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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
MONON ROAD.
Judge Woods Appoints william McDoel
rs ReceIYer

ouuEe "oous appoints hllliam McDOel
as Receiver.
indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 25.-Suit was
filed in the United States circuit court
here Monday asking that a receiver be
appointed for the Louisville, New AL
bany & Chicago railroad. better known
rs the Monon system.
Monday morning Judge Woods came
lown from Chicago and his appear
ance was the signal for fresh outbreak
of the rumors. These were confirmed
when. shortly after noon, n rcceivership
suit was filed by John 7. Mills, Jr., OF
New York, by his attorney, Harry
Crawford, Of Chicago.
Judge Woods, without a hearing,
signed an order appointing William Nc
Doel, of Chicago. receiver. Mr.. Mills,
the plaintiff, already has heavy judg-
ment against the road. Mr.. McDoel's
bond was placed at 100000. The total
Indebtedness of the road is given at $14,-
OOO. 900.
An answer was filed by E. C. Field. for
the company. None of the allegations
IS denied, the railroad throwing itself
on the mercy of the court"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
"JEFEERsoNIANS."
Name Adopted by Psnnsyl lvania Gold
Democrats.

Democrats.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. Go The state
democracy sound money convention
was called to order in Musi cal Fund
hall Tuesday by w. NJ. Singerly, of
Philadelphia. The auditorium was
well filed. Mr.. Singerly ma de brief
address and then introduced John c.
Bullitt, of this city, as permanent
chairman of the convention, tempo
rary organization having been dis
pensed with. When he concluded his
speech the roll of the convention was
called by congressional districts The
printed list of delegates showed 135
delegates and Al alternates from 81
counties in attendance.
A state central committee and dele
gates to the national convention were
next chosen. The convention selected
the following electors-at-large: Will
liam Singerly, Philadelphia; A. s.
Lanais, of Blair county; $. C. McCand-
less, Allegheny; John Blanchard, Cen
tire. The platform affirms the tinan-
cial plank of the platform of the late
democratic state convention at Allen
town. After the adoption of the name
"Jeffersonian party" and the selection
of presidential eleGtors, the convention
adjourned sine die.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
Conditions Prior to 1878.

Some of the free coinage men still
say that all they want is to restore
the conditions that existed prior to
1873" In 1873 the total worlds pro-
duction of silver was 61,000,O0o ounces
and the silver in a dollar was worth
$1.O4 in gold. Last year the worlds
product of silver was 165,000,000 ounces
and the silver in dollar was worth
only so 7-1O cents. viii the silver
miners restore the production of 1879
as the first step toward restoring the
conditions?"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
A LESSON ERoM EeYPr.
That Country Failed to Maintain the Ratio
of Sixteen OnIona to Ono CRt.

That Country Failed to Maintain the Ratio
of Sixteen Onions to Ono Cat.
The ancient Egyptians had cur
rcncy based on cats and onions, both of
which were sacred objects worshiped
by the people. AS there was some diff
ficulty in storing the cats, and as the
onion was liable to decay, circulating
medium was provided of papyrus
strips, representing certain number
of cats and onions at ratio of six
teen to one. This was u true double
standard system and is believed to have
been the origin of medern paper cur
rency. For a time the cat-onion money
circulated a. par, but the historian
Faque Hur records that about 963 b. c.
a serious difficulty arose. New col
onies had been established in the re-
gion of the upper Nile, and the savage
Nubians had been taught the art of
agriculture. The rich, black soil of
the valley which they inhabited was
especially suited to the growth of
onions, and the production of those
perfumed bulbs was soon enormously
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
A Banker's Double Crime.

LOWELL, Mich, Aug. 26-Charles A.
Church, a member of the banking
firm of Church & Sons, which failed
Monday, yesterday shot and fatally
injured his wife, Jennie, and then
turned the revolver on himself and
fred bullet into his head with fatal
results. Deputy Sheriff Cowan, of
Grand Rapids, was approaching
Church's house to serve writ on that
gentleman which was sworn out by
the National City bank, of Grand Rap
ids. Church saw him coming. He
locked the doors of the house and
seized revolver and shot his wife and
then himself
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29

While the advocates of free coinage
are loudly asserting the power of the
government to raise the bullion value
of silver from thirty to one to sixteen to
one of gold they at the same time pub
lish facts which prove the very reverse
of their claim. Thus they boast that for
the 90 years previous to 1873, the year
of the alleged crime, the value of silver
bullion ranged from three to seven
cents per ounce above it's coinage value
in other words, the silver in II dollar"
coin was worth three or four cents more
than dollar. Now the preachers Of
prosperity through legislation say that
it is the law that fixes the value of the
money metals, and that if the United
States alone opened its mints for the
free coinage of silver at sixteen 10 ono
the commercial value of gold would be
exactly 16 times that of silver. That
their assertion is not true, and that the
bullion value of either metal cannot be
fixed by law is clearly shown by the
facts given above in regard to the COM
plete failure of previous free-coinage
laws to keep the real value of silver at a
ratio of sixteen to one of gold.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
PYTHlANs AT CLEVELAND.
Supreme Lodge In Session Uniform Rank
Encnmpment.


Cleveland, o., Aug. 25.-Oficials con.
nected with the meeting of the supreme
lodge knights of Pythias and the en-
campment of the uniform rank say that
from present appearances the gather
ing will be the largest and most success.
full of any in the history of the order.
1t rs expected that fully 200 Pythians
and their friends will visit the city this
week, and of these $4,000 will be mem
bers of the uniform rank. The tents of
the encampment have been pitched at
Camp Perry-Payne, an immense field
less than a mile from the heart of the
city, owned by ex-senator Henry B.
Payne, while the sessions of the grand
lodge are held in the new temple.
The morning was devoted to the well
coming of brigades, regiments and Wis.,
iting brothers, and the numerous recep-
ton committees were kept busy in es-
corting the detachmcnts. which care
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
Electric Line Into chicago.

Racine, Wis, Aug. 25.-Work on the
Milwaukee, Racine & Kenosha electric
railway commenced Monday morning.
There We're 100 men and teams put to
work. The road must be completed by
November IS or the company will for
felt it's franchise. The line will be built
through to Chicago, this end of the road
going as far as Waukegan, the Chicago
workmen meeting the line there.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 25.-The steam
er Al-Ki arrived from Alaska Sunday
evening. Capt. Patterson said that he
had brought about rs miners from
Cooks inlet They had only tales of
hardship to tell, and came back empty
handed, cursing the country. One man
has five dollars in gold dust, which he
said cost him $500
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29

,,"More money!" is the delusive cry
of the silyerites in their campaign for
cheap dollars, But they do not attempt
to show how a sixteen to one free coin
age law, which would put our $6Go, ,00o,-
600 gold at premium of nearly 80 per
cent. and drive it all out of circulation,
could possibly give rs more money than
we have now.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
.Government ownershlp of silver M,nea

Why is it that both the populists and
the democrats failed to put plank in
their platforms demanding that the
government own and control the silver
mines of this country, so that the profit
which would be made from free coin
age would go to our government, and
thus indirectly be benefit to the whole
people? Why should this profit SO to Il
few individuals who own the silver
mines and who are already enormously
rich? Is not this building up one of the
most dangerous trusts that the country
has even seen? Think of few men hav-
ing under their control all the silver of
this country and the government com
PEELED to turn it into dollars as fast ms
they produce it! Suppose that these sill
yer men combine to shut down work on
their mines when they want to produce
stringency in the money market, then
open them again when they want to
make money abundant. Would not this
put the whole business of the country at
their mercy?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
Death of a ritIed EngIisbman.

London, Aug. 25.-Charles Frederick
Cooper Ponsonby, second Baron de
Mauley, died at his residence, Lang
ford house, Lechlade, Gloucester, on
Monday. He was born in 1918.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29

IN oTueT TO dSSlSI tnOSe WHO DellPVe IN
the white metal'I will pay the following
prices in Mexican silver dollars mo change
given) for live stock and produce delivered
at Sherman:
Steers weighing 1000
pounds or over, fine
and fat ..................6 cents per pound
Heifers weighing 800
pounds or over, fine and
fat Observation-Disclosures cents per pound
Sheep, fat and heavy.....5 cents per pound
Lambs, fat and heavy. .7lacents per pound
Veals. fine and fat....... cents per pound
Pigs Weighing 100 to 156
pounds ...................5h .5hcents per pound
Best Holsteln milk COWS. $50 per head
No. l creamery butter. .2S cents per pound
Fine factory cheese. .....10 cents per pound
These dollars contain more pure silver
than the United States dollar.
DThose who deliver stock in droves
should bring an extra horse to draw home
their money.
Dated August 1. A. B. SHELDON.
Mr.. Sheldon is able to do what he
promises to do. He is giving the farm
ers of Chautauqua the benefit of the in
fated prices which the advocates of a
so cent dollar desire and is doing it
without asking the United States gov
ernmcnt to become repudiator and a
swindler.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29

Barcelona, Aug. 25.--The first batch
of the reinforcements for the Spanish
forces in Cuba TO be sent from here
sailed for the island Monday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29
Big Prices for FARMERS, Products.

The Chautauqua News, of Sherman,
n. Y, contains in its latest number an
advertisement which we copy free of
charge:
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-08-29

increased. Meanwhile the cat crop
had only grown in the usual ratio, and
the result was that, with the demand
for sacred animals in the new colonies,
at least 80 onions would be given for
one cat. This brought the papyrus
currency into disfavor, and the ruling
pharaoh, Ram Bunkshus Ill, issued a
royal order that cats should be the
sole standard of value, and that onions
should be issued only to the extent that
Shey could be kept at par with the
"caterwauers," as the unit of value
was termed.
This did not suit the onion growers,
who at once started an agitation for
the free and unlimited coinage of all
onions at the good old ratio of their
daddies. After passing 3,1s7,642 reso-
lutions denouncing the horrible crime
of 963 the onionites marched in a body
TO the palace of their pharaoh and de-
manded that the unjust law enacted
at the instance of the catbugs should
be repealed and the bicatallic standard
restored. Ram Bunkshus listened to
them patiently and answered.: Great,
no doubt, was the wisdom of our an
cestors. But / am in the wisdom busi-
ness myself to some extent. When the
ratio of sixteen to one was adopted,
that was the true ratio of the cat and
onions, Now, owing to a great in
crease in the quantity of onions, the
ratio is thirty to one. All powerful as
am, l cannot make onions worth more
than their market value. The present
standard stays. AS for you, foolish
onionites, your leaders shall feed the
sacred crocodiles. The rest of you
will return to your farms and hustle
] have remarked"
Thus ended the first and only cur
rency agitation in Egypt.-Whidden
Graham, in Puck.
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FOR SALE,

HANDSOMEST chestnut cob horse in the
 H State; perfectly broken, fearless of trolley or steam ears, fine free driver, just the horse for a run-about left with Dr. Ross to sell. o23 If B ORANGE ST,
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NOT A STANDARD OIL MAN.

The Driver Who Filled the Oil Tanks
 In Dore's Grocery Store Just Before
 the Fire-Insurances Will Be Paid
 Without Question.
 Although the circumstances attending the origin of the fire Wednesday, in the brick block at 579 Grand avenue are of a peculiar nature from the fact that there was an explosion of an oil tank, Insurance Agent McNeil. in whose company the policies are held, states that the insurance will be paid without question. It is said that Hig- gins, the man who had just filled the oil tanks, used a candle near the tanks to see that the drawing pipes were in proper condition. This report, has not however. been verified. Higgins was employed by F. w. Babcock & Co.,, and not by the Standard Oil company, as was reported yesterday The clerks in MT. Dore's store were much excited over the events of the day, and when asked if the driver who had filled the tanks was employed by the Standard Oil company, they replied that he was, but later corrected the statement The fire marshal has not yet completed his investigation into the cause of the fire.
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ENTERTAINMENT
Hyperion. .

hyperlOu
 All the members of Klaw & Erlang- er's Jack and the Beanstalk" com pany, arrived in this city last night. The next few days will be devoted to the final rehearsals preparatory to the grand opening at the Hyperion, Mon- day night. The week promises to be g. brilliant one for New Haven theater- goers, when Messrs Klaw & Erlang- CTS newest and greatest burlesque ex- travaganza, "The Strange Adventures of Jack and the Beanstalk," will be presented for the first time profession ally on any stage. The engagement is for the entire week, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees, and notwith- standing the enormous outlay, the reg ular prices will prevail. One of the distinct features of this great enter tainment will be the beautiful dances, pallets and groupings, arranged by Karl Marwig, who is personally and most favorably known to New Haven theater-goers and society circles, and whose work as a ballet master is known, in fact, to society leaders all over this country wherever the kir- mess and german is danced. He will come to New Haven with Jack and the Beanstalk" and will give his per- sonal attention to the dances during the week the company is here. MT. Gustave Kerker, the musical director of the New York Casino, and compos- CT of the music of ''The Lady Slavey'' and 'In Gay New York" will also be here during the production, yielding the baton for the occasion. The titles of some of the songs in Jack and the Beanstalk'' are "De Frogtown Ter rors," ''When I Was Maiden Fair. D i've Sold My Cow" Flight Pretty Maids are We" "A Captain Bold. ? Song of the Shoe.'' Looking for Another Occupation" I'm Cute Lit tie King" Tell Me Truly, Daisy J and Perhaps She Would"
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MILFORD ITEMS.

Oct 22.-A very pretty wedding oc- cured Wednesday afternoon at o'clock in St. Peter's church, Walter IT. Addis, 5r., and Miss Helen M, Smith being the contracting par ties. The bridesmaids were the four little sisters of the bride, who were dressed in gowns of pink and white organdie, white slippers and pink gloves They wore pictured hats of white felt with pink satin ribbons and ostrich plumes. The maid of honor was Miss Bessie Burns of Bridgeport She wore a dress of white organdie and Valenciennes lace with pink taffeta ribbons. She carried a bouquet of white chrysanthemums, The bride wore @ white satin, cut en train with pearl
 trimmings. The pearls formed yoke to the waist, which was edged With mosquetaire. The sleeves were covered with a string of pearls. A long bridal veil was fastened with a garland and clusters of real orange blossoms. She carried a boquet of bride roses and dainty little prayer book bound in white and gold, the gift of the pastor, w. 1T. Hutchinson. Richard A. Smith, brother of the bride, was best man.
 Lieutenant Herbert N. Royden left for his new home in Bangor, Me, where he will teach tactics at the Maine State college for four years.
 Contractor Ebert N Clark is laying a curbing about the Catholic church after which he will lay tar walk. The grounds about the new houses of H. A. Taylor are being graded, after which a stretch of tar walk will be laid from James H. Smiths to William
 G. Mitchers on High street.
 Miss Mary F. c. Ford is i'll at her home on High street. During her ab- sence from school Miss Baldwin is teaching her scholars.
 Quite q large crowd went to New Haven last evening to hear Hon. Chauncey M. Depew.
 It is said that the National Electrical
 Manufacturing company win start up
 on full time Monday, October 26
 Harry l.. Oviatt was given sur
 prise party by thirty of her young ! friends last evening at his home.
 Games, etc, were indulged in, after which a collation. was served, the
 young people returning home at a late hour.
 l John w. Curtis arrived in town to-
 Avery Place on Broad street.
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WANTED, A SITUATION by capable girl to do -1A -1a general housework Inquire at o@o lIp 30 LIBERTY ST
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At the Grand opera house yesterday matinee and evening Ambroise Thom- as pretty opera ''Mignon' was given by the Kirwin Opera company. The opera is full of pretty music and was admirably sung. Miss Susie Kirwin as Mignon is most finished singer, her voice is a soprano full and pure and Of great range. and she has power enough to fill every nook of the opera house. Her method is fine, and her ex- ecution is characterized by the finish
 that makes the true artist. Claybon Fergusonis also a tenor of considerable excellence, and he was well received
 by the audience and applauded for his excellent work. Miss Clara Englander
 was in excellent voice, and was seen to good advantage as Filina. The Chorus did excellent work. This afternoon and
 evening "The Queens Lace Handker- chief will be given. and Saturday af- ternoon and evening Two Vaga- bonds.'
 Black Patti's Troubadours will be at the Grand opera house next Monday, Acsuiy dild w euHGsudy, anu SeH-
 uine treat may be confidently antici- pated. The company is without ques- tion one of the best of it's kind. Its
 fifty artists offer superb support to
 Black Patti who is a we'll known fa-
 nous singer The performance in- cludes comedy burlesque, vaudeville
 and opera, presented with costly cos- tunes and appropriate scenery. All the
 popular Coon songsp and "buck dan
 ces' and the great operatic olio, in
 which Black Patti and her glorious voice are heard, are important fac tors. Matinee on Wednesday.
 A melo-drama in all that the name implies, is "The Fatal Card" which will be presented at the Grand opera l house on Thursday, Friday and Satur- day of next week. It was a big suc- l cess in London and New York, where 1t ran until the end of the season. Matinee Saturday.
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Poii's Wonderland Theater.

The phenomenal popularity of Lu- mieres cinematographe continues un- abated, drawing large houses every af- ternoon and evening. This week, though. Its popularity is shared by the Rossow midgets, those wonderful little specks of humanity who present an exhibition of scientific sparring, aero battles and heavy weight lifting that is nothing else than phenomenal An excellent speciality bill is also provid- ed by MT and Miss Quinn, the Casino Four, Miss Freddie Huke, Merritt and Gallagher, Mile Oceana, and MT. Kel- ly and Miss St. Clair. The cinemato- graphe is shown afternoons at and 5, evenings at S:30 and 10:20. Next week O'Brien and Havel and Lizzie B. Raymond, will appear. MT. O'Brien is known as the funny little man with the somersault walk, and Miss Raymond is one of America's greatest singers of comic songs.
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NORTH HAVEN REPUBLICANS.

A. B. Clinton for Representative
 Other Nominations
 North Haven. Oct. 22.-The republi- cans tonight nominated A. B. Clinton for representative for this town to the state legislature. Town justices: A. T. Austin, E, l.. Lindley, L. P, Futile, and George l.. Barnes were also nomi- mated. The attendance was very large but the representative nomination was almost unanimous.
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DEATHS.

WILCOX--In New York, Oct, Fist, Helena R Wilcox, of Madison.
 Funeral at the Young Women's Christian Association Home Friday afternoon at $50 o'clock. Burial in Madison Saturday morn- ing
 GIBBS--In this city, October 21, Bessie l.. Gibbs, only child of George and Florence Gibbs, aged 12 months.
 Funeral services at the home of her parents, Fl Greenwich avenue. Friday at , o'clock D. m Relatives and friends are respect fully invited to attend.
 GARDINER-In this city, entered into rest, October 22, Frances F., widow of tho late Capt. George W. Gardiner. aged S3 years, 1 month. ~ Funeral service will be held at the residence Of her granddaughter, Mrs. Frances E. Battin. 396 Temple street. Saturday morn ing at 10:30. Friends of the family invited to attend. Interment in Naugatuck. Conn. Naugatuck papers please copy.
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wBsLEYAN,s NEW COLLECTION.

Middletown, Oct. 22.-The Alphonse Bell collection of foreign coleoptera, number 1,430 specimens, collected from the Cape of Good Hope, Australia, Holland, Spain and Central America, has been presented to the Wesleyan Museum by Richard l.. De Zeng of this city. The collection is remarkably fine, very valuable and is unexcelled by that in any other college museum. It is now on exhibition in Judd hall
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One Cent Word each insertion, five cents Word for full Week, seven times. e
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RALLY AT NASHVILLE

The republicans in WestvilIe will hold a rally this evening. There will be ex- ceIlent speaking and music for the oc- casion.
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Grand Opera House.

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Mrs. Henry E. Bedent of 24 Warren street leaves tomorrow to visit Mrs. Streeter of Orange, N. J., widow of the late George l.. Streeter, who was for many years a New Haven jeweler Mrs. Bedent and Mrs. Streeter will leave on Monday for a ten days trip to Fredericksburg and the Virginia battlefieldS.
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THREE PAPERS SUSPEND.

Winsted, Oct, 22.-Lack of patron age, due to hard times, has caused the suspension of the Great Burlington Ga- zette, the Sheffield Sentinel and the Stockbridge Star. All three papers were weeklles, which had been estab- lished from one to two years.
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:. WANTED,

AIloN by competent woman as cook k1 DO or TOT housework, oity or country.
 o.o lep lSe FRANKLIN ST.
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MINIATURE ALMANAC.

 SUN RISES. 6.13 MooN RIsEs HIGu WATER SUN SITS. 4:59 5.35 1l:30