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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
HUSBAND AND WIFE BATTLE
Woman is Shot Twice and Stabbed
Twice and Is Dead-Husband
Probably Fatally Wounded.

Chicago. Ill.-After locking their
two children in a bedroom and
fastening all the doors of their fat,
Antonio Spizzirri and his wife, Anna,
went into the darkened parlor and
tried to kill each other. The woman
was shot twice and stabbed twice
with stilletto and died before the
police arrived. The husband was shot
twice also and he may die. A revol-
yer and knife were found near the
sofa on which the woman lay dead,
and another revolver was found be-
side the husbands body.
The disordered room indicated ter.
rible struggle. Spizzirri turned on his
side as the police, called by neighbors,
broke into the room with sledge ham,
mer and tore letter which was on
the floor by his side into bits before
the police could stop him. This let
ter when translated from the Italian
may solve the mystery. 1t is thought
that Spizzirri had been jealous of his
wife.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
MUCH PROPERTY DESTROYED
Pittsburs Is Visited by Severe EIec-
trical and Wind Storm-Con-
servatories Demolished.

Pittsburg, Pa.-The Saints Peter
and Paul German Catholic church
struck by lightning and damaged to
the extent of $4,000 by a subsequent
fire, several of the finest conserva-
tories in the city almost completely
demolished by hail, lawns destroyed,
streets covered with water and mud
to a depth of several feet, delayed
street car traffic, electric light service
suspended for several hours and many
bridges over streams washed away
These are the result of one of the
worst electrical and wind storms that
has visited this city in recent years.
The storm struck the East End dis
trict of this city early in the morning,
lasting about an hour and was ac-
companied by terrific lightning The
storm resembled a cloudburst, so
heavy was the fall of water. Large
hailstones at times covered the
ground. The storm travelled in south
easterly direction, the downtown Sec
tion of this city receiving only a
shower, the path of the wind and rain
being through the residential sections.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
PICKED UP IN COLUMBUS
ITEMS THAT INTEREST OHIO
PEOPLE GENERALLY.
News Of Buckeye Officials, Supreme
Court Decisions and Little
Bit Of Everything.

Twenty coroners from Ohio counties
met here and formed q state organi-
zation, and machinery was put in mo-
tion which, it is hoped. will result in
the enactment of salary law by the
next legislature. Permanent officers
were elected.
The state dairy and food commits.
sioner has turned into the state treas
ury 5000, representing fines collect
ed from violators of the pure food
laws. OF this AZ oleomargarine deal
ers in Cleveland paid the larger part.
1t Is the largest single collection ever
turned in by the department.
Judge j. M. Wood. of Athens, acting
in a case coming into his court from
Nelsonville, has rendered the first
court decision interpreting the Paine
law. Judge Wood had held that the
Paine law will not go into effect until
January 1 next, and the old boards
of safety would continue to hold office
until that time. He isued an injunc-
tion preventing the new director of
safety appointed in Nelsonville from
interfering with the chief of police
and one patrolman the director had
sought to remove.
The total Dow law collections for
July, 1909, are nearly $1,000,00O below
those for July, 1908. State auditors
report shows that 1891 saloons paid
the tax in July, 1908, only 6,S75 paid
in July, 1909. The total tax paid in
July 1908, was s4.S03, ASP, while in July,
1909, it was only s3,367, ,026.O5. OF the
July payment last year $1,262 ,3O4.13
went to the state and $2.941 ,24S.47 to
local revenue fund. This year the
state gets 81 oil, ,190.90 and local gov
ernment $2,355, ,S35.15. Collections were
made in July. 1909, from 81 counties,
26 having saloons and IL through the
operation of the law on speakeasies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
R0BBER AND CHIEF KILLED
Man Holds Up Bank Cashier and Runs
Away with Money-Citizens Pursue
Thief and Pitched Battle Ensues.

White Bear, Minn.-In q desperate
pitched battle with rifles and revolv-
ers following bold robbery of the
First State bank of White Bear, Rob-
ert Pohl, said to have been an ex-con-
vict, and Edward Larkin, chief at the
Five Forks, Bald Eagle lake cottage,
were killed and several others wound
ded, William Butler, a White Bear
fisherman, perhaps fatally.
Pohl. who had been working at
White Bear for about week, and who
is believed to have been professional
cracksman, took a check for 81 to
the bank in the morning, and while
the cashier, Alfred Anger, was exam
ining it, he produced an automatic
rifle and demanded all the cash in the
bank. Anger complied. AS the robber
dashed out of the bank with S565 in
cash, Anger raised the alarm, and
citizens prusued the man to the Inter
state lumber yards, where he hid. Lar
kin entered the yards and was shot
through the heart. The robber then
ran to a pile of lumber a short dis
tance beyond the yard, and hid under
it.
A desperate battle with the self
constituted posse during which at least
500 shots were exchanged, followed.
John Brachvogel, one of the posse,
finally winged the robber in the arm.
The man dropped his weapon, but
picked it up again, and as he turned
to fire, Brachvogel shot him dead.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
YOUNG GIRL MURDERED
CHokED AND BEATEN AFTER BE-
ING CRIMlNALLY ASSAULTED.
Indications Point to the Fact that She
Made a Desperate Struggle to Save
Her Honor and Her Life.

Rochester, N. Y.-That Anna Schu-
macher, the seventeen-year-old girl
whose body was found crudely
buried in Holy Sepulcher cemetery,
was choked and beaten to death after
being criminally assaulted, is the con-
clusion based on the autopsy held by
Coroner Henry Kleindienst, but many
Of the circumstances of the crime,
even to the exact place where 1t was
committed, can still be only guessed
at. Although the authorities believe
they have clue to the murder, name
ly broken spade found near the
scene of the deed, who is guilty of the
crime is matter of vaguest specula-
tion. The strange actions of a man
discovered at the scene of the murder
by an employe of the cemetery direct
ed suspicion toward him and for a
time gave promise that an arrest
would be made, but the man made his
escape, and it is not known who he
was.
The broken spade was found near a
deserted pump house near the lonely
spot where the victims body was
hidden. 1t was taken from a pig pen
at st. Bernard's seminary. and its use
lends plausibility to the belief that
the murderer was not unfamiliar with
the locality. 1t is thought that prob
ably at twilight or after dark, he went
after the spade, having dragged the
body into the shrubbery, and with
such care as was possible in the dark
ness he buried the body in shallow
trench, covering it with earth and
leaves. This must have consumed
considerable time.
The autopsy emphasizes the brutal
ity of the crime. The body was in a
pitiaG.e condition-the head, face,
chest, arms and hands were covered
with bruises and scratches; the bone
that supports the tongue, the hyoid,
was fractured, when the assailant
choked his victim; the body was COW
cred with blood, and the hair was full
of dirt and leaves, indicating that the
body was dragged some distancs,
probably by the feet. Part of the
clothing had been removed. 1t would
seem that the girl, who was of vigor.
GUS physique, made desperate strug.
gle to save her honor and also her
life.
The young woman left her home on
the morning of August to place flow
ers in the family cemetery, which is
that of the Catholic church, and when
she did not return at night her fam
lily became greatly alarmed. A search
was instituted which was kept UP un-
til the finding of her body by two
officers, about 100 feet outside of the
cemetery limits. The spot where the
body was found was we'll chosen for
concealment.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

1t turns out that the suspicious yes
sci on the coast of North Carolina
which was under the vigilant surveil-
lance of Uncle Sans revenue cutters,
was not intended for filibustering ex-
pedition in aid of Castro, but for the
use of the Venezuelan government. So
the ship has been allowed to go on the
way rejoicing and no harm done,
while other nations have had an OBJ
sect lesson as to the vigilance of the
United States in preventing illegal en-
terprises.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
eored to Death by Bull.

Cleveland, O.-Bert Townsing, 81,
Bedford, was gored to death by
two-year-old bull at the farm OF his
brother-in-law, John Milander. near
Bedford. Townsing was crossing the
field on his way to dinner when the
bull attacked him. He started to run,
but the animal overlook him. His
body was torn in several pieces by the
bulls horns. The enraged animal
trampled upon his body, and then
tossed 1t into the air before farm
hands, who attacked with pitchforks.
were able to drive 1t away. :.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
Claim Naval Hero owned Lands.

Marietta, Obligation has been
started here by an heir of John
Paul Jones. the famous American ma.
val hero, for about 100000 acres OF
land near this city. Mrs. Combault,
of Paris, France, an heir of Admiral
Jones, asserts she has deed of trust
for the land, given her by other heirs
of the naval officer, and Attorney A.
Dewey Follett has started proceedings
to gain possession of the property.
Yhe records of this county show that
Admiral Jones once owned the land
in question and there seems to be
nofhing to indicate that it does not
now belong to his heirs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
TWO MEN AND ONE
WOMAN DROWNED
LAUNCH CONTAINING PARTY OF
MERRYMAkERs cAPslzES IN
MAUMEE BAY.
SEVEN MEN WERE RESCUED
Boat Turned Turtle from Weight Of
Entire Party Which Had Collect
ed on One Side and Turned
Over Four Times.

Toledo, O.-Two men and one wo-
man were drowned and seven men
were rescued under difficult cir
cumstanceS when a launch containing
a gay party of merrymakers capsized
in Maumee bay 500 feet off the Cas-
ino, summer theater. All were resi-
dents of Toledo. The dead: Harry Dill
and Frank Lehaney, both railway en-
ployes, and Mrs. Mabel Hudson, 80.
Dill was the owner of the boat and
took out the party of ten men and
one woman, over the earnest protests
of his wife. When over the deep chan
mel of the bay near the mouth of the
Maumee river, the launch turned tur.
tie from the weight of the entire par.
ty which had collected on one side,
and turned over four times. The wom-
an was in the cabin, and was unable
to get out, although there were evi
dences of desperate struggle on her
part. Leo Barnes swan ashore, and
gain the overturned boat and cling to
it, except Dill and Lehaney.
The endangered men were rescued
by fishermen from the shore, who
heard their cries and ran to the To.
ledo Yacht club nearby, casting off
four boats.
Dill's young wife was prevented with
difficulty from casting herself into the
river at the scene of the catastrophe.
She told the officers that her husband
rarely went out in the launch without
her, but that twice the night before
the accident he refused her request to
return home or take her along.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
Heat Causes Rails TO spread.

Creston, o.-Passenger train No.
2 on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
left the track at Burbank, three miles
west of Creston. Heat had caused the
rails to spread. The whole train was
derailed. The locomotive and bag
gage and mail cars were overturned
and passenger coach filled with 10
persons toppled into the ditch. Five
victims of the wreck, three women
and two men, were taken on special
train to Creston, where they were
cared for at the Arcade hotel by ply
sicians. Their injuries were believed
to be slight.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
PRESIDENT TAFT'S JOURNEY
His Trip Through the West and South
Will Occupy Period of Two
Months.

Washington, d. C.-Before his depart
ure here the president made public ten
tative outline of his trip through the
west and south this fall.
Starting from the rugged shores of the
north coast of Massachusetts, the presi
dent goes direct west from Beverly. He
Will motor into Boston the morning of
September 15-his fifty-second birthday
and there board the car which practical
ly will be rowing White House for two
months. He will visit the following places:
September 16. Chicago.
September II, Madison, Wis: Winona,
MINI.
September IS, Minneapolis.
September 20. Des Moines, Omaha.
September 2l, Denver.
September 22, Colorado Springs,
Pueblo
September %, Glenwood Springs, Col.
September "a, Salt Lake City
September 26, Pocatela, Ida
September 81, Butte and Helena, Mont.
September 2S. Spokane.
September 20. North Yakima, Wash,
Seattle.
October 2. Portland, Ore.
October 4, Sacramento, Cal
October 5, Oakland Cal, San Francisco.
October z, and 8, Yosemite Valley.
October 10, Los Angeles.
October IA, Grand Canyon.
October 10, Albuquerque, N. M.
October 16, El Paso. Tex.
October II, San Antonio, Tex.
October 18. Corpus Christi Tex
October 20. Houston and Dallas, Tex.
October 20, st. Louis.
October 26, Cairo. ILL.,, Hickman. Ky.
October 27, Memphis, Tenn, Helena,
Ark
October 2S, Vicksburg, Miss.
October 29. New Orleans.
November l, Jackson Miss.
November 2, Birmingham. Ala
November 4. Macon, Ca, Savannah, Ga.
November 8, Charleston. S. c.
November 6, Augusta, Ga.
November 8, Columbia, s. C.
November 0. Wilmington. Del.
November 10. Richmond. Va.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
NEW TARIFF BILL
BECOMES A LAW
UNITED STATES SENATE ADOPTS
CONFERENCE REPORT AND
PASSES MEASURE.
PRESIDENT TAFT SIGNS BILL
The Senate and House Of Representa-
tives Adjourn Sine Die After Be-
Ing In Special Session for
Five Months.

Washington, D. C.-The tariff has
been revised and the extraordinary
session of congress has been brought
to close. Both houses adjourned
sine die officially at 6 o'clock August
4. That is the time entered upon the
journals, but as a matter of fact the
adjournment was taken in the house
at 5:3S p. m. and in the senate at
5:5S. The closing hours of the ses-
sion were attended by scenes of a
most uninteresting character. The re-
vision had been according to the de-
sires of some and with the hearty dis
approval of others and the last two
days had been consumed by members
of the senate in expressing their sat
isfaction or dissatisfaction as the case
might be.
The conference report of the bill
was agreed to by the senate by a
vote of 43 to 81 when the vote was
taken at 2 p. m. and soon afterwards
the concurrent resolution making GER
tain changes in the leather schedule
was accepted by both houses.
President Signs the Bill.
President Taft arrived at the capi-
tol at 4:45 p. m. and entered the room
set aside for the occupation of the
president on the concluding days of
session of congress. His appearance
there, the first since his incumbency
as president, caused members of con-
gress to desert the two chambers and
form in line to be received by him.
There was a constant procession of
handshaking statesmen through the
presidents room from the time of his
arrival until his departure at $50.
Just as the hands of the gold clock
in the presidents room reached six
minutes past 5 the Payne tariff bill,
as the measure will be known, was
laid before the president. He picked
up pen supplied by Chairman Payne
of the house ways and means commit
tee and which had been used by both
the vice president and the speaker in
signing the bill and attached his sig
nature. After writing William H.
Taft" the president added, Signed
five minutes after o'clock, August 5,
1909-W. H. T."
oeHdlor MCCuHhuST TeSOlullOH pro-
vlding additional regulations for the
bill, amended at the instance of Sena-
tor McLaurin to include a provision
for free cotton bagging, was adopted
without division.
With it's members nearly exhausted
from the heat and the arduous labors
of the past four months, the house of
representatives devoted the last day
Of the special session to perfecting
the tariff bill and transacting a mass
of routine business. Speaker Cannon
announced his committee appoint
ments and these were received with
varying degrees of satisfaction.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
NEW DIES WILL BE PREPARED
Secretary of the Treasury Has Or.
dered the Mlnting Of the New
Lincoln Pennies Stopped.

Washington, D. C.-Secretary of
the Treasury MacVeagh announces
that he has decided to have the mint.
ing of the new Lincoln pennies stop.
ped for the present and that new dies
will be prepared as soon as possible,
eliminating the initials of the design
er, which now appear so prominently,
and substituting the single initial B
in an obscure part of the design as
recognition of Mr.. Brenner's work.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

Messina has had another earth.
quake visitation. Comparatively lit
tie damage was done, for the grim
reason that the destruction wrought
last December was so complete. But
SO severe were the shocks that, had
the city Loen in the former condition,
the disaster might have been on a
frightful scale. The circumstances
would seem to discourage the idea Of
rebuilding in so dangerous locality.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
Hartman Wants secIuslon.

New York City.-E. H. Hartman
has purchased three miles of a public
roadway from the town of Woodbury.,
Orange county. N. Y. and now 1t will
be impossible for stranger to ap-
proach closer than five miles to Mr..
Harriman's new country mansion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

The season is at hand for the an
nual Sunday drownings. Every sum-
mer the warning for prudence and
care is given, and just as regularly
the warning is disregarded. This sea-
son will probably have it's due share
of water-pleasure tragedies.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
wife Tried to KIN Husband.

Atlanta, Wildly flashing a
revolver, Mrs. G. G. Downs rushed
into shop and leveling it at her hus-
band, who was at work, fired. The
bullet went wild and before another
shot could be fired Downs took the
revolver from his wife. Jealousy was
the initial cause.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

The action of King Manuel of Por-
tugal in decorating his mother for
bravery in trying to defend him at the
time of his fathers assassination and
his bestowal of honor on the police
man who killed the murderer of his
father will doubtless make him doubly
popular. There is too much human
appeal in this tribute to mother love
and to heroism in humble life not to
arouse response in the popular heart.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
Many People Drowned.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Five cases of
drowning, four the result of Sunday
bathing, occurred in the vicinity of
this city. Eight bathers of New York's
thousands driven by hot Sunday to
the Hudson and the lower New York
bay were drowned, Six men lost their
lives by drowning in Massachusetts
lakes and ponds.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

And now comes the disillusioner to
remark that man-eating lions are the
old, decrepit fellows with bad teeth.
1t is too bad. Next they will be tell
ing us that gorillas do not twist gun
barrels around their necks.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

A New Orleans inventor claims
that he has wireless device by which
warships may be blown up at dis
tance of four or five hundred miles.
The best that can be said about such
inventions is that they make people
careful about giving provocation to use
them. Otherwise, they do not tend to
show the progress of the humane In
humanity.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

1t is said that the best residents of
Newport are to organize revolt
against freak entertainments, monkey
dinners and the like. They are join
ing the safe and sane procession, so
far as the summer season is con-
cerned. And the monkeys will be quite
as we'll pleased as the best residents.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
Thlrty.Flve People Injured.

Chicago, Ill.-An electric car filled
with laborers and with women and
children who had spent the day
in the country was struck by Penn
sylvania train here and 35 persons
were injured. five perhaps fatally.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

The Chicago University professor
who says that woman is to blame for
everything ought to be ashamed at
this late date to be falling in line with
the generations of plagiarists of Adam.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

A man has just died in New Jersey
who left fortune of 100000, made
out of penny toy shop. This was
absolutely untainted money, for every
cent of it meant child's happiness
given in return, which is rather rare
record as fortunes go in these days.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
Strike In Honolulu over.

Honolulu. s. 1.-The strike of more
than 5000 plantation Japanese lu-
borers which has been in progress
for two months and has caused much
loss to the planters, has been declared
OF by the Japanese of the islands.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
suffocated by Smoke.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Mrs. James Hens
Ter, 10. was suffocated by smoke
at the home of her son-in-law. Thomas
II. Marmey, during fire in the upper
part of the house.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

After having been caught in sudden
showers two or three times the intel.
ligent man learns to carry an umbrel-
la and thus bring on a protracted
drought.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

All the world loves lover, no mat
ter what his salary; but when he as
sumes the responsibilities of matri.
mony at SO per week society's SYM
pathy justly becomes desire to
sDank
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

Great Indignation is being expressed
in Chicago over high poker playing by
fashionable women and homes are
being disrupted. There must be some
stop put to this continual encroach-
ing by women on masculine privil-
eyes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

The north pole seems to have few
er chances Of remaining undiscovered
now than ever before since the world
began.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
TWO hathers prownad.

South Haven. Mich.-Miss Alydia
Johnson, Chicago, and George EngIe-
bracht South Chicago, were drowned
while bathing in the lake here.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

1t is all right to sing and talk and
rave over the scent of the new-mown
hay, but take thought of the chaps
who have to harvest it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

1t is said that the Cubans have no
love for Americans, which was to be
expected after we have done so many
favors for them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

The fine growing weather OF the
last few weeks will tell on the cost of
food before long, and the story will
be of the right kind.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13

Cuba has four times too many star
boarders in public office. They are
eating up all the revenues.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-08-13
RaIIroad aullder crossea pluIde.

Denver. Col.-Arthur 70. Welby, who
helped build the Denver & Rio Grand
railroad. is dead here.