Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-27
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CONGRESSIONAL.


of Importance on the 10th. The
house began consideration of the Gu
ban reciprocity bill.
In the senate on the 18th the ses-
sion was of less than one hours dura-
ton. The house continued debate on
the Cuban reciprocity bill.
A number of petitions were pre-
sented in the senate on the 18th and
the session was very short. The
house spent the day in debate on the
Cuban reciprocity bill.
NO business of public Importance
was transacted in the senate on the
10th. The house passed the Cuban
reciprocity bill by vote of 335 to 21.
In the senate on the Goth the Gu
ban reciprocity bill was referred to
the committee on foreign relations
md the senate adjourned until the
23d. The house transacted no bust
ness, was in session only five min
utes and adjourned until the cath.
William Kelsey, tower operator at
East Charleroi. Pa, was fatally shot,
receiving a bullet intended for John
Low, Pittsburg & Lake Erie rail
road conductor. The shot was fired
by an Italian who had been elected
from a train for refusing to pay his
fare.
A dispatch from Lugano, Switzer-
land, announces that an anarchist has
surrendered to the police there and
has confessed that he had been Sc
1ected to kill the president of Switzer-
land, but his courage failed him.
The revolt in the vilayet of Yemen,
Arabia, is extending southwark. The
ottoman troops advancing on Hodoida
were determinedly opposed by the re-
volted tribes and were forced to re-
treat. Another attempt to advance
from Mocha failed, the Turkish
troops being defeated.
A fashionably dressed young
couple, the woman wearing furs and
jewelry, the man of refined appear
ance, stole jewelry and diamonds
valued at $1,S00 from the residence of
Mrs. Katherine Smith at Chicago.
Marks Nathan, the Scrap iron
king" whose will has just been filed
at Chicago, left provision for the
erection of n synagogue in Jerusa-
lem. He also left instructions that
land be purchased in the Holy City
and dwellings erected for the free
housing of the families of poor and
deserving Jews. Out of a total for
tune of $12o,0oo made in the buying
and selling of scrap iron, Mr.. Nathan
bequeathed $4,000 to charity.
AS result of deep snow and ex-
treme cold weather heavy sheep
losses will result in Montana. Re-
ports from Sweet Grass county say
the binding snow has scattered
sheep over mountains and lowlands
into sections where not a vestige of
food can be found.
AT the risk of his life in the icy
waters of the Hudson river, Albert ii.
Clark, a well known portrait painter,
rescued his wife from drowning.
The Farmers national bank of
Henrietta, Tex, has been closed by
direction of the comptroller of the
currency.
New York is to be the home of the
most costly clubhouse for working
men in the country. Plans for the
structure have been filed with the
city authorities for approval and it is
expected that construction work will
be started early next spring. The
clubhouse is to be five stories high,
100 by 1O2 feet in area, and is to cost
100000.
The steamer Discovery, which left
Nome October IA, with 81 passengers,
has not been sighted since October
2S and shipping men believe she will
never reach port.
At Allentown, Pa, District Attor-
ney Lichtenwalter has caused the is
suance of warrants charging Mrs.
Catherine Bechtel, AIyrtha, Charles
and John Bechtel and Alois Eckstein
with being accessories before the
fact of the murder of Mabel Bechtel.
At an enthusiastic meeting of
cooks and their assistants plans were
laid to unioniZe the kitchens of every
hotel, restaurant and club in New
York City under the auspices of the
New York Culinary association.
There are said to be 1000 members
already enrolled and these include all
shades and degrees of chefs.
Fire at Louisville, Ky, destroyed
the Masonic Temple building. The
third floor was occupied by Hopkins
Theatre, which was totally destroy
ed. Other losers include the j. w.
Fowler Drug Co.'s store and several
Offices. The loss is estimated at $780,
600.
Ted" Pritchard, at one time mid
die weight boxing champion of the
world, died at London recently.
Pope Brooks, his wife and child and
an unknown man, were cremated by
a fire which destroyed the Brooks
residence at Luvrene, Ala.
Seven hundred employees of the C.
M. Dodson Coal Co. at Morea, Pa,
have struck because of the discharge
of workman who refused to labor
an extra hour without pay.
At Lafayette, Ca, Sam Andrews, 16
years of age, while feeding cotton
gin felt into the hopper and was
ground to pieces.
Word has been received from |
the Trout Creek district in Montana
that there are several parties of emf
grants along the Spokane road, in
Missoula county, snowbound and ON
the verge of starvation, In one party
near the Idaho border is family of |
five, showed up and without pro-
visions or money. The family is liv-
ing in an eight-foot tent, with the
snow up to the wagon bed, unable to
get out to secure food for the stock.
The Dominion Iron & Steel Co., OF
Sydney, N. S., has given notice of