Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-01-05
Happening of the Past
Five Days Narrated.
HOMEANDABROAD
News of the Busy World Boiled
Down So that 1t Can be Dr.
gested at a Glance.

About 25 men, 1t is believed,
drowned when the British bark Pass
of Melfort foundered on the rocks off
Amphitrite Point. Victoria. B. c.
Charles r. Yerkes, millionaire street
railway promoter, of Chicago and
London, died in the Waldorf Astoria
hotel, New York City.
Charles Alton, one of the most
prominent druggists of Toledo, o.,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head. Theye is no cause as
signed.
By the explosion of q dynamite
charge in the Kantner mine at Stoys-
town, Pa, Charles Johnson, William
Savage and Edward Berkebile were
literally blown to pieces.
Failures for the week ended Decem-
ber 80 numbered 221 in the United
States, against 252 last year, and q
in Canada, compared with II a year
ago.
After being entombed in a mine at
Wilkesbarre, Pc, for eight days, Jo-
seph Davis, a Pole, was rescued. Da-
Wis, who was q laborer, entered the
mine December 20 and got lost.
Prof. E. l.. Loux, principal of the
Souderton, Pa, public schools, was
shot and fatally woun3ed by robber
who had broken into school house
about half mile from Souderton.
The Interborough Rapid Transit Co.,
which operates the subway and ele-
waited railroads of New York City, has
announced an increase in the pay of
employees, to take effect January 1.
Announcement was made by the
leaders of the Housesmiths and
Bridgemen's union that on January
the 1000 members in New York would
strike for an increase of pay from
$3.50 to So day.
Daniel e. Storms, secretary OF
state of Indiana, has not resigned and
he will not comply with the demand
of Gov. Hanly for his resignation. Mr.
Storms takes the ground that he has
not violated the law.
Five officers of the Carriage and
Wagon Workers union and two hired
sluggers were found guilty of con-
spiracy at Chicago and all of them will
be sent to the penitentiary, unless
they are granted new trials.
Mrs. Hattie Sweeney, of McKees-
port, Pa, was fatally burned and eight
other members of the Sweeney family
were seriously injured as the result
of a natural gas explosion in their
home.
In head-on collision at Granville
N. D., on the Great Northern railroad
between an eastbound passenger and &
freight train Fred Bigelow, an engi.
neer Toby McEwen, fireman, and
Ed Gosline, brakeman. were killed
Court t-martial proceedings against
Midshipman Trenmor Coffin, a mem
ber of the third class, on the charge
of hazing Midshipman ]. p. Kim.
brough, of the fourth class, has be.
gun at the Annapolis, Nd, nava
academy.
Judge Holdom, of the superior court
at Chicago, has ruled against Typo
graphical union No. 1G in its conten.
tion that the court is without juris,
diction to cite alleged violators of al
injunction during the pendency of ar
appeal against the Injunction.
By the blowing up of an engine at
tached to freight train on the Chi
cago & Erie railroad near Discohill
Ind, Engineer John ]. O'Brien, oi
Kouts; Fireman c. B. Oliver, Hunting
ton, and Lemuel Fisher, brakeman
of Rochester,, Ind, were instantly
killed.
The United States government has
won the first victory in the private
car rebate prosecution against the
Pabst Brewing Co., the Milwaukee Re
frigerator Transit Co. and six railroad
companies. Judge Sanborn handed 6
decision overruling the demurrer o.
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railway Co. and the Pabst Brewing
Co., and also denied the motion of the
latter to strike out certain "slander
ous allegations" in the complaint.
John J. McCloskey, of Louisville
has been signed as manager Of the st
Louis National league club for the
coming season.
Pickering college at Pickering, Ont.
was destroyed by fire recently. The
college was a Quaker institution and
was attended by 200 students. The
building and contents were valued al
$4,000.
The, Michigan supreme court has de-
MED the application for new trial OF
ex-Coroner John It. Hoffman,, of De
troit, convicted of malfeasance In of.
flee. and Illegal collection of fees
Hoffman, was sentenced to -four years
IN prison.