Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-02-05
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tlon OF the Ganama question ana une
passage of number of bills of minor
importance. The proceedings in the
house were dull and uninteresting.
In the senate on the 27th Mr.. Sim
mons, of North Carolina, made a long
speech in support of the Panama
canal treaty. A number of bills and
resolutions were passed. The house
devoted its session to consideration
of the urgent deficiency bill.
The session of the senate on the
2Sth was devoted to debate on the
Panama question. The house consid-
cred the urgent deficiency bill and a
number of political speeches were
made the most notable being that of
Mr.. Bede, of Minnesota.
On the Goth the senate adopted a
resolution calling on President Roose-
velt to state whether all the facts
relative to the Panama question have
been supplied to the senate. The
house spent the day in consideration
of the urgent deficiency bill.
On the 30th ult. the house passed
the urgency deficiency bill after strik-
ing out the double mileage appropria-
tion for the payment of senators and
Representatives. The senate was not
in session.
Over 1900 additional coke ovens
were fired during the past week and
the output increased 5000 tons. The
next week will see less than 5000
idle ovens in the region and this num-
Der, it is said, will be greatly reduced
before the first of March.
At Belgrade, Servia, ex-Minister of
the Interior Todorovics, who was
wounded in the palace during the as
sassination of King Alexander and
Queen Draga, has been arrested on
the charge of misappropriating $780,
900 belonging to the estate of a nat
ural son of Prince Michailo Obreno-
vics.
Alice Edwards, a young woman
with numerous aliases, has been held
in $1,000 bail for trial by United
States Commissioner Craig, at Phil
adelphia, charged with using the
1hails to defraud. A specific instance
was cited in the case of j. w. Jen-
kins, of Baltimore, who received a
letter from the woman claiming
friendship and asking for the loan of
$12.
Judge Robert Lowry, for more than
60 years member of the Indiana bar,
is dead at his home in Fort Wayne.
He was widely known throughout the
west as a lawyer and iurist. He rep
resented the Twelfth Indiana district
in the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth
congresses. He was born in ireland
and was 50 years old.
According to the weather bureau a
snowfall at Bennington, Ala, amount
ed to eight inches, the heaviest of
which there is an official record.
Locked up in a store room in gov
ernment pier at New York City is n
pile of cases of wine, cigars and
Cuban cigarettes, each case addressed
to prominent officer of the navy or
army. Seals have been placed upon
each and unless the owners pay the
duty the cases will be sold at auction
Wallace j. Cowan, conductor of the
Detroit United railway street car
which was run down recently by a
Grand Trunk passenger train, must
stand trial for manslaughter. A war
rant has been issued by the prosecut-
ing attorney charging him with Grim
inal negligence.
AS the result of an explosion fol-
lowing an attempt to hurry a fire
with carbon oil, Mrs. A. f. Gray, of
North Sewickley, Pa, is dead; Ethel,
daughter, aged II years, is prob
ably fatally burned and five other
members of the family are seriously
injured,
Two men entered the iewelry store
of Harry Doepke at Cincinnati and af-
ter assaulting Salesman Fred Hegner,
escaped with jewelry valued at $2,-
600. Hegner was alone in the store
when the men entered.
Illinois will soon erect q monument
in the national military park at Vicks-
burg, Mass, in honor of $500 Illinois
soldiers and sailors who participated
in the siege of that city from March
% to July'4, 1868. The structure, ex-
pected to cost $l5O,OO0, will be in the
shape of rotunda or circular tenn
pie. 1t is to be constructed of white
marble or granite and ornamented
with bronze.
j. E. Wilhelm, former proprietor of
the Monroe hotel, was shot by II. NJ.
Eubanks, in the latter's store at Mon
roe, \. c. The alteration which re-
suited in the shooting was the cul-
DlhullOn OI iOnB SIanulng trouble be-
tween the men. The victim died in
half an hour.
Six Indians and about $1,000 in gold
were lost by the upsetting of boat
on the Colorado river near the Indian
reservation at Beals, Cal, few days
ago, James Cundiff and Frederick
Longmeyer, prospectors, witnessed
the accident and managed to save one
. of the occupants of the boat.
The interior department has ar
ranged for complete survey of the
boundary line between Idaho and
Montana, and Howard B. Carpenter,
Of California, has been appointed sur.
yeyor to conduct the work. The sur
vey, it is expected, will take about
two years. Under the contract the
government will pay Carpenter at the
rate of 500 for every mile of bound
ary permanently established.
In head-end collision between a
Southern railway and Louisville d
Nashville train at Middlesboro, Ky.
three traiumen were fatally ni,Ired