Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-05-05

III o0uTOH, OHdTpSNlilG anu NSNI miu-
dlesex, Pa, were given an increase
in wages.
John T. Wagner a lawyer who Is
accused of embezzling clients money
to the amount of $500, has surrend-
cred himself to the police at Norris
town, Pa.
The Pennsylvania state supreme
court has declared the oleomargarine
act passed by the Pennsylvania legis-
lature in 1901 to be constitutional.
While removing an old cistern wall
from an excavation at Fort Madison,
Ia, James ]. Malley discovered in the
debris bags containing S11,500 in gold
and two small casks of wine.
At recent meeting of trustees of
Columbia university at New York
announcement was made that $500,000
had been provided by an anonymous
donor for erecting and equipping a
college hall for undergraduates.
Judge Ermentrout, at Reading, Pa,
has granted a new trial for Samuel
Greason. who together with Mrs. Kate
Edwards was condemned to hang for
the murder of John Edwards, the wo-
mans husband.
The Orange Grove Touring mills of
the C. A. Gambrill Manufacturing Co.,
at Orange Grove, about ten miles from
Baltimore, Md, with their contents,
were destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness April 80, 1905, the total debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
$997, ,217,941, which is an increase for
the month of $S,593,3S4.
Frank Havens, secretary of the
board of underwriters at Albany, n.
", was shot and killed by his steno-
grapher. 1t is claimed that the shoot
ing, which took place in his office,
was accidental. She is under arrest.
The monthly statement of the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
shows that for the month of April,
1905, the total receipts were S39,77S.-
1S1 and the expenditures S4S,9S9, 900,
leaving deficit of $9,211, ,419.
The castle of Lichtenwalde, belong
ing to Count Bitzthum Won Eichstadt,
situated near Chemnitz, Germany, was
destroyed by fire, with many valuable
pictures, involving a loss of several
million marks.
Commodore Somerville Nicholson,
U. S. N, retired died in Washington.
aged SO years. He was a native Of
New York and entered the navy in
1889, retiring in 1881. He was navi-
eating officer of Commodore Perry's
flagship on the expedition to Japan in
the ffties.
A mob of 700 Syrians, Italians, Hun
garians and negroes, who had gone on
a strike from the brick yards in and
near Duchess Junction, N. Y, for
higher wages and shorter hours,
marched to Chelsea, stopping on the
way and compelling other workmen
to quit the yards.
Nearly 100 persons were killed or
wounded in disturbances in various
quarters of Warsaw, Poland, recently.
The troops apparently were uncon-
trollable and violated all orders to act
with moderation. They fired into
crowds of demonstrators, and work
men in retaliation resorted to the use
of firearms and bombs.
Legislative proceedings for the re-
moval of Justice Warren B. Hooker,
of the Eighth judicial district, from
the supreme court bench of New York
are unanimously recommended in the
report of the assembly judiciary COM
mittee to that house of its investiga-
tion of the charges affecting the
justice.
The Pennsylvania supreme court
has ordered that Bigler Johnson,
h. Nt-1A nf hi
wife and her niece at their home near
Towanda, Pa, be hanged. Johnson
when placed on trial at Towanda
pleaded guilty.
Allan Sheldon, well known capital
ist of Detroit, Mich, and former bust
ness partner of Zachariah Chandler, is
dead, He was 73 years of age. For
many years he was one of the most
prominent men in the dry goods trade
in the country.
Six hundred men employed by the
Chicago and Great Lakes Co. are out
on strike at Chicago. The men have
been receiving $2.75 for ten hours
work and demand the same amount
for eight hours. The company re-
fused. The men operate dredging and
pile driving machinery.
Edward PakerZ, Bohemian, has
been arrested at New York City for
the murder CT Mrs. Sarah Rosenberg,
whose body with the head beaten in
was found at her home in that city.
Pakerz formerly boarded with the wo-
man. He has admitted that he killed
Mrs. Rosenberg for her money, $12.
The supreme court of the United
States has denied the motion of John
A. Benson for rehearing in his case
resisting removal from New York to
the District of Columbia for trial on a
charge of defrauding the government
in the misrepresentation of timber on
the public lands of the Pacific coast.
Laredo, Tex, is beginning to as
sumo its customary appearance de-
spite the great havoc wrought by the
storm. While a hundred persons
were injured, it is not expected that
any deaths will result. The number
of dead is 81, of whom 16 were killed