Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-10


plant of the Union Spring and Manu-
featuring Co. at New Kensington. Pa,
sent seven bullets into the body of
Howard M. Elmer, young telegraph
operator
At Buenos Ayres in attacks upon
the police stations several rioters
were killed. about 30 were injured
and some $50 arrested. Order has
been completely restored.
The dead body of Mrs. John A.
Kirkpatrick was found in the back
yard of an unoccupied house at AL
legheny, Pa, only a short distance
from her home. She had been muir
dered.
Thirty men narrowly escaped
drowning In the icy waters in the
harbor of refuge at the Delaware
breakwater at Lewes, Del and, af-
ter being rescued with the greatest
difficulty by the crews of two tugs,
they were forced to make their way
to shore afoot over the heavy ice
foes with which the Delaware river
and bay is blocked.
Leo Ososkie, aged 2 years, and his
baby brother James, aged 2 months,
children of a shipyard laborer, were
suffocated to death by smoke in their
home at Wyandotte, Mich.
G. T. Beckwith, president of the de-
funct Citizens national bank of
Oberlin, is dead at Oberlin, o. He
was about 65 years old.
BY the explosion of $3.50 quarts of
nitro -glycerine in one Of the maya
zines of the American Glycerine Co.,
three miles north of Montpelier, Ind,
two of the company's employees were
seriously injured. A hole 30 feet deep
was torn in the ground. Trees 500
feet away were uprooted.
In a grade crossing collision at
Raisin Center, Mich, between a Lake
Shore passenger train and a west
bound Wabash freight, Engineer
Sheldon Stone, of Jackson, and Fire
man Stephen Lancaster, of Burr Oak,
both of the passenger train, were
killed.
Joseph Bramwell, who amassed a
fortune in the cotton trade by run
ming the blockade of southern ports
during the civil war, is dead at his
home in Flushing, L. l., aged SO years.
At Bedford, Ind, in the preliminary
hearing of Frank Evans and Elmer
Browning, charged with the murder of
Miss Sarah Schafer Evans was re-
leased and Browning was held to the
grand jury, which will meet February
20.
The postmaster general is empow-
cred not only to fix the salary of
postmaster on the basis of the gross
receipts of his postoffice, as provid-
ed by law, but also to go behind the
| - lotN ,,,1o
were obtained properly, according to
decision rendered by Comptroller of
the Treasury Tracewell.
A dispute over a lease led to the
murder of Mrs. Rosa Chambers by
Benjamin Byers at Louisville, Ky.
Byers then killed himself.
The supreme court of Colorado de-
clared that the Colorado capital pun
ishment law was valid.
Manuel Rego, postmaster of Koloa,
island of Kauai, was arrested, charg-
ed with the embezzlement of $27,077
of money order funds.
The ice embargo in Chesapeake Bay
on coastwise shipping is now COM
plete. Telegraphic communication in
the central south was crippled to a
degree of seriousness unknown in
late years by a sleet storm of many
hours duration, extending from
Georgia over into Texas and as far
north as the Ohio river.
The members of the cabinet hav-
ing insisted upon resigning, President
Palma, of Cuba, indicated that he
would accept the designations, to take
effect upon the installation of their
successors.
Henry Eaton's three small children
were burned to crisp in a log house
at Poysippi, Wis, while the parents
were away. 1t is supposed the child
rem played with fire in the stove.
James K. Mosser, millionaire
leather merchant, the largest owner
of tanneries in Pennsylvania, is dead
at Allentown, Pa, aged rs years
The closing down of eight sash,
door and blind factories, by
which 900 men were thrown out
of employment, together with a de-
mand for an increase of two cents an
hour by 1000 woodworkers, has fur
ther complicated matters for the
wood Industries in Chicago
Rev. Martin Mcfarland committed
suicide by hanging himself at st.
Louis Mo. Sickness caused him to
become respondent.
Another heavy fall of rain through
out southern California and Arizona
caused renewal of the recent floods.
Every port on the Connecticut
shore from the mouth of the Connecti-
cut river at Saybrook to the westerly
end of Long Island Sound Is securely
ice-locked. Marine men, especially
veteran tugboat captains, say the ice
conditions have never been so bad
within their recollection.
AT Portland, Ore, an unknown
man was killed and ten persons were
injured in a runaway street car. The
car ran away on grade and on strik-
ing curve jumped the track.
The steamer Mesaba, from London,
has brought into New York harbor