Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-17

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representatives decided in conference
that the house statehood provision
shall prevail or that no statehood
legislation be enacted by the present
congress.
j. Samuel McCue, ex-mayor of
Charlottesville, Va, was hanged for
the murder of his wife on September
4, 1904.
Inga Hanson, the Salvation Army
girl who for five years has been in
volved in sensational litigation with
the Chicago City Railway Co., has
been found guilty of perjury at Chi
cago
A conductor was killed, an engl-
neer fatally hurt and brakeman
badly injured when passenger train
on the Wabash ran into a freight
standing on a sidetrack at Delphi, Ind.
Murder in the first degree was the
verdict of the jury at Logan, w. Va,
against Floyd Stollings, charged with
killing Rose White, near Chapmans-
Vile, last December. The jury recon-
mended life Imprisonment and this
was the sentence imposed by Judge
Wilkinson.
The Indiana legislature has passed
the bill which provides that a remon-
STRANGE signed by majority of the
voters of ward or township against
an applicant for liquor license shall
operate against such applicant for
two years, or if so worded, against all
applicants in the ward or township
for the same period.
Gov. Higgins, of New York, has
commuted the sentence Of w. F. Mil
Ter, of Brooklyn, convicted of grand
larceny in connection with the "520
per cent" Franklyn syndicate.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says: Failures for the week
numbered 256 in the United States,
against 22S last year, and 81 in Can
ada, compared with 25 a year ago.
In a wreck on the Mexican National
railway which occurred between the
towns of Carleros and La Ventura,
Tex, three persons are known to
have lost their lives and perhaps
many others are dead or injured.
Lieutenant Commander Leiper,
from the Detroit, has established
himself as collector of customs at
Monti Cristi, according to cablegrams
received at Washington from San
Domingo.
United States Attorney John H.
Hall has been indicted by the federal
grand jury at Portland, Ore, in con-
nection with the land fraud cases un-
der investigation.
If a director of a banking house
receives a deposit from a customer
when aware that his bank is in an
insolvent condition he becomes per-
sonally liable for the amount of such
deposit under decision handed down
by the New York supreme court.
A man and two boys were killed,
two boys are dying and three more
were slightly injured as the result of
a bob sled carrying 16 boys dashing
into train at New Brighton, Pa.
Authorized by resolution which
passed the Kansas house, Speaker
Stubbs appointed committee of five
to investigate charges of boodling.
Ether coming in contact with a
lighted gas jet in the operating room
of the Samaritan hospital in Phila-
delphia caused an explosion which
injured two house physicians and two
medical students.
James Donovan, millionaire lum-
herman and lawyer of Chicago,
claims that he has found in Grand
Rapids, Mich, papers which are rec
ords torn from the books Of Oconto
county, Wis. He declared they made
good his title to $4,000 acres of Wis
consin state land.
1t is estimated that there are 49,
| 100000 eggs in cold storage in Chi
cago, yet a famine in the product
exists and householders are paying
SO cents dozen.
Charles H. Hackley, of Muskegon,
Mich, who has given to Muskegon a
manual training school, school library,
hospital, soldiers monument, parks
and various statues of civil war heroes
representing a money value of $2,000,-
600, is dead.
The house committee on ways and
means has authorized a favorable re-
port on the tariff bill for the Philip
pine Islands. The bill is a complete
rc vision of the duties collected by the
Philippine government on imports
! from all countries.
Gov Vardaman, of Mississippi, has
written to the inaugural committee in
dicating that he will have nothing to
do with the inauguration of President
Roosevelt and will not send a delega-
tion of high school students or any
other delegation to participate.
Building in the principal American
cities for January shows a remarkable
increase compared with the cores
ponding month year ago. In 27 lead
ing cities permits were taken out for
the construction of 5,1S7 buildings, in
volving total cost Of $24 64,651.
The crew of the British brig vi
donia. which was caught in an ice foe
and blizzard while bound out of St
Johns, N. F., were found wandering
in the woods badly frost-bitten. The
Vidonia was broken up amid the ice
foes. The crew abandoned the wreck
and reached land on foot on the ice.
Frank M. Koon, proprietor of the
Commercial hotel at Wolcottville
Ind, died after shooting himself in the