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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Happenings Of the Last Five Days
Narrated in Few Words
as Possible.
AT HOME AND IN FOREIGN LANDS
items Arranged for the Readers In
This Busy World So that They
Can Digest the Con-
tents in Few
Minutes.
Russo-JAPANEsE WAR.

The Toxic correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph declares that
Gen. Linevitch has sentenced several
Russian officers to death for circu-
lating seditious circulars, and the
papers Japanese correspondent at
Moji, Japan, asserts that all Poles and
Jews in Linevitchs army are mutt
nous and are constantly surrender
ing so as to enjoy pleasant captivity
as prisoners of the Japanese.
With the Japanese flag hoisted for
the first time on Russian soil after 1S
months of war, the Importance of the
landing on the island of Sakhalin is
generally admitted. Complete occu-
patton of the island is regarded at st.
Petersburg as a foregone conclusion.
The plenipotentiaries of Russia and
Japan have agreed upon Portsmouth,
N. H., as the meeting place for the
sessions of the peace conference to
be held outside of Washington. The
sessions will be held in the govern
ment navy yard at Portsmouth, in the
new building just completed there.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
SCORES OF LIVES LOST.
a Mine Disaster at Wattstown, Wales,
Causes the death of 12o Men.

Cardiff, Wales, July 12.-An explo-
sion of firedamp in No. pit of the
United National Colliery Co. at Watts
town, in the Rhonda valley, the center
of the great Welsh coal fields, Tues
day morning, is believed to have re-
suited in the loss of 126 lives.
The explosion was followed immedi-
ately by the belching of clouds of
smoke and dust from the pit shaft, in
which $50 men were working. The
force of the explosion wrecked the
machinery at the mouth of the pit. All
communication with the doomed men
in this direction is completely cut off.
No. 1 shaft adjoining, has ordinarily
afforded communication with No. 2.
The 500 men in No. l and the few who
escaped from No. were drawn up.
A rescue party descended, but its
work was seriously impeded by the
foul air and the falling masses of
earth dislodged by the explosion.
Altogether GS bodies have been re-
covered.
Heroic efforts were made for hours
TO reach the entombed men, but late
last night the absence of all sound
from the interior of the mine told the
tale of the worst disaster that has
taken place in South Wales since 1894
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
GOT MILLIONS IN REBATES.
A Stakeholder in the Harvester Com
bine Makes Sensational Statements
In a Lawsuit Against 1t.

Chicago, July 12.-Rodney B. Swift,
formerly head of the experimental de-
partment of the Mccormick branch of
the International Harvester Co, yes
terday filed a suit against the com
pany demanding an accounting.
Swifts connection with the com
pany was severed some months ago,
and suit was commenced against him
by the officials of the company, who
alleged that he had defrauded them
in the sale of patent. In his bill filed
yesterday Swift, as stockholder, de-
mands an accounting from the com
pany, and demands that the court
force the company to cease taking re-
bates from railroad companies, and
also compel the company to return to
the railroads moneys said by Swift to
have been illegally extracted from the
railroads in the past. Eleven railroads
are also made parties to the suit.
OF the railroads made defendant In
the suit two, the Chicago, West Pull
man & Southern and the Illinois
Northern are described in the bill
filed by Swift as being the means by
which tribute was eXacted from the
ldl ger lOellS III ldNOI VI Tie EldINGSIG
company.
The two roads, Swift asserts, con-
sist principally of switch tracks. Swift
declares that up to September 80,
1902, the Mccormick branch of the
Harvester company alone forced the
railroads to pay it, through rebates
and the operations of the Illinois
Northern road, a sum in excess of
S3,000,000. Up to the same date, the
money received in rebates by the
Plano branch of the Harvester com
pany through the agency of the Chi
cago, West Pullman & Southern rail-
road amounted to 100000.
Since September 80, 1902, it is de-
clared that all the other railway COM
panies have been making payments OF
rebates to the International Harvester
Co. under the guise of an alleged divi-
sion of freight rates with the Illinois
Northern Co.
1t is further declared that the un-
lawful course of the directors of the
corporation has damaged the Harvest
er company to the extent of S5,000,0 900,
which amount Swift demands the di-
rectors repay to the company.
The injunction demanded by Swift
asks that the court prevent purchase
by the company of any manufacturing
plants when the purpose of the pur-
chase is in whole or in part the sup
preston of competition.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Found Many Suckers.

Columbus, o., July S.-Several
months ago a man who gave his name
as Robert V. Carroll, though admit
ting that it was assumed, but who
claimed to have been the confidential
agent of John w. Gates in numerous
wheat deals in Chicago and New York,
came to Columbus and opened a pool
in wheat. To all who put their money
in the pool he guaranteed a weekly
dividend of 5 per cent. and for 15
weeks this dividend was paid regular
ly. Carroll did land Office business
and recently disappeared with funds
variously estimated at from $1,000 to
$4,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14

Columbus, o., July 11.-Col w. L.
Curry. state commissioner of soldiers
claims. has been advised from the
general land Office that Ohio veterans
who wish to participate in the drawing
of the allotment of the 100000 acres
of land in the Uintah Indian reserva-
ton, Utah, soon to be thrown open to
settlement, may do so by filing their
names with the commissioner. The
lottery plan will be followed by the
government and ex-soldiers and sail
ors will thus be permitted to register
their names without it being neces-
sary for them to go to the land office.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
MARKETING POTATO CROPS.
How the Railroads Mado It Possible
for the Growers to Get Fair
Prices.

In line with the classic case Of the
oyster shippers, cited by President
Hadley, of Yale University, in his book
on Railroad Transportation, is the case
of the Aroostook potato growers
brought by President Tuttle, of .he
Boston and Maine Railroad before the
cnate Committee on Interstate Com
merce. Nothing could better show how
a railroad works for the interest of
the localities which it serves.
A main dependence of the farmers
of the Aroostool1 region is the potato
crop, aggregating annually eight to-
ten million bushels which find a mar
ket largely in Boston and the adjacent
thickly settled regions of New Eng
land. The competition of cheap water
transportation from Maine to all points
along the New England coast keeps
railroad freight rates on these potatoes
always at very low level.
Potatoes are also a considerable out
put of the truck farms of Michigan,
their normal market being obtained in
and through Detroit and Chicago and
other communities Of that region.
Not many years ago favoring sun
and rains brought tremendous yield
of potatoes from the Michigan fields.
At normal rates and prices there would
have been a glut of the customary
markets and the potatoes would have
rotted on the farms. To help the po-
tato growers, the railroads from
Michigan made unprecedentedly low
nntatNad tn
market, even carrying them in large
quantities to a place so remote as Bos-
ton. The Aroostook growers had to
reduce the price on their potatoes, and
even then could not dispose of them
unless the Boston and Maine railroad
reduced its already low rate, which it
did. By means of these low rates,
making possible low prices, the pota-
to crops of both Michigan and Maine
we're finally marketed. Everybody eats.
potatoes, and that year everybody had
all the potatoes he wanted.
While the Michigan railroads made
rates that would have been ruinous to,
the railroads, had they been applied to
the movement of all potatoes at all times,
to all places, they helped their patrons to
find markets then. The Boston and Maine
Railroad suffered a decrease in its rev.
enue from potatoes, but it enabled the
Aroostook farmers to market their crop
and thereby to obtain money which
they spent for the varied supplies
which the railroads brought to them.
If the making of rates were subject to.
Governmental adjustment, such rad
ical and prompt action could never
have been taken, because it is well es-.
tablished that if rate be once re-
duced by railroad company, it can
not be restored through the red tape
of Governmental procedure. If the
Michigan railroads and the Boston and
Maine Railroad had been subjected to
Governmental limitation they would
have felt Obliged to keep up their rates,
as do the railroads of France and Eng
land and Germany under Governmental
limitation. and let the potatoes rot
Exchange
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
TARTARIC TRUTHS.

It is much easier to make love than
to make good husband.
The more man is wrapped up in
himself the colder he is.
1t is quite possible for a young man
to be handicapped by too many ances-
tors.
The man who has little information
usually is not lacking in salf-asser-
ton.
Between the deserving poor and the,
deservedly poor there is a vast diff
ference.
Attached to every success there is q
certain degree of what the world desig-
mates as bluff.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
News FROM
OHIO Towns
State Bar Association convenes.

Putin Bay, o., July 1.-THE an
nual meeting of the Ohio State Bar as
sociation opened here Tuesday. Pres
ident James d. Troup, of Bowling
Green, made his annual address in
which he favored a new state constitu-
tion, to be prepared by constitu-
tional convention to be called in Janu-
ary, 1910. He favored either the abol-
ishment of the probate court, the re-
striction of its powers to those of ad-
ministration, guardianship and the
like, or placing men on its bench who
are versed in legal science. He
favored an odd instead of an even
number of judges in the supreme
cOurt
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Council Seeks to EnIoln Railroad

Lorain, o., July 1.-THE city coun-
Gil held a special meeting Monday and
in a resolution ordered the city solic-
itor to proceed at once with injunction
proceedings to restrain the Avon
Beach & Southern railway from con-
tinuing the construction of its line
over streets at South Lorain, where it
has not received franchises, and to Sc
cure an order for the removal of the
tracks and poles which have already
been constructed. The company ap-
peared Monday before the common
pleas court for franchise.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
To Abolish sprina Fishino.

Columbus, o.. July 11.-Announce-
ment is made that the state fish and
game commission will try to have the
legislature next winter pass bill
abolishing spring fishing in the waters
of Ohio. The commission is carefully
considering the matter and ]. F.
Rankin, of South Charleston, and T. B.
Paxton, of Cincinnati, members OF the
commission, have expressed them
selves as favoring the project. The
bill will be bitterly opposed by the
fishermen along Lake Erie and gen.
orally by fish dealers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Fatally Hurt in a Class Rush.

Ada, o., July 12.-Bert Zimmerman,
of Sandusky. senior at Ohio Northern
university. was probably fatally in
jured in color rush between men,
bers of his class and the juniors yes
terday. Wrapped in his class flag, and
with 20 other s@iors. Zimmerman
was barricaded in room on the third
floor of the Duke Memorial building.
With picks and axes the juniors broke
in the wall and in their headlong rush
forced Zimmerman out of the window.
He fell to the ground.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
May Receive Salaries of $3.50 Month

Columbus, o., July 11-Assistant
Attorney General Jones has rendered
an opinion to the effect that each
member of city board of review may
receive up to $3.50 a month in salary
The question came from Logan coun-
ty, where the prosecuting attorney
held that the aggregate salaries
should not exceed that amount. The
Bellefontaine members of the board OF
public service carried the matter to
the attorney general.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14

Kid ney Pills relieve
and cure it.
H. b. NJ Carver,
of 2O1 Cherry St.,
Portland, Ore, in
spector of freigh t
for the Trans-Con-
tinental Co., says ;
" used Doan's Kid
ney Pills for back
ache and OF he +
symptoms of kid
ney trouble which
had annoyed me for
months. l think a
cold was response
BILE for the whole
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Program for a Centennial Celebration

Chardon, O., July 12.-The program
for the Geauga county centennial
celebration at Chardon, August and
10, has been announced The hrst
days program will be under the super
vision of the Odd Fellows of northern
Ohio. In the evening there will be a
fancy bicycle parade, band concerts
and an elaborate fireworks display. On
the second day there will be speeches,
music, games, contests, etc. One of
the most attractive features will be a
mammoth parade.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
c. 7. A. U. Convention Opens.

Springfield. o., July 12.-The thirty
fourth annual convention of the Cath
Ollie Total Abstinence Union of Ohio
opened Tuesday in the city council
chamber with approximately $50 dele
gates and visitors present. They were
welcomed by Mayor Bowlus. Prelimi-
nary to the welcoming exercises, SOL
emn high mass had been celebrated
in st. Raphael church.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14

trouble. 1t seemed to settle in my kid.
neys. Doan's Kidney Pills rooted it
out. 1t is several months since used
them, and up to date there has been nc
recurrence of the trouble"
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by'
all dealers, price so cents per box.
Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Roadmaster suIcided.

Upper Sandusky o., July 12.-John
Griffin, roadmaster of the Sandusky
division of the Big Four railroad,
while in bed Tuesday at Forest, fired
two shots into his head with a re-
volver. He was found dead He said
Monday night he was tired of living.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Prosecutions are Expected.

Washington. July 12.-Secretary
Wilson has turned over to the attorney
general all the papers in connection
with the cotton leak investigation. 1t
is intimated that this is done with the
expectation that prosecution of the
persons mentioned in the report of the
secret service officers will follow.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Was Killed by a Train.

Canton, o., July 12.-Andrew Ca
vossa, an Austrian, of Alliance, was
killed on the Pennsylvania road Tues
daw. He was sitting in the baggage
car with his legs hanging over the side
and was caught by bridge.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
Dowle Has Paid His Debts.

Chicago, July 12.-John Alexander
Dowie yesterday had all bankruptcy
proceedings against him dismissed in
the United States district court by
Judge Bethea-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14
CONSTANT ACHING.

Back aches all the time. Spoils your
appetite, wearies the body, worries tho
mind. Kidneys cause it all and Doan's
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1905-07-14

/
lis, Wyo., has been killed by assas-
sins who decoyed him to deserted
cabin and shot him in the back as he
was about to enter. His body was
then weighted with stones and sunk
in the river.
Owing to the alleged carelessness
of Allen Hall, a sawmill engineer, Hall
and two other mcn are dead and
COUGHS sawmill at Golightly, Ala, is a
wreck because of a boiler explosion.
The engine was blown rs yards ard
every drop of water in a we'll eight
feet deep drawn out
/ Five men were seriously burned
during a fire-fighting performance at
Coney Island, n. Y. Flames, instead
of pouring out of window at which
/ the men were stationed, were driven
/ by "back draft" into their faces
/ The len leaped to the ground. a dis
/ tancs of 35 feet. Some of them are be-
| lievad to be fatally injured.
Henry c. Frick has donated 100000
/ to the American Academy of Arts in
Rome.
Walter Kittridge, author of "Tent-
/ ilg on the Old Camp Ground" is dead
ct his home at Reeds Ferry, N. II.
The stage from Warren to Mead.
ows, Idaho was held up by lone
/ highwayman, who covered the driver
with two revolvers and compelled him
] to cut open the mail sacks. He then
removed all the registered letters
Two passengers and the driver were
lined up and relieved of their valu
ables. The robber then walked away
with his plunder, amounting to $1.20'
or $500.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
LAUNCHING PARTY
!. AT NEWPORT NEWS
Miss Schaller and Her Maids of
Honor Hold an 1mpromptu
3. Launching Rehearsal.
BY n. C.. Stevens.

Newport News, Va, April THE
battleship Minnesota can now be
launched without ;. any danger of hoo
doc: The (! Official si Christening chris party
Senator and Mrs. schaller, Miss, schal-
Ter, the sponsor; Mrs. F. A. Day, the
Misses Constance Day and Lillian
Mcmillan, the maids Of honor, and DR..
T. F.. Quinby Of Minneapolis, reached
here this morning. At Washington
they were met by President @. B. Or
cutt of the Newport News Shipbuild-
Ing compaay by whose direction fst n. every very
fort fotH Of R tie party y D' 80 '' - -
The party landed at Fortress Mon:
roe at Z O'Clock this morning and
breakfasted at Hotel Chamberlain, 60
ing thence to Newport News by trolley,
an eight-mile ride, almost completely
circling Hampton roads. ~
Arriving at Newport News, the par
ty was escorted to Hotel Warwick,
terward they were escorted to the ship
yard. Because Of the fact that they
came a day ahead, Miss Schaller and
her companions were afforded unusual
opportunity to inspect the Minnesota.
Officers Of the company took the party
down under the timbers and snoring
supporting the hull, where electric lights
were plenCl1ul, showed them the OUTSIDE
Of the monster ship and explained mi
nutely the method Of launching. -4.
Mounting the launching platform, an
unannounced launching rehearsal was
held, and Miss Schaller and her maids
of honor promised to do their part per
fectly.
After inspecting the Minnesota, the
party was taken aboard the battleshiI
Missouri, now nearing completion. The
young women declared themselves tired
after this tour Of inspection, and they
returned to the hotel to rest for to
morrow's important event.
Everything points to successful
launching. The weather is clear AM
not cold, and weather sharps here sa,
it will continue 90 for several days.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
HOW JAP SERVANTS LEAVE
Always Manage to Have Sick Relatives
When They Quit.
. Boston Traveller.
- r.t-s. AbOStOA IfdVSlef. 80
No Japaresa CerynDt. jS So wanting i

.. No: Japanese servant is so wanting in
good breeding as to give direct notice, to
her mistress. Nothing is direct in Japan.
for their language does not contain the
word no When q servant
wishes to leave. she asks to visit sick
relative. When the date for her returning
arrives a magniicently- worded apology is
sent saying that the relative is dead, and
that she cannot be spared from her home,
or something of the kind. When a servant
is rebuked or scolded, he must smile like
a Chinese cat. ...-.,. y
Truth for truths sake is unknown in
japanese commerce If you transact bust
less with a Japanese and trust implicitly
to his honor, he will. think you such fool
that you deserve to be robbed. and rob
YOU he will. The ChinamanS
word is as good as a, check. The japan
ese's word is a mere compliment The
reason for this discreditable state Of things
Is sought In the social history Of the
nation, which has left trade additionally
to the riff-raff. -& .'e-. g.. 80 ~
Their poverty Is the excuse the Japan
csc shopkeepers make for themselves
Their low caste is the excuse made for
them by their apoCgists. In the Japan
csc social scale the merchant Is the low
est except the outcast or scavenger class,
called eta. In the old feudal days the no.
bles and their establishments Of samural
did not buy things at shops. -ManulactuI-
ers and artifcers of all sorts formed
part of their establishments. Tradesmen
had no customers worth having. and,
therefore, only very low class cared to
60 into trade.
| + The elder statesmen, whom we know in
these last few months to be tho real rul-
ers Of Jaran who have been pulling the
wires IN secret ever since tho revolution.
are much disturbed at the debacle OF
| 10 tat
the world ami there are signs that when
| tho war IS over they will take the mat
| ter in hand For The present, we are con-
frontcu with the spectacle that, altho the
ia ,anese eovernlncnt is the most correct
Of any Of the great powers in observing
international obligations, the Japanese in-
u, ,n,ial is at the ether end Of the scale.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-07
PASSES ON 112 CHAPTERS =.
Senate Skins Thru tho Code With Be.
Wildering Rapidity, %. f..

The senate in committee of the whole
skinned thru the code yesterday after
noon with record breaking speed The
house was thought to have gone thru
the revision rapidly, but the senate set
the pace by passing on 112 chapters in
q little over an hour. Title of chapter
after chapter was read by Samuel Lang
UNI, secretary Of the senate, without an
amendment being offered. In the whole
1l2 chapters, but eleven amendments
were adopted, and most Of these were
either corrected or Of technical char
acter.
The most important amendment was
one adopted on motion of Senator Som
erville and strikes out the. clause in
chapter 60 on corporations, which
granted the right of eminent domain to
street railways in cities. .y2E, +
An amendment by Senator Thompson
was adopted exempting township
mutual insurance companies from 2
per cent tax on premiums. Senator
Gjertsen secured adoption Of an amend
ment, providing that promises reviving
debts barred by bankruptcy must be in
writing.
On motion of Senator somerville, the
committee of the whole voted to re
port "progress,' and to take up the
subject again today. ~ '..-.