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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
WAS CH0KED TO DEATH.
A Pittsburg Woman Is Found Dead In
Her Apartments in New York City.

New York-Following an autopsy
Sunday a coroner's physician
declared that Mrs. Maggie Gordon,
who was found dead in her apartments
Saturday night, had been 'choked tc
death by a heavy hand"
Mrs. Gordon is said to have belong.
ed to we'll known family of Pitts,
burg, and since coming here had done
considerable charity work on the
East Side.
The coroner committed to the
Tombs without bail, to await the re,
suit of the inquest on Friday next, the
dead woman's common law husband,
Alexander Gordon, 40 years old, who
described himself as merchant.
Gordon made a statement in which
he said that his wife had been in un,
usually ogod spirits Saturday even.
ing, and that he had stayed in their
home with her until 10:30 o'clock,
when he went out on an errand. Be,
fore going he had given her $50, and
when he returned half an hour later
he said he found her lying on the
bed, apparently dead OF the money
the police found $50 in the home. Cor
don said that the two came to this
city from Pittsburg only a month ago.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
MACHINISTS' STRIKE ENDED.
Men Employed by the Southern Rail-
way Agree to ArbItrate Their
Dispute with the Company.

Washington, D. C.-The strike Of
machinists on the Southern railway,
which was inaugurated recently for an
increase in wages, was settled Friday.
An amicable adjustment has been
reached with the committee Of ma
chinists, under which the strike is de.
clared off and the men now on strike
will return to their old positions on
November without prejudice on ac.
count of strike. The men who remain.
ed with the company are to continue
at work.
Those who have been employed
since the strike will be retired from
the shops before Monday, but without
prejudice as to their continued EN-.
ployment by the company in other
places, or as to their future employ.
ment in the shops if needed. Special
Instructions will be issued as to how
to- proceed with these new employees.
The wages offered the company to
the machinists prior to the strike are
to apply from November and the
company's proposition to arbitrate the
difference between that scale has been
accepted
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
A RACE WAR.
Two Men Fatally Shot In Clashes:
Between Whites and Blacks.

Hattiesburg, Miss. - Two men,
were fatally wounded and over
500 shots were fired in a race riot at.
Virgins, Miss, Sunday night.
William Smith, negro, resisted ar
rest and fired on Marshal Quarles,
and Deputy Mitchell, the latter receiv--
ing fatal wound in the head. Smith
escaped to his home, barricaded the,
doors and windows and defied capture,
until mob threatened to burn the.
house. After surrendering he was.
locked in the village Jail.
Late at night mob dynamited the
jail, fired several volleys into his cell
and left him for dead While the mob,
was storming the jail large crowd of
negroes came upon the scene and be-
gan firing into the ranks of the be-.
siegers. Over 500 shots were exchang-.
ed and d. M. Clarke a white man, was.
fatally injured. Several negroes are.
supposed to have been shot, but SO,
far the total number of casualties has;
not been learned. Monday morning:
Smith was found alive in the Jail, but.
his arms had to be amputated.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
BLACK HAND OUTRAGE
A Dynamite Bomb Is Hurled Against
the Home Of an italian Tailor
In Brooklyn.

New York.-Unseccessfu in their
alleged attempts to blackmail
Francisco Messina, prosperous
tailor, of Brooklyn, members of the so.
called BLACK Hand" society, so the
police say, on Sunday hurled a dyna.
mite bomb against the front door of
the tenement house in which he lives
and conducts his business and caused
damage of $4,000 to the building and
surrounding property, Scores of per,
sons felt the shock of the explosion,
but no one was injured.
There was no doubt among the po.
lice that an attempt had been made by
an organized band of blackmailers to
wreck vengeance on Messina and his
family Following closely half dozen
similar outrages in the same neigh,
borhood, this attack has spread terror
among the poorer Italians.
Messina had received several letters
within month demanding from S400
to $1,000. Last night detectives ar.
rested three men who described them
selves as Frank and Antonio Passa,
minati and Baldassiso Panalfe. The
police claim to have incriminating evil
dence against the prisoners.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
To Reach North Pole, but
Sets a New Mark.
.FURTHEST NORTH
Point Ever Reached by Explorers Is
Attained-Expedition Endured
Great hardships.

New York.-The United States
now holds the record of "furth.
est north" 81 degrees minutes. This
feat was accomplished by Commander
Robert e. Peary, of the United States
navy. The intrepid Arctic explorer
failed to reach the North Pole as he
had hoped to do. With his specially
constructed vessel, the Roosevelt, he
penetrated nearer to the pole than the
Duke of AbruZzis expedition which
had held the Arctic record. sc degrees
"a minutes. What Peary did and his
experiences during the past year in
the frozen north are briefly but vividly
summarized in a communication re.
ceived last night by Herbert l.. Bridge.
man, secretary of the Peary Arctic
club. The communication follows:
"Hopedale, Labrador, via Twill
ingate, Newfoundland, Nov. 2.
Roosevelt wintered north coast of
Grant Land. somewhat north of Alert's
winter quarters. Went north with
sledges in February via Hecla and Co.
lumbia. Delayed by open water be.
tween 81 and 50 degrees. Beyond 50
six days. Gale disrupted ice. destroyed
caches, cut off communication with
supporting bodies and drifted us due
east Reached 81 degrees minutes,
north latitude, over ice, drifting stead
lily eastward. Returning ate eight
dogs. Drifted eastward delayed by
open water, reached north coast of
Greenland in straitened circumstan.
ces. Killed musk oxen and returned
to Greenland coast to ship. Support
Ing parties driven on north coast of
Greenland One rescued by me in
starving condition. After one week of
recuperation on the Roosevelt we
sledged west, completing north coast
of Grant Land and reached other land
near Tooth meridian Homeward
voyage an incessant battle with ice,
storms and head winds. Roosevelt
magnificent ice fighter and sea boat
No deaths or illness in expedition"
Peary's steamship, the Roosevelt.
left New York on her long journey in
search of the North Pole July l6, 1905.
The previous record for the point
nearest the pole was made by Capt.
Cagni. of the Duke Of Abruzzi's Italian
expedition, who reached within 237
miles of the pole. The point reached
by Peary placed him about 2O3 miles
from the pole.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
BUSINESS BULLETIN.
Retail Trade Shows Improvement in
Nearly All Sections.

New York.-R. G. Dun G. Co.'s
Weekly Review of Trade says:
Colder weather has removed one of
the drawbacks to seasonable distribu.
ton of merchandise, but there is still
much complaint of traffic conditions.
Congestion on the railways was in
creased by the destruction Of vessels
during the recent gulf storm and a
much heavier tonnage of freight is de-
layed than usual.
Retail trade shows Improvement in
nearly all sections, and mercantile col
lections are more prompt. Returns
from the iron and steel industry could
not easily be brighter, and footwear
factories have abundant orders on
hand. After several weeks of pressure
to place contracts for cotton goods
there is a natural season OF quiet, but
the mills have secured sufficient bust
ness to assure many months of active
machinery.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
A KING OF SWINDLERS.
Chicago Police Claim to Have Made a
Very important Capture.

Chicago, Ill.-Charles Whitney Nor.
ton, said by the police and the pos.
tai authorities to be responsible for
extensive swindling operations, is un
der arrest here and will be turned
over to the federal officers by the To-
cal police, who took him into custody
1t is claimed that Norton has defraud-
ed people in all parts of the United
States out of bonds and securities
amounting to SS,000,000.
1t is claimed by the officers that
Norton would obtain stock from any
person who would trust him and agree
to sell it in the market. He might,
the police declare, sell the stock, and
he might retain it, but the result to
the persons owning the stock was the
same. They would receive no money
from Norton, nor would the stock be
returned to them.
He was first taken into custody by
the police three days ago, and they
held him without preferring any
charge against him until search
could be made for securities said to
be held by him, aggregating in value
about $3000,O00.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
Ragged for Days, Causing.
Many Disasters.
TREMENDOUS SEAS
Swept the Coasts of Nova Scotia.
New Brunswick, Cape Breton =
and Prince Edward Island.

Richibucto, N. b. - Five men,
bers of the crew of the Norwe-
gian bark Adeona, which was wrecked
on reef off Richibucto bar in a gale
last Thursday night, were drowned
Monday while attempting to make a
landing on the beach. The men were
all Norwegians.
Halifax, N. S.-Dispatches poured
into this city Monday bringing
news Of vessels wrecked or in distress.
of wires Frustrated and of damage,
done by gale and sea along the coasts
of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, New
Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
Four vessels were driven ashore; an
other, after having everything mov-
able on deck washed away, was forced
to put back to the port from which
she sailed and the steamer Turret:
Bell, which went aground on the north.
side of Prince Edward Island last:
week, was driven farther in shore.
The storm was most violent I'M
Northumberland Strait. Two schoon..
ers and one bark were swept agroundi
in this strait and third schooner was
wrecked near the eastern entrance.
The Windsor, n. s., schooner
omega lost her sails on Wednesday
last when off Charlottetown, and the7
seas washing over her carried away
her cabins and deck load Her crew
was rescued, almost overcome by ex--
haustion, soon after the vessel ground
ed. The schooner probably win be-
a total loss.
Newfoundland schooner, the
identity of which has not been yet
learned, was wrecked Sunday night
at Campbells Cove, at the eastern endt
of Prince Edward Island. The crew
succeeded in getting ashore safely.
The steamer Turret Bell, which is.
valued at 100000, probably will prove.
total wreck off Cable Head p. e. L..
on the north coast. where she went
ashore last week.
Numerous fishing boats on the north.
side of Prince Edward Island were
broken up during the gale Sunday
night.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
ROOT TALKS
In VitriOIiC Veini in Speak
ing of Hearst.
M'KlNLEY'S DEATH
Is Laid at Hearst's Door in a Fiery
Speech that Is Endorsed by
President Roosevelt.

Utica. n. "a bitter denuncia-
tion of William h. Hearst,
which, the speaker said, had the full
endorsement of President Roosevelt,
was delivered in public address here
last night by Secretary OF State Elihu
Root, At the same time Mr.. Root
paid an eloquent tribute to Charles E.
Hughes and announced that he was
authorized to say that the president
greatly desires the election of Mr..
Hughes as governor OF New York.
81 say to you with President Roose.
velt's authority" said Mr.. Root. that
he regards Mr.. Hearst as wholly unfit
to be governor, as an insincere, self
seeking demagogue, who is trying to
deceive the workingmen of New York
by false promises; and | say to you,
with his authority, that he considers
that Mr.. Hearst's election would be an
injury and a discredit alike to honest
labor and to honest capital, and seri
GUS injury to the work in which he is
engaged OF enforcing just ana equal
laws against corporate wrongdoing
President Roosevelt and Mr.. Hearst
stand as far as the poles asunder
Listen to what Roosevelt has said of
Mr.. Hearst and his kind In Roose-
velt's first message to congress, in
speaking of the assassin of Mckinley
he spoke of him as inflamed by the
reckless utterance of those who, on
the stump and in the public press, ap.
peal to the dark and evil spirits of
malice and greed, envy and sullen
hatred. The wind is sowed by the men
who preach such doctrines and they
cannot escape the responsibility for
the whirlwind that is reaped This ap
plies alike to the deliberate dema.
gogue to the eXploiter of sensational
ism and to the crude and foolish Wis
ionary who, for whatever reason,
apologies for crime or eXcites aimless
discomfort
Il say. by the presidents authority,
that in penning these words, with the
horror of President McKinley's mur.
der fresh before him. he had Mr.
Hearst specifically in his mind And
| say, by his authority, that what he
thought of Mr.. Hearst then he thinks
Of Mr.. Hearst now"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
SAM SHUBERT'S SUCCESS.
The Story Thereof Is Told in Court
His Mother and Father Awarded
$4,000 Damages for His Death.

New York.-The story of how
Everything Sam Shubert touch
ed turned to gold" was told in the
United States circuit court here
Thursday by Lee Shubert, a brother
and business partner of the dead the
atrical manager, Sam Shubert was
killed in wreck on the Pennsylvania
railroad at Harrisburg on May 10,
1905, and his father and mother
brought suit against the railroad com
pany for $250,OO0 damages. 1t was at
the opening of the trial of the suit
that Lee Shubert told the story of his
brothers success.
At the age of IS a bell boy in a
hotel in Syracuse, Sam Shubert died
at 2S, the head of a partnership which
controlled nearly 80 theatres in the
United States and England and a
large number of successful theatrical
companies on the road, his brother
said, Sam Shubert's annual income
from his business was about 100000
The jury returned verdict awarding
$4,000 damages to Sam Shuberts
father and mother.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
Herring is SENTENCED.
The Cashier of Stensland's Bank Is=
Sent to Prison-Stensland Testifies.

Chicago, Ill.-Paul o. Stensland,
formerly president of the failed Mil
waukee Avenue state bank, who was.
arrested in Tangier, and Henry w.
Herring. cashier of the same institu-
ton, were on Monday sentenced by
Judge Pinckney in the criminal court
to indeterminate terms in the peniten--
tiary for embeZzlement and forgery
The sentences may run anywhere
from one to ten years. The sentence
given Stensland is concurrent with the
one given several weeks ago.
Stensland had been brought from
the penitentiary at Joliet to give evil
dence against Herring. But Herring de-
cided to throw himself on the mercy
of the court. Stensland, however,
took the stand and told of how the
bank was wrecked.
Stensland said that the irregulari-
ties in the bank began about ten years.
ago, when he commenced to invest
the funds of the bank in real estate
During the last eight years, he de-
clared, he had lost 100000 in real es-
tate transactions. He also lost S21S,-
600 in running a cooperative store.
Stensland declared that he used
the money of the bank for rear
estate and for the payment of
debts, at the suggestion of Herring
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
Remarkable careIessness.

Washington, d. C.-Carelessness
in sending money through the mails
is commented upon in a bulletin is
sued by the postoffice department. One
case is given where the dead letter
Office received letter from abroad
which had been addressed to a mis-.
sionary in Africa. His name was
given, but no postoffice address. The
letter was opened by the dead letter
Office and found to contain $500 in
gold certificates. The department has
learned the sending office and believes
the money will be restored to the
sender. The letter is signed by a
woman.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
SENSATIONAL CHARGES.
indictments for Selling Diseased Cat
tie Are Returned at 5urlina.
ton, VT.

Burlington. Vt.-Sensational charges
were made Wednesday in ten
indictments which were returned by
the Chittenden county grand jury in
connection with the sale of diseased
cattle in the state and in the sale of
which, according to the indictments
TWO former members of the state cat
tie commission participated with full
knowledge that such cattle would be
used for food purposes.
Four of the indictments were
against the Consolidated Rendering
co. and they contained 400 counts.
Four additional indictments were
against l.. +. Brigham, manager of the
burlington Rendering Co. This com.
pany is controlled by the Consolidated
company and the indictments against
Brigham, which also contain 400
counts, are identical with those re.
turned against the Consolidated com.
pany.
The most sensational disclosures
were made in the indictments which
were returned against Dr. f. A. Rich,
a veterinary of this city, and Victor l..
Spear. of Randolph, both of whom
were members of the state cattle
commission. Spears term expired
about one year ago and he was not re.
appointed. Rich was removed from
the commission by Gov. Bell Just be.
fore the latter retired from office.
The indictments against the Con.
solidated company and Brigham
charge the sale of diseased meat in
the state and also the shipment of
such diseased meat out OF the state
for the purpose of putting it on sale
Rich and Spear are charged with sell
ing diseased beef, which they had pre-.
viously condemned, TO tho rendering
companies.
All of the defendants furnished
bonds for their appearance at the
March term of the county court.
Before the grand jury reported at
the morning session of the court
Judge Rowell imposed a fine of SO 900
on the Consolidated Rendering Co. for
its failure to produce before the grand
Jury certain papers which had been de-
manded
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
A DoubIy Fatal Accident.

Nashville, Tenn.-An engine in the
factory of the Standard candy
factory ran wild last night and a fly
wheel went to pieces A flying spoke
Drained Hamp Crockett, a negro fire.
man. The same piece struck Dewitt
Dortchaw, negro Iatchman, cutting
his throat and breaking his neck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
Ten Million People starvino.

Shanghai. - Missionaries report
most severe famine in the
northern part of Kiangsu province,
central China. 1t is estimated that ten
million people face starvation. Local
magistrates are preventing people
from leaving the region, but are TAX
ing no steps to provide them with
food supplies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

At the government printing office
the new efficiency system arranged
by Public Printer Stillings has gone
into effect. This system is intended
TO provide for precise estimate as
TO what a certain piece of work will
cost. Heretofore the basis of esti-
mates has been largely theoretical
The employees were alarmed when
they learned that the dreadSl eff
cheney system had gone into effect,
fearing that it meant more work,
Mr.. Sullings allayed their fears. The
new system simply preserves a rec.
ord of what work each employe is
able to do.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
A kentucklan Sleeps for 12 Years.

Columbia, Ky. - A remarkable
case has just come to light in
Russell county, and the truth of the
case is youched for by prominent citi-
zens. Hershell Grider, aged SO years,
of near Rowena, fell asleep 12 years
ago and all efforts to awaken him
have proved unavailing to this day.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
utes Promise to be Good.

Sheridan, Wyo. - A conference
between the Indians and troops
has resulted in an agreement on the
part of the Utes to return with Col
Rogers TO Fort Meade, S. D., to be
taken care of there by the government
while chiefs Red Cap and Black Whis-
kers go to Washington to talk the mat
ter over with President Roosevelt.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

The largest and costliest building
thus far undertaken in New York, the
city of immense structures, is the
magnificent $1O,OOO,OOO Episcopal Ca
thedral of st. John the Divine, now
being erected on Morningside
Heights. This will be the greatest sa-
cred edifice in America, and the
fourth in importance in the world.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

Another universal language, Trini-
ii, has been invented by one DR.. Fra.
zier of Berkeley, who thinks to
recommend it by advertising a total
abstinence of swear words. There
seems to be no economy in compel
ling people to know two languages.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

The figures Of the domestic trade
of the United States. like those relat-
ing to foreign commerce, show big
gains for 1906 over the preceding
year The increase is particularly
noteworthy in cattle, meat and grain
shipments, in production and con
sumption of coal in dealings in pro.
visions, cotton and other staples and
in the general business done by tho
great rail and water transportation
routes. We are buying and selling
more abroad than ever before. but our
incompatible home market is develop,
ing OF an unparalleled rate.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
A Mine Boss Is Murdered.

Barboursville, w. Va.-At Stone-
Branch, 20 miles south of here.
G. w. Wright and Andrew Chllders.
mine bosses, became enraged Sunday
night at John Kelley, another boss, as
saulted him wi..d clubs and beat him,
into insensibilit"' Kelley died 80 min.
utes later. w ,ght and Childers es-
capped, but wero later captured and.
locked up in the Logan county JAIL
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

A Philadelphia policeman who near
ly choked to death on a pearl in an
OYSTER found out after he had recov-
cred it and his wind that it was worth
$50, which, of course, makes it one of
those good chokes that we so fire.
quently hear about and seldom see.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

South Cardinals efforts to promote
immigration from Europe have al
ready borne substantial fruit in the
decision of the North German Lloyd
company to operate an emigrant YES
sci directly from European ports to
Charleston.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

DR.. S. A. Frazier, of Berkeley, Cal,
has invented language containing
neither swear words nor expressions
to convey unpleasant emotions. This
is going a great way toward taking
language out of politics.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
Each Soldier Must Wear a TAD.

Washington, d. C.-Acting Secre.
tary of War Oliver has ordered that
hereafter identification tags of alum.
mum the size of silver half dollar,
stamped with the pame, company,
regiment or corps of the wearer, be
suspended from the neck of every Off.
Ger and soldier.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

And now a London scientist advises
us to change our clothes before each
meal. Perhaps the man merely aims
to get down to the one meal a day
plan,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09
RalIroaders' Wages to be increased.

Philadelphia, Pa. - The Public
Ledger says: The wages of all EN-.
ployes of the Pennsylvania railroad
system are to be increased. Nearly
135,000 men will be affected.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1906-11-09

A Winona, Mimi, hunter mistook a
girl for a woodchuck the other day
and shot her. Isn't it nearly time to
insist that no man shall be permitted
to hunt without first obtaining IL
cense by showing that he knows
game when he sees it?