Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-06

lne census bureau mas issued u Dul-
letin showing the quantity of cotton
ginned from the growth of 1905, to
September 25 to be 2,95S,O31 bales.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wood died at her
home two miles from Niles, Mich,
aged 101 years. Eight of her children
and AZ grand children survive her.
The department of commerce and
labor at Washington has dismissed
from the immigration service James
A. Anderson, an inspector at Buffalo,
N. Y.
The strike of drivers employed on
United States mail wagons in New
York City, which has been in bern in
progress for several weeks, has been
settled.
A young American woman was shot
on the street at Brantfort, Ont, by her
father, who then shot himself. Both
will die. The woman married against
her fathers wishes.
The steamer p. II. Birckhead, coal
laden from Ashtabula to Racine, Wis.,,
was burned at dock at Alpena,
Mich. The crew of 12 escaped unin-
jured, but lost all their effects.
President Roosevelt probably will
recommend to congress this winter
the establishment of central pur-
chasing agency for the several de-
partments of the government.
The spectacle of member of the
judiciary being dragged about by
mob and forced to rescind an official
order ended day of turmoil at Brigh-
ton, Col, recently.
In the presence of distinguished
party of guests the battleship Mis-
sissippi was launched at the yard of
the William Cramp Ship and Engine
Building Co., in Philadelphia.
Three members of the BAN : Roma,
of Boston, were seriously hurt, while
nearly every other member of the
band was cut and bruised by the col
lapse of a band stand.
A fire that broke out in an army
storehouse at Hiroshima, Japan, and
continued for more than three hours,
destroyed 20 temporary buildings, to-
gether with their contents.
A switch engine in the yards of the
Louisville G. Nashville railroad at
Birmingham, Ala, jumped the track
and two men were instantly killed and
third died in the hospital
George Foulk, aged 5, and Mamie,
aged s, were poisoned at the Daven-
port Ia, soldiers home by candy
which, it is claimed, was sent to them
by their father, Johnathon Foulk.
By the explosion of large quantity
! of nitroglycerine in the Aetna pow
der mills at Miller Station, Ind, two
men were killed. The explosion oc-
Cured in the packing house.
The North American Commercial
Co., the lessee of sealing rights off
the Pribyloff Islands, Alaska, shipped
14,36S fur seal skins during the lapsed
season of 1905, against 131,12S shipped
in 1904.
Peter Mcintyre, a private in the
101St company, coast artillery, was
stabbed and killed in the barracks at
Fort Totten, Whitestone, l.. l., by
Private William Snyder. The men
had quarreled.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that at the close of
business September 80, 1895, the debt,
less cash in the treasury amounted to
1896, ,O09, which is a decrease for
the month of $S,946,5S6.
At Des Moines, Ia, Charles Dexter,
league ball team, stabbed First Base
man H. Q. Bateman, of the Milwau-
kee American association team. Bate
mans condition is serious and he is
not expected to live.
Thirty eight indicted fl C S
against whom are hanging 172 indict-
ments returned by the last grand jury,
appeared before Judge Brace in the
municipal court at Milwaukee and
entered pleas in nearly every case of
not guilty.
The international tuberculosis con-
gress was opened recently at the
Grand Palace, Paris, France, in the
presence of President Loubet, the
cabinet ministers and the ambassa-
dors. Over $500 delegates were pres
ent
Train service men from street car
lines in nearly every big city in the
country attended at Chicago recently
the opening of the biennial convention
of the Amalgamated Association Of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America.
BY the confession of his guilt Hen
ry A. Leonard, a young clerk in the
employ of Halle & StieglitZ, brokers
at New York City, the mystery of the
robbery recently of $359,OOO worth of
securities from the National City
bank was cleared up.
The monthly statement of the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
shows that for the month of Septem-
Der, 1905, the total receipts were
$50,251 ,159 and the expenditures SAL
3O9,67G, leaving a surplus for the
month of $S,941, 900.
George Olenstead was arrested at
Huntington, w. Va, and a consider
able sum of counterfeit money found
upon his person. Olenstead made a
confession in which he disclosed the
location of the counterfeiters' head
quarters under the Ohio river bank
below Central City.
The department Of agriculture has
imported from the Island of Malta a
hard of 90 milling goats ThaU will