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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
CAN'T KEEP 1T.
Gold Is Again Slipping Away to
Europe.
Demand on the Treasury for s1,0So,Ooo
for Export-No Bond Issue or Extra
Session Call Likely to Be
Made, However.

WASHINGTON, Aug. lathe drain
upon the gold reserve of the treasury
of the United States, foreshadowed in
these dispatches for some time past
seemed to have begun in earnest Mon
day when the officials were advised of
the withdrawal of 81, $50 900 from the
subtreasury at New York for export.
This heavy withdrawal has given
rise to report that another bond is
sue is impending, but there is now
no one in Washington who can
speak authoritatively on the sub
ject or who has information not
shared by the public. The best
public opinion is that the syndicate
will not allow the reserve to be en-
croached upon until October /, when,
as generally understood, their obliga.
tion ceases. But even in the event of
still further Withdrawals it is believed
that both MIR. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle
would see the reserve reach point
below any it has touched yet before
they would take any steps to recoup
1T by another sale of bonds or purchase
of gold 1t is argued that the meet
ing of congress is now only fourteen
weeks off, and that without any
reasonable doubt the treasury, with
an available cash balance of
nearly SlS4,O0O,0O and the rev
enue slightly on the increase,
can meet its obligations and have
comfortable balance remaining at the
close of the calendar year. The best
Judgment obtainable here is that there
will be no bond issue or extra session
OF congress except in the event of con-
tinued heavy Withdrawals which are
not looked for.
De- artment officials are 10th to dis
cuss the ,ffect on the treasury of re-
newed ( Did shipments or to express an
ol iniol as to their probable extent, or
whe the shipments will cease, or wheth-
er the bond syndicate will feel itself
bound to place the gold as it did after
the first large withdrawal after its
purchase of bonds. With exchange at
$4.9o3, an exceedingly high figure, the
opinion is generally expressed that
gold exports to the extent of $50, 600, 900
or S30,000,00 are likely to occur
before October l. The only thing
that is likely to reduce the rate of
exchange is heavy shipments of Amer
lean cereals. Aside from the decline
in the gold reserve the treasury situa-
tion is regarded as encouraging, as the
receipts are gradually approximate
ing to the expenditures The ex-
cess of expenditures over receipts for
the past two years amounted to $1O7,-
100000, and for the month and third
which has elapsed of the current fiscal
year, Sl5, 100000. But the receipts are
increasing, and officials express the
hope that by January /, next, they
will equal the expenditures, or near
ly SO.
DULUTH, Mimi, Aug. 13-Secretary
Carlisle, when shown the dispatch
from Washington relating to the treas
ury gold reserve, refused to talk further
than to say: The people need have no
apprehension as to the gold reserve
The treasury department will take
care of that. Everything in that re-
gard is all right"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
lYNCHED.
A Brutal Negro Perishes Mt tho Hands Of
Georgia Mob

georgia MOD
SAVANNAH, Ca, Aug. IA special
from Albany, Ca, says: A horrible
crime has been perpetrated near Hurb-
field Mill. Last Friday afternoon
John Harris, 1S years old, negro
boy, went to the house of Mrs.
John Monroe, highly respected white
woman aged 65 years. and after chol<-
ing her to insensibility outraged her.
Mrs. Monroe died few hours after
ward, but before dying regained con-
seriousness long enough to tell who her
assailant was. While Harris was COM
mitting the crime the screams of his
victim were heard by neighbors who
arrived in time to see the fiend leave
the premises, Being well known his
Identification was complete, and the
alarm soon spread. A posse of 200 men
was soon in pursuit. lie was captured
near Camilla Saturday and taken back
to Colquitt county, and on the route he
was disposed of. Reports are conflict
ing as to the method employed, one be-
ing that he was burned to death and
another that he was cut and shot into
gibbets and then hung. Whether either
OF these reports are true or not,
1T is true that the brute met his death
with short shrift after he was cap
tured. His victim was highly re-
spected woman and her age and infirm-
tiles siloald have protected her against
even the desires of brute.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
COLORADO RECOVERING.
Prosperity and Good Crops Deal Death to
the Silver Craze.

Prosperity and Good Crops Deal Death to
the Silver Craze.
Colorado has recovered from its at
tack of the free silver malady. Poll
ticians maintain the delegates to both
national conventions will stand for
honest money, and the state will only
insist that ali reasonable effort be
made by the government to secure
some practical international agreement
between the powers of the world on
the monetary question"
This is the remarkable news la tely
brought from the west by Franklin ii.
Head. He had just returned from a
business Zip in mining and corn rails
ing countries. He was in touch with
leading men of affairs, He secured
his verdict from manufacturers and
bankers, from personal talk with men
who till the soil and from people who
make politics a profession. 1t took
two weeks to find an accurate estimate
of public entiment, and tour from
Omaha to Denver to get among all the
factions. An epitome of the conclusion
is that the miners and the populists
have come to their senses. The big
danger which threatened has proved
to be nothing but bubble.
at is probable that the season of
good crops has done more to change
the convictions of the people of the
west than anything else,' said Mr.
Head. st was natural for the silver
men to jump to the conclusion that the
bad times of last year were the result
of the demonetization of silver. 1t is
a common fallacy for the masses to
conclude that one existing circum-
which happens with it. There was a
panic about the time the mines were
closed, and the populists and other
calamity men of Colorado at once in
sisted the entire trouble was due to
thu attack OF the gold men upon silver.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
JAPAN AND CHINA.
Provisions of the New Commercial Treaty
Between Them.

Provisions of the New Commercial Treaty
Between Them.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-Word reaches
the Japanese legation that the new
Japanese minister at Peking has begun
the negotiation of treaty of commerce
and navigation with China The ne
gotiations have proceeded far enough
to show that Japan will have the fa-
vored nation clause as to commerce..
This will be the first time China
has granted this clause to Japan. 1t
assures to Japan the lowest rate of
duty on articles sent to China that the
latter country exacts from any other
country. Japan is thus placed on equal
terms for the first time with Great
Britain, the United States and other
great powers. Another feature of the
new treaty is the establishment of
Japanese consular courts in China for
the trial of Japanese.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17

They would not listen to reason, and
for time the entire state was wild
with the fury of the folly.
"There has been radical change in
the public sentiment. 1t is now the
prevailing opinion that this country
alone can do nothing with the free
silver proposition, and the only fight
the delegates from that state will
make will be to insist that all possible
endeavor be made to bring all the
countries to common basis on this
matter. 1t was told to me that the
people are coming to see the error of
their first conviction, and the thou-
sands who cheered the populistic gov
ernor and all his vagaries have now
taken places with those who scof at
his doctrines.
Colorado has also gradually adapted
itself to the new conditions which the
demonetization of silver produced. and
this fact has also aided in bringing the
people back to safe grounds. The
men who earned their wages in the
silver mines have gone to work in the
gold fields. The owners have closed
the silver diggings and started new
holes in the gold regions, or have COM
menced to work over the old mines.
This has resulted in the good news
that more gold has been taken to the
mint for coinage the first six months
of this year than for all of the twelve
of last Miners declare there is no
reason why this increase should not
continue and in short time make the
value of the gold output equal to the
aggregate of the silver of the boom
days.
"One does not hear the amount of
free silver talk and sensational threats
in Colorado with which the leaders
have credited it. 1t may have been
louder a year ago, when the mines
were closed 1t has exhausted itself
now, with the masses busy in other
lines of industry. Cattle-raising and
grazing have been revived on large
scales, and farming is receiving new
impetus. All the crops have been
good, and, unfortunately for the cause
of free silver there have been copious
rains, even in sections which have
usually been missed by the showers.
There is now in Colorado good con-
dition of affairs, and commercial con-
fidence is returning in all quarters
! Chicago Times-Herald
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
Death of "A Missionary.

LEwIsaURG, Pa, Aug l3,-On Satur-
day evening Mrs. David A. Day, OF the
Lutheran mission at Muhlenberg. Mon.
rovia, Liberia, died at the residence
here of Mrs. John Huber. For more
than twenty-one years she and
her husband labored in Africa
and the success of their work at
Muhlenberg has caused them to be re-
garded as the most successful mission.
aries on the entire west coast. Four
teen months ago Mrs. Day came to this
the results of African fever. During
last winter pulmonary trouble was de-
yeloped.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
TRAGEDY IN IOWA,
A Farm Hand Kills His Employers wife
and Himself.

Shelby, Ia, Aug. 13.-One of the
most shocking and unprovoked MUIR
ders, followed by suicide, ever known
in this section of the country took place
Sunday night Mrs. Wilhelm Kruger,
wife of n prosperous farmer, whose
place is miles southwest of here, just
across the Pottawattamie county line,
was shot and beaten to death by her
nephew, Herman Kohaupt, young
man, 1s years of age, who has been
working as n hired hand for the
Krugers After committing the bloody
deed, the crazed young fiend
betook himself to neighboring corn
field, where he cut his throat with
razor, intlicting a wound which must
have resulted in almost immediate
death Mr.. Kruger cannot account for
the bloody deed, unless it was u fierce
hatred for his aunt, for no valid rea-
son. however, than an unnacountable
o,-.lile on the part of Kohaupt.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
LAID TO REST.

Funeral of Justice jackson Near Nash
ville-Chief Justice Fuller Attends.
CINCINNATI, Aug. IA Post special
from Nashville, Tenn, says: The re-
mains of Justice Howell B. Jackson
were laid to rest in private family
cemetery at Belle Meade stock farm, d
miles west of this city, Monday morn
ing at l0:3O o'clock.
The officiating clergymen were Revs.
j. ii. McNeiley and B. Lin Cave, both
of this city. The ceremonies at the
grave were not elaborate but very i'm
pressive. Chief Justice Fuller and
Justice Brewer were the only members
of the supreme court present A large
number of prominent men from this
city and other states were among tho
attendants.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
PAID THE CLAIMS.
Beneficiaries of DR.. Fraker Receive Their
Due from Insurance Companies.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. l3.-The long
fight between the insurance companies
who carried policies on the life of DR..
w. c. Fraker and the beneficlar-
les of the Fraker policies,
was terminated at o'clock Monday
afternoon, when the last of Fraker's
insurance was paid. The amounts were
sac, ,474.94. The history of the Fraker
case is too we'll known to require repe-
tition. 1t is as much a mystery now as
1t was two years ago, and though the
officers of the insurance companies and
very many other people do not believe
that Fraker is dead, the United States
courts have decided that he is, and, as
they cannot find him alive, the COM
panies can do nothing but obey the
order of the court
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
SEVENTEEN ROBBERS SHOT.
Wholesale Execution of Gang of High
waymen in Mexico.

wholesale Execution OF n Gang of High
waymen In Mexico.
FRoNTEERAs, Sonora, Aug. 13.-Six
weeks ago the private messenger of
Col. John Weirs was killed by gang
of highwaymen and robbed of $4,000.
Since then the Mexican authorities
have kept up an unrelenting chase
after the robbers and captured
them last week. Seventeen of
the number who were directly
concerned in the affair have been con.
victed and shot. Forty others, among
them an American named Tribolet,
who belonged to or sympathized with
the robbers, have been impressed into
the Mexican army. The entire band
of robbers who have infested that re-
gion have now all been shot or are
under arrest
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
THE POTOMAC BEACH.
It Is at Last Becoming a Really
Popular Resort.
The District Omcials Provide Life-savers
and other Necessary Convenicnccs
As FInc Bathing Place as
There Is in America.
Special washington Letter.

Our boys are not being drowned in
such numbers nowadays as they have
been in summers past at the Potomac
bathing beach. The beach is carefully
patrolie6 and the life-savers are always
on duty. They are brave, competent
fellows.
When the tide comes in the Potomac
water is brackish, so that our poor pep
pie who cannot go to the coast resorts
and buffet the breakers of the relent-
less mighty ocean can nevertheless
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
A Veteran Kills Himself.

CAMP DOUGLASS, Wis, Aug. 49,
Phillip Skinner, of Troop b, seventh
United states cavalry, who has been
in the service about thirty years, com
mitted suicide Monday morning by
shooting himself through the heart
Spinner served under Gen. Merritt in
the Fighting Fifth" during the In
dian wars in the west.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
NOTED BAPTIsTs TO MEET.
Plans Under Way for Religious Congresses
at La Porte Ind.

LA PORTE, Ind, Aug. l3.-Plans are
now being outlined by DR.. w. II. Riley,
of Chicago, for holding three great re-
ligious congresses at the Baptist state
assembly grounds near this city in
1896. The first will be held
in June, the second in July and the
third in August, each to consist of
some particular feature of religious
work. The talent is now being en-
gagged, and will include the ablest pull.
pit orators and scholars OF the Baptist
denomination in the United States.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
MUST DIE.

"CherOKee BIII," NOted DcsperadO, Sem
fenced to Hang.
ST. Louis, Aug ia special to the
Chronicle from Fort Smith, Ark, says
that Cherokee Bill" was sentenced
Monday morning by Judge Parker to
be hanged September 10. The prisoner
paid no attention to the sentence, and
spent the time gazing out of the win
dow. Cherokee Bill is now under two
sentences of death. The supreme court
has stayed the former sentence for in
vestigation, and may or not affirm tho
lower court.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17

New YORK, Aag. l3.-At Westchester
village during thunderstorm early
Monday morning Mrs. Meehan was SO
badly shocked by "a bolt of lightning
that she died Of fright.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
GOOD PROMISES.
China Forced to Declare She VIII Protect
Americans.

WASHINGTON, Aug. lathe state de-
partment has received riply from
Minister DENLY to the instructions
cabled him ON the 9TH inst. relative
to the reported looting of Amer
lean missionary property at Yung-
fuh, near Foo Chow Mr.. DENLY says
he urgently represented the facts to
the Tsung Ii Yamen or the board of
foreign affairs on the 10th and OBJ
tanned instant promise of protection
and redress
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17
SILVER AND TIE woRklNeMAN.
Free Coinage Noufd BE an Outrage on
the Producing Clnsses.

Free Cotnngo Would BE an Outrage on
the, Producing Cinsses.
One Of the most formidable argu-
ments used by the silver men is that
the United States and all goldstandard
countries are at a great disadvantage
In competition with silver-standard
countries. We call this argument
formidable because it is almost the
only one on that side that has the air
of being scientific, and because it gi-es
what appears broad basis for policy
essentially narrow. We have from
time to time pointed out that at best
this assertion of the silver men was
too vague to be verified with certainty,
and that, even were it true, it had no
bearing on the currency policy of the
United States, which has not sufficient
commerce with silver-standard coun-
tries to make their competition seri-
Gus element in deciding our course.
We are glad to see that in Rhodes
Journal of Banking Mr.. Worthington
{. Ford has taken up the general
question and treated it with his usual
clearness and thoroughness. We shall
not undertake to offer even a summary
of his article, but there is one point
that he brings out with great definite
ness that every sensible American
should keep in mind-the atrocious
wrong done to the wage-earning
classes by a deprecated standard such
as silver.
He says: "The partisans of silver as
sert that the fall in the market or
commercial value of silver has resulted
as bounty on exports, because it has
enabled those countries using silver to
produce more cheaply. This assertion
can be true only on one condition, that
the purchasing power of silver has re-
mained unchanged in domestic mar
kets. If the domestic manufacturer
can hire labor or turn out his manu-
factures for the sar-e weight of silver
in 1894 that he could IN 1878, it Won /
stand to reason that his labor and
products are costing him now fifty
cents against dollar in 1873. But
what does this mean except to assert
that the wage, Garner has been prac-
tically defrauded?"
He gives an account of the develop
ment of the cotton-spinning industry
in Japan, the main facts of which we
reproduce in ia bular form:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17

Here it will be seen that the total
product has increased threefold in
three years. the cost of manufacture
has decreased by eighteen per cent,
and wages have remained almost sta
tionary The equivalent of the wages
above quoted in sen is nine cents
for men and four cents for women for
working day of eleven and half
hours, including the time allowed for
meals. 1t is, of course, absurd to claim
that the reduction in the cost of manu-
factare D. the increase IN the product
c2n be ascribed solely to the deprecia-
ton of silver. But, whatever proper
tion was due TO this source, the work
ing people got no advantage from 1T.
Such depreciation would tend. on the
other hand, to advance the prices of
The necesSaries of life. Mr.. Ford cites
government tables of prices in Toxic
which show the following changes in
the pripas of food in sen.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-17

1T Will be seen by TINS table that
days wages in 1892 would buy only a
little more than four-tifths as much rice
in Toxic in 1892 as in 1859. In other
words, while the cost of manufacture
had fallen eighteen per cent, the cost
OF rice had advarced eighteen per cent
and the wages had remained almost cx-
actly the same. The unfortunate work.
man comes out worse in every way.
This would inevitably be the result
in our own country of adopting the
silver standard or in any way depreci-
ating or debasing the currency. The
silver men urge that silver is the ''peo-
ple's money" and gold the rich mans
money. 1t is exactly the reverse. Cap
italists can make profit from fiuctu-
ating and depreciating currency which
must bring loss and nothing but loss to
the great body of the people.
Manufacturers in all industries can
best serve their own interests by using
their influence with their party to re-
press the mischief of such legislators
during the coming year and half.
n. Y. Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-10
A Smart Dog.

ST suppose you remember my dog Dag
obertP'' asked the man with the ginger
beard.
Cant say as I do said the grocer,
Though remember hearin you say you
had SIGH dog
''Well, one time lost him. waited
about four days 'lowin prob'ly he was
away on some of his own business. Then
advertises in the country paper, and what
do you think but the dog comes in home
as cool as you please the day after put in
the advertiser 3ntP'
from Potato creek.
II thought that away myself" said the
man with the ginger beard, "till heered
the straight of it,. You see, me and the
dog had had a little falIin out, and said in
his presence that didn't care much eff I
lost him. Mex day he was gone. found
out afterward he had gone to one of the
neighbors, and he made hisseh useful chas-
in hawgs and KILN rats, so they let him
stay. But they tells me that every mornin
Dagobert he would get the paper and look
over the lost colyun. and as soon as put
that notice in he give one bark and started
for home as fast as he could leg it. Second
time we had q quarrel, though, the lost
dog business didn't work worth a cent.
$50 it was jist coincidence the first
time, was it?'' said the man from Potato
creek.
''Naw. The next time had to put in
one Of them there come home and all will
be forgiven personals"
The man from Potato creek looked sad.
indianapolis Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-10

was familiar with half a dozen Ian.
guages she was given an important po-
sition in the department Of politics and
translated all foreign political news.
About this time she became wife,
but this fact did not altogether inter-
rupt her literary activity. Twenty years
ago her husband died and she came to
America
For time after her arrival in New
York Nine. Ragozin taught history,
languages, music and literature, but for
a number Of years she has mainly de-
voted her time to historical writing.
Her volumes thus far finished are: 1.-THE
Story of Cha1dea, - telling of the nation
from the earliest times to the rise Of
Assyria; 1.-THE Story of Assyria, p" from
the rise of the empire to the fall of
Nineveh; Media, Babylon and Per-
sia," including a study of the Zenda-
vesta, or religion of Zoroaster; 1.-THE
Story of Vedic India" as embodied
principally in the Rig-Veda. This will
be followed by ''Brahmanio India. -
Nine. Ragozin is also the translator of
'The Empire Of the Tsars," by NJ. An
atole Leroy-Beauieu.