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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The potato crop in parts of Ireland
has succumbed to the blight.
The government of Peru has ordered
it's postage stamps made in the United
States.
John L. Sullivan will run as an inde-
pendent candidate for mayor of Boston
this fall.
Grand Duke Adolph of Luxembourg,
who is now so years of age, is the oldest
temporal sovereign in Europe.
Another date has been fixed for the
This time Prof. Falb, of Vienna. is the
prophet.
Maj. Elijah Halford, who was the
private secretary of President Harrison,
has made reputation in Denver as Il
church debt raiser.
Judge Wellhouse is called the apple
king of the world. His orchards in
ing 100000 apple trees.
Samuel r. Galloway, the new presi-
dent of the Lake Shore. began life as
poor boy on the Grand Trunk railroad,
working for $S.33 month.
Joseph B. Walker. of Concord. has
has completed so years of continuous
service as a trustee of the New Hamp-
shire asylum for the insane.
Russia, according to the recent CEN
sus returns, has population close to
l30,000,00O, about equal to that of any
other three European states.
The Rome (Ga.) cotton factory has
obtained government contract for
100000 yards of heavy duck for mail
sacks. The amount of the contract is
$25O.O0O.
Mrs. w. +. Fackler. of Dayton, o., has
fallen heir 10 an estate in Germany
valued at 100000. Her title to the es-
tate was established by family Bible
in her possession.
Bathwest island. on the north Aus
tralian coast. has been leased to COM
pany which will devote special atten-
ton to India rubber production. The
area of the island exceeds 100000 acres.
The daughters of Harriet Beecher
Stowe have felt called upon to publish
Il card, informing their numerous
friends that they are far from needing
pecuniary assistance, public or private.
A statement prepared by the treas
ury department shows that for the first
time in the history of trade relations
with Japan the United States is en-
titled to be considered as a serious COM
petitor with Europe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

SIBERIA, by recent ulIase, is to have
a new system of law courts, removing
the inhabitants from the arbitrary rule
of government officials. Justices of
the peace will be appointed by the
crown; there will be superior courts at
Tomsk, Tobolsk, Chita, Krasnoyarsk,
Irkutsk, Yakutsls, Blagovestchenslz
and Vladivostock, and court of ap-
peals at Irl1utsl,. The change is made,
the decree states. on account of the
development of the country and the
changes in civil life brought about by
the Siberian railroad.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

A RUSSIAN inventor has constructed
an apparatus which is to enable people
buried alive to communicate with the
outer world should they awake from
their trance in the grave. The inven-
the inside of the coffin, situated imme-
diately over the breast of the appar-
emily dead person. If the unfortunate
person comes to life and begins to
breathe, the first action of the body is
the expansion of the chest; this presses
the button upward, and an alarm bell
IS set going in the Office of the superin-
.endept of the cemetery.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

SOUTH AMERICAN lovers have pretty
custom. 1t is well known that when
the petals of the great laurel magnolia
are touched, however lightly, the result
is a brown spot, which develops in a
few hours. The fact is taken advantage
of by the lover, who pulls a magnolia
flower, and on one of its pure white
petals writes amotto or message with
hard, sharp-pointed pencil. Then he
sends the flower, the young lady puts
it in vase of water, and in three or
four hours the message written on the
leaf becomes visible.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

"TndEo DANAos" holds good for the
pilfering habits of the Greeks, if not
tor their courage, according to the eX-
perience of some Englishmen who join
I'd the Garibaldian legion during the
recent war. Twenty-Five of them left
heir superhuous baggage, on going to
the front, at the Students club in
Athens, on the invitation of the club
officials. On their return they found
that the trunks and bags had been
opened and everything of value taken
out. On complaining to the police and
the government they were offered 81
cents each as compensation.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28
CARRIED OVER THE FALLS
Three Young Men Lose Their Lives at
Ninrurn.

Niagara Falls, n. Y, Aug. 23.-Franil
Webber, OF Buffalo; Warren Bush, u
years old. of Chicago, a former employs
OF the United States Express company,
and Chrales Glasner. 30 years of age, OF
Chicago, employed by the United States
Express company, who have been camp
ing on the banks of the Niagara river
for the past week, with several COM
panions, on Sunday hired small boat
at La Sale, and started to row across
the Niagara river to the Canadian shore.
In the heavy current their boat became
unmauageable and upset. The men
were seen by II number of people on
shore struggling iii the water. but be-
fore assistance could reach them, all
three were carried over the falls. on the
Canadian side. There is little proA
bility of the bodies being recovered for
some weeks
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

A NOVEL parcel for delivery by ex-
press post was handed in at the Birm-
ingham post Office. A worllingman,
who had been out of town with his
three-year-old child, arrived at Birm-
ingham in time to reach his place of
business, but not in sufficient time to
take the child home. He, therefore,
walked into the nearest post office and
rendered the youngster as an express
parcel. The authorities, under the
rule regulating the delivery of live
animals, accepted the child, and duly
delivered it at the charge of nine
pence
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28
want war ReneyyeJ,

Athens, Aug. 23.-A meeting of over
1000 people held here Sunday adopted
an address to King George, urging him
and the government to reject the pra
posed peace treaty between Greece and
Turkey, and to resume the hostilities
which We're interrupted by the truce.
The entire press, however, and n great
majority of the public of Athens con
denim the agitation for resumption OF
the war
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

Improvement in business in all por-
tions of the country was reported.
In Illinois, Indiana and Michigan
heavy frosts did some damage to grow
ing crops.
The Internatit nal Fire Chiefs asso-
citation in session at New Haven, Conn,
elected as chief A. j. Kennedy. of New
Haven.
An excursion train was wrecked near
Lima, o., and 20 persons were injured,
some seriously.
The national executive board of the
United Mine Workers issued call for
conference of organized labor in st
Louis August 30. The board rejected
the proposition of the Pittsburgh OPP
orators for a conference to arbitrate
the wage dispute.
The Peoples Savings bank at Mount
Pleasant, Mich, closed its doors with
liabilities of 100000.
II. o. Claughton, a well-known attor-
ney of Washington, and Miss Villa Gus
tbs, daughter of DR. w, G. N. Custis,
were killed by the cars at Il crossing
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 21st were: Boston, 900;
Baltimore, .G6T; Cincinnati, .642; New
York, .6l5: Cleveland. .536; Chicago,
.4S0; Pittsburgh. .443;' Louisville, .436;
Philadelphia. .+31; Washington, .4os;
Brooklyn. .4OS: st. Louis. .260.
Mrs. j. C. McCnbe, Of Coloma, Mich,
was killed instantly and Mrs. r. S.
Bailey fatally injured in a runaway ac-
cident at Niles.
Andrew Green (coloredD was lynched
by mob at Lovett, Ca, for killing
George Heath, prominent white man.
j. B. Rich shot and killed his wife at
the home of her mother in Nashville,
Tenn, killed his brother-in-law and
then shot himself. Domestic trouble
was the cause.
Nine men were seriously injured in
riot among the strikers at the Unity
mihes near Pittsburgh, Pa.
Flcany Sullivan, convicted of assault
ing Sarah Lawson and sentenced to 20
years in prison, was taken from Jail
at Williamsburg, Ky, by mob and
hanged.
The main buildings of the j. p.
Thomas & Sons company, fertilizer
manufacturers. near Paulsboro, N. j.,
were burned, the loss being $25o,ooo.
Whitecaps horsewhipped three Nor
mon elders at Beulah, S. c., and drove
them out of town.
BY the confession of negro murderer
at Hahnville, La, it was ascertained
that three Italians who were lynched
there two years ago for the murder of
an old Spaniard were innocent.
While defending the funds of the
Farmers bank at Shepherd, Mich,
Elmer L. Struble, its cashier and the
president of the village, was shot and
killed by robbers.
At Washington park, Chicago. Star
Pointer beat Joe Patchen three straight
mile heats in 2:O2, 2:O4A and 2:o4.
Frank Webber, of Buffalo, N. Y. and
Warren Bush and Charles Glasner, of
Chicago, were carried over Niagara.
falls in small boat and perished.
Mrs. VIII G Scarlet was instantly
killed and Mrs. Josephine Kebler was
fatally injured while out driving at
indianapolis.
George Sherburne, wife and young
child were instantly killed by the cars
at a crossing near Kinsey, Ind.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28
FOREIGN.

Constartinople was in panic over
three bomb explosions which were at
tributed to the Armenians.
Capt. Gen. Weyler, of Cuba, denies
that he has resigned or that he has any
present intention of resigning.
Soon after President Faure left Paris
OH his visit to the czar at ST. Petersburg
a bomb exploded along the route the
president had followed, causing intense
excitement.
The Spaniards attacked Cuban hos
pital near Cumanayagua and killed 20
of the inmates. four of them being wom-
en- and five children.
At the Crystal palace in London Platts
Betts covered mile on bicycle in
1887 3-5, beating McDuffee's worlds
record.
Ter. James b. Angel, the new United
States minister to Turkey, arrived in
Constantinople.
The queen regent of Spain has con-
ferred the premiership upon Gen. Az
carraga, who is also minister of war
The cabinet will not be modified.
The Turks raided the district of Sal
mas, on the Turco-Persian frontier, and
completely destroyed two Armenian
villages and massaered 200 persons.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

1R1AL by jury, which has diminished
in popularity in the English courts of
justice, is perilously near the vanish
ing point in the county courts. So
much is clear from the annual returns,
which have just been published. Of
the 693, 1877 actions determined during
the year only 1,1s6 were tried by juries.
On many a circuit on which over twen-
ty thousand cases were heard the num-
Der of actions tried by juries was less
than twenty.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

VoRKMEN in sugar house at Oak
lawn, Irish Bend, La, are puzzled to
account for several explosions that
have occurred there when some hand
has tried to enter the vacuum pan
through manhole with a lighted Ian
tern. The explosions have been SINH
lar to explosions of fire damp and they
have blown out portions of the roof
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

GUNBoATs are now building in Eng
land for transportation in sections to
Abu Hamid, whence there is open water
TO Khartoum. These gunboats are
powerful. They draw only two feet OF
water, steam IA knots an hour, and are
armed with 15-pounders and Maxim
rapid-fire guns. 1t is announced that
the whole flotilla will be ready to move
south from Abu Hamid early in 1898.
1t is positive, however, that Berber,
the next important point on the Nile,
may be seized before long, without
waiting for the naval reinforcements,
Serious fighting is expected.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

THIRTY years ago there were 10 en-
ployes of the senate on the payroll.
To-day the number is 354. The large
increase is in proportion not only to
the size Of the senate, but as well to
the increase in public business, due to
the enormous development of the coun-
try. But the number of high priced
employees has not increased in proper
tion to the increase in the total mum
ber. Thus two years ago, an $l,sOO
clerk in the post Office was cut off, and
two men at 5000 each were added TO the
carrier service. 1t was said that the
clerk was not needed, but the addition.
ii carriers were.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

Canton, o., Aug. 23.-Merehant Po-
liceman Charles Hemminger surprised
burglars in the basement of the Isaac
Harter & Sons savings bank early Sun
day morning. The guard of the party
opened fire on the officer and the lat
ter shot one of the men who had been
in the cellar. The burglar died at the
hospital later without revealing his
identity.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28
APPEAL TO QUEEN REGENT,

Asked by Red Cross Women to Inter
pose for Scnoritn Cisneros.
Washington, Aug. ga cablegram
has been sent 10 the queen regent OF
Spain asking her, in humanity's name,
to interpose for Senorita Cisneros in
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

A NEW system of studying a foreign
language has been introduced by a
Partisan teacher. Two thousand pu-
pilseof French schools have entered in
to a regular correspondence with the
same number of English pupils, each
side writing weekly letter in the Ian
guage of the other, but submitting it
to the teacher before it is mailed. AS
a rule, boys and girls are paired for the
lessons
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

New York printers have under con-
sideration plan to lease a tract of
land near the city on which the unem-
ployed of their craft may raise vegeta-
bles, fruit and other farm products
that are always in demand in the mar
lSets. They believe that the experiment
under good management will be sure
TN Suppped
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Iowa republicans in convention at
Cedar Rapids nominated L. NJ. Shaw for
governor, j. C. Milliman for lieutenant
governor, Charles NJ. Waterman for su-
preme court judge, C. L. Davidson for
railroad commissioner and X. C. Barrett
for superintendent of public instruc-
ticn. The platform indorses the ma
tional and state administrations.
Mrs. Margaret Ferris, the widow of
George w. Ferris, builder of the Ferris
wheel, was married in Pittsburgh, Pa,
to Francis Schlatter, the divine
healer"
Democrats opened the campaign in
Iowa by holding II meetings, one in
each congressional district.
The middle-of-the-road populists in
state convention in Des Moines nomi-
mated the following ticket: For gov
ernor, Charles A. Lloyd; lieutenant
governor, ID. l.. Perkins; judge of the
supreme court, j. A. Lowenburg; SUI
perintendent of instruction, William
Blaine; railroad commissioner, l.. I'll.
Griffith. The resolutions reatfirm the
platforms of the peoples party adopted
at Omaha and st. Louis and declare in
favor of the initiative and referendum.
The prohibition state convention at
Lynchburg, Va. nominated Rev. L. A.
Cutler, of Louisa, for governor.
Rev. Perry Hopkins, bishop in the
American African Union Methodist
church, died in New York, aged 7i
years.
Massachusetts republicans will hold
their state convention in Boston Sep
tember 20.
Curley Chief, one of the most noted
of Pawnee Indians, died at his home
near Perry, o. T., aged over 100 years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28
nnx stnte RennhIIcnnn.

Boston, Aug. 23.--At a meeting of the
republican state committee it was de-
cided to hold the state convention here
Wednesday, September 20.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-08-28

ENANGELINA COSSIC CISNEROS.
(The Cuban girl who is being prosecuted
by Capt. Gen. Weyler's agents. She is
relative of President Cisneros, of th
Cuban republcD
Cuba. 1t is signed by Mrs. j. c. Bur
rows, president; Mrs. j. Ellen Foster,
advocate-general, and Mrs. Emily I.
Kilvert, secretary, for the National Re
lief Association for Cuba, in aid of the
American Red Cross society.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-08
Modern Awnings.

Scarcely any object is more conspic-
nous in the summer season than the
awning, = said Mr.. BifHeton In none
is our progress in civilization more APP
parent. Awning stripes are made now
adays in great variety of styles and in
various colors and shades of color. 1t is
quite possible to get an awning to match
a building, or one that shall contrast
with it agreeably. have seen lately
a large hrownstone building equipped
with awnings having alternate stripes
in two shades of brown, shading admi-
rably with the stone, the whole produc-
ing massive, harmonious and pleasing
effect. / have seen buildings of light
colored bricks with light stone or terra
Gotta trimmings equipped with awnings
ia stripes of darker colors and of seme-
what fanciful design as to. the width
and grouping of the stripes, giving an
effecr somewhat striking perhaps, but
decidedly picturesque,
g The fact is that in the hands of a
competent person the awning may now
easily be made great embellishments of
the building. and properly put up, as
indeed most Of them are nowadays. it
becomes thing of beauty and joy. if
rot forever. at least for the summer
months. - Exonange.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-08
A Wheelman's Device.

Ingenious wheelmen of Nice have put
an end to the tribute of lives which
"a hill near that city has been ex,
acting from them. At the bottom of
this declivity, it seems, there is a sharp
turn, then a bridge with a low parapet,
and just beyond terrible amohnt of
nothing at all except scenery. Long ago
the French Touring club put a sign adj
vising caution in conspicuous place at
the top of the descent, but this did not
prove sufficient to overcome the fatal
attraction of. the abyss, and wheelmen
continued to precipitate themselves into
the view-which, by the way. was pri-
vate property with a rapidity that
threatened in time seriously to diminish
the clubs annual receipts from dues.
After long study of the problems,
financial, aesthetic and others, which
the case involved, it was decided to sus
pend just beyond the parapet strong
net neatly woven of steel wires. The
very day after it was put in place BIZ
cyclist came coasting wildly down the
hill, struck the stone wall, left his wheel
lit wasn't worth taking any farther
and took graceful header into the net
For the first time it wasn't necessary
for the newspapers of Nice. in giving
their regular news from the bridge of
Raminguo, to say anything about "a
plunge into eternity Since then the
net has saved an average of four lives a
week, and SO well known have its pow;
ers become that picnic parties from the
city, which once avoided the bridge as a
place of tragical associations. now re-
sort there daily to watch, from the cool
shade Of nearby trees, the amusing
pastures assumed by the wheelmen and
wheelwcmen when they strike the elias
tic wires. According to recent infornla-
ton from that region the spectacle is
well worth seeing. New York Times
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1897-07-08
FIRE MEMS WATcHFuLNESS.
Habits of Vigilance That Prevent Com
rade's Danger From Being Overlooked.

Habits of Vigilance That Prevent Conn
rade's Danger From Being Overlooked.
After twoscore fremen had been TAX
Ell unconscious from the cellar of a
burning building in Chambers street
curious citizen who wandered inside
the fire lines asked:
How do they happen to know in all
this confusion and noise that men sup
posed to be fighting fire in the cellar
have been overcome by smoke and are
. lying down there unconscious, and
how, too, with nearly 40 men rescued,
do they know that there are not more
men in the cellar in a similar predica-
ment?''
Under the circumstances the question
was perfectly natural. It was dark
night and the fact that the electric
lights for block east and west sputter-
ed constantly instead of giving steady
light did not improve matters. All was
confusion around the burning building.
Firemen Were running every which way.
Policemen were beating back the crowd
which was struggling to get near enough
to the engine house to see the PROSTATE
fremen within Ambulances and fire
engines blocked the street, and firemen
were clambering over the roofs of adj
joining buildings, yelling hoarsely at
one another and seeking places to fight
the fire.
Naturally in all this confusion it was
matter of wonder to one. not familiar
with the ways of fremen how in the
world they could tell whether or not
any of their comrades was in danger
The cellar of the building was full of
thick, black smoke, which no man
could live in even for short time, and
besides that the temperature was down
to zero, for the fire was in cold stor-
age warehouse and the freezing rooms
were in the cellar.
There is system in the fire depart
ment by which the men can keep track
of one another. The rule is for the men
of each company to look out for the
members of that company This makes
it comparatively easy for the men to
keep track of one another, for there are
rarely more than a dozen men IN
company, and each man in it knows
about where his comrades are working
at a fire.
The custom among the men is to keep
constantly inquiring for one another. If
Jones hasn't happened to see Smith for
some time, he Immediately asks the
first man of his company that he comes
across where Smith is. If that man can t
tell, the inquiries go on, and SO man
can't be missing for very long without
his comrades knowing it. Then it is an
easy matter to trace Smith to the last
task he was ordered to do, and as rule
he is hauled safely out of danger. From
constant usage the system has become
almost perfect, and the cool courage
that it has developed has made the de-
partment one of the finest in the world.
The men will risk everything and go
against the most tremendous odds to
save a comrade. New York Sun.