Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-16

bama populists to hold their conven-
tion in the state capital
IT is stated that 1,352 trains arrive at
and leave Chicago daily, about one
fourth being freight trains
PHnADELPHIA's city hall cost S1e,
600, 900, and stands second in expensive.
ness to the capitol at Albany.
A RECENT consignment of frozen sal
mon from Vancouver sold in London
weighed no less than 14o tons.
COMMISSIONER HIGGINS, of the Saliva
tion army, is trying to establish sta
tions in the Argentine republic.
The police census of Baltimore. Md,
indicates a population of 625, ,240 per-
sons, of whom 125, ,O4s are voters.
THE late Rabbi Aaron Wise, of New
cent to hold the rabbinical office.
EVANGELIST MOODY is working in the
western part of Massachusetts, for funds
to furnish good literature in jails.
PRESIDENT FAURE, of France, at one
time was president at Havre of the
Young Mems Christian association.
PHILIP K. CLOVER, well known
artist, of Columbus, o., has completed
a portrait of the late Allen G. Thur
man.
The well-known pianist, Clara Schu-
mann, has had stroke of paralysis,
and it is thought that she will not re-
cover.
CHARLESTON, S. c., has voted unani-
mously to exempt from taxation for
five years any factories established
there.
SENATOR CUTLER, of South Carolina,
is the chief promoter of a new organiz-
alton to collect Southern historical ma
terial.
PADEREwsKI never signs an agree
ment, and he has never failed to keep
an engagement except through serious
Illness
FIVE HUNDRED bushels of potatoes
were sold at sheritFs sale in Kent
county, Mich, recently for one cent
bushel.
The English comic paper, Judy, is
now to be edited by woman, Miss
Lillian Debenham, who is also the pro-
prietor.
SCHOOL directors in the district of Luz
verne, Ia, have ordered a cyclone cave
dug at each of the school houses in the
district.
NAPOLEON III once said to Octave
Fueillet: ITO one returned from
America everybody in Europe seems to
be asleep"
A GERMAN statistician makes the as
sertion that there are in Bulgaria 3,SS3
centenarians, or one to every thousand
inhabitants.
The Schenectady On. " locomotive
works proposes to shut down for want
of orders There are 1,SOO men en-
ployed there.
DR. JAMES MARTINEAU, who has just
entered on his 92d year, is reported to
be well in body and keen and elert as
ever in mind.
BERTHA RUST, aged nine, of New Vir-
ginia, Pa, frightened horse attached
to buggy, was caught in the wheels
and fatally injured.
THERE are indications of strike of
printers, pressmen, bookbinders and
nearly all the large job and book Of
fees in New York city.
The Soar family of Ambaston, Derby
shire, Eng, have curious heirloom in
the shape of loaf of bread which is
now over 600 years old.
ALL of the corned been and picked
pork for European armies and navies
goes by way of Canada, and crosses the
border at Vanceboro, Me.
KING ALFONSO, of Spain, will be ten
years old this month, and will then be
handed over to his military tutors and
begin to study in earnest.
PORTRAITS of Washington We're dis
tributed by the Society of Colonial
Danes to AZ public elementary schools
in Philadelphia the other day.
IT is reported from France that the
fresh juice of the poppy plant applied
to recent bee stings gives immediate re-
lief and prevents Inflammation.
WILLARD IVES, who died in Water
town, n. Y, recently, organized SYRIA
cuse University and the Thousand
Island Camp Meeting association.
The 18th annual reunion of the sur
vivors of the Sultana explosion at
Vicksburg was held near Knoxville the
other day. Thirty-three were present.
A HUGE tank, filed with water, fell
from the top of the TaInarack Mich
shaft to the bottom. Joseph 6ibley, a
miner, was caught under it and crushed
| to death.
ALFRED AUSTIN, poet-laureate of Eng
land, has been cautioning the authors
ties in charge of free libraries against
''the dangers of prose fiction" Artemut
| Ward would have been tickled with
| Austin.
Mrs. LYDIA BRADLEY, one of the
wealthiest residents of Peoria, ILL.,, ha.
made known her intention of building
polytechnic institute, which, will
the endowments, will amount to gif
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