Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-24

wounded by a boy named Mattl Rein
like, who says he is a revolutionist.
Delivery of milk to non-union en-
ployes of "a wholesale clothing firms
was stopped by sympathetic strike
of milk wagon drivers in Chicago.
It was learned that for some time
the federal grand jury has been in
vestigating the methods of the So
called beef trust in New York City
and vicinity.
The ninth partially completed build
ing to collapse since the thaw set in
at New York City fell just after a
score of workmen, who had been en-
gagged in and around it all day had
left for their homes.
j. e. DAILY, an Oakland liveryman
who was acting as a messenger for
the Central bank of Oakland, was
held up and robbed of $4,000 at
Berkeley, Cal.
The coroner's jury that has been
investigating the collision near Cliff
ton Station, Pa, returned verdict
and recommended that Andrew Long,
engineer of the last train, be held for
manslaughter.
More than a score of industrial
plants are crippled and at least 10000
men are temporarily forced into idle
ness, costly washouts along the rail
roads bordering the Allegheny river
have resulted and hundreds of houses
and stores are flooded in and near
Pittsburg.
Smithfield, Pa, was visited by a
cyclone. The house of James Ben
son was completely destroyed by a
storm of wind and hail. There were
five persons in the house at the time
and all were injured.
Enough emigrants to people a city
as large as Canton, o., are due to ar
rive in New York City on the steam
ships from European ports this week.
For the seven days the number will
be 32,S63.
The city of Brockton, Mass, is in
mourning for at least three score of
her citizens whose lives were blotted
out by the explosion of boiler in
large shoe manufacturing establish
ment in the Campello district, con-
Quoted by the R. B. Grover Co.
Mr.. Cortelyou announced that he
had appointed Harry New, of Indiana,
vice chairman of the republican ma
tional committee and that by reason
of this appointment Mr.. New would
become acting chairman on his (Cor-
telyou's) retirement.
Gen. Belutini, President Castro's
agent at Antwerp, has been author
lied to sign a contract with the Ger
man and British holders of Venezue.
Ian bonds pledging so per cent. of the
customs receipts of Guanta La Vela,
Cumana, Ciudad Bolivar, Porto Colon
and Carupano.
In the case of the Cherokee nation
of Indians and of individual Cherokees
against the United States the court of
claims decided that the account trans
mitted by the secretary of the interior,
followed by this inaction of congress,
renders the United States liable for
the balance of 81, ,2S4 with inter
est from June 12, 1888, which amounts
approximately to S4,500,000.
A proposition has been sent out to
members of the American Flint Glass
Workers union calling for reduction
in the wage scale for the chimney
branch and vote is being taken. The
amount of the proposed cut is 25 per
cent.
Walter S. LennoX, a veteran actor,
is dead at his home in Philadelphia
at the age of 70 years. Mr. Lennox
entered the theatrical profession when
he was IS years old and remained on
the stage until his list year. He was
in Forrest, Booth and Barrett's COM
panies.
Two hundred weavers in Stafford
cotton mills Nos. l and at Fall River,
Mass, struck as protest against the
| ten-loom system and other innovations
which have been introduced by the
corporation.
The bargain made by leaders of the
opposing republican factions of Col
orado to take the governors chair
| from Alva Adams and to seat in it
Lieut.. Gov. Jesse F. Mcdonald after
| permitting James H. Peabody to hold
it for one day has been carried to a
conclusion.
Six masked robbers, frustrated in
an attempt to dynamite the safe in
the office of Birk Brothers brewery
at Chicago after they had overpow-
cred and gagged two employees of the
place, made their escape, but not until
they had engaged in pistol fight with
the police.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of
Trade says: Higher temperature is
still needed to bring out full spring
activity at many points, but improve
ment is discerEed in almost all de-
partments. Failures this week num-
bered $50 in the United States
against 229 last year, and 26 in Can
ada, compared with 21 a year ago.
When an oil line with 500 pounds
pressure burst and set fire to the cast
house of the Clarion, Pa, Steel Co.
Lewis Watson went into the building
to try to shut off the flow. In a mo.
ment he was drenched with oil. His
eyes were burned out, and staggering
to the front of the building he fell tc
the ground, fracturing his skull.
Col. Henry II. Adams, commanding