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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
CALLED TO THE MINISTRY
As An Atonement For Killing His Fa
ther, Is Students Belief.

Marion, O.-Belleving he was called
by God to serve Him in the ministry
to atone for the killing of his father
George Kenyon, 33, and married, left
for Mound City, 8. d., where he has
accepted Methodist Episcopal church
pastorate.
Eight years ago Kenyon slew his IA
ther and saved his mother from q
death blow. Two years ago he applied
for local preachers license, but fail
ed to pass the examination held at Ma
rysvllle. He continued his duties,
however, and was granted a minister's
certificate at the Upper Sandusky con-
ference last April.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
CURSED With SUICIDE MANIA,
THAT HAD DRAGGED THEIR FOR.
BEARS TO DEATH,
Wee Sisters Drink OF Deadly Poison
Dozen Previous Attempts Had
Proved Futile.

Cleveland, O., June S.--Helen Curtis.
IL, and Marguerite Curtis, 10, tried to
commit suicide at noon Friday. This
was the last Of series Of attempts
which they had made at self-destruc-
ton. Friday night Marguerite died
and soon afterward Helen.
"They had mania for suicide" said
their grandmother. Mrs. Helen Curtis.
The children ate rat poison In tne
cellar Of their grandmothers home on
Lakota street They we're taken to st.
Johns hospital unconscious. The doc
tors worked over them increasingly for
hours. Their grandmother ascribes
their desire to die to an hereditary
impulse" She says their mother and
their maternal grandmother were simi-
larly afflicted.
In the family now besides the grand.
mother are her three sons; Frank,
brother of the two little girls, and
Clarabel, a sister. Frank Is s and
Clarabel 4.
Marguerite and Helen found a can
Of rat poison on a shelf In the cellar.
It seemed an answer to year-old de.
sire. They knew II was poison: that It
had the power to kill. often they had
told their grandmother that they wish.
ed to die by their own hands One Of
them pulled down the can and opened
1t. Then they looked at each other.
Frank. coming down the stairway,
found Clarabel sitting on the lower
step. She was watching her sister
with wide, wondering eyes. AS Frank
stood there. aghast. one Of the children
drank deep OF the poison; the other
seized upon the can and followed her
sisters example. With a cry Of fright.
Frank sped back TO the upper part OF
the house. BY this time his grand.
mother. coming from the kitchen. had
reached the top Of the stairs. Before
Frank could tell Mrs Curtis what had
happened Marguerite staggered up the
stairs. Her face was like chalk. She
held small. shaking hand against her
breast In the presence Of the death
for which she had often wished she
was afraid.
"Gran'ma." she whispered. "I'm
dying"
Then she fell on the floor, uncon.
scious. Frank. the boy. screamed and
looked at his grandmother In horror.
The woman bent over the child. The
poison had made her very sick She
choked and there was a green stain on
her lips. The grandmother. once a
nurse and knowing that instant action
was necessary, ran for household rene
dies. AS she did 80 Helen came up the
stairs. With her the poison had had
longer to act. She could scarcely walk
Her face. too, was ashen. And in her
eyes was the fear which had come to
Marguerite. Death. actually. was not
what her perverted fancy had painted
II. For moment ut the head of the
stairs she gazed at the boy and at the
aged woman. Then she wavered and
silently dropped to the floor Mrs
Curtis applied antidotes and doctor
was called.
Administering what remedies he had
with him, he ran to a telephone and
called an ambulance. In this both
were hurried to the hospital.
Later Marguerite died, and then her
sister followed
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
PLAIN DRESS SHE HAD TO WEAR
At Commencement Worried the High
School Girl, Who Ended Life.

Woodward. Ia. June because she
feared her classmates would appear at
the graduation exercises Of the high
school here In better clothes than her
widowed mother could afford to give
her, Emma Jacobson committed sui
eide with rat poison.
She was one OF the prettiest girls in
her class and was popular with all her
fellow-students. She was only 15 years
of age, one OF the youngest pupils to
finish high school course.
After taking the poison. which she
purchased from the family grocer. Miss
Jacobson Informed her mother and ex.
planned the reason for ending her
life.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Teachers Examination.

the Highland County Board of School Ex-
tons of appiicants for certiacates will taSe
place in the Washington School Building,
Hillsboro, on the first Saturday of each
month.
Patterson examinations will be held on
the third Saturday of April and on the sec.
ond Saturday of May.
Certificates will be held on the first Saturday
of September, December, March and June.
AS prescribed by Law, the fees for Teachers
terson examination no fee Is charged.
e. p. TOE, Pres,
H. B. GALLIETT,.
ID. T. HIsER, Clerk.
Board of Examiners
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Fighting the Plaque.

Port of Spain. Trinidad. June TO-
The government has taken energetic
measures TO stamp out the bubonic
plague and hes cabled to New York
for large supplies Of prophylatic serum
The two persons who succumbed to tn,
disease were negro children.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Alleged Stolen JeweIry Recovered.

New York, June o. Alleged stolen
1ewelry valued at thousands. Of dollars
was recovered by the police and two
walters. Costas Meras, 80. and Emanuel
Cardikes, %. were arrested as sus.
poets. The police say that when ar
rested Meras had in his possession
diamond studded jewel case worth Ut
least $4,000. ~ BtE r
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
OIL Poured on Bridge and Fired.

Baltimore, Md, June 7.-Conowingo
bridge, covered wooden structure OF
a mile in length over the Susquehanna
river, about 10 miles north of Pert
Deposit. Md, was destroyed by fire.
of probably ihcendiary origin. Kero-
sene was found to have been poured
over the western end for some dis
tance. The loss is placed at between
100000 and $125.0000.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Air Motor nurst.

Wtkesbarre. Pa. June 5.-The burst.
ing of an air motor at No. IA Colliery
OF the Pennsylvania Coal Co. at Port
Blanchard. killed two mon. fatally In.
jured two others and caused minor in,
jurtes TO eight more The motor was
being charged at one OF the air stations
when II blew up. Great damage was
done to the Interior Of the mine.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Falls From a Dizzy Heluht.

Middletown, O.-John Hensey, AZ, q
contractor, while at work on a scaffold
inside large business block, fell head
foremost to the cement floor 40 feet
below. He struck head first, making
dent two inches deep In the cement,
and was killed.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Flrst Teeth at Fifteen.

Nashville. Tenn, June 6.-vernon
Holt. IL. OF MONTGOMERY county. who
for years has excited interest because
he had no teeth. Is just besinning ia
cut two front ones. Dentists considss
ths one Of the most remarkable cases
on record.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
The seventy.seventh Commencement. m.

Oxford, O.-The 77th commencement
OF Oxford college for women was held
here. The address was made by Rev.
Watson, Of Cincinnati. He urged the
young ladies to take care OF their
physical being and not to become
idlers or mere ornaments in the world
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Columbus Horses Parade.

Columbus, O.-Following the old
English custom Of having a work-horse
parade, Columbus had her nrst display
In that line. under the patronage OF
the board Of trade. More than three
hundred teams, representing the In.
dustriee Of the city, were in the line.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Appeal For oorman's Pardon.

Columbus. O.-An appeal was made
TO Gov. Harris to pardon John German,
of Cincinnati, from the penitentiary.
He was sent up In 1905 for burglariz-
Ing barber shop. His sister declares
that he is dying. The matter was or.
dered investigated.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
nobsrt lMckso.nII 1 peas.

Kent O.--Robsrt MoKsou. 70, for 81
year, secretary and treasurer OF the
Aastsr OR and Looeaolive Painters'
ssssctatton Of ne UnitsA et&tes and
caeeiA disd here He VS. an Erie
railroad forsmAa painker here for %
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Former AGENT Indicted.

Toledo, o.-W. H. Bennett. formerly
general freight agent of the Ann Arbor
railroad. was indicted by the federal
grand jury on 23 counts. He Is
charged with alleged violations Of the
interstate commerce laws.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
BITTERLY SCORED
10 THE "iNNeR CIRCLE" OF MINE
WORKERS.
HAWleYS OPENING STATEMENT
In Haywood Case a seathlne penun.
eIstlon OF Prisoner and Co.
Defendants.

Boise, Ida, June 6.-Through James
III. Hawley. senior Of the group of
prosecutors, the state Of Idaho made
the opening statement against William
ID. Haywood, whom 1t charges with the
murder Of Frank Steunenberg, and
then began the presentation Of testi.
mony by which II hopes to prove the
Indictment laid against him.
The opening statement was broad
and sweeping arraignment Of the lead.
ers Of the Federation Of Miners, who
were charged with plotting wholesale
murder and hiring assassins, all In a
giant conspiracy OF vengeance upon
those who obstructed their sway, to
destroy opposition by terrorism, to con-
troll the politicol destinies OF the COM
munlties covered by their organization
and to perpetuate their own power
within the organization.
The statement charged a widespread
conspiracy, dating In inception from
the North Idaho disturbance Is years
ago. reaching down to the murder OF
Frank Steunenberg and whose muir
dsred victims by bullet and bomb
numbered scores.
Left a Trail Of Blood.
Hawley declared that wherever In
the mining sections of the coast states
the federation had been in control
there had been left trail Of blood TO
mark It's operations.
or the hired assassins he cried: ITO
them murder became a trade and as
sassination a means Of living"
As to the general conspiracy Mr..
Hawely said 81 have said, gentlemen,
It has been part Of their object and
policy to control the politics Of the
various sections where they have lived.
where they have existed, where their
organization. their subordinate lodges
have had control.
This conspiracy, this collusion.
these crimes. this understanding be-
tween the leaders of this organization,
together with some that were associat-
ed with them in q minor role, together
at other times with others that upon
the outside had played into their
hands. who were necessarily brought
into their confidence, has. as have
stated before, caused the death and
been the cause Of the death OF Gov.
Steunenberg.
After telling the story of the Cald.
well crime, the arrest and confession
of Harry Orchard. and part Of the
history of the Coeur d'Alene trouble,
Mr.. Hawlney said:
THE original proposition and theory
that the power Of this federation, OF
the Timer circle at least Of the feder.
alton, could best be perpetuated by
the murder OF those who. In official life
or in private situation ran counter to
their interests, became intensified
seemingly after these gentlemen as.
sumed the entire control.
THE inner circle composed as II
was of this defendent and his code
PENDANTS. to a great extent, brought
around them few choice spirits, and
to them murder became a trade and as
sassination a means OF living"
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Injured By Cyclone

Des Moines. Ia. June 10.--A dozen
families are homeless. several persons
injured and property Is damaged to the
extent OF $4,000 as result OF tor
nado which passed through Pleasant
Valley.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13

Dtruinsham. Ala-. June s.--A stree
Or ran Into = train ioeAed with pots ol
mcetsa metal. which ~ Are 70 che cor
and entirely consumed \. fataliy burn.
ias two nsn and hjurfas ssvsrai
otAsrs.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
DIed From Doss d stryohnIne.

Montgomery. Aha. June T.-charlss
N. Holt. 10. member Of wsl-known Holt
family of Alabama. disd ~ result Of
q dose Of strychnine. taken supposedly
with Suicidal intent Business reyerses
and illness in his family are supposed
to have caused the deed. H.''
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Negro Lynched by Mob.

Rudeville, Miss, June 10.-Charged
with having shot and killed Lee Rey.
nolds, white man. Lee Fox. a negro,
was lynched by a mob Of about SO
men near Indianoda. Reynolds was
shot as he was leaving hall. where. Il
is stated, gambling was In progress
Fox was captured and after confessins
was hanged to Q nearby tree.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Seeks Pension Money.

Cincinnati, GA Cincinnati wife of
Johann Hoch, the bigamist, who paid
the penalty for his crimes in the elec.
trio chair, was at the court house when
Lydia Reese filed petition that her
marriage to Hoch be declared void so
that her pension will be restored to
har
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Railroad Man 10 Killed.

Chillicothe. O.-Pat Sweeney, TO. for
30 years an employe Of the B. 4 o.
8. w. railroad here. was struck by q
locomotive and killed. He was leading
q horse acress the track.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
EIuhth Wrsck Victim pIes.

Elyria. o.-Marsarst Butler, 1s.
whose legs were crushed on In the
wreck on the Cleveland 4 Southwest,
srn electric line here on Decoration
Day. died. Her dseth makes eight f.
tAlities q . result of the collision. 1
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
'orasped a Live wire.

Boone, Ia, June 7.--Orville Briggs,
IA years old. was killed. and his father.
David Bfggs. was fatally injured here
The boy grasped live wire. and his
father tried to reoCu0 him.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
saId 70 Have PIaxed the PenIs..

New Orleans. La. June l0.-Mrs
Ada Mears. IS. cashisr and bookks>psi
of the iroal agsnayiof the Rents stoa
typewriter Co, hasD dscaaapsl With h.,
huaban6 and khs sompany's egditor -
siared her accounts ei.soo short
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13

HELP WANTED Young men and
girls at The Peters Cartridge Com
pany, Kings Mills. Work light and
clean. Good wages and comfortable
hotel accommodations close to the
factory. Address Assistant Manager,
Kings Mills, Ohio. so sof
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
Neweuaper Plant burned.

Knoxville. Tenn. June B.-T'he plant
OF the Knoxville Sentinel was seriously
damaged by nre. the loss being esti.
mated at about $4,000. The blaze did
most damage to the linotype machine
room.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13
dumped FrAM ThIrd.etery WInaex

rhiladslph4a JuAe 7.--lsaAc 0vesn-
baum, agsd 6s ysazu, wss killed and dIhig
three stfpchlldren, Roste. Abeem apd
Blanche Geldateia, we're in}ured by
jumping from : tAird1tofy'' vin1ow
dpring Z nse u 49, hdn9 off ~
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13

One Of the animal curiosities of
South America is the oil Bird of
guacharo. 1t breeds In rock caves,
and Its young are prodigiously fat.
The natives kill the m and boil down
the fat into a sort of butter.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-06-13

Somewhat outspoken 10 the Penang
Gazette. 1t remarked recently:
Never has there been In q worlds
history such a aabby, herring gutted
parody of an administration az that
which 10 feebly trying to control the
destiny Of the British empire today
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-05-17
Heir to Spanish Throne.

Madrid, May.-At II o'clock Sunday morning the ceremony of inscribing the name of the newly-born prince of the Asturias on the citys birth regis ter took place before the minister of justice, the first notary of the king dom. The prince received the names Alfonso Pic Christine Eduardo. Ac- cording to Senor Calenas J. Mendias, the leading Monarchial Democrat, King Edward telegraphed, asking to be the godfather of the infant. but a reply was sent regretting that this was impossible, inasmuch as Pope Plus already had been named. The Duke of Sotomayor, chief of the roy al palace, had received and sent re- plies to 5000 telegrams of congratu- lation up to Sunday. The political sit nation has visibly improved partly as the result of the birth of the prince, which has placed the dynasty on a more solid basis.
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-05-17
Disastrous Mine Explosion.

Mexico City, May.-According to a dispatch which was received from the city of Torraon, Coahuila, 90 lives were lost in fire which occurred in the Cornethas shaft of the Lernaras group of mines in the town of Velar- dena, state of Durango. The fire start ed early Friday night in an abandoned shaft At the time there were 107 men working in another part of the mine, and from what can be learned at this time, but IT of them escaped. Thir. ty-five bodies have been recovered, ac- cording to latest reports received from the. scene of the disaster, but as the fire is still raging it is feared that few others imprisoned will be found, The shaft in which the fire is still raging and said to be beyond control is in a mine of a group of the largest copper producers in the northern sec tion of Mexico. The Guggenheim in. terests are said to own the proper fV
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-05-17
A HORRIBLE WRECK
THiRTY-FlVE KILLED AND MANY INJURED IN WRECK OF SPE- GAL TRAIN AT HONDA,
 CAL.

Santa Barbara, Cal, May-While hurrying northward over the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific Railway Saturday afternoon, homeward bound, after week of fraterniZing and ies- la in Los Angeles, 154 Shriners of lsmalia temple, of Buffalo, and Rajah temple of Reading, with their families and friends. were hurled into the midst of death when their special train, running fifty miles an hour, struck a defective switch at Honda, lonely station on the sand wastes of the Pacific beach, derailing the train, smashing the coaches into fin ders, killed thirty-fve almost instant ly and injuring more than score of others. The bodies of twenty-five lie in the morgues at Santa Barbara, and ten more are at San Luis Obispo. The injured, many of whom are ter ribly hurt and will probably die, are ir two sanitariums at San Luis Obis- DO.
 The wreck occurred exactly one hour and 45 minutes after the con clave visitors, forming merry par ty, had spent all of the morning sight seeing in Santa Barbara. The state ment that the train was making a ter rife speed when it struck the defec- tive track is borne out by the fact that it covered 61 miles of curves and crooked track between here and Hon da in exactly 100 minutes. There was no warning of the impending calam- ity. The special plunged upon the de- fective switch, and i'll an instant the big locomotive, baggage car, diner and Pullman coupled with it, were hurled together in a huge heap of wreckage. The engine shot forward on the brok- en track, tearing up the rails and ties and twisting the huge iron spans into fish hooks. The baggage car half bur jed itself in the sand on the right side of the locomotive. It was smash ed almost to kindling wood.
 The dining car, in which were g passengers eating their monday meal, leaped into the air and were thrown directly onto the top of the demolish- ed locomotive. Nearly every person in this coach was instantly killed. Scores were scalded by steam escapng from disconnected pipes in the kitchen Of the diner.
 The terror and turmoil of the scene was indescrible, Many of those who escaped instant death by the first i'm pact were crushed by the rear coach es hurled upon the other wreckage. Others pinioned in the debris were roasted alive. The wreckage caught fire from the coals of the engine, but was extinguished in few minutes by the passengers who escaped injury. Many fainted at witnessesing the aw- ful scene of horror caused by the con dition of the injured
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-05-17
CHANGE IN FOOD
Works Wonders in Health.

It is worth knowing that a oh in food can cure dyspepsia. T it my duty to let you know how G Nuts food has cured me of indiges
 T had been troubled with lt years, until last year my doctor commended Grape-Nuts food to be every morning. I followed ins tions and now I am entirely we'll
 "The whole family like Grape' we use four packages a week are welcome to use this testimonl' you see fit."
 The reason this lady was helpe the use of Grape-Nuts food, is tn is predigested by natural procs and therefore does not tax the stop as the food she had been using; II contains the elements requireo building up the nervous system that part of the human body is ID feet working order, there can 7 dyspepsia, for nervous energy \ sents the steam that drives tns zine.
 When the nervous system SJ down, the machinery of the works badly. Grape-Nuts food cs1 used by small children as vel adults. It is perfectly cookeu ready for instant use.
 Read, "The Road to WellVli's| pkgs. There's a Reason"
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-05-17
SHOWED PRESENCE OF MI
Nervy Act of Well DriIIers AW
 Fearful Disaster.

Two oil we'll drillers, Earl SN and Frank Winks, near Carl June underwent an experience last that would make a feature" for a and death melodrama, says the sas City Star The two men wert perintending the shooting of Three hundred quarts of nitroglyt had been brought to the well tx used in the shot.
 A shell" containing 30 quarts been lowered, but it stuck in the The operators thought they { shove the can on down in the wei letting the baler down in the we top of it. The plan appeared to
 worked all right, and the baler drawn up out of the well, and
 way up toward the top of the dei before the mortified spectators nOt that the can of deadly explosive caught in the baler and was
 dangling in the air, ready to fall
 Just as Sheets and Winks looked the shell came loose and started ward the ground. Realizing that
 ever hit the ground these 30 quaH nitro would explode and kill eve! n the vicinity, the two men with ence of mind, ran under it and cal 1t in their hands. If they had fl in this, not one of the spects would have "lived to tell the storJ