Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-02-26
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funeral of Senator Hanna and then
the senate adjourned after adopting
resolutions of sorrow. A similar
course of procedure was followed in
the house.
The funeral ceremonies for Send
tor Hanna engaged the attention of
both houses of congress on the 18th.
There was no legislative session OF
either branch.
In the senate on the 18th Mr..
Spooner made long speech in de-
fense of the administration policy
regarding the republic of Panama
and isthmian affairs. The house
considered the Notifications appro-
priation bill and passed it.
On the 10th the house began consid-
GRAFTON of the naval appropriation
bill. The senate was not in session.
The senate on the Goth listened to
lorfG speech by Mr.. Morgan on the
Panama canal question. The house
spent the day in consideration of
the naval appropriation bill.
Nine passenger trains on the Rome,
Watertown & Odgensburg railroad
have been annulled for few days
for the purpose of using the locomo-
tives to haul coal, many of the viii
lagos along the northern erd of the
line being without fuel.
, The president has issued an order
revoking those of President McKin
ley allowing gifts from officers of the
army and navy and the civic estab.
lishments in Porto Rico, Cuba, the
Philippines, etc, to be admitted into
the United States free of duty.
A freight train of IS loaded cars
ran away on a 17-mile grade near
Everett tunnel, just west of Pied
mont, w. Va, going over the en-
bankment and wrecking the cars.
Fireman Francis p. Eagan was killed,
his body being buried under wreck
age. Porter Kenny, engineer, sus-
tanned broken leg. The train is
mass of tangled debris.
John Alexander Dowie, of Zion
City, ILL.,, was compelled to flee in \
cab to escape mob, according to a
dispatch from Sydney, n. 5. w.
Rowdy scenes characterized his meet
ings and these eliminated when n
crowd broke up the exercises and
drove Dowie out of the hall.
John w. Orendorff, of Cherubusco,
and Isaac Strauss, of Ligonier, Ind,
elected as delegates to the republi-
can national convention, have been
instructed for Roosevelt. These are
the first Indiana delegates named.
Fire destroyed the buildings of the
Greensboro, n. c., female college.
Ninety pupils and the faculty escaped
with most of their personal effects.
Loss $125,OO0, insurance $4,000.
Fire at Ellenville, N. Y, DESTROYED
the Terwillinger House, together
with saloon, n meat market and n
barber shop, entailing loss of $751;
600.
c. a. McBryan, ex-cashier of the
Bank of Waurika, Okla, who is
charged with using $1,000 of the
banks funds for his private use, has
been arrested at New Orleans.
Charles Rowe, an electrician who
has been doing odd jobs about the
city Jail at Des Moines, Ia. for his
board, has received notice that there
is legacy of $4,000 awaiting him in
the Bank of Syracuse, New York
Accompanying the letter was a check
for $664.SO.
a westhound freight train on the
Pennsylvania railroad collded with Il
locomotive at Granville, Pa. Christ
ian Crimmel, of Altoona. engine in
spector on the middle division, was
killed.
After an unremitting search of
nearly seven weeks, during which she
has walked day and night on the
Bowery, spent hours in unsavory re-
sorts and exhausted every resource
of skilled detective Mrs. Katie
Duffy, of Brooklyn, n. V, caused the
arrest of the man who is accused of
being her husbands murderer.
Francis Forbes, a prominent law
yer and authority on trademark law,
is dead at his home in New York
City. He was recently appointed by
President Roosevelt n delegate to the
international convention of jurists,
TO be held in connection with the
worlds fair at st. Louis.
The first tangible result Of the in
quiry of the grand jury into the Iro-
quois theatre fire has been the exon
Grafton of w. c. Sallers, fireman ut
the theatre and one of the eight per-
sons held by the coroner's jury.
At st. Louis two additional ndict-
ments have been returned against
William Holden, merchant, and his
former partner, William Scholl,
charging them with padding bills for
flour furnished the city in 1901.
The first week in October next will
witness the dedication of the statue
of Frederick the Great, the gift of
Emperor William to the United
States, which is to be placed in the
war college grounds at Washington.
An alleged conspiracy to rob the
Philadelphia firm of Sibley & Co.,
paint and varnish manufacturers
was disclosed by the arrest of John
Danfield and Emil Klilgelhoffer, two
employees. Warrants have been issued
for the arrest of six other EN-.
ployes.. Danfield and Klingelhoffcr
were held in bail for court. During
the past year goods valued at thou
sands of dollars have been stolen by
the alleged conspirators.
Two Pennsylvania rniIrood cool