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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
A CRUISERS nluNpER.


Chlllan warship Blows Up the Steam
Launch of the American Man Of War
Pensacola Under the Impression That
1t Was nn Insurgcnt Boat-Five Sailors
Killed.
CALLAo, July 25.-The famous old
man of war Pensacola, of the United
States navy, has just arrived here
after an exciting run along the Chilian
coast. 1t brought the first news of a
thrilling accident at africa, Chill, by
which five sailors of the Pensacola lost
their lives. The steam launch belong.
ing to the man of war was blown up
in the harbor of africa by the Chilian
torpedo-boat Condell and every man
on board, five in number, were killed
The attack took place the evening OF
June |. The Condell is one of Balma,
ceda's torpedo cruisers from the port of
Santiago and was on the lookout for
the ships of the insurgents 1t stole
into the harbor of africa about o'clock.
There was heavy fog and objects at
a distance of 100 yards could not be
discerned with any distinctness The
steam launch had left the Pensacola on
the regular evening trip to the shore
and was making its way slowly when
suddenly those on the man of war saw
the little boat lifted completely out of
the water, as if q subterranean
monster had risen up under
the launch and tossed it in the
air There was the dull echo of a
half-smothered explosion, and then
wreckage was scattered in every direc-
ton. Not a sound of human voice
was heard. The quiet that followed
told plainly that the five men aboard
the launch had either been killed out
right or so manned as to be unable to
make the condition known.
The search-light of the Pensacola
was brought into play, and at the same
instautant orders were given to lower
the boats. When the broad rays of
hash-light made specters against the
great curtain of fog the Condell was
discovered only short distance
away The Chilian cruiser had mis-
Ilken the launch for an insurgent boat
and had used a torpedo with deadly
effect. There was intense excitement
aboard both vessels for the next twen-
ty minutes. Signaling continued be-
tween the man of war and the
torpedo boat for some time, and
when the situation of affairs be-
came known on the Condell it's
commander dipped his colors and
sent his chief officers aboard the
Pensacola. 1t then became known
that the explosion of the torpedo was
stupid blunder on the part of the
cruiser. Such apologies as could be
offered were made, but the feeling
among the comrades of the dead sail
ors was bitter. The bodies were not
recovered
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
LATER.

SAMUEL SANDS. one of the oldest citi.
Eens of Baltimore, Md, died on the 2sth,
aged 90. He has been in uninterrupted
service as printer editor or publisher
since his apprenticeship in 1911. Half
a century ago he published the Ameri-
can Farmer, the first agricultural paper
in this country.
THE Lexington Belt Line Company
on the 2Sth tore up the track of the Ken
tucky Union Railroad Company at Lex
ington, KY, and threw a number of
freight cars into the ditch. A bitter
fight is on and bloodshed is feared.
THERE has been large increase in the
volume of immigration into the United
States during the last fiscal year. The
total number arriving was 555, 1896, as
against 451,2l9 during the fiscal year
1890, showing an increase during the
last fiscal year of 1O4,277.
AT Columbus, o., on the 2sth, the
jury in the trial of w. j. Elliott for kill
ing Albert G. Osborn on February 13,
1891, found the defendant guilty of
murder in the second degree. A motion
for a new trial was Immediately made.
THE census office has issued bulle-
tin which shows that the number of
prisoners in county jails during the cen
sus year was 1858; the number re-
ported in 1880 was 1891, an increase in
ten years of 6,S47, or at the rate of 54
per cent The increase in the total
population was 4.s6 per cent. In 1880
the ratio of prisoners in the county
jails to the population was 253 in each
million; in 1890 it was 312.
AN investigation conducted by an
agent of the state of Indiana has re-
vealed the fact that more than $500, 900
has been illegally drawn from the treas
ury at Washington by various parties
who raised vouchers for war claims from
small amounts and made them call for
| sums largely in excess of the original
amounts This moEey is now being de-
Quoted from the amount due the state
on account of the passage of the direct
tax bill.
AT Jefferson City, Mo, Judge Burgess
on the 2Sth oveIruled the motion for a
new trial in the case of ex-State Treas
urer Noland, found guilty of embezzle-
ment.
GEORGE DIXON, of Boston, and Abe
Willis, of Australia, fought at San Fran
CISCO on the SoIh lor u purse OF S5,OUO
and the bantam weight championship
of the world Dixon knocked out his
opponent in the fifth round.
Two freight trains on the Pittsburgh,
Ft Wayne & Chicago railroad collided
near Salem, o., on the 2Sth Two en-.
gines and eleven cars of freight were
demolished. Several members of the
crews were severely injured, but none
fatally.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
eARrHouAKE Ar EvANsviL.E
A Sories of Shocks Cause n Panic, but
Little Damage In the Indiana City.

A Series OF Shocks Cause Panic, but
Little Damage In the Indiana City.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 27.-At $3.50
Sunday evening Evansville expert
enced a severe earthquake shock. The
entire city was thrown into a panic,
congregations in all the churches
rose to their feet in the midst
of the service and ran pell
nell into the street. women and
children screaming and fainting.
At the hotels the greatest ex-
element prevailed Guests rushed
from their rooms into the corridors,
then into the Office and finally on to
the streets. The duration of the shocks
was scarcely more than three seconds,
but it was long enough to unhouse near
ly every man, woman and child in Ev-
ansville.
The noise accompanying the disturb
ance was really the most paniclSy part.
of the whole performance. 1t was loud
and indescribable. 1t wasnot u report.
like cannon, but rather like crashing
of big tree in a heavy wind.
At the First Baptist church DR..
Heagle had just given out his text when
there was a rumble, a shock and the
building groaned The congregation
was thoroughly terrified and the
church was empty before one could
count five.
James Seiffert and wife and two
ladies were driving along Cherry street
in carriage when the shock came.
The people pouring out of Mcfarland
chapel frightened the horse and u run
Il
the vehicle were more or less injured,
but none fatally. At first nobody
appeared to be certain of just what was
the matter. On Sycamore street, near
the chamber of commerce, some one of
the excited throng there cried: THE
courthouse" Immediately there was n
headlong rush in the direction of that
structure. Its foundation had been
said to be weak and everybody seemed
to conclude that the massive pile had
collapsed
The shock was felt more severely in
the southwest end of the city. Part of
the side wall of the Stock Yard hotel
was shaken off and the window lights
in several houses in the western sec
tion of the town were broken. This is
the first shock felt in this vicinity for
several years. 1t was much more pro
nounced than the last.
The distinct report accompanying the
shock led many to suppose that pow
der magazine on the outskirts of the
city had let go. The vibration at Hem
derson, 10 miles below here, was very
violent. Chairs were overturned and
several buildings are said to have
been wrecked. Reports from other
outlying cities tell of no Sc
rious damage. Mount Vernon, New
burg and other southern Indiana points
and places in northern Kentucky ex-
perienced stronger earthquake shocks
than those felt in Evansville.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
FOREIGN,

SERIOUS floods which prevailed for
several days in Moravia and Silesia
caused enormous damage to farms and
crops.
JOHN MCLEAN & Co., dealers in
wholesale millinery and fancy goods at
Montreal, assigned with liabilities of
S2S1.222
The Guatemalan coffee harvest for
1891 will reach 700, 900 quintels, repre-
senting $4,000, ,OOO ...
The steam barge belonging to the
United States man of war Pensacola
was accidentally blown up in the har-
Dor at africa, Chilli, and five sailors
were drowned.
FIVE children belonging to family
named Montigmy and two in the
Fouras family were drowned in the
river at Seven Islands, Can, by the
upsetting of boat.
THE police statistics show that 130,-
900 persons are dependent upon charity
for subsistence in Naples.
JOHN MCMAHoNE retained the worlds
championship at Montreal in a collar
and elbow wrestling match with w. II.
Quinn.
NATIVES along the Lomani river in
the Congo free state killed and ate fifty
natives friendly to Europeans.
THE Imperial bank of Melbourne,
Australia, has suspended payment,
with liabilities of S75O,O0
THE tower of church which was in
course of erection at Szalatina, Hun
gary, fell, killing sixteen of the work
men.
THE official census of France shows
total population of 3s,095, 100. This
is an increase since the last census of
20S, 5S4
IT was announced that through Pres
ident Harrison's intercession the czar
of Russia had relaxed the persecution
of Jews, ...
A COLLISION between excursion trains
occurred at st. Mande, France, in
which fifty persons were killed and
over 100 injured.
By the collapse of the condensers at
the chemical works in London six men
were crushed to death.
The congress of Guatemala has APP
propriated 100000 in gold to pay the
expenses of its exhibit at the worlds
fair in Chicago.
FRAZER & Co.'s grocery warehouse
and Quine's carriage factory at Mont
real, Can, were burned. Loss, S1OO, 600.
THE total Canadian exports for the
fiscal year ended June 80 last amounted
to S95, 500, ,5O4, an increase over 1890 of
81, 1s5, $50.
BERLAND and Dore, two convicted
murderers, were guillotined in Paris.
FLOODS were doing immense damage
to property in Posen, Germany, and
many corpses of persons drowned in
the floods were seen floating in the
River Neisse.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
FARMERS WHEAT CORNER.
Alliance Scheme to Squeeze Spectators
and Traders in Grain.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 24.-St.
Paul has been made the headquar-
ters of a national movement by
the United States Farmers Alli-
ance to corner the entire wheat
sha street for several days large force
of employees has been engaged in sending
out circulars with view not only of
having the alliance men of the United
States but all classes of farmers keep
back their wheat crop until the
bears have all been killed off
and prices have been advanced to a high
point In other words, the alliance
press bureau and state press bureau
are working together, endeavoring to
unite the farmers of the United States
in a gigantic wheat trust, in which the
producers shall be the stockholders,
and by which the spectators and
wheat buyers will be squeezed to the
wall.
At the head of the movement is
George NJ, Muller, editor of the State
and prominent alliance man. The
circular, which recites the benefits of
combination and urges the formation
of the trust" estimates the wheat
crop of '91 in the United States at
100000 bushels. The promoters
of the farmers wheat trust be-
lieve that four-fifths of this
wheat can be held back by the
farmers for four to eight weeks, by
which time it is thought that prices
will have gone skyward. Lists bear
ing the names of secretaries of every
alliance in the United States are now
in the hands of Mr.. Muller, and the cir
cular has been sent to the alliances of
all the eastern wheat growing states.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

TIE seventh anniversary of the or
ganization of the prohibition party in
Indiana was celebrated ON the gath at
indianapolis.
WILLIAM N. WEEDEN, of New Bed
ford, Mass, the inventor of the Water
bury watch, died at the age of so years.
JOSEPH t. JOHNSON, of Baltimore
Md, the last but one of the BlacllhawlS
war survivors living in that city, is
dead.
MASSACHUSETTS democrats will hold
their state convention at Worcester
September 30
PAUL DILLINGHAM;, governor of Yer
mont in 1866, and member of con-
gress in 1874, died at his home in Water.
bury, aged 02 years.
THE democratic editors of Kansas,
representing nearly every democratic
paper in the state, met in Topeka and
issued an address to the voters of the
state declaring against fusion with the
peoples party
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Col. WILLIAM H. MERRITT, of Des
Moines, died at the age of II years, He
was the democratic candidate for gov
ernor in 1864 and was postmaster at
Des Moines under Cleveland.
THE peoples party has organized in
sixty-nine of the lightweight counties
in Ohio
WILLIAM CoRBIN, aged so years, died
at Adrian, Mich. He served one term
in the house of representatives and was
a thirty-third degree mason.
HERMAN RASTER, of Chicago, editor
in-chief of the Illinois Staats- Zeitung,
died of dropsy at Cubowa, Germany,
aged GA years.
NJ. NJ. WALDEN, of Centerville, Ia,
who was lieutenant governor of the
state in 1870 and who also served two
terms in congress, died in Washington,
where he held a federal position.
STEPHEN OSBORNE and wife, of Ashe
county, N. c., celebrated the seventy
second anniversary of their marriage.
Mr.. Osborne is 1O1 years old and his
wife 92. They have twelve children,
siXty-nine grandchildren, more than
200 great-grandchildren and nine great
great-grandchildren.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
AWFUL BUTCHeRY. p
Black Desperate Chops Three Mem
bers of Kentucky Family to Death
He Is Killed by Neighbor.

A Black Desperate Chops Three Mem
bers of Kentucky Family to Death
He Is Killed by Neighbor.
LOUISVILLE, KY, July 27.-Five miles
from Paris, KY, lived Nathan Conway,
81 years old, his wife, about the same
age, their sons, Charley and William,
33 and % respectively, Williams wife
and three children and two
nieces, Miss Florence and Lucy
Leager. AS they were all
sitting on the veranda Sunday morn
ing a negro named Craig who had no
fixed home, came up and asked for a
drink of water. 1t was given him. He
thereupon lifted a rusty scythe blade
and asked if it was not good knife.
Charley Conway nodded assent and the
negro throwing down the cup of water
struck him with the knife, split
ting his skull. The rest of the
family ran into the house. Craig con-
tinued to hack the young man till
he thought him dead. He then attacked
the father, who had returned and
killed him. Then the mother coming
up had her head split open and instant
ly died. After the negro had insanely
hacked her body in a dozen places he
attacked William Conway, cutting
him in the head and on the body as he
ran. He had just struck Conway to the
ground when q. w. Bailey, a neighbor,
attracted by the screams, came up and
shot Craig twice with buckshot This
seemed to have no effect, but other
neighbors had come up and a
young man shot Craig with pistol.
Craig ran, and, falling beside hay
stack, died in few minutes from the
effects of the buckshot wounds. The
pistol ball had glanced around his head
The Conways were from Maysville
originally, but came to Bourbon
eighteen months ago from t. G. Meg
gins farm, near Cynthiana. They
were orderly citizens and were
held in the highest esteem. Craig
said he had killed seven per-
sons and intended to kill that whole
family. He is known to have killed
his mother-in-law, He has always been
known as desperate fellow, and was
brother of Charlie Craig, now under
sentence of death in Cincinnati.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
MONEY MOVING WESTWARD.
1t VIII Take S5O,OOO,OOO to Move the
Crop This Year.


New YORK, July 25.-The deposits of
the sub-treasury Thursday against
shipments to be made from Washing
ton to the west amounted to $3.50, 900,
making total of 81, 4l5,0OO since Fri
day. The movement has now set in in
earnest and it's influence is felt all
around. Bankers anticipate consider
able advance in the rate for call money,
as the shipments to the west continue
to absorb the surplus at this center.
Fortunately the surplus reserve of
the New York banks is large,
amounting, according to last Satur-
days bank statement, to SIS, 4S9, 425.
Estimates of the total amount of money
to be shipped to the interior by sum.
mer and fall range from $4,000, 900 to
$50, 100000 This will draw all the
surplus reserves from the city banks
and will drain the country banks and
the trust companies as well. Lastyear
something over $35, 900, 600 was shipped
More would have been but for the fact
that the supply of small notes gave out
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
Negro Colony in Mexico.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The bureau
of American republics is informed that
an association called the American Col
ored Mans Mexican Colonization Com
pany is planning to establish a colony
of negro farmers, coming chiefly from
the states of Mississippi and Tennes-
see, in the state of Sonora, Mexico, and
it has arranged for the purchase of a
tract of 100000 acres about 20 miles
south of Yuma, A. T., on the Southern
Pacific railroad, at place where the
remains of the Lerdo colony. founded
by Mr.. G. Androde, of San FranciGco,
still exist
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

Mrs. MoLLrE HUGHES, nightly re-
spected widow lady, living near Cam
ernville, Idaho, is afflicted with a
unique and most distressing disease.
Little by little the flesh of her entire
body is turning to solid bone, or, in
other words, she is becoming ossified
The process of Justification has now
been going on nearly five years, and
the attending physicians say that it is
only matter of time when the entire
body of the poor victim will be a solid
bone. 1t is a rare disease, and the
pathology of it is little understood
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

GERMAN-AMERICAN teachers have
passed resolutions in favor of abolish
ing German type on the ground that it
unnecessarily increases the labor of
teaching and learning it's use. But
German American journalists and lit
erary people do not take kindly to this
proposition and for the very good rea-
son to deprive German literary work
of its peculiar gothic dress would rob
it of much of its individuality for the
reader and detract from the latter'z
pleasure
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

MORE than five thousand ladies in
England are competing for the prizes
offered for design for the best cycling
costume, the best shooting costume, the
best golf costume, the best walking cos
tune, the best tea gown and the best
outdoor cloak.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

MANY years ago an ocean steamship
made only ten or twelve revolutions of
the engine, using only five pounds of
steam pressure. With this she averaged
about eight knots. High powered ships
of the present day use thirty-six times
this pressure and make seven times the
revolutions Their speed is only two
and half times as great.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

Gov. HoeG, of Tex, announces his
intention of inaugurating a general
pursuit of fugitive murderers from that
state, with a view of bringing them
back for punishment He has list of
nearly hundred such fugitives, ex-
tending back over many years, whom
he has located and proposes to bring to
justice. He is so sanguine of success
that he predicts there will be hundred
hangings in Texas next year
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

A HEBREW, protesting against the
cruelties to his people in Russia, says
that if the powerful Christian nations
combined would earnestly protest
against the outrages perpetrated on this
ancient people, whose only offense is
to worship God in accordance with the
dictates of their conscience, senti-
ment would be awakened which Rus
sia could not ignore.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

WHAT is the matter with Birming-
ham, ct? 1t has district with five
hundred inhabitants in which there has
not been child born in nine years. AS
a consequence the ward school will
likely be closed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

THE Chilian president Balmaceda,
does not possess the black hair and
swarthy face that are characteristic of
most Chilians. He is, on the contrary,
as fair of countenance as any man of
Anglo-SaXon descent, and his hair is
auburn
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

GERMAN capitalists are said to be
seeking investments in the United
States and large amount of German
capital is likely to come here. A New
Mexican mine has just been purchased
by Berlin syndicate for 81, 600, 600.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

IT may be hardship, but rich Amer
leans must get along with American
built yachts The act prohibiting the
sailing of a foreign-built vessel under
the American flag was made law by
the signature of George Washington,
and it is still good law.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

THE accounts differ, but the latest re-
ports are that the sealers in Behring
sea have found the occupation too haz-
ardous and are giving the seals n vaca-
ton. The modus giDendt seems to be
demonstrating its right to existence.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

PREPARATIONS for the Worlds fair
are making progress. Twenty-nine
states have appropriated $2,695, 600 for
representation. Twenty-four foreign
nations have officially accepted the in
vitation to participate.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

A SOLDIER of fortune who has had an
interesting career in the Orient is Col.
Wasson, the first American officer ever
admitted to the Japanese army. The
colonel is a tall, distingue and we'll
preserved man. He went into the war
of the rebellion private and came out
major, going afterward to Japan,
where his services in reorganizing the
mikado's army procured him a colonel
cy. In one of the japanese insurrec-
tions he was sentenced to be beheaded,
but he escaped, was restored to favor,
and is now high in the mikados esteem.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

IT is almost 11O years since Lord
CORVALLIS delivered up his sword to
Gen. Washington, at Yorktown, Va,
yet grateful nation has to-day under
her care % people who are drawing
pensions for the services rendered by
husbands and fathers in bringing about
the freedom of the colonies. OF these
%, 10 are the widows and three the
daughters of the hardy pioneers and
patriots who fought under Gen. Wash.
ington in the war of the Revolution.
There is but one natural deduction, and
that is, the old soldiers married very
late in life and chose as their consorts
very young women
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01

THE government of Peru has issued
decree restricting the feast days, some
times numbering four week, and in.
terfcring with the loading of vessels
and other work.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-08-01
A Broken Brake Causes "a Panic ON q
Scranton Electric Car.

SCRANTON, Pa, July ga street
car on the Dunmore electric line, COM
ing to this city from Laurel Hill park
late Friday night, became unmanage-
able. Two girls, frightened by
the efforts of the motor man to,
stop the car, jumped. One of them,
Nettie Morgan, living in Hyde Park,
broke her neck and was instantly killed.
The other girl, Stella Hughes, suffered
internal injuries believed to be fatal.
Several others received slight injuries in
jumping, but those remaining on the
car escaped uninjured. A broken brake
was the cause of the trouble.