Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-11-24
Happening of the Past
Five Days Narrated.
HOMEANDABROAD
News of the Busy World Boiled
Down So that 1t Can be Di-
gested at Glance.

AT least five persons were burned
to death in an Italian tenement house
fire at New York City.
-Four dollars in conscience money
has been received by the New York
board of education.
The national baseball commission
has forever disqualified infielder
Owens and Outfielder Heydon from
playing, for jumping contracts.
An explosion at the Buckeye pow
der works at Edwards Station, north
west of Peoria, ILL.,, killed two men
and injured several other employees.
Arva Grinnell, Mexican war veter-
an, said to have been the first man to
scale the walls of Chapultepec, died
at his home in Spencer Mass.
The Vassar, Mich, police authori-
ties announce that the home of Rev.
John Baker, aged 80, was burglarized
and $1,000 in cash was taken.
The Erie railroads flyer" ran in
to it's helper" engine in the Carbon
dale, Pa, yard and injured a dozen
persons aboard the train.
Failures for the week ended No
vember II numbered 240 in the Uni
ted States against PIT last year, and
AZ in Canada, compared with q a
year ago.
]. P. Sevener, Fred Roberts, AL
Linderman and T. S. German were
hanged at Carson, New, for the mur-
der of Jack Welch in Humboldt
county in August, 1903.
The Montana supreme court holds
the antitrust law of Montana to be
unconstitutional, since it violates the
constitutional provision against class
legislation.
S. P. Ayres, editor of the Marshall
town Ga) Herald, committed suicide
by shooting. He had become exces-
sively respondent because of i'll
health.
James Artman was instantly killed
and Martin Kyle and Steven Carlop
were fatally injured by being run
down by freight train on the West
Penn railroad at West Leechburg, 20
miles east of Pittsburg.
A thief who entered the Security
Storage Co.'S warehouse at New York
City in an express package was
caught as he was about to leave the
warehouse, hidden in the same pack
age along with $500 worth of stolen
goods.
pairing a gas main at the intersection
OF Michigan street and Dearborn ave
nue., Chicago, the gas became ignited
and an explosion followed, fatally in
1uring two of the men and burning
three others severely.
Richard II. Kastor, son of a mil
lionaire, was in st. Louis on an in
dictment returned by a federal grand
jury, charging Kastor with conducting
a scheme to defraud in connection
with the Merchants Brokerage and
Commission Co.. of st. Louis.
From a telephone message received
from Marion, N. c., it is reported that
15 people were killed near there by
the explosion of a powder magazine
located just outside of town. The
shock of the explosion was so great
that it was felt at Morganton
Judge SanborI, in the United States
circuit court of appeals at st. Paul,
Mimi, filed three decisions in which
he holds that telegraph companies are
only obliged to use ordinary care in
determining the identity of the send
ers of messages.
More than 1000 bales of cotton were
destroyed about 1000 bales badly
scorched and several hundred bales
damaged by fire which started in
property used jointly by the Central
of Georgia railway and the Atlantic
Compress Co., at Columbus. Ga.
EX-Gov. Benjamin B. Odell, ir., and
United States Senator Chauncy NJ
Depew, as witnesses before the legis-
lative insurance investigating com
mittee in New York denied parts of
the testimony of James Hazen Hyde
In which their names We're used.
The management of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad after
20 years of opposition has recognized
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers by signing the first wage sched-
ule with that organization since a
Strike of engineers in 1855.
With the death of George Hand
forth, rs years old, at the Methodist
hospital in Philadelphia, ended what
is said to be the most remarkable case
of survival of a broken neck known
In the annals of medicine and surgery.
For 15 months the injured man lay
on air and water mattresses suffering
no pain, unable to move any muscles
excepting those in his fore-arms.
After kissing her mother goodbye,
MIS-. Floy Anderson. of Des Moines,
Ia, while mentally deranged ran from
the house, jumped into well and was
drowned.
The Calumet and Hecla Copper Min.
ing Co. has declared quarterly d!vi-
dend of SIS share, an increase of So
share over that paid at the last pre-
yious quarter
Luke Lockwood, one of the most
eminent members of the Masonic fra
ternity in the United States and the
author of Lockwoods Masonic Juris-
prudence, Is dead at his home in
Greenwich, Conn. He was II years
old.