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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
LATER

BERNARD GooDE, of Michigan, super
intendent of the dead letter office in
The post office department, has re-
signed and D. P. Leibhardt, of Milton,
Ind, who held the Office under the
Harrison administration, has been re-
instated.
The jubilee in celebration of the sill
yer anniversary of Archbishop Patrick
j. Ryan began at Philadelphia on the
20th and continues four days.
ONE hundred Greeks have left Chi
cago for their native land to fight the
Turks.
THE grand jury at Pittsburg on the
Goth brought in true bills on six counts
against c. Linford Woods, of Pittsburg,
and Edward L. Farrow, of Brooklyn,
insurance agents alleged to have fraud
ulently written $500, worth of poll
cies in the New York Mutual Reserve
Fund Life association, making Woods
the beneficiary.
A BAD snowslide attended with loss
of life occurred on the Goth in Eagle
River canon, three miles west of Red
Cliff, Col. Frank Larsaloc and Ernest
Kemp are dead and it is supposed three
more men are buried in the avalanche.
THE Turkish government has called
upon Bulgaria, as the vassal of Turkey,
to hand passports to all the Greek con-
suls in Bulgaria.
THE steamer Massena ran into a
storm on the night of the 10Th at the
foot of Lake Ontario. Capt. Dana was
compelled to run his boat into Matt.
4
is no shelter at that place from a
southeast gale, and the water poured
into the steamer in such torrents that
she filed and sank.
BILLY BIRCH, the old time minstrel
died at his home in New York City OF
the Goth, of paralysis of the brain.
THE agricultural department is being
importuned from all parts of the coun
try for beet sugar seed, and has sent
beet seeds this spring to about 80 state:
and territories.
The anti-scalpers' bill was passed by
the New York senate on the goth by 1
vote of 81 to 8, after an unsuccessful
attempt had been made to amend it il
many particulars. 1t now goes to the
governor.
The North Dakota Milling Co., o
Grand Forks, n. D., capital S150.000
has assigned.
SENATOR MoBGAN's resolution declarinI
that state OF war exists in Cuba was dis
oussed briefly in the senate on the Goth an
then went over for week. The agriculture
appropriation bill was passed without amend
ment A short executive session was held an'
when the senate resumed legislative session
the bankruptcy bin was debated until adjourn
ment. 80. The house was not in session.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
A coLoNEL,s AVERSION.
what Was the Use of Talking of wAtsH
AnYvay7

Wnhb was the Uee OF Taking OF WhteN
Anyway
"lf theuh's anything 1 dislike" re.
marked Col. Stilwell, 'its supererogA-
tion. Theuh abe too many people In
this world who insist on telling you In
the most solemn mannuh things which
any puhson of awdinary intelligence
could readily take foh granted. was
recently at a city on the coast, where ]
met young friend of mine. He was
very courteous. One of the first things
he did was to ask rue If would not
like to go down the beach short dis
tance and get acquainted with their
life-saving arrangements"
You went, of co'se," suggested Maj.
Mott.
mo. 1 told him that the journey
was quite unnecessary, as had flask
in my pocket He refused to join me
and If it had not been foh his extreme
paliteness l should have sought society
elsewhere fo'thwith.
THE conversation went rather slow
ly. Finally, howevuh, he made an eff
fort and entered on disclose about the
ocean. He dwelt upon the majestic
waves that kept rolling in to the sho'
and said that it filed him with awe to
gaze across that stretch of water into
the infinity of space"
THAT was remarkably impressive
thought"
ITO be sure. That obsuhvation had
some reason in it. But his next remark
reused my indignation. With the air
of man who proposes to astonish you
with cleverness, he proceeded td say
that it was fine to look at, but that it
was mighty poor comfort when it came
to pinch, as it wasn't fit to drink.
What doyou think, sub, of a full-grown
mans wasting words to construct a
sentence like that?"
But" expostulated the major, 'he
meant that it was salty"
The colonel glared at him.
"Puh-haps he meant that the ocean
was salty and puh-haps he did not; but
will you be kind enough to tell me,
suh what the deuce that has to do with
the question, suh?"-Washington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The grand total of hydraulic power at
Niagara falls secured through cleo
trical apparatus is over 10000 horse
power.
The state geologist of Kentucky has
grieved and disappointed many of it's
citizens by declaring that there is no
gold in the state.
There will be unveiled at Philadel-
phia on May 15 a monument to Wash
ington for which II committee has been
soliciting subscriptions for almost Sc
years.
An enactment by the Tennessee legis-
lature provides severe penalties for Off
GERS of corporations who permit the
use of corporation funds to influence
political action.
Mayor Il. Y. Williams, of OakesIlale,
Wash, has resigned his Office rather
than sign an ordinance coudemning a
man to Imprisonment in Jail for neg
lecting to license his dog.
OF the G2 men who have served as
mayors of New York since 1865 Will
liam l.. Strong is the only one to cele-
brate his SEVENTEEN birthday in office.
He looks ten years younger.
An appeal has been issued from New
York by the Irish National alliance
urging their fellow countrymen to
unite under the auspices of that So
ciety in one confederation with the sole
aim of achieving absolute independence
for Ireland.
The agricultural department. in Wash
ington has taken steps looking to the
determination of hog cholera, and, as
an initiative, has sought the coopea-
ton of the states of Tennessee and
Iowa in an experiment to determine
how economically the malady which
is devastating to swine interests can be
stamped out.
Anna Dickinson was awarded 6H
cents damages by a jury at Scranton,
Pa, in her suit against G. B. Thomp-
son, Allan Eggleston and Others for
$500,000 damages, on the allegation that
! they. at the instance of her sister, forci-
bly, took her from her home at Pitts
! ton, Pa, in 1891 and incarcerated her in
the Danvlle insane asylum.
Frank A. Acocks started from Grid
ley, Kan. to walk around the world,
carrying the stars and stripes. He ex-
poets to walk IS miles five days week
and rest two days, and he is to walk
all the way except when necessary to
ride across the waters. On his return
he will place the flag in the capitol
building at Topeka.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
Coffee Kindness.

DIR. Snaitken says: at is we'll known
that the Moors are inveterate coffee
drinkers, especially the merchants, who
sit in their bazars and drink coffee con-
tinually during the day. 1t has been
noticed that almost invariably when
these coffee drinkers reach the age of
40 or As their eyesight begins to fail,
and by the time they get to be so years
old they become blind One is forcibly
impressed by the number of blind men
that are seen about the streets of the
city of Fez, the capital of Morocco IL
is invariably attributed to the excessive
use of coffee. IN. Y Ledger
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
TURKS IN RETREAT.
They Suffer Defeat by the Greek
Forces at Reveni.
Edhem PRshn, Their Leader, Narrow
~ Escapes BEING Taken Prisoner
-MiIounR Pass still Occupied
by the sultnn's Troops.

Larissa, April 2o.-The Greeks have
Greek brigades have entered Turkish
territory in different directions and
penetrated to Damasi, northeast of
Zarkos. Another division is trying to
flank the Turks, who are retreating in
disorder. Heavy fighting is in progress
Mt Gritzovali. 1t has been going on since
noon. The Greeks are trying to re-
capture the place.
Athens, April 20.-A telegram re-
ceived from Arta says the troops have
left that point for Janina. The sea off
Prevesa is very rough. The firing there
Monday was desultory,
Gen. Smolenitz, ex-minister of war, is
in command of $4,000 Greeks at Reveni,
not far from Tyrnavos, northwest of
Larissa. At this point Edhem Pasha,
closely pressed, was nearly taken pris-
oner. His plan was to force the pass of
Reveni, to enter the plain of Larissa, to
cut off the retreat of the Greek army
with his cavalry and thus take Larissa
without resistance. But this plan was
defeated. Gen. Demopoulos, at the head
VI OllC blCCh IhC III
ish line at Boughazi, close to Tyrnavo
and Gen. Mavromochale broke through
at Koniskos. The two generals united
their troops near Damasi.
The news of this success at Reveni
and of the imminent fall of Prevesa has
changed the dismay caused at Athens
by the loss of Milouna into the widest
rejoicing. The latest advices are that
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

The late Sir b. w. Richardson is cred
tied with the following curious infor-
nation on suicides: The rate of sui
eide is highest in the last four days of
June, and lowest in February; more
common among Protestants than Ro-
man Catholics, and rare among the
Jews 1t increases with education,
and spreads with railways and tele.
graphs. More men than women are
swayed by its influence, and the aver
age of suicides is set down at 10 in
overy 100, 000
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

Two deputy marshals were killed in n
Gght near Pawnee, I. T., with gang of
outlaws.
Two young sons of John Henry, living
near Greenland, Ark, committed sui
eide. No cause was known for the
deed.
There were 2o7 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 232 the week
previous and 222 in the corresponding
period of 1896.
Advices from Natchez and other points
below Vicksburg indicated that the SUI
preme test in the flood situation in the
south was at hand.
Dispatches received in Chicago from
many lake ports announced tho preva-
lence of furious gales accompanied by
snow and rain, and number of vessels
were driven ashore.
Cashier j. A. Stickney, of the Great
Falls national bank at Somersworth,
N. H., was murdered by robbers, who
carried off $4,000.
David Mckinney and his wife, who
have believed each other dead for 30
years, have been reunited at La Crosse,
Wis.
The Texas legislature has passed a
bill taxing sleeping and dining car com
panies ten cents per mile of travel.
Fire at the University of California
in Berkeley destroyed the building occu-
pied as the college of agriculture.
Fire destroyed the greater portion OF
the plant of the Grand Crossing Tack
company in Chicago, the loss being
$136,Oo0.
DR.. w. Godfrey Hunter and ex-Con-
gressman John II. Wilson were indicted
at Louisville for conspiracy to bribe in
connection with the senatorial contest.
The body of Gen. Grant has been
removed in New York from the tenn
porary tomb which has sheltered it
for nearly 12 years to the imposing
mausoleum which is designed to be it's
permanent resting place.
Fears of flood at Kansas City, Mo-,
have now been dissipated.
War news from the east was the topic
Of discussion in diplomatic and official
circles in Washington. Secretary Sher-
man said that this country would OBJ
serve strict neutrality.
The remains of the late Andrew j..
Garvey, who died in Southampton, ar
rived in New York. twas Garvey's tes-
timony that clinched the evidence
against Tweed, who was charged in
1872 with defrauding the city.
Deputy Clerk Wallace A. Mason, of
the criminal court, swallowed his false
teeth and died in great agony in New Or
leans.
The Blakeslee family, living near
Findlay, o., were tortured by burglars
ard robbed of $1,000 in money.
The river at Burlington, Ia, was
eight miles wide and extended over the
lowlands at Gladstone, ILL.,, IL miles
from Burlington.
her birth.
At Niagara Falls an unknown young
man, apparently "a years old, jumped
from the middle of the suspension
bridge and was drowned.
The following have been appointed
umpires of the National Baseball
league: Lynch, Hurst, Emslie, Sheri-
dan, Mcdonald, McDermott and O'Day
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

ACCORDING to government estimates
the amount of submerged land from
the Mississippi overflow on April was
about 1880 square miles, the region
containing population of about $780,
OO0 Tho flooded districts comprised
about 10000 farms, of which 1s, SOC
were in Mississippi, 10000 in Arkansas
and the rest about equally divided be-
tween Missouri and Tennessee. The
total value of the farms, according tc
the last census, was about $65, 900, 600
and the live stock on hand January
1897, is estimated at 81, 500, 900.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

The supreme court of Tennessee has
just decided that lawyer may cry
bitterly in his address to a jury if he
wants to and feels badly enough about
his clients wrongs. In this case the
victorious hustler burst into a flood of
tears while arguing his case The 9TH
er side excepted, but did not call on
the court to have the sheriff call him
off, and the learned judges of the SUI
preme court hold that an attorney
may not be debarred from shedding
his tears under such circumstances.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

UNDER a recent order of the war de-
partment April is made the athletic
month" OF the United States army,
and will continue to be each year. At
present athletic games are being held
at all the principal military posts in
the country, and the winners in these
post contests will be entitled to enter
as competitors for department cham
pionships in contest to be held at FIT.
Sheridan, near Chicago, some time
during the summer. The object is
physical exercise and development, OF
which soldiers in time of peace do not
get much.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

THE clerks in the post Office depart
ment will have to write more than
$4,000 letters to notify as many ambi-
tious American citizens that their ap-
plications have been received. The
officials say that the hard times have
set every body trying to get job un.
der the government. The first week
of the present administration $4,000
applications for Office were received at
the post Office department alone; the
second week 25, 700, the third week As
693. The largest proportion from any
state was from Kansas.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Justin Smith Morrill,, the veteran
senator from Vermont, celebrated his
eighty-seventh birthday in Washing
ton. Mr.. Morrill, completed his 80
years of continuous service March 4
last.
Carter H. Harrison, recently elected
mayor of Chicago on the democratic
ticket, was inaugurated.
The republicans of the First con-
gressional district of Missouri renomi-
mated Charles n. Clark, of Hannibal, for
congress.
Mrs. Elizabeth R. Tilton, the wife of
Henry Ward Beecher's accuser, died at
her home in Brooklyn from paralytic
stroke. Theodore Tilton, her husband,
is in Paris, where he has lived ever
since the Beecher trial.
Mrs. S. M. Hanna, the mother of Sen
ator Mark Hanna, died of pneumonia
atAsheville, N. c., aged s4 years.
James S. Moffit, the original Lone
Fisherman in "Evangeline," died in Bal
timore.
Charles Goode, who few weeks age
celebrated his one hundred and third
birthday, died at Belmont, Wis.
The populist national committee has
issued call for national convention
at Nashville, Tenn, July A, to reorganizc
the party.
Seth l.. Milliken, for 12 years a mem
Der of congress from the Third district
of Maine, died in Washington of pneu.
monia.
Mrs. Hester Jackson (colored), who
for years has been known in Newark
N. j., as Aunt Hester, celebrated the
one hundred and sixth anniversary oil
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

SYLVESTER SCovEL, the newspaper
correspondent who was rescued from
Spanish prison in Cuba, has present.
ed to Mrs. Mckinley a handsome and
unique gift, which he has been com
missioned to bring from Sonora Mad
rigal, OF San Spiritus. 1t was n fan
made of mother of pearl, inlaid with
gold Sencra Madrigal had learned
that Mrs Mckinley was fond OF dainty
bric-a- brac, and sent the fan as tes-
timony of her kindly regard for the
wife of the president. The fan has
been in the Madrigal family for 15O
years, and is probably two hundred
years old. -
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

A NEW novelist named Pietari Paiva-
rinta has been discovered in Finland,
and the English critics are comparing
him to 1bsen, Tousguenietf and Toll
stoi He can hardly be called new
novelist, except in the sense that the
outside world has just found him, for
he is nearly seventy years old, and has
been writing many years. The first of
his works to be translated into Eng
lish is ''Nentti and Juka."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

THE 10000 bicycles in use in this
country last year will soon be whirl-
ing over the road again, and at least
a million new ones will be added dur
ing the season. Over 81, 000,0 600 worth
of our wheels will be sent abroad.
England is now our largest foreign
customer. Germany comes next, and
France third. The world has practi-
cally admitted that American cycles
are the hest
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

BARON Won STEPHEN, whose death is
announced from Germany, organized
the international postal union and de-
vised a system by which one rate could
be used between all nationalities en-
tering the union. 1t brought all for
eign countries, whatever their respec-
tive postal laws and rates, into the
same easy communication as that be-
tween different states or provinces of
the same country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

AT the election in Hudson, Mich, n
city of about 5000 inhabitants, a vot-
ing machine was used. AS a result the
returns were footed up and in the
hands of the telegraph operator for
transmission inside of six minutes aft
er the polls closed. Under the old
method the counting would have con-
tinued for hours and the chances for
mistakes would have been materially
;noraaend
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

Washington, April 2o.-The supreme
court refused the application for a
writ of certiorari and habeas corpus by
Elverton Il. Chapman, the broker, who
refused to testify in the sugar specula-
tion investigation whether senator's had
npeculated in sugar stocks while the
Wilson tariff bill was before that body.
The sentence of the supreme court of
the District of Columbia to 30 days in
Jail and 500 fine was affirmed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

the Greek troops are advancing to re-
occupy their positions at Milouna and at
Gritzovali, the latter of which, it is
alleged, was abandoned owing to a mis-
understanding by the general in COM
mand who interpreted as an order of
retreat what was really intended as an
order of advance.
London, April 2O.-A dispatch to the
Daily Chronicle from Athens, dated
midnight, says Gen. Smolenitz, in COM
mand of the Greeks at Reveni, has
pushed Edhem Pasha toward Damasi.
The suspense here is extreme. Every
body is waiting for the list of killed and
wounded. Patriotic bankers and others
have offered the government over 6 l.
100000.
The Greeks have occupied several
strategic positions around Damasi, in
Guiding Viglia. Three thousand armed
peasants have joined the troops. 1t is
alleged that $4,000 Turks attacked
Reveni. 1t is feared that a massacre
has taken place at Prevesa during the
bombardment.
The dispatch from Athens continues:
While the incidents of the day along the
eastern portion of the frontier have
not been of notable Importance, the
situation at the Gulf of Arta and in the
vicinity of the Albanian frontier have
become more favorable for the Greeks.
The bombardment of Prevesa was re-
sumed at daybreak, with but feeble re-
plies from the Turkish batteries at
Hamidieh and Pentocratoros. The po-
sition of the Turks is untenable, and
it is believed that the town will fall
into the hands of the large Greek forces
in the vicinity, which is waiting for
the demolition of the remaining batter
les. The Greek battle ship Spetzia has
taken the lead in the bombardment.
Constantinople at noon Monday the
Gulf of Arta was officially closed to
Gil but Turkish ships.
Capt. Tagrade, who was wounded a
Gritzovali, shot himself in order to
avoid falling into the hands of the
Turks. The Greeks report that the
Turks lost 1000 killed and wounded at
Reveni, but this estimate is probably
excessive. The Greek engineers con-
structed a bridge at Pachyskalos to en-
able their troops to cross the river. 1t
is stated that the Turkish forces at
| taclSing Reveni numbered more than
| 10000 men.
In a general way it can be said that
the days events were in favor of the
Greek armies.
AS further indicating that affairs ON
the frontier are considered serious by
the Delyannis government is the fact
that Prince Nicholas las been ordered
to the front. He is the third son of King
George, and he will take command OF a
battery of artillery. 1t would also ap-
pear that thus far the heaviest losses
have fallen on the Grecian troops, and
that there will be need of speedy re-
endorsements If the percentage of NOR
tality is long continued.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

AN "automatic singer" was exhib-
tied to the editorial staff of Paris
newspaper. The apparatus is in the
form of tripod, on the top of which
is a machine smaller than the phone
graph, into which the cylinders are
put. The sound is transmitted by
highly perfected boards to n metallic
trumpet, and it is stated that the voice
cnn be heard 220 yards off.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
FOREIGN.

1t is said that peace negotiations in
Cuba have been checked by the refusal
of Gen. Gomez to receive the three com
missioners appointed by Gen. Weyler.
A dynamite explosion in deep mine
at L'Langlaarte, Africa, killed eight
English and &c native miners.
Ten persons were killed through an
explosion of fire damp in the Ober-
hansen pit near Essen, Germany.
The Turkish government has formal
ly informed the Greek government that
any further raid of irregulars into Turk.
ish territory would be regarded as a
declaration OF war upon the part oi
Greece.
Near the town of Encrucijada, Cuba
Spanish troops destroyed the property
owned by the wife of the British vice
consul, Mr.. Harris, and tore up an
American flag which the manager Of
the estate, George Harris, who is ar
American citizen, had draped over hi:
bed.
United States Consul Little tele'
graphs from Tegucigalpa, the capita
of Honduras, that a revolution has
broken out and that the republic is now
under martial law.
1t was stated in Rome that notice
had been received from the American
| government that the United States doe.
not recognize the existence OF block
] ade at Crete.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

THE legislature of Texas is consider
ing resolution which, after reciting
that freight rates are unsatisfactory
and unjust, instructs the railroad COM
mission to make survey for n railroad
from some point on the coast to the
Red river at Denison, the proposed
road to I've built and operated by the
state
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

When man runs for an office, and is de
feated, he consoles himself by saying it paid
him for the acquaintance it gave him.
Washington Democrat
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
Amended.

"That woman over there looks as il
she was painted"
''Sir, that is my wife"
II had not finished my sentence. She
looks as if she were painted by Raphael
and had just stepped out of the frame" +"
Clips
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24

You have no doubt remarked how effec.
tive worthless man is in politics.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-04-24
Must RemoVe Their Hats.

Albany, N. Y, April 90" The assem-
bly, has passed the bill TO prevent the
wearing of high hats in theaters.