Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-04-01
INTERESTING NEWS NOTES.
Short Items Gathered
From Many Parts
of the Globe.
CONGRESSIONAL.


spent the day in discussion of the
postoffice appropriation bill.
On the 23d the senate spent thc en-
tire day in consideration of the III
dian appropriation bill. The house
made some progress with the post
office appropriation bill.
On the cath the senate passed the
Indian appropriation bill. The house
spent the day in consideration of the
postofiice appropriation bill.
On the 25th the senate debated the
District of Columbia appropriation
bill and passed large number of pri-
vate pension bills. The house passed
the postoffice appropriation bill.
The senate on the Goth passed
number of private pension bills and
considered the District of Columbia
appropriation bill for time. The
house began consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill.
1t is announced at the White House
taht the president uniformly will de-
cline this year to make any engage
ments away from Washington where
he may be expected to deliver ad
dresses.
Fire in Jones Brothers large retail
dry goods store at Kansas City, Mo-,
caused a loss estimated at $13O,OOO,
fully insured. The fire was started by
lightning in one of the lesser Of
seven buildings, five-story struc-
ture, that make up the Jones
Brothers stores. The main building
was saved.
George L. Yewell, one of the last
,,F h, ;nc
tion, is dead at Baltimore. Yewell was
one of three men with Lieut.. Taunt,
of the exploring party that found rec
urds at Brevoort island, telling where
Greely was camped, and he brought
the news and the documents to Capt.
Schley.
A prairie fire that started between
Atlanta and Loomis, Neb., burned
over strip from three to ten miles
wide and 20 miles in length. AS far
as known but one life was lost, that
of August Olsen, an aged farmer, and
the total property loss is estimated
at above 100000 There were many
narrow escapes.
Gen. Nicolas Aras, an insurgent
leader who gave the firing order
which resulted in the death of Ma
chinist j. c. Johnson, of the American
gunboat Yankee, February /, has been
captured by government troops, ac-
cording to Il dispatch received from
Santo Domingo. After a drumhead
court-martial, he was sentenced to
death and Immediately shot.
westbound Michigan Central
freight train was wrecked four miles
west of Miles, Mich, by washout.
Engineer Edward French and Brake
man Frank Il. Young, of jackson,
Mich, We're scalded to death in the
engine by escaping steam. Fireman
Ross Moses, of Jackson, was terribly
scalded and may die. Ten freight
cars were demolished.
TT East st. Louis, ILL.,, wind and
rain storm caused large amount of
property damage, injured many per-
sons and seriously crippled street car
traffic.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'S
freight station at West Philadelphia
was destroyed by fire, entailing loss
estimated at $4,000. The depot was
filled with freight, which was de-
stroyed.
Several hundred beef luggers and
pork butchers at the Union Stock
Yards in Chicago have gone on strike.
The luggers demand that one of their
discharged comrades be renstated,
and the pork butchers demand over
time pay, which they say has been
withheld.
The sum of $40 900 has been paid at
an auction in London for French
snuifboX dated 1853. This is the
greatest sum ever paid at auction for
such an art object. 1t is expected I he
box eventually will find its way to the
United States.
bureau on cotton ginning, showing
the total cotton production for 1908,
gives the following: Number of com
mercial bales, including linters, 1O,-
390,55S, against 1925, 1O5 for 1902.
In hearing of the suit brought by
persons from the west, Alfred X.
Goslin, of New York City, frequent
]y mentioned in connection with the
SEQ per cent. Miller syndicate col
lapse, kas been positively identified
by two persons as "William ii. Spen-
GER" whose name appeared as en-
dorser of nearly all the checks de-
posted by the exploded American
flnance ana Mortgage 20, which con-
Germ is alleged TO have accepted at
least $2,0OO,00O from investors to
whom large returns were promised.
a 100000 commercial high school
on the lake front is the plan to which
the Chicago board of education has
pledged its support, The school will
be the finest of its kind in the United
States.
Following the filing OF the report
of the appraisers appointed by the
probate court to ascertain the value
of the estate of the late Fanny S.
Wilder, OF ST. Paul, Mimi, it is an
nounced that the entire Wilder es-
tate, coupled with that of Mrs. Il. V.
Appleby, a daughter amounting to
about $2,000,000, is to be used for the
poor of ST. Paul.
1t is asserted by President Pritch-
ard, of the photographers Interna-
national Protective association, that
IS large firms throughout the country
have decided to employ members of
his association and end the lockout
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