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

The Americus Republican club re-
Gently held its annual banquet at the
Hotel Schenley in Pittsburg in COM
memoration of the birthday of Gen.
u. S. Grant.
Three negroes, Walter Obey, Chas.
Jackson and Charles Miles, were
hanged in Pittsburg. Jackson and
Obey went to the scaffold together
The sawmill of r. ]. & B. Camp, one
of the largest concerns of the kind in
Florida, was burned at White Springs
together with 100000 feet of lumber
Official reports from the Caucasus
describe numerous encounters be-
tween peasants and troops. Many of
the former have been killed in Cos
sack charges.
Assignments were made at Cam
bridge Springs, Pa, by j. j. & A. Kel-
ly, bankers; A. Kelly & Son, hotel,
and j. L. Alton, Frank R. and Amos
Kelly as individuals.
In the criminal court at Baltimore
Judge Wright sentenced julius Scha-
umloffel, lawyer, to five years in the
penitentiary for obtaining money un-
der false pretenses.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, has
vetoed the Elsberg bill taking from
the aldermen all control over local
franchises and vesting the sole power
in franchise matters in the board of
estimate.
The census bureau at Washington
has issued the final report on the cot
ton crop grown in 1904 showing a
total production of 13,5S4,457 bales of
500 pounds. The crop exceeds that of
1903 by 3,491 1856 bales, or 35 per cent.
H. G. Frick. chairman of the COM
mittee investigating the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, has written q
letter to the policyhoulders assuring
them that the interest of every policy
holder is absolutely safe.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, died
at the Providence hospital in Wash
ington, D. c.. as the result of an at
tack of apoplexy and paralysis with
which he was stricken while travelling
by rail from Boston to Washington.
Gov. Mcdonald, of Colorado, has We
toed the railroad merger bill passed
at the late session of the legislature
the purpose of which was to enable
the Colorado & Southern Railway Co.
to extend its lines to the Gulf of
MShlCO.
Coroner Hollingsworth has returned
his verdict as to the recent coal mine
disaster at Princeton, Ind, in which
eight men were killed. He holds Ros-
coe Hedrick and the Princeton Coal
Co, which owned the mine, respon-
sible.
The strike at the Whitaker Glessnel
iron works in Wheeling, w. Va, has
ended. The old employees, members Of
the Amalgamated association, are tc
return to work at once. The strike
lasted five weeks.
Thirteen miners were entombed ant
probably killed by an explosion in the
Missouri. Kansas e. Texas Coal Co.'s
mine near Wilburton, Okla. Theil
bodies may not be recovered for sew,
eral days.
All the contract Jamaicans working
at the aqueduct In Panama struck re-
Gently, alleging insufficient food as the
cause. Six policemen who were sum
moned by Engineer Barril to compe
the men to work were badly beateI
and BaIril was stoned.
Three persons were probably fatal
ly injured, three others badly hurt anC
at least two are buried under the
ruins of the Mossman building II
Huntington, w. Va, which was wreck
ed by gas explosion which causeC
damage estimated at 100000.
Troops and strikers clashed at Gees
tochowa, Poland, near the frontier o
Silesia. Four strikers were killed aan,
over score were wounded by volley
fred by the infantry.
Leo Pranikoff, musician, of Chi
cago, attempted to asphyxiate himsel
and four children. Pranikoff and on
of the children are dead and two o
the children are not expected to live.
AT Wilmington, Del, John 7
Dickey, formerly county treasurer an,
prominent in local democratic politics
has been arrested by Secret Service
Agent Griffin, of Philadelphia, on tn
charge of causing lottery tickets to b.
removed from California to Delaware