Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20


affairs, recommends that he be given
greater discretion, as he is charged
with the responsibility Of construct
ing the canal.
Mr.. Powell, the American minister,
has informed the government of
Hayti that the United States govern
ment refuses to recognize the validity
of the sentence in contumacy to 10
years at hard labor pronounced by the
Haytien court against Jaeger Huber,
an American citizen, for alleged com
plicity in bond frauds.
Frightened by the activity of Dis
! trict Attorney Jerome, who has an
nounced that he intends to suppress
| gambling, hundreds of card sharps
are preparing to leave New York.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral Joseph l.. Bristow has resigned.
President Roosevelt issued an order
that Mr.. Bristow should be appointed
special commissioner TO visit the
ports on the Atlantic coast of the Uni
ted States, the Pacific coast and the
isthmus of Panama for the purpose of
examining into trade conditions.
The president has appointed YES
pasian Warner to be commissioner of
pensions. Warner is now q member
of congress from the Nineteenth dis
trict of Illinois.
Chief Croker, of the New York fire
department, has recommended to Fire
Commissioner Hayes that steps be
taken to prohibit the use of all fire
works except fire crackers on July 4.
r. G. Dunn G Co.'s Weekly Review
of Trade says: Failures this week
numbered 324 in the United States
against 324 last year, and 2S in Can
ada, compared with "a year ago.
j. w. Brooke, a banker of North
Liberty, Ind, has been arrested on a
charge of embezzlement..
At Norfolk, Neb., 26 below zero was
reported, the coolest weather in that
vicinity for many years. In Omaha
the thermometer registered IL below
zero.
William D. Denney, Addicks repub-
lican, has been elected speaker of the
Delaware house, thus breaking the
deadlock in the legislature, at least
so far as the house is concerned.
At Denver the National Live Stock
association has been rent in twain
l ny Vic duOpIlOu VI new COISllLu-
tion which admitted the packers to
membership and provided an open
door through which the railroads of
the country may control the organiza-
ton.
In a personal letter sent to the
priests of the Cincinnati diocese
Archbishop Moeller says that fairs,
picnics, excursions and euchre parties
often give occasion to scenes and
acts which are not above reproach."
Brooding over the fact that her
child born six weeks ago was a girl
instead of a boy and grieving over
her failure to recover from her illness,
Mrs. Sarah Libman, % years old,
committed suicide at her home in
Chicago by inhaling gas. Mrs. Lib
man also caused the death of her
3-year-old daughter Frieda.
The annual convention of the Lake
Carriers association adjourned at
Detroit without any action having
been taken directly upon the all alb
sorbing question of union labor.
The last of the missing fishermen
who were carried out on the ice in the
bay at Marinette, Wis, have reached
shore 16 miles north of Menominee.
The men experienced starvation and
cold, as the wind blew hurricane.
They were without food % hours.
Henry Phipps. the former Pittsburg
steel manufacturer, will give $1,00O,-
600 for the erection in New York City
of model tenement houses for the
working classes. The tenements will
be erected on a business basis and the
earnings are to accumulate and to be
used in building more houses.
Fearful lest the strain to which the
Brooklyn bridge is being subjected
will weaken it to such an extent that
a great catastrophe might be possible,
engineers have determined that the
structure must be almost rebuilt.
j. w. Bess, who murdered Mrs.
Martha Martin two years ago, was
hanged at Lexington, KY, recently.
Shortly before the execution the con-
demned man confessed that he intend
ed to commit suicide with knife
blade which he had carried concealed
in his mouth, but upon hearing a
sacred song sung by children near the
jail had changed his mind.
At Lexington, KY. the jury In the
case OF GARFIELD Smith, colored, charg-
ed with the murder of William Moore,
found the defendant guilty and fixed
his punishment at death. This is the
second death penalty imposed for this
killing.
At a conference held at the state
house in Boston, upon invitation of
Gov. Douglas, between a committee of
the Fall River cotton goods manufac-
turers and representatives of their
striking employees, no settlement was
reached.
At Veedersburg, Ind. John Brandt,
owner of the Veedersburg News, and
Charles Eckburg, a barber, were
found dead in a barber shop where
they had gone to balance the books of
the Odd Fellows lodge, in which they
held official positions. Eckburg, in a
letter, says that he was short in his
accounts.
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