Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-17
Happening of the Past
Five Days Narrated.
HOMEANDABROAD
News of the Busy World Boiled
Down So that 1t Can be Dr.
gested at Glance.


Gently developed in Havana.
Mrs. G. N. Bovine, 60 years old, was
frightned to death in a struggle with
burglar in her home at Washington,
N. j.
Two companies of militia have been
ordered to Whitwell, Tenn, where a
battle between strikers and non union
miners is probable.
The garrison of the fortress of
Santa Cruz at the entrance of the Bay
of Rio Janeiro mutinied. The mutiny
was quickly suppressed.
Gen. Francis r. Sherman, chief of
staff under Gen. O.. o. Howard in the
civil war, died at his residence in
Waukegan. Ill. He was so years old.
The American Hardware Manufac-
turers' association has endorsed Pres
ident Roosevelt's plan for railroad rate
legislation.
The preliminary returns on the pro-
duction of corn in 1905 indicate total
yield of about 2,707,993,540 bushels. or
an average of 2S.S bushels per acre.
Failures for the week ended Novem-
ber 10 numbered 1873 in the United
States against 215 last year, and IS in
Canada compared with II year ago.
The three-story office and ware
house building of the Virginia Pack
ing Co., near Richmond, Va, was to-
tally destroyed by fire. Loss $250,000,
insurance $156,OO0.
The rendering works, packing and
shipping buildings, slaughter house
and offices of the Danahy Packing Co.
at Buffalo, N. Y, were destroyed by
fire. The loss is $4,000.
When the miners of the bituminous
field meet the operators in January to
year, demand will be made for II
per cent. increase.
Herman G. Norgard, a member of a
high school football team, died at
Council Bluffs, Ia, of abscess of the
brain, brought on by injuries received
in game recently.
Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, jr., of
Brooklyn, N. Y, who has been ex-
ploring in Labrador and for whose
safety fears were entertained, has
reported her successful completion of
the expedition.
Johnstown, Pa, is without gas as
the result of a slight accident to a
Cambria Steel Co. train. A car ran
off the track and knocked down a
bridge carrying the gas mains which
supplied the city.
The passive resistance" strike on
the Austrian railroads is extending
and growing worse daily and is be-
ginning to detrimentally affect traffic
to and from France, Germany and
elsewhere.
In view of hundreds of shoppers on
State street, Chicago, Miss Fannie
Baynes, of Detroit, jumped from a
fifth-story window of one of the prin-
cipal department stores. She was in
stantly killed.
Having made his will and provided
for the distribution of all his treas
ures among his friends Gustav Fuchs,
a well known sculptor, committed sui
eide at New York City by shooting
himself through the head.
Rev. w. M. Hendrix died at Irving
ton, Ind. He came into prominence
hrst as pastor of the Christian
church at Mentor, o., during the Gar
field campaign. James A. Garfield
was member of his church.
Eric Won KutZleben, alleged Ger
man baron, who caused a train wreck
on the Rock Island at Homestead last
spring Just to see what would hap
pen," has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment at Marengo, la.
Rt. Rev. Thomas Frederick Davies,
bishop of the Episcopal diocese of
Michigan, died of pneumonia at his
home in Detroit. Bishop Davies was
"a years old and has been head of the
diocese of Michigan since 1889.
Edward G. Cunliffe, the Adams ex-
press robber, was sentenced at Pitts
burg to serve six years in the western
penitentiary by Judge MacFarland.
Cunliffe was sentenced on two charges
OF larceny, aggregating $101 900.
The side-swiping of a mail train and
an express train at Granville, Pa, re-
suited in fatal injuries to Fireman
ELI Herchelroth, of Harrisburg, and
the wrecking of the two engines and
TWO mail cars. Both trains were west
bound.
The apartments at Chicago of Vice
president II. H. Miller, of the Chicago
d Eastern Illinois railroad, were en-
tered by burglars. After locking q
servant in her room the robbers ran
sacked the apartments and escaped
with $4,000 worth of jewelry.
Another Japanese merchantmen has
been blown up by floating mine
adrift off the coast of China. The ship
lost was the Meiji. One seaman was
drowned.
The official reports from Russia in
dicate a remarkable increase in the
number OF cases OF cholera in the dis
tricts Immediately adjoining the
Russo German frontier.
According to report issued by the
geological survey, the total output of
crude petroleum in the United States
In 1904 was 117,063.421 barrels. Tho
total value Of all the petroleum mar
lteted In the Unitea States in 1904 was
Ds0l ,170.4GG.