Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-01-05


isville, KY, Typographical union, have
struck FOR an eight hour day and clos
cd shop.
The total loss caused by the fire
which destroyed the main portion Of
the City block, at Brockton, Mass, is
estimated at nearly 100000.
A collision involving two military
trains occurred between Snamenka
and Dnieprovsk, Russia. Twenty
soldiers were killed,
At Duke, Okla, w. Goodnight shot
and killed his wife and then himself.
He was jealous. Mrs. Goodnight was
16 years old.
In attempting to quell a riotous
ILL.,, William Tannehill shot and killed
William Borden and dangerously
wounded Fred Hopwood.
The Bay City, Mich, plant of the
American Shipbuilding Co. which was
destroyed by fire recently, will be re-
built and in operation again within so
days.
The printers of Port Huron, Mich,
numbering about 40 have effected an
eight-hour day agreement with the
employers by agreeing to reduction
in wages of so cents week.
William McAdoo has retired from
the office of police commissioner and
his successor, Gen. Theodore A. Bing-
ham, formally assumes command of
the police force of New York City.
Miss Barbara Toxer shot and killed
F. c. Clayton, a business man, at
Oklahoma City, o. T. The woman
asserts that Clayton attempted to as
sault her and that she shot in self
defense.
The finding of the bodies of John A.
Grace Holden, of Wakefield, Mass,
in Lake Quannapowiit has disclosed a
double drowning. Richie and Miss
Holden went to the lake to skate.
Russian papers publish terrible pic
lures of the conditions prevailing
along the Siberian railway. There are
no railway officials on duty and on
one section all the stations have been
pillaged.
Frank Phiscator, millionaire
Alaskan miner, ended his life at San
II ldhSloSo uOtSl ny IuIlllS w va
with a razor. Phiscator is said to
have been one of the pioneers of the
Klondike and built the first house in
Dawson.
Andrew Carnegie presented the
Baptist society at Shenandoah, Ia,
with $1,000 to pay half the cost of a
new pipe organ which is to be install
ed in 100000 building dedicated last
month. The congregation subscribed
the other $1,000.
Capt. Sheppard and the crew of the
bark Edward L. Mayberry, of New
York, have been landed at Havre,
France, having been rescued at sea
while their vessel was sinking. The
bark, which sailed from Pascogoula
Miss, for Philadelphia, was abandoned
in a waterlogged condition on Decem-
ber 1G in the gulf stream about $50
miles east of Cape Hatteras.
A murder and suicide that probably
took place at farm house near East
Springfield, Pa, has been reported to
the county officials. After an investi-
cation, County Detective Frank Wat
son, of Erie, believes that Elizabeth
Maursell, aged 75, shot and killed her
sister Deborah, a couple of years
younger than herself, and turned the
gun upon herself, blowing out her
brains.
New Years day at the nations capt.
tai was observed with all the tradi-
tional brilliance which time and Gus
tom have decreed shall characterize
the official greeting of the new year
and another was added to the long line
of receptions at the White House
where the president and Mrs. Roose-
welt received the people. BY actual
count 9,052 people shook the presi-
dents hand.
Frank Bonner, we'll known base
ball player, is dead in Kansas City, OF
blood poisoning that resulted from
quinsy He was Al years old and had
been a professional baseball player fol
20 years. He played with the old Bal
timore Orioles when that team wor
the pennant three years in succession
and last season was considered one Of
the best second basemen in the Ameri
can association.
Thousands of negroes paraded al
Savannah, Ca, in honor of the sign
ing of the emancipation proclamation
Capt. ]. C. Mcbride, former Officer
in the United States army and now ir
the newspaper business in Georgia
attempted to cross the line and wa.
set upon and badly beaten. A street
car conductor who endeavored to rur
his car through the line also wa!
painfully hurt and forced to leave hi:
car.
Information has been given to the
New York police recently indicating
that a mystery which has surrounded
theft of three great diamonds from
Tiffany's jewelry establishment nearl.
seven months ago will soon be cleared
up 1t is said that Prentice Tiller
known throughout the United States
as one of the most cunning criminals
and who is now in jail in Dayton, o.
has agreed to disclose to detectives
the hiding place of part of the boot!
obtained in the robbery.
Build an airship, go find the Nortf
Pole and report by wireless telegraph.
and submarine cables the progress o.