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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
Youthful Desperadoes Indicted.

STEUBENvILLE, May Frank Par
sons, Charles Elliott, Frank Maple and
Maurice Sheehan, of Hammondsville,
were arrested Saturday night by a
posse of officers on an indictment for
robbery, the details of which smack of
the deeds of western desperadoes. 1t
is charged that in April last year, and
February this year, the young men in
the role of masked robbers, visited the
home of James Lewis, near Hammonds-
vile, and after binding the aged couple
to chairs on both occasions, ransaclSed
the house, securing very little either
time. On the first occasion they ter
rorized the old folks so that they did
not talk of the outrage until after the
second robbery
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
OHIO NEWS.
Items Of interest from All Sections
of the State.


Brice Speaks Against Free Coinage.
COLUMBUS, o., May s.-The following
letter from Senator Calvin S. Brice wa,
received by a prominent democrat here
yesterday:
Dear Sir-I am informed that well.
known friends of the free coinage Of
silver are organizing and conducting
an active campaign among the Ohio
democracy for the avowed purpose Of
securing delegations pledged to the
adoption of resolutions in the state
convention committing the Ohio de-
mocracy to tho free and unlimited coin
age of silver, distinctively in opposition
to the expressed view of our democratic
president.
For one shall test this in the state
convention, holding that we should not
consent to have the doctrines of the adj
vocates of free silver made test of de-
mocracy in the state of Ohio: or that
those who believe in and uphold the
doctrines of President Cleveland upon
that subject should be driven out of
the democratic party 1t seems that
our friends in the state, whatever their
views may be on the money question,
ought to see the danger and bad policy
OF making any such test. In my judg-
ment it would not only cause repeti-
tion of the defeat we sustained in the
state last year, but put the party in n
hopeless minority for a long time in
the f,1t1,rn "
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

COLUMBUS, o.. May s.-Ralph X.
Paige, the Painesville eX-banker, was
paroled by the board of penitentiary
managers last night and went home
to-day, accompanied by his wife and
brother Alfred Paige, of Akron. The
managers assign as reason for their
action that Paige is eligible to parole
under the laws and has been so for two
years and two months, his conduct and
prison record are perfect, and large
number of the best citizens of Ohio and
some of other states have asked that he
be paroled
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

ton in time to prevent its capture.
President Lincoln keenly realized the
situation, and all available troops of
the small regular army were ordered
here; but transportation was not so
ready nor so speedy rs it became with
the exigencics of the times This city
was largely in sympathy with secession.
But two companies were speedily
formed, composed almost wholly of
men of the north and west who were
temporarily in the city. Many Of them
were prominent in political and official
life. The company called the Frontier
Guards was commanded by Hon. James
III. Lane, of Kansas, of "border-rufiian"
tame. This company guarded the white
house. The other company was called
the Clay battalion, and was commanded
by Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay. The Clay
battalion was quartered in Grace
church, adjoining Wizards hotel, near
the treasury.
For two days and nights these little
bands of inexperienced men were the
only guardians of the national capital.
The Clay battalion marched to the navy
yard and guarded the property there,
as it was rumored that it would all be
burned after midnight. A member Of
that organization, speaking of his first
experience as soldier, said:
''On arriving at the navy yard a guard
was placed around the grounds, and
the rest of the men, some forty or fifty,
found quarters as best they might in a
| large ship building. l took lodgings in
| tho Fold rNf 1a,. +l,+
pended hammock-lilSe over beam. At
twelve o'clock a relief guard was called
for, and being uncolnfortably bent up
and chilly in the sail, jumped out and
was the first to respond to the corporal S
call; and for my promptness was as
signed the post of honor (as he told
me, although 1 didn't know what it
meant) My beat was next the river,
and it was much more comfortable
marching back and forth four rods un-
der the starlight and with good musket
than it was in the sail. We expected
the attack would come, if at all, from
Alexandria and by way of the river.
| We pecrcd out into the darkness which
hung over the broad waters of the Po-
tomac, trying to get sight of an enemy
that we hoped would not come. About
sixty yards off lay a long, low, black
steamer that had been captured, and
which, about three o'clock a. M,
showed signs of getting up steam.
After holding a short council with the
sentry next to me we concluded to re-
port the fact that the vessel was max
ing steam to the comnandant of the
yard, which we did through the cor.
poral of the guard, and word was re.
turned that twas all right and accord.
ing to orders About an hour later
Commander Dahlgren came out of his
residence in full dress uniform, and be.
ing challenged gave the password
Massachusetts, and then descended
the steps to the waters edge, got into
his gig, went on board the suspicious
vessel and it moved slowly and silently
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
FORT SUMTER AFTER ruE BoMRARpMENr.

away. now understood what the cor
poral meant by the post of honor"
The arrival of the Sixth Massachu-
setts infantry, on April 10, did not re-
lievc the apprehensions of the presi-
dent and other officials. Rioters in
Baltimore had killed four and wounded
thirty-siX members of that regiment,
and dtheauthorities of Baltimore declared
that no more troops should pass through
the city. President Lincoln declared
that they should. Duging that night
the secession leaders of the Baltimore
mobs were busy burning bridges and
tearing up the railroad track, thus cut
ting OF all connection with the north.
Without mail facilities, or other means
of communication with the outside
world, the gloom thicllened. Men now
had great desire to leave Washington
and some paid eXtravagant and almost
fabulous sums to be carried north by
livery teams. Others, of southern birth,
were equally anxious to get south, and
in few days Washington was consid-
erably thinned out of it's transient
population. This was believed, how
ever, to be time of real danger-when
the days were filled with apprehension
and the nights with dread.
This sense of danger, with it's strain
and tension of sleepless anxiety, was
not relieved until the afternoon OF
April 20, 1861, when the famous Seventh
New York regiment reached the city,
and, as they marched up Pennsylvania
avenue to the inspiring music of their
fine regimental band, bearing at their
head the stars and stripes, their we'll
filed columns, their regular step and
soldierly bearing, won the admiration
of all, and each one felt that the crisis
was past and the capital saved.
At any moment, at any hour of the
day or night, the Virginia boys could
have taken Washington and won great
prestige to the confederacy. After that
date the troopers of the northland
came pouring into the city on every
tram. But the war was not over in
thirty days nor in ninety days. For
four long years the national capital was
the rendezvous, the bivouac and camp
ing ground of hundreds of thousands
of men, and tens of thousands of them
spent weeks and months in hospitals
here, sick, wounded and dying.
SMITH ID. FRY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
A FrightfuI Accident.

GARRETTsvnLE, May Two boys
playing at Nelson lodges Sunday after
noon, found a can of dynamite. One
of them threw it against rock. The
rock was torn into fragments by the ex-
plosion which followed, and one of the
boys, named Sechler, was instantly
killed, his body being horribly mutt
lated. His companion, whose name is
Proctor, was dangerously wounded
The dynamite was part of a lot bought
to shoot an oil well drilled at the ledge
some time ago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

TOPEKA, Kan, May Us. W. Chase,
warden of the penitentiary, on Mon
day swore out warrant for the arrest
of Gov. E. n. Morrill,, charging him
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. MIR. Chase charges that from De-
cember 10. 1894, to January IA, the date
of his Inauguration, Gov. Morrill, main
tanned suite of private rooms and
kept three clerks busy sorting over the
applications of officeseekers and an
swering private correspondence, and
that after he became governor he
signed vouchers for these expenses and
paid them out of the executive contin-
gent fund
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

The spring poets have nearly all
lived in the sunny south or In some
balmy cline where thaws were not n
necessary preliminary to vernsl lowell
ness. No northern bard ever has the
temerity to sing the praises OF the chill
.,.,ly March and April of his own cheer
less cline. Courage fails him when he
attempts to gush over a season In which
he goes shivering about in furs. Even
the most famous avoid the subject and
venture no further than to comment on
the rareness of day in June" or
some such safe time of year when the
season is well advanced and the ice
has gone out of the babbling brooks.
7 ? People who take n practical view of the
question have no time to lament their
loss from a poetic standpoint, but turn
their minds to the more serious question
of compromise between their ideas of
what spring ought to be and what its
-pneumonia-laden breezes make advisa-
BILE in matters of dress. Spring is not
so cold as winter, but 1t is not June,
either. However, the greatest trouble
/, with 1t is that it isn't always the
same thing. This makes it neces-
sary to wear a style of dress that can
quickly be changed for something else.
The best way to solve the difficulty is
to have a light wrap, either cape or
jacket, but in this year of giant sleeves
acapey is the best. Evidently all the
women have arrived at the same con-
clusion, for never was there such n del
uge of these garments as we are being
visited with now.
Most of the capes are short and some
are SO near being no capes at all that
they suggest some magic potion or
other, like the stuff Alice drank in that
wonderful Wonderland when she came
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
GAVE A MILLION.
Seth Lows PrinceIy Gilt to Columbia.
College.

New YORK, May President Seth
Low, OF Columbia college, has given
that institution S1,00O,00O. He made
the announcement Monday at meet
ing of the trustees of the univer-
sity, saying he would assume per-
sonally the cost of erecting the
new library building of the college at
One Hundred and Sixteenth street and
Morningside Heights. He said he
wished the library to be memorial of
his father, Abiel Abbot Low, "a mer-
chant who taught his son to value the
things for which Columbia college
stands" The estimated cost of the
building is Sl,O00,0oo.
Following President Lows gift came
one of $500, 900 from Chairman William
c. Scher1nerhorn, of the board of trus-
tees. He said he made himself respon-
sible for the National Science building
or for any other building or part of a
building to cost that amount.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
WASHINGTON IN DANGER.
"Reminiscences Of the Early Days
Of the Civil War.
when the National Capital Was Mt the
Mercy of the South-The Strain Re-
heved by the Advent of New
York's Crack Regiment.
Especial Washington letter.

At the beginning of the civil war in
1861, the capitol building was not more
than half completed. The readers who
were born since 1860 know no more of
that great struggle for the life of the
nation than they know of the war with
Mexico or the war of the revolution.
1t is all history to them save that it has
been home story about the tircsides
of the men of the north and of the
south who participated in the grapple
and carnage of battle. 1t was n won
derful spectacle, even as n reminis-
cence, to see two sections of great ma
tion engaged in such deadly combat eX-
tending over period of years.
The capital city of the republic was
so located that it was on the border
land of the seeding section, and south
of the center of tine loyal north. The
public buildings, the official records
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

so near vanishing into nothing at all.
They are nothing more than collars,
but they are collars of such flllness as
2 was never seen on coat or cape, and
they stand out in godets and ripples,
and assume as much Importance as real
grown-up wraps. 1t is amazing how
much trimming can be crowded upon
these diminutive creations. If there
isn't room for founce they are
trimmed with Il full ruche that winds
and twists about as if it were trying to
find room to stand on. One pretty
black silk model was trimmed with
this kind of ruche, made of black
mousseline de sole. The ruche started
to go around the neck, but changed it's
course from the shoulders and ran to a
point down the front.
4Capes are made of every material
that is fashionable, from gauze to mo-
hair and broadcloth. The gauze capes
are accordion-plaited and generally
have n silk foundation. A very pretty
one was made with two hounces of ac-
cordion-plaited black null over pirs,s
silk with lace ruche at the neck.
Among it's many uses crepon nuHf
bers the cape, and flares and tlutters
around the shoulders in about the
same way that it flares around the feet
when made into skirts. A tiny wrap of
black chiffon Grape showed green silk
from beneath. 1t was tho crepon with
the satin stripe and thin mesh, and
was finished at the neck with chiffon
ruche. Another wrap, which was
nothing more than piece of remov'
able trimming, had folds of silk rum
ming To point at the waist in the back,
where it was fastened. This was
edged with some heavy cream-colored
lace, laid over black velvet. In front the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
ADeliherate snicide.

CLEVELAND, May S.-Monday even
ing man dressed like tramp accosted
some railroad men sitting near the Col
linwood station. He asked if mail
train would pass through the yards
soon and was told that it would not.
This seemed to depress him. While he
was talking freight passed along. He
waited until about ten cars had passed
him, waived his hand and said: Good
by, boys!" Then he threw himself
under the wheels and was cut to pieces.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
VICTIMS OF MORPHINE.
A Man and Woman Commit Suicide In a
Rome IN. w Hotel.

ROME, N. Y, May AT the temper
ance hotel in this city Monday morn.
ing Alzora Brockway, dining-room
girl whose home is in Redfield, N Y,
and Arthur Loomis, who has been EN-.
ployed at the Rome, Watertown 6
Ogdensburg railroad station at Will
Jamestown, were found in room 40.
The woman was dead and the man lying
from the effects of morphine. Two
empty bottles which had contained the
drug were on the dresser. They left
letters saying that life was not worth
living, that they had determined to die
together and asking that they be bur.
led in one grave. The woman was
about % and the man less than 80.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
Buchanan's Execution Delayed.

SING SING, N. Y, May Warden
Sage said Monday that acting on the
advice of Attorney General Hancock
he had abandoned the idea of execut-
ing DR.. Buchanan on Wednesday, The
second respite by Gov. Morton will ex-
pire at that time, but owing to the
legal muddle the execution, according
to the opinion of the attorney general,
must be delayed till the courts again
decide the questions raised by Bu-
chanan's LAWYERS.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
Treasurer Kills Himself.

BUTTE, Mont, May City Treas
urer Simon Jacobs committed suicide
ut o'clock Monday morning in an
abandoned blacksmith shop west OF
the city by shooting himself through
the head. The cause turns out to be
that he is short in his accounts with
the city fully $4,000, and Monday he
was to have turned his Office affairs
over to his successor
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
Contracts for Twonty-Two Bridges.

MAssILLoN, May S.-The Cleveland,
Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company
has let the contract for twenty-five
steel bridges to be put up between
Uhrichsville and Bridgeport. Two
thirds of the work will be done by the
Carnegie Steel Company and the Key
stone Bridge Company, of Pittsburg,
and one-third by King & Co., of Cleve-
land. The masonry contract was Sc
cured by Hallock Bros, of Wheeling.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

A new method of determining the
presence of metallic poisons in the
body after death is to pass a current Of
electricity through it, discomposing the
torsion and depositing the metal on
one of the electrodes, 1t is said that in
the cases of antimony, lead, copper,
mercury, etc, this method will detect
the presence of as small quantity of
tie metal as one-thousandth of grain
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
FIGHTING IN NICARAGUA.
Insurrection Breaks Out Against Preni
dent Zelaya.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, May T.
Fighting has begun in Granada, Nicara-
qua. Disorder is reported from Leon
also. Word comes from there that
the followers of Ortiz, Zerula and
Macherro have united to make war on
Zelaya. The Hondurian troops concen-
trated at Cape Gracias will re-
main there, as it is feared that the
threatened outbreak on the Mosquito
reservation may extend here. The
troops at Amalpa will be distributed
along the coast. Gen. Bonilla will
take 5000 men and go to President
ZelaYa's aid II requested.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

cape hung In two square stoles on each
side of the front. These stoles were
black velvet, edged with lace and a
fringe of jet pendants.
The ordinary wraps are made of silk
or satin, with no fullness at the neck
and lots of godets from the shoulder
down-or, perhaps 1t would be more
correct to say, out, as the sleeves usu-
ally prevent the miniature cape skirts
from dropping. These are not trimmed,
but are considered sufficiently orna-
mental with their own plaits. A small
ruche of some kind is the sole decora-
tion. 1 have seen such capes made of
moire poplin, plain black silk, black
satin and moire silk. Any of these ma
terials may be made plain if only they
are full enough, and the ordinary short
wrap requires only about one square
yard of material. Two yards of silk is
more than enough, since it only takes
about width and half. This econ
omy In material, added to the fact that
| it is the simplest matter in the world
to make one, renders the wrap ques-
tion comparatively simple matter.
The more elaborate capes are trimmed
, with founces of lace and plated chif-
fon, and wreaths and punches of fow-
ers. One very fancy one, intended for
the summer garden or the seaside ball
room, has fiounces of the widest and
finest duchess lace over brocaded silk.
One of the blondest of blondes will wear
this wrap.
Another, of heavy black si''z, has
flounces of black embroidered chiffon
running to point in front But there
ere so many varieties that one might
go on describing forever and not in
clude them all. 1t is safe to say that
there are just as many styles as there
are freaks of fancy, provided the freaks
run in the line of frills and plaits.
However, the spring wraps are not all
capes. There are some people who in
sist that such wraps are not becoming
and will never give up their jackets.
The new jackets are either tan or
black. The tans are either covert cloth
or broadcloth, and are, of course, short.
The most common style is after the
REFER pattern. Some of those that
button on the side have no correspond
ing row of buttons on the other A
tan covert Jacket that buttoned quite
close to the neck had small pointed
revers, and was trimmed with straps of
the material stitched down at the
edges. There were pockets on each
side, which curved and sloped upward
in front. But the novelty about the
coat was the tiny curved pocket which
was set in the top of each sleeve, a de-
vice which gave rise to several playful
remarks about carrying ones heart in
it, or using it as an aid in certain un-
mentionable card games.
An exquisite creamy tan coat of broad
cloth was made double-breasted and
buttoned with large pearl buttons beau
tifully carved. The sleeves were the
most attractive feature about It, They
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
A GIFT FROM GROVER.
The President Provides for tho Educa
tion OF Indiana Tripiets.

DECATUR, Ind, May 7.-Three weeks
ago there was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Zerkles near this city three girl
babies. The parents named the chill
dren Ruth, Esther and Frances. A
neighbor of the Zerlzles wrote Presi-
dent Cleveland informing him of the
facts, and on Morcay the father of the
children received draft from the pres
ident for $780, to be used for the edu-
cation Of the girls, should they live.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
WIN be Idle all summer.

BELLAIRE, May S.-Yesterday IT was
learned that the Bellaire steel plant
will not be placed in operation before
September. A large number of strik-
ing steel workers will leave and secure
work in other cities. Great suffering
will result among the 500 employees.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11
Uncle SANS Loss.

PHILADELPHIA, May TT is said
that the reappraisement of the deco
rated china and cut and decorated
glassware shipped to Philadelphia by
A. B. Daniel & Sons, of London, shows
that Uncle Sam has been cheated out
of 81, 800, 600 in the last few years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-05-11

HAVANA, May 7-Twenty members
of the band of rebels at Villas, com
manded by Quintin Bravo, have SUR
rendered
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-04-29
A College For Monkeys.

The Garner idea of monkey language and general humanlike intelligence is to be givep] a thorough test at Calcutta. At that place college for the cultivation of the higher senses of precocious monkeys has beeHi established, and some wonderful results are confidently anticipated. The "school,' is the result of an agitation on the partof some very advanced evolution ists and naturalists, who know enough concerning the monkeys characteristics to firmly believe that he can be taught to "talk" in way, enough, at least, to ex- press wants. Tho method to be employed is known by the name of the letter block" system. A block alphabet, in which the letters are all highly colored, is ar ranged before the monkey student. With these he will be taught to arrange some simple word, such as spie, :" and as soon as the word is completed he will be given piece of pie as prize. The promoters of the scheme are confident of success.- Exchanpe