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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
RISE OF VILLAVERDE
New Prime Minister of Spain a
Child of the People.
Made His Way to the Front by Watch
Ing Trend of Public Opinion and
True Devotion to His Fn-
therIand.

Don Raimundo Villaverde, Spain's
middle-class mortals. His parents were
modest, well-to-do country folk, but
there was no reason to suppose that their
boy was going to climb up to the highest
post within the gift of the Spanish peo-
pie. He started out as a lawyer, endowed
with brains and an eloquent tongue, per-
severance and lots of ambition. There
after the steps of fame were interestingly
marked. He had crowds of clients and
was elected to parliament. Afterward
he attracted attention by hard work,
participation in every possible debate
and mastering all sorts of dry subjects
He was too busy to concern himself with
the brilliant aristocracy of Madrid
which had shown some inclination to
take to its bosom such good-lookine
and promising young man.
He made sudden dash into society un-
der the wings of the duchess de Denia,
at whose palace guest could meet every
body-the greatest politicians, artists
and men of science to be found in Madrid.
The smart young member from Galicia
soon made himself popular in this set
and for the first time seems to have been
DETECTED from his path to glory. So
many Spanish beauties CT high degree
lavished their affections on him that he
became for while a veritable butterfly
of fashion.
A rich and attractive woman, the mar
chioness of Pozo Rubio, offered to marry
the handsome young gallant and was
forthwith accepted. Senior Villaverde
then put definite stop to all frivolity and
once more devoted himself to fruitful
labor for the welfare of his country, be-
ing no longer required to sacrifice all
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Canton Observed Anniversary.

Canton, Sept. 15.-Yesterday, the
second anniversary of the death of
Mckinley, was not observed by any
formal program in Canton. Flags
were lowered on public and school
buildings, there were some short ref
erences made in the schools to the
life and death of Mckinley, and car
nations were worn, as silent trib--
ute, by numerous citizens. Mrs. Nc.
Kinley made trip to the Mckinley
vault in West Lawn cemetery and.
placed floral tributes on the casket.
Numerous floral pieces were received
from friends and strangers and were
taken to the Mckinley tomb.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Tug Hnrned.

Put-in-Bay, Sept. 16.-The tug
Champion, of Detroit, owned by Capt
II. w. Baker, of that place, caught
fire while at anchor in port yesterday
and will be total loss. Capt. Baker
and part of the crew had gone ashore
to attend to some repairs to his
wrecking outfit but short time be-
fore the fire was discovered. Three
of the crew, who were still on board,
had narrow escapes. The vessel was
one of the oldest and best known
tugs of the great lakes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Bank 10 be Reorganized.

Cleveland, Sept. 16.-W. II. Crafts,
of Mantua, has been selected as pres
ident of the Euclid Avenue Trust CO.,
which is being organized as the sue
cession of the Euclid Avenue Trust &
Savings Co. Present plans are to
open the new bank early in October.
President Crafts has been n banker
at Mantua for years and has served
several terms in the legislature. 1t
was stated Tuesday that nearly all
the holders OF shares in the old Eu-
clid Avenue Trust & Savings Co. had
signed the agreement to exchange at
55 for stock in the new company at
par.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
A Test Case.

Columbus, Sept. 16.-A conference
was held Tuesday between Secretary
of State Laylin, his counsel, eX-Secre-
tary of State Kinney and Special
Counsel Burnett, of the attorney gem
erals Office, regarding the proposed
suit to test the Longworth act pro-
viding for placing proposed constitu-
tional amendments on party tickets
where indorsed by the state conven-
ton of that party. Attorney General
Sheets will soon bring suit in the SUI
preme court contending that the act
is unconstitutional 1t was agreed
yesterday that the secretary of state,
who makes up the ballot, will file a
demurrer TO the petition and thus Sc
cure an early decision. Should the
court knock out the Longworth act.
all the proposed amendments will ap-
pear on separate ballot and the ac-
tion of the state convention will
amount to naught.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
women OF BusInnss.

Two young women in New York have
lately made hit as stock brokers. One
of them was a school teacher. Many
women would rather deal with a woman
broker when possible and men in the
same line like her because she carries
on her affairs in businesslike way.
The other woman broker, who has an
uptown Office, is just as discreet and
systematic. They are both making
money.-N. Y. Letter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
MOSQUITOES IN NEW JERSEY.
tinguish the Pests, But They
Multiply and Thrive.

Science, so far as the determination
Of mosquitoes is concerned, has received
a severe blow in South Orange, N j.,
little but very aristocratic and select
village. The home of millionaires, it
was not to be supposed that it would
be permitted that their comfort and re-
pose should be interfered with by SO
common thing as mosquito, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser. Con-
sequently last year it was determined to
eXterminate and forever prevent the
multiplication of the strenuous little
pest.
A mosquito committee was appointed,
consisting of scientists, reformers and
members of the First Presbyterian
church, the last being the original re-
ligious home of all that is good in South
Orange. The committee promptly got
to work. and, having secured the nee
essary money, they laid in supply of
crude oil and proceeded to have all cess
pools, ponds and streams we'll deluged
Herewith. The work made the hitherto
fragrant village smell in spots very
much like section of Bayonne or Hun
ter's Point, but the committee asserted
that the village was free from mos
quitoes last summer. On this point there
was conflict of opinion. There is no
conflict of opinion, however, on the
question this summer. The committee
is humbled to the dust.
Never before in the memory Of the
Oldest inhabitant-and there are some
In &c vii a
there so many mosquitoes here as there
are this summer. Where there was one
years ago there are millions now, ac-
cording to the most veracious citizens.
Not only have they apparently been in
creased in number by the liberal sprin-
king of crude oil On the waters and
marshes, but they have seemingly so
thrived on the diet provided for their
determination that they have waxed fat,
grown larger in size and more brutally
voracious in their habits. Were South
Orange not law-abiding community
it is difficult to say what might not be
the fate of the mosquito committee.
The plague is on, however, and the
only persons who are deriving any bene-
fit from it are the owners of drug stores
The supply of joss sticks has given out
and the druggists are kept busy selling
penpyroyal, oil of tar and citronella OF
for people to annoint themselves with be-
fore retiring, so as to get some sleep. rr
some stores the supply is exhausted. II
is impossible to sit out of doors and ever
in church devout worship is almost ou
of the question. The buzz of the mos
quitoes almost browns the choirs.
There is another and perhaps more
serious feature connected with the at
tempt of the committee to suppress thu
mosquitoes and which may result IL
someone having to pay damages for ont
of the results of their good intentions
1t seems that COWS which have drunk o
the oil-sprayed streams OF ponds hav'
proved more vulnerable than the mos
quitoes. At least one cow has died, it Il
said, as a result thereof, and the mill
of other COWS is favored with the oi
and is unstable. On the whole, there
fore, the mosquito committee is coming
in for a good deal Of unfavorable criti
cism and Lot little chaff
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
OHIO NEWS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
A STATUE OF MCKINLEY.
1t was Unveiled at Toledo with Ar-
prOprinte Ccre,monIcs.

prOpflate ceremonies
Toledo, Sept. 15-Toledo was en-
fete yesterday over the unveiling of
the Mckinley statue, the first memor-
ial to the late president erected in
Ohio. In the forenoon there was n
naval parade on the river, including
the United States gunboat Michigan
and the training ships Yantic and
Hawk.
Promptly at . o'clock the process
sion moved through the principal
streets, led by battalion of United
States infantry from Fl Wayne, De-
troit. The parade was made up of the
local regiment of the national guard,
the G. A. Il. and Spanish War Vet
Grams, and n general turnout of all
the benevolent and fraternal organ
izations of the city.
Arriving at the monument, which
stands fronting the court house, the
statue was unveiled by Miss Dorothy
Bonner. After the call to order by
Col. j. c. Bonner, president of the
Memorial association, and the invoca-
tion by Rev. Father O'Brien, Col.
Bonner presented the monument to
the county in feeling address, and
Henry Conrad, president of the board
of county commissioners, accepted
the trust on the part of the county.
Senator Hanna was then introduced
as honorary president of the day, and
made a brief adress. A dedicatory
poem by Theodore +. McManus was
read by the author, and the orator
of the day, Senator Charles w. Fair
banks, of Indiana, was introduced.
After the singing of america" by
the audience, Rev. A. NJ. Hyde pro-
nounced the benediction, which
closed the services.
The monument consists of a square
column of gray granite bearing the
inscription: civilian Mckinley" cut
on its face. On the four sides his
life history is briefly recited. This
shaft is surmounted by n heroic
statue of the late president, of
bronze, weighing 1,SOO pounds. The
statue itself is eight feet high.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18


his time and talent to his profession,
Senior Villaverde studied assidulously So
cial and economical sciences, for which
he had always felt prediction, and
through his great intelligence soon rose
to preeminence. He was successfully
named minister of justice and of finance
to the general satisfaction.
The most interesting period of Villa
verde's political career began in 1899
after the disastrous war with the United
States. When the treaty of peace had
been signed and new cabinet, presided
over by the leader of the conservative
party, Senor Silvela, was formed, politi-
cal men as we'll as the majority Of the
| people recognized the urgent necessity of
introducing ample and radical reforms
into all branches of public administra-
tion and adopting sound and liberal
policy apt to raise the credit of the land.
| Senior Villaverde, who occupied in Sill
vela's cabinet the post of minister of
! finance, brought bill of taxation before
parliament, with which he intended to
increase the income of the treasury from
$50 900 900 to 1000 100000 pesetas and
with his peculiar energy and firmness
he succeeded in having his project ap-
proved.
But this heavy taxation raised such a
storm of protest throughout the whole
of Spain and so numerous and bloody
were the riots which 1t caused in various
provinces that Senor Villaverde was
obliged to send in his resignation and
two or three months afterward, partly
owing to this and partly to the unpopular
marriage of the princess of the Asturias
with Don Carlos of Bourbon, the whole
cabinet was also forced to resign. The
queen then decided to trust Villaverde
with the formation of new ministry,
but in consequence of the unpopularity
of his taxes, he found nobody disposed to
second him in the work and therefore
he had to renounce the charge.
Later the announcement that the gov
ernment, through Senor Sanchez Toca
intended to bring a bill into parliament
for the construction of the fleet, was suf-
, ficient to call forth demonstrations OF
hostility in the chamber of deputies, as
we'll as all over Spain. Then King AL
phonso, interpreting the desires Of his
! country, called on Senor Villaverde tc
form a new cabinet. The elevation OF
this distinguished statesman to the high
est Office signifies the triumph of firm
and saving financial policy of Spain.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
The Slaughter Goes On.

The rate at which our railroads are
Filling and manning people continues
steadily to increase. According to the
report of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission on railroad accidents in the
United States, within the three months
ending March 81 last, 800 people were
killed and 1884 injured in train acct
dents. Other kinds of accidents, includ-
Ing those sustained by employees while
at work, run up the total casualties to
827 killed and IL ,4Sl injured, That these
accidents cannot be put down entirely
to the fault of the passengers and en-
ployes themselves is shown by the fact
that during the quarter under consld,
sratlon 1850 trains were in collision
and 1.1S1 trains were dcrailed.- -Scien'
tihc American.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Assigned.

Youngstown, Sept. 12-The Youngs-
town Baking Co. has made an assign
ment. The liabilities are $4,000 and
assets $3s,OOO. The indebtedness was
largely contracted under former
management, and the company today
is making money and all debts will
be paid, say the officials.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Is FuIIy OrRnnized.

Cincinnati, Sept. 12.-The National
Baseball association of which August
Hermann, president of the Cincin-
natl club, is chairman, completed it's
organization by election of e. E.
Bruce, of Cincinnati, as secretary and
Robert Mccoy, of Chicago, as assist
ant secretary. Bruce is the attorney
of Ban johnson, and part owner of
the st. Louis American league club.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18

of gaming laws 1t is also loudly echoed
gamblers comprising the policy Syndicate whose
illicit profits amount thousands of dollars daily.
who makes study OF the problem and who
grain optimism his makeup will share this view De-
pending profits upon the patronage considerable number
persons of the policy shop not secret in its
become known the policeman
particular beat safe that the location OF practically
every the policy shops the city OF Chicago
known to-day member Of the police force Possessing this
knowledge police department has the policy shops its
and dcana at least reduce the evil to small dimensions.
Policy has been called petty evil Investigation has shown that
Chicago receipts of the shops exceed Near
half those who operate and paronze the shops whites Be
cause each year from element of the c
needs buy bread because little children must
hungry in order that policy may is e kinder
gaen gambling MANIA policy is detestabe 1t and mus
be
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
A Tax Extrnordinary.

A tax on marriage is still imposed by
the proprietor Of leading Bombay ho-
tel. In a revised tariff of prices the
daily charge for single lady or gen
tleman is set down as five rupees, but II
The lady or gentleman be married the
charge will be seven rupees each. No ex-
planatlon of this singular regulation is
piVan
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
suicides In Wet Weather.

1t is a we'll known fact that after a
rainy spell in Paris the banks of the
Seine are sometimes fairly strewn with
the bodies of suicides 1t Is usually
found that the victims are abslnthe
drinkers or chronic users of some drug.
Gloomy weather always sends them
into fits of melancholy, and while in
this state the impulse toward suicide
becomes uncomfortable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Grocers, CombIne Incorporate.

Trenton, N. j., Sept. 16.-The fol-
lowing Incorporation was filed, here
yesterday: The Ohio Grocery Co.,
capital $11,25OOOO, of which $4,000
900 is preferred stock paying per
cent. cumulative dividend. The OBJ
ject of the company is to buy and sell
at wholesale or retail all goods, mer-
chandise and cereals generally bought
and sold and dealt in by grocers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Engasements in Turkestan.

A wedding engagement in Turkestan
begins with the payment of substan-
tial consideration to the girls parents.
If the girl jilts her lover, the engage
ment gift has to be returned unless the
parents have another daughter to give
IS q substitute.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
EUib Of The Policy Shop
BY SHELBY M. SINGLETON,
Secretary Citizens Association, of Chicago

Can the policy shop swindle be abolished: ::
This question is often answered in the negative,
even by persons who presumably have the welfare
of their city at heart. These contend that in the
breast of every man there is gambling instinct
that will find expression in some form, unless held
in check by highly developed moral nature; that
this restraining element is lacking in most men;
and that as policy is form of gaming that comes
within the reach of the leanest purse it can
not be eradcated This view of the matter is os-
tensibly shared, a rule, by officials ntrusted
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Deatb Has No Terv0rS
BY HON. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

r1O THE young death appalling thing but ought not h
be those whose advancing years them of its certain
Iag9Sl approach.
AS travel along ife's roads pause again and
again bid farewell TO fellow traveller In the of nature
the father dies brothers sisters follow and
finally children chdrns children the unknown
world beyond until king of loses his power alright
and increasing the farther shore makes first wilt
ing, and then anxious, to join them. It is Gods way
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18

grange in its comprehensive and conservative ten
dencies cooperation propose financial educational
political consideration hitherto unknown class We shall
legislation that will improve the country schools
instruction agriculture the leading feature land
grant colleges, and favor the establishment of postal savings
banks by direct
of the people
We other legitimate industry profession;
shall build ourselves by pulling others down. but through
cooperation and concentrated action hope accomplish much for
agriculture that has been overlooked in the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18

AS Counryman day turning the ground with his
po great of Transported with joy
fell the Earth and thanked her for her kindness and bera
appeared and said him. You thank the Earth
think of If instead of finding this had
lost should been the would have blamed
oura
" to who's s
mana we
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
Future Type Of Ame,zcan
BY ANON r. JENKINS.

ARWIN distinctly and somewhat invidiousy pointed out
N that the soil and climate of North America tended
change the appearance of Europeans after several
eraons of residence here He claimed we became anle
nM longer with hair Had great authority
SX Darwin insisted altering Indians it would
k have amounted international oense He however,
WNHN evidently believed tending degeneang,
AJ haps Vchow and other eminent European anhropolo
giss have frequently alluded this so-ealled Indian
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18

The Kentucky mounaneers, Abraham Lincoln and the Gibson
and Du Mrer girls be taken modern physical exempars
that ancient type The phorc soft Grecian Hermes Of Praee
and the overloaded of the athletes of the Grecian
Oscillations of this ancient wild of their best
The of the Herme
could be the wild state and large layers of shoulder muscles
evidently the result labor from civilization.
We MohaWk Indians sachems, squawsand what Dar
found fault with eminent racial North America
with its ness and wdnes has restored the best has
the sgata the diseases
middage Europe and breeding back the greatest folk
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18

tendencysome claiming there actually large admxue of In
dian blood here nsancg that frontier had abounded in
half-breeds.
Darwin great naturalist but often singuay short
sighted anhropoogst Consequently and his
unacnowedged echoe and ecoe Prof Frederick Starr of Chi
cago, do
In explanation of this Indian business the following hypothesis
is offered Huxley, MacNamaa of have
amply that after the ice age of tall slender white
giants occupied north Europe the socaed prooAyans The
thought the influence language the physical of these
mighty folk possess the world to-day and visible and be dis
cened the ancient the language of Assya
Egypt and Mesapotamia.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1903-09-18
UmonS Of Farmers Needed
By HON. NAHUM ]. BACHELOR,
Governor of New Hampshire.

~ farmers represent both capital and labor and is the
| duty above all other things to organize.
9 No organization to-day to be compared with
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-07-30
A Boom For Reuben 0glesby.

Warrensburg, Mo-, July 2S.-There
is a strong sentiment in this county
tor Reuben Oglesby for railroad com.
missioner on the Democratic ticket.
Oglesby is the plaintiff in the damage
suit against the Missouri Pacific rail.
way company in which the supreme
court three times affirmed the finding
of the lower court for $15, 900 dam
ages, but finally reversed the case.
1t was in criticism of the court in this
case that Editor Shepherd was cited
before that body and fined for con.
contempt. Oglesby's boom will be
launched this week by the Holden
Enterprise He is young man Of
good education and business ability,
and will receive the solid support oil
this county.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-07-30

Now comes the news from ElDora-
10 Springs that the report OF the
contemplated visit OF John D. Rookie
teller to that health resort was cam
ARD, pure and simple. To show how
such things grow it was published
throughout the country that the
noted financier would invest large
sums in the Improvement of that
town, if the waters proved efticacious
in his case. 1t is too bad for that
place that it is not true, but the town
and springs have received a goodly
amonnt OF advertising as a result OF
some wag's joke. Some twenty 1--we
letters and a telegram from General
Mkes was received for Mr.. Rookie
Teller.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-07-30

The trial of the three indicted
senators, Farris, Matthews and Sui
Ivan, was called in the Cole county
circuit court on Tuesday. Judge
HAZEL was sworn off the bench, and
Judge Graves was agreed on to try
the cases. At time OF going to press
the lawyers were sparring for points
and it was not decided which defend.
ant would be put on trial first. 1t is
selieved that the case against
Mathews will be dismissed, as John
A. Lee, the witness who testified be-
fore the Grand jury that Mathews
was in the room when the money
was paid, now has a lapse Of mem
DRY and says he might have been
mistaken as to Mathews.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-07-30

Hon. Matt W. Hall has induced
the Saline county court to appropri-
,sse $3.50 for the agricultural exhibit
.oftbis county at the Worlds fair,
with the promise Of another appro-
lpriation il it is needed. Lafayette
county has appropriated $500; Jack
son, $500; Ray, $3.50; Davies, $3.50;
DAKalb, $500. The above counties
have been positively heard from.
and good reports are expected from
Others soon. Mr. Hall went to But.
Her. Bates county, Wednesday, July
Is, when a special term oithe county
court WA held to take upths matter
of an appropriation. He speaks very
encouragingly Of his work. The sue.
cess OF the exhibit depends upon the
lrmers now, and We hope ours viii
% their best to procure for Saline
,unty the highest honors at tire
Worlds Fair. Democrat News, Mar.
hall, Mo.