Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-20
S H RE D DDED NEWS.
HAPPENINGS OF THE LAST FIVE
DAYS BRIEFLY TOLD.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN,
Items Arranged for tho Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Contents
In a Few Minutes.
CONGRESSIONAL.


On the 18th the senate passed the
legislative, judicial and executive ap-
preparation bill and large number of
private pension bills. The house spent
the day in consideration of the i'm
peachment charges against Judge
Charles Swayne.
In the senate on the 14th the state
hood bill was again discussed during
the greater part of the session. The
house made new record by the pass
age of 459 pension bills in 10S min
utes.
The senate on the 10th devoted its
session to debate of the statehood bill.
The house debated the impeachment
charges against Judge Swayne and
agreed to the senate resolution fixing
February 8 as the date for counting
the electoral vote for president and
vice president.
In the senate on the 18th Senator
Mitchell, of Oregon, made a long
statement absolutely denying any
completely in the land frauds in his
state, for which he has been indicted.
The house was the scene of several
vigorous addresses in regard to the
Swayne impeachment case.
Notice of ex-Gov. James H. Pea
body's contest against Gov. Alva Ad-
ans for the office of governor of Col
orado has been filed with the legis-
lature.
Levi Rouss, of Passaic, N. j., re-
Gently celebrated what he claims as
his 115th birthday. Rouss has re-
sided in Passaic for IL years, having
been taken there from New York by
Hebrew leaders.
The presentment of the charges of
the grand jury of New York county
to the state legislature as to liquor
dealers corruption fund showed that
money was spent in entertainment of
legislators.
United States Senators Henry Ca
bot Lodge and w. Murray Crane were
unanimously nominated to represent
Massachusetts again at a caucus of
the republican members of the legis-
lature
A caucus of the republican senators
and representatives was held at Hart
ford, Conn, and Bulkeley received
1855 votes to II for Fessenden and was
declared the nominee of the caucus.
While feeling her way through the
dense fog in an effort to reach New
York the sugar laden steamer Indus,
from West Indian ports, struck Fire
Island bar and is now stuck hard and
fast.
Two men were blown to atoms, e
small building was completely demol-
ished and windows within a radius of
more than a mile were shattered by
an explosion in the Latin e Rand
powder works at Wayne, about ten
miles west of Paterson, N. ].
From the western Kansas ranges
come reports of heavy losses of stock
as result of the severe cold.
d. G. Macarthur and Archibald
Carmichael were struck by Michi-
gan Central train at Dutton, Ont, and
killed.
The charity ball given at the
Auditorium at Chicago by society
leaders was the peer of any charitable
entertainment ever held in Chicago.
More than $500 persons attended,
resulting in a net profit of between
$4,000 and s25.000.
Three persons were killed, two
fatally injured and several others
1ision between the eastbouud Cali
fornia limited on the Santa Fe road
and freight train at Las Vegas, N.
M.
The official records at Ellis Island,
N. Y, show that for the first month
of the new year, immigration to this
country is likely to exceed all rec
ords. Deportations for the same peri
cd are also record breaking.
Two of the three women who ar
rived at Havana recently from Colon,
on the steamer Dora and who were
taken to the detention hospital, died
of yellow fever
Silas CARRIER, who died at Red
Cloud, Neb., served as governor of
Nebraska from 1874 to 1878. He was
born at Bellefontaine, O., In 1888,
coming to Nebraska I'll 1870.
Count Pueckler, Germany's most
noted Jew batter. has been sentenced
in one of the courts of Berlin to six
months in Jail for public incitment to
disobedience of laws and violence of
one class against another.
There will be no investigation, for
the present, at least, of the charges
preferred by Rev. DR.. /. N. Irvine
against Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, of
the Central Pennsylvania diocese of
the Protestant Episcopal chU.ch
The Pennsylvania railroad station
at Phoenixyille, Pa, vas entered by
thieves, the safe blown and over $3.50
secured. The building was partially
wrecked.
Twelve passengers were injured as
the result of street car on the Mount
Washington tunnel line running away
as 1t left the north end of the tunnel
at Pittsburg.
Robert Watchorn, commissioners of
immigration at Montreal, has been
appointed commissioner of immigra-
tion at Ellis Island N, T., to succeed
William Williams. resigned. Mr.
Watchorn has been in the immigra-
tion service since 1895.