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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
DASH OF CAVALRY HORSES.
City-Trnin Strikes the bunch
and Eight Are Killed.

New York, Aug. 14.-Speeding at
breakneck pace and in the closed or
der of army maneuvers, a band of
cavalry horses charged through the
streets of Jersey City Monday night,
sent citizens and carriages scurrying
from their path. spurned crowd of
hundreds of pursuing men and boys,
and galloped over Hackensack bridge
into the Harrison and Kearney mead
ows. In the mad charge eight of the
band We're killed by a Lackawanna
train. and three fell into sewer eX-
cnvation and were captured. The
horses belonged to the Fifth cavalry,
and had just arrived from Porto Rico.
twenty-five of the number We're con-
fined in one pen at the Central stock
yards, kicked down one side of the in
closure and made break for liberty.
The escape was executed so quickly
that the troopers were powerless to
stop them.
Through the length of Jersey City
the band made the running until they
reached the bridge over the Hacken-
sack river This they crossed. and
were lost sight of as they disappeared
in the Harrison and Kearney meadows.
After run across the meadows the
chargers got on the tracks of the
Lackawanna railroad. A train came
along just as the horses We're cross
ing. The locomotive dashed right into
them, scattering them right and left.
Some were thrown in the air. and one
landed astride the whistle, where his
body was impaled. Some of the horses
were captured, but the entire band
had not been rounded up at a late
hour
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
DEATH OF A RAILWAY KING
q. r. Huntington succumbs 10 an Af-t
tack of Heart Disease.

New York, Aug. 15-Collis p
Huntington. president of the South
ern Pacific Railroad Co., died at Pine
Knot camp, near Durant, on Rae
quette lake in the Adirondacks, early
Tuesday morning, supposedly from
heart disease.
In addition to his other vast inter-
csts, Mr.. Huntington enjoyed the rep
utation of being one of the largest.
if not the largest, single landowner
in this country. OF his entire real
estate holdings, the property owned
by him in cities was only small
part He also held title to largc
farming tracts as well as to vast un-
developed areas in California, Ken
tucky and West Virginia and in Mex
leo and Guatemala.
Wall street estimated Mr.. Hunt
ington's wealth at Sl2, 100000 to $40,-
100000. He had been at times the
largest borrower in the money CEN
ter and in 1894 was so involved that
rumors We're current that his failure
was threatened. But IN the last six
years he had reduced his obligations.
Probably the best informed man on
Mr.. Huntington's affairs is Russell
Sage, the streets biggest money lend
er. Mr.. Sage said some significant
things about his dealings with Mr..
Huntington yesterday. In referring
to Henry Clews' estimate that Mr.
Huntington was worth S40,000.0O0, he
said: You can cut that in half"
Harwinton, Conn, Aug. 15.-The
boyhood of Coils p. Huntington was
spent in .Harwinton. where he was
born. October 22. 1921. in dilapida-
ted house in the Poverty Hill district.
The old house has been unocoupicd
for many years and is in the last
stage of decay. His mother was a
hard working Christian woman, but
the father was n man in whose make
up ambition had no part. He was a
tinker" and travelled about the
country mending umbrellas, sharpen
ing razors, etc.
just before Mr.. Huntington was IL
years old he started on the road as
peddler of tinware. He never
again returned to Harwinton to make
his home, but is years ago he re-
turned to his native town and erect
ed a memorial to his mother. The
memorial was in the form of mas
sive granite chapel, erected at cost
of $50.000.
San Francisco. Aug. 15.-Public Adj
ministrator Boland yesterday applied
for letters of administration upon the
estate of Coils i. Huntington in this
city. Judge Bahrs refused to grant
the order, characterizing the appli-
cation as ''unduly hasty."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Ind, Demolished-Two
Men Injured.

Muncie, Ind, Aug. ii. - Another
frightful explosion of nitroglycerin,
used in shooting gas and oil wells, oc-
CURED shortly after noon Monday east
of Montpelier three miles. The Gath
wait nitroglycerin factory was demol-
ished and two men and team were
injured. The acid was overheated and
caught fire, igniting other ingredients
which it was impossible for the two
men at work to eNtipguish. and they
ran for their lives, and none too soon.
for the explosion came with them but
300 feet away. Claude Jones had his
right leg so badly injured that ampu-
tation will be necessary, and his COM
panion. Albert Hayes, was badly in
iured by the shock. A team of horses
500 feet distant attached to a wagon
loaded with the explosive We're
knocked senseleSs for a time. but re-
covered. There were 1.50O quarts of
the stuff in the explosion and the
country was shaken for miles around,
plate glass windows being broken in
Montpelier. The Findlay nitro
glycerin factory with several hundred
quarts of the explosive In it stands a
few hundred feet distant. The build
ings were shattered, but no explosion
occurred, fortunately.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Jury GO TO FRANKFORT.
Goebel Was shot-Ioutsey to
BE Tried Next.

Georgetown, KY, Aug. 1.-THE
sixth week of Powers trial began
Monday morning with a number of
witnesses for the prosecution in re-
buttal remaining to be examined b.
w. Bradburn, member of the reward
commission. was the first witness
called Monday.
Bradburn testified that of the $5,-
600 drawn by the commissioners out
of the fund appropriated by the legis-
lature only about $4,000 had been ex-
pended, and said that no money had
been paid to any witness who had
testified in the case and that no agree
ment of contract existed between
the reward commissioners and Whar-
ton Golden, Robert Noaks, w. II. Gull
ton or any other witness.
The testimony in the Powers case
was concluded at noon. The court
directed the sheriff to take the jury
to Frankfort at three o'clock.
Judge Cantrill then announced that
as soon as the argument in this case
has concluded and the case goes to
the jury the case of Henry +. Yout-
sey will be called The sheriff was
ordered TO summon n special venire
of jurors for the Youtsey case.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
WAR VESSELS COLLIDE.
tleship-Fcnred That at Least
30 of Her Crew Perished.

Paris, Aug, 13.-During the maneu-
vers of the French fleet off Cape st.
Vincent Saturday night a collision oc-
Cured between the first-class battle
ship Brennus, flying the flag of Vice
Admiral Fournier, commander of the
fleet, and the torpedo boat destroyer
France. The France sank imme-
diately. The accident was due to the
fact that the France turned to the
right, when ordered to the left. De-
tails thus far received arevery meager;
but small portion of the crew. con-
sisting of four officers and 5s men
We're saved. 1t is believed that no
fewer than so were lost, and great
anxiety is felt here. The France,
which was of 313 tons displacement,
was recent addition to the French
navy,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Senator Hanna Names Its Members
Many Prominent Republicans on the


New York. Aug. 15,-Scnator Hanna
yesterday announced the following
members of the advisory committee
of the national committee:
Senator Thomas c. Platt, Senator
Chauncey NJ. Depew and Hon. Viii
liam L. Strong, of New York: Samuel
j. Wainwright and w. w. Gibbs, of
PENNSYLVANIA; Col. Myron Il. Herricls
and Bishop Il. w. Arnett, OF Ohio;
Alex Revell, S. Il. Raymond and Cyrus
Field Adams, of Illinois; Edward
Rosewater. Nebraska; Hon. George
L. V. Myer and Hon. William b. Plum
kett, of Massachusetts,; Il. Brooker,
Connecticut; Hon. Nelson W. AldrIch.
Rhode Island; Thomas Lowry and NJ.
V. Grover, of Minnesota; II. IL. Han
ma. Indiana: Hon. J. A. Gary and DIR.
Ernest Lyon, of Maryland; Irving N.
Scott, California; w. NJ. Barbour and
Hon. John Kean, of New Jersey; W.
B. Clark and f.. o. Stanard, of Mis-
souri,; w. l.. Stratton, of Colorado;
Hon. John l.. Wilson. of Washington;
Charles +. Pfister, Wisconsin; William
Livingston ard Justice S. Stern, Mich
igan: ID. w. Mulvane, Kansas, and E
T. Hart Iowa.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
BOMBARD THE CLOUDS.
A Consular Report Tells of n Method
I'm Vogue In France that Protects
Vineyards from Hail Storms.

Washington, Aug. 15.-To protect
their vineyards against the ravages
of hail stones, the vine growers OF
southern France attack approaching
storm clouds with vollcys of fire from
powder charged cannon until the
cloud is finally dissipated and th.,
danger to their crops is averted. This
practice of shooting at the clouds or
iginated in Italy and was known in
France over 100 years ago, says Uni
ted States Consul Covert at Lyons,
in report upon this subject to the
state department, but il is TO be more
extensively employed this year than
ever before.
Fifty-two cannon, manned by 10t
cannoneers and their chiefs, have
been distributed over an area of $500
acres of rich vine land. A high point
is selected as the central post of OBJ
servation. At the approach of the
destructive hail cloud shot is fired
from this post and at this signal all
the remaining cannon are fired, twice
minute ut first, and then more
slowly after the first ten shets.
This 'bombarding of the heavens"
is almost invariably successful and all
places in France heretofore ravaged
by hail, it is said, are to be provided
with storm attacking artillery.
The expense of the experiments so
far has been borne partly by the gov
ernmcnt, the National French Agri-
cultural society, and number of
wealthy wine growers. The French
minister of war has supplied powder
for 23 cents pound.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Sent To au Asylum.

Ell Paso, Tex, Aug. 13.-George
Landers, alias George Brennan, want
ed in Kansas City, Kan, on a charge
of swindling the Evans-Snider-Buel
Commission company on cattle deals,
has been adjudged insane and ordered
sent to the state asylum. Landers
was formerly n wealthy banker and
dealt heavily in cattle. Over a year ago
he failed and disappeared. He was
arrested near FL Paso several days
ago, while travelling overland from
Mexico, and confessed his identity.
The Kansas City sheriff was en- route
to take him back to Kansas when the
court declared his reason gone.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17

Henry Broadbent, Frederick Trever,
Stephen Mackenzie and Samuel Herbert
Habershon it was decided that an
operation was imperatively necessary.
1t was afterwards said that the patient
had stood the operation well and that
his strength was maintained.
At six o'clock Thursday evening,
however, Lord Russell took turn for
the worse. soon became unconscious
and passed away peacefully at three
a. m.
Lord Russell entered public life In $780,
when he was sent to parliament by the lib
erals as member for Dundalk. representing
them until 1885, when he accepted the South
Hackney election. The following year he
was made attorney general by the Glad
| stone administration. and was also knight
| ed. In 1898 he was given the G. C. NJ G.
| in consideration of his services as English
| counsel in connection with the United
| States fisheries arbitration at Paris, and IN
| 1894, on the death of Lord Bower, was ap-
pointed lord of appeal in ordinary. His
| elevation to the office of lord chief justice
| of England followed shortly afterward,
| the vacancy being occasioned by the death
| of Lord Coleridge. and was received with
| satisfaction throughout the empire.
The late chief Justice was of ready wit
undoubtedly due to his Irish parentage--
and great learning; brilliant orator: a
| fiery, tumultuous, relentless, laundering
| cross-eXaminer; a cold, calm, critical and
| dispassionate weigher of facts and evil
dence. and he became the doyen of the Eng
| lish bar by virtue of rare combination of
most excellent gifts His eloquence was
welded to logic: his cleverness was accom-
panied by industry; his persistence was
| allied to tact and his knowledge OF law was
| Joined by a wide acquaintance with the
world His power of work was due to his
| habit of concentration, the latter being the
real secret of his success. In this he was
| truly Napoleonic. Whatever he did he did
well. and made 1t rule to slight nothing,
no matter how trivial the matter in hand.
He was married in 1858 to Ellen, daugh-
ter of Joseph Mulholland, NJ. p. of Belfast,
and the widow and two children survive
him. The youngest son is Hon. Bertrand
| Joseph, at present serving as a lieutenant
of the royal artillery in South Africa. Hon.
| Charles Russell, another son of the de-
| ceased. is now in Canada.
Sir Charles visited the United States sew
eral times, and had many friends in this
| country.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Sad Affair in Ohio.

Cincinnati, o., Aug. 10. = William
Doepke, a steam engineer. with his
wife and four children, made family
picnic at Paramount Sunday. Return
ing, they crossed the tracks of the Gin
cinanti, Hamilton & Dayton railroad.
The indianapolis excursion train 60
ing north was approaching. Doepke's
young son, George, four years old,
tried to run across the track, and fell.
Mr.. Doepke, with his two-year-old
daughter in his arms, tried to rescue
his boy, Both father and son We're
killed, and the infant daughter bad
ly hurt. She cannot recover.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
BARON RUSSELL DEAD.
Unexpected Termination of the Life
of Englnnd's Lord Chief JUS
ticc-A Noted Jurist.

London, Aug. 11.-Baron Russell OF
Killowen, lord chief justice of England, +,
died Friday morning.
Baron Russell had been i'll for some
time. Thursday an operation was per-
formed, which the patient is reported
to have passed through in good condi-
ton.
This operation, however, resulted in
his death. 1t was performed by DR..
Treves. Various reports have been cir
culated as to the disease from which
the lord chief justice suffered. Accord
ing to some his malady was gastric
disorder, while other reports were that
he had a tumor in the stomach.
Lord Russell suffered from gastric
catarrh. The fact of his illness was
not generally known until it was an
nounced that consultation held
Thursday between Drs. Sir William
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
RUHLIN LOSES.
I II tSf Rfil tight with Bob
Fitzs simmons.

New York, Aug. 11.-Bob Fitzsim-
mons, OF australia, but now an Amer.
lean eitiNeag met Gus Rubin, the Ak
ron III IT. EEiday night before the
wentiethlHentury club at Madison
Square garden and won by knocking
the Ohioan down and out in the sixth
round. 1t was fierce and bloody bat
the .NhilesitI LASTED, and at times 2 il
looked as if Rubin would get the bet
ter or tkeVoHef man, but Fitzsimmons
at tRe2 pr6pefetim would cut loose
wifi his ffeafful, body blow, which
finally. ,sRpAsd out. the ohio boxers
hgntso ,AsOQ e
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
SUMS DEADLY RAYS.
They Continue to Deal Death to
Many In n Number of Cities in
the East and West.

New York, Aug. 11.-Eleven persons
died here Friday from the excessive
heat winch has been torturing human
ity in this locality for some days and
still continues with little prospect of
a let-up. The greatest suffering is en-
dured by the people of the lower
East side districts, which are so thick
ly populated. In these neighborhoods
numerous families occupy single
apartment, and many of them sleep
on the pavements in front of the
buildings in the hope of obtaining a
little fresh air. The infant mortality
is very great. Horses are perishing
AL over the city, and the mortality
among them threatens to equal that
of the record breaking August hot
spell of 1896, when so many died that
business was seriously crippled.
Philadelphia, Aug. 1.-The intense
heat Friday resulted in five deaths and
20 prostrations, Many large fac
ing on half-time, the heat of the after
moons being too great for the en-
ployes to endure
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. 11.--Instead of
going lower, the thermometer jumped
point Friday, reaching 81 on the Gov
ernment building, Five deaths and six
prostrations are directly attributable
to the hot weather.
Chicago, Aug. .11.-Forty- dea this,
131 prostrations and six persons driven
insane by heat is the record of one
week of the hottest weather Chicago
has ever known, and still the end is not
in sight.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
ENROLMENT begun.

Muldrow, l. T., Aug. 14.-The Dawes
commission began the work of en-
rowling Cherokees here. Col. 4. b.
Needles and Maj. C. r. Breckenridge
are experimenting the work. The
commission has decided to move to
Fort Gibson next Monday and remain
there three weeks.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
swirtest voyage on Record.

Plymouth. Aug. 15.-The steamer
Deutschland, which sailed from New
York August s for Hamburg. arrived
here at s:20 Tuesday morning, maxi
ing a new record for the eastward
passage and the fastest time ever at
tained by any ocean steamer, five
days, II hours and AS minutes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17

Keokuk. Ia, Aug. l3.-Samuel M.
Clark, editor of the Gate City for 30
years, died here Saturday. He was a
member of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty
fifth congresses from the First Iowa
district, United States commissioner of
education to the Paris exposition of
1889. He was a native Iowan, born in
1912
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
VIII lie Avenged.

New York, Aug. Thames Stefane,
an Italian. was stabbed to death with
IA stiletto in this city. His brother,
Angelo, knows who the murderer is
but he will not tell who he is. II have
sworn the vendetta" he says. mo
one shall kill him but me-"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17

St. Louis, Aug. 13,-The strike on the
East ST. Louis Qll) electric railway,
which was inaugurated on May TO-,
shortly after the strike was begun in
this city on the lines of the St. Louis
Transit company, was declared off Sun
day by unanimous vote of the employees.
The boycott against the company,
which has existed since the strike be-
gan was also raised
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Harrison's Claim Denied.

Washington, Aug. 14.-The comp
troller of the currency has decided adj
versely the claim of Maj Russell b..
Harrison for the difference between
his pay as major and colonel under
Section of the act of April 20, 1898,
while serving as provost marshal from
August 3, 1898, to April 7, 1899,
amounting to SOFT.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Foul Play Suspected.

Chicago, Aug. 1.-THE sudden death
of Edward p. Herrick, combined with
the previous mysterious deaths of his
wife and his niece and the serious i'll
ness of his danghter-in-law, caused the
police to inquire into the matter and
developed the fact that there are
traces of poison in the dead mans stom-
ach
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17

Bremen, Aug. 1.-THE North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse. Capt. Engelbart, which
sailed from New York August for
Bremen, has made the record passage
of any steamer sailing from Sandy
Hook to Chebourg, covering 3,1S4
knots in five days, 10 hours and Al
minutes, her average speed was 22.79
knots per hour.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17

Des Moines, Ia, Aug. l4.-Monday
morning about two O'Clock William /.
Tuttle murdered his wife, then killed
himself. The parties lived in Chari-
ton. Domestic trouble is the supposed
cause. ="
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Reyision COMMITTEES Organizes.

Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 1.-THE Pres
byterian general assembly committees
on revision met here last night and
organized. Rev. DR.. Charles Dickey,
moderator of the assembly, is chairs
man of me committee, -
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17

Paris, Oct. 1.-THE Hotel Des Ter
rasse, at Dinard, was completely de-
stroyed by fire Friday afternoon. Many
Americans are among the sufferers, al
though no one was injured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
d7teYases the Honor.

Bay, cSyo Miehu Aug. 1l.-George
d. jackson has declined to ac.
cept the congressional nomination
unanimously given him Thursday by
tho democrats of the Tenth district,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Sisters Drexyned.

Necedah, Wis, Aug. 14.-Sadie and
Libby Lauk, aged nine and four years,
were drowned in the river here Mon
day. They were playing on raft and
fell ofrjn the water, four feet deep.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
, u ma RiiIyFree Delivery.

e. WasS3iRg2 9tiG9x1g. 1.-THE post of.
fec -dfeppaf t8mSeYht h'as ordered the estab.
lisNment OF rural free delivery service
on August Is at Sheldon, Ia; Portland
andSS'ahn418 RdS,Ind.; Weldon, H.;
Peyrint0h, Hlch;FFox Lake, Wis, and
adiihE6hl Y@Ffe lat Belleville, Kan,
and Applet34, Wis
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17

Milwaukse, Aug, ,11.--AJournalreport
from Janfsyi3le, wis, says the James
le-Milwhtikea passenger train on the
IAAilwSpke& Ia53 while pulling out of
Ja6sNillef Fnaay afternoon collided
I'witf& switchengine, Burt Schlatter,
engineer, df GAINESVILLE, and Gus. A.
Bondrath, fireman, both on the passen-
ger train, were Killed,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
Killed by Negroes.

Sylvania, Ga, Aug. 13.-R. f. Herring
ton and Milton Mears were shot and
killed Saturday night by two negroes
named Alexander as result of quar-
rel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-17
VIII Leave Peking.

Berlin. Aug. 14.-At the Chinese le-
CATION in Berlin it was said that the
empress dowager had declared her in
tention to leave Peking and to trans
fer her court to anoSher city before
the allied forces reached the capital.
,Lu Hei Houan, the Chinese minister
here, on learning of this intention,
telegraphed to both the empress dow
ager and the emperor not to leave
Picking, but quietly to await the arrival
of the international forces.