Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-08-04

Many lives were endangered and
great damage to property was caused
at Warren, Pa, by a cloudburst.
Latest report as to yellow fever in
Now Orleans is: Total cases to date,
2S3; deaths to date, 81; new foci, 3;
total foci. al.
In pistol fight at Sanderson, Fla,
between j. j. Green and Ed McRae,
both men were killed. The cause of
the tragedy is not known.
Loss of life and immense damage to
property followed the bursting of
reservoirs north of Bridgeport, Conn,
as n result of the unprecedented fall
of rain.
A passenger train on the Santa Fe
railroad ran off the track and threw
two cars into ditch at Lemont, Ill.
Five Italians were probably fatally
injured.
j. Rogers, of Charlotte, a motorman,
was fatally injured and about 20 pas
sengers slightly cut and bruised in a
head-on collision between two trolley
cars on the Beach line between Will
mington and Wrightsville. N. G.
The arrest of AZ persons ended a
riot which began with an attack on
two non-union teamsters at Halsted
and Van Buren, streets, Chicago. More
than 500 men and women were in
volved.
Negotiations have been completed
in Pttsburg for the financing of the
proposed pipe line to the Gulf of Mex
leo. The pipe line will extend from
Chanute, Kan, to Port Arthur, dis
tonce of $50 miles.
John w. Stebbins, for many years a
prominent resident of Rochester, N.
Y, died recently, aged Sc years. He
served in the assembly in 1855 and
took a prominent part in the election
of William II. Seward as United
States senator.
a plot aaginst the life of the sultan
of Turkey has been discovered by the
authorities at Kustenji, Roumania. A
search of the houses occupied by
Turks disclosed large quantities of re-
volvers, rifles, cartridges and compro-
missing documents.
Spectacular raiding of hand cook
resorts, in which 81 men were taken
prisoners in four hours, marked John
M. Collins second days work as su-
perintendent of the Chicago police de-
partment. Then at night came de-
scents on ten poker games.
The boycott of American goods at
Shanghai is continued with a bitter
feeling on both sides, but the Chinese
would probably welcome any reas-
suring indication from America en-
abling them to withdraw from their
position gracefully.
Suffering i'll health that may lead to
permanent retirement from baseball,
Frank G. Selee, manager of the Chi
cago National league club, has asked
for and obtained from James A. Hart
president of the club, an indefinite
leave of absence.
Paced by a running mate, Frank
Yollum made a new worlds record
pacing over half mile track at Titus
Vile, Pa. He paced the mile in
2:O5H. The second head of the race
was paced in 2:0GH, thus establishing
! new worlds record for two heats in
a race.
A negro, believed to be Charles
Long, who murdered Matthew Gun
ningham, of Trenton, and later es-
capped from Dismal Swamp, nea,
/ South Plainfeld, N. J., attempted tc
carry off one of the little girls of g
fresh air camp at Netherwood. The
negro failed in his attempt.
During a thunder storm of terrific
intensity which passed over New York
| five persons were struck by lightning
and instantly killed and nine were
seriously injured at the Parkway
baths, Coney Island. At the same
! time one man was killed and three
others prostrated at Gravesend Beach
What is said by army officers to be
| the most remarkable shooting ever
made by squad of men in the Uni
| ted States army was recorded at For
| Sheridan, Chicago, recently, where II
men out of a possible 23 made score.
of over 400 out of possible 500 il
skirmish firing.
In desperate encounter between
] the Mullins and Fleming factions o.
! feudists Sol Mullins, leader of the
| Mullins faction has been killed, vii
liam Mullins wounded and Jeff Elem
| ing fatally hurt. The battle tool
| place on Boone Fork, KY, in a lonely
mountain section.
The executive board of the Sixtl
district of the Amalgamated Associa
tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
met with President Shaffer in Pitts
burg and declared off the strikes a
the two mills at Youngstown, o., on,
at Girard, o., one at Warren, o., ant
one at Greenville. Pa.
An electric express train on TIL,
Lancashire & Yorkshire railroad
bound from Liverpool to Southport
England, collided with an empty sta
tionary train at the Hall Road station
causing the death of % persons ant
the injury of many. The first car o
the express, which was crowded, wa
smashed to pieces.
Concealment of judgments agains
the company amounting to $1S2,7G7
eXaggeration of it's surplus by owe
100000 and a fixed policy of della
in settling claims, are some of tn
charges made against the Mutual Re
serve Life Insurance Co. by Chic
Examiner Isaac Vanderpool, of New