Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-03

were destroyed by nre, lnVOlVlnB a
total loss of 100000.
In a head-on collision of freight
trains on the Rock Island railroad at
Casey, Ia, four trainmen and Rev. F.
w. Caldwell, of Van Meter, Ia, were
killed.
Rear Admiral Train, commander of
the American Asiatic squadron and
his son, Lieut.. Train, have been vic
tins of a savage attack by Chinese
outside of Marking.
There are now S,066,672 people In
New York state. In 1900 the popula-
ton was 7,2GS,S94. The population of
Greater New York is 4,014,364, as
compared with 3,437,202 in 1900.
The Lightner hoisting works and 40
stamp mills at Angels, Cal. were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $150,000. Six
teen men who were in the mine es-
capped through the shaft of an adjoin-
ing mine.
Rev. II. d. Fisher, who died at Bald
win, Kan, was one of the most ia
nous characters produced by the try
ing days of the border warfare in Kan
sas and the subsequent four years of
civil war.
Two women were killed and five
persons were injured on the Cana
dian Pacific railway at Winnepeg,
Can, when an immigration train
which had stopped for water was run
into by freight train from the east.
Amicable relations have been re-
established between the Fall River,
Mass, cotton manufacturers and the
textile council at a protracted confer
ence between representatives of the
mill owners and operatives.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
Slocum & Dickman private bank at
Saegertown, Pa. Before beginning
operations they cut all telephone
wires leading out of the village. Six
thousand dollars were in the safe, but
the burglars were unable to reach it.
The American Sheet and Tin Plate
Co. announced recently that a num-
Der of their idle tin plate mills in Ip-
diana had resumed operations. The
company is now operating about SO
per cent. of it's sheet mills and G5 per
cent. of the tin plate mills.
Thirteen persons were killed and
80 We're injured in the wreck of a
westbound Atchison, Topeka e Santa
Fe passenger train, known as the Cali
fornia express, which while running
35 miles an hour struck a loose rail,
ditching five cars one mile east of
Sheffield, Mo.
Because his wife refused to live
with him on account of his propensity
for liquor, John Phillips, an engineer,
shot her in front of boarding house
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sidered a fatal wound. Then he turn
ed the revolver on himself and fired a
bullet into his brain, dying soon
afterward.
George Washington Murray, a ne
gro, once congressman from South
Carolina, will have to spend three
years cracking rocks as a member of
the chain gang, though he is the larg-
est land owner in Sumpter county,
Ga. His punishment is for forging
the names of ignorant negroes TO land
leases.
Three lives were lost, property
valued at $150,000 was destroyed,
scores of families were made home
less and freight traffic on the New
York, Chicago & st. Louis railroad
was delayed for several hours on ac-
count of the breaking of three-foot
water main at Eighteenth and Clark
streets. Chicago.
Five minor officials of the Pittsburg
and Westmoreland Coal Co. gave up
their lives when they entered the
Hazel Kirke mine No. l of the COM
pany at Hazel Kirke, Pa, is miles
east of Pittsburg, to ascertain if a
portion of the mine was still burning
as result of an explosion two weeks
ago.
William lie Due, a farmer, enraged
over domestic affairs, shot and killed
Mayor Charles Nickel, his brother
in-law, in the Bank of Chenoa, H.,
and Hugh Jones, a brick mason,
slightly wounded two pedestrians and,
dragging Jones body into the bank
vault, partly closed the door and de-
fed arrest for many hours against
officers and citizens.
With $4,000 worth Of jewelry and
a large sum of money in her possess
sion, Margaret Todd, 80 years old,
who is very wealthy, disappeared from
New York City. Later a woman sup
posed to be Mrs. NJ. Todd, was found
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e Reading railway at Philadelphia.
Both legs were severed from the body
below the knees and her head was
crushed. Mrs. Todd died.
The losses in the regular army dur
ing the fiscal year were: Officers
killed in action or died of wounds,
disease, ETC., "a; resigned or dis
charged 20, dismissed 13, deserted 8,
retired SO; total 119. Enlisted men
killed in action or died of wounds, dis
ease. etc, 377; discharged upon ex-
piration of term of service 22,254, dis
charged for disability by sentence of
court martial and by order 9,46O, de-
| serted G,533, retired 1S9; total 3S,S13
Count Witte, Russia's first premier
has seat the following message to
the American people through the AS
sociated Press: 81 am sure the Amerl-
can people, who understand what
freedom is, and the American press
which voices the wishes of the people
will raiOica with the friaOd1y RuccGn n