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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
MET HORRIBLE DEATHS
PISTON cRusHEs THREE MEN IN.
SIDE ENGINE CYLINDER.
Machinists Are Caught in Sudden
Death Press When FIywheel Is
Jerked from Its Fastenlnas.

Canal Dover, O.-So quickly that
they were not even given time to
cry out, three men were crushed to
death as they worked inside the cylin-
der of huge steam engine in the
plant of the Penn Iron Co., when the
fiywheel of the engine jerked from its
fastenings and turned half round,
forcing the piston into the cylinder.
The life blood of the three spurted
out of the top of the cylinder and
splashed over the face of William
Dawson, master mechanic of the
plant. Dawson fell unconscious. Later
he was revived at the Union hospital,
not to consciousness, bu. to present
madness, for he raves constantly
about his part in the negligence which
left the flywheel insecurely braked.
Physicians say he may lose his mind,
or even his life.
John Gerbur, William Lang and Da-
vid Harry, the men killed, were ma
chinists. They were at work on re-
pairs inside the cylinder which is four
feet in diameter. The piston had been
pulled down far enough to permit
dent 100 men worked for an hour to
extract the bodies. The flywheel was
pulled half around again, and the pis-
ton brought down, and the bodies into
sight. Then they were lifted off and
taken in charge by undertakers.
The men had been at work at the
plant, which is owned by the M. A.
Hanna Co. of Cleveland, for several
weeks. Job after job of repair work
had been completed. When the 100
ton blowing compound engine broke
down they found that the seat of the
trouble was in the cylinder. The en-
gine is used to run an air pump
which sends the blast into the Besse-
mer steel furnace. Instant repair was
essential. The flywheel was turned so
that the piston came down below the
bottom of the vertical cylinder. This
accomplished. the three men climbed
through the narrow space between,
and then stood upright in the spacious
cylinder. They took an electric light
with them.
They had been at work an hour and
were hammering away inside when
the end came. Ross Curley a fellow
workman, had just stepped forward to
climb up and join his comrades on the
top OF the piston, when without a
sound the fywheel broke loose
jerked half around and then stopped
dead: The round, flat piston on which
the men had stood was instantane,
ously driven to the top of the solid
steel cylinder. Into space six inches
deep and four feet in diameter the
men we're crushed.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
J|LTED GIRL BLOWS
OFF HEAD WITH GUN
VILLA OF AN AMERICAN PAINTER
AT RoLl.E5olsE, FRANCE, THE
SCENE OF TRAGEDY.
GIRL NOTED FOR HER BEAUTY
She Served at Night in the Double
Capacity Of Domestic and Model
Was Thrown Down by Her
Lover at Public Ball.

WORCESTERSHIRE, France.-The viii
la of Daniel Ridgway Knight, the
American painter at Rollerboise, over
looking the Seine, was the scene
of a dramatic tragedy October 6. Ar
mande Pisoni, a 17-year-old-girl re-
nowned throughout the countryside for
her beauty and who served at night in
the double capacity of domestic and
model after being publicly Tilted at a
village ball by her lover, Gustave For
tune, returned to Mr.. knights home,
took the painters shotgun and, placing
the barrel under her chin. blew off her
head. Mr.. knight found the body of
the girl the following morning upon
his return from Paris.
Before killing herself Armande
wrote a pathetic letter to her father, a
chimney sweep in Paris, and to her
sisters, adjuring the latter to avoid
love affairs and never to believe mans
word. She also left a letter to Mr.
Knight asking forgiveness for the
trouble and annoyance she was caus'
ing him in committing such a deed in
his home. The coroner returned a
verdict of suicide during a temporary
fit of madness. When Fortune heard
of the tragic death of his sweetheart
he tried to kill himself.
The funeral OF the girl was the oc
casion of remarkable demonstration OF
affection for her. The entire populace
of the village attended tho services
and followed the coffin to the grave
Mr.. Knight paid all funeral expenses
He said that the girl had face oi
the most remarkable beauty he hat
ever seen. She was posing for pic
lures Mr.. Knight is painting which he
said are valued by him at $4,000. One
of them is for John III. Converse, presi
dent of the Baldwin Locomotive
| Works at Philadelphia.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
SEWER EXPLOSIONS DAMAGE
Windows in Many Stores Shattered
and Several People Injured on
West Side of New York.

New York City.-Nearly a square
mile of the middle West Side was
shaken by a series of sewer explo-
sions, which blew manhole covers
high into the air in crowded thor
oughfares. injured several people, did
considerable damage to property and
caused a moment of sharp panic.
Alarms of fire were turned in, the po-
lice reserves turned out, and factory
employees, shopkeepers and tenement
dwellers rushed to the open street.
Seven-year-old Emil Miller was
standing on manhole cover when
the first rumble came. He and the
cover shot up ten feet and Emil came
down about foot from the manhole,
out of which flames were pouring. He
was badly burned about the face and
body and was taken unconscious to a
hospital, where it was said that his
condition was serious. Large win
dows of many stores were shattered
and half a dozen people were serious
ly cut by flying glass, while hundreds
had narrow escapes to relate. The
police explain the explosion by the ac-
cidental ignition of sewer gas mixed
with gasoline vapor from the waste
discharges of the many garages in the
neighborhood
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
KEYWEST MASS oFWREcKAGE
Hurricane Strikes the Southern Coast
of Florida-Serious Tornado Hits
the Island of Cuba.

Key West, Fla.-As result or
the hurricane which struck the south
ern coast of Florida on October IL,
Key West is a mass of wreckage and
the damage to property is estimated at
$2,000,000. OF 100 local vessels in the
harbor but five remain at anchor, the
others having either gone to sea or
been washed upon the caches. The
streets along the water front are a
mass of wreckage. Brick as well as
frame buildings throughout the city
suffered alike from the fury of the hur-
ricane and many miraculous escapes
from death and serious injury have
been reported. Besides the several
score of residences either totally
wrecked or blown from their founda-
tions, nine factories were partially de-
stroyed, including the Havana-Ameri-
can, Martinez, Nichols, Ruy Lopez.
Manuel Lopez, Fleitas Toreys, Cortez
and Wolf cigar manufactures.
Havana.-The most serious tornado
since the big blow of October II, 1906,
struck Cuba early on the morning of
October II. causing extensive devasta-
ton through the whole western por-
tion of the island. In the city of
Havana many minor buildings were
blown down or unroofed; almost all
the trees were uprooted and five per-
sons were killed, one by an electric
wire and the others by falling build
ings. About 25 persons were injured.
The greatest damage done was in the
harbor. where 40 or so lighters,
launches and small tugs were either
sunk or blown ashore. Communica-
tion with the interior of the island has
boon interrupted except with parts of
Havana and Pinar Del Rio province in
which the orange and other fruit crops
| suffered severely.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15

The bureau of statistics at Wash,
ington reports an enormous increase
in building operations throughout the
country. This is another sure 'ndica-
tion of the revival of business activity
in every direction. When financial
stress is felt the work of building is
one of the first to feel the effects.
The Washington statement shows that
the value of building permits issued in
100 of the largest cities in the United
States for the year ended July 1, 1909,
was $2O.OO0OOO in excess of that for
the same period in 1906, when building
was at high tide. There have been no.
ticeable gains In other directions. but
in building the movement appears to
be veritable boom, owing to the de-
mand for increased accommodations.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15

DIR. stiles, chief government zoolo.
gist, has just given advice in de-
partment bulletin for the treatment
and eradication of the "bool1 worm or
lazy" disease SO prevalent among the
poor whites of the southern states.
The disease produces an anaemic con-
dition and an utter disinclination for
labor. Judging from the latter symp-
tom, it would seem that the lazy
worm" does not restrict its activities
to sections south of Mason and Dix
on's line. 1t is hardly lese majesty
to rise up and assert that it has incu-
bated in the municipal blood. in view
of the exasperating delays in various
movements planned for Philadelphia.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
MEN MUST BE SOMEBODY
Progressive Women of New York De-
eide that 1t Is Not incumbent on
Wife to Use Husbands Name.

New York City.-The New York
legislative league, composed of pro-
gressive women, has decided by reso-
luton that it is not incumbent on a
married woman to use her husbands s
name. While this resolution was
unanimously carried many prominent
speakers declared that at the present
time, with men in a more powerful
political position, it would be ex-
pedient for women to use some part
of their husbands names.
my husband objected to me using
my own name" declared Mrs. Mar
garet Holmes Bates, "and it did not
do him any good. / wrote and signed
my writings with my own name. 1t
is all very well in private and social
life to use your husbands name if he
is anybody. l don't see why anybody
should use the name of a nonentity."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
.F|NANC|ER MORSE
LOSES HIS FIGHT
SENTENCE OF 10 YEARS FOR VIC.
LATING NATIONAL BANKING
LAWS is UPHELD.
WILL APPEAL TO HIGH COURT
Respite Of 40 Days Is Granted Him
= While Out on Bail He Has
Nearly Recouped His
Lost Fortune.

New York City.-Unless the su-
preme court Of the United States re-
verses the decision, or the president of
the United States interferes, Charles
w. Morse, one time "ice king" coast
wise steamship line organizer, banker
and capitalist, will serve Is years at
hard labor in the federal prison at At
lanta, Ga. After having been at lib
erty under s125,000 bail since June II,
last, he is back in the Tombs prison
here where he contemplates the de-
cision of the United States circuit
court of appeals, rendered October IL,
sustaining the Judgment of the lower
federal court, which found him guilty
in November, last, of violating the ma
tional banking laws.
There was solace in the decision of
the court of appeals, however, in that
only ten Of the SO indictments on
which he was convicted were sus-
tanned and, on the strength of this, his
counsel, Martin w. Littleton, will i'm
mediately carry the case before the
United States supreme court on a
writ Of certiorari. To this end the
United States court of appeals has
granted a 40 days stay of execution
and pending decision by the supreme
court application will be made to have
the prisoner again admitted to bail.
Morse took the decision calmly,
though he was plainly grief stricken
and perhaps surprised. He heard the
news in the Office of United States
Marshal Henkel and was almost i'm
mediately taken to the Tombs. Mrs.
Morse was with her husband in the
marshal's Office during the entire
morning. When word came that the
decision was against him she said:
"All along we had the utmost conf
dence that a new trial would be
granted. The decision came as a
great surprise to us. But my husband
is brave and he will continue to strug-
gle for his liberty. Mr.. Littleton will
remain in charge of his case and will
try at once to secure Mr. Morse's re.
lease on bail"
When he left the Federal building
in custody of an officer for the Tombs
Morse kissed his wife and son and
AOuo uONh SletllS III Tue elcNdl IlS
was not handcuffed. A taXicab was
waiting at the door. He entered the
cab and was whisked away to prison.
One of Morse's keenest regrets al
being forced to return to prison is the
| interruption of his beaver-like strug
| gle to rebuild his fortune. Since his
| liberation under bail he had been re
elected president of the Metropolitan
Steamship Co., New England cor
poration. and of the Hudson Navigat
ing Co., operating a line of boats Oh
the Hudson. He is credited with hav
| ing discharged the bulk of his debts.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
GOES BACK TO PREACHING
Man Who Quit Church Because II
Didn't Offer Honest Living
Changes His Mind.

Lawrence, Kan.-The Rev. D. II.
Carrick, who has been in the lime.
light considerably of late because he
resigned his pastorate of the North
Lawrence Christian church to become
street car conductor, has given up
that job and will go east to conduct
evangelistic services.
Carrick had been pastor of the Law
renee Christian church only short
time when he gave up that place and
took a position on the street car line
as conductor. He held that position
for week or more after saying that
man could not earn an honest living
as a minister.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
TO PROTECT YOUNG GIRLS
Postmaster at Washington, D. c., Try
ing to Put Stop to cIandes-
tine Correspondence

Washington, d. C.-To protect the
young girls from demoralizing intiu-
ences attending clandestine CORE
spondence, Postmaster Barnes of this
city is seeking authority from the
postofIice department to materially
put a stop to the practice of deliver
ing letters addressed to fictitious names
by limiting the use of the free deliv-
cry window to any one person to 80
days. An investigation quietly con.
Quoted by the postmaster has shown
that of the 1,064 letters recently called
for by women at the free delivery
window during two days, Ill bore fic,
titious names, eight of these clandes-
tine communications being called for
by young girls under 16 years Of age
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
BLIND ENABLED TO TELL TIME
Swiss Matchmaker Has Invented a
Watch for the Sightiess that
Sells from 81 Upwards.

Geneva, Switzerland.-A watchmak-
er of Heuchatel, who recently in
vented a watch for the blind, had
scarcely placed his invention on the
market than he was inundated with or
ders.
The watch has no glass and it's face
is of enamel. The hands are invisible
and are placed inside the case. The
figures of the watch work automatical.
ly, appearing a little above the enamel
face as the hands pass underneath. \
blind person can with touch of his
fingers tell the time in an instant. The
watch costs from 81 upwards. Swift.
zerland, France and Germany have so
far been the chief customers.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
DUN & CO.'S TRADE BULLETIN
Every Large Business Center
Throughout the Country Reports
Progressive Improvement.

New York City.-R. G. Dun G Co. g
Weekly Review of Trade says:
From every large business center
throughout the country come reports
of progressive improvement in trade.
In most instances the reports are
more than satisfactory; they speak of
a present and prospective increase in
activity that is indicative of return
to even more than normal conditions.
In some cases tho volume of trade is
described as equal to, or in excess of
previous records. In the iron and the
steel trade full productive capacity
appears to have been approached and
the outlook for 1910 is very bright.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
RED men INCREASING
MORE THAN 100000 INDIANS IN
THE UNITED STATES.
Government Providing Every Means
for the upbuildine and Enliahten-
ment of the Race.

Washington, d. C.-The popular
idea that the American Indians are
decreasing in number is dissipated by
official figures showing that to-day
there are more than 100000 red men
in the United States. The increase in
population of about 10000 during the
last two decades is attributed to the
governments constant effort to uplift
the Indian to the level of contempor-
ary civilization. The government is
not only providing this race with it's
powerful protection, but is providing
every means for the upbuilding and
enlightenment of the race and is in
jecting into the Indians daily life civ
ilized customs and modern methods.
Three and one-third million dollars is
being expended by the United States
annually for the education of more
than 10000 Indian boys and girls.
Looking to the broader and prac-
tical education of the Indian the gov
ernment is extending it's system Of ap-
portioning lands. The cultivating of
these allotments by the Indians, or the
letting of them for short periods to
white persons for farming or grazing,
is matter toward which the Indian
service is directing much attention.
To encourage the industry of the
Indian the government has found
feasible the plan to cut down the num-
ber of approved leases on Indian al
lotments and thousands of Indians
have become competent to conduct
their own affairs free from govern
| mental cnntrnl
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
When 20 Send Children to Europe.


Some people wait so long before
sending their children to Europe that
the little ones are humiliated by others
who have already been there. Every
self-respecting parent will be careful
not to subject his children to this evil
dent injustice; at the same time all
unseemly hurry is to be avoided.
Some people argue that as soon as a,
child can walk well and speak a few
necessary French words, he should be
placed in a stateroom, next to a
private bath, and sent to Paris. 9th
ers feel that he must naturally lose
much at this age, and that the proper
time is between five and six, when
as an American-he has reached his
maturity.
Probably the ideal age is about four.
At four child can easily do England,
France and Italy, and get home in
time for the first night at the opera
Judges Library.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15

The frequent assertion that the soils
of the United States are w aring out
is not conceded by Prof Milton Whit
ney, chief of the bureau of soils, Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
He has prepared n bulletin in which
statistics of yield since 1867 are care
fully compared, and in which he ar
rives at the following conclusion: I'VE
are producing more crops per acre
than formerly. This is undoubtedly
due to better and more intelligent cul-
tivation, more and better systems of
rotation of crops and in later years
to the intelligent use of fertilizers
through measures of control in the
hands of every individual farmer" "
Much that has been said on the sub
ject of exhaustion of the soil was
alarming and even disheartening. That
Prof. Whitney sees no reason for a
pessimistic view is reasurring.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
TRAINS COLLIDE WITH CRASH
Seventeen People Were Killed and
Ten Severely Injured Near To-
Peka, Kan.

Topeka, Kan.-Soventeen persons
were killed and ten severely in
iured in a collision between freight
train and construction train on the
Atchison, Topeka e Santa Fe railroad
near here. The dead are eleven Mex
leans, four section foremen and two
brakemen. The injured are all Mexi-
cans and are at the Atchlson, Topeka
&s Santa Fe hospital. 1t is believed
some of them are fatally injured. The
work train was backing into Topeka
with 30 MeXicans riding on the fiat
cars. AS the train was rounding a
curve the north bound freight crashed
into II.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
COULD NOT STAND REvERSES
Business Man of Erie, Pa, Arouses
His Wife from Her Sleep, Kills
Her and Then Suicides.

Erie, Paired E. Link, of the
Link Manufacturing Company of this
city, aroused his wife from her slum-
ber early in the morning and quar-
rel ensued during which, it is said,
Link announced that he had decided to
end both his own life and that of his
wife.
He drew revolver and Mrs. Link
seized him and fought for her life, but
the insanely jealous man overcame
her and shot her four times, one bullet
penetrating her heart. Link fired the
remaining bullet through his own
head, dying instantly. Link had suf.
fered serious business reverses of late.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
True Representatlve Of Race.

DR.. Bethmann-Hollweg may claim
this distinction, that he is the first
German chancellor to wear a beard.
Bismarck hastened to shave his OFF
when he entered upon diplomacy, and
showed his rivals and enemies a
massive jaw and clear-cut chin; and
he shaved to the end, with an inter
val enforced by neuralgia in the early
sos. AS soldier, too Caprivi shaved,
all but his mustache, and so did
Hohenlohe and Bulow. But Beth
mann-Hollweg is gaunt, rugged, hir-
suite, pan-Germanic.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
WHEN SHOULD GIRLS MARRY9

A grandmother has undertaken to
answer the question in the headline
in magazine Irticle. Having had ex-
perience, she thinks she knows what
she is talking about. 1t is her opinion
that no girl should marry before she
is 25 years old. There never has been
and never can be any fixed rule for
the mating of human beings Ages
ago parents were the sole arbiters OF
the marital destinies Of their daugh-
ters. They gave in wedlock when and
where and to whom they pleased, and
the daughters had nothing to do with
tho bargain. The matter is one in
which there is pretty nearly indepen-
dence of thought and action on the
part of American girls. Parents may
try as they will to shape their daugh-
ters' love affairs to conform to their
own ideas, but it is a rare case in which
they succeed-and even then success
on the part of the parents is not a
guarantee of the girls happiness. 1t
has been estimated that woman's
chances of marriage begin to diminish
at the twenty-fourth year and decline
rapidly to the thirtieth year. when
they have almost disappeared. The
period of greatest expectation is from
10 to 23. 1t is between these periods
that the majority Of women must
make up their minds, and they do it
from the dictates of the heart oftener
than from any other consideration.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-10-15
FOOD QUESTION
Settled with Perfect Satisfaction by
Dyspeptic.

It's not an easy matter to satisfy all
the members of the family at meal
time as every housewife knows.
And when the husband has dyspep-
sia and can't eat the simplest ordinary
food without causing trouble, the food
question becomes doubly annoying
An Illinois woman writes:
my husbands health was poor, be
had no appetite for anything could
get for him, it seemed.
HE was hardly able to work, was
taking medicine continually, and as
soon as he would feel better would go
to work again only to give up in
few weeks. He suffered severely with
stomach trouble.
Tired of everything had been able
to get for him to eat, one day seeing
an advertisement about Grape-Nuts, |
got some and tried it for breakfast the
next morning.
I'VE all thought it was pretty good
although we had no idea of using it
regularly. But when my husband came
home at night he asked for Grape
Nuts.
II was the SAME AeAI udy anu L
had to get it right along, because when
we would get to the table the question,
Have you any Grape-Nuts was reg
ular thing. So / began to buy it by
the dozen pkgs.
MY husbands health began to i'm
prove right along. ! sometimes felt
offended when I'd make something l
thought he would like for a change,
and still hear the same old question,
Have you any Grape-Nuts?'
'He got SO well that for the last
two years he has hardly lost day
from his work. and we are still using
Grape-Nuts." Read the book. 'The
Road to Wellville," in pkgs. There's,
reason"
Ever read the above letterf A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
! lnterest,