Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-05-26

the surface to the 700-foot level. No
lives were lost.
A fire recently in the Central res
taurant at Cambridge, Pa, completely
destroyed the building. Annie Club
ko. 20 years old, cook, was cremated.
A strike of cranemen at the Sharon,
Pa, works of the Carnegie Steel Co.
necessitated the closing of the plant
and 600 men are idle.
Hon. ID. S. Berry was shot and
killed at the door of his office in
Savanna, III. There is no clue to the
slayer or to the motive for shooting
Berry.
According to news received from
Liezen, in Syria, II persons have
been killed by an explosion caused by
fire in the Bosruck tunnel.
Several lives were lost and serious
damage was done to crops in many
parts of Texas by terrific wind and
rain storm that. prevailed over wide
territory.
Three quarters of million people
have already died of the plague in
India this year, according to figures
furnished by Indian Secretary Broder-
ick in the house of commons at Lon
don.
Cumberland Presbyterian church
was voted into the general assembly
at Winona Lake, Ind, amid storm
of applause, without dissenting vote.
1t was the final action of the general
assembly.
Forty monuments erected by the
state of Ohio to it's soldiers who fell
in the siege of Vicksburg were dedi-
Gated in the National Military park at
Vicksburg, Miss. The services were
largely attended.
H. Clay Grubb, acquitted of the
charge of numbering his brother-in-
law, was ambushed with a companion
in buggy, one of his chief witnesses,
nine miles from Salisbury, N. c..
Both were badly wounded.
Six men were killed in a terrible
explosion of a Hooking Valley engine
at the yards in Columbus, o. Frag-
ments of bodies were gathered in
baskets and other receptacles at hand.
A boiler in one of the mills of the
Nieberfall Stave and Lumber Co. at
Staples, Ont, exploded. Ralph Walsh
and Robert Fisher, engineers, were
killed and seven other men were
seriously injured.
John Yarras, Is years old, of Sum-
nit Hill, Pa, was shot and killed by
his father, Jacob Yarras, miner
They were shooting at a mark near
their home. The revolver missed fire
and the boy handed it to his father
for examination, when it was dis
charged.
The mutilated body of James Peter
son, aged 40 years, son of John
Peterson, wealth. farmer, was
found lying just outside the barn door,
short distance from his fathers
badly cut and bruised and one ear
almost torn off.
Robert Shaw, a negro, supposedly
insane, killed Deputy Sheriff w. c..
Brown and wounded seven other men
near Waitman, Ky. A mob of men and
boys surrounded Shaw's home and set
it on fire. Shaw finally leaped out. A
hundred shots were fired and Shaw's
dead body was riddled with bullets.
Twenty persons were injured, six
of them so seriously that they were
sent to hospitals, and more than a
hundred persons narrowly escaped
death or serious injury when fast
moving train crashed into two others
on the high elevated structure on the
Third Avenue line in New York City.
Judge VANITY, of the United States
circuit court at Grand Rapids, Mich,
handed down a decision in the case
brought jointly by rs railroads
against the state of Michigan, sus-
tanning the constitutionality of the
state ad valorem tax law.
Peter Matheson, a book agent, shot
and killed A. q. B:dwel and Stephen
Jones, fishermen; fatally wounded
Mrs. Sue Pruette, his mother-in- n-law,
and fired one shot at Ida Rossin, a
4-year-old girl, at Natchez, Miss. The
last shot was without effect.
In the recent fighting. near Basilika
(three hours distance from Salonica.
European Turkey) between Turkish
troops and band of Greeks, 25
Greeks were killed and one injured.
A workman who was trying to avoid
the observation of two detectives on
Miodowa street, Warsaw, Russian Po-
| land, stumbled on the curb of the
| sidewalk and a bomb which he was
carrying in his pocket exploded, kill
ing the workman, both the detectives
and injuring many persons who were
passing by.
r. g. Dun &, Co.'s Weekly Review of
Trade says: Unreasonable weather is
the chief cause of complaint, both as
! to distribution of merchandise and
agricultural DEVELOPMENT Failures
| this week numbered 234 in the United
States, against 2S6 last year, and IL
in Canada, compared with, IL a year
| ago.
Scenes of disorder in the collar
starchers' strike at Troy, N. Y, were
reinaugurated recently when nearly
all the manufacturers affected at
tempted to haul goods to freight Of
fees for shipment. Stones and sticks
were hurled at the non-union team
sters and several were dragged from
their wagons and assaulted.
| Johann Hoch who nv his own con,