Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-25

Almost every house in town was over
turned but only one person was in
jured.
The separate statehood constitu-
tional convention opened at Mukpgee,
L. T., recently with nearly 200 dele
gates, representing the FIVE civilized
tribes.
Gun cotton enough to kill a man,
arranged in an internal machine and
disguised as gift cigar box, was re-
ceived by Precinct Police Captain
Miles OReilly, of New York City.
The city gas plant of Syracuse,
Neb, was partly demolished ny an eX-
plosion which also wrecked a part OF
the waterworks plant Both plants
are owned by the city.
The sugar famine, brought about by
the quarantine against freight from
New Orleans, is fast becoming a seri-
Gus matter in Nashville, Tenn. 1t has
been years since the supply of sugar
has been so short.
An upturned rowboat was found
floating on Ganega Lake on the North
Mountain at Wilkesbarre, Pa. Inves-
tigation was made and the body Of
Arthur Potter, of Ellentown, Bradford
county, was fished from the bottom
of the lake.
The thirteenth annual meeting of
the national irrigation congress, with
more than thousand delegates pres
ent, representing more than four
fifths of the states in the Union, as
sembled at the Lewis and Clark audi
torium at Portland, Ore.
]. d. Standish, said to have formerly
been a member of the Pennsylvania
legislature, was sentenced in the SUI
perior criminal court in Boston to
serve not more than six nor less than
three years in state prison for utter
ing forged checks.
The body of a man, who from pa
pers founS in his clothing is sup
posed to be J. w. Hartnett, formerly
train dispatcher for the Wabash
railroad at Decatur, H., and whose
home was at Hornellsville, n. Y, was
found floating in the Chicago river.
The San Francisco Post says: 1t has
been stated upon the highest author
ity that the actual transfer of the San
Francisco Gas and Electric Co. to the
Rockefeller interests has taken place
and that at the same time clean
sweep of the heads of departments
has commenced.
The police at last have applied
check to the activity of the central
bureau of the league and confedera-
tion of professional reform organiza-
tions, by descending On a meeting of
the central committee in st. Peters
burg and arresting ten of the leaders
present.
Letters received from James w.
Crawford, a shoemaker, saying that
he intended to murder his wife and
then kill himself, brought a physi-
clan and nephew of Crawford to the
mans house at Brockton, Mass, and
revealed the fact that the threat had
been fulfilled.
Chicago hotel men. wholesale
butchers and restaurant keepers have
formed a combination to fight the
beef trust" Two plants-one cost
ing $150,000 and the other 100000
are in course of erection and third
to cost 100000 is contemplated.
Owensboro and Henderson, Ky, and
Evansville, Ind, We're shaken by an
earthquake. Two distinct shocks were
felt. Citizens of Owensboro were
greatly frightened. Many rushed
from their homes. No damage was
done.
New York will be the scene of
remarkable demonstration of frater-
nifty and good will between the jack
tars of the navies of Great Britain
and the United States during the first
week in October, on the occasion of
the visit of the second cruiser squad
ron of the British fleet.
Russia's national representative as
| sembly, the fruit of decades of striv-
ing for reform, which endows the Rus
sian people with the right of being
consulted through their chosen repre-
sentatives in the suggestion. prepara-
| tion and repeal of legislation, now
takes its place among the fundament-
al institutions of the empire.
! Fifteen men were carried down by
the falling of wall in the ruins Of
the Avenue theatre at Pttsburg,
which was destroyed by fire about a
month ago. The men carried down
were all Italian laborers and Is of
them were taken from the wreckage
in a badly battered condition.
More than 500 men, women and
children were precipitated Is feet into
a cellar by the collapse of a platform
during the exercises incident to the
laying of the cornerstone of the Beth
David Russian Hebrew Orthodox
synagogue near Washington, Pa.
Nearly all were cut and bruised, but 1t
is believed none fatally hurt.
Between 20 and so negroes, occupy
ing the first car of an Atlantic Coast
Line excursion train from Kinston,
N. c., to Norfolk, Va. were killed or
injured. The train, consisting of the
engine and six coaches, plunged
through an open draw of the bridge
over the Elizabeth river at Bruce
Station. Va.
strike of cotton operatives in
Lancashire, England, for a per cent.
increase in wages has been averted
after conference between the mas
ter spinnerS and oDeratiVeS A COM