Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-24
Happenings of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Items Arranged for tho Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Contents
In q Few Minutes.
CONGRESSIONAL.

the Panama canal zone and spent
some time in consideration of the
naval appropriation bill. The senate
considered the Swayne impeachment
case.
On the 18th the senate passed the
District of Columbia and consular and
diplomatic appropriation bills. The
house sent the statehood bill to con-
ference, debated the naval appropria-
tion bill and together with the senate
participated in the exercises attend
ant upon the reception of the statue
of Frances e. Willard, in Statuary
hall.
The house on the 18th passed the
pensions appropriation bill, carrying
$13S, 100. The senate decided not
to admit as testimony in the Swayne
impeachment trial the statement
made by Judge Swayne before a
house committee. This decision was
reached in secret session and then
the senate paid tribute to the memory
of the late Senator Quay.
On the goth the house passed the
naval appropriation bill, carrying a
total of s99,914,000 and providing for
the construction of two battleships.
The senate considered the Swayne
Impeachment case, the prosecution
resting its case and the defense open
ing.
On the 21st the senate passed the
military academy appropriation bill
and began consideration of the Indian
appropriation bill. The house passed
the Philippine tariff bill.
of hn
trust law has been upheld by the su-
preme court of the United States.
Many deaths have occurred from
smallpox in Smithfield, ILL.,, and the
state officials have prohibited the
stopping of trains at the village.
President Roosevelt transmitted a
message to the United States senate
on the new agreement with San Do
mingo In it the president outlines
his policy in regard to the Monroe
doctrine.
James w. Alexander and James H.
Hyde were reelected president and
first vice president, respectively, of
the Equitable Life Assurance society
at the meeting of the directors in New
York City.
The inaugural committee at Wash
ington is making substantial progress
in it's work. The guaranty fund
amounts to $62,0S5 and all of it has
been paid in.
Harrison F. Johnson, lawyer, died
in the New York hospital from NOR
phine poisoning. The police are hold
ing Dottie Everhart, whom they al
lege gave the morphine to Johnson,
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The plant of the Kroll Furniture
Manufacturing Co., one of the largest
manufacturers of parlor furniture and
fancy tables east of Michigan, was
destroyed by fire at Allentown, Pa.
Secretary Hitchcock has arraigned
as a gigantic trust" the present lease
by the Indian Territory Illuminating
Oil Co. of the right to prospect for
oil and gas throughout the entire area
of the Usage Indian reservation.
The home of Col. w. G. Averill, at
Beaumont, Tex, was destroyed by
fire. Seven occupants, including Miss
Elizabeth Wickham, of Cleveland, O.,
guest, barely escaped with their
lives. Loss $4,000.
Three masked highwaymen lying
in wait upon the front veranda of
DIR. Philip Mueller's home at Mime
apolis, Mimi, shot the coachman
through the abdomen, robbed the doc
tor of $50 and then ransacked the
house. The coachman will probably
die. The robbers escaped.
The jury in the case of Henry
Lear, formerly president of the Doy.
lestown, Pa, national bank charged
with mi dc Af bnt
Germ, failed to reach an agreement
and were discharged.
Jay Cooke, whose fame as a finan.
cier is world wide, died at the home
of his son-in-law, Charles d. Barney
at Ogontz, suburb of Philadelphia
Mr. Cook was SO years of age.
President Roosevelt has directed
James r. Garfield. commissioner Of
corporations of the department Of
commerce and labor, to begin i'm
Inediately the oil investigation re
quested by the house of representa-
tives. The investigation will be rigit
and comprehensive.
Four steamers in addition to PerC
Marquette car ferry No. are stucl
in the ice on the cast shore of Lake
Michigan.
Claude S. Snively, connected will
the law office of Washburn, Mitchell &
Bailey, fell from a fifth story window
in the Lonsdale building at Duluth
Mimi, and was killed.
At Edwards, ILL.,, fire of mysteriou
origin in the house of Manning Har
ris, a coal miner, burned the bodies o
Harris three small children to
crisp.
Only three barrels of kerosene re
main on Nantucket island, which i
blockaded by ice, and many home
are in darkness Butter is being sol,
in half-pound lots. Some of the deal
ers are without sugar. molasses an,
beans.