Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-03-04
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Of the World.
Information OF Recent Dnto Collected
in Various Ways and Condcnsea
for tho Convenience Of
Our Rusy Readers,
CONVERSATIONAL.

l1t StuuIt On bllt -flh SDClV lhN
day in discussion of the agricultural
appropriation bill. The house de-
bated the naval appropriation bill.
On the 25th the senate passed the
agricultural bill and the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill. The house made considerable
progress with the naval appropria-
ton bill.
On the Goth the house passed the
naval appropriation bill. The senate's
proceedings were dull and void of in
,erest.
On the 27th the senate devoted it's
session to consideration of the bill re-
quiring the use of American ships for
the shipment of government supplies,
but no conclusion was reached. The
house passed 269 private pension
bills.
Official announcement is made that
the differences between the National
Glass Co. ana its employees have been
amicably settled and work will be re-
Sumed at once.
Fire in the factory of the Phelps
Piano Co. in Brockport, n. Y, threat
ened for four hours to destroy the
entire business section of that place
and resulted finally in a loss of $780,
600.
Paymaster Harry Earl Biscoe, of
the United States steamship Oregon,
has been ordered under arrest by
Rear Admiral Evans, in command of
the fleet in Asiatic waters. Biscoe,
it is alleged, is $4,000 short in his
accounts.
Elsie and Robert Shenafelt, aged
and years respectively, were burned
TO death in their homes at Johns
town, Pa. Their mother, who is
widow, had gone just across the
street to visit neighbor, and the
first she knew of the fire was when
the flames burst from the door. BY
that time ii was too late to save the
little ones.
John Phillips, secretary of the Ma
tional Organization of Hatters of
North America, and well known
an labor circles throughout the coun-
try, is dead at his home in Brooklyn,
N V, after a long illness. lie was A.
years of age.
According to officers of the Whole
sale Grocery Employees union, 1000
employees of II wholesale grocery
houses in Chicago have been inform
ed by employers that after March
there will be 10 per cent. reduction
in wages.
At Jackson, Ky. the grand jury
has returned indictments against Il.
+. French, attorney for Curtis Jett,
and Edward Callahan, former sheriff
of Breathitt county, on the charge of
subornation of perjury in the late
Jett-White murder trials.
A strike is threatened Of $500
painters and decorators in Chicago.
The present wage agreement expires
on March 1 and the brotherhood of
Painters and Decorators has notified
the employers that the men want AS
cents an hour for an eight-hour day
for the next current year and 80 cents
an hour for the next year following.
Practically all foodstuffs except
eggs have reached extremely high
prices in New York City, owing
largely to unfavorable weather.
Prices which were thought to be high
a week or two ago now look reason
able for nearly everything that
reaches the table. Fish, CLAIMS, oys-
ters and Holsters are most affected by
the severe weather. Oysters have
never been so scarce.
James Warden, aged 1O2 years, sup
posed to be the Oldest expounder of
Methodism in the world, is dead in
the Baltimore county (Maryland)
nlmshouse. He was licensed to preach
an 1924.
Four trainmen were killed in a
freight wreck on the Iron Mountain
railroad near Sikeston, Mo. The loco
motive jumped the track and the
boiler exploded.
A treaty of arbitration between
France and Spain has been signed.
The terms are identical with the re-
cent treaties concluded between
France and Great Britain and Italy
and Great Britain.
The worlds record for individual
bowling has been broken by Homer
Elliott, of Denver, Col. In the state
tournament, now on, he rolled 712.
The previous record was made at In
dianapolis about year ago when
G76 was scored.
Thieves entered the postoffice at
Tenafy, n. D., blew open the safe
with dynamite, and stole $1,000 in
stamps and money. Ine robbery was
evidently the work of professionals.
Frank Ellison, known as "Bitf." n
familiar character in New York CITY,
is dead. lie is said to have been the
youngest officer in the Union army,
having run away from his home in
Philadelphia and received n lieuten-
ants commission at the age of Is.
The town of Skaguay, Alaska, is in
peculiar municipal straits, as all the
early town records have disappeared
along with files of the newspapers.
This is n particularly pcrplexing sit
uation, since it is Impossible 10 tell
what franchises have been granted
or what privileges the franchises con-
tanned.
The railway between Samara and
Ilatoust. in European Russia, and
the Siberian lines, with all the terri
tory appropriated by the government
for the purposes of these rallwayg,
have been placed under martial law,
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