Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.


A break of five cents bushel oc-
Cured at Chicago recently in the
price of May wheat.
Five girls were hurt during panic
among so women employed on the
second floor of the Kaufman Manu-
featuring Co.. at Kansas City.
DR.. l. S. Weyand committed suicide
at Denver, Col, by opening an artery
in his leg after administering hypo-
dermic injection of morphine.
The main building of Vanderbilt
university at Nashville, Tenn, was
gutted by fire. The fire originated
in the second story of the building
from defective fue.
Mrs. Donald Mclean, regent of New
York City chapter of the Daughters of
the American revolution, was elected
president general of the general So
ciety, d. A. R., at Washington, d. c.
At Charleston, w. Va, as result
of an affidavit of County Tax Commits
sioner j. F. Hudson, accusing Judge
A. C. Shaver, of the county court, of
accepting bribes. the judge resigned.
Four transatlantic steamers which
arrived at New York recently brought
9,675 steerage passengers, the largest
number ever passed in quarantine in
one day.
Three members of a gang of shop
lifters which came to New York City
two months ago from Chicago were
sentenced to II months imprison-
ment each and a fine of $500.
Brig. Gen. James NJ. Moore, U. S.
A., retired, died in Chicago. The
home Of Gen. Moore was in New York
City. Gen. Moore waas among the
first to enlist in the civil war.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius is
increasing and frequent explosions are
heard. Streams of lava are running
down the mountain and the crater
is emitting smoke, ashes and red hot
stones.
United States Senator Orville Hitch
cock Platt, of Connecticut, died at his
summer home in Washington, Conn,
from pneumonia. He was rs years
of age.
Twenty Hungarian laborers were
chloroformed in a boarding house at
Omrod. Pa, and robbed of their mon
ey, the amount stolen being more
than $4,000
Henry A. Wyman was appointed re-
ceiver for the Colonial Life Assur-
ance association by Justice Morton,
of the supreme court, at Boston. The
association Is a fraternal beneficiary
corporation.
bill for the appointment of re-
ceiver for the Equitable Life Assur-
ance Society of the United States and
seeking an accounting was filed in the
United States circuit court at Chicago
by Attorney d. j. Schuyler.
A disastrous fire broke out recent.
ly and reduced to ashes the convent
in the little village of st. Genevieve
Que. One nun, nine children and fouI
old ladies lost their lives and two
nuns were probably fatally burned.
Immediate steps are to be taken by
Mayor Dunno TO urge upon the legis
lature the passage of a bill which will
enable the city of Chicago to engage
In the manufacture of gas and com
pete with the lighting companies.
Three firemen were injured, siI
women We're severely burned, 70 fami
lies were made homeless and prop
erty valued at $150,0OO was destroyed
by fire in the thickly settled Hebrew
center in the Brownsville section o
Brooklyn. N. Y.
The Blue Bond Trading Stamp Co.
with headquarters in Philadelphia, ha,
closed its doors. Hundreds of womeI
with books filled ready for redemption
called at the company's store recent
ly, only to find that it had been va
Gated.
Plans have been completed in Wal
Etreet by which funds for the con
struction of the Western Pacific rail
road are assured. syndicate o
banking house agreed to buy $50, 900,
600 of bonds from the company, tn,
proceeds of which VIII complete a lin,
from Salt Lake, Utah, to Oakland, Cal
Easter Monday was celebrated b,
the children of Washington by thei
annual egg-rolling on the White Hous
grounds
Announcement is made that OF
May ] the 5000 employees of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Co. plant in Pueblo
Col, will receive an advance in wage
varying from to 20 per cent
New York's building season has be
gun in earnest, 100000 workers in III
trades beginning operations under tn
arbitration agreement signed by EN-
ployers and representatives of skilled
men, and under which it is provided
there shall be neither strikes no
iocKouts.