Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-17
S H RE EDDED NEWS.
Happenings of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN.
Items Arranged for the Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Contents
In a Few Minutes.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
On the 9th the house by vote of
S26 to II passed the Esch- Townsend
bill to regulate freight rates. The
senate spent the day in consideration
of the agricultural appropriation bill,
but did not finish it.
On the 10th the house passed 433
private pension bills in an hour and
half. The senate entered upon the
real work of the impeachment trial of
Judge Swayne by hearing several wit
nesses in the case.
On the 11th the house passed a
number Of bills amending the laws re-
lating to the steamboat inspection
service, making more rigid provision
for the prevention of accidents. The
senate spent most of the day in con-
sideration of the Swayne impeach-
ment case.
The Swayne impeachment trial oc-
cupied portion of the senates ses-
sion on the 18th and the remainder
was given to consideration of the ag-
ricultural appropriation bill. The fea-
ture of the house proceedings was
fierce exchange of bitter personali-
ties between Mr.. Hearst, of New
York, and Mr.. Sullivan, CT Massa-
sets.
On the 14th the senate passed the
agricultural appropriation bill and de-
voted three hours to the Swayne i'm
parchment trial. The house began
consideration of the naval appropria-
tion bill.
Atlanta, Ca, is cut off from the rest
of the world by wire communication,
both telegraph companies being with
out wire to points beyond the limits
of their operating rooms.
At Reading, Pa, Mrs. Kate Ed
wards, who is under sentence TO be
hanged with Samuel Greason for the
murder of her husband, has made
statement to her counsel in which, it
is said, she exonerates Greason from
completely in the murder.
Two hours before a matinee per
formance was to have taken place
and while 60 members of the Lady
Teazle" company were rehearsing on
the stage of the Casino theatre at
New York City, the theatre caught
fire and was damaged to the extent of
100000
A coroner's fury at Detroit, Mich,
after hearing testimony regarding the
death of a siX-year-old child of diph-
liberia, returned q verdict blaming the
parents of the child for not having
summoned competent medical assist
ance instead of relying upon Chris
tian Science.
Ind
tor Fletcher discharged Elmer Brown
ing, who was held to a grand jury af-
ter preliminary hearing Jointly with
Frank Evans, charged with killing
Miss Sarah Schaefer.
Conductor H. M. Marsh was killed,
"a people were injured, eight pas
senger cars and an engine are piled
in the ditch and a 20-foot bridge
wrecked as the result of broken
rail on the Chicago, Milwaukee e
st. Paul railroad near Melbourne, la.
A new corporation began business
In Pittsburg when the Independent
Brewing Co. began the sale of beer.
Sixteen independent companies trans
ferred their properties to the new
combine.
After having collided with and sunk
the Norwegian steamer Left Eriks-
sen, off Cape Roman, Fla, in dense
fog, the Standard Oil Co.'S steamer
City of Everett returned to New York
bringing 20 of the crew of the sunken
steamer. The other two members of
the Erikssen's crew were drowned.
j. E, Lewis, head bookkeeper of
the Grand Forks IN. d. Mercantile
Co., is missing and experts have
found shortages on his. books aggre-
eating $35,000 it is said.
In the wreck of Erie passenger
train No. Z near Concord, Pa, only
one person, an Italian immigrant
ticketed to Youngstown, o., was seri-
ously injured. Three others, immi-
grants, were hurt, but were able to
continue their journey.
Nineteen persons were seriously in
Jured in rear-end collision between
two trains on the Third Avenue ele-
waited road in New York City.
Several people were killed in an
explosion at the Birmingham powder
mills, five miles north of Birming-
ham, Ala. The shock of the explosion
was felt for miles.
IL,
dead at Berlin. He was about 80
years old. Menzel had been identified
with the best in German art for 60
years.
The settlement of the ten months
strike of the window glass workers in
Belgium is announced. It is under
stood that both sides made conces-
sions.
The Kansas oil field is practically
Idle as Il result of the Standard Oil
Co.'S order curtaiYing the output. In
the Chanpte district every well is re-
ported idle, .r-
While temporarily insane. James
Estes, a farmer living near Marshall,
Okla, killed his wife and daughter
with club and, falling in an attempt
to kill his son. set fire to the house
and blew of his own head with a
shotgun