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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25

POSTMASTER GENERAL GEORGE
! Won L. MEYER has leased the
Jewett mansion on the corner of Con-
necticut avenue and S street. 1t is
the intention of Mrs Meyer to return
to the national capital in time to pre-
sent her pretty young daughters to
society during the social season. These
girls have been presented at the Rus
sian and British courts, but it is now
quite customary to give a series of
debut parties. Miss Julia is barely 20
and her sister two years her junior,
so they are still eligible to coming
out functions. They are strikingly
alike and have been educated together
and seem to have identical character
istics.
With Miss Edith Root, they will
form a delightful trio of cabinet girls,
and will be the only representatives
in that depleted set.
With the passing of the Misses
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25
DIVING AND SWIMMING
TEST FOR REAR-ADMIRALS

W consterna-
w ton is felt in the navy over the an
nouncement said to have been made
by Assistant Secretary Newberry that
rear admirals must shortly undergo
a test to show whether they can swim
or not. In the army test of whether
colonels can ride horseback was re-
Gently made. Mr.. Newberry's declar-
alton in favor of a swimming test for
admirals, however is considered far
worse, although the average colonel
weighs several times more than his
horse.
The assistant secretary's plan is to
have rear admirals dive from shore
shore and swim to their ships Many
admirals who have not moved a wheel
for years except from the navy depart
ment to the club are indignant. 1t is
felt that what the assistant secretary
is really proposing is a general hari-
kari among the most eminent naval
heroes of the age.
Nevertheless, the rear admirals ac-
cept Mr.. Newberry's announcement as
fact against which there is no use
in kicking and are preparing for it.
Rear Admiral Cowles, the presi-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25
CRIMES COMMITTED TN
THE NAME OF LOVE
A Strange Epidemic Of Murders in New York
City in Which Dan Cupid Plays the
Leading Part.

of many admirers treated with CO.
quettish toleration by the belle of
Carmine street and the Spring street
factory, but in time all fell back in
favor of Vincenzo Lavorce. The be-
trothal of the handsome couple was
announced, their wedding day grew
near-but with 1t came death. An
toinette, not content with her con-
quest, had later made fun of Ffglia,
who was small and unattractive, call
ing him The Toad" On the twenty
sixth day of November "The Toad"
and the factory beauty met during
the noon hour at the water cooler. An
angry question, taunting reply, four
reports from a death-dealing pistol, a
once beautiful form lying in pool of
blood, sullen man facing the officers
of the law.
"She made fun of me, and l killed
her. Now she won't marry any one,
and if l die, too, L don't care
December, month of the Christ
child, passed without murder III the
name of Love; but on January 2 the
police gathered into their drag-net Leo
Mitchell, who for more than four
years had been in hiding for the muir
der of Marie Lewrazzo, pretty girl
who had refused to marry him, after
he had paid her passage over from
Italy. To be sure, this was because
Marie had heard that Leo had an
other wife in Italy, but the jealous
Italian had passed the stage where
marriage vows counted against the
power of the little god-and so he,
too, raised his revolver and shot the
girl through the heart.
Five days later George Fallen, who
ran flower stand at Eighty-frst
street and Columbus avenue, shot and
killed Mrs Madeline Wiedman, the
wife of his business neighbor John
Wiedman, a news dealer. Mrs. Wied-
man was a striking brunette who with
her assistant, Miss Ratel, piled the
trade of manicuring at the Endicott
hotel She lived at No. 80 West
Eighty-second street, whittier on the
fatal night George Fallen had been
hidden, with other guests, to celebrate
a birthday. AS the guests separated,
Fallen drew Mrs. Wiedman aside and
again urged the unlawful love which
she had often spurned, and, being
spurned again, that love cried hoarse,
ly: I'm tired of this nonsense
love you, and I'm going 10 have
you"
Then again the fatal shot and an
other at Mrs. Wiedmans assistant,
who came to her rescue, and still a
third and a sharp knife at his own
throat. Another tragedy in the name
of Love had been written in New
York's criminal annals.
In the early dawn of March 1 Anne
tillo Gallo, young bride of Northern
Little Italy,, went a-gunning for the
| man who had stolen from him, at q
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25
RACE WAR WITH COURT
WRITS AS THE WEAPONS

- HE injunction has been invoked in
local race war. The white citi-
zens of a suburb of this city propose
to restrain negro from occupying a
house he purchased.
The suburb known as Bloomingdale
lying between the northern boundary
of the old city and soldiers home, was
several years ago subdivided, and long
rows of houses erected for sale. The
purchasers were given deed which
stipulated in one of it's clauses that
at no time should the property be
sold to a negro. One Of the original
purchasers sold his residence to a
man who placed a second trust mort
gage on it.
The holder OF this second mortgage
to protect himself, placed the house
on sale with real estate firm, which
disposed of it to negro. When the
sale became known to the household
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25

to live with me she will never
live with another. We are going to
die together. Laura and Jim" But
the woman shot herself FIRST. The
man missed his aim and then weak
ened. Broken marriage vows, quar-
rels patched up and then renewed,
love one minute, hatred the next,
death for the wife, suspicion, arrest
and dishonor for the husband-and
all in the name of Love!
"Three bullets for sweetheart and
one for herself" is the tabloid form
in which Marie Balasi's tragedy was
written on independence day. De-
ceived and ruined by Henry Stern, a
stranger in a strange land, and desert
ed by the man she had trusted, poor
Marie Ballast thus ended forever the
new love dream in which Stern had
lost all sense of honor and obligation
to her.
On July 23 occurred one of the most
sensational murders in New York's
recent history. Miss Esther Nor
ling discovered that Frank H. War
ner, once her business employer, later
her partner, was not worthy of her
trust and love, and thrust him out Of
her life. Drink-sodden and believ-
ing that the girl, by her act, had
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25
RECORDS CHARGE THAT
WASHINGTON TOLD LIE

wheeled vehicle"
Washington was in good company,
the presentment also naming George
William Fairfax, William Mason and a
number of other distinguished gentle
men of the day. At that time in the
colony of Virginia two methods were
in vogue for taxing property, both
personal and real. Either the assessor
was permitted to make the list or the
subject under oath submitted a list
AS the presentment was returned
against George Washington, it is evil
dent that he made oath to the list of
his property and failed to include "a
wheeled carriage" of which he was
possessed.
Washington, not being indicted.
shows that the grand jury acted upon
it's own initiative, because had the
matter been called to their attention
by the prosecutor for the colony an in
dictment would have been returned
There is only one volume of the rec
ords of that time, and it does not
show what became of the presentment-
Whether Washington was tried will
not be known unless some veteran
of McDowell's command, directly or
through an heir, returns the volumes
that were carried off after Bull Run.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25

separated him from the last hope of
earthly happiness or all connection
with a decent life, Warner shot and
killed her in the very door of the
store where she was employed as
cashier, at No. West Forty-second
street. Then, blood-crazed, he dashed
down town and killed a lifelong
friend, John c. Wilson, millionaire
hat manufacturer of Waverley place
and Greene street, who was in the act
Of loaning the crazed man money.
A doughty and strong-armed minis
ter of the gospel saved a young wom-
an from a hated marriage and per-
haps from actual death at Asbury
Park on September 10. Belle Grouse,
daughter of a Presbyterian minister
at Stanhope, N j., was engaged to
Percy c. Bissell, a student at the state
normal school, Trenton, N. j., when
rumors reached her that her intend
ed was a confirmed gambler. Her IA
ther found that the rumors were only
too true and the engagement was
broken off. The Crouses went to
Ocean Grove, whittier young Bissell
followed. The two young people met
on the street, and surreptitiously Bis
sell displayed revolver and ordered
the girl to accompany him to the pas
torate of Rev. C. M. Griffin, pastor of
the Ashbury Park Methodist church.
In the middle of the service Miss
Grouse began to scream, asking that
she be protected from her too anxious
lover Whereupon, the clergyman,
being strong of arm, pinioned the half
crazed youth, and Miss Grouse es-
capped to the bosom of her family.
But the end was not yet, and friends
of the family assert that Bissell should
be confined, as the girl is not safe
so long as he is at large.
And last comes julius Hoffman,
married, formerly a lieutenant in the
Austrian army, who for love and
| jealousy killed Draga Siegel. For he
had given up wife, children and
friends. Hoffman and his wife had
come from Australia, bringing with
them Draga, who had been an appren
| tice in Mrs. Hoffmans dressmaking
establishment.
In New York they all prospered un
til love, blind, irresponsible. unreason
ing love, took hand in the game
Mrs. Hoffman left her husband and
Draga went to live with a family
by the name Of Lucas. Hoffman
lived alone. Mrs. Hoffman brought
suit against Draga Siegel. who in an
other year would come into an inner
itance of 100000. for alternating heI
husbands affections; and Drasa IL
turn brought suit for defamation o.
character In the midst of this con
fusion jealousy and death appsa.s'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25

ers for blocks around they at once
started subscription in which Presi-
dent Gompers of the American Feder-
alton of Labor is reported to have
joined.
There are few residence blocks in
Washington upon which negroes do
not occupy one or more houses, except
in the ultra aristocratic section, and
even in that section some negroes
dwell. Race prejudice is constantly
growing more intense here and in the
new subdivisions in the suburbs the
whites have attempted to protect
themselves against negro invasion by
restrictions placed in the original
deeds similar to that carried by the
Bloomingdale conveyances. The negro
owner will assert his right to hold
the property under the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments and a merry
race war is promised.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25
MRS. MEYER TO PRESENT
DAUGHTERS TO SOCIETY

Shaw and Miss Hitchcock, Washing
ton might well wall: Wanted a few
handsome and socially inclined maid
ems for the highest executive set"
The Misses Meyer are unaffected
girls, sure to be popular, for their in
tercourse with kings has not turned
their heads any more than it has
changed their charming mother. Both
have studied music and art under the
best masters abroad and having re-
sided in many alien lands are gifted
linguists.
Young Mr. Meyer aged 16, has been
the schoolmate of Kermit Roosevelt
at Groton, and for a few months in the
spring took a preparatory course at
George Washington University, in
Washington.
Mrs. Meyer is a delightful conver-
sationalist and she can chat very en-
tertainingly about royal babes whom
she has known.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25

dance in the New Star Casino, One
Hundred and Seventh street and Lex
ington avenue. the belle of the ball,
Sandra Giovelli, But his rival shot
first. Shots were almost as thick as
Italian curses. and for the love of one
girl Gallo died and six men were held
as his assasins.
June IT, James Wardell and his
wife. Laura. entered into suicide
pact, as the note found i'm their room
proved; "As long as Laura is going
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25

STEPS and bated breaths in the hall
way without, and within-Cupid weep
ing ever his deadly work.
Rovember-and the Thanksgiving
spirit abroad in the big. bustling city.
But no such spirit in the heart Of
Giuseppe Figlia. Working with him
in sAe same factory at No. 81 Spring
stpeet was beautiful Antoinette Maeio-
al. boautlful as an Italian woman is
osN al the age of 10. F1glia had
love- and woosd her, had been enc
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1907-10-25
TELEPHONE USED BY JAPs.
Government Owns System Which Has
Many Up-to-pate Features.

In Japan the telephone system is
phone, postal and telegraph services
are all under one head, being con-
trolled by group of officials who
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1907-01-19
SCORES The EX-
PRESS COMPANY.

! From the Moultrie Observer.
The following letter to the At
1anta Georgian, written by a citi-
zen of Va1dosta, is just now so
timely, that we take the liberty
of reproducing it. The Valdos-
ia Times assures us Mr.. Griffin
has had full opportunity to be-
come acquainted with the acts of
the Express companies, and his
letter has the added interest as
coming from one who knows
what he is writing about:
ITO the Editor of the Georgian:
In a recent issue of your paper
I noticed a communication from
Mr.. Mcintyre, in which he
calls a curious act of the ex-
press company" and asks If there
isn't graft in the said trans
action, or words to that effect.
Listen. and I will tell YOU a
little that / know that may seem
curious" also. It has been the
custom of the express company
to order all oldA worthless pack
ages held and sold at ''old boss"
sales. These packages are re
wrapped and marked. Every
package is inventoried and when
ever anything is found of any
material value it is withheld
from sale. Ali of the wholesale
drug houses ship packages Of
medicine c. O. D., at ST. and up.
ward. Often these are not de-
1ivered.
The express Co. notifies the
shipper of non-delivery. There
is a charge of 55c or SOC on these
packages and the forwarding
agent is instructed to collect this
from the shipper, who has to
guarantee the charges before
shipment. The agent collects
.xs..s,re~e.., 5.,,.d szefe ss4s 1ssfssss
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1907-01-19

ber has been cut. The extension
from Waycross would extend
through a country from which
the timber has been cut and
where the lands are not so pro.
ductive.
"Mr. Denham is expecting to
begin his work in South Florida
about the fourth of February.
His successor has not been Sc
lected but Mr.. W. r. Beauprie of
Atlanta is being considered for
the place. This gentleman has
been ia charge of "a division of
the Coast Line with headquart-
ers at Montgomery. Nothing
definite could be learned as to
who said there was another man
who might be placed in charge,
but no one here can tell yet"
"The resignation of Capt. W.
B. Denham from the manage
ment of the G. F. & A. has
bought out the renewed rumor to
the effect that the A. B. & A. will
extend their road from Thom-
asville to Tampa by way of Per-
ry and through the phosphate
district of Florida. This exten.
sion has been outlined for
about six months and is almost a
certainty.
THE Tampa Northernis own
ed by the same interests that
own the A. B. & A. and have
about fifty miles of road COM
p1eted. A large force of men
are at work on the new road and
the gap between Tampa and
Thomasyille is to be competed
within twelve months. This is
substantially the report that has
been in circulation for some
time in well informed railroad
circles. This road would haul
much of the phosphate of the
Florida districts and would be
valuable from many other points
of view Thomasville should
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1907-01-19
War On Pool Rooms
And Slot Machiliss.

Chelsea, Mich, Jan. 12.--Frank
P. Glazier, state treasurer and
president of the village, closed
his stove works half an hour
earlier than usual this noon, and
with Marshal Bert Young and
Deputy Sheriff Leach headed 4
gang of 100 of his workmen, who
armed with s1edge hammers,
raided the saloons of the village
and carried out a large number
of slot machines. The machines
we're dumped in the village
square, where the stove molders
attacked them and reduced them
to mass of debris in few min-
utes.
G1azier's hatred of the slot
machines is said by townsfolk to
be based to a great extent on the
fascination of his son, aged %
years, for this form of amuse-
ment. Harold is vice president
of the Glazier Stove Company.
Friday, his father became very
angry when he found Harold ia
a pool room. He ordered his
boy out and called a special meet.
ing of the council last night to
deal with the pool room and slot
machines. The council adopted
resolutions closing the pool
room and banishing the slot
machines.
Marshal Young, Deputy
Leach and President Glazier
notified the saloon keepers this
morning that the slot machines
would not be tolerated. Within
an hour, it is said, of the serving
of the official notice. the rad
started.
The stove molders ma
up the street four abr
the sidewalk. TheY
lderly, but enfhas
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1907-01-19
Raj Road TO TAMPA
Rumor says A. B. & A. Wal
Extend, With Denham
in Charge.
brownsville Times Enterprise.

brownsville Times Enterprise.
The industrial development Of
this section may be greatly adj
vanced this year by a new rail-
road from Thomasvil1e to Tam
pa. The possibility Of this pro-
ject and probable plans towards
its fulf1lment were mentioned by
this paper several months ago.
The cambridge Tribune has
the following interesting rumors
on this question.
The reported resignation of
Capt. W. B. Denham as publish.
ed exclusively in the Tribune
yesterday was the general topic
of conversation on the streets
and there was much regret ex-
pressed that he should contem-
plate leaving cambridge where
he has endeared himself to so
manv. There is a confirmation
of the report.
1T is said that he will go from
here to Tampa where he will be
the manager of new road that
is being built from there IN a
northern direction. It is said
that this road is to be operated
in conjunction with the A. B. &
A. This road will complete the
link from Atlanta to the sea that
has been agitated. so much in the
last year. Whether the line will
be built from Thomasville south
or from Waycross is a mooted
question.
IF the road is extended from
Thomasville it will run through
section of the country thatis rich
h.forest products and there is
elso much fertile lands on the pro-
Nd route. This would be thiek-
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1907-01-19
COMPAN|ES MUST
GET MORE men
The Military Of Georgia.

Atlanta, Jan. 14.-A1l of the
military companies in Georgia
as well as all other states are
called upon to recruit their ranks
at once to a minimum of fifty.
eight men under a new order
just issued by the War Depart
ment.
Adjutant-General S. w. Har-
sis received notice of this order
to-day. Heretofore the mini
mum number of men allowed in
each company has been forty,
and under this regulation the
state increased its maximum
limit in the company to fifty.
But with this new order from
the War Department both the
minimum and the maximum will
have to DE increased.
The orders from the War De-
partment are imperative. They
prescribe that the minimum
must be Increased to fiftv.eight
men, without which the company
will not be permitted to parti-
cipate in the distribution of funds
made by the national government
for the benefit of the state troops.
There is, therefore, no alterna.
tive.
The Adjutant.G Generals De-
partment will take the matter up
at once and make arrangements
to have the enlisted strength of
each company in the state in
creased to the new requirement.
It is not known just what maxi
mum the state will make, but it
will probably be about sixty.hve,
or fifteen more than at present.
Won will reuer. regret a Dur.
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a bit of it, The packages are re-
wrapped and sold at their old
boss sale, and as they are put up
about the size of jewe1ry pack
age they are always bitten by
suckers, and bring all the way
from ST. to S.. This, it seems to
me, is a clear case of decelving
the public, and is done with this
intention.
The express company has got
ten all to which it is entitled from
the shippers but take their prop
erty and appropriate it to fill
their Golfers. Thousands of
packages Of this nature have
| been sold. Is this grating, or
what do you call it?
They have established a SER
vice on new line from here
(Valdosta Ga to Madison, Fla,
and are charging rates far in ex-
Icess of the Georgia com mission
schedules of rates for Georgia. l
asked the agent why this was,
and he replied that Mr. Loop, the
traffic manager. furnished him
with rates, and that he must
have authority for so doing.
wonder if the Georgia state
commission has given this octo-
pus the authority to rob the peo.
pie until their infant industry
has gotten on a paying basis?
Again, ask, is this grating?
There are other matters of
rates the Georgia com mission
would do well to look into for the
protection of the people"
B. L. Griffin, Valdosta, Ga.
Fitzgerald enterprise., 1907-01-19

WANTED;-By prominen n n t
monthly magazine, with large,
high.class circulation, local rep
resentative to look after renewsls
and indrease subscription list in
Fitzgerald and vicinity, on sal
ary basis, with a continuing in
terest from year to year in the
business created. Experience
desirhble. but not essential.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-16
TENNESSEE

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Nov. 15.-A Mon
terey, Tenn, dispatch says that a fire
there destroyed the Southern hotel, the
telephone exchange and number oi
other business houses. Loss about $40, 000
BRISTOL-Constructio work will be-
gin on the Kingsport & Bristol, the new
railroad project headed by Ex-Governor
Cox and others, within a few weeks, and
as soon as the engineers can complete
the work of locating the line and con
tracts can be let The road will connect
with the Holston River railroad and the
South & Western railway, at Kingsport
and penetrate a rich farming section. Ii
will pass through Blountville, the coun-
ty seat of Sullivan county, which has
been without railroat. facilities.
KNOXV1LLE-Wo has been received
bv the officers of the East Tennessee
Poultry association that the Single Cont
Brown Leghorn club would meet il
Knoxville with the third annual show OF
the association on January to 12, 1908
JASPER-Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Burne
of Mount Vernon, Ohio, arrived here in
their automobile in which they are tour.
ing the country Mr.. Burnell stated that
they left their home in Mount Vernon
about three months ago and since ther
have travelled over 6000 miles. visiting
many places of interest in the south
They came here from Atlanta and are
now on their way home. Mr.. and Mrs
Burnell spent the night hero and ther
left for Chattanooga, where they will
spend day sightseeing.