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Eygeia" and Virginia Beach viii find this
the most attractive route. insuTing CON-
- Portable nights rest.
Large and luxurious rooms. heated By
Eteam and fitted throughout with elec-
tric lights. Dining room service IS IA
carte and Is supplied from the best that
the markets CT Washington and NOrfolS
afford.
Tickets on sale at U. S. Express Office.
17 Pennsylvania avenue. 5l3 SO. l42l
Pennsylvania avenue; b. & o. ticket odice.
corner 18th street and New YORK avenue,
and on beard steamers, where time table.
map, etc. can also be had.
Any other information desired will b
furnished on APPLICATION to the undersigned
at the eompany's yhari. loot II 7th street.
Washington. D. c. Telephone Nc. 80.
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bins, meat saws and knives. 800 st. ne.
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
LAT E

THE steamer Burgundia arrived at
New York on the Sth from Mediterran-
can ports and brought 16 seamen who
were rescued in mid-ocean from their
sinking craft, during a gale on January
90. They were Capt. Larsen and 10 of
the crew of the Norwegian bark b. ID.
Metcalf.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, on the sth the
Old Fort Manufacturing Co. went into
the hands of a receiver for creditors
who hold claims for $2,0 The com
pany manufactures pulleys and wood
machinery and has plants in Fort
Wayne and Eaton, Ind, valued at
$50, GOO.
EDWARD HoDGMAN, the absconding
treasurer of the Chicago building trades
council, has been located on his way to
Klondike. He was arrested in the
Northwest Territory. A detective has
left Chicago to bring the man back to
Chicago. Hodgman's shortage is said
to reach nearly $4,000.
REAR ADMIRAL SICARD has been re-
lieved from command of the North
Atlantic squadron temporarily on ac-
count of sickness and the command has
devolved on Capt. William It. Sampson,
commanding the battleship Iowa.
Four scientists have just returned to
San Francisco from the South seas
with several thousand valuable speci-
mems of strange birds, animals and
reptiles, some of which have never be-
fore been secured The explorers were
acting as agents for Baron Rothschild.
BY February 20 Spain will have on a
war footing two ironclads, one of 1900
tons and the other 1900 tons; four
cruisers of 1000 tons, one cruiser of
| 5000 tons, two cruisers of 5000 TONS
three cruisers of 1900 tons, five torpedo
boats and four torpedo boat destroyers
| not counting the squadron in Cuban
| waters.
ABOUT 5000 trousers makers of New
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville went
on strike ON the Sth for an advance in
wages. They claim that they had to
| work 16 hours day, getting from IS
| to SO per week as wages.
THREE propositions differing materially as
| TO methods were presented TO the senate on
| the Sth for the relief of the Cuban insurgents.
| One was an amendment 10 the diplomatic and
| consular appropriation bill. resolution recog-
| nizing the telligerency OF the insurgents. The
| right OF Henry w. Corbett to seat in the sem
| ate from ORE gon occupied the senates atJen-
| tion for two hi uTs, Senator Chandler speaking
| In favor OF seating him. The remainder of the
| day was spent in executive session. -. The
| house entered upon the consideration OF tae
| Aldrich- Plowman contested election case from
| the Fourth Alabama district. The majority OF
| the committee reported In favor OF seating the
] contestant on the ground of conspiracy. Two
speeches were maee'on each side
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

Gen. Blanco returned to Havana from
trip to eastern provinces of Cuba, hav.
ing failed to win the insurgents to au.
tonomy, and the army has had no better
success.
John Milligan, aged 81; Lee Milligan
aged 15, and Ethel Baker, aged 12. were
asphyXiated with fumes of charcoal at
Madoc, Ont.
James Allison, the boy murderer O.
Mrs. Anthony Orr, whom he killed for
boxing his ears, was hanged at Berlin
Ont.
Nicaragua's latest revolution is one
of conservatives against liberals and
the movement has spread rapidly.
Senor Sagasta in reply to an official
note from Gen. Woodford, the United
States minister, says that Spain cannot
fix date for her completion of the paci-
ficatiou of Cuba.
BY the capsizing of navy launch at
Kiel, England, nine sailors and three
workmen were drowned.
The Spanish government has decided
to send two additional cruisers to the
United States.
The Turks captured several villages
in Thessaly and killed 100 persons.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
TOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.

Proceedings of First Regular Session.
Senator White (Cal) continued his speech
in opposition to the Hawaiian annexation
ate on the I'd. In the house the District of
Columbia bill was passed and the bill to
provide for fortiflcations and coast de-
fenses was discussed.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
passed in the senate on the Sd and Ha-
waiian annexation was further discussed
in executive session. An omnibus bill COW
ering large number of old claims amount
ing in the aggregate to $1O,OO0,OOO was re-
ported. The house spent the day ostensi-
bly, considering the Notifications appropri-
alton bill, but in reality the major portion
of the time was consumed in the discus
sion of political topics.
No business was transacted in the sem
ate on the 4th. Senator White concluded
his three days speech in opposition to the
annexation of Hawaii in the executive ses-
sion Adjourned to Monday In the house
the whole day and evening was consumed
in passing 81 private pension bills.
The senate was not In session on the 5th.
lin the house the bill making appropri-
atoms for fortifcations and coast de-
fenses was passed and bills were favorably
reported permanently locating the cap
ital of the territory OF New Mexico at
Santa Fe; for commission to inquire
into the conditions of labor, agriculture,
etc; and the free homes" bill, which
opens to free homestead settlement lands
acquired from the Indians. Mr. Bertholdt
(Mo) introduced bill for an international
exposition to be held at st. Louis in 1908.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

W. j. Fitzpatrick, jockey and starter,
known on every track in the United
States, died of pneumonia at Sarad oga,
MY.
The steamer Queen sailed from Tn-
coma, Wash, for Alaska with $50 pas
sengers, 1900 tons of freight and 200
dogs.
At Providence the Rhode Island loco
motive works fled petition in insol-
vency with liabilities of $616,700.
For the first time in years the Hud-
son river was frozen all the way across
at Nyack, N. Y, its widest point, 3A
miles.
Nellie Fields, Richard Severns and
Mark Laumaster were drowned at Bur-
lington, N. j., by the breaking of the ice
on the river.
BY the explosion of a machine which
they had invented Joe and Gus Wyle
were fatally injured at Dallas, Tex.
Mrs. Maude Ely, who murdered her
little daughter at Painesville, O., last
August, committed suicide in Jail in
that city.
George p. Tucker, a coal miner of
Crescent, w. Va, shot and killed his
wife and William McAllister, whom he
surprised together at his home.
A COW derailed train at Hematite,
Mo-, and Engineer Franey and Fireman
Childs, both of st. Louis, were killed.
Fire destroyed the Highland Park ho-
tel at Aiken, S. c., the loss being $14O,-
600.
At Mercer, Mo-, Andrew Alley was
shot dead and Joe Alley, his cousin and
partner in general store, was mortally
wounded by Peter Kindred.
A train struck a sleigh at n railway
crossing in Saginaw, Mich, and Thomas
Stewart and Mrs. Matthias Mosner and
her daughter were killed.
Saloons in Toledo, o., will hereafter
be closed on Sunday.
A severe earthquake shock fright
ened people at Lynchburg and through
out southwest Virginia.
The business portion of Plainfield,
ILL.,, was destroyed by fire, the second
time within five years.
Three men were burned to death and
another received fatal injuries in a fire
which burned the Victor Jail in Colo
RADIO.
The cathedral of st. John the Baptist,
the head seat of the Catholic church in
the state of Georgia, was burned by an
incendiary at Savannah, the loss being
$225, 900.
Six firemen, including district chief,
captain and lieutenant, were killed
at fire in Boston.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

A NOVEL way of building a railroad
has been undertaken by the citizens of
Texas, Southern Kansas, Northeastern
Oklahoma and the Indian territory.
They want shorter line to st. Louis,
and some time ago the farmers in the
ountry districts and the merchants in
the towns began to work on the road
bed. They have laid 10 miles of track
from Henrietta, Tex. without dol
lar of capital being subscribed. The
farmers acted as railroad laborers, and
the merchants hired substitutes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

New JERSEY has taken the lead
among the states in road building.
Seventy miles of macadamized high
way were added last year to the roads
already improved, and extensions in
the way of connecting links are planned
this year that will make complete
thoroughfares from the lower end of
the state through the principal cities
and towns to the upper end The
work is done by the state, the 70 miles
costing an outlay on the part of the
state of 500, 900, and on the part of in
dividuals and counties of $3.50, 600.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

IT is estimated by competent foreign
authority that only 900 persons out of
100000 die from old age, while 1900
succumb to gout, IS, 400 to measles, q
700, to apoplexy, 1000 to erysipelas, r.
500 to consumption, $4,000 to scarlet
fever, $4,000 to whooping cough, 1000
TO typhoid and typhus, and 1000 to
rheumatism. The averages vary ac-
cording to locality, but these are con-
sidered accurate as regards the popu-
lation of the globe as whole.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The City of Atlanta, Ga, as corpora
tion is half century old and the event
was appropriately celebrated.
Robert j. has paced % heats in 2:1o
or faster; Joe Patchen, &C; John Il.
Gentry. SO. and Star Pointer, 81.
Peter Busch, son of Adolphus Busch,
the wealthy brewer of ST. Louis, has
gone to seek his fortune in Alaska.
The one-eyed plowboy of Pigeons
Roost" is what they call Col. Chandler,
candidate for governor of Georgia.
Lucy Shepard, Tacoma negro wom-
an, has been sent to lunatic asylum
because she persisted in eating soup.
The big armored cruiser Brooklyn has
left the Brooklyn navy yard on her way
to sea to begin her cruise of the West
Indies.
1t is hoped that the monument TO
Frederick Douglass, for which fund is
now being raised, will be erected in
Rochester, N. y, about the 1st of next
August.
Truman H. Handy, the banker, of
Cleveland. who has just celebrated his
ninety-first birthday, loaned $4,000 to
John d. Rockefeller when the latter
started in business.
President Mckinley, and probably
some of the members of his cabinet, will
attend the Memorial day services at Get
tysburg, Pa, on May 80, if public busi-
ness does not prevent.
William Earle Cooke, of Portsmouth,
+. l., who has just celebrated his one
hundred and first birthday, is said to be
the oldest Methodist and oldest free
mason in New England.
Nine. Cannot. the widow of the mar
tyred president of France, is living
quietly in Paris and no sovereign passes
through that city without calling on
her as mark of respect.
Mrs. Caroline Tyler Lea. of Philadel-
phia, descendant of Gen. Israel Put
nam, has caused a marble memorial to
be placed over the original grave of the
general in Danielson, Conn.
Congress is to be asked for an appro-
priation of $4,000 to aid in the erection
in Chester. Pa, of a $4,000 monument
over the grave of John Morton, who
gave the casting vote of Pennsylvania
for the Declaration of independence.
The Volunteers of America have re-
ceived substantial encouragement in
their work on the Pacific coast. A lady,
who wishes to conceal her identity, has
donated the organization an orange or
chard of 20 acres in Butte county, Cal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

THE United States now ranks fifth
among the naval powers of the earth,
and is tie with Germany. England
is first, France second, Russia third
and Italy fourth. The German navy is
better supplied with torpedo boats
than that of the United States but we
are little ahead on battleships and
cruisers. Taking one consideration
with another, however, there is very
little difference. When the kentucky,
Kearsarge, Illinois and the other yes
sells now building are afloat we shall
surpass Germany, but the Germans,
however, have magnificent scheme
for the development of their navy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
FOREIGN.

The Prussian minister of finance is
sued decree which goes into effect i'm
mediately prohibiting the importation
of every kind of American fresh fruit
into Germany.
The japanese merchant steamer Nara
Maru ran on hidden rock off the Bes-
cador group and sank Immediately and
rs persons wer drowned.
The Mcintyre block in Winnipeg,
Man, was destroyed by fire, the total
loss being $50o,000.
Violent earthquake shocks at Balik-
esr and around Brusa, in Asia Minor,
caused numerous fatalities and great
damage to property.
Advices say that the czar of Russia is
now in entire control of affairs in China.
Gen. Santos j, Zelaya has been in
augurated president of Nicaragua for
second term of four years.
The president of Uruguay has pub
lished decree dissolving congress and
keeping all troops under arms, as a
revolution seems imminent.
The cost to Spain of the Cuban war
from February, 1895, to the end of 1897
is officially estimated at $24O,000,OOO.
The third session of the present par
lament of Canada opened at Ottawa.
Owing to the disorders of the stu
dents lectures have been suspended in
all the German higher schools and uni
versities throughout Austria.
Russia, France and Great Britain
have agreed to insist upon the candida
ture of Prince George of Greece for the
governorship of Crete.
The insurgents dynamited and de-
stroyed railroad line near San Felipe,
province Of Havana.
A failure in the harvest has caused
terrible distress among the peasantry
of the interior provinces in Russia.
According 10 Paris report J. Pier
pont Morgan is engineering scheme to
purchase Cuba for $400.000,000.
The Creton assembly has made dec
laration in favor of Prince George OF
Greece as governor of Crete.
In a collision of railway trains near
Troon, Scotland, six persons were killed
and four Others badly wounded.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

A FAD of New York women consists
Of having belts made to order from the
skins of snakes, whose shimmering
brilliancy has been admired while
seen in glass cases. A man in New
York is amassing quite fortune, and
conducts his business in the fourth
story of gloomy old building. He
has secured a great number of snakes
from bogs and swamps. These are
displayed in glass cases, and the fair
est DANES of Gotham's swell set make
many pilgrimages to select the skins,
even before they are she'd
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

William NJ. Giles died in Freeport, ILL.,,
aged rs years. He was one of the oldest
and best known newspaper men in the
state.
Gus J. Heege, the actor known the
country over as "Yon Yonson," died in
Cleveland, o., aged 36 years.
Rev. Thomas II. SineX, one of the best
known Methodist ministers on the Pa
cifc coast, died at Pacific Grove, Cal,
aged so years.
Abram Staley died at his home near
Chambersburg, Pa. aged 1O3 years.
D. w. Busbyhead. one of the most
prominent Cherokees, died at Table
quah, I. T., aged rs years, He had in
turn filled every office in the nation.
Henry Gilbert, aged 81 years, and his
wife, aged 67, died on the same day in
Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr.. Gilbert was the
first editor in western Michigan.
Thomas A. Osborn, of Topeka, former
governor of Kansas, died in Meadville,
Pa.
The republicans of the Sixth district
of Illinois have renominated Henry S.
Boutell for congress.
William M. Evarts, secretary of state
under President Lincoln, celebrated his
eightieth birthday at his home in New
York.
EN-Congressman William H. Martin
died at his home near Hillsboro, Tex.
Admiral Selfridge, who has just re-
linquished the command of the Euro
pean station, went upon the retired list
of the navy, having reached the age
fixed by law.
Joseph P. Smith, of Canton, O., di-
rector of the bureau of American re-
publics, died at Miami, Fla.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

EDWARD w. Box takes up the do
mestic service question for editorial
discussion in the February Ladies'
best place for girls who are obliged to
earn their living is in the home, as do
mestics. Girls thus employed, he as
serts, have more real independence, as
rule have better homes, are better
cared for, and are always sure of more
remunerative employment than girls
who work in factories, in stores or in
business offices.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
TIE Alternative.

The police justice had formerly been q
bartender. He had gone into politics and
was his first case. Mary McMannis was vi
before him for drunkenness. The justice
looked at her q minute and then said sternly:
well, what are you here for"
eff yer please, yer honor" said Mary,
"the copper beyant, pulled me in, sayin' I
was drunk. AM don't drink, yer honor;
don't drink"
"All right" said the justice, his former
bartender habit getting the best of him; (;
"all right; have cigar."-Detroit Free
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

THE wheat king of the world resides
In Argentina. He is an Italian emf
grant, named Guazone, and his broad
acres are situated in the south of the
province of Buenos Ayres. His crop
occupies an area of 66,27O acres. He
numbers his workmen by the thousand
and each one receives a certain share
Of the profits. When his seasons crop
is harvested he fills over 5000 railway
trucks with the grain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

A WEALTHY and prominent ranch
owner of Oklahoma, according to the
New Orleans Times Democrat, has
made purchase of 5000 acres of land
situated about ten miles south of
Shreveport on the Kansas City, Shreve-
port & Gulf road. The property will
be Immediately converted into cattle
ranch. b, eff cattle and fine stock of
all descriptions will be raised on this
ranch. He stated that there are thous-
ands of acres of swamp and lake lands in
that section of the state which, if
properly drained and looked after,
would make good cattle farms.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

THE scheme for the foundation of
gigantic cotton trust, to include cot
ton planters as well as spectators in
that important commodity, is likely to
be successful. 1t was foretold two
months ago. while the convention was
in session at Atlanta, Ga. A plan was
then forming to reduce the acreage
and production so as to increase the
price of cotton in the United States
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

AN odd-loolzing sleigh was the center
of attraction on the streets of Leo
minister, Mass, a few day ago. 1t was
a molasses hogshead set upon pair of
runners, the front being scooped out
like the arms of an old-fashioned rock
ing chair, the back being left full
length. 1t was painted bright yellow
and looked comfortable and cozy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12
r,r Noe cold I'm the south.

The weather this season in the South has,
been all that could be desired and all who
have already reached the resorts of Florida
and the Gulf Coast are charmed with tbsir
locations. The Louisville Nashville Rail-
road Company's arrangements for. through
service of sleeping cars and Coaches from
Northern cities are unsurpassed this winter.
Tourist tickets, good to return until May
Slst, are on sale by this line from all points,
at low rates. For full particulars write to
Louisville, KY, or jackson Smith, D. r A.,
Cincinnati, o.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1898-02-12

LETTERS wheat has cost him not more
than an average of 81 cents a bushel,
and profit of Is cents n bushel rnay
be easily figured up for him. As he
holds somewhere nearly 100000
bushels, it is estimated that his profits
now figure S., 2,250, OOO On the 5000, 600
bushels in store in Chicago he has a
clear gain of S.. .35O. 600.