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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
CLEVELAND GETS 1T.
G.. A. n. National Council Decides to |
Hold This Years Encampmcnt In |
the Ohio Metropolis.

st. Louis, Jan. ga vote was
taken yesterday by the national
council and Cleveland was selected as
| the place in which to hold the next
annual G. A. r. encampment. The
vote stood: Cleveland 5, Denver 2,
Pittsburg 1. Denver could not meet
all the requirements and Cleveland
was selected because satisfactory
guarantees of that city's ability to
care for the encampment were fur
nished to the committee. The date
set for the encampment is the week
beginning September 9.
AS a result of this action represen-
tatives of Denver, formerly selected,
announced that they intended to take
up the matter with various state de-
partments and would also hold an en-
campment the second week of Sep
| tember.
The meeting of the council held
Monday was the result OF the failure
of Denver to satisfy the council at
its December meeting of the city's
ability to meet the requirements of
one-cent per mile railroad rate. Cleve-
land, Pittsburg and Denver sent dele
cations to yesterdays meeting to
plead for the sending of the encamp-
ment to. those cities.
The Cleveland delegation offered
the written pledge of the chairman
Of the Central Passenger association
of one cent per mile to the encamp-
ment, promised to raise the necessary
money to meet the expenses of the
encampment. offered free quarters in
| 100 school houses for the old SOL
diers: to arrange the line of march
to suit and produced written pledges.
The delegation representing Pitts
burg pledged a one-cent rate, hotel
accommodations subscriptions and
met the other requirements.
Denver's applicants for the en-
campment honors produced letters
from Chairman Mcleod. of the West
ern Passenger association, promising
one-cent rate on six railroads. In
addition they made the necessary
promises as to accommodation and
entertainment. Half an hours dis
cussion resulting in the selection OF
Cleveland.
Individual members of the council
declared the Denver people were mis-
taken when they thought they had
the promise of the Pennsylvania and
New York departments to go to Dem
YER and were certain that none of the
departments would refuse TO attend
the encampment at Cleveland.
Its certain that if they do have
an encampment it will not be the
national encampment of the G. A. r."
was the manner in which one dis
missed the subject.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN.
Delivered Himself of n Brief Dis
course Upon the Subject of
squcaky shoes.

This matter may not seem to you,"
said the middle-aged man, according
to the New York Sun, zone of grave
Importance, but it appears, neverthe-
less, to be fact that there are, now
adays, not nearly so many squeaky
shoes worn as there were years ago;
there used to be many; now there are
comparatively few. Time and again,
for instance, have seen walking up
a church aisle, little late perhaps,
and so alone and all the more con-
spicuous, a man whose boots squeaked
SO that the sound of them filed all
the church, and the thoughts of
every worshiper besides. But he
would move noiselessly now.
There was time when people
didn't object to squeaky shoes, when,
in fact, they rather liked them. The
squeak proclaimed their degree of
newness, for the newest squealsed
most; and people didn't object to
your knowing that their shoes were
not old and worn out, but new shoes.
They used to put into some shoes in
those days between the inner and the
outer sole piece of what was called
squeak leather, to make the shoes
squeak the more; but commonly the
squeaking was caused simply by the
chafing of one sole against the other
as the wearer walked. Some of these,
though, were mighty good squeakers.
Later there came time when
squeaky shoes found less favor; when,
in fact, there were many people who
preferred that their shoes should not
squeak. This sort of middle period
is marked by the appearance in con-
temporaneous prints of recipes for
stopping or preventing the squeaking
of shoes. One way suggested was to
soak the soles in water; this was said
to be effective, at least as long as the
shoes remained damp; another way
was to drive a tack or two or few
pegs through the two soles so that
they could not rub one against the
other. And from that, in due course,
we rose to the comparatively squeak
less dignity of the present day.
How this has been accomplished,
whether the squeaking is now special
ly guarded against in some manner.
or whether it has been largely eliminat-
ed as one of the results of the vast
ly different modern methods of manu-
facture, or what. / do not know; but
certain it is that in these days you
don't hear anything like so many
squeaky shoes as you once did"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
THEY ASK FOR A MILLION.
venezucInns Want American Owners
OF Asphalt Beds TO Pay Ransom for
Their Own Property.

Port of Spain, Trinidad, Jan. 22.-
The arrivals yesterday from Nenezue-
la confirm the reports of the exist
ence of a critical condition of affairs
in that republic. A former Nenezue-
| Ian minister asserts that the politi-
clans at Caracas are making a deter
| mined raid on the Bermudese asphalt
| fields. He also adds that they tried
| it before on a modest scale, squeezing
| $4,000 out of the company, when
Minister Loomis protested and
stopped further action of this de-
scription. The government, the min
lister also says, listened TO reason
then, but has now lost its head,
through greed, and offers to restore
the company's property for S1,00o,00o
although il is said to have been ille-
gally taken by dictatorial decree.
In addition, the assertion is made
that if foreign governments permit
the action of the Venezuelan authori-
ties to pass without some protest all
foreign investors will be driven from
South America, for the latter claim
they are always being illegally plum
dered. In this connection the asser-
ton is made that no former Venezue-
| Ian government would have dared to
act as this one does toward Washing
ton. The Venezuelan authorities are
counting on the disinclination of
strong nations to coerce weak ones.
At the Office here of the Orinoco
Co., whose two steamers were recent
ly seized by the Venezuelan authori.
ties, the manager says the British
minister at Caracas, Mr.. Haggard,
has informed the American minister
that the British government will not
protect the company because its
shareholders are Americans. The
company is said to be losing heavily
through the seizure of the steamers.
The commander of the French
cruiser Suchet, stationed at Caru.
pano, for the protection of the large
French interests in that vicinity, re-
ports that disturbances are increas-
| ing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
The emperor OF China has asked
the powers not to destroy Taku forts

The emperor OF China has asked
the powers not to destroy Taku forts
but to occupy them.
Twenty-Five persons perished in the
wreck of the British steamer Kaisari
on the island of Reunion.
Gen. De Wet crossed the Vaal river
and Joined the northern army, and
1000 Beers were concentrated to at
tack the British lines.
A message from Minister Conger
says that the Chinese have signed and
delivered the protocol.
A man named Morrison was hanged
at Regina, y. w. T., for numbering the
Macarthur family.
1t is stated that Gen. De Wet was
at Ermelo, where 5000 Beers were
concentrated preparatory to an in
vasion of Natal. which Gen. De Wet
was urgently advocating.
Reports from the Philippines indi-
cate great deal of sickness prevail
ing among both naval and army Off
GERS.
The British ship Noel Tryvan foun-
dered in the English channel and IL
of the crew were drowned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
LATER,

United States Senator William j.
Sewell was on the 22d elected by :he
New Jersey legislature to succeed
himself as United States senator.
The Bessemer association has sold
to the leading Pittsburg interest 50,-
600 tons of pig iron at $3.50. This
is the largest single purchase of pig
iron for many months.
Stephen b. Elkins was reelected
United States senator by the West
Virginia Legislature on the 22d.
Frank Jansen, barber, of South
Scranton, Pa, on the 22d went home
drunk from bali and quarreled with
his wife and threw a lighted lamp at
her. Ii set the bed on fire, and as a
result their 7-year-old boy was
burned to death, and Mrs. Jansen
was fatally burned. The house was
burned. Jansen is locked up.
The famine in freight cars has
reached crisis in the Pittsburg dis
trict, and the situation has become
so bad at the Homestead mills of the
Carnegie Steel Co. that it is claimed
shutdown will be necessary if some
relief is not given soon. The com
pany has not received more than 10
per cent. of its car demands.
Alaska has been visited by one of
the severest storms in years. All
southeastern Alaska is one mass OF
snow and ice, the storm being the
worst ever known in Alaska and
grave fears are entertained that
when reports come from the outlying
sections the loss of life will be heavy
Fifty thousand tons of high grade
zinc ore from the MissouriKansas
mining district are to be exported to
Europe, this amount already having
been contracted for by the European
smelters for the Missouri and Kan
sas Zinc association. Zinc ore has
become scarce in Europe, while this
productive district has been yielding
more than the American smelters
could handle.
The agitation against billboard.
| has resulted in the passage by the
| Chicago city council of an ordinance
providing that all signboards ant
billboards more than three feet
square now within 200 feet of any
park, boulevard or driveway be de
clared n public nuisance and tori
down, and that such boards be pro
hibited in the future.
Tho senate on the 22d ratified the treaty wit
| Spain providing for the sale to the Unite
States, for 100000 OF two islands In the Phil
| ippine group that were not included In tn
| treaty OF Paris. A resolution expressing sor
row for the death Of Queen Victoria was adop
ted. The house passed the bill for sendin
TO the court OF claims the bill for damages pre-
sented by the Cramp Shipbuilding Co res
olution OF sorrow because OF Queen Victoria
death was adopted
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
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.
1HE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.

During the discussion of the army reor-
ganization bill in the senate on the 10th
Senators Allen, Money and McCumber de-
nounced hazing at West Point in vigorous
terms....ln the house the river and har-
bor bill, carrying an appropriation of $780,
100000, was passed. a resolution was
adopted authorizing the president to invite
Great Britain to join In forming commits
sion to maintain. lake levels.
On the 18th a bill was passed In the
senate fixing the compensation of district
superintendents of life-savinE service at
$500 per annum The army appropria-
tion bill was further discussed. In the
house the entire day was spent upon
the bill to revise and codify the postal
laws.
The army reorganization bill was
passed In the senate on the 18th by a
vote of 43 to %. Strength of forces is
TO vary from $1,000 to 100. 900, as the pres
fdent may determine. The house spent
the entire day on the bill to refer to the
court of claims the claims of William
Cramp & Sons for alleged damages due
TO the delay of the government In fur
nishing armor plate and material for the
battle-ships Massachusetts and Indiana
and the cruisers New York and Columbia.
The claims aggregate sl.367,2i4.
Eulogies on the late Senator Gear, OF
Iowa, occupied the time in the senate
on the 18th. Senator Dolliver his success
sor, being the principal speaker. A bill
was introduced increasing the salaries of
officials of Hawaii. The session of the
house was devoted chiefly to the postal
codifcation bill, which was about haif
completed. A bill was passed granting
10 days annual leave to employees of navy
yards, arsenals, etc.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
WANT GREAT NATIONAL PARK.
Movement Started to Have n Large
Tract OF Land in Minnesota
Reserved.

The establishment of park TO equal
in extent the great Yellowstone nation
al park at the headwaters of the Mis-
sissippi is project that is being ex-
tensively agitated throughout tho
northwest, and the boards of directors
of commercial exchanges and many OF
the city councils of the northwest nave
passed strong resolutions relative To
the establishment and maintenance %
such a reservation. A large number of
memorials have been addressed by
these bodies to congress, urging that
body to provide the proper legislation
to insure the success of the project
The region now in view is the Leech,
Cass and Winnibigoshish lakes and In
dian reservations. comprising GIL ,592
acres of land and a water surface OF
2ls.470 acres, located in the northern
part of Minnesota. constituting the
headwaters of the Mississippi river.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Alabama and Virginia viii both try
for new state constitutions during
1901.
A japanese paper, the Japanese
American Weekly News, has been
started in New York.
Lord Rosebery says American and
German competition are dangers for
Great Britain to consider.
Alpha Twencentia Minnea Lundeen
is the name the first baby of the CEN
tury in Minneapolis will bear.
The Yale undergraduates have de-
cided to take part in the inaugural
parade in Washington next March.
Seventy-one new banking institu-
tions have been authorized to do bust
ness in Missouri in the last two
years.
The American people are great
theater-goers and spend about S112,.
100000 annually for such amuse.
ments.
Statistics of the lumber trade COM
piled at Washington show that Amer
lean forests will not last longer than
60 years.
New York is building state hos
pital in the Adlrondacks, to cost $780,
600, where patients with incipient con-
sumption will be treated.
DIR. Elias Riggs, the oldest mission.
airy of the American board, died in
Constantinople, aged 90 years. He
had been in service for 60 years.
The appellate division of the su.
preme court of New York state has
decided that memberships in the New
York stock exchange are not taxable.
According to advices from Da-
honey, the Moslem tribes are openly
preparing for rebellion. They refuse
to recognize the sovereignty of King
Toffa.
The attention of the pension bureau
has been called to one regiment in
the civil war in which, according to
the rolls, 2s colored George Washing
tons served.
About so of the principal observa-
tories of the world are now cooperat-
ing in a great programme OF obser-
vation for improving our knowledge
of the distance between the earth and
sun.
James Conroy, of Jersey City, y. J.
claims to have devised a system of
springs and weights which, operating
as balance. will run machinery with.
out the aid of fuel, electricity or any
other motive power.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Z. w. Blaisdell, one of the founders
of the republican party, and the first
to mention Lincoln for president, died
at his home in Rockford III.
James \. Mount, aged SO, retiring
governor of Indiana, died suddenly of
heart disease in his apartments at the
Denison hotel in Indianapolis.
United States senator's elected: w.
A. Clark, Montana; ID. ID. Tillman,
South Carolina; F. w. Carmack, Ten
nesse.
4. b. Caldwell. founder of the Inde-
pendent Order of Foresters, died at
Syracuse, y. Y.
Democrats in the Pennsylvania leg
islature who voted for Quay have
been read out of the party.
Rev. Hiram II. Revels, formerly
United States senator from Missis-
| sippi, dropped dead at his homein New
| Orleans, La.
L. Parmelee Prentice. of Chicago.
and Miss Alta Rockefeller, daughter of
j. d. Rockefeller, were married in New
York.
Lawrence Connell died at his home
| HtaT 81. Josepn, Mo, dSeu llo years
Harriet wilkins, aged 1Os years,
died in Detroit. Mich.
The social democrats will hold ma
tional convention at Indianapolis in
September.
DR., Robert Graham, for many years
president of Kentucky university, died
at Pittsburgh, Pa, aged 70 years.
James \. Mount, late governor of In
diana, was buried in Oak Hill cemetery
at Charlottesville.
Thomas Shaw, inventor of the mer-
curry steam gauge, the standard of
pressure of the civilized world, died
in Philadelphia.
Moses f. Clapp, of st. Paul, has
been nominated for United States sem
ator from Minnesota to succeed the
late Cushman Davis.
John Lesenring, member of the
Forty-fourth congress and a wealthy
mine owner, died in Philadelphia
aged AS years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25

London. Jan. 22.-The following
statement as to the condition of
Dowager Empress Frederick, eldest
daughter OF Queen Victoria, appears
in the Daily Chronicle: at is with
sincere regret that we announce that
the Empress trederick's condition
has become materially worse. There
is a serious development of the dis
ease from which she is suffering and
her physical PAIN is intense. All
idea of any tourney in pursuit OF
health has been abandoned and it ID
Improbable that she will ever leave
Cronberg."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
Casey. Case.

A Canadian gentleman, named Casey, wa, Wa
technically had to be occupied by lawyer,
which Mr.. Casey was not. The benchers OF
the Law, society, however, undertook to
deviate the technicality, and appointed one
of their number to examine him as to his
knowledge of the law.
"Well, Casey" said the examiner, what
do you know about the law, anyway
"Well, to tell the TRUTH" said Casey.
modestly, 81 don't know single thing"
'I have examined Mr.. Casey as to his
knowledge of the law" the examiner stated
in his affidavit, "and to the best of my
knowledge and belief he answered all the
questions entirely correctly. Law Notes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
THE MARKETS.

New York. January "a
Flour-Very quiet.
Nheat-No. 2 red 77hc.
Corn-No. 2 at 47c.
Oats-No. white 32hc.
Cleveland, Jan. 3.-Flour-Winter
wheat, patents, $4.15@4.30.
Wheat-No. red 76Rc.
Corn-No. 2 yellow Ace.
Oats-No. white 30Ac.
Butter-Best creamery 22Rc.
Cheese-York state 12h@13c.
Eggs-Best 21G22c.
Potatoes-Best grades 45@50c.
Cattle-Choice steers S4.65M4.S0,
light $4.25@4.50, calves $6.5007.00.
Sheep-Good $4.25@4.5o, best lambs
$5.25@5.60.
Hogs-Yorkers $5.35.
Toledo, Jan. Wheat-Cash nc.
Corn-Cash 37hc.
Oats-Cash 25Ac.
East Liberty, Jan. 23.-Cattle-Ex-
ira $5.40M5.70, good $4.75@5 @5.00.
Hogs-Best heavy $500.
Sheep-Prime wethers $4.50@4.75,
lambs $5,75@5.s5.
East Buffalo, Jan. 23.-Cattle-
Extra $5.25@5.50.
Sheep-Good to choice lambs $5.75
@5.90, choice sheep $+.50@4.75.
Hogs-Heavy $5.35@5.75, Workers.
$3.50.
Cincinnati, Jan. 23.-Hogs-Dull at
$4.30@5,35.
Cattle-Steady at S2.25@4.75.
Sheep-Quiet at $1.50@4.00, lambs
$3.50@5.75.
oil Market.
Oil City, Jan. 23.-Credit balances
$1.l7. Certificates no bid.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25

The Louisville & Nashville R. R. together
the Florida Limited, which is daily, solid
train, wide vestibuled, steam heated, gas
lighted, with dining car service for meals
en- route to Thomasville, Ga, Jacksonville
and st. Augustine, Fla. The sleeper leaving
Cincinnati at ll:l5 a. m. is attached at
Nashville, running via Birmingham and
Montgomery, Plant System TO Jacksonville,
and Florida East Coast to st. Augustine,
arriving at the latter city at 1880 the next
evening. Mr.. c. l.. Stone, General Passen-
ger Agent, Louisville g. Nashville R. R.,
Louisville, KY, will answer all inquiries con-
cerning this train and furnish printed mat
ter concerning it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
How,s Thisf

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known f. j.
Cheney for the last 10 years, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transac-
tions and financially able to carry out any
obligations made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To-
ledo, o.
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials
Tree.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1901-01-25
A Tailor. Experience.

Mr.. j. Holiday, who was at one time
cutter for Mr.. Bell merchant tailor of
Fourth g. Main Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio,
wrote: 'Palmer's Lotion has cured me OF
Granulated Sore Eyehds of several years
standing, after having been treated in vain
by one of the best eye-surgeons in the city,
and after spending in other ways large sums
OF money. The first application gave me
immediate relief" This wonderful healer
and beautifier should be kept in every
home. II your druggist does not keep i,
send to Solon Palmer, 374 Pearl Street, New
York, for free samples of Palmer'S Lotion
and Lotion Soap.