Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-04-14


Valley, 20 miles east of MarysvilIe,
Cal, have been summarily expelled
from the camp.
A. ID. Pierson, leading wholesale
merchant of Scranton, Pa, sent two
bullets into his head while q prisoner
in the county jail.
| Judge Lawrence Weldon, of the
United States court of claims, died in
Washington from pneumonia after an
/ illness of about week.
! The Southern Pacific steamship
Louisiana partially capsized toward
the shore side and then sank at her
wharf in New Orleans.
Twenty passengers we're injured in
rear end collision of the Chicago eX-
press and the California limited on
the Santa Fe railroad at Kinsley, Kan.
j. j. C. Howard, representative in
the Kentucky legislature, was shot
and killed Monday in a saloon in Clay
county by Tilford Benge. The men
had quarreled.
] The extensive plant of the Condor
Lane Boom and Lumber Co. at Hor-
ton, w. Va, was destroyed by fire and
with it went the entire town.
On account of a dispute over the
appointment of a check weighman at
the Slippery Rock, Pa, coal mines,
owned by the United States Steel Cor
poration, a strike has been declared.
A thunderstorm passed over the
northern and eastern portions of In
/ diana, resulting in one fatality, sever
al casualties and extensive damage to
/ farm property and crops.
Ambassador Choate has been elect
ed Master of the bench of the Mid
die Temple" at London. Among
English lawyers this is the most dis
tinguished honor that they could con-
fer on any outsider.
William Weaver, president of the
Horse Thief Association of Mis-
souri, and Kansas, had fight with
outlaws at Carl Junction, Mo-, and
one outlaw was killed and another
severely injured.
At Indian Diggings, Eldorado coun-
ty, Cal, Austin Starkey, aged IA years,
and himself. shot and killed his son,
Joseph Starkey, after the son had
chopped a 10-year-old niece to death
with an AK.
James Malloy, a fisherman of Bar
rytown, n. Y, started across the Hud-
son river in a row boat at that place
with six Polanders and before reach
ing the other shore the boat capsized
and Malloy and four of the Polanders
were drowned.
District Attorney Hamlin has dis
missed the cases against Nelson
Franklin and 46 other citizens of Grip
pie Creek, Col, who were charged
with the deportation of certain per-
sons on August 20, 1904, and with the
looting of union stores,
Commissioner OF Pensions Warner
has cited ten members of the board of
pension review to show cause why
their services should not be dispensed
with. This action was taken by the
commissioner because of the discov-
cry of serious delinquencies in the al
| lowances of pensions to members of a
Pennsylvania regiment organized in
1861.
One hundred Italians employed on
the new line of railroad which the
Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is building
through the southern end of Lancas-
ter, Pa, county struck for higher
wages. Headed by man carrying a
red flag, they marched along the four
miles of work east of Quarryville and
compelled the other men to quit. They
attacked two gangs of Austrians who
attempted to continue at work and
beat several of them severely.
After hunt covering a period of
six years, Ed Franks, said to be the
last surviving member of BLACK
Jack" Ketchum's notorious band of
train robbers that terrorized New
Mexico and southern Colorado for
many years, has been placed in the
county Jail at Trinidad, Col.
1t is doubtful if building has ever
shown the activity that now prevails
permits were taken out In 2S of the
principal cities of the country for con-
struction of 12,5O5 buildings, involving
a total cost of $50, ,160,744, an increase
of 6S per cent. over the corresponding
month of year ago.
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
of Trade says: Recent gains in the
volume of business are fully main
tained, but further improvement is
somewhat retarded by unfavorable
weather in some sections. CONNER
cial failures this week in the United
States are 232, against 235 the cor
responding week last year. Failures
in Canada number %, against 20 last
year.
A report of the railroad accidents
in the United States during October,
November and December, 1904, shows
that SO passengers and 1S9 employees
were killed, and 1870 passengers and
1868 employees injured; total of 242
persons killed and 3,298 injured in
train accidents. Other accidents to
passengers and employees, not the re-
suit of collisions or derailments, bring
the total number of casualties up to
14,97S-951 killed and 14,027 injured.
In a great council called by Maj.
| Mol ,auphlin the Si0uY Indianc nF