Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-02-19
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CONGRESSIONAL.

Inc senate on Dne SUn pdSSeu bhe
consular and diplomatic appropria-
ton bill and then renewed the de-
bate on the Panama question. The
house spent the day in debate of the
contested election case of Connell VS..
Howell, from the Tenth Pennsylva-
mia district.
The senate on the 10th continued
the debate on the isthmian question.
The house unseated Mr.. Howell
dem the sitting member from the
Tenth Pennsylvania district, and
seated William Conneu (rep.) the
contestant.
The senate on the 18th decided to
vote on the Panama canal treaty
some time between February Is and
23. The house adopted the senate
amendment to the urgent deficiency
bill providing for a loan of S4,60O,0OO
to the st. Louis exposition, but re-
fused to concur in the other senate
amendments to the bill.
The senate on the 18th discussed
a bill to pay 100000 to eN-Queen
Iiliuokalani, of Hawaii, but did not
take any definite action. The house
passed 800 private pension bills in 155
minutes.
A quasi-epidemic of typhoid fever
exists at Watertown, n. Y. Local
health officials state that there are
between $50 and 200 cases in the city
and the two public hospitals are
crowded to overlooking.
: A woman burned to death and four
others were injured, one perhaps
fatally, in n fire that destroyed q
three-story brick apartment house at
Kansas City, Mo. There were several
narrow escapes and many persons
jumped from the second and third
story windows.
A dispatch from IrkuJsk, Siberia,
says orders have been issued to have
the railroad across the ice-covered
Lake Baikal completed by February
%. The contractors have been prom
Used bonus of $1,000 for each days
earlier completion.
The back water from the ice gorge
near New Holland has caused the
greatest flood ever known at York
Haven, Pa. The water extinguished
the fires in the York Haven paper
mills and work has been suspended
there.
Negotiations have been concluded
"HtkcDN lHt w., VI
New York, takes over the business of
the Peabody Fire Insurance Co., of
Baltimore, which will go out of bust
ness. The Peabody was one of the
companies which suffered a heavy
loss in Baltimore risks.
All records of unique marriages
in Minneapolis were broken when
three daughters and q son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Krantz were married at
the same time, in the same church
and by the same priest. -Four
brothers of the three brides and the
bridegroom acted as best men for
their brother and three brothers-in-
law. The maids of honor and flower
girls were all sisters or cousins of
the brides. There are Is children in
the family.
EX-Congressman Joseph Patterson
is dead at Memphis, Tenn. He was
widely known throughout the south
as lawyer and statesman.
At Joliet, Ill.,, boilermakers and
machinists are on strike at the shops
of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Rail
way Co. The cause of the strike is
wage reduction and the institution of
a ten-hour instead of nine-hour
day.
Expressions of sympathy with the
citizens of Baltimore are commencing
to come by cable from abroad. AS in
the case of the Iroquois theatre trag-
iedy in Chicago, the lord mayor of
london was the first to express his
condolences.
a dispatch from Waterloo. Ia,
says: In a decision sustaining a de,
murrer in the case of the state of
lIown against the Illinois Central, the
Chicago, Rock Island &, Pacific and
the Chicago Great Western railways
indicted under charge of conspiracy
in fixing the amount of demurragC
charges, Judge Franklin c. Platt, ii
the district court, has declared th'
Iowa trust law unconstitutional ant
finds for the defendant railways.
The United States navy collier Mere
was rammed by the gunboat Concord
in the harbor at Panama. The in
juries sustained by the collier were
$50 serious that she had to be beach
ed. The Concord was not injured.
The Union Pacific Railroad Co. has
shipped the Lincoln private car to st
Louis, where it will become part o
.the Lincoln museum at the world
fair. 1t was used by President Lin
coin during the civi war and carried
his body to Springfield, ILL.,, fo
burial.
A street car carrying 30 passenger
was struck near the Union depot "a
Paducah, KY, by an outgoing Nash
willie, Chattanooga & st. Louis passen
ger train and IL persons injured. j
w. Helsley deputy state organize
of the Woodmen of the World, wa
probably fatally injured.
At Minneapolis, Mimi, panic oc
CURED among the roomers at a room
ing house when the place was discoy
cred on fire, resulting in proba bl
death to one and serious injury t
six others. The narrow halls of tn
building were choked with heein
people and in several instances pei
sons were knocked down and tram
Dled on.