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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

Six persons were shot in street rail
way riots iiN st. Louis
The Boer knvoys were given a
hearty. greeting upon their arrival in
Washington.
Walter Gordon and Beauty Ingram
| (colored) were hanged at Eutaw, Ala.
for the murder OF Tom Buntain.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at st. Louis calls for n closer observ-
ance of Sunday.
At Talladega, Ala, Ebert Curry, n
young negro, was hanged for the muir
der of Pink Dobbins.
Gov. Smith, of Montana, has ignored
the appointment by the lieutenant
governor of w. a. Clark as United
States senator and named Martin Ma
ginnis for the place.
Representatives of English wheat
buyers are contracting with Kansas
farmers for the entire crop at SO
cents bushel.
Grand Master Workman John w.
Parsons and the other general Off
GERS of the Knights of Labor have
been suspended from office.
A large audience attended the peace
meeting in behalf of the Beers in
Washington and cheered the repub-
lies ENJOYS.
Nearly 10000 immigrants, mostly
from Italy, are on their way west.
The national congress of mothers
opened in Des Moines. la.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the Goth were: Phil
adelphia, .6s2; Brooklyn, 500; Chi
cago, 600; Pittsburgh, $50; st. Louis,
.522; Cincinnati, .455; New York, .273;
Boston, $50.
Walter Williams, deputy coroner,
shot and killed William NJ. Downer in
Denver, Col, and then killed himself
Domestic trouble was the cause.
William II. Hunt, of Montana, has
been selected by the president for the
office of secretary of state of Porto
Rico.
Calvin Kimblern (colored) shot his
wife and two children at Pueblo
(Col). Jealousy was the cause.
st. Mary's college at Belmont, n. c.,
was destroyed by fire, the loss being
100000.
Riots in which st. Louis strikers
stone street cars crew were broken
up by the police.
Capt. Charles T.. Clark, of Atlantic
City, n. j., was presented with n
medal for saving 654 persons from
drowning.
Simon w. Cramer accidentally shot
and killed his wife in Paulding, O.,
while attempting to kill rat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

Advices have been receivedat Sydney,
N. S. W., telling of the relief of Mafe-
king. Gen. Hunters forces occupy
Christiana, where the British flag has
been hoisted on Transvaal territory.
Roberts is still ut Kroonstad.
An official census just taken fixes
the population of Venezuela at 2,223,-
527 persons.
The ruler of Morocco, Ahmed Ben
Mussa, died in Tangiers.
Advices from Manila say that in va
rious fights the Americans killed 364
Filipinos.
In n railway wreck near Guadala-
jara, Mexico, IL worlimen were killed.
Five hundred Filipinos ambushed
so American scouts near Aquason and
in the fight which followed 81 of the
enemy and two Americans were
killed.
German commercial interests are
amazed at the growth of American
trade and propose to increase the
tariff.
1t is asserted in London that Presi.
dent Kruger has cabled to Lord Sal
isbury proposing peace upon terms
which are not disclosed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
LATER.

1t is oificially announced that sev"
eral cases of the plague have occur
red at Rio Janeiro.
Fire destroyed the entire business
district of the town of Forest, Miss,
| on the 22d.
The village of Point Claire, a sum-
mer resort 16 miles from Montreal,
has been almost entirely wiped out
by fire. Twenty houses and several
stores were burned. Two hundred
people are homeless.
Nathaniel =. Hill, former United
States senator from Colorado, died
at Denver, Col, on the 22d. He was
so years old.
At Buffalo, n. Y, on the ED the
police raided a gang of counterfeit
ers and arrested Max A. Milon, the
leader, together with seven members
| of Polish family with whom he
| lived. The molds and n quantity of
| silver dollars and half dollars, un-
| usually good limitations, were found
there. There has been large guam
| It'll of the bogus money distributed in
I,utralo.
Immense ice fields in Bering sea
have prevented the steamer Alpha,
which sailed from vancouver on April
6, from landing at Nome. She crowd
| ed her way among floating ice cakes
until she had sliirted the entire edge
OF the pack from st. George island to
| the Siberian coast and not n single
opening was found, convincing all
that the reported japanese current
through Bering sea does not exist.
The consolidation of the tin can
manufacturing industry under the IT,
| tie of the American Tin Can Co., has
been postponed for several months
because the present is considered an
unfavorable time to launch indus
trial securities on the market. OPP
tions on plants representing SIS per
| cent. of the product of the country
had been secured.
The department of state warns the
public against the swindling adver-
tisements and other publications of
schemers relating to pretended es-
tates in England and cautions people
against remitting money, in view of
such advertisements, to any strang-
ers under any circumstances. There
are 80 great estates unclaimed in
England.
| Tho leading feature OF the senates session
| on the 22d was the speetS delivered by Mr.
Spooner (rep, Wis in advocacy OF his bill
providing that upon the sui preston OF the In
surrection in The Philippines the government
1 OF tho islancs shall deyovc upon tho president
until congress shall otherwise direct The cre-
| dentialS or William A. Clark as q senator from
| lMontana w'r presented and laid on the T., bio
| 80 The hou sr"n tho day In corsi'erni on
vi the Ala ku. civil ,ode bill, li,tie lro. ess
,clng ma Ic.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations: Illinois,
Fifth district, C. C. Carnahan (rep.);
Fourteenth, Joseph V. Graft (rep.),
renominated. Indiana, Fifth district,
L. r. Holiday (rep.). Minnesota,
Sixth district, Page Morris (rep).
Ohio, Eighth district, w. r. Freye
(dem.).
Missouri republicans nominated Jo-
seph Flory, of st. Louis, for governor,
and elected Mckinley delegates to the
national convention.
Henry Huffmaker died at Knoxville
Tenn, at the age of 105, leaving n
widow aged %.
William Pulchou, aged 102 years,
died at Findlay, o.
The Minnesota republican state con-
vention adopted resolutions indorsing
ex-senator Washburn for vice presi-
dent.
The republicans of Kansas have
named w. L. Stanley for another term
as governor.
North Dakota republicans elected
Mckinley delegates to the national
convention.
hiiihih a. iNoucuDduSl was IcHOuil-
mated for congress by the republicans
of the Twenty-tirst Illinois district.
Nominations for congress: Nine
teenth Ohio district, Gen. Charles Dick
(rep.), renominated; Fifth Iowa dis
trict, Robert G. Cousins (rep.), renom-
mated; Second Alabama district, A. A.
Wiley (dem); Eighth North Carolina
district, Spencer Blackburn (rep.):
Kentucky republicans elected dele
gates to the national convention in
structed for Mckinley and indorsed
the course of Gov. Taylor.
On the two Thousand one hundred
and first ballot Wood w. Skiles was
nominated for congress by the repub-
licans of the Fourteenth Ohio dis
trict.
Mrs. Lucy Washington (colored), liv-
ing near Wabash, Ind, is 10 years
old.
Mrs. Frances Hitler, of Wilmington,
Mass, who years ago built burial
casket costing $50,000, is dead.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Paderewski has sailed for home
with S17f.500.
The japanese population of San
Francisco has reached nearly 10000.
The actors fund has decided to es-
tablish an actors home in New York
city.
An international tobacco company
with $25,000,000 capital is to be formed
to fight the trust.
Staten Island citizens want to be
severed from New York city because
of increased taxes.
A Kansas City baker sued a woman
for SANDER for saying he lneaded his
bread with his feet.
The state department will collect
data regarding the colonists that have
settled in Central and South Ameri-
can countries.
to political subdivisions have been eX-
empted from provisions of the col
lateral inheritance tax law.
John +. Gillion, the Oldest resident
of Weymouth. Mass, and one of the
few survivors of the battle of Water.
loo, died suddenly, aged 07 years.
Unless congress provides for an in
crease in the army after July /, 1901,
the force must then be cut, so as to
leave only 10000 soldiers in the Phil
ippines.
City Clerk Donovan, of Boston, has
chosen for his messenger 1T-year-old
girl, Miss Annie G. Riley, the first
of her sex to hold such position in
Boston.
All records in the broad jump have
been broken by Capt. Kraenzlein. of
the University of Pennsylvania track
team. He cleared in practice 30 feet
s1s inches.
Inspector Murray, of the Canadian
police, says he has traced the effort
to blow up the Welland canal lock
to the Fenans. He declares the plot
originated in New York city.
Bergen, Norway, has church con-
structed entirely of paper, and made
waterproof by an application of quick
of eggs. 1t has n seating capacity
for 1000 persons.
Assistant Attorney General Boyd
has rendered decision in the case
of express companies in which he
holds that they are not liable to tax
as brokers by reason of their issuing
money orders and travelling checks.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
WANDERING IN DREAMLAND.
How nm Absent-Minded Woman
Created n Lnugh In a
Street Car.

The young woman's mind was probably
way off in the land of cut.on.the. bias, and
yokes and .farings, and plaitings, and
applique, and ruffles, and things like that,
whatever they may mean, says the. Washing
ton Post.
Anyhow, when she got on an uptown
Ninth street car the other afternoon, she
dreamily opened her pocketbook when the
conductor came around for her fare, stuck
a gloved finger and thumb into one of the
compartments of the same, extracted a
couple of foulard samples and, with that
faNway expression still in her eyes, handed
them to the conductor. The conductor was
a middle-aged man. He smiled and waited
for the young woman to come out of her
trance. But she held the foulard samples
out to him with her eyes on vacancy, until
the conductor, still grinning, had to fetch
her back to earth.
"Yes, they're pretty, miss" he said, "and
I'd like to get my wife dress off that piece
on top, but she's
The young woman blushed like a red.
hot stove lid, dug into another compartment
of her pocketbook for n car ticket, and she
looked real embarrassed when the brutal
male persons across the car aisle grinned,
40 she did
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
TOO STRONG TO WORK.
She Had Her Speciality and Could No
he Induced to Depart
from 1t.

A few days ago a well-known Washington
lady, being Unexpectedly bereft of her
kitchen assistance, advertised for n colored
woman capable of performing general house
work, says the Star.
The first caller in response to the adver
tisement was mulatto damsel, bedecked
with ribbon and fnery. From her airs and
graces she might have been graduate of q
seminary. She announced that she had no
ticed the advertisement and was desirous
of securing employment.
Are you good cook?" inquired the lady
of the house.
mo, indeed, don't cook" was the reply
care you a good washer and ironer!" was
the next query.
II wouldn't do washing and ironing; it's
too hard on the hands," declared the caller
Can you sweep" the housewife then
wanted TO know.
NO" was the answer, and it was pos
tive one. I'm not strong enough for that.
We'll, in the name of goodness, what car
you dog said the lady of the house, eXas
perated. The placid reply was:
81 dusts"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
BARBER GOT 1T MIXED.
In Relating n Little Joke He, After
the Manner of His Kind, Turned
1t Upon Himself.

Henry Lamm, an attorney of Sedalia, told
a story at the reception to the Missouri Bar
association recently which caused great
laugh, says the Kansas City Star. Mr.. Lamm
was called on to make an impromptu speech.
He said:
This is taking an unfair advantage of
me. l have paper in my pocket which
am to read at the meeting tomorrow. 1t is a
very dry paper and it will take me an hour
to read it. If l am given the slightest en-.
couragement l will read it right now. That
would be one on you, wouldn't it?
'And that reminds me. was in Texas
recently and there they have a new joke.
a man asks you. Have you heard the story
about the two dirty collars?' You are sup.
posed to answer: NO And then the man
says: That's one on you.'
"a Dutch barber who had been sold on
this joke concluded to try it on the next
customer who came into his shop. So as he
was getting ready to shave the next caller
he asked him:
-" 'Haf you heard dot story about the two
dirty collars?'
No answered the customer.
"'Vell, dots one you got on
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.

The senate passed bills on the 10th to
give ex-soldiers preference in civil service
appointments: granting a pension of sl0C
per month to the widow of Gen. Lawton,
nnd for the erection of a public build
Ing at East st. Louis, Ill. The commit
tee on interoceanic canals report recon-
mended the Nicaraguan route. The ad-
minstration of affairs in Cuba by agents
of the United States was discussed.
In the house the Alaska code bill was
considered and the senate bill to incor-
porate the American Red Cross was
passed.
On the 18th the post Office appropria-
tion bill was considered in the senate,
and n resolution was adopted for informa-
ton as to how many Filipinos have
been killed and wounded since the begin
ming of hostilities, and also how many
have been captured and are now in our
possession. :. In the house n special river
and harbor bill carrying 100000 for sur
veys and emergency work was passed
and the Alaskan code bill was further
considered.
The senate on the 18th occupied the time
in discussing the pneumatic tube system
service in the post office appropriation bill.
The war department reported that Cuban
revenue receipts are nearly twice the is
lands expenditures. The house devoted
the day to the consideration of war claims
bills and favorably acted upon n bill to
appropriate 100000 to pay ex-confederate
soldiers for horses and other property
taken from them in violation of the terms
of Lees surrender.
Further discussion of the post Office ap-
preparation bill took place in the senate on
the 10Th and the conference report on the
fertilization bill was agreed to-, lin the
house a resolution was adopted accepting
the statue of Gen. Grant, presented by the
Grand Army of the Republic to the ma
tion, and 1t was unveiled in the great ro-
tunda of the capitol
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
FOREIGN.

Fire at st. Catharines. Ont, destroyed
the plant of the Canada Cycle and Mo-
tor company and the Welland Vale
company, with loss of 100000.
Gen. Macarthur cables account of
bloody engagement at Catubig,
where 10 Americans were slain by an
attacking force of Filipinos and 200 of
the latter were killed.
An earthquake shock wrecked sew
eral buildings in the City of Mexico.
A battle between the Beers and the
Mafeking relief force is said to have
taken place at Kran Pan, Gen. Fuller
reports he has taken possession of
Glencoe and that the Transvaal force
has evacuated Biggarsbcrg.
The boiler of torpedo boat ex-
ploded in st. Petersburg, Russia, killing
six persons.
An American corn kitchen was in
auguratcd at the Paris exposition.
. The Boxers" killed 20 native Chris
tons near Pao-Ting-Fu. China.
Official announcement is made from
Pretoria that Mafeking has been re-
lieved after n siege of 210 days. The
Beers retreated before the British
force. London is wild with joy. Bull
Ter reached Newcastle. near Laing's
Mex. The Beers have withdrawn from
Natal and destroyed the tunnel at
Laing's Mex. The early collapse OF
Boer resistance is predicted in Lon
don.
Cholera is spreading in the famine
camps of India.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
omit Lots of Feddars."

Robert Frank, the well-known artist, is q
self.made man, and. not until he become
self'supportng did he have a chance to
pie have in earlier life, says the Philadelphia
Post When he began drawing for living
his workmanship was so excellent that he
had no difficulty in securing orders. One
day he delivered some sketches to an en-
ployer, who said: "By the by, Frank,
want q. picture drawn in great hurry. 1t is
novel thing, a boxing kangaroo"
ia wohl," answered the artist, 81 will
have it ready tomorrow for YOU"
"You know what kangaroo is, of course u
Frank must have been thinking of an
ostrich, because he answered with com
placent smile
"Ja,. gewissrich. It is long, tall thing init
lots of feddars." And "Feddars" has been
his nickname ever since.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
THE MARKETS.

New York. May 2a
Flour-Minnesota bakers $2.65@
200.
Wheat-No. red 77%c.
Corn--No. . at 41Ac.
Gats-No. 2 white 2Shc.
Butter-Western creamery 20c.
Cheese-Fancy large white 9Ac.
Eggs-Western lac.
Bceves--None for sale. Veals $4.0O
@G.50.
Sheep-Common to fair $3.00@475,
spring lambs $s.00@S.25.
Hogs-No sales.
Cleveland, May s.-Flour-winter
wheat, patents, $3.60@3.sO.
Wheat-No. 2 red roc.
Corn-No. 2 yellow 42Ac.
Oats-No. 2 white zoe.
Butter-l'est creamery 21c.
Cheese-York state 12hc.
Eggs-Strictly fresh 12c.
Potatoes-Best grades 40@45c.
Cattle-Choice steers $4.s5@5.15,
fair $4.5O@4.75, calves $5.5O16.5O.
Sheep-Choice $5.OO@5.25, fair $3.50
d475, best lambs $6.00@6.15.
Hogs-Yorkers $5.25, pigs $4.90.
Toledo, May 23.-Wheat-No. 2 cash
74Ac. Pa 31i
Corn-No. 2 cash 39Hc.
Oats-No. 9 cash &4c.
Glover Seed-Prime new $500.
East Buffalo, May 23.-Cattle-Best
steers f$5.40M5.60.
Hogs-Best Workers. $5.40.
Sheep-Choice lambs $6.25@6.75,
prime wethers $5.15@5.35.
East Liberty, May 23.-Cattle-Ex-
ira steers $500. good $5.25.
Sheep-Native lambs $6.00@6.50,
sheep $4.75@4.00.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
CARTER MEDICINE co. WINS.
Obtains Injunction in Case Involving
Stimulation of Labels.

Brent Good, president of the Carter
Medicine Company, yesterday received
q telegram from his lawyers in Chi
cago, informing him that final in
junction, with costs, had beeh granted
against the Chicago Label and Box
Company. This company makes spe-
cialty of manufacturing labels, boxes,
ETC., for druggists. The Carter Com
pany has been following them through
the courts for two years on the COM
plant that the label company was
making simulations of the labels of
Carter's Little Liver Pills. They have
now obtained final injunction, with
costs, and the costs are very large, as
the case has been submitted to Mas
ter in Chancery for final accounting.
The Carter Medicine Company has
been the first and only one to prosecute
printers or engravers who have pre-
pared such labels and wrappers. It.
marks new departure in Infringement
cases, and their victory is one of great
Importance to the whole proprietary
trade" and also of interest to retail
druggists.-N. Y. Press, May 2, 1900.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25


Four men and one woman died at
South Fork. Pa, as result of drink
ing wood alcohol.
A blow in friendly sparring con-
test killed William Stowe, aged II, at
Batesville, Ind.
Three persons are dead anu four per-
haps fatally and many Others. serious
ly injured as result of fire in the
Hotel Helene in Chicago.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey returned
TO Washington from their western
trip.
Sam Hinson (colored) was hanged
by mob near Gushtusha, Miss, for an
attempted murder.
Fire destroyed the grand army home
for soldiers widows at Hawkins Sta
ton, Pa.
BY the narrow margin of two votes
the Massachusetts house decided
against abolishing the death penalty
in the state.
The Presbyterian general assembly
the lawmaking body of that church,
began its one hundred and twelfth an
nual meeting in st. Louis. Rev. William
A. Echols, of Middleport, o., dropped
dead during the opening meeting.
Mrs. Dewey now says she doesn't
want the admiral to become president,
as the strain would be disastrous to
his health.
Smallpox is prevalent in every state
and territory in the United States.
The news of the passage of the Ha-
Hnx
was received in Honolulu with rejoic-
ing.
st. Louis street car officials refuse
the strikers demands and negotiations
for peace are abruptly ended. Riots
continue on car lines.
Charles W. Knapp, of st. Louis. was
elected president of the Associated
Press, and Charles S. Diehl, of New
York, secretary and general manager.
All railroads have agreed to rate
of one fare for the round trip for the
republican convention at Philadel-
phia.
j. E. Hutchinson, editor of the Guth-
rie (Ky.) Graphic, and Virgil Marshall,
freight agent, were fatally shot in sa-
loon fight.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 18th aggre-
gated $1,6s4,372,2s4, against 1851 ,s91,-
s39 the previous week The de-
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was 11.6.
There were III business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1872 the
week previous and lat in the corre-
spending period of 1899.
Flames destroyed one-half of the
business portion of Grand Meadow,
MINI.
The national conference of chari-
ties and corrections began in Topeka,
Kan.
immigration at the barge Office in
New York reached the high-water
mark the past week, $4,000 immi-
grants having arrived.
Five girls of Waukegan, H.. cut their
hair, donned uniforms, and followed
their sweethearts from Fort Sheridan
on the way to Cuba, but were detected.
The visible supply Of grain in the
United States on the 14th was: Wheat.
47,621 900 bushels; corn, 16,155,00O
bushels; oats, 100000 bushels; rye,
1.0e5,0s9 bushels; barley, $4,000
bushels.
Roberts, of Utah, will get $4,000 to
pay expenses Of his fight for seat
In congress,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
for Convention.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 22.-Dr. A. b
Lawrence, of Eldorado, Kan, is here
at the request of Charles Towne, the
populist nominee for vice president,
for the purpose of completing ar
rangements for holding the national
convention of the silver republicans
in this city.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

New York, May 22.-Fritz Meyer
was put to death in the electric chair
at Sing Sing prison at 6:05 o'clock
Monday morning for the murder OF
Policeman Frederick Smith in this
city on the night of October 27. 1897
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

There was a Michigan girl who, while hyp-
NOTICED, borrowed 5000. If she will kindly
send the name of the hypnotic school that
turned the trick she viii confer a favor ON
Anxious Observation-Disclosures News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25
Lanes Family Medicine.

Moves the bowels each day In order to
be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on.
the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head
ache. Price 25 and Soc.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

The only reason why some people marry
is because the woman wants a home and
the man wants servant.-Chicago Daily
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

Some men seem to think because self.pres-
ervation is the first law of nature that it is
necessary to keep themselves constantly
soaked in alcohol.-Chicago Daily News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

All goods are alike to PUTNAM FApELEss
DYES. as they color all tibers at one boiling.
Sold by all druggists.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-05-25

coughing Leads 10 Consumption.
Kemps Balsam will stop the Cough at
once, 20 to your druggist to-day and get n
sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and so
cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous.