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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21
FRANKLIN q. GoWEN,
RAILROAD PRESIDENT.

Unfortunate speculation without the
defalcation feature brought about the
self-infiicted death of Franklin b.
Gowen, president of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad, and one of the
most brilliant and successful lawyers
in the Keystone state. He shot him
self in. December, 1889, but as the
deed was committed in Washington
and not in Philadelphia, the circum-
stances became known within "a
hours. The belief was general that
he had been murdered by agents of
the Mollie Maguires, in revenge for
the active part he took in suppressing
that band OF thugs.
The fact that Gowen had taken his
own life was established the next day,
and then began an investigation as to
the possible cause. The moral charac.
ter of the great lawyer was above re-
proach. His life had been singularly
clean, and his reputation never had
been tarnished by even as much as the
breath of scandal. He died without
having made will and when an ap
praisal of his estate was made it was
found that he had left but $450,000 In
personal and real property of an estate
which in his lifetime was estimated to
be worth between s2,OOO,OOO and 49,,
100000. He had been induced to in
vest in southern lands, where it Is be
lieved he suffered great losses. The
full particulars never were revealed
| lN,,t oil 30
cribe than Respondent desperation
brought on by investments which i'm
paired a considerable fortune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21
WILLIAM c. RoTHERMEL,
WILDCAT FlNANclER.

William G. Rothermel, broker en-
gagged in wildcat financiering in a con-
Germ known as the Popular Brokerage
company, was found dead in his bed
on August /. An autopsy showed an
irritant poison. The physician called
to attend him refused to give GER
tificate of death from heart disease.
although so requested. The mystery
of Rothermel's death has not been
fully cleared. and until his estate is
settled II will not be known definitely
Just what class OF securities he dealt
in or their value, but all the indica
tions are that he had been handling
collateral on which he was unable 10
realize and that the only escape he
saw was In the grave.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21
Miss MfeMsDOnoId]

More than likely you speak the same
words yourself, and no doubt you feel
far from well. The cause may be easily
traced to some arrangement of the fe-
male organs which manifests itself in
depression of spirits. reluctance to go
anywhere or do anything. backache,
bearing-do,vn pains, flatulency, nerv7
business. sleeplessness, or other f&
male weakness.
These symptoms are but warnings
that there is danger ahead, md unless
needed a life of suffering or a serious
operation is the inevitable result.
The never falling remedy fornll these
symptoms is Lydia f. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.
Miss Kate Mcdonald of Woodbridge,
N. j., writes:
Dear Mrs Pinkham:
"Restored health has meant so much to mo
that cannot help from telling about it for
the sake Of other suffering women.
For long time suffered untold agony
with a female trouble and Irregularities,
which made me a physical wreck. and no ono
thought would recover, but Lydia Il. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has entirely
| cured me, and made me well and strcng, and
| feel 1t my duty to tell other suffering women
what q splendid medicine it Is"
For twenty-five years Mrs. Pinkham.
daughter-in-law of Lydia H. Pmkham.
has under her direction. and since her
decease, been advising sick women free
OF charge. Her advice Is free and
always helpful. Address. Lynn, Mas
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21
no Check Tree Growth.

II a tree persists In making toe
much wood growth. head 1t In severe
ly late In the summer. about the time
the wood stops growing and begins to
ripen up for winter. This has a ten.
dency to check wood growth and In
duce fruit bud formation.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21

Apples should be picked when they
are fully matured. but before they
have begun to get mellow.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21

Philadelphia.-Wi Wildcat speculation
followed or preceded either by defal-
cation or betrayal of trust, has been
responsible for startling number of
suicides in Philadelphia among men
of affairs and prominence in the So
cial world.
Beginning with the sensational fail
ure of the Keystone National bank,
in 1891, which ruined men whose rep
utations were as untarnished as that
OF the president of the Real Estate
Trust company, and which resulted in
Jail for two of them, Philadelphia has
had an amazing series of financial
scandals and bank wrecks. Bank de.
positors have lost millions. but the
largest inroads of the wildcat finan.
ciers were made In asphalt and in
Consolidated Lake Superior. In these
two companies the public, largely in
Philadelphia, dropped upward of $780,.
100000.
In nearly every suicide caused by
wildcat finance, attempts have been
made to suppress the facts, as
In the case of the president of the
Real Estate Trust company, whose
suicide was known to the members OF
his family, the coroner and the coron
er's physician for six days, and was
even suppressed by Philadelphia pa
pers. So determined were these two
officials to prevent the news from be
coming public that the physician filed
false certificate of the actual cause
Of death, ascribing 1t to cerebral hem
orhage, but emitting to state that the
hemorrhage was due to a bullet fired
into the brain with suicidal intent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21

How many women do you know who
are perfectly well and strongP We
hear every day the same story over and
over again. Il do not feel well; am
SO tired all the time
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21
PHILADELPHIA SUICIDES,
VICTIMS OF WILD FINANCE

FRANK X. HlPPLE, trust company
president, shot.
JOHN S. HOPKINS, bank cashier,
shot.
FRANKLIN 3. eowEN, railroad
president, shot.
WILLIAM M. SINCERELY, publisher,
banker, poisoned.
JOSEPH G. DITMAN, banker (sup-
posed suicide), drowned.
BENJAMIN II. GASKILL, broker.
ROBERT ADAMS, JR, congress-
man, shot.
JOSIAH r. ADAMS, Iawyer-politi.
clan.
JOHN FIELD, merchant, shot.
JAMES v. p. TURNER, lawyer,
shot.
WILLIAM G. RoTHERMEL, broker,
shot.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-09-21
WoMEN's NEGLECT
SUFFERING THE SURE PENALTY

Health Thus Lost Is Restored by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31

may be no misunderstanding concern
ing it,
1t is known that Senator Depew.
cannot be present, and If all the 9TH
ers are in attendance the vote may re-
suit in tie. Senator Depew has sent
his proxy to the chairman, but the
committee has not consented to &C.
cept it. If it is voted the decision
will be against Smoot. If it is ex-
cluded the result depends upon Sena-
tor Dolliver, who has not made his
position known.
After the committee had discussed
for some time the proposition to de-
fer action on the Smoot case the Hale
resolution instructing the committee
to inquire into the status of proceed
fngs against Senator Burton was re-
ferred to. Senator Dubois objected
strenuously to having the Smoot case
sidetracked, saying:
IF the members of the committee
think the country is more interested
in turning out poor Burton than in
acting upon charges against an
apostle of polygamy, they are greatly
mistaken
He predicted that the committee
would hear from the country before
next Friday as the result of the de-
lay.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31

continue to suffer rather than submit
TO examinations which so many physi-
clans propose in order to intelligently
treat the disease; and this is the rea-
son why so many physicians fail to
cure female disease.
This is also the reason why thousands
upon thousands of women are CORE
spending with Mrs Pinkham, daughter
in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, at Lynn,
Mass. To her they can confide every
detail of their illness, and from her
great knowledge, obtained from years
Of experience in treating female ills,
Mrs. Pinkham can advise sick women
more wisely than the local physician.
Read how Mrs. Pinkham helped Mrs. T.
.Willadsen obtaining Ia. She writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
can truly say that you have saved my
life, and cannot express my gratitude in
words. Before I wrote to you telling you
steady, and spent lots of money in medicines
besides, but it all failed to do me any good. I
had female trouble and would daily have faint
ing spells, backache, bearing-down pains, and
my monthly periods were very irregular and
finally ceased l wrote to you for your adj
vice and received a letter full of instructions
Just what to do, and also commenced to take
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and 1 have been restored to perfect health.
Had it not been for you would have been
in my grave to-day"
Mountains of proof establish the fact
that no medicine in the world equals
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for restoring women's health.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
POSTPONE SHOOTS CASE
FOR AN Indefinite TIME

Washington, May 2S.-No vote was
had in the senate committee on privi-
leges and elections on the right of
Senator Smoot of Utah to retain his
seat in the senate chiefly. because it
developed that in the numerous
changes of the dates for the meeting
Senators Hopkins and Dolliver failed
to receive their notices that action
was to be taken. Both of these SEN
ators, as well as Senators Depew,
Bailey and Frazier, were absent. The
last three named, however, had left
proxies. The committee adjourned
until Friday next. Opposition to vot-
ing at the present session was voiced
by three or four senators, who said
that the railroad rate bill had taken
so much of their time that they had
not had an opportunity to examine
quotations of attorneys of both sides.
On this account they complained that
they were not in position to vote in
diligently. Chairman Burrows and
the Democratic senators present OBJ
jected to permitting the case to go
over until next session, arguing that
the senators could read the authori-
ties next week. Notices of the meet
ing to be held on Friday have been
ordered mailed in order that there
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
MEANT FOR MERRIMENT.

A cynic is person who has been
dieting and leading the simple life.
In these days of incubators, it's a
wise omelette that knows its own IA
Their.
A diabolically ingenious way Of re-
venging yourself upon your enemy is
to give him an automobile.
Its funny that undertakers should
be so called. why sol" Because
they're the final overtakers of us all"
Dressmaker-And would you have
teg-of-mutton sleeves, madame? Gus
tomer-Most certainly not. I am a
vegetarian.
What happens when Greek meets
Greek?' asked the teacher. "Dey ak
each udder how's de peanut biz" an
swered an observant youth.
THE road to success is a slippery
one," remarked the man who COM
ments on things. True" replied Sem
ator Badger. ct needs plenty OF
sand"
When physicians prescribe attonio-
bile riding as a cure for insomnia they
mean, of course, riding in some other
fellows automobile, so you won't be
burdened with the thought of INSTALL
ments to come
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
PERSONAL PARTICULARS.

George R. Patterson, the Pennsylva-
MAN, who died recently, was the only
travelling man" in congress. Mr.. Pat
terson was proud of the fact that he
was flour salesman, and had put it in
his official biography.
After a period Of SO years spent il
the service of the Jews free school,
Bell lane, Spitalfields, England, L. B.
Abrahams, the head master, will
shortly retire. He is 81 years old. Is
rael Zangwill was one of his pupils.
The Jews free school is said to be the
largest elementary school in the world.
having $500 pupils.
There is nothing doubtful about the
record of the descent from revolution
airy stock of Mrs. Annie Knight Greg
ory of Selingsgrove, Pa. She is the
daughter and thirteenth child of Rich
ard knight, who was a drummer boy
in the continental army. Mrs. Greg
DRY was the daughter of his third wife
and was born when he was SO years
old.
One can hardly imagine that digni-
fed and Jealous temperance advocate,
Lady Henry Somerset, as practical
joker, and yet it is fact that she and
her cousin, Lady Dudley, once dressed
up as pair of French tourists and IT.
this guise and heavily yelled visited
her place at Eastnor castle and went
all over it. But apparently she was
not sufficiently impressed by the beau
ties of her own residence, for afterward
her housekeeper- confided to her that
that duchess de Montmorenci" TIE
name which Lady Henry had given
herself-''was a disagreeable creature -
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
WILL BUILD new ROAD
TO KANSAS WHEAT FIELD

souri, Pacific at Freeport, the Santa
Fe and Rock Island at Perth, and the
Santa Fe at Rome. The construction
of track will begin at Great Bend.
If this road is ever completed 1t
will be an important factor in the
commercial life of Southwestern Kan
sas. 1t will go directly through some
of the best of the wheat belt, and will
give a comparatively direct route
from the Kansas wheat fields to the
Gulf shipping ports. Incidentally this
fact viii not be likely to be advant-
ageous to Wichita. At present large
proportion of the Kansas wheat that
reaches foreign markets by way of
the Gulf ports is handled by Wichita
grain men. The new road will not go
to Wichita, and if it is successful In
getting the business from the Kansas
wheat fields a large amount of grain
shipuing business is likely to be trans
ferred from Wichita to Kansas City:
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
NUGGETS OF KNOWLEDGE.

There are ladies' smoking cars on
English railways.
Alligator, popular native dish in
India, tastes like veal.
The wood used in the best pianos
has been seasoned 40 years.
Those who reach 80 in good health
are likely, statistics show, to last to
70.
Over 100000 pounds Of human hair.
valued at 100000. is sold annually
in Paris.
The majority of criminals can draw
and paint. That is why artists can
rarely get credit.
In many parts of Switzerland the
government buries the dead, supplying
collins and undertaken free of cost.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31

Topeka, May 2S.-1n a letter to the
state board of railroad commission
ers, Ed L. Peckham, of Denver, Col,
president of the Denver, Kansas &
Gulf railroad company, announces
his plans for the construction of a
new railroad in this state, to be
known as the Great Bend & Gulf. He
says construction will commence
about July 1, and will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
With the letter is a map showing
the route of the proposed railroad. Its
northern terminal is Hays, in Ellis
county From there it runs south
east to Arkansas City. 1t crosses the
Missouri Pacific at Matherville. TIE
Santa Fe at Great Bend, the Larned
branch of the Missouri Pacific at
Seward, the Kinsley cutoff of the
Santa Fe at st. John, the Rock Island
at Pratt, the Santa Fe and Orient at
Harper. the Kiowa branch of the Mis-
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
TELEPHONE TIDINGs.

Glasgow corporation owns a tele,
phone system covering 143 square
miles.
The charge for five r,inutes' cen
versation between London and Brus-
sells is four shillings.
Guernsey was the first place to have
a municipally-owned telephone service
in the Uni&ed Kingdom.
The first submarine telephone line
was opened on April 1, 1891. 1t con
nected London with Paris.
The London telephone area, which
covers 600 square miles, is the largest
local exchange era in the world.
London Wall exchange contains $500
direct telephone lines for subscribers
They are worked by 80 operators.
There are 60 national telephone ex.
changes in the metropolitan area. and
a dozen belonging to the post Office.
Three hundred people telephone
daily from London to Paris, each pay.
ing eight shillings for the privilege.
The post office telephone plant in
London has a capacity for 10000 sub
scribers, but in 1904 only 1922 used
the service.
To speak for three minutes from
London to Inverness cost five shillings
sixpence, and from London to Cork
six Shillings siXDence
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
NO KoWToWINo FOR HIM.
awed by Dignitaries of
State.

They tell this one on former Gov.
George Hoadly of Ohio:
Once upon a time, in the midst of a
campaign, Mr.. Hoadly was to deliver
a speech at little town in the great
and glorious Buckeye State. When he
reached the one hotel the town boast
ed he walked up to the register and
wrote his name. The proprietor-head-
porter-steward-headwaiter-depot- run
ner was behind the desk in his shirt
sleeves, his hat on the back of his
head, and cigar stump held between
his teeth. When the visitor had put
down his John Hancock, the factotum
turned the register around, read with
out the flicker of an eyelid the name
there written, wrote 40" beside 1t
with lead pencil, and said:
you kin jest take yer grip right up
that stairway there an back down the
hall clean to tn end. Yer rooms right
on tn left hand side Of tn hall, in tn
corner-number TO-"
With considerable establishment and
not little injured dignity Ohio's chief
executive pointed to his name, smiled
family, and said:
81 am George Hoadly."
Yep; 1 notice." said the rustic
without turning hair. can yer
rooms right there at tn end of tn
hall-number 10. Can't miss it."
With more hauteur, and almost
luivering with outraged Importance,
the guest said impressively:
81 am George Hoadly, governor Of
the state of Ohioi"
Turning, then, with a look Of ex-
asperated impotence on his face, the
hotel man exclaimed:
"Well, what dye expect me t do
kiss ye?"-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
SENATE PROVIDES INSPECTION
OF MEAT.
THE Big PASTURE OPENED.
Senate Passes Bill opening For Set
tIement o5,ooo Acres of Rich Land
In kiowa, comanehe and Apache
Reservations In Oklahoma.
MondayS Nav %.

Washington. = During the discus
sion which preceded the passage of
the agricultural bill by the senate
Senator McCumber attacked the grain
inspection service at Minneapolis and
said the North Dakota farmers suffer
ed a loss Of millions of dollars by hav-
ing their wheat graded an inferior
quality. Senator McCumber said he
could prove his statements. He adj
vocated national inspection system.
Senator Hansbrough supported the
contention and assertions of Mr.. Nc
Cumber.
Senator Patterson pronounced the
revelations of the two senator's from
North Dakota as startling and horrify-
ing, surprising anything which re-
Gently occurred in these days of
graft"
THE administration is responsible
for the state of affairs have not been
hewed out and honest men selected
in their stead" said Mr.. Patterson
in the course of speech in which he
dwelt upon the enormity of the Of
Tense complained Of
When the reading of the bill had
been concluded Senator Beveridge
moved the Incorporation in the meas
ure of his bill providing for the in
spection of meats for domestic con-
sumption, and it was agreed to with
out discussion.
The bill was then passed.
The senate passed the bill author
izing the government of the Philip
pines to change the weight and fine
ness Of the silver in the Philippines
pesos to correspond with the rise In
the price of silver.
Other bills were passed as fol-
lows:
Opening for settlement sos, 900
acres of land in Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache reservations in Oklaho-
ma.
Amending existing laws relative to
the fertilization of pure sweet Wines
Granting lands to the town of
Fruita, Colorado.
Saturday, May &c.
washington. Complete agree
ment has been reached by the con-
ferees on the Indian appropriation
bill on all points of dispute between
the senate and the house, and the re-
port was signed. The chief differ
ences raised by senate amendments
were disposed of by agreements as
follows:
mo allotment of lands in severalty
to Indians on the various reservations
shall become liable to the satisfaction
of any debt contracted prior to the
issuing of the final patent.
Officers Of the army shall not
serve as Indian agents.
"An appropriation of 100000 is
made to purchase land for landless In
dams in California.
A compromise substitute in rela-
ton to the sale or disposition of I'M
allotted lands in the Couer D'Alene
reservation in Idaho was agreed to
and 1t was provided that any coal or
oil deposits shall remain the property
of the United States.
A compromise provision relating to
the coal lands of the Choctah and
Chickasaw nations were adopted by
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
ALMOST A CATASTROPHE.
Exuberance of Love Systematically
Manifested Results in Nor
tification.

She was seated in the cleaning, a
happy smile on her pretty, pensive
face, when her elderly aunt entered.
Then, as she looked upon the kind old
face, a feeling rushed upon her that
she must share her wonderful news
with somebody-she must let someone
into the secret which till then had
been the sole possession of herself and
Harold. She sprang up and flung her
arms about her aunt's neck.
"Oh, auntie,'' she cried impulsively,
you do love me, don't you? Kiss me,
auntie, and tell me you do-kiss mel"
But only an alarming gurgle came
from the old lady for a moment. Then
she said, gasping Indignantly:
kiss you, if you amt careful I'll
shake the life out of you. You very
nearly made me swallow my teeth"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
He Didn't Rise.

Indeed" the lecturer went on in
quizzical way, 81 believe am justified
in asserting that nine women out of
10 practically propose to the men they
become engaged to. AS test, l would
ask all married men in the audience
whose wives virtually popped the
question to them to arise"
There was a subdued rustic in the
auditorium, and in the dense silence
that ensued could be heard sibilant
feminine whispers in concert, Just
you dare to stand up."-Judge.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31
HoMELY PHILOSOPHY.

It isn't always lucky to trust people
who trust to luck.
Romance is sweet sixteen. religion
is sixty if she's a day.
Happy is he who never knows when
he gets the worst of it.
A great achievement doesn't need a
brass band accompaniment
Most of us expect better obituary
notices than are coming to us.
Those who yield to temptation are
generally looking for a chance.
The optimist looks forward to to-
morrow, the pessimist signs for yes
terday.
There might not be so much room
al the top if there were fewer cushions
at the bottom.
Most of us are dissatisfied, some
with what we have and some with
what we haven't
The present gets away from lot OF
people while they sit on park benches
worrying about the future.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-31

Nashville, Tenn, May %. - The
grand jury of the United States Cir
cult Court. which has been investigat-
ing the alleged fertilizer trust for the
past four weeks, returned an indict-
ment against about eighty fertil ger
manufacturers, including number of
local men. The Indictment contains
six count, detailing in specific form
alleged violations of the antitrust
laws and charging the defendants
with comb.n ng and being engaged
in a trust or combination. The de-
PENDANTS live in various parts of the
country where fertilizers are manu-
featured, and certified copies of the
indictments will be sent to the var