Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-18

self -mutilated on the first fingers OF
the right hand.
The boycott of American trade has
spread far beyond the anticipations
of its early supporters, says Shang-
hal dispatch.
Claims aggregating $65O,O0O held
by the French government against
Venezuela, have been allowed by Ref
cree Frank Plumley, of Northfield, VT,
to whom they had been referred.
The International Typographical
union opened it's annual convention
at Toronto, Ont, recently. The pre-
mier of Ontario, the mayor of Toronto
and other officials made addresses of
welcome.
The Spanish newspapers declare
that 100000 laborers in Andalusia are
without the necessities of life; that
several districts are at the mercy of
iioters and that many landlords are
seeking safety in flight.
! At Philadelphia, in manner which
was severely criticized by many dele
gates, President Shea, of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Transfers,
secured the conventions endorsement
of the Chicago strike.
On the Sunday before Labor day,
which occurs on September s, 1000
Presbyterian preachers throught the
United States will preach to the
working classes on some phase of the
labor question.
| The interstate commerce commits
sion is about to take steps to require
all railroads to increase the minimum
/ percentage of air brakes used on
freight trains to as great an extent as
conditions of equipment will permit.
/ Experiments made with wireless
/ telegraphy on Chicago & Alton rail
road trains have proved so successful
that the management of the road has
taken steps to equip all the locomo-
tives of the company with wireless
apparatus.
| In head-on collision two miles
from Macon, Ga, between a north
bound Central Of Georgia passenger
train and a southbound freight two
persons were killed and four were so
/ seriously injured that death will prob
ably result.
Horace c. Silsby, veteran manu-
facturer, died at his home in Seneca
Falls, n. V, aged SS years. Mr.. Sils-
/ ny lOl LlCu lllS EAulCllSul llC lliC
! Co. In 1856, when associated with
Birdsall HOlley, Mr.. Silsby made the
first rotary steam fire engine.
A free exchange of views on the
subject of the treatment of the Jews
in Russia was heard in conference
at Portsmouth. N. H., between Mr..
Witte, Baron Rosen and Oscar Straus,
Jacob H. Schiff, Isaac N. Seligman and
Adolph Lewisohn, of New York, and
Adolph Kraus, of Chicago.
Earl Kiser. driver of the Winton
Bullet, met with frightful accident
at the Glenville track in Cleveland.
He was making a preliminary test
run when his machine skidded and
struck post and crashed through
the fence. His left leg was crushed
from the knee down.
The foreign crop reports to the de-
partment of agriculture at Washing
ton announce that Gin the countries
of largest production the crops of the
principal bread grains cannot be
called abundant, but on a general sur
vey of the field it seems probable that
the harvest of 1905 will not on the
whole be a bad one"
"A SIIldll SCllOOlleT WHICH was Sailing
along the coast off Lingan Head near
North Sydney, N. S., was struck by a
severe squall and capsized. Before
those on shore could make prepara-
tions for assistance the storm in
creased to hurricane and one by one
the crew were seen to fall away from
the bottom of their overturned craft
Samuel Black, a member of the
Kentucky legislature; Policeman Will
liam Britton and Walter Stolls, a
saloonkeeper, engaged in a pistol
fight in Main street, Harrodsburg, Ky,
Black was shot through the head
and killed. Britton was shot in the
jaw and Stolls was wounded in the
abdomen. Both are dying.
Harris Lindsey, deputy police com
missioner of New York City, and Miss
Evelyn Willing, of Chicago were
killed at Pixies crossing, near Ben
nington, VT, when the automobile in
which they were travelling from Man
chester, VT, to Williamstown, Mass.
was struck by a train on the branch
division of the Rutland railroad from
North Bennington.
Edward Drouin, formerly wealthy
, and once a member of the firm Of
Work & Drouin, of Philadelphia, was
found dead in the hallway of hi:
residence at Peoria, III. His widow
apparently distracted by the death O
her husband, was kneeling by the
body, holding the feet of the corpse ii
the air, Gin order" as she said, etc
allow the soul to escape"
The department of agriculture ha!
, issued the following crop report: The
condition of corn on August / wa!
800, as compared with 1913 on Angus
1, 1904. Preliminary returns indi-
cate winter wheat crop of abou
424,400,000 bushels, or an average o
, 1913 bushels per acre. The averag
condition of spring wheat on August
was S9.2, as compared with S7.5 ol
August 1. 1904.
: The navy department has receives
the report of the board of inquir.
which investigated the death of Ra
phael Cohen, sailor ON the cruise