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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
RAILROADS DID FAIRLY WELL
THEIR NET EARNINGS FOR YEAR
1908 WE'RE $e45,67e,242.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
Submits Its Report to Congress
Accidents Were Fewer.

Washington, d. C.-The interstate
commerce commission on Monday
transmitted to congress It's report
for the year 1908. The report states
that the temporary financial depres.
sion from which the country is now
emerging resulted in the diminution
of railway revenues considerably be-
low the high point reached in 1907,
the banner year in American railroad
history in respect to gross and net
earnings, as well as volume of traffic
In view of the widely circulated re-
ports that the loss inflicted upon the
railroads was SO severe as to warrant
universal advances in rates or reduc
tion in wages, or both, it is interest.
ing to note that the gross earnings of
all railroads for 1908, although $164,.
464,941 less than the gross earnings
for 1907, were $9S,S75,470 in excess OF
the gross earnings for 1906 and $342,.
15S,231 in excess of those for 1905,
and that the net earnings for 1908, al
though $111,051, ,006 less than for 1907
and S59,349,13S less than for 1906,
were $37,65S,504 in excess of those for
1905. These figures indicate thai
whatever may have been the fact in
individual cases, the railroads of the
country, as whole, did not suffer so
severely in comparison with years of
normal traffic and business conditions
as may have generally been supposed.
In the year ending June 80, 1908,
there was remarkable falling off in
the number OF casualties to both pas
sengers and employees, due to some ex-
tent to diminished traffic on railroads
generally. The number of passengers
killed in train accidents was 165 in
1908, as compared with 410 in the pre-
vious year. The number of employees
killed in coupling accidents shows a
reduction of 20 per cent from the pre-
vious record
The block signal and train control
board has devoted it's time mainly to
the subject of automatic stops. The
board has examined descriptions of
371 inventions and alleged inventions.
The commission recommended the
adoption by all carriers in the United
States of bill of lading which had
been agreed upon by joint commit
tee of carriers and shippers, and sub
stantially all of the leading carriers in
the United States have already
adopted the new bill. This bill is con-
cededly great improvement upon the
bills heretofore in general use.
The enforcement of the act by
means of criminal prosecutions still
continues to be necessary. Since De-
cember 1, 1906, 46 indictments for CIV
ing or receiving rebates have been
returned.
On basis of average mileage oper-
ated during the year of 226.121 miles,
the freight revenue was 81 ,665, 1882
passenger revenue $566,9O5, ,109, all
other revenue from transportation
$167, ,795, revenue from operations
other than transportation $24, 1892,
making total operating revenues So
424,640, ,637, or $10,722 per mile of line
The total operating expenses were
$1,695, ,1O1, ,S79, or s7,496 per mile of
line, leaving the net operating revenue
$729, 9,53s,75S. or $3,226 per mile of line.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
PERSONAL.

Frederick Corby Pole, wanted in
Montreal on charge of grand lar
ceny in the sum of $4,000, surren-
dered himself to the police in Cincin-
natl.
Fred Van Meter, aged 27 years,
was sentenced at Galliopoiis, o., to
life Imprisonment at hard labor for
the murder of his wife.
James Treadwell former millionaire
and promoter of the Treadwell mines
in Alaska, was adjudged bankrupt in
San Francisco.
BY a combination of the Democrats
and the anG-sdministration Repub,
licans, Edward n, Shurtleff of Ma
rengo was elected speaker of the ILL
nois house of representatives for the
third time.
Walter Zeller of Vineland, N. j., 10
years old, was found guilty of murder,
ing his grandfather.
Former President Castro had re.
lapse after being operated on in Ber.
lin and his condition was critical.
]. Harry Mcmillan. millionaire
miner, was arrested in Tonopah, New,
on charges of passing worthless
checks.
Former President Castro was op
Grated on by DR.. Israel in Berlin and Is
doing well.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
rhe Doctor and .ha Doc.

A family that lives in detached
house out in the Bronx telephoned
for their doctor. The call was urgent.
1t was late in the evening.
When the doctor arrived at the gate
the family dog was there ahead OF
him. The dog did not like the looks
OF man with a triangle shaped bunch
Of whiskers and black sstchel.
The doctor started to brush by the
dog and go in. But the dog soon
showed him that he wasn't joking.
Maybe they'll hear the dog and
call him off" thought the doctor, and
he waited. But they didn't.
There was Just one thing for the
doctor to do. and that was to go to
the nearest telephone and call up the
family. But he learned that 1t was
no easy job to find telephone. 1t
was then pretty late, and he had to
go half a dozen blocks back toward
town before he found a place where
he could get phone,
"Dog!" repeated the man at the 9TH
er end I'VE haven't any dog. You
must have stopped at the place next
door. They have dog. Now hurry
back here. New York Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
PENSIONS |
Points for
Soldiers and Sailors
and Their Heirs


Dewitt, Ill.
ouery-There is an old soldier in
this neighborhood who has not drawn
his pension since 1898, on account Of
insanity. He was pensioned at $14 per
month, but his guardian did not know
that he had ever drawn pension until
recently. Can the guardian do any
thing at this time to recover his wards
pension Notary X. x.
Answer-The guardian should make
application to the commissioner Of
pensions for the restoration of the
name of the insane soldier to the PEN
sion rolls. The application should be
accompanied by evidence satisfactorily
accounting for the failure to draw the
pension and showing that the disabil-
ity for which the said soldier was pen
stoned has existed in a pensionable de-
gree since the date he was dropped
from the rolls.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
rs DIE IN MINE EXPLOSION
Joseph Letters Famous colliery at
ZeigIer Is the Scene of Disaster.

Duquoin, Ill. "A disastrous gas
explosion in which 25 men lost
their lives occurred Sunday in Joseph
Letters famous colliery at Zeigler. A
spark from trolley pole of an electric
motor coming in contact with pocket
of gas is assigned as the cause of the
explosion.
Joseph Letter personally conducted
the first relief party that descended
into the mine to recover the bodies.
The lone survivor of the explosion
was an Italian youth who escaped un-
harmed. The men entombed were en-
gagged in clearing away the debris
caused by the recent fires in the mine
and it was expected that operations
would be resumed this week after two
months suspension.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
NEWS notes.
FOR THE 5
BUSY MAN !
Most Important Happen
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
EARTHQUAKE NOTES.

Congress unanimously voted $780,
600 for the relief of the italian earth
quake sufferers. In response to
message from President Roosevelt
Ambassador Griscom at Rome char
tered a steamer for the work of aiding
the survivors. He delivered to Count
Taverna, head of the Italian Red
Cross, $250,000 sent by the American
Red Cross. The king proclaimed mar
tial law in the devastated district, and
Messina and Reggie were ordered
evacuated.
There was the gravest alarm among
from Messina that typhoid fever had
broken out among the earthquake sur
vivors. Strict sanitary measures were
adopted at once in the hope of pre-
venting the spread of the disease out
side the districts devastated by the
earthquake. Earth shocks were fire.
quent at Reggie and the Canary
Islands were shaken. A third shipload
of supplies was started from New
York.
The American Red Cross steamer
Bayern, laden with food, clotnlng ana
medical supplies and carrying doctors
and nurses, sailed from Civita Vecchia
for Messina. American women In
Rome organized to help administer the
relief fund. Severe earth shocks were
experienced at Zermatt, Switzerland.
More earthquake shocks were felt
in several of the ruined Italian towns.
At Messina 1900 victims were buried
in one huge grave. Relief finally
reached the town of Villa San Clio
vanni.
Premier Giolitti, addressing the spe-
cial session of the Italian chamber of
deputies, thanked the world for the
aid given. The United States gunboat
Scorpion established relief station
at Messina. Additional funds were
raised by benefits, etc., in New York,
Chicago and other American cities.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
immigration Has Decreased.

Washington, d. C.-The annual re-
port of the commissioner general of
immigration for the fiscal year ended
June 80. 1908, says the year was re-
markable for a reduction OF the num-
ber of aliens entering the United
States. The total immigration for the
year was 7S2 ,S70-3O2, ,479 less than
for the year 1907. The net increase
ip population by immigration was 209,-
867, OF those admitted, about 26 per
cent were illiterate. The total amount
of money brought into the country by
arriving immigrants was $17.794,e26.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
rIRnp OF cokN.FIELp pgAa.
Amusing and seml-Trasio Reminds
cenee Of the War.

Several prominent ladies OF the
confederacy have, in the last few
years, given to the public their remin-
lscences of the bitter tragedy, the
often intermingled comedy, and the
ingenious makeshifts of their life In
wartime. Now Eliza Frances An
drews, in The Wartime Journal OF
Georgia Girl" adds another worthy
volume to the list. She shows, in her
record of the domestic hardships and
deprivations with which the southern
women had to wrestle, the same gal
liant mirthfulness as her predecessors.
Many of the hardships she scarcely
minded, but her soul sickened at corn
field peas
Ham and corn-field peas for dinner
one day, and corn-field peas and ham
the next" she lamented. Mother
does her best by making Emily give
us every variation on peas that was
ever heard Of One day we have pea
soup, another pea croquettes, then
baked peas and ham, and SO on
through the whole gamut, but alas!
they are corn-f1eld peas still, and often
not enough of even those"
The table generally looks we'll
enough when we first sit down." she
recorded again, but when we get up
it is as bare as Jack Sprat's. We
have some good laughs at the make
shifts we resort to for making things
hold out. We eat as little as we can
do with, ourselves, but we don't want
fathers guests to suspect we are
stinted, so Meta pretends to loss OF
appetite, while l profess great fond
ness for whatever happens to be most
abundant, which is always sure to be
corn-field peas or some other coarse,
rank thing that l detest. 1t would all
be very funny If it were not so NOR
tifying, with all these charming people
in the house that deserve to be enter
tained like princes and are used to
everything nice.
"Mettais delicate appetite and my
affection for corn-field peas are a
standing joke between us. She has
the best of it, though, for she simply
starves, while 1 'nawsierate,' as Char
ity says. make face at bag Of
peas whenever go near it in the
pantry"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
GENERAL NEWS.

The committee investigating the
Kansas state penitentiary at Lansing
was shown just how the old prison
punishment called the "Alakazan de-
gree" was inflicted. The committee
laughed and was rebuked for its
levity by Miss Kate Barnard of Okla.
homa.
BY means of two false teeth 1t was
definately established that Gideon
Browning of Adair. Mich, was the
man who was butchered in the little
Rattle Run" Methodist church. The
supervisors of ST. Clair county imme-
diately offered reward of $500 for
the arrest of Rev John H. Carmichael
of Adair, pastor of the church, who
was at first supposed to have been
killed, dismembered and then burned
In the stove.
Five lads In st. Louis were arrested
for stoning peddler to DEATH
Two men and boy were killed in
a New York tenement house fire.
Four sons of Christ Lee were burned
70 death near Rice Lake, Wis.
A new departure In Its proflt-shar-
ing plan, giving It's employees the privi-
Iege of subscribing to the common as
well as tue preferred stock of the con
cern, was announced by the United
States Steel corporation.
The Fort View hotel at Winchester,
KY, was burned. two lives being lost.
Henry G. Potter Jr., yice-president
of the Peoples State bank OF Detroit,
Mich, and former secretary and treas.
urer of the Pere Marquette railroad.
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15

A mail sack containing bonds, etc.,
worth 100000, was stolen from de-
livery wagon in the Chaussee d'Antin,
Paris, in broad daylight.
Kang Yu Wei, the well-known Chi
nese reformer, who was expelled from
Pekin after the coup d'etat of 1898,
declared that Yuan Shi Kai had
been dismissed from his high position
as member of the grand council of the
Chinese empire because he was in
strumental in the death of the late
emperor.
The body of Lieut. Foertsch, the
German aeronaut who lost his life at
sea last October, was picked up in
the North sea by the fishing steamer
Orion.
Harold Snowden, chief clerk of the
special delivery department of the
Denver post office, confessed that he
had rified scores of letters in the past
year.
The distress in Anatolia because of
the failure of the crops has reached
an acute phase in the districts of Err
eroum, Yozgad, Kaisarieh and Mardin,
and hundreds of persons are actually
starving
Six OF the eight night riders on
trial at Union City, Tenn, were found
guilty of murder In the first degree
and the other two were given 20
years In the penitentiary for murder
in the second degree.
Three fires in the downtown Sec
tion of New York destroyed property
valued at $1.250000.
Hussein Kiazim bly,, the first Turk
ish ambassador to the United States,
arrived from Europe.
A thousand mutinous Chinese sol
diers fought with government troops
near Mukden and the latter were re-
ported to have been defeated with q
loss of so men.
+. B. Signor of Oakland, Cal, was
| arrested on complaint of James II.
Murray. a multi-millionaire banker, on
charges of committing forgeries ag-
gregating about $1,000.000. He con-
| fessed.
Count" Louis Hamon, formerly
known in America and Europe as
"Cheiro. the Palmist." and before that
as plain John Warner. is fuS I've
from France. being charged with ym-
| bezzlement. -
Melvin W. Sheppard. Fred Bellares,
George V. Bonhag. Charles j. Bacon,
Harry Porter and John Lee, the anna
teur athletes who recently were sus-
pended by the registration committee
OF the A. A. u. for alleged profession-
alism, were reinstated
A party of Dominion government
surveyors, who arrived at Winnipeg
from Fort Churchill, Hudson bay,
brought with them report of the dis.
appearance of party which was sent
out by Maj. Moody of the mounted
police in search of Inspector Peltier
and his party of Eskimos. who also
] have apparently been lost,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15

Washington. d, CATER long
period of hard. patient work. that on
some features ran into years, secre-
tary of State Root and Ambassador
James Bryce of Great Britain Mon
day night signed treaty for the set
tlement OF international differences
between the United States and Can
ada. This is the agreement which
has been popularly alluded to as the
waterways treaty" but Its scope is
broader, 1t contemplates disposition
OF, everything in the nature of differ
ences between the two countries.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Afte" having made him the target
ali day for criticism, with here and
there words of commentator, the
house of representatives by vote Of
212 to 35 rebuked the president by
tabling so much OF his message as re-
flected on members of congress re-
garding the secret service detectives,
and also declaring 1t to be the sense
OF the house hat they shall decline to
consider any communication from any
source which is not in its own judg-
ment respectful.
Senator Culberson's resolution in
structing the committee on the judi
ciary to report whether the president
had authority to permit the absorp-
ton of the Tennessee Coal & Iron
Company by the United States Steel
corporation was adopted by the SEN
ate.
President Roosevelt made public
the results of an investigation by
secret service men, showing Senator
Tillman's connection with an alleged
land grab"
BY direction of President Roose-
welt, secret service men shadowed
Senator Tillman of South Carolina on
the theory that he possibly was in
terested in an Oregon land grab," and
the result of that investigation is be-
fore the senate, which has not made
1t public.
President Roosevelt informed the
senate in no uncertain terms that he
had given his approval to the absorp-
ton of the Tennessee Coal & Iron
Company by the United States Steel
corporation and that he had instructed
Attorney General Bonaparte not to re-
spond to the senate inquiry as to the
reason for his failure to prosecute the
steel company.
The United States, Colombia and
Panama signed a treaty whereby all
matters in controversy between them
were settled.
the rank Of rear admiral are to under
go physical tests.
The supreme court of the United
States refused to review the S29,000,-
600 fine case of the Standard Oil Com
pany, rejecting the governments petit
ton for writ of cerborari.
BY a divided court the supreme
court of the United States decided the
rebate case brought by the govern
ment against the Chicago & Alton
Railway Company and Vice.President
Faithorn and Treasurer Wann of that
company, in favor of the government.
The federal grand jury in Washing
ton returned an indictment against
Jules M. Waterbury, charging him
with false pretenses in the securing of
money from United States Senator
Burrows of Michigan, Representatives
Hull of Iowa and Bartholdt of Mis-
souri,, and Assistant Attorney General
Ormsby McHarg.
The country's forests now cover
100000 acres, or one-fourth of the
total area of the United States, ac-
cording to data compiled by forest
service agents. One-fourth the total
forest area is owned by the govern
ment.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
CHURCH CoLLAPSES, KILLS 40
Worshipers Buried in Wreck Of
Ancient Edfice in Switzerland.

Berne, Switzerland.-Durin divine
services on Sunday an ancient
church near Sion suddenly collapsed,
burying the worshipers in the ruins.
Practically all the members OF the
congregation were killed or injured. A
wild panic followed, those who escaped
rushing through the fields shouting
that an earthquake had oyertaken the
village.
After an hours exertions the fire
company of the place extricated 40
corpses, but 1t is believed that there
are still number under the timbers.
Sixty persons were badly injured. The
collapse of the church was caused by
the time-worn pillars in the under
ground crypt giving way.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
Baltimore. Md.

WI.
Query-My husband was pensioner
at the time of his death, but just be-
fore he died he received his check for
the quarterly payment. He did not
lndorse the check which was for 500
Can the check now be collected by his
family, which consists only of myself
He had no children or other relatives.
Is it a fact that am not entitled to
widows pension, as he was accidental
ly killed and I did not marry him un-
til 1896? But what then becomes of
the check and the pension due for IT
days that elapsed from the date of his
quarterly payment until the day of
his death Mrs. Jane d. w.
Answer-The check is a part of the
estate of the soldier and you should
make application to the auditor for the
interior department, Washington, d.
c., for the payment of the same. You
should also make application to the
pension bureau for the accrued pen
sion due the soldier from the date of
last quarterly payment to the time Of
his death. You have no title to
widows pension under the general law,
as the soldiers death was not due to
service and line of duty and you have
no title to widows pension under the
act of April 10, 1908, as your marriage
to said soldier occurred subsequent to
June 27, 1890.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
On the Corner.

Tom-It was a case of love at first
sight with me.
Jack-Then why didn't you marry
her?
Tom-Oh, / saw her on several oc-
casions after that!
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15

Trenton, Ill.
ouery-I am now receiving $40 per
month pension and have heard that
am going to be dropped from the
pension rolls. l have received no
word from the pension office about
the matter. VIII 1t be necessary for
me to take any steps in the case or
will be dropped from the rolls with
out notice? Please tell me what to
do, as I am entirely dependent upon
my pension and cannot afford to lose
1t by waiting.-J. j. II.
Answer-H the pension bureau con.
templates dropping your name from
the pension rolls. you will be given 80
days notice containing full state.
ment of any charges or allegations as
to why your name should be dropped
from the pension rolls or your pension
disturbed OF modified. 1t will there.
fore not be necessary for you to take
any steps in the matter until you re.
ceive such notice from the pension
bureau
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
THE MARKETS.


Financial.
New York. Jan. 12.-Money-on call
easy at Ia @2A per cent. Prime mer-
camille paper SO. IA per cent Sterling
exchange S4.S7.50 for demand.
Government bonds steady.
Grain, Provisions and Live Stock.
Flour-Dul; Minnesota patents $3.50
565.
wheat-No. 2 red sl.o6% @1O7S eieva-
tor.
Corp-New No at 6Skc.
Oats-Mixed 54Q54hc.
Hay-Quiet good to choice Sl700.
Cattle-Steers 1926 q6.75. veals $1,000
1925.
sheep-steady at ss.OO@5.OO, lambs
Hogs-No sales reported
Cleveland, Jan. 12.1Flour-MinnesOtA
spring patents $5.50@6.30
Wheat-No. red $1.05A
Corn-New No. 3 yellow 62%c.
Oats-No. white $3.50
Butter-Best creamery 34c.
Cheese-York state 15hc.
Eggs-Strictly fresh 32c.
Potatoes-Best grades 90c.
Hay-No. timothy $12.75.
Cattle-Best steers s6.O0@6.5O, calves
so. 9.00@9.50
Sheep-Choice wethers s5.25 $3.50. lambs
$7.65@7.85
Hogs-Heavy Yorkers $500. pigs $3.50.
Toledo. Jan. 19.-wheat-Cash sl.O6.
Corn-Cash 61kc.
Oats--Cash 52c.
Cloverseed-Cash S5.55.
Buffalo, Jan. 12.--Cattle-Export cattle
Sc. .00GD6.75, veals $9.0OQ9.75.
Hogs-steady Workers s5.so@e.1o. pigs
$575.
sheep-wethers s54oQ5.75. lambs $3.50
@7.65.
Pittsburg. Jan. ~. Cattle - Steady,
choice steers $6.30@6.50 yeals SO. .60GD9 so.
Hogs-Iieayy Workers. s5.s5@e.oO. pigs
tb,50Q Q5.dk.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
Knew the Sex.

Knew the SeN.
He (at the theater)-This is a play
that should appeal to women.
She-Why do you think so?
He-The plot is full OF flaws, and
nothing delights woman more than
to pick them.-Chicago Daily News.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15
Whale CAUGHT In Net.

A bottle-nosed whale, 20 feet long,
was caught the other day at Torcross.
Devonshire, England, in a dragnet.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-15

DeITOIt, MICH.
ouery-I believe that am entitled
to bounty-land warrant on account OF
my fathers service in an old war. II
write to the pension office about the
matter will | be informed as to
whether am entitled to the same
Abel X. I.
Answer-The pension bureau will
not pass upon the title of an individual
to bounty-land prior to the filing OF
claim therefor. 1t will therefore be
necessary for you to file an application
for bounty-land warrant to enable the
bureau to determine your title to the
same.