Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-09-08
Happenings Of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS
Stems Arranged for the Readers In
This Busy World SO that They
Can Digest the Con-
tents in Few
Minutes.
MIscELLANE


The town of Shusha is besieged by
Tartars who are well armed and are
massacreing the Armenians.
The elevator dock at Portland, Ore,
was destroyed and the Albina dock
badly damaged by fire entailing to-
tai loss of S33O,O00.
Kneeling at the side of his mothers
grave in Rosehill cemetery, Chicago,
Harry l.. Hoffman shot himself in the
temple, dying five hours later.
Three Slavs and an Italian were
blown to pieces by the premature ex-
plosion of blast near Safe Harbor,
Lancaster. Pa. Several others were
badly injured.
DR.. Henry F. Carey, the eye spe
cialist, died at Baltimore. He invented
the opthalmo oscillator in 1899, which
marked a new era in scientific eye
surgery.
Eight members of the Louisville
baseball club of the American associ-
ation were injured at Kansas City
when a trolley car ran into a wagon
cite in which the club was riding.
All records of prices of stock eX-
change seats were broken at New
York City by the sale of seat for
$S3000 which with the initiation fee
makes the price $4,000.
Henry r. Wardell, an American en-
ployed by the Panama railroad, is
seriously i'll with yellow fever in the
quarantine hospital on Swinburn
Island, N. Y.
Forty three cases of cholera in all
have been reported in Germany. Nine
hov ha 6iSnoCp
and many suspicious cases are under
observation.
The new 16,O00-ton battleship Yer
mont, built for the United States gov
ernment by the Fore River Shipbuild-
ing Co., was successfully launched at
Quincy, Mass.
One man was killed and three were
seriously injured at the open hearth
mill of the Carnegie Steel Co. at Don
ora, Pa, by the bursting of NAM
moth ladle filled with molten steel
Commercial failures in the United
States for week ended September 2
are 217, against 222 the correspond
ing week last year. Failures in Cana
da number 10. against 80 last year.
Nine. Narychkine, daughter of NJ.
Witte, the Russian peace plenipoten-
1iary, while leaving a theatre at Brus-
sells, was robbed of pearl necklace
valued at $4,000.
Joseph Frey, head gardener at Lin
coin park, Chicago, is seeking to give
the country a national flower in the
form of a chrysanthemum plant which
will grow red, white and blue bios
SONS.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent
of the London Times says that the
three battleships now in course of
construction cannot be completed be-
cause their engines have been found
10 be too big for their hulls.
A notable board of distinguished
engineers assembled in Washington
upon the request of President Roose-
welt to determine the relative feast
bility of sea level or lock canal at
the isthmus of Panama.
Ralph Holden, proprietor of a bath
house, at Union City, Mich, shot twice
at his wife, twice at his sster-in-law,
Mrs. Byron w. Brady, once through
his own hat in a weak attempt at sui
eide and then, finding he had not in
jured himself, escaped TO the woods.
Mrs Holden will probably die.
The agreement reached by the com
mittee for consolidation of the AS
sociated Fraternities of America and
the National Fraternal Congress was
submitted to the associated frater-
mites convention at Milwaukee and
ratified, The agreement provides for
the name international Fraternal
Congress"
New York captured the national
trophy after four days struggle
which ended last evening. The sec
ond prize went to the team represent
ing the infantry branch of the United
States army, and Ohio finished third.
The fourth prize was won by the ma
Tine corps, the fifth by the navy and
the sixth and last prize by New Jersey.
The Journal of the Amo lean Medi-
cal Association contains statistics re-
Harding injuries received during the
Fourth of July celebration, with spe-
cial reference to tetanus resulting
from these injuries. The total mum
Der of cases this year was 1O4. The
totals of accidents resulting from
blank cartridges was 500. Besides
81 deaths from tetanus there were 9E
from other accidents-a total of 1S2
A terrific storm passed over Halle
ton, Pa. Frank Smith, a 15-year ole
boy, was drowned while crossing
swollen creek at Ecldey, near Halle
ton.
1t is reported in Tientsin that the
discomfort in Japan over the conces
sions granted to Russia In the peace
treaty Is so deep that it is feared tha
a revolution will break out.
Albert Brandt, 32 years old, of Chi
Gago, an engineer, was mortallS
wounded in a fight with his brother
in-law, Thomas Harris, for the pos
session of Harris 1S-months-o old
daughter Brandt was taken to the
county hospital. whore he died.