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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
A PLACE For silver.
How the Great Store In the Treasury
Might Fittingly he Used.

ItOW the eTsHJ SNOrS III tne IrebSufy
Might Fittingiy he Used.
The New York newspapers note the
insufficiency in that community of the
supply of small bills. They say that it
is easy enough to get two five-dollar
bills for a'ten, or two tens for a twenty.
But when it comes to changing a FIVE
dollar bill into two twos and a one, it is
not easily done. From this they argue
that there is deficiency in the supply
of bills of small denominations. They
call upon the government to rectify
this difficulty by putting out a larger
supply of small notes, in place OF some
OF the larger denominations now in
circulation. The real difficulty in the
case is one that has been stated in
these columns, in noticing difference
in custom between the people of the
east and those of the west in their use
of currency The latter have become
thoroughly habituated to the use of
the silver dollar. They find it no hard
ship. Small bills are seldom seen in
the ordinary course of affairs in the
west. People accept and pay out sill
yer dollars almost universally in all
kinds of transactions involving less
than five dollars. The people of the
east have not yet made this change.
They retain their affection for the
dirty, greasy ragged old stuff that is
scarcely more convenient or comfort
able to handle than the fractional cur
rency which we got rid of long ago. If
| they will renounce this habit and take
| to the use of silver dollars instead, all
| their difficu ties will vanish,
There are more than three hundred
million silver dollars in the treasury
of the United States which are repre-
sented by silver certificates outstand-
ing. The holders OF any of these can
obtain silver dollars for them at the
United States treasury, The banks of
New York or of any other eastern city
will make the exchange for the people
if they wish it. Any amount of small
change may be obtained from Wash
ington in the shape of silver dollars,
and the treasury will be delighted to
get rid of portion of the vast mass of
metal which it now has in store. This
is correct solution of the problem.
Paper currency for sums of less than
five dollars is out of place in this
country. The silver dollar answers
every purpose of the dollar, except
that it cannot be transmitted by mail.
The inconvenience of carrying a mum
ber of dollars in the pocket has been
absurdly exaggerated. People of the
west, where these coins are universally
current in exchanges of less than five
dollars in amount, have not only en-
tirely overcome their original objection
to them, but would be unwilling now
to go back again to the bills of small
denomination which are so unpleasant
to handle and so easily lost. If the
east will make this obviously proper
substitution, it will not only find that
the inconvenient deficit of small bills
is remedied satisfactorily, but it will
: get rid of some of the unreasoning OBJ
lection to silver as a money metal
: which constitutes one of the extremes
of the financial problem. - St Paul
Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
sponord Denies Any Wrong Doing.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-In view OF
the constructions that have been placed
upon Mr.. Spotford's statement that he
recently presented to the treasury a
sum of $22, 400 on his accounts, he
states that the payment was what
he found to be the approximate balance
between two accounts; the treasury
owing him for several Disbursements
of library salaries, and he owing the
treasury copyright fees, the settlement
ing labors, preventing scrutiny of ac.
counts. He denies that the recent
deposit was to make good any wrong
full Withholding of monies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
UNIFORMITY OF LAWS.
Important Meeting of Jurists Mt Dotrott-
Topics of Great Interest Debated.

Important Meeting of Jurists Mt Dotrott-
Topics OF Great Interest Debated.
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 37.-There was
q notable gathering of lawyers and
jurists at the Hotel Cadillac Monday
morning to attend conference OF
members of the state commissions for
the promotion of uniformity of legisla-
ton in the United States. Frederick
II. Stimson, of Boston, called the meet
ing to order and Hon. $. M. Cutcheon,
of this city, was temporary chairman.
Commissioners from New York, Massa-
chusetts, New Jersey, Michigan, Illi-
nois, Georgia, Connecticut Mississippi
Iowa, South Carolina, Florida, Maine,
Missouri Colorado, Vermont and Okla
homa were present.
blr. Cutcheon reported that the Mich
igan legislature had adopted the rec
concentrations of the previous confer
esce relative to u uniform law for the
aclsn owledgment and execution OF
deeds; relative to the sealing of deeds,
relative to marriage and relative to the
probate of foreign wills He also re-
ported that Wisconsin had abolished
the days of grace
of the committee on election of officers
was unanimously adopted. 1t present.
ed the name of Hon. S. M. Cutcheon, Of
Michigan, for president; l.. d. Brews-
ter, of Connecticut, vice president, and
f. II. Stimson, of Massachusetts,, for
| secretary.
Mr.. Bergen, of New Jersey, offered a
reselstion which was adopted, provid-
ing that the committee on commercial
law prepare draft of a bill for com
mercial CODE the bill drafted to be pre-
sented at the next meeting of the con-
ference before being submitted to any
state legislatures.
Mr. Richberg, of Chicago, chairman
of the committee on marriage and di-
vorce, recommended the following res.
olution: "That it be recommended to
the state legislatures that legislation
be adopted requiring some ceremony or
formality, or written evidence signed
by the parties and attested by one OF
more witnesses in all marriages" He
also recommended the adoption of the
code in force in the District of Colum,
bia as representing tlse best average OF
opinion throughout the United States
The congress next turned to consid
Grafton of the resolution referred to il
by she Massachusetts, legislature rela
tive to uniform hours of labor of work
men in shops and factories throughout
the United States. Mr.. Stimson moved
that the conference recommend work
ing day of ten hours and not more thar
sixty hours net in one week. The ma:
tor was referred to committee II
report at the next regular meeting a
to whether the question comes within
the purview of the conference.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
LAWYERS IN COUNCIL.
The American Bar Association Convenes
at Detroit, Mich.-Mnny Eminent Jur-
lists Present.

hho Amer1cnn Bnr Association COnveneh
at Detroit, Mioh-Many Eminent Jur-
lists Present.
DETROIT, Aug. 2s.-The American
Bar association convened in its eigh-
teepth annual session in the Y. M. G. A.
building yesterday. The hall was
crowded with delegates and members
OF the local bar. Among those who oc-
cupied the platform were Justices
Brewer and Brown, of the United
States supreme court, and Justice w.
III. Taft, of the United States circuit
court. James c. Carter, the president
oil the association, called the session to
order and read his annual address. In
the course of his speech he said:
Take the great question of taxation. IT is
amazing to think that enlightened states,
nbounding in productive wealth which would
easily afford an ample revenue IL properly
tapped, should insist on retaining an intricate
system of taxation even after 1t has proved to
be abortive for its avowed objects. And yet
this Is what is everywhere exhibited.
IL seems incomprehensible that people
could deliberately adopt policy that fosters
the increase Of crime, contempt for the laws
and the debasement of character. In some COM
munities, notably in the city of New York, the
impossibllity Of u general and equal enforce
ment OF the laws and the revolving injustice of
partial effort, have had the effect of leading
the executive officers to wholly abandon any
serious attempt at rigid enforcement. And
yet these worse than useless results of legisla-
tive action seem nowhere to lead to any serious
inquiry into the real nature of the difficulty.
The report of the executive commit
tee was to the effect that twenty-seven
new members had been admitted to
! the association during the past year.
The secretary read list of nomina-
tions for membership in the association
which had been passed by the general
council. There We're 1913 names in the
! list, 81 of whom were from Michigan.
The secretary was instructed to cast
one ballot and all were declared elect
ed. Among those elected from Michi-
gan was Henry Z. Thurber, private
secretary to President Cleveland. The
general council was then elected. The
secretarys report showed that the as
sociation has LII members, exclusive
of those elected yesterday. The treas
urer's report showed balance on hand
of S3, 700, an increase of $500 over last
year.
Last night at the Y. M. C. A. hall,
the Michigan and Detroit bar extended
n formal welcome to the association.
In the absence of President George V.
Lothrop, eX-minister to Russia, who is
in feeble health, Hon. Don NJ. Dickin-
son made the address of welcome.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
A n w Star In the Fiag,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2s.-Another star,
the forty fifth, is to be added to the
flag. The new star will represent
Utah, and the order for its addition to
the national colors was issued yester-
day by Secretary Lamont. The star
will be placed to the right of the fourth
row from the top. The order for the
addition of the star is accompanied by
one changing the size of the colors.
Heretofore the standard has been six
feet by five. The new order makes the
regulation size five feet six inches by
four feet four inches. The new flags
are to be made of the finest American
silk and Their cost will be considerable
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
MIR. cnmpb,l Dcanes His Position.

MAssILLoN, Aug. 27.-ExGov. Camp
bell was asked last night to harmonize
his expressed willingness to take
chances on free silver platform four
years ago and his candidacy this year
on gold standard platform. He met
the inquiry by wire as follows: II did
not favor free coinage by the United
State alone four years ago, nor do [
now, although L am an international
bimetallist. What l said four years
ago was that would take the chances
of election upon the platform as 1 found
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
sNAos FOR FREE slLvERlrEs.
Advancing Prices Controvert White Metal
Theories.


Theories.
We find the following interesting
paragraph in the editorial columns of
the Fort Worth Gazette:
From statistics compiled by Capt e b.
Harold, of this city, 1t appears that 100000
Texas cattle ~ere marketed in Chicago, st.
Louis and Kansas City between the 5th of
February and the lst OF June of the present
year. These cattle brought from 80 TO sl2
more per hend than their selling price during
q similar period last year. In other words,
Texas is for this period OF four months over
g., ,OOO0OO in pocket on account OF the advance
In cattle, and 1t is q conservative estimate to
say that her gain during the year on the mar
keted product will be in excess OF $40 coo 900.
This represents net profit above any profits
that may have been made by the cattlemen
and the feeders last year"
The Gazette is free-silver paper,
and is not likely to overrate any pros
perity that may prevail in the country.
1t has been the contention of the
free-coiuage advocates that the decline
In prices is due to the closing of the
mints of this and other countries to
the free coinage of silver In this con-
nection they talk much of wheat and
cotton, but say very little of corn and
cattle. Now there has been no change
in the legislation of commercial coun-
tries as to silver since last year. Yet
here we have an estimate that Texas
alone will realize $40, 900, 900 in profits
on cattle over and above what she
realized last year.
If the decline of prices were due
solely to the measure OF value there
would have been uniform decline all
along the line. Yet where we find
great reductions of prices in some
articles we find that others have de-
clined but little, while some show a
positive advance. Values have never
been estimated in silver since 1884, but
in 1873 prices were quoted in green
backs, and gold was worth IA per
cent premium. The course of prices
has been generally downward since
that time, and part of the decline
may fairly be attributed to the disap.
pearance of the premium on gold, which
made greenbacks and gold equal in
their purchasing power This cause
ceased to operate at the beginning OF
1879, since which time all our currency
has had equal purchasing power
The decline of commodities since
1879 has been coincident with great
improvement in the means of produc
tion and corresponding increase il
production itself. When these improve
ments or this increase have been great
est the fall of prices has been sharpest
Where these causes have not beer
active the fall has been slight. Whe1
demand has exceeded the supply ther,
has been rise from time to time. Th,
price of wheat and cotton, as every
body knows, is affected from day t,
day by reports as to the visible suppl,
and the condition of the crops. Fo
some years past the supply has beeI
large in the worlds markets ano
prices correspondingly low.
AS to cattle, the contrary is the cas-
at present. There has been a reduc
tion of the supply and correspondent.
rise of prices. Courier-J our
nal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
NIAGARA IN HARNESS.
Five Years Work and an Expenditure
of Over S3,OOo,O0O Produce Success.

Five Years Work and an Expenditure
of Over S3,O0O,O0O Produce Success.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 81
After almost five years of work and the
expenditure of over $4,000, ,OoO, Niagara
has finally been harnessed and the
power generated by the monster 5000
horse power dynamos is now sending
out electricity for commercial use. The
first power was delivered to the works
of the Pittsburg Reduction Company,
here, Monday morning, when dynamo
No. in the construction company's
power house was set in motion.
The power from the power house is
sent over copper cables laid in con
duit to the aluminium works. The cur
rent sent out is an alternating one and
before it can be used in the making OF
aluminium it must he transformed to a
direct current. This is done by passing
through four of the largest rotary
transformers ever built. These are
2, 100 horse power each and three OF
them are running.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
OHIO NEWS.
Items of Interest from All Sections
v of the State.
Failure of n national Bank.

FRANKLIN, Aug. 24.-The community
was astonished Friday morning to find
that the doors of the First National
bank did not open. 1t afterward de-
veloped that Comptroller Eclsels had
been advised of the suspension and
that Examiner Belts had been ordered
to take charge The bank was or
ganized in 1866 and has always had the
full confidence of the community. The
cause of suspension is stated to be a
falling off in deposits and the holding
of discounted paper that will not ma
ture in time to meet obligations. The
president is C. Nj. Anderson, and cash
ier.W. A. Boynton.
1T has a capital of 100000 and it's last
statement showed a surplus of $50, ,00C
and undivided profits of $3.50 1t is
the general impression that depositors
will be paid in full, as the assets ara
largely in excess of liabilities. The de-
posits are said to be 100000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
BROKE UP THE GANG.
Eight Coun erreitrr> are Captured by
Uni. ed states Deputy Marshals.


Uni.ed states Deputy Marshals.
PERRY, Ok, Aug. 2s.-A party of
United States deputy marshals broke
up big gang of counterfeiters in the
Kaw Indian country Sunday night.
The rand was the result of information
obtained after several weeks of hard
work. The headquarters of the coun-
terfeiters was large cave on the
banks of the Arkansas river. When
the officers descended on the place
there were fifteen of the gang at work.
OF these seven escaped after sharp
exchange of shots, but eight We're cap
tured, together with a large quantity
of spurious coin and material and all
the appliances for counterfeiting.
The prisoners are Benjamin Henry,
Charles Cross, John Cross, Joseph
Roberts, Charles Boyd, Samuel Becy
and two others whose names are un-
known. The capture is the largest
known in the west for several years
and will probably check the flood of
counterfeit money that has been poured
into Kansas, Texas and the Indian Ter
ritory during the last few months.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
BONES IN A CHIMNEY.

They Were Found in n House Near Indi-
annapolis and Were Those of One of
Holmes Victims
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 2S.-In the Chin
ney of a little frame cottage standing
some distance from the other resi-
dences of 1rvington, suburb of this
city, detectives yesterday morning
found the charred bones of little How
ard Pietzel, one of the Holmes victims.
The find was the reward of long
search by Detective Geyer, of Philadel-
phia, who came here six weeks ago and
has been working ever since on the the
ory that young Pietzel had been killed
here. Yesterday he and Inspector Gary
found the empty cottage at 1rvington,
which had been occupied by man an
swering Holmes description and little
boy last October. They began a search
and soon found large stove and 1.-The
black trunk" in which it had been sup
posed that the body had been shipped
away.
Further search was rewarded by the
finding of number of charred bones
in the chimney, together with buttons
from the boys overcoat. Evidently
the child had been murdered in the
ouse and his body cremated there.
The two came to the house together
and were seen about the place for a
week, when both disappeared and
nothing had since been heard of them.
After the detective left the Irvington
house last evening, DR.. j. F. Barnhill
one of the former owners of the house,
continued the investigation begun by
the officers and thorough search re-
suited in the finding of portions of a
hov'S skull and other bones
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
Attempted suicide.

CHuLIcoTHE, Aug. ~ Matthias T.
Guenther, treasurer of Scioto town
ship, took poison Sunday. Physicians
saved him after four hours of hard
work. His term of office expires the
last of this week. His accounts bal
ance to cent. Guenther got an idea
into his head that when one fund was
exhausted and he was obliged to bor-
row from another he was not comply
ing with law and there would be re-
Election on his integrity
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
Republican Editors can ON Bushnell.

SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 2s.-Republican
editors from various points in Ohio met
here Tuesday to carry out the pro.
gramme proposed at GAINESVILLE of call.
ing on Gen. Bushnell, the republican
candidate for governor, in body. An
elaborate banquet was served at the
Arcade hotel. The party then went tc
Gen. Bushnell's private residence.
Gen. Bushnell made a speech, warmly
welcoming the visitors. A state asso
citation, similar to that formed by the
democratic editors at the state conven-
tion here last week was formed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
A CHANGE OF STANDARD.
What the Demand of the Free Siiverites
Amounts To.

What the Demand of the Free Silverites
Amounts To-
The demand for the free coinage of
silver at the rate of 10 to l by this
country, regardless of what other
countries may do, is demand that the
silver dollar be substituted for the
gold dollar as our standard of value.
1t is idle to deny this, as the advo-
Gates of free silver coinage sometimes
do. If the demand is not for change
of standard, and change from q
higher to lower standard, then all
that is said about the wrong done to
debtors by the adoption of the gold
standard is senseless. Debtors cannot
be benefited by silver legislation
otherwise than by providing them
with cheaper dollars with which to
pay their debts. Debtors as such would
take no interest whatever in free silver
coinage if they were not led to believe
it would give them cheaper dollars.
AS matter of fact we have the gold
standard. We have had it in law for
more than twenty-five years. We have
had it practically for more than sixty
years. During the seventeen years
from 1862 to 1879 we had paper cur
rency which was legal tender in pay
ment of most debts, but the gold dol
lar was the standard of value even
then. There has not been a year, nor
so much as a day, since the passage of
the coinage act of 1874, when the gold
dollar has not been practically the
standard of value.
The advocates of free silver coinage
propose to discard the gold dollar and
give us the silver dollar as the stand
ard of value. They propose that if n
man owes thousand dollars he may
discharge it by rendering u thousand
silver dollars coined for him by the
government out of bullion costing him
| five hundred. more or less, of the kind
of dollars he promised to pay.
1t devolves upon those who propose
that the government shall enable
men to scale down their debts in this
way to give good reasons why it should
do so. 1t is incumbent upon them to
tell us why the standard should be
lowered, why confidence and credit
should be destroyed, why enterprise
should be discouraged, for the benefit
of those who have promised to pay
their debts in gold dollars or their
equivalent, They do not tell us why
when they fall foul of the coinage law
OF 1878 and denounce it furiously as a
crime Denunciation proves nothing.
Chicago Chronicle
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31

'WAPAKoNETA, Aug. 2s.-The strike
on the waterworks trenches developed
into tragedy Tuesday afternoon and
three men, Joshua Tiller, OF Pittsburg
Albert Seifert and Oscar Voorhees,. oi
this splace, were shot, Tiller through the
bowels, Seifert through the arm and
the latter through the hand. Tiller will
die. Monday morning the men went
on a strike and declared that no one
should go to work until their demands
were satisfied. They tried to interfere
with new men and trouble resulted.
Many of the men were dubbed by the
police.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
The Crenitors Obi?e.,d.

CINCINNATI, Aug. CIV. II. Camp
bell was yesterday removed by Judge
McNeill, of the insolvency court, from
his position as trustee of the CONNER
cial National bank. The complainants
were stockholders and creditors of the
bank, who alleged that Campbell had
interests adverse to theirs as cashier
and director of the bank. The Union
Savings Bank and &rust Company was
left sole trustee.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
Cnnriots Go Crazy.

COLUMBUS, Aug. 2s.-Two prisoners
at the penitentiary became insane
Tuesday morning. One was Walter
Rice, Lucas county prisoner serving
IL ten-year sentence for burglary. He
has given the officials more trouble
than any other prisoner in the institu-
tion. The other was Harry Hulz, Gin
cinnati wife murderer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31
Lawyer suicides in n barn.

BUcYRUs, Aug. 2s.-J. L. Leonard, a
prominent young attorney of this city,
was found hanging dead in his barn
yesterday. He had been in i'll health
for some time and it is thought that he
became despondent and took his life to
put an end to his trouble. His wife
has been away on visit and reached
home about an hour after the discov-
cry of the body and was almost crazed
with grief o
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-31

New YORK, Aug, 2s.-Robert w. In
man, the cotton broker, whose sloop
yacht Adelaide was run down by the
iron steamboat Perseus Monday night
in the bay off Norton's Point, had not
returned to his apartments yesterday
nor had any news concerning him been
received at his Office in the Cotton EX-
change building, and it is feared that
he was lost. All the others of the party
have been accounted for.