Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-11-18

| projects comprise 364 heavy guns,
1896 rapid fire guns and 524 mortars,
while up to the present time provision
has been made for emplacing 334
heavy guns, 5S7 rapid fire and 37G
mortars.
Rev. N. e. Head, retired minister,
who was GO years of age, dropped
dead in the pulpit of the Wesleyan
Methodist church at the little town of
Sebewa, Mich, while conducting the
services.
The president has signed an order
extending the civil service regula-
tions over the employees of the 18TH
mian canal commission.
At st. Joseph. Mich, Thomas
Payne, Nged sc years, has been con-
victed of killing his wife, who was so
years his junior, last spring, and SEN
fenced to from two to six years in
prison.
Fannie Ward Randall, widow of the
late Samuel j. Randall, for years the
democratic leader in the house of rep
resentatives, is dead at her home at
Chestnut Hill, suburb of Philadel-
phia.
After one of the most desperate at
tempts at rescue ever seen in New
York harbor, IL men who were pas
sengers on the wrecked ferryboat
Port Morris were taken off in a small
steam launch manned by volunteer
crew of harbor police.
Frank S. Israel, commander of the
United Fruit Co.'S steamer Admiral
Dewey, committed suicide recently by
shooting himself through the heart on
| board his vessel when in the vicinity
of the Bahamas.
A hotel for working girls and work
| ing women will be built in New York
City If the plans now under consider
alton are carried out. Philanthropy
and business will be combined in the
running of the hotel. Plans have
submitted by an architect involving
the expenditure of 100000.
Late returns from the scene of the
Union Pacific wreck near Granger,
Wyo., place the number of dead at IA,
of whom 13 have been recovered and
identified Three or four male pas
sengers are reported to be missing.
| At Vineyard Haven, Mass, the
three-masted schooner Bessie Parker
| (British), bound from Port Johnson
for st. John, N. b., with a cargo of
coal, broke her anchor chains during
a heavy northeast gale and went
ashore.
Nearly 12 inches of snow fell re-
Gently at York, Pa. The heavy weight
of the snow broke down electric wires
all over the city and both power
plants were compelled to close to pro-
tect life and property
| Mrs. Mary Ross, widow Of civil
war soldier, was tortured and other
wise brutally treated by a negro who
| forced an entrance into her home at
Bridgeport, Pa, and demanded her
pension money and valuables. The
negro bound her hands and feet and
tortured her by blistering the soles of
her feet with a lighted candle. He
searched the house, but found moth
ing.
Joseph Marsden, a farmer living
near Sussex, Wis, made so much
money on election bets that he has
given an oyster supper to the entire
town. A banquet was spread in the
town hall and the giver of the feast
rode to the hall in a wheelbarrow
pushed by a defeated bettor, to the
accompaniment of a brass band and
followed by torchlight procession.
Fire destroyed the Pearson Boat
Construction Co.'s plant at Mime
sofa Point, near Duluth, Mimi, and IL
small houses. The loss on the boat
building plant and its contents is be-
4 tween $150,00O and 100000. and on
the houses about $1,000.
Four unmasked men robbed the
bank at BoXholm, Ia, of $1,000.
Two masked men robbed train on
the miniature railroad at the world s
fair. After securing money and valu-
ables amounting to 500 the robbers
escaped.
The Marquis Des Monsters Merin-
vile, formerly Miss M. G. Caldwell,
who founded the Roman Catholic uni
versity at Washington some years
ago, has entirely repudiated her form
er creed and has left the Roman Cath
Ollie church.
A shifting engine on the Pittsburg,
Virginia & Charleston railroad ran
into an open switch at Brownsville,
Pa, and was derailed. George Will
liams, engineer, was instantly killed
and Samuel Davidson, fireman, was
fatally injured.
disagreement was reported by the
jury in the case of Victor r. O'Shea, a
young attorney, of Chicago, on trial
charged with wife murder. O'Shea
killed his wife and attempted suicide
while insane, according to the claims
of the defense.
The strike of miners on Cabin
creek, near Charleston, w. Va, affects
the largest mining district in that
state. Operators are hiring non-union
men. Seventy peace officers are
In the district and a hundred more
will be put on.
Philip Weinseimer,, the former Ia
Dor leader. of New York City, who was
sentenced to not less than one year
and eight months and not more than
two years and eight months in state
prison, has secured a temporary stay