Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-03-03
Happenings of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN
Items Arranged for tho Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Contents
In Few Minutes.
CONGRESSIONAL.


river and harbor appropriation bill.
The last testimony in the interest OF
Judge Swayne was presented to the
senate.
On the oath the senate devoted much
time to consideration of the Swayne
impeachment case. The house spent
the day in debate of the sundry civil
appropriation bill.
On the 25th the senate heard the
concluding argument on both sides In
the Swayne impeachment case. The
senate also granted the request OF the
house for a conference on the state
hood bill. The house passed many
bills of minor Importance. An hour
was devoted to consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill.
On the 9th the senate acquitted
Judge Swayne of all the charges made
against him in the articles of i'm
peachment presented by the house
and passed the naval appropriation
bill. The house agreed to the confer
ence report on the army appropriation
bill and passed the sundry civil appro-
priation bill
In the senate on the 2Sth Senator
Kearns, of Utah, made a long speech
denouncing the Mormon church and
its methods. The Indian appropria-
tion bill was debated at length. The
house passed large number of bills
of minor Importance.
Milk consumers of Chicago are now
confronted by a combination of all the
large dairy firms in the city.
The president has issued a procla-
nation convening the senate in spe-
cial session at noon on March A, to
receive such communications as may
be made by the executive"
The Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railroad has announced an in
crease in firemen's wages of from 5
to 20 cents per 100-mile run. The
pay for passenger runs is $2.10 and
for the hardest freight runs $3.50.
The grand jury in the United
States court at Montgomery, Ala,
has reported a number of true bills
charging peonage and whitecapping.
S. d. May, sheriff of Crenshaw county,
who recently disappeared, was indict-
ed for peonage.
1t was announced at Pittsburg that
at a conference held in New York a
"gentlemen's agreement" was affected
among the sewer pipe manufacturers
of the United States and as result
prices have been advanced.
After having been imprisoned in
the ice in Lake Michigan for IL days
the steamer Pere Marquette No. has
arrived in harbor at Ludington, Mich,
with barely enough coal in her bunk
ers to keep steam under the boilers.
James Seine, wealthy Italian con-
tractor, was shot to death on one of
the principal streets of Newark, N.
j., in the sight of scores of persons
by Frank Sena, a former employe.
Senator Davis has introduced bill
IN the Indiana senate to prevent
whites from marrying persons having
more than one-eighth Filipino blood.
A battalion of $50 Turkish troops
while on the way to reinforce the gar
rison of Yemen, Arabia, mutinied on
board the Greek steamer Epiros, seiz-
ed and imprisoned their officers and
compelled the commander of the Epi-
ros to put back to Suez. The mutineers
demanded that they be sent back to
their homes.
The original draft of the Godfrey
tthli-pi OOl oSiiiiiB biii lht oubolllult
for which was adopted by the Missouri
house of representatives, has disap-
peared from the Office of the chief
clerk.
Leslie G. Fuller, assistant attorney
in the department of justice at Wash.
ington is detained at a Chicago po.
lice station and will be sent to the
detention hospital for the insane.
The death at Hamilton, Bermuda, OF
William F. Shanks, president of the
National Press Intelligence Co., who
was well known in newspaper and
financial circles in New York City ant
for IL years was city editor of the
Tribune, was announced in a cable
dispatch.
Addressed to United States Senator
Penrose a small Internal machine was
found done up in an innocent looking
package in private mail box in the
hallway of a building at Philadelphia
r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
of Trade says; Better weather has
greatly improved trade in many sec
tions OF the country. Failures this
week numbered 252 in the United
States, against 240 last year, and 2!
in Canada, compared with % a yea
ago.
A man who gives his name as
Thomas Ryan and says he is from Sar
San Francisco, was fatally shot in {
revolver duel with Chicago police
man.
The management of the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern railroad an
nounces an increase in wages of 1871
cents a hundred miles for passenge
brakemen and 13 cents for baggage
men.
The president has nominated to b'
United States district judge for thu
Eastern district of Wisconsin Josepl
V. Quarles. of Wisconsin, whose tern
as United States senator expires
March A.