Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-06-23

swan colliery at Khartsisk, Southern
Russia.
Three killed and co wounded are
the casualties resulting from fight
between strolling players and villagers
at Derekigyhaz, Hungary.
Madeline Ashley, 19 years old, was
killed and Madeline Adams, 2 years
old, was probably fatally injured by
tion at Cayuga, Ind.
Fire has practically destroyed the
entire town of Johnston City, Ill. Forty
buildings, including the entire bust
ness section, were burned. The loss is
estimated at 100000
AS the result of a quarrel among
members of a fishing party on the Dan
river Charles Booth, Charles Wander
pool and Cleveland Parrett were shot
and instantly killed at Poplar Bluff,
Mo.
Pascal p Pratt, millionaire mer-
chant and banker of Buffalo, died re-
Gently He had undergone an opera
tion and never rallied from the shock.
Mr.. Pratt was born in Buffalo in 1919.
Throughout the eastern and south
eastern sections of Texas there is a
pest of caterpillars and they are do
ing great damage to fruit trees, corn
and truck gardens.
Rear Admiral Sigsbee's squadron
which was detailed to bring the body
of John Paul Jones, the first admiral
of the American navy, to this country,
has sailed on its voyage to France.
Harvey Smith. John Collier and Will
IN 20
Jail yard at Decatur, Ala Smith and
Collier murdered Miss Belle Blood
worth, of Decatur. Jackson killed a
policeman.
Frederick Arnold, aged 20 years,
and Newton Andrews, aged 81, were
hanged at the state penitentiary in
Canyon City, Col, for the murder of
Mrs. Amanda Youngblood in Denver
on New Years eve. twN years ago.
The bodies of Mrs. Young, aged 2S,
and Miss Media Pyle, aged 16 years,
were found in the Peckatonia river at
Freeport, III. Both declared they
would kill themselves and they walked
into the river.
Plans are being prepared by the
Carnegie Steel Co. for the erection of
mammoth rail mill as an addition to
the Edgar Thomson steel works al
Braddock, Pa. The plant will cost
s1,OO0,000.
r. G. Dun G Co.'S Weekly Review
of Trade says: Moderate improve
ment is noted in commercial condi-
tions, Failures this week numbered
229 in the United States, against 257
last year, and 25 in Canada, compared
with 16 year ago.
Armour & Co.'S ice houses at Pc
waukee, Wis, were struck by light
ming and destroyed, melting 100000
tons of ice. The house of the superin-
tendent, the barns and the boarding
house of so rooms were also destroyed.
The loss is 225,000.
The dead bodies of John Lucas and
Amos Ashbaugh, residents of Leech-
burg, Pa, were found on the West
Penn railroad tracks by track walk
ers. The bodies were badly mangled,
but it is not known what train struck
them.
A pitiful tragedy. 1t is believed, lies
back of the discovery of two bodies.
presumably those of mother and her
child, in the Monongahela river at
McKeesport, Pa. Tied tightly about
the waists of the woman and the child
was a bed sheet which had been
twisted into a rope
Gov. Warner, of Michigan, has an
nounced that he will veto the tonnage
tax law passed at the session of the
state legislature just closing. This
law proposed tax of Is cents per
ton on steel vessels and eight cents
on wooden vessels instead of the
present ad valorem tax.
Gov Higgins, of New Pork, has
issued a call for the legislature to
convene in extra session on June 81.
The governor did not announce what
subjeC. >s are to be treated by the Spe-
cial session except to say that the
charges against Justice w. B. Hooker
will be presented.
AS a result of what developed at a
recent hearing Mayor Weaver, of
Philadelphia, has accepted the resig-
nation of John w. Hill, chief engi-
neer of the bureau of filtration, and
also that of his son, Henry w. Hill,
who was assistant to his father.
Seven men are missing and have
probably been drowned in the Skeena
river, near Lorne Creek, B. c., their
upturned canoe having been found
and no trace of the men having been
discovered. The seven men attempted
to cross the river and it is presumed
the canoe was swamped.
At Toronto, Ont, Judge Anglin gave
out his decision in the case of the two
American employees of the Pere Mar
quette railroad, arrested at st. Thomas
for alleged violation of the alien labor
act. The judge declares the deporta-
tion ordered by the Dominion govern
ment of these two men cannot be en-
forced
In a decision handed down by the
supreme court of West Virginia the
ruling of State Tax Commissioner Dill
Ion that oil, gas and coal leases are
subject to state taxation is sustained,
and will bring upon the tax books
$400, 100000 of valuation and several