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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
MANY LIVES LOST
IN GULF HURRICANE
PROPERTY LOSS WILL RUN INTO
THE MILLIONS IN STORM
SWEPT SECTION.
CROPS PRACTICALLY RUINED
Dwellings, Cotton Gins and Sugar
Mills LeveIied-Miles of Rail-
road Tracks Washed Away
Shipping Destroyed.

New Orleans, La.-Gradually New
Orleans and the territory sur
rounding the Crescent City is re.
covering from the first effects of the
tropical hurricane which, starting
September 10, continued throughout
the next day and night. One hundred
human lives are now positively known
to have been claimed as victims of
the storm and 40 others are reported
to have been lost in lower Terrebonne
parish. Death list of gulf coast hurri
cane:
Terrebonnoe parish, La, definite %; re-
ported 40.
New Orleans, definite 8.
Premier, La, definite 4.
Deasir, La, definite 8.
jackson, Miss, definite 2.
Baton Rouge, La, definite I.
Vaudeville, La, definite I.
Bay st. Louis, Miss, definite I.
Donaldsonvlle, La, definite 1.
Gramercy, La, definite I.
Grand Point, la, reported q.
Barataria Bay, La, reported 1.
Passmanachac. definite 8.
The property loss will run into the
millions. Miles of territory have been
laid waste and crops have practically
been ruined. Dwellings, cotton gins
and sugar mills have been levelled.
New Orle,.ns is still sadly crippled in
the way of railroad and telegraph and
telephone communication with the
outside world. Both the Illinois Cen
trail and the Louisville & Nashville
railroads have suffered heavy loss,
miles of their tracks having been
washed away. 1t will be several weeks
before the latter will again be run
ming trains over their own tracks.
Pleasure craft and shipping of all
kinds in the Bayou inlets were totally
destroyed and the loss will be heavy.
Storehouses, sugar mills and dwell
ings of every character at Houma and
other villages suffered heavily and
scarcely structure was untuched by
the hurricane. The damage done by
the storm at Grand Island, Cheniere
and Caminada was very heavy but at
these places there was no loss of life.
The crops of these islands were to-
tally destroyed and the orange groves
were stripped clean of fruit and TO-
liage.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
NO WORK; LIVING ON CHARITY
Stranded at Nome, Alaska, 100 Amerl-
can Citizens viii be Brought Back
to Seattle by Revenue Cutter.

Washington, ID. C.-Stranded at
Nome, Alaska, 100 American citizens
will be brought back to Seattle on
revenue cutter. Telegraphic orders
have gone forward from Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury Hilles directing
the deputy collector Of customs at
Seward. Alaska, to have revenue
cutter proceed at once from Seward
to Nome, there to take on board the
men and women who are destitute.
The official advices said the party,
who are respectable Americans. were
brought to Nome by the Alaska Devel-
opment & Investment Co.. which, ac-
cording to the official dispatch, has
not paid them their seasons wages
and they are now depending upon
charity for sustenance. They are
without work or means wherewith to
return to their homes in the states.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
JUDGES THIRTEENTH CHILD
Rousins Younsster Has Whole String
of UnIucky Numbers Behind Him,
but He Is Seventh Son.

Atlanta Ga.-For the thirteenth
time Judge r. B. Russell of the
court of appeals of Georgia and one
of the strongest men politically in
Georgia, is a father. The last arrival,
according to information received in
Atlanta from the home of the Judge in
Winder, Ca, is strapping fine boy.
Although scarcely "a hours old, the
youngster is far more than the usual
every day baby boy-far more. He is
baby boy with proud record be-
hind him, for he is the thirteenth child
of thirteenth child on his mothers
side and the seventh son of a seventh
son on the side of his father.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
HERMIT TAKES HIS OWN LIFE
Head and Leaves No
Explanation.

Canton, O.-Samuel Mohn, a To-
year-old hermit, was found dead in
his hut near Mapleton by neighbors.
Apparently he had put the muzzle of
shotgun in his mouth and pulled the
trigger. The top of his head was
blown off. The gun lay by his side on
the floor. A note on a window sill
gave the addresses of four children.
Mohn visited the Lutheran cemetery
at Mapleton and cleared off the lot in
which his wife has been buried sew
eral years. officers of the church say
that the rules forbid the burying of
suicides in the cemetery. The coroner
says Mohn took his own life. Friends
say that if compelled to do so they
will bury him elsewhere.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
TEN LIVES LOST IN CYCLONE
over 100000 Worth Of Property
Lost in the Province of Pinar
del Rio, Cuba.

Washington, D. C.-More than ten
lives were lost and property worth
over $2,000,000 was destroyed in the
cyclone which recently swept over the
province of Pinar del Rio. Cuba. Com
munication between Havana and the
storm area in the western part of the
province was cut off except at two or
three points and reports of damage
are just reaching Havana.
More than 1000 persons are without
shelter or supplies. Several hundred
houses and huts and tobacco barns.
several thousand acres of tobacco and
many small vessels along the coast
were destroyed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
is GUILTY OF GRATING |
POLICE INSPECTOR OF CHICAGO
CONVICTED OF CHARGE.
Russian Immigrant, Unable to Read or
Write, Tells How "Protection
Money" Was Obtained.

Chicago, Ill.-Police Inspector I'D
ward Mccain charged with graft
ing" was found guilty by jury which
reported in Judge Barnes court. Sen
tence was not pronounced and will not
be until after the hearing or argu-
ments for a new trial. The law pro-
vides an indeterminate sentence in
prison.
The charges against the inspector
in charge of the Desplaines street dis
trict were the most sensational aimed
against a police official in years.
States Attorney Wayman charged that
Graft aggregating many thousands
of dollars had been collected from dis
orderly houses in return for "protec-
ton"
The chief witness against McCann
was Louis Frank Russian immi-
grant who although unable to read or
write, has accumulated a fortune Of
several hundred thousand dollars in
the West Side tenderloin. He and his
brother Julius for years have exer-
cised marked power in West Side
politics. Louis Frank testified that he
collected the protection money from
denizens of the tenderloin. The first
two collections he stated on the wit
ness stand were paid to Detective
jeremiah Griffin, who he said, acted
as agent for McCann. Thereafter, he
declared he had given the money to
Mccain in person.
The rate for protection" was said
to be $40 a month. Several checks,
each dated a month apart, and call
ing for that sum, were exhibited in
court. A list of women from whom
it was charged protection" money
was regularly collected was read in
court and identified by both Louis and
Julius Frank. McCann's defense was
that he had suppressed and regulated
vice in his district with so rigorous a
hand that a conspiracy headed by
Louis Frank was formed against him.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
Organized Thought.

To-day there is no such thing as or.
ganized thought The thought of the
world is tumble, mass of unsystem-
atized mental effort, with no meaning,
no sequence, no end, no deliberate re-
suit. 1t should not be so. 1t can be
changed. We have organized thought
and that thought can be moral, health
full, cheerful, beautiful, successful.
The world should have the benefit of
this truth. 1t is high time The Unit
ed States is in position to begin and
within a generation or two, yes, in
ten years, some pretty plain indica-
tions will assure us that by organic
ing thought we have added to the
JOY peace and prosperity of our coun-
try. Thought is a definite force. 1t
has been asked if there is any way to
avail ones self of it for ones advan-
tage. We can. The average thought
of the people today is what we may
call desultory, casual, without any es-
pecial aim and utterly out of harmony.
Nautilus.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
EXPLOSION IN FILM EXCHANGE E
From so to rs Persons Injured, Many
of Them Seriously-Monetary DAM
age Estimated at 100000.

Pittsburg, PA terrific explosion
occurred in the offices of the Co.
lumbian Film Exchange, located in the
Ferguson building, between Smithfield
and Wood streets, in the heart of the
downtown district. From so to 75
persons were injured, many of them
seriously, and the monetary damage is
estimated at 100000 or more.
The force of the explosion was SO
great that the south wall of the Fer
guson building was blown out. The
remaining walls were badly damaged
and the building inspector immediate
ly ordered them razed. Windows for
fully square on either side of the ex-
plosion were broken and number of
pedestrians making their way along
Fourth avenue, the wall street. of
Pittsburg, were cut by falling glass.
The explosion was caused by an cleo
trical spark. Practically every office
in the big building was damaged.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
EIGHTY-FIVE MEN INDICTED
Charged by the United States Grand
Jury with Conspiracy to Defraud
by illegal Use of the Mails.

Council Bluffs, Ia.-James c. Ma
bray and "a alleged associates were
indicted by the United States grand
jury for the Southern district of
Iowa charged with conspiring to de-
fraud by illegal use of the United
States mails. With the exception of
Mabray and three or four others none
Of those indicted are in custody and
for that reason the names of the de-
PENDANTS were not made public. 1t
was stated that the list includes many
persons known in criminal annals in
all parts of the country.
Although specific amounts are not
mentioned in the Indictment it is au.
thoritatively stated that the amounts
lost by the alleged victims of Mabray
and others named will exceed half
million dollars. The sums lost run
from $1,000 to 100000, the latter sum
having been placed on a fake horse
race, according to the evidence at
hand, by a Missouri banker. Victims
in 1S states. the territory of Alaska
and the Dominion of Canada are
named in the Indictment, indicating
the wide range of territory over which
Mabray and his associates are alleged
to have piled their vocation.
AS basis of operation they used,
according to the indictment, the cities
of Council Bluffs, Davenport and Bur
lington, Ia. st. Louis, Little Rock,
Seattle, Denver and New Orleans. to
which places it is alleged victims were
taken by the numerous "steerers." In
setting out the specific instances in
which violations of the postal laws
are charged, the indictment includes
copies of many sensational letters said
to have been exchanged between Ma
bray and his associates which refer to
alleged deals" and name various
sums of money as having changed
hands as result Of the operations of
those mentioned in the indictment.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
FATHER KILLED BY HIS SON
Boy Uses Hatchet and PocketknIfe to
Protect His Mother from
an Attack.

Coshocton, O.-Eli Davis, aged 40,
was killed with hatchet and pock-
etknife by his oldest son, William,
20 years old, at their home near the
Warwick mines, five and a half miles
southwest of Coshocton.
The father who had been drinking,
grumbled at the breakfast table about
the steak being tough and not having
any eggs. When he finally jumped up
with threat to kill his wife his son
grabbed hatchet and hit him several
times in the head, then stabbed him
over the heart several times after he
fell. The boy admits the crime and
says he is not sorry, as he did it to
protect his mother.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
LOST DAUGHTER NOT DEAD
Parents Learn That Girl Not Heard
From for % Years is Liv-
ing in West.

East Liverpool, O.-Believing their
daughter, Mrs. Frank Shull, dead
for nearly a quarter of century,
Mr.. and Mrs. David Smith of this city
were given convincing evidence that
she is we'll and happy, when her hus-
band, prosperous resident of Peublo,
Col, called on them and partially ex-
planned her strange action in not COM
munioating with them for 23 years.
Following her marriage in 1885 to
Mr. Shull, then C. G. P. fireman, liv-
ing at Wellsville, the pair went west
and from that day to this she did not
write word home. Efforts on the part
of her parents to locate her failed and
she was given up as dead. Mr.. Shull
declares his wife refused to accom-
pany him on the present trip east and
explained her mysterious action aB
simply an aversion to write letters.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
He Guessed Wrong.

Harold" says the young wife, "if
you were to become Mormon, and
were allowed to have six wives, who
would you pick out for the other
five?"
why" Harold muses., II should Sc
lect five duplicates of you, my dear"
Instead of appreciating his gal
lantry, as he had expected, she bursts.
into tears with:
And when we were engaged YOU
vowed I was the only girl ON earth,.
that there never was nor could be.
anyone like mel"
Harold exerts himself to soothe her..
and finally says:
you know wouldn't be a Nor
mon, anyway, darling"
With fresh outburst of tears the
grief-stricken wife exclaims:
"Ah! You mean that If there were.
any others like me you wouldn't marry
them! You brute! I'm going home
to mamma"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
MYSTERY SURROUNDS DEATH
Summit County Authorities Investl-
gate Case of Man Who Disap-
peared From Boat.

Akron, O.-The drowning of Llyod
Hollinger, young farmer of Clinton,
brother of Justice Walter c. Hollinger
of Barberton, is somewhat shrouded
in mystery. He was in boat fishing
in Lake Luna at Clinton. near his
home. when Jacob Herman and son
passed him in another boat and he
told them he wasn't having very good
luck.
A short time afterward the Hermans
looked in the direction of Hollinger
again and saw his hat floating on the
water. No sound from him had been
heard. The corner is investigating
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
FAMILY OF SIX MURDERED
Bodies of All but One of the Victims
Burned with Their Home at
Hurley, w. Va.

Bluefield, w. Va.-An entire fam
lily Of six persons was murdered
and the bodies of all but one of
the victims were burned with their
home at Hurley, Buchanan county,
W. Va. The motive evidently was
robbery as the owner of the house,
an aged woman known as Aunt Bet
ty" Justis, was generally supposed to
keep large sum of money about the
place. Mrs. Justis, her son-in-law,
George Meadows, his wife and their
three children were the victims.
Meadows body, badly mutilated, was
found lying in the yard of his de-
stroyed home, the funeral pyre of his
loved ones.
A search Of the ruins of the house
disclosed a sickening spectacle. The
blackened masses of half burned flesh
and charred bones of the two women
and the three children were found be,
meath the debris, each body bearing
evidences of murder committed before
the house was destroyed by fire. The
elder womans skull was upturned
some distance from the remainder of
her half burned body. Another daugh-
ter of Mrs. Justis told the police that
her mother had large sum of money
buried under the sill of the house and
they succeeded in digging up $3.50 In
gold and silver. The murderers are
supposed to have secured the $500
which Aunt Betty" always carried ON
her person.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
Really Unkind.

The hoardings on the town hall
were covered with advertisements of
the forthcoming concert, which was
to be given by what was described as
the cream of local talent. Lower down
on the boarding was small placard,
which announced, mo dogs admitted"
Evidently wag must have passed
that way after the shades of night had
fallen, for next morning the notice
referring to the exclusion of the can
inc species was found to be amended
as follows: by order of the b. S. p.
C. A."
1t was a nasty dig at the cream
of local talent, and it is reported that
one or two were quite upset about
it.-Punch.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
THE RicKEY AN INSPIRATION
Popular Summer Drink Evolved by
Washington Politician, Aided by
Barkeeper.

Ask the average man what earthly
use there was for the lime prior to
the advent of the rickey and he won't
be able to tell you. 1t belongs to un-
written history. Ask him also who in
vented the rickey and he will prob
ably say that he has vague recollec-
tion that it is in some way associated
with somebody-a man by the name
of Hickey, or something of that sort.
If only Col. Joe Hickey could hear
that! 1t would make him turn over
in his grave, for Col Joe was inordi-
nately proud of the fact that he in
vented what he proclaimed to the day
of his death the greatest of all drinks
the gin rickey, out of which came
all the liquid relatives of the same
family name.
The invention was an accident, pure
and simple. Col. Hickey had friends
galore in Washington = few public
men in those days. say 25 or 80 years
ago, who were not on such familiar
terms with him as to warrant "Hel-
10, joel Well, one scorching day
Col. Joe dropped in at Shoomaker's-
everybody who ever went to Washing
ton knows where Shoomaker's is
parched with the thirst of SO in the
shade.
Say, George" quoth Col. Joe to
George Williamson, the old time art
list behind the spigots, 81 want some
thing to put this fire out"
How about a little gin, colonel?"
suggested George.
Sounds fair to middlin'," replied
Col. Joe, "but don't you think it
ought to have something in it to keep
1t from spontaneous combustion?
Wonder how lime squeezed into a
bit of it would go? Sound cool to
you, George?"
ut mightn't be so bad colonel"
said George. "At least it's worth try
ing"
And hence the rickey of which Col.
Hickey was immoderately proud to
the day of his death.-New York
Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
Ex-BANKER IN CHAINS
PREslDENT-MAKER TO BE PLACED
IN FEDERAL PRISON..
William Montgomery Was for Many
Years Financial Baoker Of the
Late Senator Quay.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Chained to other
felons, william Montgomery, for
mer cashier of the Allegheny National
bank of Pittsburg, the man who is
credited with having made Benjamin
Harrison president of the United
States, was started September 26 from
Riverside penitentiary to the govern
ment prison at Leavenworth, Kan,
where he likely will be placed at
breaking stones to subdue him.
Like the lowest or malefactors this
man, who was for many years the
financial backer and confidential ad-
wiser of United States Senator Mat
thew S. Quay, was driven through the
streets of Pittsburg in chains.
Montgomery, who was for many
years the power behind the throne of
Pennsylvania politics, had been most
unruly prisoner in Riverside and it is
hinted that he was at the head of a
plot to liberate many prisoners soon
and that this FASTENED his departure
for the government prison.
Montgomery fought bitterly when
confronted by the United States
marshals and told to change his
prison garb for his street clothes.
No man was closer to Quay than
Montgomery when the Pennsylvania
senator held the Republican party in
the hollow of his hand. 1t is asserted
that Monty" induced Quay to favor
Benjamin Harrison for president,
which favoring resulted in Harrison's
election
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
Answers for the Anxious.


The answers-to-queries editor was
laid up with hay fever last week. and
the Office boy took it upon himself to.
answer his mail. For that reason two,
queries became mixed, and we hasten
to do our best to straighten matters.
as much as possible. Mrs. Lucretia
Buffem of Caldwallader, Kan, wrote
asking for suggestion for a party
dress for her three-year-old daughter.
and Mrs. Amos Skidmore of Plum
vile, o., asked us to tell her how to-
have her house painted.
We have tried to imagine Mrs. Buff
fem's feelings when we seemed heart
lessly to tell her to paint her little.
darling a dark green, with trimmings,
of olive and sage green, and first to-
go over the surface with gasoline
blowpipe and scrape off the old paint.
Also we have vainly attempted to-
imagine the surprise of Mrs. Skidmore'
when she read our advice to put her
house in slip of china silk, with
yoke of lace and embroidery; and
when she read further and found that
as experts we advised busting it with
powdered starch If it was bothered
with hives, and told her Furthermore
to lay 1t on its side when she dressed
1t, and under no circumstances to-
joggle 1t on her knees.
The paint scheme is for the house.
and the dress for the baby. of course.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
TRIES TO CREMATE FAMILY
New Jersey Man Sets Fire to House,
but Wife and Daughter Get
Out Alive.

Hackensack, N. J.-"I'll burn you
up and your sick mother" yelled John
Hayes of Ridgefield to his daughter
and then he set fire to the house. The
lower floor was in flames when neigh
bors arrived.
Miss Hayes, who is II years old, car.
ried her mother from the bed through
the flames. Hayes then attempted to
kill them with a rife. Justice Bratt
thinks Hayes is insane. When on the
way to the jail Hayes barred his breast
said he was civil war veteran and
wanted to be shot through the heart.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-01
STAMPEDE IN A
POLISH SCHOOL
IN RUSH FOR DOORS IA CHILDREN
WERE CRUSHED, ONE PROB
ABLY FATALLY.
BLACK HAND STORIES TERRIFy
Fireworks Set of In Street Led Chill.
dren to Believe That Rumor of
Threats to Blow Up School
Had Been Carried Out.

New York City.-Terrified by Black
Hand stories, 1000 children STAN
pede in a polish parochial school
in Jersey City when fireworks were
set off in the street below, and in the
mad rush for the doors, Ia were crush
ed, one so seriously that death prob
ably will result. The fatally injured
child is Mariana zelackshly Z years
old; the others comprise five little
girls, and eight boys, all ranging from
Z to 10 years in age. All are in Jersey
City hospitals, but it is believed all
will recover.
The school house, a three-story
brick building, is stones throw
from an Italian church, which had OBJ
tanned a permit to set off fireworks
during a church celebration. A rumor
got out recently among the children
in lower Jersey City schools that
threats had been made to blow up the
schools with dynamite. The children
of st. Anthony's school have been par
ticularly nervous about it, and when
the bombs went off suddenly later
they ran shrieking from their recita-
tion rooms into the halls and down
the stairways. There are two street
doorways but one of them was closed.
At the closed entrance there occurred
disastrous jam. Here several of the
smaller children were trampled into
unconsciousness, while others ran
back into the building and sprang
through open windows Is feet below.
Order was not restored until Ia
children had been seriously hurt.