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


instantly killed at Meadville, Pa. The
third, John Baily, of Erie, Pa, is bad
ly cut up and may die.
William E. Cramer, editor of the
Evening Wisconsin,, of Milwaukee,
Wis, died in that city. Cramer was
one of the oldest newspaper men in
the United States. He was born
October 10, 1921.
Three diamonds, cut from the
world-famous Excelsior stone and
valued in the aggregate at 100000,
have disappeared from the shop of
Tiffany & Co. in New York City.
There is no change in the attitude
of either side to the labor controversy
now in progress in Chicago and every
thing points towards an extension of
the teamsters' strike.
A heavy wind storm, blowing 20
miles an hour, struck Fort Worth,
Tex. Part of the west wall of the
Texas and Pacific passenger station
was blown in and John Young, train
dispatcher, was killed.
While defending his mother from
the attack of his father, who is said
to have been frenzied with drink, Jo-
seph Connell, youth of IS, shot and
killed his father, John T. Connell, at
Belport, l.. 1.
Judge Albion w. Tourgee, of May
vile, N. Y, American consul at Bor-
deaux France, died of acute uraemia
which resulted from an old wound.
Judge 1ourgee was taken seriously i'll
some months ago. He was 81 years
old.
An exploding lamp set fire to the
Palace hotel at Austin, Pa, and two
men, Michael Kemper and DR.. Benja-
min, were burned to death. Several
other inmates were scorched, but es-
capped by jumping from windows.
Col. Wallace Taylor, of the con-
stabulary, was severely wounded in an
engagement with the Pulajanes on
May II at Magtaon, on the coast of
Samar. One private was killed and
ten were wounded. Many Pulajanes
were killed.
One of the most disastrous fires
that has occurred in Wilkesbarre. Pa,
in some years started at an early hour
in the morning and not until after
noon were the firemen able to control
reach fully 100000.
The British steamer Broadmayne,
from Port Arthur, Texas, has arrived
at Tynemouth, England, with her stem
badly damaged. She reports having
been in collision with the British
steamer Vauxhall. The VauXhall sank.
Her crew was rescued.
Josephine Carr, a 13-year-old girl
of Toronto, Ont, has confessed to the
murder of William Murray, nine
months-old infant. 1t is claimed of
the Carr girl that she has been in the
habit of stealing baby carriages from
the front of department store while
the parents were inside shopping.
A Newport, KY, negro wrote to the
police authorities of Chester, w. Va,
confessing to five murders and numer-
Gus robberies. Later postal authori-
ties arrested the man and forced him
to acknowledge that his confessions"
| were untrue.
The executive committee of the
| Grand Army of the Republic met in
Denver recently and reported that ar
rangements had already been per
fected for accommodating 10000 visi-
tors during the national encampment
at Denver next September.
The tenth annual convention of the
National Association of Manufacturers
has closed at Atlanta, Ca. after select
ing New York as the place for the
convention of 1906, re-electing D. NJ.
Parry, of Indianapolis, president, and
ordering that the association be in
corporated.
Amid scenes of disorder unprece-
dented in the annals of Philadelphia S
| legislative body, city councils voted TO
lease the city's gas works to the Uni
ted Gas Improvement Co. for a term
of rs years, for the total sum of
| $25, 600, the money to be paid in
various amounts before the end of
1907.
The Wisconsin senate has passed
the bill which provides for an appoint
| i've railway commission of three men,
hers with a salary of $4,000 a year
each, with power to prescribe equit-
able rates, charges and regulations
switching and other charges, to cor
rect abuses and prevent unjust dis
elimination in railroad rates.
Rioting resulted recently in Chi
cago, when James Gray, negro non
union teamster, was shot dead by
Harry Bernstein, a bartender, during
an argument over the teamGters
strike. Bernstein was mortally shot
by Policeman Tinsley, colored, and
1000 persons partly demolished a
saloon into which Tinsley had taken
the unconscious bartender
For the first time in the history OF
Coney Island a censorship has been
established over the exhibition OF
freaks and amusements there. An EN-.
ploye of the Brooklyn license bureau
will exercise this function. He has
already withheld permits from the
managers of several monstrosities
which he declared to be revolving.
Justice Martin F. Morris, of the Dis.
trict of Columbia court of appeals
having indicated to the president his
intention soon to retire, the president
has announced that he will appoint
| ex-senator LOuis e McComas M