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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
Shot n NeIghbor.

Wooster, Sept. 13.-Private George
Webb, of the Eighth regiment, on get
ting back from Cuba, took his rifle
to his home. Sunday night he tried
10 shoot a cat. The ball missed the
feline, but struck Benjamin Pryor, O.
year-old son of a neighbor, in the left
thigh, shattering the bone so badly
that amputation will be necessary.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

DURING the recent French naval
maneuvers in the Mediterranean. Adm.
Human let fly from the flagship
Brennus ten pigeons at 175 miles from
Porquerolles. Three of the numbe
were lost, but seven arrived safely,
having accomplished the distance at
an average speed of % miles an hour.
The pigeons had been absent from
their houses 81 days and the result
of this experiment is considered high
ly satisfactory.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

A CURIOUS mode of catching turtle is
sists in attaching ring and line to
the tail of a species of sucker fish,
which is then thrown overheard, and
Immediately makes for the first turtle
he can spy, to which he attaches him
self very firmly by means of a sucking
apparatus arranged on the top of his
head. The fisherman then hauls both
turtle and sucker fish in.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

The Spaniards are not the most me-
dieval of races. The Svantians, who
live in the inaccessible mountain range
between the Black and Caspian seas
are probably the LATEST people in the
world. They have made no advance
toward civilization in $500 years. 1t
is their invariable rule to observe hol-
idays four times week, with saints
days as extras.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
Anti-screen Law in Effect.

Columbus, Sept. 1O.-The Jones anti
screen law of last winter went into
effect yesterday. The law provides
that the coal shall be weighed before
screening, which gives the miners pay
for all the coal mined. Heretofore the
miners had to screen the coal, then
weigh it. The operators then sold the
screenings, for the mining of which
they paid nothing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
FOREIGN.

A dispatch was received in London
from the British minister at Peking
confirming the report that Ii Hung
Chang had been dirmissed at his own
request
Carl Smith and Louis Sass, two of
Chicago's well-known newspaper men,
were drowned at the head of the
saguenay river, in the province of Que
oec, Can.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
Post once RnrrlnrIzed.

Lima, Sept. 14.-The post Office at
GilboN, Putnam county, was burglar
izcd Monday night, and $145 worth of
stamps and several books of money
orders, together with the postmaster''s
stamp, were stolen.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
A $4,000 Blaze.

Cincinnati, Sept. 13.-A fire in the
crowded down town portion of the city
broke out Monday in the Rush build
ing in the portion occupied by the Ken
ton Baking Powder Co., No. 20 East
Second street. Valuable establishments
were all around it, but the fire depart
ment was so prompt in responding
that the fire was confined to its origi-
nal limits. Loss $75, 900; fully insured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
Birth and Marriage statIstIcs.

Columbus, Sept. 13.--Statistics given
out Monday covering the year ending
June 30, 1898, show that there were
35,70o marriages and 56,395 births in
ohio. Inere were 1000 more boys
horn than girls. There were 1924 per
sons sent to insane asylums, 2S2 to the
boys reformatory, and 92 to the girls
reform school.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

B1sMARcK's memory went back, ac-
cording to his own assertion, to the
time when he was three years old. He
remembered climbing up to the win
dow and watching the crowd that had
assembled to see the Berlin theater
burn down in 1918. He held his
hauds to the window panes and drew
them back quickly, as the glass was
hot
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
WIN Rulld New DAMON.

Toledo, Sept. 13.-The Lake Shore
railroad announces it's intention OF
erecting new depot, duplicating the
present union depot here. This step
is rendered necessary by want of room
and in view of the Ohio centennial.
The same road will also erect a new
depot in East Toledo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

THE historic little structure at $50
Arch street, Philadelphia, where, about
a century and quarter ago, resided
Betsy Ross. the maker of the first
American flag, Thursday passed into
the hands of an association which,
when legally formed, will be known
under the name of the national Amer
lean flag house and Betsy Ross memo
rial association.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
Declined the Honor.

Lima, Sept. 14.-J. w. Halfhill, of
this city, was nominated for congress
Tuesday afternoon by the Fourth dis
trict republican convention. Halfhill
declined to accept and the selection of
another nominee was left to the dis
trict committee.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

AN Ohio postmaster has discovered
and obtained book that was presented
to William Mckinley by his father 40
years ago. The postmaster has for
warded the volume to the president.
At the time young Mckinley received
the book he was volunteer assistant
to the man who now returns IL and
who was then postmaster at Poland, o.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
CnmnnLgn to be Opened Ocrrnrr 8.

Columbus, Sept. 13.-Chairman
Daugherty announced yesterday that
it had been decided to open the repub-
lican state campaign all over the state
on October s.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

Akron, Sept. 1o.-Lieut. Col. Charles
Dick, of this city, will be candidate
for Congressman Northway's position.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
Hoods pills cure indigestion, Oiiiopsness
No Cause for Jenlousy.

Mrs. Benham---Don't you really care any
thing about mother?
Benham-Well, not enough to make you
Y. Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17
surprisIng Achievement.

"What is luck, Uncle Jim?"
Luck? Well, it is when boy turns out
to be as smart as his grandmother said he
was. Detroit Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

Why isn't memory the thing we forget
with Chicago Daily News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

When a worthless man isn't staring at the
clock he is gazing at the thermometer
Atchison Globe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

He who rides behind another does not
travel when he pleases. Span.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

could not get along without Piso's Cure
E. c. Moulton, Needham, Mass, Oct. %, '94.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

Halls Catarrh Cure
lken Internally. Price 75c.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-09-17

To Cure n Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AL
druggists refund money if it fails to cure 25c
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
The Dyea Trail Disaster.

SKAGUAY, Alaska, April 4, via Vic
toria, B. c., April 9.-The horror on
the Dyea trail is growing in magnitude
hourly. AS the work of rescue pro.
ceeds it becomes apparent that many
more lives were lost than at first were
thought possible. 1t is now believed
that between seventy five and 100 men
and women were killed by the ava
lanche. Many bodies will never be re-
covered, or until the summer sun melts
the tons of snow and ice that now bury
toem from sight. Two or three thou
sand men are shoveline away the
debris IN search of the dead and dying.
Twenty. dead bodies have been re.
covered and 25 have been taken out
alive. 1t is estimated that 10000 tons
of outfits are buried under the snow
and ice. The exact location of the
slide is given at two and half miles
above Sheep Camp and 100 yards above
the Oregon Improvement Company's
power house. Here an immense gorge
rises at a very steep incline into the
hills and it was down this the avalanche
came. The slide covered the trail for
several hundred yards at depth of so
feet in many places. 1t has efectually
discontinued travel for the present and
it will be some time before it can be re-
slIme0
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
Foreign News.

ATHENS, April Sizing George,
speaking yesterday to several dele
gates from Aegium, Morea, asked the
people to "assist in liherating them
selves and freeing the country from
the tyranny of the parties" The
Kings words have caused a great sen
sstion.
PRAGUE, Bohemia, April 9.-Tbere
have been severe earthquake shocks in
the vicinity of Libochowitz. At the
village OF Klaffai seven houses col.
lapsed and thirty-eight families were
rendered homeless. The subterraneous
disturbances continue.
PARIS, April Sit is officially an
nounced here that the visit of the am
bassadors at Washington to President
Mckinley was, primarily, in order to
give the President the opportunity of
notifying Europe of the necessity for
the Intervention of the United States in
Cuba"
PARIS April Sit has been decided that
the second trial of d. Emile lola will begin
on May % In the Assizes Court of Versailles,
after the elections, thus relieving the govern
ment OF the embarrassment which would re-
suit from the affair becoming political issue.
CAIRO, Egypt, April 9.-The British in the
defeat Of the Dervishes yesterday at Atbara
and the capture of Mahmoud, the Dervish
commander, and 1000 of his followers, lost,
in addition to the officers killed, cabled yes
terday. ten killed and ninety wounded. Tho
Egyptians lost ffty-one men killed aud had
fourteen officers and 319 men wounded.
The Dervishes lost about 1000 men killed.
LONDON. April 9-The Marquis Exeter
died this morning as the result of bicycling
accident.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
April 8, 1898.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE POPE.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE POPE
Rumors have been circulated that the
failure Of the Pope's efforts was owing
to the attitude of the United States, the
nunciature at Madrid has issued the
following note:
Tire nunciature has to-day higher hops:
than ever of the success of papal Intervention
1t is not true that President Mckinley ba:
rejected the Pope's intervention in favor Of
peace. Such impoliteness w01ld be the more
impolitic, not only because it would display 8
barDarous intolerance, but because, howevel
much any person might be the Pope's enemy
it would be impossible to misinterpret the
voice of the venerable old man who recon-
mends the preservation of peace On the
other hand, the Catholics of Forth America
would never pardon such disregard OF the
vicsrsgeneral of their church"
A dispatch from Madrid says:
Thursday night, after cabinet council in
which the important decision was arrived at
to accept the advice Of the Pope, minister
who had been present said he thought the
country was nearer peace than it had been
since the present trouble began. Early yes
tcrday morning Minister Woodford, who was
in q hope Ill mood, such as has not been his
for some time, said to a friend that every
thing seemed to be going the right way fol
peace. The people seize at the idea that
peace may be maintained by the usual efforts
OF the Pope and The powers"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES

The Spanish steamer Barcelona sail.
ed from New Orleans to-day for Genoa
vie Havana, having on board 500 mules
25 horsee, cattle. poultry and other SIM
plies for the Spanish government in
Cuba.
This morning near McGhee Station
Monroe county, Tenn, John Mech
and his son Joe shot and killed Hen
and Ernest Howard and James Nm
rand and MORALLY wounded Tom How.
ard. The Towards were brothers and
sons.in-law of McGhee The killing was ria
result of family feud. The McGhees are
prominent people and highly connected.
The E. 1. Dupont De Nemours COMPANY -
Wilmington, DEL, it is understood, has r..
ceived from the United States government a
contract for furnishing 81, 100000 worth
of powder, and the mills are being rushed n
turn out the material as rapidly as possible
The remains of Miss Frarcis F. Willard
were cremated to-day at Graccard ceme.erv
Chicago. The ashes we're taken 10 Rose n
cemetery, where services will BE- hell q,
morrow. The ashes will then be inferred ID
the Willard family lot at Bose Hill.
The charter of the steamer Adula WI
was engaged to take American citizens from
Baracoa, Mapzanillo and other places in Cuia.
was cancelled to-day under instructions from
the State Department at Washington.
The British steamship Virginia has been
placed at the disposal of the Anne rican Constr
at San Juan, Porto Rico, and other American,
to take them 10 st. Thomas, anish Wes.
Indies.
Lieutenant W. C. Miller, of the U. s. law.
and Miss Elizabeth NcCalla, daughter Of
Commander MeCalla, of the q. s. s. Marble.
head, we're married at Fort Monroe to-day.
Three miles of submarine cables have been
ordered to connect submarine mines with
Fort Del aware, Foit Mott and the Delawa-c
shore battery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From Madrid.


MADRID, April 9.-The Globo Glib
eraD this morning rejoices at the
"calmer judgment of yesterdays
press" highly commencing the utter
ances of the Correspondence, De Es-
pana and the Epoca, and adding:
Neither America nor Spain can ignore
the collective action without daring the
European powers. highlands partici-
patton necessitates SPANS watchful
eye on the developments. We have
not forgotten that the Times said, "In
order to treat with the insurgents the
Spaniards must pocket their PRIDE"
Unless the powers tie the Americans
hands against further aiding the it,
surgents, their interference will be of
little benefit to America, Spain or
Europe"
The political situation is unchanged.
The opinions expressed by the newspa-
pers are contradictory. Some of them
hold that war is inevitable, and others
hope for peace.
The Correspondence De Espana
says the intervention of the powers has
produced at Washington an effect fa-
vorable to Spain. Itadds: "Spain can
accept the friendly counsel of the
powers to solve the question, where
she cannot recede in front of the
American demands"
A political society here with French
connections has drafted an address to
the government declaring that the Uni.
ted States desires to Impair SPANS in
disputable sovereignty over Cuba and
Porto Rico," asserting that those islands
are the keys of the Gulf of Mexico,
and claiming that it must be Spain's
mission to retain them as q guarantee
for the maintenance of the commercial
interests of Europe, pointing out that
Ito ask Spain to haul down her flag in Cuba
is tantamount to asking Europe to withdraw
from that part Of the world The members
of the society promise to make every sacri.
fee 10 the interests of the fatherland.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
From Havana.

HAVANA, April 8, 10 q. m.-All is
quiet in Havana at this hour. U. S
Consul General Lee expects to call on
Captain General Blanco this morning in
order to say goodbye.
Walter B. Barker, the U. S. Consul at
Sagus la Grande, has arrived here,
Alexander Brice, the q. 5. Consul at
Matansas, is supposed to have left that
place on schooner.
The American newspaper CORE
spondents, with Consul General Lee,
are ready to leave here on the Fern at
about o'clock this afternoon.
Alexander Gollan, the British Consul
here, is ready to take charge of Ameri-
can interests so far as allowed.
A diplomatic here told correspor-
dent last night that he did not believe
there would be war between the United
States and Spain.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
ENToMBED IN SNow.-Advices r,

ENToMBED IN SNow.-Advices re-
ceived at Seattle, Wash, last night
from Vancouver, B. c., bring the story
of terrible avalanche on the Dyea
trail. Seventy-fve men who were
working their way oyer the psss
were caught by q great volume
ofsnow that came down the mountain
side. Thirty-one bodies have already
been recovered. The trail is alive with
men and outfits of all kinds bound for
the Klondike. The rush is almost as
great as it was last year.
The mountains are covered with
snow to the depth, in places, of forty or
fifty feet, and slides have been of fire.
uuent occurrence, but this is the first
fatality of such magnitude recorded.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

LET US put ourselves in the place OF
Spain. Suppose New Mexico, tired OF
being ruled as territory when she is
clearly entitled to become State,
should rebel, and Mexico should de.
mand that we give her independence
what would be our answer? 1t would
be bad for Mexico. Now what is the diff
ference between the two cases? Simply
that we are strong and Spain and Mex
sco are weak, or, in other words, thai
might makes right. Is the land O.
Washington 10 be the supporter of such
a principle?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

THE LIBERTY of the people of this
country was sadly infringed by the re-
suit of the successful war the North
made upon the South. The danger of
a successful war is infinitely greater 10
a republican, than to a monarchical
form OF government, as hero worship is
natural, and, if unrestricted, may be
produced to any extent, and its object,
unless be shall subordinate his own, to
his country's interests, will be very
dangerous man.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

WHEN the sundry civil bill was IN
der consideration in the Senate last
Thursday, an amendment for the i'm
proyement of the harbor at Mobile was
ruled out on a point of order raised by
a Northern republican member, but
amendments for the Improvement o.
harbors IN Ohio and Delaware were
permitted. This has become govern
Gsant of, by snd for the North. and
every thing is right provided the heart
of the man who does it "bests warm
for his eeuntFy's cause.n
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

Mr.. RUSSELL, now Lord Russell
better known to elderly people as Bull
Rull Russell, because he was conspic'
uous character in that famous flight, i:
now, thirty-seveu years afterwards
publishing his recollections of the wal
between the States in the North Amer
lean Review. The reliability of his so.
called recollections may be judged by
the fact that he says the Yankee word:
''guess" and "tarnation" were in com.
mon use among the people with whom
he conyersed in the South.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

I desire to attest to the merits of
amberlain's Cough Rsmedy as one
of the most valuable and efficient pre-
parations on the market. libroke An
exceedingly dangerous cough for me III
"a hours, and 10 gratitude therefor,
desire to inform you that | will never
be without it aud you should feel proud
of the esteem in which your Remedies
are held by people in general. 1t is the
one remedy among ten thousand, sue.
cess to ito. R Do@NEy, Editor
Democrat, Albion. Ind. For sale by
]. H. Janney, Druggist, 701 King street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

FLIBUSTER outcries against the CEN
sorship of the press by Spain have been
renewed because sensational dispatches
calculated to fire the flibuster heart
ere suppressed and made to accord
with facts before they are allowed to
be put on the wires. If the people
making these outcries only knew what
went on in their own country during
the war between the States with refer
ence to press censorship they would be
ashamed of themselves. Why, not
only were the Southern correspondents
of foreign neutral newspapers prohibit
ed from sending their letters and dis
patches through Northern mails, but
correspondents of such newspapers on
their way to the South were prevented
from going through the federal lines,
and shot and wounded and imprisoned
for making the attempt, as was we'll and
wildly described by Mr.. Lawrence,
one of them, in his interesting book.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

THE PANAMA CANAL.-After nearly
months work inspecting the Panam a
canal, the international commission sail
yesterday for Europe, via New York,
on the steamship Alliance. On the re.
port of the com mission depends largely
the future of the Panama canal project.
There is good reason to believe that it
was favorably impressed with what its
members saw. The present economi-
cal system, in contrast to the reckless
extravaganza of previous administra.
tons, attracted attention.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09

SHIRT SLEEVE diplomacy is bound to
get this country into trouble, sooner or
later. The present intention of the
government is to so to war with Spain
at once if she shall not relinquish all
authority over Cuba by next Monday
or declare her intention of doing so by
that time. And this, too, though, by
the highest law OF Spain, the only au-
thority there is by which such relin-
punishment could be effected lies in the
Congress of that country, which is not
in session, land will not be for month; so
Ghat.e even were the Spanish ministry dis
posed to surrender to a foreign country
territory held by Spain for over four
hundred years, it couldn't do go.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 8. 1888
We SEEM to be upon the very verge

We SEEM to be upon the very verge
OF war with Spain for the independence
of Cuba. Suppose we are Immediately
successful in driving out the Spaniards;
what then? There are two parties in
Cuba, the revolutionists and the su-
Economists; which of the two has the ma
iority? The autonomists claim it, and
with great deal of truth, for it has been
publicly acknowledged by the revolu-
tionary party that they are obliged to
keep out of contact with their men the
representatives of the autoromists, lest
there should be wholesale desertion
from their ranks. Col. Ruiz was killed,
because, of his own motion, he attempted
to enter the territory controlled by
them, as an advocate Of peace. Now,
the American idea is that in free
country the majority governs. Would
the revolutionists submit their claims
TO rule to fairly conducted public
election, in which men of all parties
who are bona fde residents of Cuba
should vote ? We think not ? If they
do not, and we intervene, they have al
ready declared their intention of fight
ing US. and the strong probability is
that unless we join one party and aid
in the subiugation of the other, both
sides will turn upon Us, and, like the
man who interfered with another who
was beating his wife, we shall have
great occasion to be sorry for our pre-
cipitancy. If we don't intervene the
story of the Kilkenny cats will be re-
peated and the situation will become
worse than it is now. On the contrary,
if Spain can be induced to agree to an
armistice, an arrangement could prob
ably be made by which the sense OF all
the people of Cuba would be taken as
to its future, and if large majority
voted for independence, as would be
almost certain to happen, the pride OF
Spain would be much less wounded by
granting it to her own people than at
the dictation Of foreign country.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-04-09
Foreign steamer Purchased.

HoNG AoNG. April 9.-The United States
officials here have purchased the British
steamer Zlfro She is of ,062 tons gross
register, 214 feet long, has 81 feet 8 inches
besm and draws 81 feet 3 inches of water
The steamer was built at Aberdeen in 1884,
and WAS owned by the China and Manila
Steamboat Company.