Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-02-02


Canadian Pacific railroad construc-
tion camp near Keewatin, Mann,
killed three laborers and injured four.
AT Cambridge, Mass, Charles L.
Tucker, convicted of the murder of
Mabel Page, of Weston, on March 81,
1904, has been sentenced to death by
electricity during the week of June TO-
A strike embracing 100000 men and
involving the entire building industry
of New York is now being aimed at by
the structural steel workers of the
city.
Mrs. Frank w. Shattuck, wife of the
pastor of the Advent Christian church
of Whitman, Mass, was burned to
death in the parsonage through the
overturning of lamp.
Seven buildings connected with the
United States naval training station
at Coasters Harbor Island, Newport
r. l., were destroyed by fire, causing
an estimated loss of 100000.
An official report shows that the
actual outlay for the war from the
beginning of hostilities to their end
in September last was for the Japan
ese army $495,000,O00 and for the
navy S90,000000.
The dowager empress of China has
sent to the American legation a num-
ber of wedding presents for Miss
Alice Roosevelt. The presents consist
of costly jewels, silks and ermine
robes.
Rev. Matthew O'Keefe, pastor of the
Roman Catholic Church of the I'm
maculate Conception, died at Towson,
Md, of pneumania, contracted while
responding to calls to attend the sick.
He was rs years old.
A dynamite bomb hurled through a
second-story window of the house of
Paul Mosczynski, so Union avenue,
Worcester, Mass, exploded and tore
away the rear part of the house, blow
ing out the floors and rear wall.
Thomas Valley was arrested at
Downingtown, Pa, charged with the
shooting of Joseph B. Carpenter and
Lizzie Carpenter his wife. Carpen-
ter was killed and his wife is in a
serious condition.
That he draws $4,000 annually
from the Glover Leaf route is an ad-
mission made by Theodore P. Shonts,
chairman of the isthmian canal COM
mission, which may have an impor-
tant bearing on the canal investiga-
tion.
Attorney General Moody reports
that as a result of the investigation
into the affairs of the defunct Enter
prise national bank of Allegheny, the
government hopes eventually to prose-
cute the parties who we're responsible
for wrecking that institution.
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double track for the Cleveland &
Pittsburg division from Steubenville
to Bellaire, o., the Pennsylvania Co.
has completed a deal which transfers
to it every house and highway in the
town of Burlington, o.
Mrs. c. A. Garfield, wife of a mil
lionaire oil operator and prominent
in society circles of Los Angeles,
Cal, was shot and killed while sitting
on the front porch of her home by
Morris Buck, a former family coach
man.
Col. w. D. Mann, editor of Town
Topics, was arrested at New York by
detective from the Office of District
Attorney Jerome. He is charged with
having committed perjury in his testi-
mony in the trial of Norman Hap
good on charge of criminal libel
Eight hundred patients in Bellevue
hospital, New York, were endangered
by fire in the laundry building, yet,
| through the quiet and effective work
of the hospital fire brigade and the
regular firemen, only small number
were awakened.
In running fight between William
Ilnnnlyn pnt ntrin in
tives employed by the Lackawanna
who is said to have been detected
stealing brass journals at Mointview,
N. j., all three men were wounded.
Leo Livingston and w. A. Sewell,
salesmen, both of Baltimore, were
found dead in room at Philadelphia.
The gas was turned on. The men left
letters in which they said they were
out of work, had no money and had
decided to commit suicide.
The New England Limited, an eX-
press train bound from Boston for
| Montreal, was wrecked at Bolton, VT,
| by running into an open switch. Six
cars left the rails and were practically
demolished, but none of the passen-
gers or trainmen were seriously hurt.
At least six persons (all women)
lost their lives in a fire which partly
destroyed the Richardson hotel in
Lowell, Mass. In the panic which en-
sued during the excitement attending
their escape many people were severe
| ly injured and burned.
Stephen Decatur, great grandson of
| Commodore Decatur, first class, Uni
| ted States naval academy has been
dismissed from the navy by Secretary
Bonaparte in conformity with the SEN
tence of the court-martial in his case,
on the charge of hazing.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the famous
Confederate cavalry leader and briga-
der general of the United States army
since the war with Spain, died at the
home of his sister, Mrs. Sterling
Smith, in Brooklyn, N. Y. The veter-
an of two wars was 60 years old.