Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-04-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
William Conway, aged 65 years,
choked to death on a piece of ham
taken from a free lunch in saloon
at Janesville. Wis.
The troubles of the Pittsburg street
car employers have been settled. The
men accepted the ultimatum of the
Pittsburg Railway Co.
Mrs. S. w. Wider, wife of news
paper man, shot and killed Mrs. H. G..
Douglass. of Colorado Springs, in the
National hotel at Cripple Creek, Col.
Six men robbed the private bank Of
Oscar Candy & Co. at Cherbusco, Ind,
of $S,540. Mrs. Candy, wife of the
banker, was shot in the neck by one Of
the two guards stationed outside.
Four men were perhaps fatally
burned and fifth seriously in a gaso-
line lamp explosion in building un-
der construction at Rochester, N. Y.
Victor Ross and John r. Campbell,
two prisoners, escaped from Fort
Wayne, Mich, and their sentry, Jas.
W. Binkley, is also missing.
The greater portion of the business
section of Springvale, Me-, together
with many dwellings was destroyed
by fire, entailing loss estimated at
100000.
Seven hundred democrats attended
the Jefferson day banquet of the Dem
ocratic club Of New York at the Wal
dorf- Astoria. There were many there
of national reputation.
Mrs. Desroches and her daughter
Annie were murdered in their home at
Penetanguishene, Ont, and their
bodies thrown into the cellar after
having been stripped of their clothing.
Montgomery Ward G. Co. continue
to make deliveries with non-union
teamsters in Chicago. Strike sympa-
thizers clashed with policemen and
several were hurt. One mans skull
was broken.
A man who said he was the former
Boer General w. j. De Jough was
by Chicago judge. The prisoner was
charged with passing worthless
checks.
A dispatch from Lucknow, India,
says 1t is reported there that Sec
ond earthquake has wrecked Sultan
pur, province of Dude, and Kulu, pro-
vince of Punjab, and that there has
been great loss of life.
Seven thousand people, including
1000 school children waving small
flags, greeted President Roosevelt at
Trinidad, Col, with cheers. A num-
ber of Rough Riders acted as a guard
of honor to the president.
Marion Parr, young cotton mill
operative who killed Clarence Shealey
a mill boy, was hanged in Columbia
S. G. The execution of Parr was the
first hanging of white man In South
Carolina in II years.
United States Senator J. r. Burton
OF Kansas, was reindicted by the fed
eral grand jury on the charge of &C
cepting fees to the amount of $2,50(
from the Rialto Grain and Securities
Co., of st. Louis.
Dispatches from Tifis say the peas
ant agitation is spreading widely
through the Caucasus and that the dis
turbers are forcing all peasants to par
ticipate In the pillaging and destruc
tion of schools and public buildings by
threats of bodily injury.
Four men, three of whom are EN-
ployes of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
meat packers. and one an attorney foI
that corporation, were named in an in
dictment returned by the fedora
grand jury which is investigating the
alleged beef trust In Chicago
Prices of all kinds of meat hav,
begun to rise In New York because o
a reported increased cost to dealers o
about two cents a pound. This ad
vance In dressed beef by the packer
means corresponding increase O
from four to six cents per pound at re
tail on the average grade of steak
The private bank of NJ. l.. Stewart {
Co, OF Owosso, Mich, has closed it
doors after 40 years of business TIL
total deposits of the institution ar
$4S0,635.
The ice blockades at the Straits O
Mackinac and at Whitefsh Point
Lake Superior, have not been broken
Fifty steamers are working to pusl
their way through the ice foes.
-Four thousand conductors and mo
tormen of the United Railway Co, O
st. Louis, have been notified by Gen
eral Manager McCulloch that fre
quenting saloons or race tracks woul
subject the offender to instant dismis
sal