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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31
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CARRIAGE containing DIR. w. p.
Palmer, his 25-year-old daughter, Deb.
bic; a granddaughter 10 years old and
William Hauran, of Atlantic High
lands, who was visiting the Palmers,
was struck by a train while being
driven across the tracks of the Central
railroad of New Jersey, at Keans sburg,
n. j., on the 27th ult. DR.. Palmer and
his granddaughter were almost in
stantly killed. Hauran was fatally in
jured.
A DECISION han ded down by the SUI
preme court of Missouri holds that the
silver party's state ticket cannot be
printed on the official ballots. The sill
yer party ticket was made up of the
democratic presidential electors and
the repu blican state ticket.
DIR. A. b. HEATH, institutions COM
missioner of the city of Boston, has
been removed by Mayor Quincy. The
financial management of DIR. Heath is
given as the cause of the removal.
1T is learned by inquiry at the de-
partment of justice that no attempt
has been made by the attorney gen.
eral to prevent United States attor-
neys from making political speeches
during the campaign, although a num-
ber of such officers have been making
them on both sides of the money ques-
ton.
The president has granted pardons
to Albert j. Ellis, private of battery
L., Third artillery, U, S. A., sentenced
to be dishon orably discharged and five
years in the penitentiary for assault,
and to Joseph jackson, of Arkansas,
sentenced to eight years imprison-
ment for manslauGhter.
MRS. ELIZABETH HART, widow go
years of age, and her daughter, Mrs.
Sarah j. Stevenson, S5 years old, and
also a widow, were found asphyxiated
at their home in Boston on the 27th
ult. A gas jet was turned partly ON
and the room was full of gas. The
deaths are believed to have been caused
by accident.
| The United States commissioners to
the Brussels international exposition OF
1857, acting under the direction of the
state department, have completed their
plans for American participation in the
affair and have appealed to manufac.
turers and producers to seize the oppor-
tunity for introducing their products
in foreign markets
Four masked robbers recently stole
S5, 900 from Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Mon.
Iaghan in the mining village OF Kappa
hammock, Va. The heads of Mr.. and
M-r. Monaghan were crushed with
sandbags and they may die.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct. 2s-The
body of Mrs. Francis II. Hostel, who
died suddenly in Wayne, Pa, on the
18th inst, and was buried here four
days later, was exhumed yesterday
from burying lot in Grace Church
cemetery. A post-mortem was con-
Quoted at the morgue and the viscera
were taken away for chemical analy-
sis. The Pennsylvania officials who
are here at present say the woman
was poisoned. Mrs Postel was Provi-
dence girl and the fourth wife of Pos
tel. Police had guarded the grave
here for whole week before it was
exhumed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

BETWEEN the mountains of India and
Persia is apowerful tribe among whom
an extraordinary custom prevails.
Woman's rights have apparently re.
ceived full recognition, for the ladies
of the tribe can choose their own hus-
bands. All a single woman has to do
when she wishes to change her state
is to send a servant to pin handker-
chief to the hat of the man on whom
her fancy lights, and he is obliged to
marry her, unless he can show he is
too poor to purchase her at the price
her father requires.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

BoERHAAvE, the greatest doctor of
his time, was anxious that it should go
forth that even the most eminent doc
tor is somewhat of "humbug" He
carefully handed the key of small
diary to his executor, bade him open it
immediately after his decease and let
the contents go forth to the world at
large. When the note book was opened
all its pages but the last were blank,
and on that final one there was writ
ten in large letters: Directions to pa
tients: Keep your feet warm and your
head cool, and trust for the rest to
Providence"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31
AMERICAN LINERS.
They Arc Formidable Rivals to British
Ships in Speed, Comfort and Safety.


Ships in Speed, Comfort and Safety.
1t is so novel and gratifying for this
country to have won place in the in
ternational maritime competition that
we are apt to underrate what the fact
implies The truth is that with num-
Der of warships which in their respect
i've classes are entitled to rank with
the best in the world we have just two
modern seagoing merchant steamers
of the first-class afioat Each of these
steamers has in turn wrested from
their British-built predecessors and
from the other the record between
New York and Southampton. In point
of time they have already established
rivalry on equal terms with the far
larger Liverpool ships for passengers
between London and New York.
This is great triumph for nation
which sor more than generation has
bee=- out of the international competi-
tion and which has re-entered it with
but two ships of it's own production.
1t shows what can be done If only the
commercial conditions allow us to keep
up the rivalry thus begun. The record
completed lately by the St Paul takes
the respectable slice of two hours from
that made by her sister ship awhile
ago, and assures Americans anew that
they can sail under their own flag prac-
tically as fast as under n foreign flag.
AS matter of fact, the most inter-
esting and encouraging thing about
these records is the fact that the ships
which make them are extremely prac-
tical vessels, and that they meet the
commercial conditions of the North At
lantic trade more accurately than the
crack British ships, which alone are
their superiors in speed. Every line
finds it necessary to have grey
hound" or TWO, but it is not the grey
hounds that make the money. 1t is
commonly believed that they are run
regardless of expense, in order to ad-
vertise the lines to which they belong.
The st. Paul and the st. Louis, on the
other hand, attain a speed not indeed
equal, but for the purposes of passen-
gers equivalent to that of the great
Liverpool liners, and they do it With
the expenditure of, it seems likely, not
| much more than three-tifths of the coal
burned by the larger ships. The diff
ference is enormous and in a close COM
petition must be decisive, for it can
hardly be possible the greatest British
liners can earn as much more money
than the Americans as they spend. 1t
is already recognized in England that
we threaten a formidable rivalry to
| the British carrying trade, at least on
the North Atlantic. To have attained
this result with but two ships of our
own is, we repeat, remarkable tri-
umph. With a continuance of the pol
icy ID which we owe the ST. Paul and
the st. Louis we may look confidently
forward to fleet of first-class Ameri-
can passenger steamers.-N. Y. Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

A SURGICAL case is reported in one of
the French technical papers in which a
broken end of a needle in the hand of
a woman was withdrawn and without
the loss of any blood. The hand was
placed near the poles of very power
full electro-magnet in such a position
that the needle was drawn in the direc-
tion of its point. After nine treat
ments, lasting altogether 20 hours, the
needle came out through the skin. 1t
had been in the hand two months, and
as its definite location was not known,
a surgical operation had not been per-
formed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

A CURIOUS and slightly known fact is
that it is impossible to move the eye
while looking at its reflection in a
mirror. The eye is the most movable
part of the face, yet if you try to look
at it and move it a thousandth part of
an inch you will be ballled in your pur-
pose. The moment you endeavor to
perceive the motion of the eye it be-
comes fixed. That is why persons
expression as he sees himself in the
glass is entirely different from the one
by which his friends recognize him.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

Mrs. LEsA w. Brown, wealthy res
ident of Chicago, is interceding with
the authorities for the release of
Fred Johnson, a 14-year-old boy, who
was caught attempting to break into
her residence for purpose of theft. His
story of his unhappy condition which
led him into the crime won her SYM
pathies, and she expressed her deter
mination to found society for the re.
demption of young criminals.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

SOME most remarkable collections
have been left behind by Arthur Ham
iiton, a wealthy and eccentric English.
man, who has just died near Vienna.
Not the least singular consists of 2O,-
600 buttons, representing all the uni
forms of the different armies of the
world. Another collection is made up
of the teeth of all the most formidable
wild beasts, while in contrast to this
are 352 fans which originally belonged
to the most beautiful women in the
nunrld
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

SOME conscienceless fellows in South.
ern California have been circulating
information through eastern cities
that there was a wide field for the
work of trained nurses in the Golden
state and that the salaries paid for
such services was from $50 TO S25 a
week. AS u result of this misleading
information many competent nurses
now find themselves stranded on the
western side of the continent, at least
5000 miles from home. There is no
greater demand for trained nurses in
the extreme west than in the east
and the pay is no better, if it is as
rood.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

PHILADELPHIA is wrestling with the
question of pure drinking water. The
Pennsylvania Sanitation Co. offers to
run the Quaker City's drinking water
through sewage sieve for So, 900, 600 a
year, while the Philadelphia Water
Supply Co. offers to bring to the city
and filter $4,000, 900 gallons of water
daily from the Upper Delaware river
for 60 per cent. of the present city
water rents.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

THE Bancroft is the smallest and
weakest vessel of our fleet, but for all
that her strength is great enough to
make any nation hesitate long before
it fires upon her. In the splendid and
inspiring words of the New York Sun,
''She carries four small guns, Is stripes
and As stars" Her puny four-inch
guns are nothing, but those stars and
stripes represent 7O,OOO,OO0 of people
who never were defeated and never
will ha
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31
METEoRlTE FALLS IN DAYTIME.
Will be Taken from the Spot Where Il
Was Embedded.

At Roseville, small town below tSs
city of GAINESVILLE, on the Cincinnati h
Miami Valley railroad, great excite
ment was occasioned by the fall of a
body from the heavens at O'Clock in
the afternoon, and almost the entire
population of the village visited the
scene before nightfall. The meteor
buried itself in the soft earth of creek
bottom on the James farm, about half
mile from the town, and, to judge
from the size of the hole it made, it
weighs 800 or 400 pounds. The meteorite
will be unearthed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

THE queen of Sweden, whois one of the
richest women in the world, owes her
great wealth to the gambling tables at
Weisbaden, which were owned by her
brothers, from whom she inherited her
vast fortune. Her majesty, who is n
bit eccentric, always dresses in the cos
tune of the Salvation Army, to which
organization she belongs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

SOME of the new guns to be used for
the first time during the autumn cam
paign in the Soudan will carry II high
ly explosive she'll ten miles. Each
shell is capable of disabling 200 of the
enemy. These guns have such rapid
fire capacity that before the first she'll
bursts three others are on their way in
the same direction.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

A JAPANESE order for II 200 tons of
steel rails has been placed in the
United States, and it is said that an
other large order is pending from the
same source. Meanwhile various lap
nnese products are finding their way
into Anne lean markets to the mutual
advantage of producer and consumer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-10-31

"WHY is it called the honey-moon?" "Be-
cause it accompanies tue lied."-Up- to Da.e.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-13
PROVIDENCE.

The classes taught by Misses Maggie
Davis and Mary A. Powell, in the Puri-
tan Congregational church, will give an
entertainment this evening In the
church auditorium. The following pro-
gramme will be rendered: Chorus, by
the children; recitation, Maud Davis;
song, Theophila Evans; dramatic atti-
tude, Leona Farmham; duet, Misses
Tilson and Lloyd; recitation. "Biddy's
Trial Among the Yankees" Miss Caro-
lyme Dorsey; song. Hattie Sharpless;
Song of the Thames" by children.
Mrs. Mary Burns was arrested yes
terday on charge of assault and bat
terry preferred by Andrew Kearney.
She was arraigned before Alderman
Fidler last evening, who held her
under $500 bail to appear at court.
by the Rev. T. G. Edwards, of Kings
ton, in the Welsh Congregational
church last evening. was well attended.
There will be a meeting Of the Ladies'
Aid society of the Methodist Episcopal
church tomorrow afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
All members are requested to be pres
ent
Miss Vira Griffin, of West Market
street, is visiting friends at Clark S
Summit.
Thomas Casey, of Carbondale. who
avenue, for the past few days, has re-
turned to his home
Thomas Cavanaugh, of Forest City.
has returned to his nome, after q brief
stay with friends in this place.
Miss Winnie Taylor, who has been
the guest of friends on Stanton street.
for several days past, has returned to
her home In Carbondale.
The Anthracite Social club will con-
duct ball this evening in Mulherin's
hall, for the benefit Of Joseph Carroll,
who was injured, several weeks past,
in the mines.
Miss May MacNicol, Of Olyphant, is
the guest Of Mrs. A. H. Keisling, of
Short avenue.
Miss Rose Massey, Of Weston Place,
Is slightly indisposed.
NJ. d. Long, of Hyde Park, has ac-
cepted position in the Triple stores.
William Morris, of Jermyn. spent the
past few days with friends in this
place.
A game of indoor base ball will be
played tomorrow evening in Company
II armory by the Combination and Null
ley's. Dancing after the game.
Frank Carwadine, Of Wayne avenue,
Is suffering with rheumatism.
William Eldridge, permanent man Of
the Niagara Hose company, who &C,
companied the Crystals on their excur-
sion. returned yesterday.
Misses Margaret Richardson and
Kitty Robinson, of Wilkes Barre, are
visiting Miss Maggie Gillespie, of this
place.
Miss Nettie Duff. of New York city,
Is visiting among North End friends
Miss Jessie klees, who has been visit
ing her grandparents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Klees. Of North Main avenue,
for the past few weeks. returned to her
home In Archibald yesterday.
The infant child of Frank McCor-
mick, of McDOnough avenue, who died
q few days ago, was buried yesterday.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-13
CIR ZEN RIDGE.

Rev. l.. c. Cole and wife OF Thomp-
son, are the guests of H. M. Cole. the
druggist, on Capouse avenue.
A party of young people consisting OF
the Misses Lille and Hattie Dunn and
Royal Van Gorder and Will Dunn went
chestnuting at Hawley. and after
spending Sunday with friends there re-
turned home yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ray. who have
been spending a week at Buffalo and
Niagara Falls on their wedding tour,
returned home Sunday night and will
reside on Marion street, near Dickson
avenue.
Special preparations are being made
for the clam chowder supper to he
given by the Rebecca's s lodge, I. o. o. F.
in Lucas hail on Wednesday evening.
Russell Cobb. of Dickson avenue has
returned from Oxford. N. j., where he
spent the past two months with rela-
tives.
Mrs. Phillips, of Won Storch avenue,
Is entertaining her daughter Of Homes
dale.
Mrs. Will Mulley. of Providence, has
been spending few days with her sis
ter, Mrs. L. L. Barzler, of Delaware
street.
Mrs. Lizzie T. Beane, of Sanderson
avenue, has gone to New York city.
where she will visit relatives
Prof. Lumis and family spent Sum
day in Factoryville.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-13
STORY Of ARKANSAS LIFE.
Enacted by a Capable Company ut
the FrOthingham Last Night.

Human Hearts" was produced at
| the rockingham theatre last night by
| company of artists whose work could
| scarcely be eXcelled, and, coupled with
| the splendid staging and beautiful
scenery. it made one of the best per-
| formances of the season. The title of
the play is very expressive and IL IN
human Hearts were added it would
suggest the entire story.
Contrasted with a dozen or more
| characters of a refined nature, sympa-
thetic disposition and homely manners
that are alternately pathetic and hui
mOrous are two as villianous and dia-
bolical hearts as could be imagined. It
is a tale of the Arkansas Hills. Tom
Logan, a farmer and blacksmith Of that
country, is welded to a beautiful New
York woman, who has had a past not
withstanding her youth. She soon tires
the natives Of Arkansas. With a for
mer paramour she attempts to kill her
husband and escape. but, by accident,
| Toms father Is murdered and Tom,
| who first chances upon the death scene,
| Is accused of the crime, convicted of
murder in the second degree and sem
| fenced to a life Imprisonment.
Toms brother Jim, who is q simple
| ton, his mother and Ruth Larkins an
aumlrer OF IOH III his DOynOOu Gays,
and who continues faithful unto the
! last, figure in all the efforts to work
| pardon for Tom and after four years
| Of incessant entreaties to the governor
| of the state they are successful. The
| mother becomes blind in the meantima
and with her single son, Jim. they are
| by nature fitted as pair Of pathetic
pleaders.
Moses Jones, darkey. Limpey Nor
| gan. newsboyN and boOtblack. and
Frederic Armsdale, a tramp. furnish the
specialties and do so without OVERRIDING
| their respective parts. The audience In
numbers was hardly worthy of the
splendid show. but the stormy weather
probably accounted for this.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-13
DUNMORE,

George Crabb, OF Fourth street, who
has been Ill for the last two weeks, is
able to be out again.
Mrs. e. Kellum and daughter, Miss
Lou Kellum, Of Hawley, are the guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. William Wild, of
Fourth street.
w. j. Lafountain has removed with
his family to their new home on Mill
street.
Mrs. James Boone. of Brooks street,
Is i'll at her home.
Miss Blanche Capwell, Of Lake
Winola. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
William Packard, of Cherry street.
The Dudley Street Baptist church will
hold a social at the home of their pas
tor. Rev. A. B. O'Neal, on Wednesday
evening, Oct. IA.
James Kelly. OF Plainsville, is VISIT
ing John Tighe, at his home on Blakely
street.
r. A. Scott. John Riley. William
Moore, William Teeter, Martin Walsh
James McNulty. John Early and w. L.
Purcell have returned from Olyphant
where they, went to attend the county
convention of the A. @. H.
Curtis Wild. of Fourth street. Is able
to be out again after a weeks illness.
John Quinn, OF Franklin. died at his
home at 10 o'clock Sunday evening,
after brief illness. He was 26 years
old and was well liked by all who knew
him. The funeral will take place Tues
day afternoon at 2.30.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-13
WEST SIDE EVENTS.
Loss Occasioned by the Fire at Lacka'
wanna Avenue and Seventh Street.
Difficulty In Extiugulshlng II.

Heaps Of tea and coffee lie on the
sidewalk In front of the gutted Hess
building on Lackawanna avenue, whlcn
suffered from fire yesterday morning:
a complete story of which appeared in
yesterdays Tribune. The building, a
two-story brick veneer, is ruined. f..
w. and William Hess, the owners.
valued the property at $4,000. They
carry insurance in the ID. j. Evans
agency for $500. J. T. Williams and
ID. Ii. Thomas. who under the firm
name of j. T. Williams and company,
used the first floor of the building as q
stocking place for teas, coffees, spices,
canned goods. etc. had insurance to
the amount of $4,000 In the Evans
agency They claim that the stock de-
stroyed was worth about $1,000.
Mrs. May +. Bell, who kept board
Ing house on the second floor, and Mr..
and Mrs. +. s. Bissel. also tenants, lost
all their household effects. Neither had
insurance. The origin Of the fire is still
unexplained, though the supposition
expressed in The Tribune's account Is
deemed the most plausible. Mr.. Will
liams, of the firm, thought that the fire
started on the second floor The ten
ants contradicted this They say that
the flooring was heated from the fire
raging beneath when they walked upon
1t In making their escape.
Mr.. Williams stated to Tribune re-
porter that there was fire in the stove
during Saturday. but that it was not
replenished and was allowed to die out
when the store was closed Saturday af-
ternoon. There was no lighted gas jet
in the lower apartment: neither is there
any electric wiring. The fire started IN
the rear of the storeroom, which Is par
TALLY divided by a partition. an arch
connecting the two rooms. The stove
Is in the front part. This makes the
origin more of a mystery.
The firemen under Chief Hickey made
determined effort to subdue the
flames, yet it was $50 o'clock before
taps We're sent in. During the last few
hours of the fire the work of the fire
men was directed toward smothering
the smouldering fire In the bales of tea
and coffee. To do this II was necessary
to remove the material to the side
walk. where it still Is. Much danger
was involved in fighting the flames. At
any moment the threateningly weak
brick wall was likely to tumble. bury
ing the fire-fighters beneath the mass.
All day yesterday a large crowd gath
cred around the structure. a large
quantity of cigars were ruined by the
water.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-13
YOUNG BANQUETERS.

The following We're present at the
first annual banquet of the Webster
Literary and Debating society held Fri
day night at the home of Attorney C.
Il. Pitcher. of Price street: Maude NJ.
Pitcher, Walter Evans, George Martin,
Emerson Joseph, Ezra Davis, Tudor
Williams, George Daniels. Robert Petit,
John Cadwgan. Thomas Evans. William
Fills, Arthur Hull, Eugent Fellows and
Charles Cadwgan. Toasts were re-
sponded to as follows: Daniel Webs
ter" Walter Evans: "The Bike" Geo.
Martin; "William Mckinley" Emerson
Joseph;'"Our City" Ezra Davis; Jour
nalism," Tudor Williams; Lii Hung
Chang" George Daniels; Protective
Tariff" Robert Petit; Anthracite"
John Cadwgan; "Armenians," Thomas
Evans; Our Society,"" William Elias;
Free Cuba" Arthur Hull; "Slver
Question" Eugene Fellows; THE
Ladies'" Charles Cadwgan. An appe-
tizing dinner was served. .....
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-13
SHORTER PARAGRAPHS,

NJ. ]. Cusick, of Prospect avenue, and
Miss Ella Caulfeld. Of Meadow avenue,
will be married at st. Johns church to-
morrow.
Anniversary meeting and entertain
ment will be held this evening. Oct IL,
at 8 o'clock. by the Young Peoples So
ciety Of the Hickory Street Baptist
church. Rev. w. G. Watkins will de-
liver the address of the evening.
George Swanley was injured few
days ago at the South mill, by falling
on u pile of rails and striking his head.
He was attacked with dizziness.
New stock Of elegant wall paper and
paints at Borcher's, 713 Cedar ave. -
Best work at the Crystal Laundry.