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

cult died at ST. Louis. He was born
in Nina, N. Y, in 1871.
An unknown man walked out into
the rapids of the American channel
above the Goat Island bridge and was
caught by the current and carried
over Niagara Falls.
Wheat for May delivery sold down
to 92Is cents bushel in Chicago, a
decline of 71a cents compared with re-
cent closing quotations. At the close
the market had rallied to SO cents.
Five thousand men employed at the
National tube works at McKeesport,
Pa, were given an increase of wages
in their pay envelopes. The increase
averages from to 10 per cent. and
dates from April /.
Laverne McCrillis, aged 10 years,
of Tryonville, and Archie Clark, aged
19, of Centreville, students at the
state normal school at Edinboro, Pa,
were drowned in Conneaut Lake, while
out duck hunting in rowboat.
Flare back" or explosion of gases,
on the battleship Maine recently caus-
ed the injury of three men on that ves-
sci. This fact did not become known
until the ship came into Pensacola,
Fla, harbor and began coaling.
A tragedy, the mystery surrounding
which the police are having difficulty
in unravelling, was discovered in the
old Forney mansion, in Philadelphia,
when the bodies of two servants were
found in the kitchen.
| Engineer james McClain and Brake
man w. NJ Duncan were killed when
four cars and the engine of a Big
Four freight train jumped the track
and turned over as the train was pas
sing through North Indianapolis, Ind.
Thomas j. Scollan, mining broker,
has been arrested in New York as a
fugitive from justice in Boston. Scol-
Ian is wanted in Boston for alleged
participation in what were known as
the "city teaming Frauds" in 1897.
Ex-Gov. Stone presented to the
Pennsylvania supreme court recently
bill in equity to restrain the consoli-
dation of the cities of Pittsburg and
Allegheny. The court granted a re-
straining order preventing the court
of quarter sessions of Allegheny coun-
| ty from ordering a special election on
the petition of the mayor of Pittsburg.
I j. Wilcox Brown, a citizen of Mary
land, through his attorneys. has filed
an action against the Equitable Life
Assurance Society in the United States
circuit court asking that receiver be
appointed and for an accounting for
the benefit of himself and other policy
holders who may care to join with
him.
At a meeting in Hampstead, Tex,
called to petition the governor to send
rangers to enforce the local option law,
]. N. Brown, lawyer and ant-pro-
hibitionist, began shooting. Other
1 persons followed suit and three men
we're killed, one man was fatally in
jured and two others were severely
wounded.
Frank G. Bigelow, president of the
First National Bank of Milwaukee, has
been arrested, charged with the en-
bezzlement of over 100000 of the
banks funds. The arrest of Mr.. Bige-
low followed his confession to the
board of directors of the bank that
he was a defaulter to the extent of
S1,450,000. The directors of the bank
made good the shortage.
/ The steamer Cumberland, of the
4 GllCuIlSJ llSel, has DSen DSdCHeu Ou
Biddle Point, Mackinac Island, to
prevent her from sinking. A four-foot
hole had been broken in her bow just
above the water line by heavy ice in
the straits.
Judge Grosscup has made perma-
nent temporary injunction restrain
ing the city of Chicago from enforcing
the so-called interchangeable transfer
ordinance.
A pitched battle was fought at San
Francisco between two robbers and
John c. Brutt, saloonkeeper. The
encounter occurred in the latter's
saloon. Thomas Reilly, a laborer who
was in the saloon, was killed by one of
the flying bullets. Both robbers es-
capped.
At Worcester, Mass, a counterfeit
ers' den with paraphernalia for max
ing half dollars has been found and
three men charged with counterfeiting
have been arrested. The spurious
coin was made in molds and silver
plated.
Fred H. Wilson, acting superntend-
ent, and several clerks of the Indian
warehouse in New York City were
summarily dismissed from Office by
Secretary Hitchcock, charged with
irregularities in the conduct of the
office.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
Of Trade says: Erratic weather has
tended to make trade reports some
what irregular, but on the whole the
weeks results were satisfactory.
Failures this week numbered 200 in
the United States, against 241 last
year, and 81 in Canada, compared
, with II a year ago.
The three-masted lumber-la
: schooner Ida B. Gibson was rammed
in Hampton Roads by the steamer
Tampican. The schooner subsequently
; sank to the waters edge and was
towed to Norfolk by tugs.
, The upper branch of the Philadel-
| phia city council has adopted a reso.
luton that the government be request.
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