Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-02-10

was the feature of the Senate'S pro-
ceedings on the 9th. The house be-
gan consideration of the bill extend
ing the powers of the interstate COM
merce commission by giving it au-
thority to fix railway freight rates.
On the 7th the senate passed the
statehood bill. AS finally agreed upon
it provides for statehood for Okla
homa and Indian Territory as one
state and New Mexico as another
state. The house spent the day in de-
bate of the freight rate bill.
At Windsor, VT, few hours after
receiving the last rites of the Catho-
lie church Mary Mabel Rogers, who
was sentenced to die upon the gal
lows, listened with amazement to the
announcement of High Sheriff Henry
H. Peck that Gov. Bell had granted
her a reprieve of four months.
The United States Directory Of the
Catholic church, just published, gives
total Catholic population of 12,462,-
500. The total Catholic population
of Ohio is about 625,000.
A fire that broke out in a business
block in Gloucester, Mass, caused a
loss estimated at $15000O. Two fire
men were seriously injured.
In a fight at Dunlop, w. Va, Will
liam Hamlet was shot and killed and
three other men were wounded. Three
men were arrested.
There will be no strike on the In
terborough Rapid Transit Co.'S sub
way and elevated lines in New York
,F
were granted.
At Charleston, w. Va, the senate
virtually killed the senate bill pro-
hibiting the transportation and ex-
portation of natural gas. The action
taken was to indefinitely postpone the
measure.
George Ashley, of Aiken, S. c.,
general superintendent of the w. j.
Oliver Construction Co.. was burned
to death in a private car near Wick
life, Ky.
The ice boat Annapolis has left
Cambridge, Md, for Deals Island,
Chesapeake Bay, to rescue IL oyster
men, whose boats are icebound in
Tangier Sound. near there.
The grand jury in Pttsburg has
found true bills against 62 women
gamblers of Allegheny The cases
are incidental to the graft" investi-
cation.
The jury which has been consider
ing a charge of attempted bribery
against Coroner Moses ]. Jackson, of
New York City, brought in a verdict
of guilty.
The steamship City of Sydney, from
Central American ports, brings news
of violent eruption of Momotombo
volcano, which is $4,000 feet high and
whose base forms promontory in
Lake Managua.
Land which the Louisiana State
Loan and Trust Co. owned in Louisi-
ana and which federal officers assert
was the basis of an alleged lottery
scheme promoted by John H. Dalton
now on trial before Judge Sanborn
in Chicago, was valued at about 1914
cents an acre by expert witnesses.
The strike of lumber teamsters is
ended so far as the box manufacturers
OF Chicago are concerned. Drivers for
IL box factories have returned to
work, the companies employing them
having signed the union wage scale
AANSi q IIT0c udyS
stopped delivery of packing cases for
Chicago shippers.
"Flagrant, willful and continuous
violations of the law during the past
five years is the way in which the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
road Co. Is arraigned in a decision
promulgated by the Interstate COM
merce commission on the alleged
unlawful rates and practices" of that
road in the transportation of coal
and mine supplies.
A passenger train on the Chicago G.
Northwestern railroad crashed into q
caboose and several freight cars near
PEBBLES, Wis, injuring more than 20
persons.
In fire which destroyed William
McCarrier's home at Parkersburg, w
Va, his two children burned to death
and he was burned so badly that he
will die.
TO the intensely cold weather is at
tributed the swapping off of a mine
elevator cable that cost William Nc
Andrews and Thomas Greedy, miners,
their lives. The cage fell with them
into over 100 feet Of water in the
Rarus shaft at Butte. Mont.