Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24

AnOJneT AIlanJlC CaDIc is 10 De laiu
by the Commercial Cable Co. and
bids for its laying have already been
received.
Police reserves were called out in
New York City to- disperse crowd
said to be sympathizers with the Rus
sian revolutionary party. Eight men
were arrested, all giving foreign
names.
The giving of testimony in the Pea
body Adams case in Colorado is
closed. Both sides will submit briefs
to the contest committee which must
present its report to the Legislature
on March 2.
A fire which started in the ware
house Of Fahnley & McCrea, whole
sale millinery, at Indianapolis, de-
stroyed property valued at 81, 100000.
When the fire was brought under
control eight buildings, among which
were three hotels, had been COM
pletely destroyed. One fireman was
hurt by falling walls.
AS the result Of the failure of the
Whitaker-Glassner Co. and the Off
cials of Crescent and Belmont lodges
of the Amalgamated association to
get together on disputed points re-
garding the rollers scale, lockout
has been declared at the Wheeling
and Martins Ferry, w. Va, plants
of the company.
Fire almost entirely destroyed the
plant of the Detroit, Mich, Steel
Casting Co., causing loss of between
$4,000 and 100000. Two hundred
and twenty-five men are thrown out
of work.
Midshipman Samuel Battle, of the
second class at the naval academy
and son of Surgeon Samuel w.
Battle, U. S. N, (retired) of Ashe-
vile, N. c., dropped dead as the bri-
gade of midshipmen were called to
dinner at Annapolis, Nd
An explosion on board a naptha
barge at Baku, Russia, set fire to
several other barges and landing
stage. 1t is reported that 20 people
perished.
]. L. Crawford, president of the
Peoples Coal Co., of Scranton, Pa,
died at his winter home in Indian
River, Fla.
The Symnes block, three-story
structure occupied by stores and Of
fees at Denver, Col, was destroyed
by fire,
Mrs. Sophia Westover is dead at
Wyocena, Wis, in her 1O5th year. Her
father assisted in the capture of Fort
Ticonderoga under Ethan Allen.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided that William K.
Vanderbilt may recover money paid
into the treasury of the United States
as an Inheritance tax under the war
revenue act of 1898, by William K.
Vanderbilt as executor for Alfred G.
Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Carrie Joslyn, who pleaded
guilty to numbering her husband by
poison, and Isaac Swan, her paramour
and former farm hand for the JOS
. lyns, were both sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the state prison at Ma
son, Mich.
Three steamers are imprisoned in
the ice off the harbor of Pentwater,
Mich.
Charles Cawley, the young man who
murdered his mother and four other
members of the family about two
years ago, while temporarily insane
over a mechanical invention, and who
was recently released from jail suf-
fering with consumption, died at the
home of his grandmother, at Six
, Mile Ferry, Pa, near Pittsburg.
| A man who is believed to be the
oldest person in New York City is
dead of old age at the age of 107. He
was Joseph McGrath, a stonecutter
and "a native of Ireland.
BY the bursting of a steam pipe in
the Buffalo, N. Y, city waterworks,
Thomas White was killed, John Her
rick was fatally hurt and seven others
more or less scalded, but will recover.
Two passengers killed and one
seriously injured is the result of a
wreck of a Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific railroad train near Wiota, Ia
One young woman wes killed and
about 40 persons were injured. 10 OF
them badly, by the derailing of a
commuters train on the Erie rail-
road near Fairlawn, N. ].
Owing to an epidemic of pneu-
monia in Pittsburg the health authori-
ties have issued a warning. Since
January 1 COO persons have been af-
fected, nearly half of this number
dying and there is no relief.
By an explosion in the Virginia
mines, about IS miles southwest OF
Birmingham, Ala, between 110 ant
1875 union miners are entombed ant
it is believed the entire number suf
fered death.
A girls attempt to prevent a trag
edy by sending her sweetheart up
stairs while she engaged the yount
mans rival in conversation at thu
door proved unavailing when Charles
Austin, 10 years old, killed Charle
e. Anderson, % years old, at Connells
Vile, Pa.
Fire which broke out on Pier o
the Hoosac tunnel docks, Charleston
Mass, spread to the steamer Phila
delphia and from there the fiame
jumped to the steamer Daltonhall
Piers and were burned and tn
loss is nearly 100000.
Gus Deford, who is wanted il
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