Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-12-18
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portant, outside of the adoption of a
resolution calling on the postmaster
general to furnish the house with
documents bearing on the postal
frauds.
In the senate on the 9th Mr.. Teller
continued his speech in opposition to
the Cuban reciprocity bill. The pro-
ceedings in the house were short and
uninteresting.
The senate was in scssino only 81
minutes on the 10th and no business
was transacted. A resolution was
adopted by the house authorizing the
Judiciary committee to inquire into
the official conduct of Charles
Swaync, judge of the United States
district court for the northern dis
trict of Florida.
The senate on the 11th spent the
day in debate of the Cuban reciproc-
ity bill. The house considered the
pension appropriation bill, but under
the wide range allowed for debate
number OF political speeches were
made.
The senate spent more than five
hours on the 18th in discussing the
Cuban reciprocity bill. Mr.. Foster, of
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cupied the greater part of the day
with an argument in opposition to
the measure. The house was not in
session.
Advices from Somaliland, East Af-
Iica, say that the Mad Mullah's camp
followers have taken to cannibalism,
owing to a shortage of supplies. The
body of captive recently executed
by the Mullah was eaten. The feast
was participated in by women, whom
the Mullah subsequently ordered eN-
ecuted. These We're in turn cooked
and eaten by their late comrades.
Miss Rose Leo, of Cross Village,
Mich, was found dead from exposure,
not far from the home of her par
ents. Miss Leo stepped out of her
home after supper and her dead body
was found in the morning in a snow
drift. 1t is thought that she was per-
haps drugged or knocked insensible
by some of the woodmen who are
numerous in that vicinity.
In the clothing of woman killed
by an express train rushing through
money to the amount of nearly $1,000
III SOlb anu hS NiN'iiih
was identified as Mrs. Mary McCord,
of New Rochelle, who was known as
IL miser. She had been boarding the
money and carrying it about with
her % years.
At Topeka, Kan, Mrs. u. T. Hazen,
wife of Judge Hazen, of the district
court, was fatally burned, the result
of II gasoline explosion. She was
cleaning n dress when the accident
occurred
Charles H. Hutting, vice president
of the Louisiana Purchase EXposi-
tion Co., discredits the report that
the exposition will ask the United
States government for an additional
appropriation of $4,000,00O, to be
guaranteed by the gate receipts. IF
the fair needs more money it will be
secured without going away from St.
Louis for it," said Mr.. Hutting.
The Pittsburg building trades coun-
oil has been weakened in its fight
with the Builders Exchange league
by the settlement of the dispute be-
tween the sheet metal workers and
the master timers, and the with
drawal of the hosting engineers
from the council. In both trades
work has been resumed. The lockout
against the other building trades con-
tinues.
VIII Rannack, young corn husker,
husked 209 bushels in less than ten
hours on the farm of Albert John
son, near Shenandoah, Ia, on a
wager of 500 against $7j that he
could husk 200 bushels in ten hours.
The grand jury at Peoria, ILL.,, has
ignored charges aginst the Big Four
irainmen whom the coroner's jury
held for the fremont wreck. Both
men have been released.
Twelve hundred steerage passen-
gers sailed from New York City on
the steamer La Champagne and $50
on the Lain, making the total num-
ber returning to Europe during the
ante-Christmas rush nearly $4,000.
Anna Cypress, the young wife of an
Austrian coal miner, of Federal, Pa,
was found dead at her home, with a
gunshot wound in her breast. The
husband is under arrest, pending an
investigation.
Building statistics for November,
much to the surprise of the seers,
show an increase of 25 per cent. over
the corresponding month a year ago,
Permits were taken out in 21 of the
principal cities of the country for
G,2S2 building improvements aggre-
eating $24,619,447, against 5,4s6 build
ing improvements involving cost OF
$19,GS9,7S9, or an increase of zoe
buildings and $4,929,65S
A ten-hour work day and no union
agreement, with the alternative of
no work for an indefinite period, is
the ultimatum delivered to their EN-
ployes by three manufacturing con-
Germs of Batavia, III. The ultimatum
follows the precedent recently es-
tablished by other members of the
Fox Valley Manufacturers Associa-
tion. A strike of 1,500 men is expect
ed in consequence of the decree.
Russell IL. McWilliams, of Kansas
City, Mo-, junior literary student
Mt the University of Michigan, com
,nitted suicide recently at the Sigma