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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
LATER

Tho locusts which infest the vicini-
ty north of Ann Arbor. Mich. have
been fully determined as the 17-year
variety. and the specimens are ex-
hibited at the university museum
with the authoritative labels. The
numbers are constantly increasing.
Seventeen-year locusts have also APP
peared at Adrian and Vandalia. Mich,
and in timber one mile north of there
they are to be found on every green
twig. Their hnmming noise can be
heard for a mile.
In connection with the commence
ment exercises at Princeton, an
nouncement has been made of n gift
of 100000 by the classes of 1900 and
1901 to be used for special purpose 5
at the university.
Otis Freeman, who is believed to
have been the oldest practicing ply
sician in America. is dead at Freehold.
y. j. He was born in New Hamp-
shire, December 80, 1909. He contin-
ued practicing to within five days of
his death.
Six hundred employees of the EN-
pire Bridge Co., of Williamsburg. n.
Y, have struck for recognition of
their union. 1t is said their action
will delay work on many bridges in
the west.
In preparing for burial the body of
James Stage, n circus man. who died
suddenly at New Brunswick, y. j..
the undertaken found Sl.250 in one OF
the dead mans stockings. Stage was
a native of Conneautville, Pa.
For the second time within week,
an illicit distiilery has been discov-
cred near New York City. Both
places were found by firemen called
to the scene through alarms. The
second "still'' was in small house
in the Bronx. In corner were found
two large boilers and in another 40
barrels of whisky and mash.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Co.'S
by, in charge of the bureau for the
collection of penalties, is proceeding
against about 40 of the large Office
buildings in New York City under the
ordinance forbidding the use of soft
coal. The penalty is $50 for each vio-
lation, and where the department of
health has given notice to stop the
use of soft coal, and it is continued
contrary to order, the penalty is $3.50.
The bishop of London has an
nounced that Queen Alexandra will
provide a tea" for 10000 female do
mestic servants, in celebration of the
coronation. Each servant will also be
presented with a medal.
The senate on the 10th passed the naval ap-
preparation bill and continued the debate on
the isthmian canal bill.... The house began
consideration OF the Coriss Pacific cable bill
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
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.

'he sepate passed a bill on the 4th pro-
viding that the postmaster general may eX-
tend free delivery to cities of 5000 inhabi-
tants or S. 900 gross income. instead of 10, coz
inhabitants, as at present Senator Morgan
opened the debate on the isthmian canal
project....In the house the debate on the
anti-anarchy bill continued all day.
On the 5th consideration Of the canal bill
occupied the time in the United States sem
ate, Senator Hanna (O) speaking in favor
of the Panama route. and Senator Mitchell
tore.) advocating the Nicaragua route. The
military academy appropriation bill was
passed....1n the house the general debate
on the anti-anarchy bill took up the time
A resolution introduced by Mr.. Ruppart IN.
W for final adjournment of congress Oh
June IS, was sent to the ways and means
committee.
The time in the senate on the 9th was;oc'
cupied in further discussion of the isthmiar
canal measure. In the house Mr.. Richard
son (Ala.) in discussing the anti-anarchy
bill caustically criticised President Roose-
velts Memorial day oration atiArlington.
Mr.. L!ttlefeld CMe.) closed the general de-
bate with l1a hours speech in support of the
measure.
On the 9Th the senate discussed without
action the bill appropriating si0,U00,o00 Tor
the purchase of 20Vo.OpO acres of lane for q
national forest reserve in Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Tennessee. Senator Mitchell (Ore.)
spoke in behalf Oh the Nicaraguan canal
route....ln the house a resolution was
adopted authorizing the conferees on the
sunury civil appropriation bill 10 insert In
that bill the necessary appropriations au-
thorized by the omnibus public building bill.
The anti-anarehy bill was 1urther DIS
CuSEed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
suit Arnin,t Steel Trust,

Trenton, y. j., June 10.-Vice Chan
cellor Emery at Newark on Saturday
granted rule on the United States
Steel corporation to show cause why
il should not be restrained from car
rying out its purpose of retiring $780,
100000 worth of seven per cent. pre-
ferred stock and issuing instead five
per cent. bonds. The rule is made re-
turnable on Wednesday at Newark
The suit was instituted by William
Berger.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
President to Use Mnyfower.

New York. June 10.-Rear Admiral
Barker, commandant of the Brooklyn
navy yard, has received orders from
Washington to place the converted
cruiser Mayfower in commission
within two weeks. 1t is understood
this vessel. which formerly was the
yacht of Mrs. Ogden Goelet. will be
used by President Roosevelt as dis
patch boat. He probably will witness
the autumn maneuvers of the army
and navy off the coast of Long Island
from the deck of the Mayfower.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
DOMESTIC.

The American congress on tubercu-
losis states that consumption is an
acute, infectious disease and urges
methods to prevent its spread.
The strike of the packing houses and
department stores drivers ended in
Chicago by compromise. The night
of peace negotiations was preceded by
a day of wild rioting, over 100 persons
being injured and many arrested.
The Illinois Car and Equipment
company's plant at Hegewisch has
been burned and 1000 men made idle.
Six railroad magnates are said to
have absolute monopoly of the anthra-
cite coal trade, restricting the output
and regulating prices at will.
Mrs. Belle Smitn and her two small
children We're burned to death in their
home at Hardin, Mo. Triple murder is
suspected.
Chicago packers have been enjoined
by the New York supreme court from
doing business in that state in viola
ton of the antitrust law.
Engineer Frank Finch and Fireman
Pay were killed in railway wreck
near Chattanooga.
Furniture manufacturers at Grand
Rapids, Mich, decided that they would
not go into the proposed furniture
combine.
Ruddock. the ideal mill city of Lou
isiana and the lifelong dream of Chas.
ii. Ruddock, millionaire lumberman,
has been nearly wiped out by fire.
A cloudburst destroyed the greater
part of Courtland, Neb.
Rev. Cornelius O'Rourke, a Cath olic
clergyman of Silverton, Col, and John
McComb, Denver mining man, were
drowned near Durango, Col.
Investigation shows that Mrs.
Belle Smith and her two girls, who
were found dead in the ruins of their
burned home at Hardin, Mo-, were
murdered, robbery being the motive
Samuel l.. Clemens Mark Twain)
announced at Columbia, NO., his final
retirement from the public platform.
Willis b. Wheeler was hanged ut
the northern Indiana prison at Mich
igan City for the murder of Elias
Burns. his son-in-law.
Oscar Webb, during a family quar-
Iei at Ihilauelpnla, Snot ana Killed
his wife and her mother and theu
shot himself.
Violence in the anthracite miners
strike has increased in the Schuylkill
region.
Whitecaps brutally whipped Mrs.
Alice Hanger, near Marengo, Ind,
compelling the husband to witness her
punishment.
The president has nominated John
F. Jewell, of Illinois, to be consul at
Martinique, w. l.
Jim Black. negro, who murdered
the wife of j. X. Jones, was hanged by
mob near Ravenal, S. c.
President Roosevelt opened in Wash
ington the eleventh annual convention
of the Association of Military Surgeons
of the United States.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13

A censns bulletin shows that Indiana
has 221,se7 farms, valued at $s41 1885,
$40.
President Roosevelt informed the
New York board of trade that the
law empowering the president to act
in instances similar to the anthracite
miners strike was repealed in 1898.
Complete returns from the entire
state, with the exception cf the small
precincts, give Chamberlain (dem.)
a majority of 334 over Furnish (rep.)
for governor of Oregon.
Secretary Root states that Gen.
Miles, who was at Fort Riley, Kan,
has not been summoned to Washing
ton.
The safe of the Duncannon nation
al bank of Duncannon, Pa, was
blown by burglars, but they We're
frightened away without any booty.
A Washington dispatch says that
the declaration of peace in South AT
RIGA is destined to boom American
The battleship Illinois, built at
Newport, II. l., has been accepted by
the government.
At the cabinet meeting the public
building bill was discussed fully and
twas decided that it should be signed
by the president.
The pavilion in the horticultural
gardens, the second largest auditori-
um in Toronto, Ont, has been burned
to the ground.
Rain-storms amounting to cloud
bursts did great damage in Kansas,
Oklahoma and Iowa. Neosha and Cot
tonwood Rivers, near Emporia, over
flowed railroads and farm lands.
Gov. jeff Davis, of Arkansas, who
was expelled from the Little Rock
Baptist church for "unchristian con-
duct" has reioined his home church
at Russellville.
The Illinois Mckinley monument
fund is nearly up to The required $780,
600.
Two persons were killed and 40 in
jured in a collision between railway
train and n trolley car In st. Louis
suburbs.
a movement toward forming a
union of retail merchants started in
Chicago to combat growth of unions
among employees.
Lawrence Dunn, recruit in COM
pany L, Twentieth infantry at Fort
Sheridan, Ill, while on sentry duty
shot and killed Dad Cain, prison
er, who tried to escape.
One man was killed and over 40 in
iured by the wreck of Detroit &
Mackinaw excursion train near AL
pena. Mich.
Influential New Workers bought n
large tract of land near Poughkeep-
sic as site for a school of practical
agriculture, and are trying to raise
$1,000,000 endowment fund.
Ambassador Won Holleben, of Ger
many, becomes dean of the diplomat
ic corps at Washington, succeeding
Lord Pauncefote.
Twenty million dollars are to be
distributed among the architects and
builders of the country under the
provisions of the omnibus publ.
building bill just signed by the presi
dent.
Robbers, within one block of a po
lice station. cracked safe in the Vi
emma bakery, Chicago, and secured
S2,275 in cash and notes.
Seven men were drowned as n re-
suit of the 70-mile gale which swept
New York harbor.
The striking anthracite coal miners
have been Joined by more pumpmen.
Little violence has occurred. Rail-
road men of one line refused to haul
nonunion miners or deputies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
The Burnea building.
IN SARATOGA, n. Y.
Fire Destroys Much Property-Five
Lives Lost,

Saratoga, y. V. June 9.-Fire early
Monday destroyed the Arcade and the
Citizens National bank block and the
Shackelford building and caused the
loss of five lives. The dead are: Mrs.
Elizabeth NJ. Mabee, suffocated and
body rescued by firemen; Mrs. Sarah
Owens, burned to death, body recov-
cred; David Rowland, burned to death,
body recovered; Mrs. David Howland,
burned to death, body recovered; Miss
harrington, burned to death, body still
in the ruins.
Chief Engineer Elias ]. Shadwick
was seriously injured while rescuing
people from the building and his condi-
tion is critical. The property loss is
estimated at 100000, with insurance
of $225,J00.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
Heroic Rescuers.
Postmaster Resigns.

Washington, June 9.-Postmaster
General Payne has received the resig-
nation of Postmaster Baldwin, of New
Orleans, who has held the Office only
few months. The resignation is
based on i'll health. No successor has
vet been chosen.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
TEN PERSONS DIE
I'm HOSPITAL FIRE.
Patients at Santarium in Chicago Cut Off from Es-
-Alderma N Kent Among the Victims-Thirty-
Two Hurt-Fires at London, Eng. and Sara
tosa, N. Y, Cost Fourteen Lives.

! from falling by the grip of Gott about
his waist. A thin jutement of stone
scarcely two inches wide ran from the
ledge to the fire escape, and, supported
by the rescuer's hand, the fleeing man
was enabled to bear part of his weight
on this thin strip of stone, and was
partly led, party lifted, to safety.
Michael Luby, whose hands and arms
were torn by the mangles from which
he had escaped, crossed next to the
iron landing. AS quickly as pos
sible the men continued crossing to
safety, until IL had left their perilous
positions by this means. Those who
were last to leave suffered burns. Be-
fore their turn came several dropped
in their positions before the window.
Back from the window men were being
shffocated and burned to death. At
that time it was too late to lend n help
ing hand, as the men themselves who
were waiting before the window which
meant saftey, could they stand the
strain, were fighting for breath.
Jumpers Badly Mnnglcd.
On the fifth floor in the rear was
John Doerrer. He was patient. The
man climbed to the window ledge and
waited for moment while n crowd
of an hundred persons stretched
net. The next moment he jumped
The net broke and the man struck the
ground on his feet. He was taken
away seriously injured. A new net
was procured. Detectives Collins and
Flynn, of the Cottage Grove avenue
police station. with 20 men, stretched
it out awaiting the jump of the next
man. The next man to make the leap
for life was DR.. Boyd, the aged physi-
clan. He was on the fourth floor. He
struck the net on his feet. The men
were not strong enough to hold it.
Both of Boyd's legs were broken and
pushed up in his body and his skull
was fractured. II. ii. Bowman also
jumped into net but escaped serious
injury.
John p. Knapman was in room on
the northwest corner of the building
on the fifth floor. He was seen to
spring to the window sill of his room
and after wavering for moment
! jumped far out. He struck the pave
ment full on his face in full view of
1000 persons. He was quickly picked
up and hurried away. This scene was
reenacted in the rear of the building
several times. but the falls of those
unfortunate persons were broken by
nets stretched out by willing citizens
and police.
The Burnea building.
The burned building originally cost
100000. 1t was erected nearly 30
years ago, being one of the oldest in
the vicinity. Samuel X. Markham, 13f
Monroe street, who is attorney for the
society, said: -. a. Brophy, of 20
Dearborn street, holds n mortgage on
the building of $4,000 and $1,000 on the
personal effects. The building was in
sured for $4,000, and contents for 3d.
900. Think S25, ZOO will cover the entire
| loss"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
New President for Princeton

Princeton, y. j., June 10.-Woodrow
Wilson, head of the department. of jur-
isprudence and politics. was on Monday
elected president of Psinceton univer.
sity in place of Francis Landey Pat
ton, resigned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
AeronRut Lost.

Toulon, France, June 10.-Lieut.
Baudic ascended from here Monday
morning in balloon belonging to the
naval aero static park. The balloon
went to the eastward to sea, and was
followed by two torpedo boats. The
latter have just signaled that the bal
loon has fallen into the water and that
Lieut.. Baudic has disappeared.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13
siuna Amnesty RiI.

Havana, June 10.-Pressdent Palma
has signed the bill granting amnesty
to all Americans under sentence OF
awaiting trial in Cuba, and proce edings
have been begun by the courts to quash
the complaints against such Ameri-
cans and liberate those who are in Jail.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13

New York, June 10.-The North
American Trust company, of New
York, proposes great combine of
bankers. with a parent corporation
having $5,0O0,000 and S45,0oO.000 sur
plus and branches in so leading cities
of the country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-06-13

Va lta, Crimea, June 10.-Count Leo
Tolsloi has greatly improved in
health, and Monday he spent few
hours out of doors.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-04
rHRIFr WAS HEREpIrAKY.

Two prominent business men while
at luncheon one day last week in
dulged in a series of good natured re-
examinations about the tendencies of
each to refrain from spending money.
One said to the other:
Il don't blame you for being close.
1t is in the family. Why, l remember
your father when he ran a grocery
store. He was SO close that if a fly
settled on the sugar barrel he used to
catch the fly, lust its feet off with a
broom and let it CO."
"So?" said the other. You needn't
get chesty. Your father was a farmer.
| can remember when he raised bees.
He made those poor bees work hard all
day, and, not satisfied with that, he
crossed them with lightning bugs and
made them work nights"
That's right said the first, good
humoredly. The old man was a thrifty
chap. Why, l remember when he
crossed strawberry plants and milk
weed and got strawberries and cream"
Then they had a drink.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-04
admiral Evans Nickname.

Most persons have an idea that Rear
Admiral Robley D. Evans acquired his
nickname of Fighting Bob" from
some gallant service in the navy. A
naval officer who was a cadet at Ann
apolis when Evans became a cadet tells
this story of how he was christened.
Along in 1859 and 1860 there was a sa-
loonkeeper named Robert D. Evans,
who continually got drunk. Every
time this happened. and it vas sew
eral times a week, five or six police
men had to be called to carry the
drunken chap to jail and he was dub
bed Fighting Bob" So the minute a
cadet appeared bearing the name Of
R. d. Evans the nickname was applied
to him also. Brother officers of the
now real admiral say that he got the
luckiest nickname on record.-Utica
Globe.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-04
NEw Use FOR x-RAYs.

The postofhce officials at Buenos
Ayres, it appears, recently became sus-
picious that jewellers were smuggling
goods in registered letters, but having
no legal right to open the letters they
were unable to do anything in the
matter until the happy thought oc-
CURED to them that they might exam
inc the packages with the X-rays with
out violating the law. Upon applying
this test they found their suspicious
a~bundantly confirmed, and upon the
evidence so procured they secured an
order from court to open the packages,
and, it is stated that as a result they
confiscated more than $4,000 worth of
jewelry in one week.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-04
aENERAL pAHLGREN.s LEG.

Captain Ballard of Fairfax county,
Va, who was elected lieutenant com
mander of Mosby's men at their re-
cent reunion, relates an interesting
incident growing out of the famous
Dahlgren raid near Richmond during
the civil war. 1t seems that on this
raid Captain Ballard came into pos
session of General D~ahlgren's cork
leg, and, being badly in need of n
himself, he naturally pressed the cap
tured one into service. The fit was
perfect and he wore it throughout the
remainder of the war and it con-
tinued to see service until some years
later. About that time the family Of
General Dahlgren undertook to locate
the missing artificial member, and
went so far as to offer a reward of
$1,000 for its recovery. 1t was easily
located, and a number of detectives,
attracted by the big reward, set out
on the perilous task of securing pos
session of the long-lost and much
sought-after cork leg. Captain Bal
lard was ever on the alert, and failure
crowned every attempt to capture it.
Finally the detectives withdrew in
disgust and Captain Ballard was left
in undisputed possession of the cap
tured property. The captain. how
ever, shortly afterward relented some
what and opened up communication
with the Dahlgren family, and stated
that upon the receipt of the reward of
$1,000 he would deliver the limb to
any one the family might designate.
The committee was selected from the
Dahlgren side and IN a given date
Captain Ballard met them at Fairfax
Station. The necessary formalities
were gone through with. The 81, 200
was passed over to Captain Ballard
and he in turn delivered the artificial
member. 1t was Immediately taken
charge of by one of the trusted ennis
saries of the Dahlgren family and de-
posted in the railway train waiting
at the station and for a moment left
unguarded. At this %juncture some of
the captains most loyal friends en-
tered the car and in less time than 1t
takes to relate this story the cork leg
was recaptured and to this day it has
never been located, so the story goes.
Great was the chagrin and disappoint-
ment depicted on the faces of those
directly concerned in its return. Cap
tain Ballard vouches for this nara
tive as being true in every detail
Pennsylvania Grit.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-04
HEREDITY.

To account for the transmissibility
of ancestral types Darwin in his work
on "Pangenesis'' promulgated a theory
that each cell threw off what he desig-
mated '~'gemmules,' which formed the
nuclei of another series of cells, whose
sole destiny in the economy of nature
was the propagation of it's species.
These "gemmules" formed the blaste-
ma, in which was contained an ex-
ceedingly microscopical impression Of
the animal which might ultimately be
called into being. If this were the
case, we should be able to submit the
miniature image to our investigation
by ear of the microscope. But
strong microscopes are wanted. The
red corpuscles of human blood have
to be about one four-thousandth part
of an inch. The number of these red
c%orpuscles which would adhere to the
point of a needle would not be less
than LOCO, 1000. Theory teaches that
the final division of matter is the
storm, and the atom has been meas
ured. 1t is calculated that in a cube
of water one thirty-thousandth part OF
an inch wide there are 80, 900, 600, 00O
atoms.-London Science Gossip.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-04
ruN IN TEE PARLoR.

When you see a young man sitting
in a parlor with the ugliest 4-year-old
boy that ever frightened himself in a
mirror clambering over his knees, jerk
ing his necktie out of place, ruffling
his shirt front, pulling his hair. kick
ing his shins, feeling in all his pock-
cts for coppers, while the %unresisting
victim smiles all the time like the
cover of a comic paper, you may
safely say that the bowling boy has
a sister who is in a room not twenty
feet away, and that the young man
doesn't come there just for the fun of
playing with her brother.-London
Tit-Bits.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-03-04
A IAN FREE.

Near Dakar, in Lower Senegal, is an
enormous baobab tree, whose trunk
measures fully rs feet in circumfer-
ence at the base. The fruit of the
baobab, which grows abundantly in
Senegal, is called monkey bread" 1t
is used by the natives for curdling
milk, and as a specific for certain dis
eases. Decotions of the dried leaves
are also used as medicine. From the
bark strong cords are made, and the
gum that exudes from it is employed
as a salve. The root of the young
baobab is sometimes eaten by the ma
tiVes.