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

by bomb at Tiflis. The assassin has
been arrested.
wage increase of approximately
per cent. in which 1,600 employees par
ticipate went into effect on the Bos-
ton & Maine railroad system recently.
Three men were killed by what is
thought to have been a premature ex-
plosion of blast in the Ellington
mine, two miles west of Pittsburg.
Victor Demogeot, of France, was
crowned speed king of the world after
driving his gasoline car two miles in
the marvellous time of 5S AS seconds
at Ormond Beach, Fla.
1t can be stated authoritatively that
no considerable part of the work of
construction of the Panama canal will
be let at contract within the next two
or three years.
William Brusseau, sent to Jackson
prison from Detroit for 25-year SEN
tence in 1895 for killing DR.. Horace e.
Pope, dentist, with hatchet while
the doctor was asleep, is dead.
In a head-on collision between pas
senger trains on the Big Four railroad
near Nabb, Ind, three trainmen were
severely but not fatally injured and
several passengers were shaken up.
DR.. and Mrs. ]. H. Dye, of Louis
vile, KY, were struck and instantly
killed by an outgoing passenger train
on the Southern railway at Buechel
Station, ten miles from Louisville.
In a head-on collision between a
passenger train and a freight train
near Edelstein, ILL.,, on the Santa Fe
road, three men were killed, another
fatally injured and much damage done
to train property.
Capt. Stephen Kirby, one of the
founders of the Detroit Dry Dock Co.,
which built the first iron and steel
boats that sailed on the Great Lakes,
died at his home in New York, aged
80 years.
Three hundred men are on strike at
the American window glass house al
Jeanette, Pa, because of new regu-
lations which involve turns of 12
hours instead of eight. The wages
have also been reduced about one
third.
Turning into the entrance of the
Redemptorist high school at St Louis
Gertha Rude, 15-year-old girl, was
apparently accidentally collided with
by an unknown man and few min
utes later she found she had been
stabbed in the hip.
Josephine Gargone, 17-year-ol
Italian girl, was shot and killed at her
home in Brooklyn, N. Y, by Craniello
Panoviso, 19 years old, who immedi-
ately Afterwards shot himself in the
head. He was taken to hospital as
prisoner.
District Attorney Jerome in the
near future will, it is stated, move
against officers of various insurance
companies which were under investi-
cation by the legislative committee. A
special grand jury is to be called to
consider the cases.
Robbers broke into the baggage
room of the Colorado Midland rail-
way at Manitou, Col, and escaped
with the contents of two sample
trunks belonging to a salesman for
the Ryder Jewelry Co., of st. Louis.
The value of the stolen property is
$4,000.
After having been adrift in a dory
for four days without food or drink,
two fishermen were picked up by the
fishing schooner Flora S. Nickerson
and brought to Boston. Both men
were unconscious in the bottom of
their boat when the schooner came up
to 1t.
The bodies of Charles Winn, a
freight handler, his wife and Mrs.
Charles E. Riggs, of Portland, Me-,
sister of Mrs. Winn, were found in
room of the apartments in which the
Winns lived in Providence, R. 1.
The police believe it a case of double
murder and suicide.
Central Office detectives of New
York have arrested a man for whom
they declare the police of the world
have been searching for more than
four years. The prisoner Is declared
to be James Names, formerly an
American bookmaker, who is wanted
in connection with the famous Bank of
Liverpool robbery of November %,
1901.
Christian TX, the aged king of Dem
mark, dean of the crowned heads of
Europe, father of King George of
Greece, of Queen Alexandra of Great
Britain, and of the dowager empress
Maria Feodorovna of Russia, grand
father of King Haakon VII, of Nor
way, and related to most of the Euro
pean rulers, died with startling sud-
denness in the Amalienborg palace at
Copenhagen.
At New York Capt. William H. Van
Schaick has been found guilty of
criminal negligence in falling to have
fire drills on the steamer General
| Slocum, which he commanded in June,
1904, when that steamer burned with
tho locc nf pvar 1 0O0 1iUac Ha WAC
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment
by Judge Thomas, of the United
States district court. He was released
on $4,000 bail pending an appeal.
At Evansboro, N. j., John Buzby, a
negro, committed felonious assault
on Hannah Sharp, 15 years old, who
was alone in the house at the time.
She fought desperately, at the same