Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-03
S H RE D DED 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 26th the senate passed the
army appropriation bill. The house
considered the agricultural appropri-
alton bill, but did not finish it.
In the senate on the 9th the date
for the beginning of the impeachment
trial of Judge Swayne was fixed for
February 10. Discussion of the state
hood bill occupied most of the session.
The house passed the agricultural ap-
preparation bill.
In a session of less than two hours
on the 2Sth the house passed 373 pen
sion bills. Eulogies upon the charac-
ter of the late Senator Hoar, of Mas
sachusetts, engrossed the time of the
senate. There were 16 speeches by as
many senators.
On the 30th the senate agreed to
vote on the joint statehood bill on
February Z. The house partially con-
sidered the postoffice appropriation
bill and passed a number of bills of
minor Importance.
On the 31st the senate debated the
statehood bill and passed several bills
of minor importance. The house de-
bated the postoffice appropriation bill
to conference.
Charles Lockhart, q director of the
Standard Oil Co. and at one time
president of the corporation, is dead
at his residence in Pittsburg. His
wealth was estimated at $75 100000
Three men held up and robbed
three trolley cars, several pedestrians
and shot and seriously wounded Rob-
ert Bruce, a motorman in Philadel-
phia. Two of the men were arrested.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors at Washington has agreed
on a bill providing for river and har-
Dor work. The bill carries an aggre-
gate appropriation of $17,0S1,S75 and
authorizes expenditures for continu-
ing contracts aggregating $16,734 ,657.
Four men were killed by an acci-
dent at Durham Furnace, Pa. The
men were employed at the Durham
iron works.
The report of the commissioner of
patents for the year 1904 shows there
were 52,143 applications for patents
and 20,429 patents expired. There
were 30,S24 patents issued. More
patents were issued to citizens of
Connecticut in proportion to popula-
tion than to any other state.
At Calumet, Mich, blasting killed
four Finnish miners. Henry Aho and
John Reini were killed at the Tama-
rack mine by a charge of dynamite
which exploded. John and Jacob
Kostunen, brothers, were killed by a
premature explosion in the Champion
mine.
After a struggle lasting eight
months the strike at the Pittsburg
steel foundry at Glassport, Pa, has
been declared off and the men will
return to work at the same terms of
fered last May when the strike was
inaugurated.
An explosion of dynamite at the
Shoenberger plant of the American
Steel and Wire Co., in Pittsburg
killed one man, brought painful in
juries to 40 persons, damaged Is resi-
'dences and broke $500 windows.
Eight persons perished in New
York City because of exposure in the
blizzard. Many trains were snow,
bound. Thirty people were injured
in the wreck of train that was sem
out to open up snowbound road il
New Jersey.
At Essen, Prussia, the coal mine
owners took decision that probably
will result in settlement of the
strike.
At Houghton, Mich, in the trial be
fore jury on charge of murder
Mrs. Mary Brown, who killed her hus
band, John Brown, barber, was ac
quilted.
A gambler at Nogales, Ariz., sho
and killed three men and then com
mitted suicide.
The Lewis and Clark exposition
at Portland, Ore, will be open to tn
public on Sundays, according to al
announcement made by the fair di
rector5.
Joseph Glatz, widely known in tn
drug and chemical trade, is dead a
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, from tn
effects of an explosion of chemicals IL
his laboratory.
John orme, the famous "Lon
Man" who terrorized Chicago for tw
years, has been positively identiie,
az the man who robbed the Peoria ma
tional bank, December 10. The iden
tification was made by the teller o
the bank.