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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
BRYAN ON THE PLATFORM.
Democratic Leader Outlines the Prin--
cipnl PInnks which May he
Adopted at I<nnsas City.

Lincoln, Neb., June 26.-W. j. Bryan
returned at noon Monday from his
Wisconsin fishing trip and later visit
at Chicago. He will remain in Lincoln
until after the democratic national
convention. He said he had been
placed in a wrong position by some.
one who had presumed to outline his
plan of campaign, and dictated the fol-.
lowing:
ANY statement made by anybody in
regard to campaign plans are without
foundation or authority. No plans have
been made by me or by anyone for me,
and no plans will be made till after
the convention has been held"
Mr.. Bryan was asked whether he
could say anything in regard to the
platform to be adopted at Kansas City.
He replied:
mo one of course can saw What lam
guage will be used in setting forth the
party principles. But some idea can be
OBTAINED as to the general tenor of the.
platform from the platforms adopted in
the state conventions. AS large ma
Jority OF the delegates have been elected
by conventions which reaffrmed the Chi
cago platform. 1t is safe to ASSURE that
the Kansas City platform will reaf-
hrm the Chicago platform, and will con-
tain nothing which can be construed as
surrender or modification of the Plat.
form on the old issues.
1t Is equally certain that there will
be a strong and definite plank against
the trusts. There is also no doubt that
the plank against Imperialism will be
clear and explicit. Militarism will be de-
nounced and sympathy expressed for the
Beers. This much Is evident from what
has already taken place"
You have refused to discuss the vice
presidency heretofore, Mr.. Bryan Is
there any truth in the rumors that a
| vice president will be chosen whose
| views on the money question will be at
| tractive to those who opposed the ticket
| in 1882"
1T is true that I have refused to dis
cuss the vice presidency" replied Mr..
Bryan. land / do not care to do so now,
further than to say that / assume that
| the candidate nominated for vice presi-
dent will be in harmony with the plat
| form. The vice president not only pre-
sides over the senate while the president
| Is alive, but assumes the office OF presi-
dent in case of the presidents death, and
1t is hardly probable that delegates to a
| national convention would write a plat
form and then select for either place on
| ticket man who would repudiate the
platform. No man worthy to be con-
sidered for such Office would accept
| a nomination upon platform repugnant
to his views on any important issue. In
| every campaign men support n ticket
| without approving all of the platform,
but no one can defend n platform unless
he believes In 1t. Many tariff reform
| gold democrats supported the republican
ticket four years ago, although they dis
| sented from the protection plank. But
| the republican convention would not have
nominated a tariff reformer upon a pro-
lection platform. There is sometimes
joint debate between candidates on op-
posing tickets, but not between candi-
dates on the same ticket"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29

Martial law has been proclaimed in
Madrid, refractory taxpayers are to be
jailed and opposition newspapers sup
pressed.
Lord Roberts has almost accom-
plished his object of cutting apart the
Boer army and preventing intercom-
munication of isolated commandos.
The Worlds Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union opened its annual meet
ing in Edinburgh, Scotland.
An American force of 100 men was
ambushed by Filipinos and driven back
to Tagayan, losing nine men killed
and 12 wounded.
The Beers made bold dash on Hon
ing spruit and cut Lord Roberts line
of communication. They were driven
away and the damage was repaired.
Rear Admiral Kempff's report of the
repulse at Tientsin of allied forces
prompted the ordering to Taku of Rear
Admiral Remy with the cruiser Brook
lyn. Four Americans were killed and
several wounded at Tientsin. The en-
press is reported to have ordered the
determination of all foreigners and this
action is considered a declaration of
war on all the powers,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
THE BOER WAX.
Roberts Forces Closing In on the
south Africans-ConsuI Hay
to Visit Kruger.

London, June 26.-Lord Roberts six
columns are converging apparently SO
as to close in upon the Free Staters,
although decisive results cannot be ex-
pected for several days. A number of
Beers who were supposed to be within
the wide-hung net have broken, or
rather stolen. through Gen. Rundle's
Ficksburg-Senekal lines.
The Canadians were engaged in the
Honingspruit fight last Friday. Gen.
De Vets men first cut off a Canadian
outpost of mounted rifles at dawn, two
being killed. Lieut.. Triglis and four
others We're wounded, and three were
captured. The Free Staters then at
tackled the camp where were so Cana
dians and two companies of Shrop-
shires, though without much effect, as
the men were well entrenched.
The foreign military attaches who
were with Lord Roberts are now in
Cape Town, en- route for Europe.
United States Consul Hay, of Pretoria,
is going to Machadodorp in the interest
of the British prisoners and to see.
President Kruger.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
NO ONE HELD.
Three Nerdicts Are Returned by the
Jury i'm the Strike Inquest
mt st. Louis.

st. Louis, June 26.-The coroner's
jury, sitting in the inquests on the
bodies of Edward Thomas, George
Rine and Edward Burkhardt, strikers
who were shot and Killed on Sunday,
June 10, in a riot which took place
in front of the barracks of the posse
comitatus, at Sixth street and Wash
ington avenue, returned verdicts to
the effect that the former was killed
by deputies in the discharge of their
duties, and that the two latter were
killed without justification by parties
unknown to the jury. The verdict of
homicide in all cases, but no persons
were held responsible. The riot, ac-
cording to the jury, followed the act
of some unknown person, who broke
the window of passenger street car.
The examination of almost 200 wit
nesses failed to reveal the identity of
any deputy who participated in the
shooting or of any striker who contrib
uted to the disturbances which precipi-
tated the riot.
The federal court has issued n tenn
porary injunction at st. Louis restrain
ing the street railway mems union
from interfering with the running of
mail cars.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
CROPS INJURED.
Unprecedented Rains DO Great Dnm-
age 10 Cotton and Corn In
Southern States.

Atlanta, Ga, June 26.-Reports re-
ceived here from many points in
Georgia and portions of alabama and
South Carolina show that the recent
heavy rains have inundated vast ter
ritory and caused enormous damage
to bridges and farming properties.
Crops, including cotton, corn, and
especially fruit, which was nearing
majority when the wet season be-
gan, have been greatly injured, and a
vast amount has been lost to the farm
ers of the southeastern states. The
rainfall has been unprecedented. All
the streams are out OF their banks
and carrying away bridges. A torna-
do was reported near Huntsville, Ala.
sweeping the country, but no loss of
life is known. The lowlands have
been devastated, and the higher farm
ing lands are untouched. Indications
are for cessation of the rain, which
will cause the streams to fall rapidly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29

In u mine explosion at Champion,
Mich, four men were killed.
The great forest fires in the Buachu-
ca mountains I'm Arizona destroyed
100000 worth of fine lumber.
Trains collided on the Chicago d
Northwestern road at Depere, Wis,
and six persons were killed and SO in
jured.
Charles Milford, n crazy man in Ce-
dar Rapids, Ia, killed James Fitzsim-
mons and wounded Mrs. Fitzsimmons
and her daughter, fatally shot Joseph
Drake and then killed himself.
Traffic was resumed on all st. Louis
street railway lines and neither pas
sengers nor crews were molested.
Five persons were killed and great
damage was done to property by cy-
clone in Beaver county, o. L.
Thirty-five persons were killed in a
wreck caused by washout on the
Southern railroad near McDonough,
Ga.
The two daughters of John Ethridge
were killed by lightning in their home
near Charlotte, n. c.
The Kansas wheat crop is 100,000,000
bushels, and 10000 men have been inn
ported to help harvest it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Fatal Cyclone,

Guthrie, o. T., June 26.-An uncon-
firmed report says terrific cyclone
passed over Beaver county Sunday
night, killing two men, injuring three
and destroying much property. Will
liam Hasberger, aged IS, and Mrs.
Paul Rhodes were seriously injured.
The county was swept for 20 miles,
and 90 houses We're blown over, trees
uprooted and damage done to grow
ing crops. Big herds of cattle were
stampeded and many of them in
iured and killed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
LATER.

A cloudburst occurred in Mobile,
Ala, on the Goth ult. All streets were
submerged, in some places to depth
of five feet.
All grades of refined sugars were
advanced one-tenth of one cent n
pound on the Goth ult.
Seventy-one million silver dollars
have been transferred from the old
mint in Philadelphia to the new build
ing in that city. The dollars were
coined as security for the last issue
of silver certificates.
Admiral Frederick A. MaXse, who
was naval aide-de-camp to Lord Rag
Ian, commander-in-chief of the forces
during the siege of Sebastopol, and
who was known as politician and
writer, is dead at London. He was
born in 1898.
A dispatch from Denver, Idaho, gives
an account of disastrous hail storm
which visited that section. Wheat
fields and orchards were destroyed
and small pigs and chickens We're
killed by the hail stones.
The buildings of the Consumers
Coal and Ice Co. at Bayonne, N. j.,
occupying an entire city block, were
destroyed by fire on the Goth ult.,
with much of their contents. The loss
is estimated at 100000. The build
ings destroyed included n three-story
ice house almost filled with ice. The
structure was entirely consumed,
leaving the ice and sawdust packing
intact.
Frank w. Ormsbee, engineer, was
| killed and William Il. Green, fireman,
| badly injured in u collision on the
| Buffalo Terminal road near Depew,
| n. Y, on the Goth. Ormsbee's death
was frightful. He was pinned be-
| tween the engine and the tender and
roasted TO death.
Fifteen thousand dollars was re.
ceived at New York City on the Goth
ult. from the Kansas Indian relief
committee and cabled to the inter
denominational missionary commit
| tee at Bombay.
Unless the street railway strike is
ended by July Mayor Iigenhein
says he will prohibit the use of fire
works of any description in st. Louis
on that day. He announces that {
! proclamation will he issued two ol
three days before the nations birth
day.
Director Merriam, of the census bu
reau, contradicts the, report which
has been circulated in some portions
of the country to the effect that th'
census enumerators are not to be pait
promptly. They will be paid as sooI
as their reports, properly certified t'
by the supervisors, are received.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
FOREIGN.

Gen. Macarthur issued President Nc
Kinley's proclamation of amnesty to
all in the Philippines who take the oath
rules of war.
The statue of Washington, the gift to
Paris by the Daughters of the American
Revolution, arrived in that city.
The fate of foreigners at Peking is
still in doubt. Admiral Seymour and
relief iorces are reported to have ar
rived there. Admiral Kempff has
cabled to Washington regarding oper-
ations at Talku. The rebellion is
spreading far and wide.
Canada has been awarded first prize
for its display of timber at the Paris
exposition.
Dispatches from South Africa are
still barren of news, indicating that
the wars end is near at hand. Mean
time continuation of Boer activity
is reported from Orange Free State.
Advices received in London say that
Roberts is preparing a final movement
and that truce with Botha intimates
surrender. Roberts is believed to be in
negotiation with Kruger. The Beers
in the south were returning TO their
farms.
Former Filipino leaders and Gen
Macarthur agreed on terms for peace
in the Philippines. 1t is believed Aguin'
aldo will accept the articles.
Admiral Kempff reported that Box
esr and Chinese attacked the foreign
quarter of Tien-Tsin and destroyed the
American consulate and other build
ings. A large relief force was on its
way from Taku.
Count Mouravieff, Russian minister
of foreign affairs, died in st. Peters
burg.
News of the bombardment of Tien
Tsin by Chinese troops with modern
artillery is confirmed. Fighting last
ed five days and many on both sides
killed; foreign concessions nearly al
burned and American consulate razed
Admiral Kempff, in message received
at Washington, asked for more troops
and warships.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

North Haven. Me-, has an apple tree
1875 years old.
The pay of British commander-in-
chief while in active service is C rs a
week.
An epidemic among silk worms in
Italy and in France is likely to result
in an advance in the price of silk.
Figures by the New York bureau of
labor statistics show n steady gain in
the growth of labor organizations.
With the expiration of his term in
1903 Senator Vest Of Missouri will re-
tire absolutely from public and official
life.
the death rate of soldiers is about In
1000. The leath rate of clergymen is
II in 1000.
Miss A. E. Walton has been chosen
principal of the school at Oakland, CAL,
over which Edwin Markham, the poet,
formerly held sway.
Gen.De Gallifet is the seventh French
minister of war in less than two years
who has retired from office in connec-
ton with the Dreyfus case.
Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind
New York millionaire, has given to
charity $4,000 during the first six
months of the present year.
An Ohio woman has invented con-
trivance for clearing lawns of leaves.
1t has hopper with fan blades which
fan the leaves into the hopper.
James w. Thompson, of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, after investigating
methods in 100 cities, reports in favor
of free textbooks in grade schools.
The Salvation Army has failed in two
attempts to gain footing in the City
of Mexico. Mexican laws forbid all re-
ligious professions in the streets of
cities.
The largest and heaviest locomotive
ever made was recently sent out from
the Pittsburgh locomotive works. 1t
weighs, without the tender, 100000
pounds.
Miss Josie Wanous, of Minneapolis.
has been chosen third vice president of
the American Pharmaceutical associa-
ton, being the first woman 10 hold Of
fee in that body.
Miss Sarah Flanagan, whose father
was city clerk of Kingston, Ont, for
more than half century, has recently
been appointed to fill the position her
self and is the first woman to hold such
q position in Canada.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
New silver Certificates.

Washington, June 26.-Five-dollar
silver certificates of the new design
made their first appearance Monday
and took the place of the old fives in
all treasury payments from the cash
room. The feature of the new note
is large typical Indian head in the
center, with blue seal and large
letter "V," with the word "Five" also
in blue, running in a curved line
across it, AS an artistic production
this note is regarded as equal to any
ever issued by the government.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
CLOSELY SHADowED.
Ex-Gov. Taylor, of Kentucky, Fol-
lowed by Detectives with War
rant for His Arrest.

Philadelphia, June 26.-Brollen in
health and spirits, ex-Gov. William S.
Taylor, of Kentucky, started for Nj
agara Falls Monday night. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Taylor, and four
detectives followed close at their
heels. Two of the officers represented
the state of Kentucky, and bear war
rants for the arrest of Mr.. Taylor up
on charges growing out of the assas-
sination of Gov. Goebel. The other
two are employed by Mr.. Taylor to
guard his person. His stay IN this CITY
was devoid of personal pleasure. He
accepted but one invitation, and de-
MED himself to everybody who called
upon him at the hotel where he made
his headquarters. He came here to at
tend the republican national conven-
tion as. n delegate at large only after
having been assured that no requisi-
tion calling for his enforced return to
Kentucky would be honored. The
strain is telling upon both Gov. and
Mrs. Taylor. All the time they
were in the city their rooms were
closely guarded, and Mrs. Taylor per-
sonally answered every rap upon the
door. She denied herself to all call
ers, and was on the verge of collapse
several times. 1t is understood that
MIR. Taylor will not be surrendered to
the Kentucky authorities by Gov.
Roosevelt, and that he will he immune
from arrest until he shall return to
Indiana, where he is now making his
home, or until such time as he shall
return to Kentucky
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
ThIrtx-Seycn Dead.

Atlanta, Ga, June 26.-Thirty-sev
bodies have been recovered from the
wreckage of the Southern train which
went into washout one mile and a
half from McDonough Saturday night.
Three bodies were found Monday.
Many bodies of the dead have not been.
identified, and these remain at the
undertaking establishments waiting
to be claimed by relatives or friends.
These bodies are principally those of
negro section hands who were killed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AT the republican national conven-
tion in Philadelphia Senator Lodge was
made permanent chairman and plat
form was adopted which indorses
President McKinley's administration /;
pledges support of the gold standard;
favors protection, reduction in war
taxes and liberal pensions, and recog-
nizes the necessity for the honest CO.
operation of capital 10 meet new bust
ness conditions, and at the same time
condemns "all conspiracies and COM
binations intended to restrict business,
create monopolies, to limit production
or to control prices"
Kansas prohibitionists nominated
full state ticket headed by Frank Hol-
singer, of Rosedale, for governor.
The democrats of the Fifteenth Illi-
nois district nominated Willis Hazel
wood, of Quincy, for congress.
Edgar o. Weeks (rep) has been
renominated for congress in the Sew
enth Michigan district and Charles F.
Cochran (dem.) in the Fourth district
of Missouri.
Crazed by drink o. A. Barlow killed
his wife and himself at Greensburg,
Ind.
President Mckinley was unanimous
ly renominated for president of the
United States by the republican nation
al convention in Philadelphia, and Gov.
Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, was
unanimously nominated for vice pres
ident. Senator Hanna was reelected
chairman of the national republican
committee.
L. NJ. Briggs, of Hoopeston, has
been nominated for congress by the
democrats of the Twelfth Illinois dis
trict.
John A. Gallagher, state geologist,
aged 5s, died at his home in Warren
burg. Mo-, of an operation for cancer.
L. II. Thompson, judge of the Ver-
mont supreme court, died at his home
at Irasburg, aged so years.
Congressman j. A. r. Hull was re-
nominated by the republicans OF the
Seventh Iowa district.
Mrs. Lois S. Hall, who celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary
on May 90 last, died at her home in
Canton. III,
John H. Butler, one of the most
prominent lawyers Of Indiana, died in
Indianapolis, aged 81 years.
Florida democrats nominated Will
liam s. Jennings for governor.
Jasper Francis Cropsey, one of the
oldest American portrait painters, died
at his home in Hastings, A. Y, aged rs
Rev. John Philip Conradi died at his
home in Baltimore, Nd, aged SIS years
He was the pioneer of Lutheranism in
America.
National republican headquarters
will be opened in New York and Chi
cago about July 20.
Henry Finehout, aged 81 years, be.
lieved to have been the oldest railroad
conductor in the world, died at his
| home in st. Paul.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Wheat Crop Ruined.

Winnipeg, Man., June 26.-Of 1,sOO,-
900 acres under wheat, 100000 acres
will never be cut. Rains cannot now
change stunted crop six to eight
inches high and a small head into a
crop. Best authorities hope for seed
and feed, but this is doubtful.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Killed I'm n Runnxy.

Schenectady, N. Y, June 26.-Mrs.
Jacob w. Clute, wife of former Mayor
Clute, and Mrs. f. t. Rogers, yife of
Providence (R. ~ physician, were.
almost instantly killed Monday night.
as the result of runaway accident.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Brother and sister Drowned.

Chippewa Falls, Wis.,, June 26.-Em-
lily and Don Mcdonnell, aged II and IS
respectively, children of Hon. A. B. Nc
Donell, president of the Lumberman's
national bank, were drowned in Long
lake, Chippewa county, Monday. They
were bathing and went beyond their
iepth.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Ordered to Manila.

Washington, June 26.-By an order
issued Monday Brig. Gen. Thomas II.
Barry, United States volunteers, will
be relieved from duty in the Office
of the adiutant general in this city,
to take effect July s, and will proceed
to Manila, where he win act as chief
of staff to the commanding general.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Journalist Dead.

Chicago, June 26.-Martin j. Russell,
one of the publishers of the Chicago
Chronicle, and for years one of the
most brilliant editorial writers in Chi
cago, and the northwest, died at Mack
inac island of Bright's disease.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29

O'Brien, Fla, June O'clock Thorn
as, negro who attempted an assault
on Mrs. Keene, widow living in SUI
vance county, Friday night, was
taken from the sheriff by mob near
Live Oak Monday, hanged to tree
and riddled with bullets. He made a
confession.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Very Low Water.

Dubuque, Ia, June 26.-The present
stage of water in the Mississippi is the
lowest known for June during the past
25 years. The stage Monday was one,
foot six inches above low-water mark,
and still falling. Should the decline
continue navigation will be suspended
on the Mississippi within few weeks.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Sentence COMMITTED.

Washington, June 25.-The presi-
dent has commuted to five years the
sentence of life imprisonment imposed
on Alphonse j. Jennings, convicted in
Chickasha, /. T., in February, 1899, of
train robbery. The attorney general
considered the sentence of Jennings
unjust, as others convicted with him
at the same time received lighter SEN
tences.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29
Cholera Claims over 10000 victims.

London, June 2G.-The governor of
Bombay wires that there were 10,277
deaths from cholera out of 10, ,479 cases
during the week ending June 10.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-06-29

Chefoo, Tuesday, June 26.--Rear Ad-
miral Kempff reports, by japanese
torpedo boat, that the combined forces
entered Tientsin on Saturday, June 25,
sustaining small loss. They started
on Sunday to relieve the force which
left Tientsin on June 10, ana which is
believed to be surrounded near Peking.
According to japanese reports, Ad-
miral Seymour has been captured, and
the ministers have left Peking, guard
ed by Chinese soldiers. Their where
aboutS is unknown. - IL.