in the recent battle be-
tween the Uruguay government forces
and the revolutionists, according to a
dispatch from Buenos Ayres, Argen-
tine. Gen. VasqueZ, minister of war,
who led the government troops, is as
serted to have been defeated and
driven back, abandoning arms and
munitions.
The revolutionists of Paraguay have
captured Villa Encarnacion, with its
garrison and its arms. The position
of the government of Paraguay is be-
coming weaker daily and its ultimate
| surrender or complete defeat is in
evitable.
A robbery by which Mrs. H. M.
Flagler, of New York City, lost a
chatelaine bag containing money and
Jewels aggregating several thousand
dollars in value, at Newport, R. l., is
being investigated by detectives.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
bank of Palmyra, Neb., and escaped.
How much money they got is not yet
known.
In friendly boxing bout at Atlantic
| City, N. j., Alexander Tilgham, a
waiter, received a body blow which
was followed by almost instant death.
His opponent was waiter.
| About $50 steamfitters in 32 shops
In Boston have struck, the employers
having declined to sign an agreement
presented some time ago. The agree
| IilSHl piONluSu SHOPS ana
certain shop rules. The question of
wages and hours is not involved.
An outbreak against the Jews took
place recently at Sosnowice, near the
borders of Russian Poland. Rioters
paraded through the streets and threw
stones at the Jews they met. Twelve
or Is persons were thus injured and
others were stabbed.
Pellegrini Stravalli, an Italian bar
ber in New York City whose shop was
wrecked by an explosion endangering
the lives of 20 families who occupied
tenements in the building, has been
arrested on suspicion of having caus-
ed the explosion.
The sailing orders of the American
squadron at San Francisco have been
cancelled by dispatch from the navy
department to Rear Admiral Goodrich,
instructing him to await further Or
ders The sudden change of orders. it
is said, is due to the unexpected ar
rival of the Russian warship Lena at