Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-17

| vertical SHAFT In the Drie-FOnteln
mine at johannesburg, Transvaal Col
ony, collapsed. One white man and
G7 natives we're killed.
The steamer Appomattox, which ran
ashore off North Point, Wis, 10 days
ago, has been abandoned as total
wreck. The loss is 100000.
The Sixth battery of field artillery,
which has been stationed at Fort
Riley, Kan, started recently on a
1,000-mile march to Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Texas.
Fire at Ravenswood, ILL.,, destroyed
a four story brick building occupied
by the Clinic Publishing Co. and part
ly destroyed two adjacent buildings.
Loss 100000.
Fire caused by gasoline explosion
in the basement of the Furniture EX-
hibition Co.'s building at Chicago re-
suited in injuries to four persons and
$4,000 property loss.
Several girls were injured and dam
age amounting to about $4,000 was
caused by a fire which destroyed a
five-story factory building at LeNierd
and Meserole streets. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Old city hall at Pittsburg was
NhONNNN lCSChIiy NilCh rSolIClS
Samuel Gompers called the American
Federation of Labor to order for the
opening of the silver anniversary of
the organization.
The union of the government en-
ployes of the arsenals and dock yards
at Toulon, Brest and other naval
headquarters in France has ordered
general strike.
Harry A. Leonard, the young Wall
street clerk who stole $359,000 worth
of securities from the City national
bank, of New York City, recently, has
been sentenced to 13 or IA months
Imprisonment in Elmira reformatory.
Private and reliable reports from
| Warsaw say that all the parties there
are Joining in the nationalist move
ment, following the tactics of Finland,
for a complete strike. The Russian
| government has decided to make an
appeal to the peasants.
! The returns of the plebiscite are
still incomplete, but no change in it's
main features is now possible. The
results in 41S constituencies show
233,935 votes in favor of Prince
Charles of Denmark as king of Nor
way and 62,7S9 against him.
The death of Bishop Stephen NJ.
Merrill, Methodist Episcopal bishop of
Chicago, has been announced in New
York through a telegram received by
the Methodist Book Concern of that
city. Bishop Merrill died at Keyport,
N. ].
News has been received at Provi-
dence, R. l., from Norwood of the
death of Thomas Wall, who was
thought to be the last survivor of the
crew of the Monitor, which fought the
historic battle with the Confederate
ram Merrimac at Hampton Roads
during the civil war.
Helen Hope, who was married to
Randolph C. Johnson at Perquimans,
N. c., was found dead in her bridal
chamber two days after with a pistol
in her hand and a bullet wound
through her head. Johnson was lying
across the bed dead with three bullets
in his head and body.
| In collision off Pomham Light,
Providence, R. l., the incoming barges
Ira A. Allen, of Albany, n. Y, and
Elheurah, OF Hartford, Conn, were
sunk and the steamer Powhatan, of
the Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tation Co., bound for Norfolk, Va,
was slightly damaged.
Henry NJ Allen, an employe of the
government printing Office at Wash
ington, told the Philadelphia authori
ties that after making one attempt to
die he had reconsidered the matter Of
life and death and had decided to live.
Allen announced to the police that he
| rhn T., l.,
the Printers Beneficial association.
Gov. Toole has issued, on request of
the Montana Stock Growers associa-
tion, requisition on Gov. Searles, of
North Dakota, for William H. Denny,
mayor of Williston, N. D., charging
Denny with being connected with
gang of horse thieves, who, it is
claimed, have stolen more than 1000
horses.
Seven-y -year-old Elsie Jones on re-
turning home from school found her
father and mother lying dead on the
kitchen floor at Scranton, Pa. The
mother had been shot in both eyes and
the father in the left temple A re-
volver was clutched in the fathers
right hand. The shooting was doubt
less done by the father.
Bucky Taylor, aged II years, a
former editor of the Cumberland
(Md) Evening Times and who was
foreman of the Congressional Globe
and later of the National Republican,
Washington, during the days of Lin
coin, died at Cumberland, Nd He
established a paper at Fairfield, Ia,
which was destroyed by mob when
the civil war began.
Intense excitement prevails in st.
Petersburg owing to the alarming
news from Cronstadt. According to
the reports a mutiny of the sailors
occurred there and was followed by a
regular battle with the troops, during
which machine guns were used. The
workmen sided with the sailors and
many were killed or wounded. Later
the torch was used.
BLOOD is thicker than water"