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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
LONG AND SHORT HAUL.
Validity of Interstate Commerce Clause
....E... Upheld.


H.sseE... Upheld.
Washington, March 31.-An opinion
was rendered by the supreme court Mon
day in the case known as the long and
short haul case, involving the validity
of the provision of the interstate act
prohibiting higher charge for short
than for long haul, appealed from the
decision of the circuit court of appeals
for the fifth circuit. The decision OF
the court below was affirmed in the
main,t the opinion holding that in cases
of shipments from one state to another
on through bills of lading railway COM
panies could not exempt parties and
give them special rates. Justice Shiras
delivered the opinion of the court.
Justice Shiras also handed down the
opinion of the court in the case of the
Texas Pacific railway VS.. the interstate
commerce commission, appealed from
the circuit court of appeals for the
second circuit, and known as the ini
port-rate case. The opinion of the su
preme court reversed the opinion of the
circuit court, which held that it was
illegal to charge less on the importeG
goods than on domestic articles. Tht
effect of the opinion is to continue the
alleged discrimination in the interest O.
foreign shippers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
CRUSHED TO DEATH.
Three Persons Killed by q Bowlder In
West Virginia.

Hinton. W. Va, March So.-Jim and
Frank Tilman and Lucy Law were in
stantly killed by a rock crashing
through the house where they were
sleeping at Echo, station 40 miles
west of here, Sunday morning. Two
other members of the family were Sc
riously injured. The house was stu
ated at the foot of the mountain on the
banks of the New river. An enormous
ledge of rocks broke loose on the noun
tain side passing over coke ovens,
tearing up the track of the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad and breaking through
the house.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
Forced to give Increased BAN.

Cape Town, March 31.-John Hayes
Hammond, the American mining engi-
neer, who was one of the members of
the Johannesburg reform committee
who were arrested on the charge of Sc
dton, arrived here Monday. He was
permitted to leave the Transyaal owing
to the condition of his health, but be .
fore he left, his bail was increased to
100000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
HE sNEEzEo A BULLET.
One That Came Near Killing Him During
the War.

Col. Sidney Cook, of Herrington,
Kan, one of the managers of the ma
tional soldiers home, tells of peculiar
experience in the army during the
civil war. At the outbreak of the war
he was a strapping New England boy,
with strength and vitality which stood
him well during his army life.
/ After taking part in several engage
ments Col. Cooke was shot in the head
and left on the battlefield as dead.
The federais retreated from the field
and the confederates soon occupied it.
Col. Cooke, who was then q private, was
aroused to consciousness by some one
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
Black Plague in China.

San Francisco, March 3O.-Oriental
advices state that the black plague is
again infesting various cities in China,
especially the port and river cities.
There have been Il great many deaths.
The day before the steamer sailed from
Hong Kong, there were 40 deaths, and
prlor TO that for some time the deaths
had been fully as great on the average.
The disease attacks the poorer class of
natives more than any other.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
Deficit Is Heavy.

Washington, March 3O.-With one
day of March left the government re-
ceipts for the month have only reached
$24,0O0,ooo. They are not likely to cx-
ceed 500, 100000 for the entire month.
The deficit for the year to date is $1s,-
100000. In April heavy interest pay
ments fall due, and with the present
ratio of receipts the deficit at the end
of the fiscal year may approximate
$4,000, ,OOC. Secretary Carlislc's esti-
mate was $l7,00O,O0O.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04

There exists a strict relation be-
tween the class of power and the ex.
elusive and polished circles. The last
are always filled or filling from the first
Fashion, though in strange way, rep
resents all manly virtue. 1t is virtue
gone to seed; kind of posthunous
honor; hall of the past. Great nen
are not commonly in it's halls; they are
absent in the fields; they are working,
not triumphing. Fashion is made up
OF their hildren.-Emerson.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
FATE or A HERO.
Young Man Saves N Lady Life. But Is
Himself Drowned.

olivet, Mich, March 30.--A party of
students were skating on Pine lake
when the ice broke through. A. NJ.
Finney, of Chicago, was drowned. Miss
Alberta Chapman, of Port Huron, was
taken from the water after floating
nearly an hour fastened to a rail. A
board was secured and pushed through
the Ice, but not before Finney went un-
der in a heroic attempt to save Miss
Chapman. Finney's body was soon
after recovered.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
A War RemInIscence.

''It was just this night 33 years ago
when Gen. Lee broke through our
lines" said the old major; ''but he'd
never have done it only for one thing"
'What was that?" inquired his eager
listener. "He had the aid of lot of
confederates!" said the major, quick
ly. And he waddled off, quite pleased
to think there were still people on earth
who hadnH heard his favorite joke
Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
MANY Horses Cre,nated.

Waterbury, Conn, March 3O,-Fire
destroyed the lumber, coal and build
ings in the yards of the City
Lumber q Coal company here Saturday.
Seventeen horses perished. The COM
pany's loss is $150,0O0. Lilly, Swift IL
Co., packers and beef dealers, lose $4O.-
900, and Valentine Bohn, wholesale
butcher, $4,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
Death of an Authorizes

London, March 30.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Charles, author of "The Chronicles of
the Schonberg- Gotta Family" The
Martyrs of SPAIN" and number of
,ther works, died at Hampstead Sunday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04

Montgomery. Ala, March 3D.
Thomas Seay, who was governor of Ala
bama from 1856 to 1890, died at his home
in Greensboro Monday from grippe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-04-04
BIG FIRE IN CHICAGO.

property FHIUeu at ~OUIUUU bWdPI AWHy
by the Flames.
Chicago, March 31.-The big four-story
building at 33s to 344 Wabash avenue
with all its contents was completely de-
stroyed by fire at three o'clock Monday
afternoon. The fire started on the floor
occupied by Madame Yale, and was
caused by anexplosion ofchemicals. The
total loss is estimated at $4,000.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
Oreeon Sound- Money! Men.

PORTLAND, Or, Aug. %. - Sound
money Democrats held a State convention
to-day at Arion Hail. They organized
with the election of Judge L. L. Macarthur
as temporary and then permanent chair
man and selected delegates to the Ma
tionaI convention of September 2 at In
dianapolis. The convention was entirely
harmonious and was composed of eighty
nine members, among whom were all the
local Federal officials and very few from
the counties outside Multnomah. The
convention was more in the nature of
mass-meeting, for no primaries to elect
delegates and no county conven tions were
held. Every Democrat who renounced
Bryan and the Chicago platform was made
a delegate.
The convention was in session from II
O'Clock this morning until late in the aft
ernoon before it accomplished anything.
The platform, announcing its position on
the currency question, was strongly
against free silver, declaring for it only on
an International basis. The administra-
ton of President Cleveland was indorsed
with warmth and enthusiasm. Eight
delegates to the indianapolis convention
were named and the nomination of four
Presidential electors was left in the hands
of the State Central Committee, which
was selected. 1t will name electors after
the nomination of candidates at Indian
apolis
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
Tardy San Jose Democrats.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Aug. pa meeting
of Democrats who believed that the pres
ent County Central Committee of their
party has been dilatory in entering upon
the work in the campaign, met this even
ing at Murphy's Hall. The gathering
numbered about 100, including liberal
sprinkllng of Populists. A permanent
organization was effected and named
the Democratic County Central Club,
the officers of which are: Leo Archer,
president; T. w. Carroll, vice-president
]. E. O'Connor. secretary, and A. Phillips,
treasurer. A resolution was adopt ed cali
ing on the County Com mittee to arrange
Immediately for open primaries to elect
delegates to County convention.
The meeting passed resolution de-
nouncing the action of the last Demo
icy of Governor Budd. A resolution Bit
terly denouncing Joseph P. Kelly, Demo
cratic candidate for Congress, was pre-
pared, but was killed in the meeting of the
committee on organization.
The Democratic County Central Com
mittee met during the afternoon and ap-
pointed committee of three to confer
with the Populists in regard TO fusion on
the legislative and county tickets. A COM
mittee was also appointed to arrange for
primary election for a delegate TO the
county convention. A call was issued for
a meeting next evening to form cam-
paign club.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

was killed he was under bonds to be tried at
Ukiah for the crime of cutting Littlefield.
Now, these general facts that have outlined
to you in connection with other corroborating
facts, gentlemen of the jury, we claim will be
OF such a clear and convincing nature that up
on these facts we will ask from you verdict
of guilty.
The first witness to take the stand was
Henry Ingram, surveyor, who has been
engaged in surveying the scene of the
murder, and who brought to court a
chart showing the trails, distances, etc.
A motion was made by the prosecution to
offer the chart in evidence, but owing 10
the number and length of questions pro-
pounded by Oregon Sanders, which
threatened to consume the balance of the
afternoon, Mr.. Post withdrew tha motion.
The next witness upon the stand was
James Willburn, halfbreed, who was
with Littleheld at The time of his arrest.
He stated that he had last seen Littlefield
alive about 3 P. NJ. on September 81 on the
lower end of Long Ridge, near Eel River.
Himself, in company with Jack Little
field and Johnnie Wathen, stepson of
Yes Palmer, went to Wylackie. John
had been herding cattle that day, and had
lain down to rest half an hour before Crow
and Van Horn rode mp ordering Littletield
to surrender. Johnnie Walthen, the boy,
rode up. He was circling the cattle at the
TIME anu OfSf1tdTQ tuc
About fifteen minutes after Llttlefield bad
been taken into custody a second party
rode up, consisting of James A. Boz,
Annie Crabtree, Rose Russ and A. Will
burn. They were driving beef cattle and
united their stock with those in the hands
of Willburn and the boy, and together
they rode on for mile and rounded up
the cattle on hill just across Hulls
Creek about sundown, where the whole
party camred.
1t was endeavored by the defense to
break down the witness testimony that
was given in the Crow and Van Horn case,
but in this they did not succeed. The
essential point in the testimony was to
learn the exact time of LiUtletield's arrest,
for upon this the result of the whole trial
hinges. 1t was also tried to prove by the
defense that the horse Littlefield had Sc
lected to ride when compelled to join the
officers was weak and slow. But the wit
ness steadily maintained that sit was a
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
wooDLAND MAN,s COMPLAINT.
Charges General " orton With Fraudts-
terltlY Selling Him Stock.

Charges General N Orton With FruudU-
ten1y Selling Him Stock.
WOODLAND. CAL, Aug. 22.-Conger
Ryder swore to complaint in Judge
Ruggles' court yesterday evening charging
S. f. Norton, representative of the
Porfirio Diaz Gold and Silver Mining Com
pany, with inducing the plaintiff to buy
stock in said mine by false pretenses. The
warrant was placed in the hands of Under
Sheriff Brown, who Immediately tele-
graphed to the San Francisco police to ar
rest Norton.
Brown left on this mornings train for
San Francisco to bring the prisoner back
to this city for trial.
The affidavit of Mr.. Ryder, upon which
the complaint was made, recites that Nor-
ton induced him to invest $3.50 in the Por-
frio Diaz gold and silver mines by repre-
senting that said mines, which are sit.
uated in Mexico, contained valuable gold
and silver; that Norton's company had
Just been working the mines and that
there was on hand at that time at the
mines gold and silver ores dug therefrom
and then on the dumps valued at $50, ,0OJ.
General Norton, as he was generally
called, is well known in this city, having
visited here many times. Stock to the
amount of 800. 900 has been sold by him to
the most influential and wealthy citizens
of Yolo County.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
FOUR TRAiNMEN KILLED.
Terrible Disaster Caused BY cave-h on
the Northern Pacific, Near Horse
Plains. Mont.

SPOKANE, WASH, Aug. 22.-A special
from Missoula MONTY says: The worst
wreck on the Rocky Mountain division of
the Northern Pacific for six years hap
pened one mile east OF Horse Plains and
seventy-five miles east of here, at A. NJ.
to-day. The wrecked train was west
bound freight No. 53, and left here last
night after o'clock, under charge of Con-
ductor r. A. Glenn. When nearing the
mile board at Horse Plains, at point in
the road where fill was made FIVE years
ago to take the place of trestIe, several
hundred feet long, the track spread by a
cave-in OF the filling, precipitating the
engine and several cars into Clark's Fork
River.
Engineer George Weigle of Hope, Idaho,
jumped, but before he could get away
from the escaping steam he was horribly
burned and died. R. M. Fish, a wiper,
who got on the engine at Jocko and was
going to Thompson Falls, was also killed.
Fireman d. o. Frizell of Hope, Idaho,
was almost instantly killed. His mother
and sister reside in Spokane. Head Brake
man j. w. Bolger, whose parents are in
Michigan, was buried under the wreck and
his body was found during the day.
Men who know this point of the road
well say it is bed of quicksand where
the filling was made where the old trestle
once stood. They reason that part of
the em bankment settled or sank under the
weight OF the engine and spread the track.
causing the accident.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
Bryan Scored at Orange.

ORANGE. CAL, Aug. 22.-Last evening
Colonel T. " Eddy of San Francisco ad-
dressed large open-air Republican meet
ing here. 1t was the first meeting of the
icampaign. Eddy denounced Bryan's
speech of acceptance, saying that he
thought the people should receive some
enlightenment as to how Bryan proposed
to run the Government without issuing
bonds. He said that the only platform
Bryan had was silver. Eddy denounced
the statement that silver was the money
of the constitution, as that instrument
delegated to Congress the right to issue
money, but did not define of what sub
stance it should be made.
He said that in 1906 the Democratic
President, Thomas Jefferson, without an
act of Congress stopped the coinage OF
silver, and in consequence it ceased to be
coined until 1884; that under Jackson the
ratio was raised to Is to in order to stop
the coinage of silver. Eddy said that the
icrime of '73" did not originate with
Senator Sherman. The act was written. by
George S. Bourelle. Secretary of the Treas
ury, and was adopted only after having
been debated in three sessions of Congress.
Never, declared the speaker, has country
been able TO maintain two metals at a
parity. Protection and not free coinage
is what the country needs.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

it being considered advisable not to hold
primaries. 1t is claimed that there is no
slate in existence, and that candidates
will have to make their fight for noT ina
ton before the convention. Yet, those
VINO say so smile mysteriously with the
saying. at the present time it looks like
a deadlock on fusion, as the Democrats
evidently desire everything in sight. They
are willing to concede the Populists a can
didate for the Assembly from the coun-
try, but little else.
In the Superior Judgeship there is an
out and out locking of horns, and the
Populists have come down fat-footed for
Judge McCune, while the Democrats have
three strong aspirants-Judges Hinckson,
Johnson and Joseph Hughes. The latter
is a young man and -deservedly strong
among the adherents of the party. He
also claims a strong outside following.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23

Hayden's residence, and that ne was
out there in charge OF Whites cattle ana id
sheep; that Hayden resided, as ;n. sait
before. about two miles from that point
and, that Vinton was at that place, the
V1nton cabin for some days prior 70 tne 60 :
mission OF the offense; that on the Ioth %
sep1temper 1 vinton claims 70 nare rding among n
the nils; that on that evening, coupie e.. y.
hours after having been shot, he M aoe ms Why
10 the house OF Thomas Hayden anu reinaI Is. nsu
there Tor some weeks thereafter tnat Jonu nnIl
Crow and Thomas Hayden on the Zotn OF Lotn
OF september. 1895, returned from an eASurt =. !.
sion they had made to Mad RIVER ana Is lnas
they found Vinton at the Haydon house
wounded; that Vinton, without informing
Grow who had shot him, dlrecteo MIN Il ~ 70 ,o 70
that night and procure the services OF bayn rs
va. van horn that Crow did go 10 .ne non,1 ni,os os
from there, that night, and on the next mQLn- ON
Ing Van Horn and Crow started from the van
Horn. nome and arrived back at nay uou ~ >
mouse about o clock on the afternoon OF the
25th.
Judge Post then proceeded to describe
In detail the movements OF the various
accused parties up to the time they met at
hayden's house. He said:
We shall show that this defendant, Gregory,
ana Radcliffe arrived at the Vinton capll,
Lacock accompanying them BACK, at very
early hour In the morning; tnat tney entereu
the house aud had talk with Vfnton ana re-
manned there all that forenoon, doing notnlng
until about 1 o'clock, when Crow and Van
Horn arrived; that they had dinner, and that
shout 2:30 or 2:45 Buck Lacock. Tom Hay
don, the defendant Joe Gregory, Fred Rad
eli ffe Baylls Van Horn, John Crow and Cor
don Van Horn ali LETT Haydens house, armed
with rifles, some having in addition to rlfies
their pistols, Van Horn and Crow going for the
purpose OF arresting Lttlefeld upon the cnarge
of having shot Vinton and the other i've for
the purpose of ascertaining tracks made at the
alleged spot where Vinton claimed TO have
been shot.
We will prove in addition to that that this
defendant Gregory bas on numerous occasions
threatened the life of the deceased; that he
has invited and endeavored to entice various
kill Littlefield; that on the 14th day OF De-
cember, 1894. he cut Lttletield with knife
and wounded him SO badly that he came very
near dying; that at the time that Littlefeld
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23


at whose hands Jack Littiefield came to
his death. His statement was as follows:
Now, if the court please. and gentlemen of
the jury, ] will at this time outline in behalf
OF the prosecution the facts that we hope to
prove to you, upon which we will ask YER
dict OF conviction in this case. The crime
with which defendant is charged is mali
ciously killing one A. D. Littlefield on the 9th
day of Septem Der, 1895. We will establish to
your satisfaction that at that time, or at least
before 6 o'clock. or in that neighborhood, pos
sibly earlier, he was shot three times, and,
after being shot to death, rope was placed
around his neck, his body dragged some dis
tance, the rope thrown over the limb of a tree,
his body elevated from the ground, the rope
tied and his body left hanging.
The facts preceding the killing, the 1mme-
diate facts, as we will prove to you, were that
one Baylis w. Van Horn, Constable of Long
Ridge Township, aided by one John Crow.
whom he had just deputized as a deputy
constable, proceeded to spot on the west
bank of the north fork of Eel River, near
where Hulls Creek emptied into that stream,
and placed Jack Littlefield under arrest for
the alleged shooting OF one John NJ. Vinton;
that the officers disarmed him and told him
they were going to take him to Wea7erville-
They started toward Weaveryille, taking what
is known as the Wyiackie and Red Mountain
trail, crossing Eel River, proceeding on over
Wylackie Hill past the Mcpherson place, on
toward Red Mountain, and when arriving at
a spot two miles and quarter south OF the
Red Mountain House the crime was perpe-
trateu.
We will show to your satisfaction, gentle
men of the jury, that this crime was the re-
suit of a conspiracy which had been in process
of incubation for several months, arising pri-,
marily out of the animosity entertained by
one George E. White, resident OF Mendo-
cino County, toward one Sylvester Palmer;
that the deceased, Jack Littlefeld, was an in
innate friend and employe of Palmer and as
such came under the ban of Mr.. Whites dis
pleasure; that Mr.. White himself did not per.
sonally participate in the matter, but by en-
couragement and employment engaged in the
transaction through the services OF the de-
fendant, Joseph Gregory, Bayles W. Van Horn.
John Crow, John NJ. Vinton, Fred Radcliffe
and Dryden Lacock, better known as BUCK
Lacock.
We will show to you that the defendant,
Joseph Gregory, Dryden Lacock, John M. Vim
ton, Thomas Hayden and John Crow had dis
cussed the matter and the advisability Of
hanging Littlefeld, and Palmer also, num-
Der of times previous to the commission of the
offense charged; that vinton and the defend
ant, Gregory. endeavored to induce others be-
sides these named to enter into the conspiracy;
that John M. Vinton, acting as an employe of
White, had quarters at what is known as the
Vinton cabin, near the Willburn crossing of
Eel River, about two miles from Thomas
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
HOLLISTEE ExCITED.

Salratioaist Edsrards Disappears, Leas-
ing Dtstra cted Bride.
MONTEREY, CAL, Aug. 22.-The
friends and wife of Salvationist Edwards
of HOLSTER are very anxious as to the
whereabouts of this godly man. He has
been missing from that city for the past
few days. Since Edwards has been miss
ing Mrs. Edwards, bride OF only few
months duration, has as much as learned
that there is another Mrs. Edwards, a
legal wife of her husband. She is greatly
distressed, and is now at Pacific Grove
searching for her husband. Friends of the
distracted woman think that he has COM
mitted suicide, though this is not gener-
ally believed, for Edwards left with a large
sum of money belonging to himself and
his wife.
The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
KNOW YOURSELF.

No appreciate the depth of this
study it. No one knows wherein he is weak his
condition with another knows curing unless
tells him. Five hundred grateful
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The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
Rob. r. Fowler

which the following is the completed list:
P. o. NJ. Hennessey, H. T. Harvey Jr., Jo-
seph Bebeau, Thomas Treatrea Jr., H. M.
Hall, E. H. Bragdon, George Klein, w. ii.
Vaughn, E. S. Tinsley, g. P. Chapman,
William Gribble and G. E. L. White.
Recess was then taken till 1880 clock,
Judge Jones cautioning the Jurors to re-
port any attempt to tamper with them to
the court.
Deputy Attorney General G. N. Post In
his opening speech boldly accused George