Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-01-13
HAPPENINGS IN THIS BUSY
WORLD WHICH WE lNHABlT
BOILED DOWN.
AT HOME AND IN
FOREIGN LANDS
Recent Events that Contain the
Pith of the General News
for the Perusal OF
Our Readers,
CONGRESSIONAL

statehood bill was considered for the
major portion of the session. The gov
ernment's statistics in regard to the
cotton crop were the subject Of a long
debate in the house.
On the 9th the senate passed a
number of bills of minor importance
and devoted most of its time to debate
of the statehood bill. The house
passed the Notifications appropriation
bill.
The senate on the 9th passed few
bills of minor Importance and then
resumed consideration of the state
hood bill. The house spent most of it's
session in consideration of bills relat-
ing to the District of Columbia. The
house adopted the senate resolution
to hold the inaugural ball in the pen
sion building.
William T. Cobb, of Rockland, has
been inaugurated as governor of
Maine. succeeding John F. Hill.
1t is reported that II Swiss have
been frozen to death while making an
ascension of Mount st. Bernard.
The steamship Prinz Adalbert, from
Genoa, which ran aground in New
bank safely.
The prospects are that this session
of congress will not pass a river and
harbor bill. Among the leaders in the
house there is disposition to let the
bill go over for this session, on ac-
count of the condition of the treasury.
Losing his hold on flying ring
while he was performing acrobatic
feats before several hundred pupils in
a Harlem, N. Y, public school, Henry
Talbot, 16 years old, fell headlong to
the floor. His neck was broken and
he died in few minutes.
Lester Clark, charged with the mur-
der of his feeble minded son, through
cruelty, has been placed on trial at
Manchester, la. Clark's alleged crime
probably has no parallel in criminal
history. 1t is claimed that he executed
system of vicious treatment that re-
suited in slow death.
Comparison of a social register of
1883 with that of 1905, which has just
appeared, indicates the gradual aban-
donment of the private homes on
Manhattan Island. In 1888, SO per
cent. of the families in the register
roofs; now only SO per cent. do so.
The entire stock and control of the
San Francisco Coke and Gas Co. has
been purchased by the Standard Oil
Co. The amount of money paid for
the concern is not stated, but it is
said to have been a good round sum.
This is construed to mean another
contest for the control of the lighting
of San Francisco.
One policeman was killed, Harry
Feinberg was mortally wounded and
two other men were wounded less
seriously during an attempt by the
Chicago police to capture Feinberg.
The indictments against George H.
Williams and Chief of Police Hunt
have been withdrawn by the grand
jury at Portland, Ore.
At Owensboro. KY. Rev. w. w.
Armer has been found guilty of the
murder of his son and sentenced to 21
years in the penitentiary.
The Maple Leaf grain elevator in
Kansas City, Kan, owned by the Chi
cago Great Western Railway Co., was
burned with 100000 bushels of wheat
entailing a loss of 100000 on build
Ing and contents.
The executive committee of the
prohibition party has elected Charles
r. Jones, of Philadelphia, chairman
of the national committee to succeed
Oliver w. Stewart, of Chicago. The
headquarters of the party will remain
in Chicago for the present. Mr.
Stewart will continue on the nationa
committee.
Chaplain Joseph F. MacGrail has
been dismissed from the navy. He
was tried by court-martial on the
charge of scandalous conduct. A
Roman Catholic priest will be ap
pointed in his place.
Ignatz Wenzler. laborer in one o.
the iron mills at Lebanon, Pa, ha:
been arrested and held under a $4,000
bond for attempting to blackmail ant
threaten the life of Count Won Tisza
the premier of Hungary.
A trolley car of the Brooklyn Rapit
Transit Co. carrying 40 members o.
Adirondack Council of the Royal AT
canum jumped the track on a curve
at the foot of steep hill In Brooklyn
N. Y, turned on ats side and wa!
smashed, injuring 16 of the occu
pants.
Several Americans have been cap
fured smuggling tobacco into Canad;
IN the Rainy River district. The to
bacco and cigars were seized.
One man was killed and half
dozen persons were seriously injure,
In a collision in which three train
crashed together on the Ninth Avenue
elevated railroad structure at New
York City.
Judge Romanzo Bum, of the Unite,
States court for the Western distric
of Wisconsin, has resigned He will
retire from the federal bench ON Jan
uary 8, afser serving for over 2
years. Judge Bum retires on ful
salary.