Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-15

JOnn ADAMS, miner, anu JOHH
Galinsky, laborer, were instantly
killed by premature blast at the
Park Place colliery, Mahanoy, Pa.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has
placed orders for 10000 tons of steel
rails for 1906 delivery. This is an
increase of 10000 tons over the last
contract.
The third season of the Central
league has closed with Wheeling
winning the pennant. Financially,
the season is said to have been the
most successful in the history of the
league.
Three Italian laborers were killed
by the caving in of sewer trench
which they = were excavating in
Brooklyn, N. Y. Fourteen men were
caught by the falling earth, but IL
eXtricated themselves.
In consequence of the execution of
Ivan Kaspshak, a socialist leader who
was condemned by court-martial for
melting political murders, the work
men in all the factories in Warsaw,
Russian Poland, struck.
The printers employed in num-
Der of job offices in Albany, n. V,
went out on u strike because the en-
ployers would not agree to an eight
hour day for hand men. None of the
newspaper offices is affected.
The conference of union printers
and employers of Indianapolis having
failed to agree on an eight-hour day
to commence on January /, the local
Typographical union has ordered $50
1. IA
once.
The tone of the Norwegian news
papers indicates that the negotiations
between the commissioners of Norway
and Sweden regarding the dissolution
of the union have reached an i'm
passe, Norway being unable to accept
the conditions laid down by Sweden.
Albert Martin, after playing with
his three little children at his home
in Montreal, Que, took the youngest
daughter, 5 years old, into an adioin-
ing room and strangled her. When
the crime was discovered Martin said:
81 have made another angel for heav-
en-"
Steve Davis, young negro who, it
is said, confessed to outraging Mrs.
S. p. Norris, 90 years of age, was
burned at the stake by $500 persons
at Waxahachie, Tex. The leaders of
the mob tied the negro to a piece of
gas pipe that had been set in the
ground, piled wood around him and
set it on fire.
The pension roll reached the maxi
mum number in its history on January
21 last, the number being 1,00I,19G
The roll passed the million mark in
September, 1904, and gradually in
creased for the next four months. The
decline began with the first of last
February, and by May had dropped
below the million mark.
The latest private telegram received
from Baku reports that the situation
there is growing worse. Other un-
confirmed dispatches assert that the
rioters are stubbornly continuing their
attacks and that the Tartars and
Kurds are plundering in the "Blacll
| Town" district. Soldiers fired into a
crowd of Russian worllmen, killing II.
Bound, gagged and tortured by five
bandits who sought to make them re-
veal the hiding place of treasure they
thought concealed in the house, An
drew and John Fohren, old and
wealthy farmers living near Spring
Lake, II miles north of Elgin, ILL.,, are
in a serious condition and it is feared
that the shock and injuries may prove
fatal to Andrew.
Juries of inquest which investigated
the wreck of the Kinston- -Greenville
excursion train on the Atlantic Coast
Line railway, which went through an
open draw over the western branch
of the Elizabeth river near Bruce's
| Station, Va, August II, when II per-
sons lost their lives and 80 were in
iured, have returned verdicts holding
the railroad company responsible.
Because his 1G-year- r-old sweetheart
persisted in her refusal to marry him
and had dismissed him, Lee Weddle
II years of age, is dead by his own
hand, the sweetheart, Nellie Eichel-
berger, is suffering from two pistol
shot wounds that may prove fatal and
her friend and companion, Maud Da.
Wis, has bullet wound through heI
arm at Frederick, Md.
The scene of complete devastation
in the vicinity of the site of the Rand
powder works at Fairchance, Pa,
which were destroyed by an explosion
beggars description. The dead bod
les now recognized number u, while
there are six unidentified and add
ing the little child who was killed by
wagon that was going to the scene
Of the explosion, the death list mum
bers 10.
The death list of the accident or
the Ninth Avenue elevated railroad
New York City, when a car crowded
with early morning workers on thei
way down town pitched headlong in
to the street, stands at ~. Three meI
are in hospitals with fractured skulls
One of these, who remains unidenti
fed at Roosevelt hospital, is uncon
scious and not expected to live. Mort
than two score of persons were in
jured, many of them seriously.
All Italy is suffering from terrible
depression because of the news from
the south, where one Of the wors
earthquakes ever experienced occur