Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-11

at Boone, N c., and another mans
arm was broken.
! A boiler explosion in a sawmill at
Del Rio, Tenn, killed three men and
/ injured three, one probably fatally.
/ A severe electrical storm accom-
panied by a heavy downpour of rain
did damage in southern Indiana esti-
mated at over $500,000.
Alexander Melville Bell, father of
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
of the telephone, is dead at the home
of the latter in Washington in the seth
year of his age. from pneumonia.
Gen. Joseph H. Lyon, Of Leaven-
worth, Kan, has been appointed
major general of the uniform rank,
knights of Pythias, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Gen. James r.
/ Carnahan.
1t is announced from an authori-
tative source that Gov. La Toilette
will relinquish the office of governor
of Wisconsin early in September and
| go to Washington as United States
senator in October.
Clair Hamilton, aged IS years, son
of farmer of CHARTERS township,
Pa, was found dead at an isolated
spot near Meadow Lands with bull
let through his heart, fired by some
unknown person.
/ w. o. Robson, supreme secretary of
the Royal Arcanum, announced re-
Gently that the supreme council will
meet at Put-in-Bay, o., on August so,
to consider the developments growing
out of the establishment of new rates.
| A brutal murder was brought to
light at Bishop, in the northern part
OF Washington county, Pa, when the
dead body of Joseph Barr, aged sc,
coal miner, was found lying in his
room with the skull crushed into a
shapeless mass.
Fire completely wrecked the in
terror of two-story building used as
wagon and machine shop at Monte
video, MINI. A 10-year-old daughter
of Mrs. Anna Botten and a 6-year-old
daughter of George REVERE were suf-
focated by smoke.
Four Italian laborers were killed
outright one died from his injuries
while being carried to the hospital and
another is seriously injured as the
result of an accident on railroad con-
struction work four miles west of
Alexandria, Va.
The tug ]. w. Hustled, while near
her pier in South Brooklyn, N. Y, was
seen to settle suddenly and to sink
from sight in SO feet of water 1t is
not known whether anyone was on
the boat at the time, or what caused
the accident
AS result of a runaway engine
crashing into a passenger train on the
Maryland & Virginia railroad near
Love Point, Md, James Brown, the
engineer, lies at the point of death and
Gus Roe, the fireman, is seriously in
iured.
An early morning riot among ne
groes at Friendship camp meeting,
death Of George Jackson, of near
Middletown, and John Pierce, of Mt.
Pleasant William Guy was serious-
ly wounded.
In sight of hundreds Of elevated and
surface car passengers on the Brook
lyn bridge, we'll dressed man whose
identity is unknown, leaped from a
surface car bound for Brooklyn and,
running to the center of the bridge,
leaped through the railing to the river
below.
The excursion steamboat Sunshine
sank at Broad Ripple park, ten miles
from indianapolis, with 1S0 passen-
gers on board, all of whom were men
except one, woman who was res
cued by launch No one was
drowned, but several were injured in
the panic.
News of the death by fire of Mrs.
Lyman R. Hawkes. and Miss Anna
Skipper visitor has been received
at Warren, Mass. The women were
burned during fire which destroyed
the Hawkes. farm house and barn.
Mrs. Hawkes. died while trying to
save Miss Skipper.
Charles F. Pfister, one of the veal
thiest and most prominent citizens of
Milwaukee, was indicted by a grand
jury at that place, charged with steal
ing $4,000 belonging to the Wiscon-
sin Rendering Co., of Milwaukee. In
dictments were also returned against
four other men.
.yRioting among the striking Hebrew
bakers on the lower East Side, New
York City, kept the police busy and
compelled them to use their clubs
freely. Most of the collisions between
the police and the strikers grew out
of efforts on the part of the latter to
induce non-union men to join them.
Inside of quarters of an hour
fire swept away the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western railways terminal
in Hoboken, N. Y, seized two ferry
boats and practically ruined them and
for half an hour threatened the de-
struction of the entire water front in
the vicinity, including the Hamburg
American and North German Lloyd
steamship docks at which several big
ships were lying.
Four officers of the Chicago police
force sent fusillade of shots after
two robbers who had stolen goods
valued at $1,000 from a baggage car.
The thieves escaped without their
booty, but three innocent persons
We're shot by the officers, none seri-
ously, however.