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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
DOMESTIC.

Frank Riggs, prominent merchant,
was shot and killed and William j. Reese
was fatally wounded in shooting
scrape at Bellsnap, Ala.
The Western Reserve university at
Cleveland, o., conferred the degree of
LII. D. on President Mckinley.
At Nashville, Tenn, Gen. John B.
Gordon was unanimously reelected
general commander of the United Con-
federate Veterans.
The boiler in sawmill at Rockville.
Ind, exploded, killing Solon Ferguson
and fatally injuring Walter Ferguson
and Edward Straughn.
Mrs. Clarence Mccarthy and her
niece, Miss Mary Fite, were drowned in
Little Indian creek near Georgetown,
Ind.
Williams college at Williamstown,
Mass, conferred the honorary degree
of Ii. D. on Sanford B. Dole, president
of the republic of Hawaii.
Fire in the wholesale wine house of
B. Dreyfus e Co. in New York caused
loss of 100000.
Robert Fergus, 50 years old, vet
eran job printer and retired newspaper
man, was instantly killed by the cars
in Chicago.
An increased call for small notes is
considered by the treasury department
at Washington as AN indication of busi-
ness improvement.
In the intercollegiate boat race on
the Hudson river at Poughkeepsie. n.
Y, Yale defeated Harvard and Cornell.
going the two miles in nine minutes and
| 1912 seconds
The general executive board of the
knights of Labor in session at Washing
ton adopted resolutions favoring recog-
milton of Cuba.
F. r. Cordley d. Co., stockholders in
Boston, failed for S15o,000.
F. c. Van de Sande, of the Illinois
Cycling club, broke the worlds half
mile record on Garfield Park track in
Chicago. He rode the distance in 81 3-5
seconds.
Two earthquake shoclls were dis
tinctly felt at Hopkinsville, KY, and
the walls of large buildings were per-
ceptibly shaken.
Cal Love, night watchman at Sheri-
dan, Ind, crazed with drink and jeal-
ousy shot his wife and himself fatally.
A cyclone near Saline, Kan, wrecked
many buildings, killed Mrs. Anna Geesy
and her two children and injured many
other persons.
A bursting boiler in H. ]. Lang's mill
at Milan, Mo-, killed the proprietor and
engineer and fatally scalded two other
employees.
During a violent hailstorm at Topeka
Kan, many persons were badly hurt
and not dozen houses in the entire
town had full set of windows or 6
whole roof left.
The two little daughters of JOSEPH
Melton, living near Bordley, KY, were
smothered to deatL in trunk.
The Cuban league of New York ha!
issued an appeal asking for financial ait
in its patriotic efforts in behalf of strug
Cling Cuba.
AT Mankato, Mimi, the large depart
ment store of Longini & Thomas faileC
for 100000.
The Mississippi river commission say
it will require $34,O0o,oo0 to repair dam
ages caused by the spring floods ant
to secure protection in the future.
In the four-mile boat race at Pough
keepse, N. Y, Cornell defeated Yale ant
Harvard, the time being 2o;34. Yal
was second.
4 wind and hailstorm in Missouri di'
great damage at Rich Hill, Macon, Sc
dalia and ST. Joseph, and several live
were lost.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

HONOLULU is a city of $4,000 popula-
ton. 1t is pleasantly situated and
covers much territory, each house, ex-
cept in the business blocks, being pro-
vided with garden, some of them of
great extent and beauty. The city is
lighted by electricity, has complete
telephone system and a reasonab bly,
good street railway service. 1t has
sea bathing. subur ban resorts, public
parks and commodious and handsome
public buildings, and in these ap1 oth-
er particulars is ahead of many Amer
ican and European cities of larger pop
ulation.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

A DIVING bell, consisting of thick
hollow cube of about six feet and
weighing rather more than ten tons,
was recently lowered into water 200
feet deep, with strong timbers attach
ed to it, in order to test its strength.
After the bell had reached the bottom
it was noticed that the tim bers came
up in splinters, and when the bell was
pulled up it was crushed out of all
recognition of its former shape. The
water pressure was calculated to be
353, 924 pounds on each side, and re-
sulting pressure of over l, 800 tons on
the cube
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

The question of population has been
serious one in France for the past
20 years. Every ministry in power
has devised some means ot encourag-
ing large families. Premiums have
been set upon babies, fathers whose
cradles have been especially full have
been publicly hailed and decorated.
Still the birth rate is discouragingly
low. Scientists say there are two
causes, the abuse of absinthe by the
men; the abuse of corsets by the wom-
en-. Happily neither of these causes
promise to effect the size of young
America,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

ONE way in which the crew of an
ocean steamer detect the fact that they
are nearing the neighborhood of ice
bergs is by observing the action of the
propeller. The water surrounding
the vicinity of ice bergs is much colder
than ordinary for a considera BILE dis
tance around, and when the vessel en-
ters water of such reduced tempera.
ture the propeller runs faster When
this action is perceptibly increased
without the steam power being aug
mented, word is sent up from the en-.
gine room to the officer on the bridge,
and a close lookout is kept.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

WITH monuments costing thousands
of dollars adorning the graves of some
of the most obscure individuals, it is
bard to believe that man once presi-
dent of the United States, who died
only 80 years ago, has not even mark
for his grave, But such is the case.
John Tyler, of "Tippecanoe and Tyler
400" fame, lies sleeping in an obscure
place in Hollywood cemetery in Rich
mond, Va, and the only way in which
the place he rests is known is that it
is in the same lot with the grave of his
daughter, who died before he did, and
over whom figure" monument was
erected.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
FOREIGN.

The functions of the diamond jubilee
were transferred from London streets
to the palace and the opera. The queen
returned to Windsor, where she received
the lords and commoners.
Three thousand denizens of the slums
of London were guests of the princess of
Wales. 1t was the occasion of the jubi-
lee dinners to the poor. At Windsor
thelords of the admiralty and all the ad-
mirals of the foreign ships were re-
ceived by the queen. The celebration is
virtually ended.
Baron Dhanis, the Belgian leader OF
the Congo expedition against the NAH
dists, and his force of 6,000 men were
massacred by native troops.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

QUEEN VICTORIA has some proficiency
as vocalist From the programme of
the royal private concerts, left by Sir
Michael Costa, it is discovered that on
one evening she sang no fewer than
five times, and on occasion sang in
duets and trios, not only with the
prince consort, but with such artists
as Rubini and Lablache. Mendelssohn
himself has borne enthusiastic testi-
mony to the queens excellence as q
vocalist
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

In newly patented toy for children
a tube is mounted in an angle in a
end cut away, and spring lever lying
in position to hold fire cracker in the
tube, the lever being pulled back and
held in place by clamping the fuse of
the cracker so that it will release it
self when the fuse is almost burned
out, the lever throwing it in the air in
time to explode it there.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

FLORIDA probably has hundred or
more survivors of the Seminole wars,
for whom congress has provided a
yearly pension of S96 since 1892, and
the money is appropriated. Few SUR
vivors, however, can prove their cases
for want of muster rolls. The state
legislature refuses to appropriate 81, 700
to get copies from the war depart
ment
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

A NEW water bicycle is composed of
two air tight tubes with pointed ends
fastened together by cross braces, on
which is set a shaft supporting broad
paddle wheel turned by a chain rum
ming from the pedal shaft, drum cas-
ing partially surrounded the paddles
to prevent the rider from getting wet
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

In a new incandescent vapor lamp
the oil is first raised to heated tubes
to be changed into gas by air pressure,
the tubes being heated by the flame of
the lamp and the gas expanding to
force the oil into the tubes in place of
the air; the flame is surrounded by a
hood or mantle to give a white light
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

Mems rings are usually worn on the
little finger of the left hand or the
right hand Seal rings, or polished
gold ones with monograms engraved
upon them, are the preferred styles.
Seal rings are used for sealing letters,
and are, therefore, as useful as they
are ornamental. Merely decorative
rings are seldom seen on mems hands.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

A POSTAL card that required 10 years
to travel 80 miles breaks the record
for slow postal delivery. 1t was posted
In Leicester, Eng, June 1881, and has
Just been received in London. The
address was plainly written on the
card, and no one knows where it has
been All this time
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
Two Mighty Continents,

North and South America, beside Guate-
mala, the West Indies, Australia, and even
Europe, are the fields of usefulness in which
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has demon.
strated its value as an antidote to malaria,
and as remedy fol dyspepsia, constipation,
rheumatism, neuralgia, biiousness, nervous.
ness, and loss of appetite and sleep. The
inhabitants, the medical men of these coun-
tries, have spoken in no uncertain tones
concerning the efficacy of the great house.
hold remedy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

THERE are eight islands in the Ha-
waiian group that are habitable. Their
names and areas are as follows: Ha'
waii, 4,21o square miles; Oahu, 6OO
Kauai, 500; Maui, 760; Molokai, 27o;
Niihau, 81; Lanai, $50, and Kahoolawe,
63, a total area of 8, 740 square miles
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

NEW SOUTH WALES population last
year was 9T,64O, an increase of about
90, 600 in one year, due, however, to the
excess of births over deaths, as the
colony lost more people by emigration
than it gained by immigration. The
population of Queensland is 264,613.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

Is good opportunity to enquire about
farming lands in South Dakota, only one
days ride from Chicago. Bountiful crops of
Wheat, Corn, Barley and Flax reward the
tiller of the soil. AS stock and dairy coun-
try South Dakota leads all the world. First
class farm lands with nearby markets can
now be bought for from $40, $l2, $l5, and
upwards, per acre, and this is the time to
invest. For further particulars write to
Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger Agent,
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway,
Old Colony Building, Chicago. III.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
A Long Hunt.

Jersey Farmer-out huntin', be you!
City Sportsman (wearily)-Y-e-s, been
hunting all day for patch of woods
without law penalty sign on it.-N
Y Weekly
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
Summer Tours Via big Four Route,

To the Mountains, Lakes and Seashore,
Special Low Rates will be in effect to Put.
in-Bay, Islands of Lake Erie, Lake Chautau.
qua, Niagara Falls, Thousand Islands, st.
Lawrence River, Adirondacks, Lake George,
ton. To the Great Lakes, Cleveland, San
dusky, Toledo, Detroit, Benton Harbor, Mt.
Clemens, Mackinac and Michigan Resorts.
To the Northwest and West via st. Louis
and Chicago. For rates, routes, time OF
trains and full particulars apply to any
agent "Big Four" or address e. o. McCor.
mick, Passenger Traffic Manager big
Four" Cincinnati, o.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

Jack Dashing-Why, there is not new
face here tonight.
Penelope-0h, yes, there is, Miss Made
ups face has just been reenameled.-Up-to-
Date,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

To live is to have justice, truth, reason,
devotion, p.obity, sincerity, common sense,
right and duty welded into the heart. To
live is to know what one is worth-what one
can do, and should do. Life is conscience
Victor Hugo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

The Same Old Wail-Said Eve-'What
a chooser of fig-leaves you are! 'Tis the
worst one that ever carried" Said Adam
~ our dresses are better by far than any
you had when we married "-Harlem life.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

The architect of his own fortunes seldom
tires of building eXtensions.-N. Y. Weekly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03
Low Excursion Rates Account tho
Fourth of July.

For the Fourth of July holiday, the Clevs-
cuIsion tickets between all local stations
and to many points on connecting lines at
a rate of ONE FARE FOR THE ROUND
TRIP.
Tickets on sale July 3rd, 4th and 5th, good
returning until July 9th, 1897, inclusive.
Ask ticket agents for particulars.
c. +. DAILY, Gen. Pass. aSt.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

/ can recommend Piso's Cure for Con-
sumption to sufferers from Asthma.-E. d.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-07-03

Ap old pair of shoes spoils the appearance
of any woman.-Atchison Globe.
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-16

modern civilization hat we make more adequate provision for the care of the vicious than the iurocentty unfortunate. Here is case in point. 4 boy asks to be locked up in the Riverside ] til be canse he has no hom, and can find no chance to work. He is anxious to go to school and to learn a trade, but he is without home or any relatives to look after him, and cons ders bed m jiil preferable to sleeping out in hay stack
 He is guilty of no off-nse against the law, but suggests tha' he would be better off even to be committed 10 the Whittier s'ate school where he would learn trade Ii he had become vagrant or committed theft. the law could deal with hlm and he would be sent to Whittier
 But as it is no legal relief could be af forded hIm. Given a chance to work or to acquire some education, he would probably become useful citizen; the law would tend to drive him to commit some petty crime so that he could be sent to Whittier. There he would come in contact with older boys hardened Tn vice and is likely to learn more evil than good. Fortunately in this particular case private benevolence has stepped in and the waif is likely to be cared for. But that does not change the general fact that the state spends millions on reformatory in. sttutIonS and no hing for the care of such cases as this. The boy is too old to go to an orghan asylum and too young and inexperienced to earn his own liv ing. Left to himself he is likely to be- come tramp or a criminal, and thus a burden on society, if not menance to it's peace and order. It certainly seems as if it ought to be within the province of the state to make some provision to give such waifs as this a little start in life and chance to enter the ranks of industrious and respectable citizens Press and Horticultnrist.
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-16

almost invariably quite ignorant of the work it is his business to perform if he is lazy and indsposed to try to better an obvious route by much physical and mental labor, they will accept his state ments unquestioningly, and no one but himself will ever be wiser; moreover, he starts out with the knowledge that there is one perfect route, 10 which he cannot hope to attain. hls utmost efforts serving merely to make the approximation 8 trlfle closer and, finally, even when the road is finished no one can put out his hand on any particular spot, or even section, and declare authoritatively that there the engineer in charge made a mistake. Other men may think so, and even may say so, but at worst the cul- prit has but to make 8 stout plea of "dif. ferences in expert opinion," adding that
 his knowledge of possibilities was nec- ess rily more complete than any out sider's or to dismiss the whole matter as an instance of professional jealousy" Exchange.
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-16

Don't become discouraged because your station in life seems more humble than you wish it to be. Perhaps you are 8 hundred times more a man than your wealthy neighbor who wears toothpick shoes and smokes cigarettes-it depends on the point of view. Don't get down hearted because your employer has a more luxurious home than yours-there is now. always has been and always will be an unequal and often an unjust dis tribution of wealth your home is doubt less loving, happy one, made so, by labor of each for each-you don't know anything about the misery and unhap- piness which may exist in the magnifi. cent mansion which you covet. Don't get down-hearted because your clothes are not so fine as your nelghbor's-your are paid for. Just accept the condition of affairs philosophically better your own condition and that of the world if you can, be true to yourself and to your manhood and womanhood, and you will find that happiness does not consist in either wealth, pomp or power.
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-16
Aq Sqsiqeers's Responsibilities.

The conscientious engineer accepts without any fuss or parade responsible ities which 8 man of any experience realizes only the vivldly, but which are so little appreciated by the rest of the world, including generally his own en- ployers, that he is forced to depend en- tirety on his own sense of duty and his own pride in his work to guard against carelessness or slackness. His situation is often very peculiar. The promoters and fnanciers who are backing the scheme which engages his attention are
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-16

to set forth their merits. While to the southwest we have the great Fortuna mine from which flows a golden stream. A little east the great copper fields of Ajo, while further along and near the border, the long neglected fields ex' plotted by the early Spanish There is the Pearce mine and Bisbie, with Tomb stone near at hand; with the Clinton and Morence further north thence west to Globe; with wealth of nations and round about and back with mineral on every side to find yourself in Phenix, where assure you there is no safety, because can plant battery of modern guns on working gold ore, at three known places, and from either point lay the city in ashes.
 Now you say, or others will say, if these things be true, why are these mines not being worked? I will not pretend to answer only in part. Let me ask, why did Cripple Creek, the greatest gold camp of the world. remain a COW pasture for more than a quarter of a century? and that, too, only for the obstruction of PIkes Peak, in full view of Denver, the great mining center of the western world A child can ask questions which no man can answer No industry can be developed Tn day. Only feS years have passed since hostile Indians made frequent raids over much of Arizona. Only recently has any considerable DOT ton of the mining country been accessi ble by rail, and at this time the greater portion is remote. Long distances are destitute of service water. Water will have to be supplied by sinking wells and constructing reservoirs; ore markets es- tablished to enable miners to realize on small lots to provide funds for develop ment; capital must be found to help in developing the mines; communities must offer encouragement to this end, and at the same time the schemer must he drowned down. Perseverance and pa tience will gain the victory. Coal mines must be opened, cheap lum Der provided all will work to the general good. In this connection I want to say that the extent and value of Arlzona forest land IS to the world unknown. While the number and extent of valuable coal de- posits in the territy are not even dreamed of by many well-informed people, long residents of Arizona. A statement that Arizona contains more coal than Penn sylvania would be received with many doubts. I believe that geographical survey will prove such to be fact.
 Now, as to timber, one of the greatest pine forests in the United States reaches from southeast to northwest, more than 300 miles across northeastern Arizona, having width of forty to seventy miles, and in places more than 100 miles wide; safely 15,000 square miles of magnificent forest, practically untouched, to say nothing of hundreds of thousands of acres of Cedar, mesquite and other smaller growths distributed all over the territory, affording an almost inexhaust. able supply of excellent fuel and timber suited to many domestic purposes.
 No section of our common country is so little known and has been so ms. ligned as Arizona.
Mohave County miner., 1897-10-16
Capturing Zine Dust.

The gold dust contained in the sands of the Big Horn River is 50 fine that to save it has been COT sidered problem. When two prospeciors came into Jerome d few days since and purchased lot of supplies, paying for the same in what was readily recognized as Big Horn dust, inquiry was made which eliclted the ln- formation that the two prospectors have invented an ingenious contrivance by which they are saving the fine dust nobody else found possible to save.
 The sand is shoveled into large box into which water is pumped with an old fashioned hand pump. The dirt then runs over a set of rifles and goes into. another box in which an old piece of carpet is stretched The wash passes over this carpet, which arrests the fine particles of gold. The carpet is then shaken and washed, quickslve, added. and the result washed This takes out the quicksilver and leaves the gold dust. The men are making about AS per day each, with but very little work. and they propose to continue their operations. No doubt many of the bars of the Big Horn are richer than any they have yet worked d-Yuma Sun.