Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-11-20
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CONGRESSIONAL.


The session lasted only 10 minutes.
The house listened to the reading of
the presidents message and the
committees on rules and mileage
were announced.
In the senate on the 11th number
of bills and petitions were offered.
In the house three new members
were sworn in and then the house
adjourned
In the senate on the 12th there
was II debate on the eligibility of Mr..
Smooth of Utah, to seat in the SEN
ate. Then the senate adjourned un-
til the 10th. The bill to make the
Cuban reciprocity treaty effective
was referred to the ways and means
committee in the house.
In the house on the 18th no busi-
ness was transacted and when adj
iournment was taken it was until
the 10th. The senate was not in Scs-
sion.
The senate transacted no business
of Importance on the 10th. The
house began consideration of the Gu
ban reciprocity bill.
The Minnesota supreme court has
decided that the law passed by the
last legislature that plumbers must
mitted to do plumbing work, is un-
constitutional
The mail steamer which has return
ed to st. Johns, n. F., from Labrador
brings no news of the expedition to
explore the interior of Labrador,
headed by Leondas Hubbard, of New
York, assistant editor of Outing. All
the settlers believe the party per-
ished. A tribe of Montagnais In
dians, which has been trapping in the
interior, recently visited the coast
and said they saw nothing of the
hubbard expedition, though the In
dams went $50 miles inland.
Chief of Police Healey, of Man
chester, n. H., has posted in the sa
looms there another list of $50 citi-
zens who are not to be sold liquor.
This is done under the new state law.
a few days ago the chief posted $50
names. He declares that any person
who buys grog for the prohibited
FOUNDERS will be added to the list.
The historic letter of Gen. Grant,
dated May 20, 1865, accepting the
nomination to the presidency, and
ending with Let us have peace" has
been found among some waste paper
at Hartford, Conn. The letter was
addressed to Gen. Joseph r. Hawley,
president of the national union re-
publican convention. After Gen.
Hawley went to Washington as sena-
tor the letter disappeared and was
believed to have been lost.
Mrs. Mary Werckheiser, of Brook
lyn, n. V, sacrificed her life in saw
ing her three young daughters from
burning to death. An exploding can
OF naphtha set fire to the clothing or
Mrs. Werckheiser and her G-year-old
child. The mother, regardless of
the pain she was suffering, beat out
the flames on the childs clothing
and drove all three of the girls into
the street. Then she followed, ablaze
from head to feet.
Andrew Carnegie's plan to make
New York one of the great en-
gineering centers of the world and to
give to all branches of the profession
a large building for general club pur-
poses is fast approaching realization.
The proposed buildings will cost ST.
100000.
At Marion, Ind, an explosion of
natural gas wrecked the home of
benjamin Hight and terribly burned
the five occupants of the house.
While firemen We're eXtinguishing
the blaze n second explosion occur
red and fireman was hurt.
The will of the late William L. FL
kins, the mutil-millionaire traction
magnate and financier, has been filed
with the register at Philadelphia.
The estate is valued Mt 100000 and
upwards, but is believed to be worth
0,000,0 600 A codicil provides for the
establishment of an orphanage in
Philadelphia for the female orphans
of Free Masons, to be managed by
the Masons Home of Pennsylvania.
The sum of $240,0OO is to be eXpend-
ed on the buildings
According to an official statement
the Bulgnrians killed during the dis
turbances in European Turkey from
April 10 to the present time total 49,
600.
The steel mills of the Tennessee
Coal Iron & Railway Co. at Ensley,
Tenn, have shut down for lack of or
ders. Nine hundred men are thrown
out of employment.
Instructions have been received by
the Wabash shop officials at Fort
Wayne, Ind, to reduced the working
force 10 per cent. Between 65 and SC
men will be dismissed from the SER
vice.
In head-on collision of light en-
gines, near Bradley Junction. Pa, on
the Cambria d Cleariield digision of
the Pennsylvania railroad, Fireman
"A. NJ. Weallland, of Altoona, and
Brakeman A. j. Eberly, of Cresson,
were killed. Engineers j. ii. Buck
and V. e. Quartz were severely in
jured, the former, it is thought, fatal
ly.
A boiler running a corn shredder
on the farm of Thomas Cole, near
Laporte, Ind, exploded with great
force and instantly killed Thomas
Cole, whose head was blown off, and
fatally injured his son Harold and
George Bowen, the engineer. An
other son of Thomas Cole may die.
Thomas Coil was lifted 100 feet into
the air and his boots were blown off,
but he was not badly hurt.
Practically all the teachers in the
public schools of Greater New York
have been brought together in pow
erful organization, comparing in a
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