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Newspaper
The Perrysburg Journal
Location
Perrysburg, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1902
Page
2
Items from the Industrial Field and home abroad note 14 000 idle in the Ninth district United Mine Workers. The Clark's Hill post office safe was dynamited and stamps stolen. Homicide, fires, wrecks, and political shifts fill the column with numerous named places and people.
Sheriff-elect James M. Palinstock of Pittsburg Pennsylvania died after pneumonia at the Egnew hotel in Mt. Clemens Michigan. Eliza Stansburg, a wealthy central Illinois pioneer, died in Clinton Illinois aged 75, noted for generosity to religious institutions. Kate Vance, a 123 year old Newton Kansas resident, died with a 60 year old daughter and a 105 year old husband previously deceased. Mark Twain celebrated at sixty seventh birthday in New York amid poetry and oratory. Senator Hawley of Connecticut, seriously ill, may resign and not resume duties. Nelson Augstnave Moore, veteran landscape painter, died at his Kensington Connecticut home from apoplexy. John Eliot Ward, president of the convention that nominated Buehannon, died in Dorchester Georgia at age 88.
Emperor William, in his farewell audience with Ambassador White, presented the gold medal of the empire for science and art to a recipient chosen annually by the government. The honor can go to a German or a foreigner deemed most worthy.
Frau Krupp gives 750 000 to a benefit fund for Essen Priisela workers in memory of her late husband. Senor Tamayo resigns as Cuba secretary. Palma accepts, Vero acts temporarily amid Ha vana strike. Pershing leads 60 soldiers across Mindwane island, a possible first. De Wet says Boer losses from many burghers changing sides. US urged to police Latin America under Monroe Doctrine. Panamanian residents press Concha over canal project stance.
Workers in Shamokin receive about ten percent higher wages while a Rio Grande West ern train collides with a rock slide near West Water Utah killing one and injuring two. In Russia clashes between Cossacks and strikers at Vind-Cavkas leave some dead and many jailed. A Western Union dispute with Pennsylvanian Railroad Co. ends without removal of cables. A Albuquerque log cabin fire kills Mrs. Londyv and her three children. Coal trade talks in New York City stall with limited progress and looming price pressures. A Faust man is shot near Carroll Iowa during an attempted escape and the president's message is read in both houses.
A roundup of minor items notes the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee being set as a permanent body. Leroy Pelletier of New York plans a summer quest for the north pole. Cuban officials edge toward accepting tariff relief offered by the United States.
Chicago dispatch reports four major railroad unions plan a coordinated push for wage hikes of 10 to 20 percent for about 170000 workers. Committees from Engineers, Firemen, Trainmen, and Conductors meet daily in Chicago and will present demands to railroad officials early next week. A national conference is set for January 11 in St Louis.
Knox urges Congress to increase salaries of judicial officers nationwide in his annual report. The document cites 455 undisposed cases in the U S Supreme Court after the October 1902 term, with 353 docketed and 375 disposed. Criminal prosecutions last year totaled 16,550 with 3,896 miscellaneous cases pending July 1 1902 and 3,150 convicts in U S prisons. Denver suit seeks timber accounting. restraining order bars further cutting. 45 to 50 million feet of timber allegedly removed from government lands.
From Victoria British Columbia the Koga Maru reports an attempted assassination of the Japanese emperor during a journey to Kinshin. Police learned of the plot and the would be dynamiters fled. the imperial train was tested for track safety but no captives were taken.
Alexander John Alexander son of Robert Alexander died Tuesday of heart disease at Woodbire Springs Station Woodford county. He left Chicago and Louisville connections and was a major property holder owner of Woodburn farm over 2000 acres famed for trotting Maude and other thoroughbreds in Kentucky and across the United States.
Detroit reports two mates Burrell and Jackson rowed a lifeboat to shore through deadly seas after the Hebard struck rocks near Mamaise point in a blizzard. Oscar Carleson aided the rescue with his sons, helping bring the crew ashore while Captain Ryan narrowly escaped. The ship towed barges Francomb Warmington and Alpha when the gale and snow struck.
Three masked robbers entered the Bridger bank at noon and took about $2,000 from cashier Trumbo and mail carrier Williams. They fled on horseback toward the Crow reservation, pursued by a posse that exchanged gunfire and halted in the Hole in the Wall country.
Washington orders Maj Glenn of the Fifth Infantry to stand trial again for alleged cruelty during the Samare campaign. He is accused of ordering native guides executed after misreading the American column. Also from New York, William Parks and others return from Cuba with a Havana street railway franchise and plans for a Havana Jiminellas Railway Co resort near Meariany Benen.
Maggie Welch of the Betsey Ross Society writes from 328 North State Street Chicago praising Peruna for catarrh and lung relief after severe cold. She notes quick relief the first day and ongoing improvement with continued use. Address Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio for free literature.
A Chicago physician who abandoned both allopathy and homeopathy after twelve years recounts a European tour and a Sydney experience where scolding his lungs quieted a coughing patient and rapid recovery followed. He claims every organ has independent intelligence and responds to reproach to restore health.
The Chicago Record-Herald asks readers what age marks the happiest time of life, noting the question centers on when children are tucked into bed for the night.
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