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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
TWO ENGINES AND II FREIGHT
CARS LOADED WITH GRAIN
PILED IN A HEAP.
FIVE TRAlNMEN
LOSE THEIR LIVES
The Forward Locomotive Struck the
Cow, Which Was Lying on the
Track Between the Rails and
Hidden by Other Cattle,
Which Ran Away.

Oskaloosa, Ia, Oct. 16.-Five train
men were killed yesterday at Seaton,
ILL.,, when heavy double-head
freight train, eastbound, on the Iowa
Central railroad, ran into cattle on the
track at a speed of 20 miles an hour
Both locomotives and IL freight cars
loaded with grain and lumber were
piled in a heap beside the track.
A COW was lying on the ties between
the rails. She was hidden from view
by other cattle standing about it. At
the sound of the whistle of the ap-
preaching train the standing cattle
scampered away, but the forward To-
Comotive struck the lying COW.
The critter was crushed under the
wheels Of the pilot truck and rolled
along the ties for hundred feet. The
animals blood made the rails slippery
and pieces of bone threw the front
locomotive from the track. The de-
rallied locomotive pitched down an en-
bankment, drawing the second loco
motive into the ditch, where the two
machines piled up, crushing the engi-
neers and fremen. The wreckage
caught fire from the live Goals of the
locomotive fire boxes. The conductor
and rear brakeman, with persons who
lived near the wreck, hastily took the
mangled bodies of the trainmen from
the burning debis and saved the rest
of the train from the flames.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
GIVES THEM GREAT POWER.
An Amendment to Civil Service Rules
Permits Cabinet Officers to Dismiss
Employees in Most Summary Way.

Washington, Oct 1S.-An amend
inent to the civil service rules, sweep
ing and comprehensive in it's charac-
ter, was authorized yesterday by Pres
ident Roosevelt. Hereafter, a cabinet
officer will have the power to remove
summarily and without hearing any
civil service employe in his depart
ment who, to the personal knowledge
of the head of the department, has
been guilty of misconduct, or who is
inefficient in the performance of his
duties. BY the terms of the amend
ment the cabinet officer must have
personal knowledge of the misconduct
or inefficiency of the employe whom
he proposes to discharge. With this
personal knowledge, the power of the
head of the department is absolute.
The amendment is one of the most
important and far reaching made to
the civil service rules in many years.
it confers upon cabinet officers prac-
tically unlimited power as to the per-
sonnel of their departments. The
amendment is made to Rule XII, Sec
lion 2, which provides that the ap-
pointing officer in the executive civil
service shall report in detail to the
civil service commission all changes
in their departments as soon as made,
and the reasons for making them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
PRESIDENT OF THE MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE co. REFUSES TO
ANSWER QUESTIONS.
A DAY REPLETE
WITH SENSATIONS
Mr. Mccurdy Tells of the Payment Of
$4,000 to Settle Suit Brought
Against the Company by
an Agent Who Was
Dismissed.

New York, Oct. 1S-Testimony in
the insurance investigation, which
was resumed Tuesday, was most eX-
citing and only the threats of Senator
Armstrong, chairman of the commit
tee, to clear the room prevented vio-
lent demonstrations of disapprobation
of the witness, who was Richard A.
McCurdy, president of the Mutual Life
Insurance Co.
AS it was. however, there were jeers
at several periods OF the days testi-
mony. These came when Mr.. Hughes,
counsel for the committee, asked
questions that Mr.. McCurdy was re-
luctant to answer or evaded.
In Mr.. McCurdys testimony a new
feature was disclosed, and this was
that the Mutual Life Insurance Co.
employed a literary bureau to send
out to the press of the country news
matter that was of benefit TO the COM
pany.
An attempt was made to obtain
from Mr.. McCurdy the reason for re
ducing the dividends on policies as the
business increased and the assets
piled up. This question was prompted
ed from policy holders by the COM
mission and cited examples.
The examples cited were principally
on the policies of the ten payment life
plan. One for $4,000 that in 1876 drew
dividend of $5576 had been gradu-
ally cut until in 1904 it received only
SO. The writer said this was in the
face of the reserve increasing year af-
ter year.
To all questions on this matter the
witness said he was not fortified with
the information required; that these
were actuarial matters; and, when
pressed for his opinion, replied that
he refused to discuss the question or
to enter any discussion. He would
proffer a witness, his actuary, whose
business it was to know these things,
but as Tor himself he would not dis
cuss the question"
A voucher in 1902 for $4,000 pay
able to T. H. Bowles was explained by
Mr.. McCurdy as part payment in set
tlement of suit Mr.. Towlcs, formerly
the general agent In Milwaukee, had
brought agsinst the company. 1t was
testified to early this month that Mr..
Bowles had been dismissed by the
company for INSTRUMENTATION. Mr..
McCurdy said yesterday that the in
subordination cons, ,sted in throwing
mud" and trying to injure the COM
pany.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
SIR HENRY IRVING DIES.
The Famous Actor Passes Away Sud
denly in Hotel at Bradford,
England.

London, Oct 14.-The English
speaking world has suffered an ire
parable loss by the sudden death last
night of Sir Henry Irving, who was
universally regarded as the most rep
resentative English actor of contem-
porary times.
Sir Henry died literally in harness.
He was giving a series of farewell per-
formances in the English provinces
and this week was playing an engage
ment at Bradford.
Last might, before an enthusiastic
audience, he portrayed one of his most
intellectual parts.
After the performance Sir Henry re-
turned to his hotel, reaching his rooms
at 11:30 o'clock, when it was observed
that he was in great pain. Physicians
were summoned, but before they could
arrive Sir Henry was seized with an
attack of syncope and expired within
a few minutes, without having uttered
a word, in the presence of Bran
Stoker, who had been his manager for
many years, and a few other friends.
He was G7 wears of age
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
PROFITS WERE 100000.
So Says an Indictment of Parties I'M
plicated in the Cotton Crop Re-
port Scandal.

New York. Oct. 1.-THE profits Of
the alleged conspirators in the opera
tions based on the recent leak in the
government cotton crop reports are
placed at approximately 100000, ac-
cording to an indictment presented in
court Friday on the arraignment be
fore United States Commissioner
Ridgeway of Frederick A. Peckham
and Moses Haas. According to charges
made in this indictment Edwin s.
Holmes, jr., associate statistician of
the department of agriculture, receiv-
ed S25.O17.
The indictment which was found by
a grand jury in Washington on Octo-
Der 3, is against Edwin S. Holmes, jr.,
and l.. c. Van Ripper, as we'll as against
Haas and Peckham, and charges all
four collectively with having conspired
to defraud by procuring advance infor-
nation from Holmes concerning the
governments cotton crop report. 1t
sets forth in full many copies of tele-
grams and also of checks which
passed between the accused, tending
to show that conspiracy existed.
Counsel for the defense moved for
the discharge of the prisoners on the
ground that the charge as alleged did
not constitute an offense against the
government. The hearing On the mo-
tion was adjourned until October 21.
The defendants gave bail in $4,000
each
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
RESCUED FROM A RAFT.
Two of the Crew OF Schooner that
Foundered Are Brought to Boston
and Tell Terrible Story.

Boston. Oct. IA story of North
Atlantic shipwreck, in which eight
seamen suffered so fearfully that six
of them either died outright, were
washed away, or, crazed by their fear
full experience, threw themselves into
the sea, was told yesterday by the two
survivors of the schooner Van Name
and King, of New Haven, which was
beaten to pieces by a gale off the
South Carolina coast on October 6.
The two men who lived through the
five days and were rescued by the
schooner Stillman f. Kelly, which ar
rived here Monday, are William
Thomas and William Warnock.
The Van Name and King left
Charleston, S, c., for New York on Oc-
tober 8 with a cargo of pine. Two
days later she ran into gale and
sprang leak. The pumps were start
ed, but the engine room was soon
flooded and the pumps choked.
At a. m. October G, with her hold
nearly full of water, the schooner was
hove down on her beam ends. The
side and lashed themselves to the bull
warks. There they remained washed
by the seas that broke mercilessly all
day Friday.
That night the storm increased in
fury and a great wave crashed aboard,
breaking both legs of Seaman Arthur
and sweeping William Grissell from
his fastenings. Arthur's companions
could do nothing to ease his suffer-
ings, but when on Saturday the
schooner turned completely over they
managed to cut his lashings and drag
him on piece of the afterhouse. That
night Arthur died and his body was
dropped overheard.
Sunday brought ray of hope, when
craft was sighted, but the gloom
shut in again as she passed by with
out needing the group of seamen who
signalled her.
That night the waves subsidized and
little rain fell, wh!ch was caught in
a tarpulin and brought some relief. 1t
was only temporary, and not long af-
ter Mate Chase's mind gave way and
the craft was again lightened when he
jumped into the sea.
The next victim was Capt. Maxwell,
who on Monday became insane and
followed his mates example of self
destruction.
The spectacle of two men throwing
themselves into the sea proved too
much for the German engineer and a
! few hours after MaXwelPs death he,
too, leaped to his death. The last vic
tim was the colored steward, who died
Monday.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
We're Dashed over a Cliff.

Junction City, Kan, Oct. 14.-Priv-
ate Albert Laste, of the Twenty ninth
battery of field artillery, was killed
during target practice at Fort Riley
yesterday. Privates John Connolly
and G. j. Simpson, of the same bat
terry, are thought to be fatally injured,
while Privates Leary, Norman, Lancas-
ter and Cline, of the same organiza-
ton, are in a hospital with broken
limbs and internal injuries. A large
number of other artillerymen were
hurt. The casualties were caused by
frightened horses galloping over a
prccipice with riders and l;mbers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
Intellectual Improvement.

The capital of nearly all of our
wealthy citizens is invested in manu-
featuring, mining or transportation,
giving useful and profitable employ
ment TO millions. Many of those citi-
Gems, observes the Washington Post,
are giving more time to business than
their employees do. Some of the own
ers of vast properties are accused OF
squandering their wealth because they
are free-handed in spending money.
But that puts their cash into the chan
nels OF trade, paying for labor of many
kinds. OF course, there are rich fools.
for the ability of a man to accumulate
a great fortune does not furnish an as
surance that his sons will inherit his
business capacity along with his es-
late. But those weaklings, by exer-
cising their folly, only distribute the
millions their fathers piled up. AS for
Intellectual strength and culture the
present generation of Americans shows
no decadence. AS to morals, this gen.
Grafton is on higher plane than any
that has preceded 1t.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
Sounding by Telephone.

A method of ascertaining the depth
Of water by means of the telephone is
being employed in the German navy,
waves are given out which disperse in
all directions at known rate of speed
Those which strike the ground at the
bottom of the water are reflected and
the times of their dispatch and return
to the instrument are recorded. The
velocity of the sound wave being
known, it is easy to calculate the dis
tance traversed. 1t is needless to say
that the recording instrument has to-
be extremely sensitive and delicate in
order to give records Of any value.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
BLUE, RditOr and Publisher.
n,,r unrunst Wenlth.

The total value of the farm products
of the United States for the year 1895
will equal approximately the tota!
value Of all the gold produced in the
world for the last 80 years. The an
nual output of the worlds gold ana
silver mines Is even now worth less
than one-tenth the gross output OF
American farms for single year. The
director of the mint estimates the
value of the worlds production of gold
between the years 1873 and 1903 at
$4,S9I PCS 900. The gross value OF the
farm products of the United States lot
the year 1899, as given in the last fed
eral census. was S4,717O1O,973. The
value of this years products will un-
questionably exceed that. The wheat
crop is estimated to be in excess oil
700,C00,O00 bushels, second only to the
record breaking ccrop of 1901. The
corn crop is estimated at 2,716OOO,0Oo
"a figure that has never before been
reached. While the cotton crop is ex-
pecteG to fall below 10,O0000O bales,
the gross market value will not fall
greatly below the average of the last
five years. In other directions the re-
ports indicate a year of prosperity tor
American agriculture for which no ad-
ministration in power need ever be re-
luctant to claim the credit. While
the backbone of this prosperity is rep
resented by the three great speculative
crops, wheat, corn and cotton, other
Crope which never lash boards of trade
into frenzy, modestly contribute thelr
hundreds of millions to the annual
production of the American farm. NO.
body ever hears of an egg panic, but
the American hen, without ostenta-
tious display, lays $145000 900 worth
of eggs in a year. The cold-storage
companies know about it and so do
the benevolent gentlemen in Chicago
who are known as the meat trust. The
newspapers never report corner IN
hay but the hay crop is worth about
as much as the wheat crop and more
than the cotton crop. In spite OF all
misglvings about the decline of Ameri-
can agriculture, remarks the New York
World, and the aversion of the Ameri-
can boy to farm life, the farm keeps on
doing its work and laying an increas-
ingly solid foundation for the prosper
fly of the rest of the country. The
farm output is more than keeping pace
with the population, as the statistics OF
the last generation amply prove.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

A corporation of women has been
formed in Indianapolis, Ind, for the
purpose of building small but artistic
homes for people of moderate means.
All the directors are business women;
one of the vice presidents is Miss Eliza
beth Browning, the city Librarian, and
another is the principal of one of the
public schools. The secretary had for
some time been in charge of the Office Of
a savings and loan association and is
the only woman member of the Indian
apolis fire inspection board. Six houses
are to be erected at once in various parts
of the city.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
1T COMES AFTER VACATION
The Desire to Continue Association
with the Realities of
Nature.

Nearly everyone is familiar with the
relaxed and demoralized sensation
which seems to be the inevitable result
of vacation. The more prolonged
has been the period of voluntary idle
ness the harder it is to rally from lis
depressing effects. We may not have
been really inert during our holiday;
indeed, our physical activity may have
been excessive; but we have danced
so long to strange piping that it is not
easy to keep step among the regular
workers, says the Philadelphia Ledger.
The single drop of wild blood makes
1t so easy to obey the primal imrulse.
to step aside into the green and flow
cry ways Of vagrancy. This seems to
be the natural thing, yet the life we call
artificial has become inevitable, and 1t
has strong tonic virtue. In Mary VIII
llins Freemans vivid story, THE Slip
of the Leash" we see a man weakly
yielding to the urgings of native in
stinct and forsaking wife and children
for the earlier kinship of the earth. The
sane and wholesome love of free ways
and growing things lies somewhere be-
tween this abnormal form of nature
worship and the feeling of the town
dweller who asked his friend to kick
| tree for him when he went to the coun-
| try. For some years there has been a
passion for nature stories and studies.
and refreshingly human way of look
| ing at things that were once swartheds
in technical cerements.
Nature may ensnare us with her love-.
| Illness or overwhelm us with her terrors,
until we are almost ready to accept her
manifestations as the highest express
sion of divine regard, though we know
| that upon humanity creation has set her
crowning seal The rudest savage in
the jungles, the lowest form of life in
the pestilent slums, is miracle more
complex and amazing than Niagara or
Mont Blanc.
'These rustics bore me incredibly"
said the blase man of the world.
"Strange!" answered the social phil
osopher, Il feel ashamed to think that
l ever thought any human being unin-
teresting"
Among the country people we often
see refined and peculiarly beautiful
cultivation and the almost extinct
graces of repose and serenity. The
humble rural classes often amaze us
with their intellectual acumen and
depth of philosophy, as we'll as by their
picturesqueness of expression. Or, It
may be that the holiday has taken us
to the most fashionable resorts among
the exotic growths of society, but even
here the Towering of sweet and genu-
inc humanity thrills us as it would
thrill the old-fashioned gardener to rec.
ognize his early favorites among the
strange-hued, many-petaled variations
evolved by modern floral wizards.
Wherever the happily rounded man or
woman may go the appeal of the hui
man transcends all other interests and
attractions.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
DUN'S TRADE BULLETIN.
Nearly All Reports are of the Most
Favorable Nature.

New York, Oct. 14.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Recent mild weather might have
been expected to retard business, but
freight blockades and several similar
conditions testify to the contrary, and
the last half of the week brought a
seasonable fall in temperature.
Manufacturers are so fully occupied
that contracts for early delivery can
not be considered in most cases, and
the amount of business that will be
carried over into 1906 will certainly
eclipse all records.
Business failures for the week end
ing October 12 number 1873, against
1876 in the like week of 1904. In Can
ada failures for the week number %
as against 18 year ago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

Because oliver Powe, builder, OF An
sonia, Conn, put all his property in his
wife's name and she died childless he
has lost it all, according to the probate
courts ruling, and is left penniless at
the age of 70, too infirm to work. Be-
lieving that at his wife's death he would
be her heir, Mr.. Powe had his home and
savings, $4,000 in all, transferred to
her. so she would have no trouble in
getting his estate should he die first.
Mrs. Prove died at year ago, her estate
was promptly claimed by her relatives
and the probate court sustained their
claim. Mr.. Powe has brought suit for
equitable relief.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
A PRESIDENTIAL EDIcT.
Employees of the Government Must Not
Instruct Persons Who Are About
to Undergo Examinations.

Washington, Oct. 17.-President
Roosevelt on Monday through the
state department published an execu-
tive order of importance to every en-
ploye in the civil service of the United
States. No explanation of the under
lying reason for its Issue is given. The
order is as follows:
mo officer or employe Of the gov
ernment shall directly or indirectly in
struct or be concerned in any manner
in the instruction of any person or
classes of persons with view to their
special preparation for the examina-
tions of the United States civil service
commission.
"The fact that any officer or en-
ploye is found so engaged shall be
considered sufficient cause for his re-
moval from the service"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
A PROFIT SHARING PLAN.
1t Is Proposed by the Cotton Mill Own
ers of Fall River, Mass.

Fall River, Mass, Oct. 1S.-The
Manufacturers association yesterday
announced per cent. increase in
wages of cotton mill operatives and a
profit sharing plan 20 take effect Oc-
tober rs.
Under the present market condi-
tions the profit sharing plan should
net an additional per cent. In July,
1904, reduction of 121s per cent. in
wages was made and a nine months
strike followed. The present proposal
of the manufacturers not only restores
the old scale of wages as requested,
but makes a slight advance.
The new plan affects directly some
o5 900 employees.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
THE MARKETS.

New York, Oct, IS, 1905.
Flour-Firm.
Wheat-No. 2 red 91Nc.
Corn-No. 2 G0hc.
Oats-Clipped white 36@S6hc.
Hay-Irregular.
Cattle-steady. veals $5OO@9.5O.
Sheep-Steady at s4.OOQ5.25, lambs.
$7.10@79O.
Hogs-Yorkers $5G5@5.S5.
Cleveland, Oct. 8.-Flour-Minne-
sofa spring patent $4.75@5.5O.
Wheat-No. 2 red sec.
Corn-No. yellow GOAc
Oats-No. 2 white 32c.
Butter-Best creamery 23Kc.
Eggs-Strictly fresh 22c.
Cheese-York state 12@12kc.
Potatoes-Best grades C0@62c.
Hay-Choice timothy $1,000.
Cattle - Choice steers $485@5.00,-
calves s75O@S.O0.
Toledo, Oct. 1s. - Wheat-Cash,
S6kc.
Corn-Cash 57kc.
Oats-Cash 31c.
Cloverseed-Cas $7S7h
East Buffalo, Oct 1S. - Cattle
Prime steers $5.25@550, fair to good
$S.50@4.25.
sheep-Wethers S5.25Q5.5O, lambs
S7.00@7.90.
Hogs-Yorkers $5.45@5.5O.
Pittsburg, Oct. 1s.--cattle- Choice.
steers $5.35@k.G6, coed $490@5.10.
Hogs-Heavy $57O, light Workers.
$5.40@5.50.
Sheep = Best we.hers s5.s5@5.5O..
lambs $6.00Q7.76.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20

Travellers returning from Japan are
generally OF the opinion that the mika-
dos subjects have become quite inflated
over the result of their war with Rus
sia. AS one American put 1t: They
are scratching their heads where the hat
brim ought to be. A white man is poor
cirtter in their eyes. They seem to think
that they can lick a German, an Amerl-
can or q Frenchman with the same ease
which the white brethren of the Rus
slams in other countries so gleefully di-
lated upon In the beginning OF the
Wai-'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
New Yor'A are Champions.

New York, Oct. 1G.-Amid frenzied
plaudits of more than $4,000 baseball
enthusiasts the New York National
league champions won the worlds
professional baseball championship on
the Polo Grounds Saturday by defeat
ing the Philadelphia American league
team in the fifth game of the post sea-
son series by the score of 2 to o. OF
the four previous games New York
had won three and Philadelphia one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
Swept by Gigantic Wave.

New York. Oct. 1G,-Five lives are
known TO have been lost and more
than 30 persons injured, some of them
seriously. on the Cunard line steamer
Campania last Wednesday, when a
gigantic wave rolled over the steamer
and swept across deck thick with
steerage passengers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-10-20
A Deadly Shower Of Molten Metal.

Chicago. Oct 1S.-Iive tons of mol
ten metal exploded yesterday at the
Joliet plant of the Illinois Steel Co.,
falling in a shower of death on band
of workmen about tie converter. One
man is dead, three are fatally burned
and half dozen injured so badly they
may die.