Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-17


the United States Steel Corporation
and Independent operators will de-
mand an eight-hour day this spring.
Instead of giving the men IN eight
hour day the employers, 1t is said, will
compromise on an advance in wages.
Half million dollars worth of
river property was placed in jeopardy,
one steamer sunk, another carried
down the river in the ice, $50 barges
torn loose and sent down the river
and several other steamers seriously
damaged from the breakup of the
ice gorges at Cincinnati in the Ohio
river.
AS a climax to the troubles of the
tenants of the Alhambra apartments,
a siX-story building in Detroit, Mich,
number of them were routed out
in their night clothes by fire in
the building.
An explosion of natural gas at the
home of the caretaker Of the Erie,
Pa, waterworks reservoir seriously
injured four persons.
The Baltimore & Ohio transfer
steamer Gazelle was sunk at West
Wheeling, w. Va.
Sylvester Scovel, Of Columbus, o.,
who attained prominence during the
Spanish American war on account of
an alteration with Gen. Shafter,
died at hospital in Havana.
The plant of the Penn Bridge Co.,
at Beaver Falls, Pa, was almost de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss esti-
mated at $75,000 partially insured.
The steamer James B. Stephens
sank after running upon a sunken
pile 200 yards from shore at Astoria,
Ore. Two men are missing.
Passenger train No. 8, drawn by
two engines on the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad, was wrecked
12 miles east Of Creston, Ia. One
man was killed and three were in
jured.
Fire destroyed the eight-story
building of the Schwabacher Hard
ware Co., at Seattle, Wash. The
loss, estimated at 100000, is COW
cred by insurance.
A report as to the condition of the
insolvent German bank, Of Buffalo,
n. Y, shows that the bank will rea-
lie only about 25 per cent. on it's
loans to Arthur E. Appleyard.
DR.. Frank Cowan, the Greensburg
philosopher, is dead at his home in
Greensburg, Pa, aged 61.
Reports from Missouri, Minnesota,
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, the Dako.
tas, northern Texas, Indian Terri
tory, Arkansas and Oklahoma say
that unusually cold weather prevails.
One man was killed in a railroad
wreck caused by the blizzard.
Two masked men entered a saloon
at independence, Col, and attempted
to hold up the place. The crowd in
the saloon and the robbers exchanged
shots, with the result that the two
hold-up men and three of the crowd
were wounded. The robbers escaped.
Having in his possession a bill
made out against America and the
Young Mems Christian association
for $5,O00,000,000 for creating a new
heaven and a new earth, Albert E.
Leighton, of Philadelphia, was ar
rested in New York City charged
with carrying concealed weapons.
Indictments for conspiracy were re-
turned by the federal grand jury at
Portland, Ore, against six men.
The dead bodies of Mrs. Mary
Armstrong, Mrs. Cynthia Ford, sis
ter of Mrs. Armstrong, and Mabel
Armstrong were found in their house
in Buffalo, N. Y. They had been as
phyXiated by natural gas.
Harold ]. Howland and Arthur
Hewitt, of New York, have arrived
in Albany after an unprecedented trip
on snow shoes over the Adirondack
trail. They started from Adirondack
Village and We're six days on the
journey.
Owen Kelly, who disappeared from
Philadelphia last October, has been
located by the police in st. Louis.
Fire destroyed six-story building
in Chicago, entailing a loss of $780,
900. The damage was divided among
number of small manufacturing
concerns and agents of eastern manu-
facturers.
The long overdue steamer Silvia,
from New York and Halifax, has ar
rived at ST. Johns, N. F., after a ter
rible experience in a blizzard which
drove her so miles seaward among
great ice Hoes on the Grand Banks.
AS the guest of honor at the Lin
coin dinner of the republican club IN
New York City, President Roosevelt
made a speech on the race problem.
The reports of experts who exam
ined New York theatres have salts
fed District Attorney Jerome that
thousands who attend the play houses
are in imminent danger.
The Colorado house of representa-
tives has passed an eight-hour bill
as agreed on by republican members
in caucus.
dispatch from Kobe, Japan, re-
ports that the small steamer Natori-
gawa collided with the harbor works
at Osaka and sank and that "a per
sons were drowned.
double-header passenger train on
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad collided head-on with a