Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-12-16

viding for a holiday adjournment of
congress from December 81 to Janu-
ary 4, 1905. The senate was not in
session.
On the 18th the senate began con-
sideration of the Philippine govern
ment bill. The house passed 14S priv
ate pension bills.
The military strength of Russia is
still untouched by the present war, ac-
cording to an official report of the war
office. OF the 764 districts in Russia
there has been thus far partial mobi-
lization in 423 districts.
Charles II. Laird an expert rifle
shot and winner of the international
championship in 1879, is dead at
Washington, d. c. He was born in Co.
lumbus o., in 1S47 and had been en-
ployed in the postoffice department
for % years.
The hearing by the supreme court
of the United States in the case of
Swift VS.. the United States, popularity
known as "The Beef Trust" case, has
been passed to an unfixed future date,
at the request of the government.
The house committee on industrial
cADOSlllOllS has ueClueu not
to recommend the authorization of an
industrial exposition to be held at
jamestown, Va, in commemoration of
the first English settlement there.
Fire in the business district of st.
Joseph, Mich, caused damage esti
mated at 100000.
Eight hundred Russians, most of
whom allege that they fled from their
homes in order to escape military
service, have left London on their
way to America. These refugees are
arriving in London at the rate of $50
daily.
Locked in life and death struggle
Christopher Tripp and a masked
bandit fought in burning building at
the town of Murray, Utah. Neither
man relaxed his grip until their cloth
ing was afire. Then both crawled
through the smoke to the outer air
The highwayman escaped /.
The Order of Railway Telegraphers
has presented an ultimatum to the
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. regard
Ing changes Of schedule for the com
pany's telegraphers. If this revision
is not agreed to, the entire 700 Cana
dian Pacific telegraphers threaten to
strike.
The International Association of Ac-
cident Underwriters has agreed to re-
duce the period for which weekly in
demnity will be paid under health
policies from So to &c weeks. This
goes into effect on January 1.
Fire destroyed the main building of
the Pontiac Ill.) Shoe Manufacturing
HNl.
from a gasoline explosion.
1t is claimed that within the last Is
months fully $4,000 Americans, mostly
from the middle west, have taken up
locations in Canada.
Proposals made by the Townsend
Downey Shipbuilding Co. to open
cooperative yard have been approved
by union labor leaders and the new
enterprise will shortly be launched on
an open shop" basis. The plant,
which is situated on Shooters Island,
N. Y. has been closed for some time.
AT Ogdensburg, N. Y, the steamer
James, which piled between Ogdens-
burg and Chicago, was burned. Loss
$4,000.
Nine torpedo boats built at Perth
Amboy, N. j., for the Russian govern
ment have been completed and loaded
ON barge, to be towed to New York
and shipped as merchandise ON a |
liner.
The grand jury at Auburn, Cal, has
found an indictment against Adolph |
Weber for the robbery of the Placer
County bank. Weber is also awaiting
trial on the charge of numbering his |
father. mother and brother.
Two masked men entered the
Lesley Coal Co.'s office in the Masonic
Temple at Altoona, Pa, knocked
down Clerk William Ale, bound and
gagged him and stole $4,000 which had
been placed in a satchel ready to be
taken to Lilly to pay off the miners.
The annual convention OF the Ma
tonal Civil Service Reform league is
In session at Washington with about
Duo delegates from all parts of the
country present.
Japan has accepted the American
governments invitation to participate
IN second peace conference at The
Hague, provided the rulings of the
conference should not affect the pres
ent conflict.
AT sale of Thackeray first editions
IN New York City book of poems by
Charles Tennyson, brother of the late L
Lord Tennyson, brought 5000. On one Il
cf the fly leaves is an unpublished 12-
line poem by Thackeray.