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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

DANIEL SINCLAIR, who published tho
New York Tribune from 1858 to 1879,
died at his residence in New York of
pneumonia, aged II years.
EXGov. SAMUEL j. KIRKwooD cele
brated his soth birthday at Iowa City,
la. Congratulatory kilograms were
numerous.
GEORGE c. MAGoUN, the noted finan.
cier and railroad man, died suddenly at
his residence in New York.
SENATOR CHARLES GuINoT, who had
been a prominent figure in French pol
tics for thirty years, died in Paris at
the age of 66.
EX-Gov. ALFRED LITTLEFIELD died at
his home in Lincoln, r. |.
JAMES w. LOVE, consul to San Sal
vador under President Harrison, died
ut his home in Fremont, Neb., aged 43
THOMAS A. MARSHALL, one of Mis-.
sissippi's famous lawyers and public
men, died at Vicksburg in his SD year.
JOHN DAWSON, aged 1o4 years and
month, died at Terre Haute, Ind. He
attended the funeral of Washington
and served in the war of 1912.
GEORGE GoRMAN, who gained a world
wide reputation as an amateur oars.
man, died at Albany, n. Y, of pneu-
monia.
Col. WILLIAM c. YouNa, the Oldest
graduate of West Point academy, died
in New York. He was born in 1899.
Mrs. ANN STIMsoN died at Hancock,
n. Y, at the age of 1o6 years
Ex-Gov BENJAMIN Z. BIGGs died at
| Middletown, Del He served two terms
in congress, from 1868 to 1871.
CHAUNCEY II. ANDREWS, millionaire
railroad coal and iron operator, died
at Youngstown, O., aged 60 years.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN JOHN A. NICHOLS
died at Blackshear, Gu. He repre-
sented the First Georgia district in the
Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh con-
| crosses.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL
Regular Session,

IN the senate the Hawaiian question was
discussed on the Goth and Senator Hoar in his
remarks said that the president had no power
to appoint paramount commissioner without
the advice and consent of tho senate reso-
luton was adopted directing the committee on
foreign relations TO inquire into and report on
the whole matter. The urgent deficiency bill
was passed. In the house the New York and
New Jersey bridge bill was passed. The com.
mittee on territories reported in favor of ad-
mitting Oklahoma as state in the union.
SENATOR PROCTOR (Vt) introduced q bill in
the senate on the 2ist to annex the territory Of
Utah TO the state OF Nevada. Adjourned to
January B.. In the house IL was decided that
debate on the tarin bill would commence Jnnu-
ary g. The foreign affairs committee presented
resolution condemning the action OF ex.Min.
lister Stevens in Honolulu and the minority re-
port denounces the course taken by President
Cleveland and Secretary Gresham, Adjourned
to January3
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30
HIS JUST DESERTS.
The Invader of Michigan Home Killed
by Its Occupant.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. -. j ohm
G. Wonderham, of this city, Saturday
night shot and instantly killed John
Eikmen, aged 25. Wonderham nine
years ago married girl several years
younger than himself and very
pretty. Three months since Elk
men met the woman, fell vio-
lently in love with her, and continued
TO force his calls upon her DUR
sng her husbands absence Saturday
afternoon he called and informed Mrs.
Wonderham that he would come to the
house Saturday night and shoot every
member of the family. Saturday even
ing he appeared with n double burreled
shotgun heavily loaded and after try
ing the front door of the Wonderham
houNe went around to the rear entrance
and attempted to force his way in.
Here he was met by Wonderham, who
levelcd shotgun and shot the intruder
dead
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

UNDER the threat of the insurance
companies to raise the rates, the mer-
chants of South Dakota are planning
to organize merchants indemnity as
'sociation and so carry their OWL insur-
ance, which, they claim, they can do
at cost twenty-five per cent below
the rates as they now exist There
must be some mistake in these figures
else the insurance companies are the
victims OF a bad business policy, for
the number of insurance company
wrecks made In the last few years has
been appalling. If present ra tes were
paying rates there would be new com.
paniea forminA
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

MAINE used to boast its hard names
of rivers, lakes and towns, but Alaska s
simplest names are longer and harder
than most of those for which Maine is
famous. A few of the longest and
hardest Alaskan names of villages are
these: Observation-Disclosures, Ah-
gulakpaghamute, ,Chokfoktoleghamute,
KahlulShtughamute, Kennachanagha-
mute, Kyktoltowtin, Quiechogamute,
Teeuahotozna and Akgulurigiglak.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30
ASSASSlNATEp.
A Prominent Sullivan Und) Lawyer Shot
Dead on the Street.

Dead on the Street.
SULLIVAN, Ind, Dec. 27.-Lawyer
John $. Hultz, of this place, was shot
dead on the street here Sunday morn
ing by n man who wore n wig and a
mask. The wig was found afteward
in pond on a line between the place
where the shots were fred and the
home of ex-Sheriff Willis. Willis is
under arrest on suspicion of commit
ting the crime. He claims to be inno-
cent.
The shooting was done with shot
gun and the charges in both barrels
were emptied into Hultz' back, The
lawyer saw the man coming toward him
and turned to retreat. When the
first shot was fred Hultz turned
into IA stable, and as he did
so the second shot brought him
down. He died almost instantly. The
assassin ran away and the stock of the
gun, the wig and face mask were
thrown in the pond. Ex-Sheriff Willis
was arrested, but protests that he is in
nocent. Several persons saw the shoot
ing, but the disguise was so complete
that they cannot say who did the kill
ing.
Within forty minutes after the shoot
ing sufficient evidence was collected
against Willis that if established will
place his neck in great danger. A
small boy saw the assassin in u
stairway putting on the wig. When
he added beard the boy be-
came frightened and took to his
heels. He says positively that the man
was Lem" Willis. A hostler of the
stable who ran TO the dying man was
told by Hultz that Willis had killed
him. The man who threw the things in
the pond was observed and watched.
He went i'll the direction of the high
way. Willis was met in the highway
few minutes later by farmer who
saw him go to a neigh boring farm
house. Willis was coming to the city
with the son of this farmer. When he
met the constable the murderer wore
rubber boots, and it is said that Willis
removed the rubber boots as soon as he
reached the house and put on shoes.
The preliminary trial will be held De-
| cember 2S.
Hultz was shot several months ago by
the eX-sheriff, who found him in COM
promising position in the Willis resi-
dence. Willis had been Hultz personal
| and political friend and had done more
| than any one else to secure the latter's
election as prosecuting attorney.
When Willis learned that there
was ground for the suspicion that Hultz
and Mrs. Willis were too intimate he
set trap and with his brother caught
the couple together. He fired several
times and two bullets entered Hultz's
body. The lawyer escaped to friends
house, where physician dressed what
were thought to be fatal wounds. Willis
put Mrs. Willis in buggy and drove to
her fathers house, where he left her.
Hultz recovered and Willis brought
suit against him for SIS, 600 damages,
not with hope of recovering anything,
but, as was said at the time, to crush
the lawyer or drive him out of town
| 1t had the latter effect, but recently
| Hultz returned to Sullivan and an
nounced through the newspapers thai
he had come 10 stay.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

A TRAIN on the Union Pacific was
held up by eight men at Seminole, 1.
r., and the mail and express car and
all the passengers were robbed of all
their valuables.
AN earthquake shock at Bedford,
Pa, caused persons to flee in terror
from their houses.
FARMER PIRA, who killed two con-
fidence men ut Sioux City. la, was
wildly cheered upon acouittal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

THE burgomaster of Brussels has or
dered the formation of cyclist corps
in connection with the local fire bril-
gade, for the purpose of carrying the
first aid to the persons in danger
through an outbreak. The men are
already being drilled every day, the
machines selected being tricycles, upon
which they carry coil of rope, a
hatchet and other articles useful IN
cases of emergency.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

SNowsLIDEs have begun in the Mon
tana mountains. One came down upon
the town of Hecla a few days ago,
burying portion of it under twenty
feet of solidly packed snow and killing
and entombing three men. Two days
aater another slide occurred above
Lyon city, not far from Hecla. 1t came
down upon the town without warning,
killing four persons, badly injured sew.
eral others and covered n large area
under from forty to sixty feet of snow.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

PROF. GARNER is by no means pio-
neer in the investigation of the Simian
language Lady Burton records in her
husbands biography that the late Sir
Richard had forty monkeys which sat
down daily with him at dinner, and
that he had quite mastered the ele-
ments of their speech He had made a
list of about sixty of their most familiar
words, but the paper was lost in fire.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

MRS LITTLEDALE, accompanied by
her husband, has just completed the
most adventurous journey ever under
taken by woman. Starting from Con-
stantinople in January last, she has
crossed the entire continent of Asia,
including Russian Tartary, Kashgar,
the Pamirs, Thibit and Western China,
to Shanghai. The journey was under
taken from love of exploration and
sport, and, unlike other trips of this
character, will not be followed by the
publication of book of travels
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

A PARIS beggar has been living very
comfortably by hanging himself He
would choose tree near where young
children were playing, string himself
up and groan to attract their attention,
go that they would run for help He
would be cut down and restored, and
a letter in his pocket would explain his
attempted suicide by a statement OF
his destitution. He knew how to at.
tach the moose SO as to avoid strangula.
finD
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

THE Krupp steel 1So-ton gun has n
range of fifteen miles, and can fire two
shots minute. The shot weighs 1900
pounds, and 700 pounds of powder are
required for charge. The cost of a
single round from this gun is $1,000
and it is said that the gun can not be
fired more than fifty or sixty times
The cost of the piece is S475, 200.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

MUSHROOM, Mich, has secured the
biggest puncher in the world. This gil
gantic mass of iron, weighing $4,000
pounds, has been set in it's place at the
Muskegon boiler works. 1t is relic of
the Worlds fair, and is capable of
punching two-inch holes through two
inch plates of steel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

PEAT diggers at Cavendish, Strad-
more, Ireland, have made remarka-
BILE discovery. AT a depth of nearly
twenty-five feet they have unearthed a
stratum of what appears to be pure
butter. The vein" varies in thickness
from one to seven inches, and is said to
be of the consistency of common bar
soap. Biologists who have visited the
locality of the wonderful find say that
1t is simply layer of mineral wax.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

IT is announced that Ex-King Milan,
of Servia, has again come to the end of
his financial tether. Since his abdica-
ton he is alleged to have spent nearly
s5,O0O,0oo, and it is regarded as prob
able that he will attempt some fresh
coup d'etat with view to the acquis-
tion of a substantial subsidy from the
Servian government
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

GIFTS continue to pour into the Chi
cago Columbian museum, now in pro-
gress of installation in what we used
to call in Worlds fair days the Art
palace. The estimated value of the eX-
hibits already assured by gift or pur-
chase is considerably in excess of So
O00 O0O
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30
DECLARED NOT GUILTY.
Verdict of the Jury In the Case of Con-
ductor Scott.

BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Dec. 27. After
being out an hour and half the jury
in the Conductor Scott manslaughter
case rendered a verdict of not guilty.
Scott was the conductor of train No.
which disobeyed orders and caused
the collision here on October 20 in
which twenty-seven were killed anC
twenty-six wounded The trial was
the hardest fought legal battle thai
has been tried here. The prosecutor
was assisted by Senator Clapp. Tn,
verdict gives genC..l sa tisfaction.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

A MACHINE, designed to separate the
SCOT from the smoke which the fires of
manufactures yield, has been invent
ed by Mr.. Elliott, of Birmingham,
England, and tried for several months
past in the mint there. A correspond
ent of the Pail Mall Gazette has exam
ined the device, and declares it to be
perfectly simple and manageable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

THE oldest congressman is the latest
one lie is Hezelliah $. Bundy, of
Ohio, and he has been elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Mr.. Enochs. He is in his seventy-sixth
war
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

Tnr WESTERN TRA1 is published quarter
" by the Chicago Rock Island & Paoinc
Railway. It tolls how to get farm in the
West, and it will be sent 10 you gratis for
one year Send nnme and address to ED
itor Western Trail Chicago" and receive 1t
one year free. JOHN SEBASTIAN, q. L. A.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

YoUNa MAN-"Tommy, you are such
nice little boyin yommy-"No uso talking
that way to me, Mr.. Deadgone. Sis al
ready has n fellow" Truth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

MAupE MARIE PAssE-"I'm proud to be
able to say that you are named nfter me-"
Maude Marie Budd-"So am I; 80 many
wears after you ~ Buffalo Courier.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-12-30

AN EXTENDED POPULARITY. Bro,cn's Bron-
chtal Troches have for many years been tho
most popular article in use for relieving
Coughs and Throat troubles Price 70 cts
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11
Frenks of Globe LIrh,ninr.

A very singular story is told concern ing the vagaries of one mass of globe lightning. A tailor in the Rue St Jac- ques, in the neighborhood of the Val de Grace, was getting his dinner one day during 8 thunderstorm, when he heard a loud clap, and soon the chimney board fell down. and globe of fire as big as a child's head came out quietly and moved slowly about the room at a small height above the floor. The spectator. in con versation afterward with M. Rabbinet. of the Academic des Sciences, said it looked like n good sized kitten rolled up into ball and moving without showing its paws. It was fright and shining, yet he felt no sensation of heat. The globo came near his feet, but by moving them aside he avoided the contact.
 After trying several excursions in diff ferent directions it rose vertically to the height of his head-which he threw back to prevent it touching him-steered to- ward a hole in the chimney above the mantelpiece and made its way into the flue. Shortly afterward-"when I sup posed it had had time to reach the top. the tailor said-therc was terrible ex- plosion, which destroyed the upper part of the chimney and threw the fragments onto the roofs of some adjoining build ings, which they broke ethrouCh.-Char:l- bers' Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11
Lemonade Beat. nando,,ns.

"I was out to R dance recently" said m acquaintance to lpe, and funny .hing happened. It was not so very .unny either, but it made me laugh after 1t was over. You sec, it was as hot as a bal1o oven. and tho room was crowded to suffocation. had girl, and wo were waltzing around as best wo could when nddenly the girl gasped, turned pale and said, Get me out to the air 1 stopped and released her and offered her my arm, when bump! down she went on the floor in heap. Painted away, see? Dead as @ herring. What did I do? Why, I tried to pick her up and couldn't do it, for she was heavyweight. Then I succeeded, with the aid of others, in getting her to the porch, but she wouldn't revive. Then I ran into the re- freshment room for water, but the tank was empty, and the only thing they had was lemonade.
 Something had to be done, and got two glasses, ran back and emptied their contents into her face-not exactly in to but onto After using 50 cents worth of nice, sweet lemonade she came to. Well, say. You would have died to see her hair. Sticky? Why bando- line, quince seed, gum arabic and kin dred connections were not in it. LemSn- ade beats them all. Was she mad? Well. guess yes. She said I was intoxicated and natural born fool. Some one else took her home. I didn't. t."-Youngstow (O.) Telegram
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11

Caroline's eyes and told her she was near sighted-a fact she had known for the previous decade. He prescribed glasses, and she purchased them. She concealed them in that drawer of the bureau that was always kept locked, except when it was necessary to take out or put away certain valuables and keepsakes. When nobody was about, she would wear them. She was reluctant to do so, but they add ed to her comfort. And the newspapers and Thackeray and Hawthorne and Bal zac must be read, even at the expense of personal vanity.
 An unmarried woman, with no father, no mother. an income of a pittance, Q single servant. was excusable for doing almost anything. So she wore them. She did not dare to look at herself closely in the mirror when she first put them on. She stood about 10 feet back, at which distance she noticed that her hair had an iron gray appearance. She gained courage awhile later, and examined her self in the hand glass. That iron gray shade was her optical illusion. There were black hairs and white hairs-a slight predominance of white. Rarely thereafter did she wear them when gag ing into the mirror. She turned her head away when walking past it. Every time she put them on she did it with WHY face. Once she cried andy about to throw them away, but restrained her self.
 A few weeks ago Caroline plucked the last black hair from her snow white head. She did it with the same petu- lance with which 10 years before she had drawn out the first thread of white, the one ray of light in the black dark ness. She took from the bureaus secret drawer a small envelope, and from this abstracted that original curiosity. She placed it by the side of this latter day curio, the black hair. the last remnant of the cascade that had been the admira- tion of her school friends. She wound them about her fingers and tied them, then placed them in the envelope.
 It was the spirit of the gambler in his moment of desperation with which she had done this. The world should know now that Caroline could grow old un- fiinchingly. She pick ed up volume of The Scarlet Letter" that was near at hand, to steady the envelope while she wrote simply:
 - am spinster. John loved me and would have continued to love me. Now he Is the statesman upon whose words depends the welfare of nations. 1 have discovered that loved him. but I was prejudiced. He wore glasses - She locked it in the bureau and tried | the drawer to make esure.-lrving <. In derhill ill Buffalo Illustrated.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11

HIEA llAEsoN W III IT l4C-NH hASSIE. generally made separate from the bodice and are mounted on ribbon or velvet. They may thus be donned or not, as one plcascs. The bodice still remains long. and the skirt is worn over it. Belts and girdles play larger part than ever in the toilet. The illustration here giveR is in a new brown, woOlen striped mate rial, mingled with velvet and silk. It has a girdlo made of velvet.
 All shades of warm. beautiful golden brown are to be worn. Green, too, is popular. Rough. hairy materials in wool promise to have a success, and the thick rich silks arc coming more and more into favor. Cloth gowns are seen just now in Paris in riding habit style, the bodice made to rest on the hips, rounded in front and running into a position at the back. The tailor made gown, with its cXquisitely cut jacket. now has its fixed place in the fashions of Paris There are variations in the cut, but the costume promises to be a thing which will pass away only with the riding habit. It is well. for there is a sober elegance. a perfection of neatness. about the deftly cut plain cloth costume which marks it out as q style which should never be sacrificed to whim by refined women. It belongs to walking, as the habit belongs to riding.
 But tn return to the new dress fab rics. Three are in silk fabrics. new and old. muires. hayadere, stripes and ben galncs and satins of English make that have found high favor. A novelty in faced cloths are new woolens of light weight and great luster, in all the pre- vailiug colors There are also many rough surfaced woolens for those who may fancy them.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11
A Striking rrcsentiment.

It is curious how future events are oc- casionally prefgurcd by some anticipa- tory token which, unlike presentiments and pre~lonitory dreams, makes perhaps no impression at the time on those whom they concern.
 Here is striking example. One of Charles Dickens sons, from some childish oddity of expression in his large, won dering eyes, was given by his father the very unique sobriquet of the Ocean Specter," by which he was always called. The great novelist never knew of the weird significance his playfully bestowed appellation was to bear, for he himself had been nearly two years in his grave at the time his little ocean Specter, then q lieutenant in the royal navy, died and was buried at sea.-London Tit Bits,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-11
The Ab.ndourncnt of Dccp Mourning.

Tho 50 called deepest mourning is no longer considered good form in Eu- rope. and crapc has dropped out of fash ion, being now only used for draping buildings and monuments. or for Shroud- ing the lighted lamps of the vehicles figuring in the funeral cCrtege. No one would ever dream of taxing either the empress of Austria or the Princess of Wales with indifference 10 the death of their respective sons, vet each has been content 10 mourn her offspring without crape, either in the shape of veil or as trimming to her dress. The result of this has been that widows, especially when young. dispense not only with crapc. but with the characteristic cap and long streamers. Indeed, at the pres ent rate, there will be no outward sign left by which we shall he able to distin- guish from the ordinary woman those fair sirens against whom We havo been so pathetically warned by MT. Weller New York Tribune.