Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-27

CndnlC OF tue LOUISVILLE N NdSuNlllS
railroad, escaped from the state hos
pital for the insane at Hopklnsville,
Ky.
During the 12 months ended June 80,
1905, $50 persons were killed and 49,
| 7S3 injured as the result of accidents
on railroad trains, according to re-
port of the Interstate commerce COM
mission.
Conductor McClennan, of Erie, Pa,
and Fireman Wilson, of Buffalo, of a
Lake Shore local freight train, were
found dead beside the tracks at Sill
yer Creek, N. Y. They had been
struck by a train.
Members of the New York bar, ir-
respective of politics in national and
state affairs, have formed an organi-
zation favoring the reelection of Will
liam Traver3 Jerome as district at
torney of New York county.
All the electricians and linemen Of
the telephone companies having wires
centering in La Crosse, Wis, have
struck for recognition of the strikers
union. The question of open or closed
shop is the point in controversy.
Emma Soulsby was fatally and four
other women painfully burned by an
explosion of gasoline at 5S9 Avery
street, Allegheny, Pa. Mrs. Soulsby
was cleaning clothes with the fluid,
which ignited from nearby gas stove.
Sylvester Judd, aged 35 years, form
erly an assistant in the United States
geological survey at Washington and
professor of biology at Georgetown
university, was found hanging by q
rope from rafter in the garret of his
home at Baltimore, he having commit
ted suicide.
A big touring car containing three
women and four men was upset while
crossing a trolley track near Madison,
N. j., and all the occupants were
thrown out. James Wilson, the chauf-
feur, was caught beneath the car and
mortally injured and Morris Cook was
seriously injured.
The railroad strike situation in Rus
sia has entered on a highly serious
phase. The movement is spreading
rapidly to all the railroads of the en-
pire and apparently cannot be stopped,
while in many cities it is communicat-
ing itself to the mill and factory en-
ployes.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Co.'S
liner Siberia arrived at San Francisco
recently from Yokohama in the rec
ord breaking time of ten days, ten
hours and 2S minutes. There were
many distinguished passengers on the
Siberia, among them being Miss Alice
Roosevelt.
Mary Sheltlin, the wife of Rudolph
B. Scheltlin, an electrician at the navy
yard, and William A. Botomy, were
found dead by the husband in the
front room of the Scheltlin home in
Washington. A revolver from which
three shots had been fired was on the
floor.
A mode of life somewhat resembling
that of frontier settlements in early
days has been inaugurated by coke
company with ovens at South Deering,
III. A stockade surrounds the plant.
Three hundred Hungarian and Austri-
an employees with their families, a
population of 1000, will live and la
bor within the walls.
Congressman Jerry Simpson died
at Wichita, Kan. He was born in
New Brunswick, March 81, 1912. At
II he began life as a sailor and dur
ing % years following that pursuit,
commanded many large vessels on the
great lakes. In the civil war he
served in the Twelfth Illinois infantry.
He came to Kansas in 1878.
Three men fought battle with pis-
tolls on an Eighth avenue car in New
York City and all of them were seri-
ously injured. While the fight was
being waged the car ran at top speed
for half mile with the gong sounding
an alarm and the passengers lying
fiat on the floor to escape the shower
of bullets.
Mrs. H. S. France, wife of former
; motorman at Los Angeles, Cal, has
inserted an advertisement in all the
| papers of that section, stating that she
would pay $4,000 for information that
would lead to the discovery of her
missing husband. France left his
home here last August and has not
been heard from since that date.
With the termination of the print
I ers' strike in st. Petersburg the fac
tory workmen also have returned to
work. A call has been issued for an
; all Russian congress of workmen to
t meet at st. Petersburg in November
and determine the attitude of the
workmen towards the national as
sembly.
The death of Prince Troubetskoy
: and the encounter which took place
in st. Petersburg after the funeral
have resulted in suspension of work
at the University of Moscow, of which
, the prince was rector. The students
refuse to attend lectures until their
comrades who were arrested on the
day of the funeral are released.
All Mobile lent itself to the recep-
ton of President Roosevelt during his
two hours stay in Mobile, Ala. There
was a general closing of all business
houses and along the route of the
| procession from the Union station to
) the stand on Bienville Square, where
l the reception ceremonies took place
residences and stores were covered
| with lights and bunting.
The treasurer of the United States
5 in his annual report for the fiscal year
| 1905, says: The total stock of money
June so, 1905, was S2,S74 ,1O98G4, OF
which 95,227,211 was held in the