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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
A SAD AFFAIR.
Chicago Woman Kills Prominent
Young Lady of Elgin, III, and Herself.

Chicago Woman Kills Prominent
Young Lady of Elgin, III, and Herself.
Elgin, ILL.,, April 14.-NEary Linnet, of
43 North Campbell avenue, Chicago,
shot and instantly killed Elizabeth
Trowhridge, prominent young lady of
this city, and then killed herself NJ Mon-
day evening. The double tragedy oc-
CURED on South State street, one of the
principal residence streets of the city,
about eight o'clock. The murderess
was former patient at the insane
asylum, and was discharged as cured in
December. Miss Trowbridge was her
attendant, aud she conceived a pas
sionate affection for her. She came
here Monday morning to induce Miss
Trowbridgc to return 10 Chicago to live
with her. Miss Trcwbridge could not
be induced to do this, and the girl deter
mined to kill her friend and herself
rather than be separated.
Miss Linnet was 1S years old, and
about two years ago tried to kill girl
friend in Chicago, for whom she had
conceived an unnatural affection. Miss
Trowbridge was 25 years old and niece
of Judge David Sherwood, of this city
and a member of one of the most promi-
rent families here. The two girls, ac.
companied by Alice Trowbridge, sister
OF the murdered girl, were going to the
depot when the tragedy occurred.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18

than it's authors intended. Persons of
fixed incomes are not merely million
aires or army or navy officers. All who
labor in this country, whether the pay
be called salary or wages, are also per-
sons of fixed incomes, and they decid-
edly object to having their incomes cut
in half for the benefit of silver mine
owners.
The blacksmith who makes SIS o
week, the carpenter at So a day, the
salesman at $1,000 year, the agricul-
tural laborer at $1.5o day, the teacher
at $40 per week, all are persons of fixed
incomes. They find their incomes none
too large for their necessities. Why
should they not object to a slump to
silver, free and unlimited, for the bene-
fit of those who own silver, but at u
loss of so per cent in their fixed in
comes?
1t is the labor of the country that
most determinedly demands the gold
basis; that demands stability in the
currency; that objects most positively
to loss of half it's fixed income.
Silver mine owners and agents must
reckon with this element, and it is a
mighty element at the ballot box. Let
platform writers note this fact as well
as silver mine capitalists. - Chicago
Times Herald.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
COUNTERFEIT STAMPS.
A Pair of Engravers are Arrested In CHI
cago, Charged with Manufacturin
Them.

A Pair of Engravers are Arrested In Chi
cago, Charged with Manufacturing
Them.
CHICAGO, April 15.-W. B. Peters, an
engraver, and John Voney, a itho-
grapher and engraver, were arrested
Tuesday by Capt. Porter, of the federal
secret service, on the charge of coun-
terfeiting two cent stamps in large
quantities and selling them A. j. Bod
kin, who was manager for the Pauline
Hoyt Formula Co., at 504 Van Buren,
street, is charged with being mem
ber of the gang. Officers were unable
to find him. The mails lately have
been flooded with hundreds of letters
with counterfeit stamps on. The Hoyt
concern sent 600 such letters through
this post office, it is believed as test,
before the manufacture and sale were
conducted on big scale from the fac
tory on Western avenue. While the
bogus stamps were good imitation
they We're detected, and Capt. Porter
allowed big batch to pass through be-
fore he set his men on the counterfeit
ers' track
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
NUT FOR slLvERlTEs ro CRACK.
why Has Cotton Dropped Fourteen Cents
Pound Ten Years After the "Crime?"

Looking over a file of the Greenville
Mountaineer for 1s4S, we were aston
ished to find in its market reports from
Hamburg cotton quoted at a to 5A
cents a pound; flour, $4.75 to S5 a bar
rel; corn and meal, so cents a bushel;
bacon, g to 61a cents.
Referring then to the Lathem, Alex
ander & Co. cotton statistics, we found
that cotton was selling in New York
in 1889 at 1896 a pound. In 1910 it
dropped to S.02, in 1S41 it rose to $50. in
1912 it was 1855; in 1888, 1926; in 1914,
7.73; in 1s45, 500; in 1876, 7.S7. In
1s4s, after sharp rise, it was down to
SOB; in 1870 it fell yet farther to 7.55.
These are New York prices. AT Ham
burg, which was then the market for
this section, prices seemed to be from
to cents lower.
Thereat we marveled much. We sup
posed from Coins Financial School" j"
Joe Johnston, the Anderson Peoples
Advocate, the Spartanburg Herald, Ben
Tillman and other way up yonder free
silver authority, that the "crime of
1873" had brought down prices. Yet
here we find 80 years ago, during the
time of free and unlimited coinage of
silver at Is to /, prices of farm products
were very much as they are now, the
chief difference being that cotton is a
little higher and bacon little cheaper
now than they were then.
Now we will be glad if the Anderson
Peoples Advocate, the Spartanburg
Herald and the rest of them will tell us
what caused the low prices and sudden
falls from 1889 to 1S40 while we had,
as they claim, the silver standard, while
the silver dollar was the unit, as they
claim, and not the token" they say it
| is now.
We would also like them to explain
if the alleged demonetization of silver
is the cause of the fall in prices
why it is that cotton dropped IA cents a
pound, from 81 to II cents, in six years,
from 1867 to 1878, while from 1873 to
1883, ten years after the Crime" il
dropped only 6H cents-why it lost
nearly so per cent. in six years before
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
UNITED MINE WORKERS.
Tho National Convention Meets at Coium-
bus, O.-Causes of Low Prices for Coal
ami Mining.

Tho National Convention Meets at Column
bus, O.-Causes of Low Prices for Coal
ami Mining.
COLUMBUS, o., April 15.-The annual
convention of the United Mine Work.
ers of America opened here Tuesday
with about 100 delegates present, rep
resenting miners in nearly every state
in the Union where coal mining is car
ried on in a large way. The day was
spent mainly in preliminary work
President Penna's report was full of
encouragement. He urged the mem-
bers to go into politics with more pat
riotism and less partisanism, more re-
spect for home and less for the bosses,
and thus work the reforms for which
they contend.
In the report of Secretary Treasurer
Patrick McBryde he says the coal trade
was better prior to 1890, when this as
sociation was formed, than it is now.
The value of coal on board the cars at
the mines for 1890 was S110, 42o, s51, and
for 1894 the value was 81, 76S, $50 less
than in 1890, although the product was
greater by 1900, 800 tons. This con-
dition so detrimental to both miner
and operator was caused, he said, by
the cursed system of the survival of
the fttest.
Prior to 1890 central Pennsylvania
was represented in the National Mine
Workers. Now they are not here. The
two Virginias and t-eir cheap coal had
much to do with effecting the changed
conditions. Formerly all their coal
went to the Atlantic seaboard. To-day
there is more West Virginia coai in
Chicago than Ohio coal, though the for
mer has to pass through Ohio en- route
to Chicago.
The financial condition of the asso-
citation shows a debt of about So, 200,
with about S1,1O0 on hand. Mr.. Nc
Bryde said he expected to see the debt
of about $1,000 wiped out before the
convention adjourned. Mr.. McBryde
and President Penna, in their respect
i've reports touching the difficulties
they encountered in trying to get Pitts
burg to agree to conditions favorable
for increased mining at better prices
in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, sought to
show that they ought not to be CEN
sured for failure. Conditions were
against them. They had, they said,
accomplished all that men could do
under the circumstances.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
WRECK OF A TRAIN.
% Plunges Through q Treetle a
Distance of Seventy Feet.
Five Men Are Killed and Two Others
Are Badly Hurt-The Disaster Oc-
cars on the Belt Road Near
Bedford, Ind.

Bedford, Ind, April 14.-Five killed,
three wounded and ono miraculous es-
cape from death was the result of an
accident on the Belt road nenr here Mon
day morning. The dead are: Charles
Ogden, conductor; James Shere, fire
man; NJ. j. Masterson, bridge carpen-
ter; Ed. Bivens, bridge carpenter;
Warren S. Lermond, bridge carpenter.
The injured: George Meinzer, engineer;
James Davis, bridge carpenter; Henry
Devault, brakeman. \ freight train
composed of road engine and fiat cars
was coming to the city from the quar-
ries, near here. just west of the Monon
railroad tracks, about a mile distant,
is trestle, about 20 feet high. This
trestle is said to have been defective.
AS the train ran onto the structure
there was an ominous creak, then great
crash, and in an instant the engine and
first car had toppled over and gone
crashing to the ground, from where,
with the sound of escaping steam, came
the cries of the men who were being
scalded to death or were having their
lives crushed out by the heavy debris.
henry IeNaulu, brakeman, saw Unc
engine totter, and leaped from the car
just in time to avoid being carried down
with his less fortunate companions. De
vault, though injured, gave the alarm,
and wrecking train with physicians
was at once sent to the scene and the
work of rescue begun. The five dead
bodies were taken from the twisted and
distorted mass of wood and iron, some
of them being a lmost tunrecooniZable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
srARR,s TRIP.
Return of n Learned ChEcaEoan from n
Journey Through Hitherto Unexpiorsa
Portions of Mexicu--What He Found.


Return of Learned ChIcaEoan from y
Journey Through Hitherto Unexplorsss
Portions of Mexico--what He Found.
CHICAGO, April Is. - Frederick A
Starr, professor of anthropology in the
University of Chicago, has returned
from three months trip through un-
explored portions OF Guatemala and
Mexico. Prof Starts object in making
the trip was to visit all the ruins in
the two countries which in his trip
last summer he had so highly praised,
and to find the pigmy tribe which were
supposed to live somewhere about
there
Prof. Starr said the country offered
special facilities for research work in
his line In Oaxaca 10 different lam
guages are spoken, t9 in Chiapas and
81 in Guatemala. This indicates as
many different tribes of people, and
the opportunity to study them is ex-
traordinary.
Concerning the pigmies and whether
the small people of the country might
not be descended from the mountain
idiots, the professor said: 81 found
lots of idiots in the country, regular
colonies of them, but in no case was
there any connection between them
and the little people. Cretins, as the
idiots are called, are descendants of
goitrous people. Goitre is a disease
that is caused by the water the people
drink, and the descendants of these
goitrous people are usually deaf, dumb
and idiotic. The small people are not
diseased and retain all their faculties
There are so many of them that it is
impossible to call them freaks, but l
could not find pigmy tribe from
which they might be descended, and l
don't believe there is such tribe"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
DISEASE GERMS KILLED.
Discovery That the v Ray Is Deadly
Foe of Diphtheria and Cholera.

Chicago, April 1+.-Prof. w. 2. Pratt
and Prof. Hugh Nlghtman, the electro
therapeutist and the bacteriologist of
Bennett Medical college, have practical
ly proved that the Roentgen ray is a
deadly foe to diphtheria and cholera.
They have put the germs of the most
deadly diseases through the test. A
week has elapsed. They have been fed
and nurtured with the greatest Gaze.
They have failed topropagate or spread,
proving they are dead or have been
stunned. Cholera was the easiest, and
appears to have wiped out entirely.
Diphtheria has been treated very ten
derly and favorably, but after eight
days has failed to show the slightest
signs of life.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
Convention peadloeked.

BEDFORD, Pa, April 15.-The repub-
lican county convention met here Tues
day. J. E. Throp, of this county, and
J. D. Hicks, of Blair, are the candidates
for congress. On test vote in the con-
vention, Derrick, Throp's candidate.
was elected chairman. On the first
ballot the vote stood AZ for Throp and
SO for Hicks The chairman announced
the vote and declared Throp the nomi-
nee. Hicks friends protested and claim
he is entitled to two of Throp's votes,
making tie. For four hours the con-
vention has been deadlocked.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
War Ships Withdrawn.

WASHINGTON, April 1.-Two of the
three war ships (the San Francisco and
Minneapolis) sent by the United States
to give protection to American inter-
ests in Turkey have been Withdrawn
from Turkish waters, leaving the cruis-
er Marblehead to look out for the mis-
sionaries The Minneapolis, to which
Admiral Selfridge will change his flag,
will go to Cronstadt in order that the
admiral and some of his officers may at
tend the coronation of the czar. The
quietude that has existed in Armenia
for months past is said to be the rea-
son why these vessels have been per-
mitted to leave the Syrian coast.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
Pettlcoat Government.

TOPEKA, Kan, April 15.-Gaylor,
Smith county, is the second city in
Kansas to pass under the control of
women exclusively. The city govern
ment has been turned over to the fol-
lowing officers: Mayor, Mrs. Antoinette
Haskell; police Judge, Mrs. Mary Foote.
Miss Florence Headley was appointed
city clerk and Mrs. M. j. Kline city
marshal This is Mrs. Haskell's second
term as mayor, and she performed her
duties so satisfactorily that completes
woman's council was elected this year.
Mrs Haskell is democrat, but the
ticket was not elected on party lines.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
Made Themselves Scarce.

CHICAGO, April 15.-The deputy Uni
ted States marshals who have been
given grand jury subpoenas to serve on
the soliciting freight agents of eastern,
western and southern roads and for
the employees of big shippers whose
business it is to see that their firm gets
reduced rates on shipments, did not
meet with any success Tuesday. These
are the men, especially the railroad
subordinates, who are wanted the
most as witnesses before the next fed
eral grand jury. They are wanted to
incriminate the higher officials of their
roads, who are regarded as the Offend
ers in ordering discriminating rates to
be made,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
PEOPLE WANTING FREE COINAGE
None of Thom Have Any Sound Reason
= for IL.

None of Thorn Have Any Sound Reason
.l for 1t.
1t is always useful to analyze the
forces entering into a popular move
ment. In this silver movement we
have:
First. The owners of the silver mines
in the "silver states," seeking TO manu-
facture by law better market for
their silver bricks and to grow still
richer at the expense of the people.
Second. Honest ignorance. Those
who have not yet discovered that
money is not the whole of wealth and
really believe that more money in the
country means less labor to make a
living.
Third. Those who understand this
thing and know better, but hope out of
much deprecated money the more
easily to pay old debts. Debts con-
tracted in gold values would be paid in
dollars worth so or 55 cents. l have
seen this idea openly, impudently and
nnblushingly urged by great journal
in silver state, addressing itself to
farmers carrying mortgages on their
lands.
Fourth. A lot of bright, smart fell
lows who are always ready with an in
fallible Judgment about all things,
without ever studying or understand
ing anything.
Fifth. Some public men, who under
stand this thing perfectly well, but
have not the courage to tell the peo-
pie the truth, wishing to carry gold on
one shoulder, silver on the other and
votes on both.
Sixth. Some honest public men who
do not understand this thing and never
will.-George H. Yeaman, in "a Cur
rency Primer"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
A SHORT ROAD TO RICHES.
How the Africans Might Double Their
Cattle and Goods.

In some South African tribes the use
of money is unknown, and trade is
carried on by the primitive method of
swapping cattle or grain for calico,
guns, etc. But, although they have
no money, these people have a system
of keeping accounts by cutting notches
on stick, so that when trader buys
cattle for which he cannot pay when
they are delivered he gives the seller
piece of wood with as many notches
as there were head of cattle. These
sticks are afterward redeemed in cloth,
guns or rum, according to the wishes
of the cattle raiser, and thus serve as
medium for exchanging goods.
We're the schemes of the free silver
and fat money advocates of this coun-
try to be adopted in Africa there would
be an easy way for increasing the
wealth of the people. We are constant
ly told by the cheap-money orators that
under free coinuge everybody would be
twice as rich as he is now, and that
doubling the country's money would
double it's wealth. If this were true,
all that would be necessary in Africa
would be the cutting of a great many
more notched sticks, when there would
be twice as much grain, cloth, etc, and
twice as many cattle as there are now.
OF course the American silverite will
say that such a proposition is ridicu-
lous. 1t is. But it is just as sound and
logical as the idea that the people of
the United States would be richer if
they stamped Zone Dollar" on lot of
pieces OF silver worth only so cents.
Anyone who can understand that by
cutting notches to represent cattle
would not make more cattle should be
able to see through the claim that
doubling the means by which wealth is
measured and exchanged would in
crease the total quantity of wealth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
A VICIOUS HORSE.
Attacks and Injuries Two Men at Chicago
One May Die.

-One MAY Die.
Chicago, April IA. - Fred Kenyon,
junior member of the firm of Marsh &
Kenyon, prominent stock dealers at the
stock yards, and Charles Broadway, an
eastern horse and cattle buyer, were
both badly injured by vicious horse
at the stock yar6s Monday afternoon.
The horse was being shown to the two
men in the horse sale stables near Thir-
ty-ninth street, when in some manner
he got loose. Rushing viciously at Mr..
Kenyon, the horse knocked him down,
trampling upon him and fracturing
his skull. Mr.. Broadway attempted TO
assist MIR. Kenyon, but he also was at
tackled by the infuriated beast, knocked
down and his skull almost literally
pounded to pieces. His injuries will
likely prove fatal. Mr.. Kenyon was re-
moved to the Transit house, where med
ical attendance was at once provided for
him.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
LEE is HoNoREp.
Ex-Governor of Virginia Made Consul
General to Havana.

Washington April IA. - The presi-.
dent Monday sent to the senate tho
following nomination:
F'itzhugh Lee, of Virginia. to be consul
general of the United States at Havana,
Cuba, vice Ramon o. Williams, resigned.
The appointment of successor to
Consul-General Williams caused no
surprise in official circles, as it has long
been known that Mr.. Williams was anN-
ious to retire from his position. When
Mr.. Williams visited the United States
last year he rendered his resignation,
but was persuaded to remain in Office
on account of the then threatened Sc
riousness of affairs.
Mr.. Williams had become obnoxious
to the Spanish authorities in Havana
on account of his vigorous manner of
caring for the interests of this gov
ernment, and it was reported that he
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18

the 'crime" and not quite 80 per cent.
in the ten years after the crime"
And when they have finished that let
them tell us why, if England became
the richest country on earth with the
gold standard and all the other coun-
tries got in debt to her, with their sill
yer or mixed standards, it would not be
good policy for us, if we desire to be
rich and money lenders instead Of
money borrowers, to try England's sys-
TEN awhile ile?-Greenvill Is. C.) News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
Mayor strong,s Veto.

Albany, n. Y, April 1.-THE reasons
given by Mayor Strong for vetoing the
greater New York bill were read in the
senate Monday night. In the course of
his statement the mayor says he is in
favor of consolidation, and that he be.
lieves majority of the citizens of the
proposed Greater New York agree with
him in that respect, but that the pro-
visions of the bill are not satisfactory
to all concerned
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
RESULT OF A QUARREL.
A Nebraska Farmer Kills His Wife and
Himself.

Schuyler, Neb., April IA. - Patrick
Finnigan, living northeast of this city,
on Monday morning murdered his wife
and then committed suicide. The deed
was done with Winchester rifle in both
instances. Mr., Finnigan, after dispos-
ing of his wife, lay down on the floor,
and, pulling the trigger of his rife by
means of a string, blew the top of his
head off. A family quarrel is supposed
to have prompted the deed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
KILLED ALL THE OFFICIALS.
Rebel Indians in the Mexican Town of
Juquela on the Warpath.

City of Mexico, April IA tele-
gram from OaNaca City states that The
rebel Indians at tle town of Juquela
killed all the town councillors, school,
teachers, local priest, chief of police
and the telegraph operator-in fact,
everyone holding government place.
Many shops were burned after being
sacked, and the Indians decorated
themselves with stolen tinery. They
all fed on the approach of the soldiers
and are now in the hills. The revolt
is local and will be suppressed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
KILLED HIS CHILDREN.
Awful Crime of a ChicagOan Who Finished
His Murderous Work by SulcIding.

CHICAGO, April 15.-John Lehman, a
driver for the Chicago 81 West Division
Street Railroad Co., killed his three
children last night and then committed
suicide. The dead:
John Lehman, aged 49,
Clara Lehman, aged 8.
Bertha Lehman, aged 3.
Baby Lehman aged months.
Lehman was possessed with the idea
that he was growing aged and, being
in poor health, has been Respondent
for weeks past. He was fond of his
children, and while he had over $500
saved he was afraid he would die and
his little ones would not be properly
provided for. Last night he carried
out carefully laid plan and killed his
children and then attempted to hang
himself with rope, but, the rope
breaking with his weight, he threw it
aside and used on himself the revolver
with which he had killed his children.
Mrs. Lehman at the time was at a
fat on Knoll street, to which the fami-
ly intended moving within a few days.
She had been married twice and by her
first husband had two children, who
live with her and were at home until a
few minutes before the tragedy was
enacted. Lehman had no desire to kill
his wife's children by former hus-
band, and before committing his dread
full deed sent them out to find their
mother. There is no doubt that he
was insane from Ill health.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-18
Either Amateurs or Professionals.

Toronto, Ont, April 1.-THE racing
board of the Canadian Wheelmens as
sociation has decided to declare for two
straight classes of racing men-ama-
teur and professionalism not to sub
divide the latter. The board will REIN
state to pure amateurism those class II
men only whose record in that class is
above suspicion.