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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

Steady Improvement in the situation
Shown by Dun's Weekly Review of
Trade-The StrtnGency About Ended,
More Mills Resume Work and Fewer
Failures Are Reported.
NEW YORK, Sept. l6.-R. G.. Dun &
Co. S weekly review of trade says:
Returns from every part of the country
show decided improvement. Hopeful feeling
has prevailed. Money grows abundant al spec
| ulative centers and somewhat easier for
| commercial purposes. Weekly failures have
declined about half in number and more
than half in amount of liabili-
ties, The number of establishments re-
ported as resuming work, thirty-one wholly
End twenty-siX in part still exceeds the mum.
ber closing, thirty-three the last week besides
ten reducing force so that the number OF hands
employed has somewhat increased. The mum.
ber OF unemployed is still very large.
industrial improvement is largely in cotton,
and otherwise appears scarcely more salts.
factory than last week. About two-thirds OF
the Fall river mills are operating but at a re.
duction OF 10 TO l3 per cent in wages OF the
establishments resuming eleven are engaged in
the manufacture Of knit goods OF the wooden
mills ten stopped wholly and six in part, while
three woolen and two carpet mills re-
sumed Several shoe factories have started up
in part Shipments from Boston for the week
show decrease OF 40 per cent
I'm all, eighteen reported metal works have
started up in part, and six wholly, while thir.
teen have stopped and fourteen have reduced
hands or wages, Sales of gray forge for 81 at
Birmingham and of steel billets for $40 80 at
Pittsburgh support the statement that resump-
tion OF work in many cases is at the expense of
great sacrifice in price. But in this industry
business revives more vigorously at the west
than at the east
THE liabilities of firms failing have greatly
diminished, for they were over Sl02 ,3li in
only two months, July and August, whereas the
largest aggregate ever known for any three
months during the last sixteen years was less
than t9O,OOO,OO0. But for the first week in Sep.
tember nearly complete returns show liabilities
amounting to only s5tlS,6s5 for the week,
against an average exceeding sIl, 600 900 week.
ly in the two previous months. The failures
reported this week have been in the United
States 3l4, against 32l for the previous week
and l5i last year and in Canada q, against %
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

THE new baby at the white house
has been named Esther Cleveland.
MILTON HAY, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Springfield, ILL.,, and for many
years leading attorney, died at the
age of as years. Mr.. Hay studied law
in the Office of Abraham Lincoln.
Mrs. ELI HALLowELL, the first white
woman to immigrate to Illinois, died
at Oakland, aged los years.
DIR. WILLIAM T. WHITE died of heart
disease in New York, aged GA years.
He was one of the founders of the New
York State Medical association and the
New York Physicians Aid society.
THE neutrality-suspicious. state COM
mittee of Iowa nominated Rev. Bennett
Mitchell, of Crawford county, for gov
ernor, to fill the vacancy caused by the
declination of l.. S. Coffin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
FOREIGN.

In manifesto of the National Lib
eral Federation in London the lords are
threatened with political annihilation
if they continue to oppose the popular
will.
The steamer Byron Trerice was
burned at her dock in bennington.
Ont, and three of the crew perished.
OF 5000 pilgrims who went to Mecca
from Tunis in May 4,50O perished in the
Holy Land of cholera and other dis
eases.
Two DAUGHTERS, aged and 8 wears,
perished in the burning of James John
sons house at Alvinston, Ont.
BARNEY WILKES, the $40, 900 stallion
owned by G w. Gale, of Ypsilanti,
Mich, dropped dead on the track at
Windsor, Ont.
BRAZILIAN insurgents bombarded the
city of Rio de Janeiro, but only little
damage was done. Brazilians living
in Buenos Ayres believe the success of
the revolution means the restoration of
the monarchy.
Two WOMEN were arrested in the dis
trict of Kuttenburg, Bohemia, who
We're engaged in the business of MUIR
dering children whose parents desired
to have them got out of the way.
VILLA-CANAs, In Spain, was devas-
tated by a cloudburst, and sixty persons
We're drowned.
MIR. GLADSTONE has accepted the
English house of lords gauge of battle
and will wage warfare for all re-
forms.
PLANS of an attempt upon the life of
Emperor Francis Joseph We're discov-
cred at Vienna.
LORD ABERDEEN, the new governor
general of Canada, was sworn in in the
Legislative council chamber at Quebec.
IN twenty-four hour bicycle contest
at Paris NJ. Lesna, of Switzerland, COW
cred 433 miles, surprising the previous
record.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
LATER.

AT Alpena, Mich, on the 10th James
Hiler was shot and instantly killed by
Wellington Scrimshaw. Hiler and a
woman were quarreling when Scrim-
shaw interfered. Without warning he
raised shot gun and fired, instantly
killing Hiler. The murderer was ar
rested.
AT st. Paul, Mimi, on the 10Th the
carriage manufacturing firm of Mast,
Buford & Burwell made an assign
ment. In the formal assignment in
court nothing further was set forth than
the fact that the assignment had been
brought about Immediately by the at
tachment of Mast, Foos 81 Co., of
Springfield, o., who have sued to secure
some $500, and by some other attach
ments with garnishments at the bank.
The president sent to the senate, on
the 10th, the nomination of w. b.
Hornblower, of New York, to be asso-
ciate justice of the supreme court of
the United States, vice Samuel Blatch-
ford, deceased.
WITH simple but solemn ceremonies
the remains of j. Knox Polk, tenth
president of the United States, and
those of his wife, Mrs. Sarah Childres
Polk, were on the 10Th removed from
the tomb at Polk Place, the old family
residence in Nashville, Tenn, to a pic
turesque spot in the state capitol
grounds and there reinterred. The
services at Polk Place and Capitol Hill
were very impressive and the occasion
was observed with due honor and re-
spect by the state, the city, the church
and the public.
FIFTY butchers at Armour's Kansas
City packing house struck on the 10Th
because several non-union men from
Chicago were employed. The strike
may extend to other packing houses.
IN the senate on the 10Th a substitute for the
repeal bill was given notice OF by Mr. Squire, of
Washington, II permits the deposit of silver
bullion by its owners and the coinage thereof
into standard silver dollars, OF which they are
TO receive only the amount corresponding 10 its
commercial value. The coinage is not to ex-
ceed 400 200 month or 100000 900 In all. The
dollars are TO be legal tender and no certificates
are to be issued. Mr.. Voohees again asked that
a day be fixed for final vote ON the repeal bill.
Mr.. Dubois objected. Mr.. Voorhees, said there
was no use of talking OF cloture as the discus
sion OF the proposition would take up all the
time OF this and the next congress- 80. After an
objection was made TO the resolution offered by
Mr.. Finn, OF Oklahoma, calling on the score
tary OF war for information relative 10 the
shooting OF settlers on the Cherokee strip by
United States soldiers, the house resumed the
fight over the federal election bin and the yeas
and nays were ordered on Mr.. Burrows old mo-
tion TO dispense with the call of committees
The democrats came within five OF quorum.
securing 1873 votes At this point Mr., Fitch
moved that the house adjourn, which was car
ried without division.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
AwEuL LOSS oE LlEE.
Scores Drowned by Terrible Floods in n
Spanish Province.


MADRID, Sept 16.-The town of
Villa-Canas, in the province of Toledo,
has been devastated by floods and n
large number of lives have been lost.
Heavy rains have fallen in the prov
ince, and the town, which is situated
on low ground, was inundated. The
people had no thought of danger,
though the many small streams in the
vicinity of the town were rapidly
swelling and threatening to overflow
their banks.
Late Thursday night, when most of
the inhabitants had retired, cloud
burst swept down on the town swell
ing the river and carrying away almost
everything in its path. Huge trees that
had been torn bodily from the ground
were hurled with frightful violence
against the houses. The trees acted as
battering rams and carried houses be-
fore them. So sudden was the catas-
trophe that the affrighted people had
no chance of saving themselves.
Men and women, awakened from
sound sleep by the tottering of their
dwellings, frantically rushed to the
windows and leaped ort, only to be in
quilted in the water that was rushing
by the fallen houses Other houses that
escaped being demolished by the float
ing debris were rapidly undermined
by the waters and in many cases
collapsed before their occupants could
leave them. The masses of wrecliage
going down on the flood in some in
stances afforded a means of escape to
persons who would otherwise have
been drowned. Many men, women
and children, clutching in the darkness
for anything that would support them,
grasped the trees and ANYTHING in
reach
The town is wreck. 1t is positively
known that forty persons were
drowned. The bodies of many others
are buried under the ruins of their
homes. 1t is thought that the govern
ment will have to extend aid to the
town. The people are so stricken by
the disaster that they display no con-
Germ over the loss of their relatives or
property and assistance will have to be
given them until they recover from the
blow.
In one of the villages only eight out
of siXty-four people are known to have
escaped the floods. Some small vii
lagos and groups of houses have been
entirely washed away from the face of
the earth, houses crumbled like paste
board before the rushing waters and
those who in boats or on RATS sought
safety from the deluge We're either
drowned or crushed to death by the
huge trees and pieces of timber which
were carried like straw upon the
strained waters.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
AGAINST THE CHINESE.
Dennis Kearney Again at the Front of a
Movement on the Coast.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.-A meet
ing under the auspices of an organi-
zatioH known as the Anti-Chinese
Law and Order league was held in
M etropolitan hall Thursday, night and
was attended by a large number of
persons. 1t was the first public demon
stration against the Chinese which has
been had in this city for a long time.
The principal addresses were made
by DIR. G. c. O'Donnell, Dennis Kear-
ney and several other well-known
local anti-Chinese agitators. Some
of the speeches were incorporate,
and were devoted to a denunciation
of President Cleveland. Several reso-
luions were adopted among them, one
demanding the impeachment of the
president. A memorial to congress de-
handing an appropriation of sufficient
funds to inforce the Geary law, and
protesting against an extension of
time for the registration of Chinese,
was also adopted.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

Ar exceptionally favorable opportunity
for Waiting the richest and most productive
sections Of the west and northwest will be
excursions which have been arranged by
the North.W Western Line. Tickets for therJa
o1cursions will be sold on August BED, Ser
tember 18th and October 10th, 1893, to points
in Northwestern Iowa, Western Minnesota
North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba,
Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah,
and will be good for return passage within
twenty days from date OF sale. Stop-over
privileges will be allowed on going trip in
territory TO which tho tickets are sold. For
further information call on or address
Ticket Agents OF connecting lines Circu-
lars giving rates and detailed in formation
will be mailed free, upon application to w
A. Thrall, General Passenger and Ticket
Chicago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
The News Condensed.
important Intelligence From All Parts.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Extra Session.

Extra Session. ia
| SENATOR PEFFER introduced bill for n
| bimctallic money system In the senate on the
18th. A resolution for u committee of inquiry
| as to senators owning stock in national banks
and the silver bill were discussed . In the
house bills were introduced TO annex the terri
tory of Utah to the state OF Nevada, to pension
all letter carriers after twenty-five years of
service and on reaching the age of fifty years.
TO abolish the tobacco tax, and to reduce the
duty on barley from thirty to ten cents q bush
ell on malt to twenty-five cents, and on hops TO
eight cents pound
IN tho senate on the 14th the time was occu
pied by Mr. Daniel (W, Va) in speech
against the passage of the repeal bin NJ.
Faulkner (W. Va offered an amendment to
the repeal act which provides for coinage
of silver dollars (notless than 1000 600 month";
at the ratio of l6 to l. coinage to cease when
the aggregate OF ts0O0oOOoO is reached . In
the house an effort to report the Tucker bill to
repeal the federal election lays was defeated.
On the 10th the senate listened to the advo.
Gates OF the repeal OF the Sherman law. Sena.
tor Cullom presented apetition from x.soldiers
OF Illinois asking protection from government
detectives travelling in disguise who visit the
homes of pensioners and deceitfully seek to find
some clew to furnish information TO the pension
office 10 deprive veterans of their pensions. 10.
In the house the time was passed in correcting
the journal and in delivering eulogies upon the
late j. Logan Chapman, of Detroit, Mich
RESOLUTION was introduced in the senate
on the l6th for legislation to punish persons
guilty of robbery and murder committed on in
terstate railway trains Senator Allison Qa)
spoke in favor Of repeal of the silver purchas.
ing clause of the Sherman law =. In the house
resolution was introduced directing the com
mittee on interstate and foreign commerce to
investigate recent train robberies, An attempt
to bring up the federal elections repeal bill was
defeated by the lack of quorum.
In the senate on the 18th the resolution direct
ing the committee on interstate commerce to
inves tigate the recent train robberies was dis
cusscd, but no action was taken. Senator
Stewart tNev) submitted an amendment to the
silver repeal bill authorizing the president TO in
vtte the governments OF Mexico, Central and
South America, Hayu and San Domingo to Join
the United States in conference to be held in
Washington to secure the adoption of a common
silver coin... In the house a bill proposing the
payment in full Of pensions growing out of the
late war was introduced by Mr.. Hudson, OF
Kansas.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

In the hope of being able to dispense
with walters woman has invented a
table which will wait on itself. The
table is round, with space ten inches
wide for the plates, cups, etc. Inside
this circle there is a revolving disk,
raised about two inches, upon which
the food is placed. BY turning it in
any direction you may have the bread,
butter, olives or cream, without asking
or waiting for them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

THERE were comical as well as ex-
asperating features of the late Chicago
bread riots. One man marching in the
blood-or- dread procession had Sl2O
gold watch nipped; another rioter, who
claimed to be starving, was arrested
and on being searched was found to
have three dollars, which would buy
not less than sixty loaves of bread.
Another starveling, an Italian woman
demanding bread, had her pocket
picked of S7O0
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

The Cornelius Vanderbilt and Coils
p. Huntington mansions, now nearing
completion on upper Fifth avenue, New
York, will be rivals in costliness and
magnifcence of equipment. Art gal
leries and .conservatories, guests
chambers and ball rooms, costing for
tunes, will be features of the Wander
bilt and Huntington and other palatiaI
private residences now building. A
single ceiling in Mr.. Vanderbilt's new
palace, painted by French artist, cost
$50 600
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
sIo5, 600 IN GOLD MISSING.
Startling Discovery of IA Shortage In the
Philadelphia Mint.

PhiIadelphia Mint.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 16.-The weigh
ing of gold bullion in one of the re-
serve vaults of the Philadelphia mint
has led to the discovery of shortage
of about 5000 ounces, valued at
sl05,00 The vault was sealed in
1887 and when Col Bosbyshell
assumed charge of the mint the bullion
In the reserve vault was not weighed
Col. Bosbyshell receipting for the con-
tents on faith. Director Preston has
reminded Col. Bosbyshell that as he had
receipted for the full amount stated on
the schedule he was responsible.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

AN English woman, addressing her
countrywomen in print, gives our girls
a nice little puff on their trim appear
ance when travelling. According to
this pleasant writer, "An American
girl can be spotted in moment,
whether in railway carriage or on
board steamship; her gauze veil is al
ways fresh and Immaculate, her gloves
easy fitting but well cut and newly
bought, her skirt never draggles, no
buttons are off her boots" Then sshe
finishes with the vague abjuration,
Would that our English women would
follow our American cousins example
in this" sti.f .t5 atr-iF -J1
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

BIRDS have very acute vision, perhaps
the most acute of any creature, and the
sense is almost more widely diffused
over the retina than is the case with
man; consequently bird can see side
wise as well as objects in front of it. A
bird sees-showing great uneasiness in
consequence hawk long before it is
visible to man. So, too fowls and
pigeons find minute scraps of food, dis
tinguishing them from what appear to
Us exactly similar pieces of earth or
gravel
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

AMERICANS are said to have the poor
est teeth of any people in the world.
1t is said the more brain work a person
has the worse his teeth become The
same result is attained by lack of
proper nourishmcnt, and it is said by q
well known dentist that fifty years
hence, among the very poor classes,
everyone will be toothless at the age of
fWentN.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

THE STATE of Minnesota is in predic-
ament. 1t has four hundred convicts
on it's hands, and has no work for them
to do. The board of prison managers
met at Saltwater to find that not sim
gle bid had been received for the con-
Wet labor from October 1, 1898, to Octo-
ber l, 1895. No such state of things
ever before existed since the state was
Inn.rrn 1niynl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

In 1850 the sparrow had occupied only
about 15,6OO square miles of territory
in this country. Within the next five
years it spread over 45S, 900 square miles
In addition At present it infests the
whole of the eastern half of the United
States, and in the west it is found
wherever there are settlements. The
bird is parasite on man, and nowhere
in the world is it. known to thrive far
away from human haunts..
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
gerrgshnrg SpnrnaL
Ed. l. BLUE, Editor and Proprietor
PERRYSBURG. OHIO.

GEN. CAssTUs NJ. CLAY, of Kentucky,
will be eighty three years old in Oc-
tober. He says he has never indulged
much in stimulants, and has never
habitually used spirits, coffee or tea.
Tobacco he has always eschewed. lie
has always taken nine hours of sleep,
and in these later years permits him
self even more
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

A DRAFT indicator has been invented
which is intended to be placed at either
or both ends of Il vessel, for the purpose
of showing at glance to the officer of
the deck how much water his vessel is
drawing. 1t may also be set at any de-
sired point, so that when a certain
draft is reached signal bell is auto
matically sounded and continues to
ring until stopped.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

In Paris the demand for horsefesh is
greatly on the increase. There are over
$50 butchers in the French capital who
deal in it alone. Twenty thousand
horses were eaten by the Parisians last
ysar-not by the poor only, though its
cheapness is a strong inducement to
the working and labor classes-but by
many people fairly well off. The price
is about half that of mutton or beef.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

DR. MARSHALL d. EwELL, an expert
microscopic of Chicago, has contri-
buted to the American Law Register a
metric study of two thousand check
signatures. He finds that no one ever
writes his name twice in exactly the
same space or exactly the same way,
and lays it down as Il general principle
that if two signatures coincide perfect
ly one must be forgery.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

SENATOR PERKINS, of California, made
his way upward from penury to riches
in the early days of the gold craze. His
first situation was as porter in an
oroville store at 81 week. When he
had made fortune he sent for his old
employer, who had met with misfor-
tune, and gave him place in his Office
at S175 a month. "a
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

ALTHOUGH fully as sensitive to pain a.
other people, it is n fact that the deaf anG
dumb man is happiest when he is mute
eluted.-Buffalo Courier.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

BEEcHAM's PILLS will dislodge bile, stir up
the liver, cure sick headaches, and make
you feel well. 25 cents u box.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

MINE IS the business before pleasure
that you hear so much Of" said the man at
the theatrical box window
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

CURE your cough with Hale's Honey Of
Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23

MANY a tramp who has asked only for
nickels and dimes has found himself sup.
piled with quarters-at the workhouse.-
Buffalo Courier.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-09-23
PLENTY OF MONEY.

Steady Improvement in the situation
Shown by Dun's Weekly Review of
Trade-The StrtnEency About Ended,
More Mills Resume Work and Fewer
Failures Are Reported.