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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
CONSERVATION CONFERENCE
To Consider Natural Resources of
North America Called by Presi-
dent to Meet in Washington.

Washington, d. C.-Announcement
was made at the White House on
Sunday of proposed plan for con-
ference looking toward the conserva-
tion of the natural resources of North
America, to be held at the White
House February 1S next Letters
suggesting the plan have been ad-
dressed by President Roosevelt to the
governor general and the premier Of
Canada and to President Diaz of Mex
ico They will be delivered to the Of
ficials in person by Clifford Pinchot,
chairman of the national conservation
committee and chief forester of the
United States, whom President Roose-
welt has chosen as his personal rep
resentative to convey the invitations
and to confer with the authorities of
the two governments. Mr.. Pinchot
will first visit Canada, leaving Mon
day. He will then carry the invita-
tion to President Diaz at Mexico City
The proposed North American con-
ference is the outgrowth of the two
conservation conferences held in
Washington in which the governors
of the states and the territories were
the principal conferees. At the second
conference on December 8, at which
President Roosevelt and President
elect Taft participated, representa-
tives of Canada were present. Out of
these and the general interest which
the people of the United States are
showing toward the subject of con-
servation grew the idea of North
America conference ''to consider
mutual interests involved in the con-
servation of natural resources and to
deliberate upon practicability of pre-
pairing general plan adapted to pro.
mote the welfare of the nations con.
cerned."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
MAY NOT MEET AT SALT LAKE
Refusal of Railway Rates May Bring
G. A. r. Reunion East.

Lima, O.-J. Cory Winans, chief
of staff of the National G. A. R.,
returned on Wednesday from Salt
Lake City, where he has been attend
ing a conference of the executive COM
mittee composed of himself and COM
mander-in-Ch Chief Nevins of Newark, n.
j., Adjt. Gen. Cole of Jersey City and
May l.. Gilman of Boston, president of
the Women's Relief Corps.
Mr. Winans says that from all pres
ent indications the next national en-
campment of the G. A. r. will not be
held at Salt Lake City, but at either
Cincinnati or Pittsburg. The action
was brought about by the refusal of
the Traffic association, which met in
Chicago last week, to grant rate cf
one cent per mile to the veterans. The
date selected for the encampment was
August to Ii, and following an Off
cial report from the Traffic associa-
ton, the governing body will meet to
select the next meeting place.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
RESCUE STATIONS
IN COAL FIELDS
UNITED STATES WILL ESTABLISH
THEM IN VARIOUS SECTIONS
OF THE COUNTRY.
ARE TO TEACH RESCUE WORK
Hope to Reduce Loss of Life
Through Mine Disasters by
Training Miners to Meet
Emergencies.

Washington, d. C.-Carrying out
its efforts to reduce the number of
fatalities in coal mines, the United
States geological survey is about to
establish rescue stations in the prin-
cipal coal fields of the country in ad
dition to the experiment station now
located at Pittsburg. The new sta
tions will be at or near the greatest
centers of accident and 1t will be the
purpose of the experts to teach the
miners and mine bosses how to use
the most approved apparatus for mine
rescue work.
Government mining engineers thor
oughly trained in the use of rescue
apparatus will be assigned to these
stations and they will be ready at a
moments notice to go to any point in
their district. The experts will be
equipped with oxygen helmets, which
will enable them to enter a mine at
once even though it is filled with gas
or smoke. These stations also will
be headquarters of the engineers for
the study of the waste of coal in min
ing one of the important problems
DclOIc lIt StOlOSlCdl survey.
1t is the intention to have every sta
tion fitted up with an air tight room
where gas can be generated. The
coal mining companies are to be in
vited to send picked men to these
stations, where they will be trained
by the government experts in the use
of the oxygen helmets. 1t is not the
purpose of the government to engage
in general rescue work, but rather to
demonstrate this apparatus until such
time as the mine owners have thor
oughly trained rescue crews at their
mines. All of the rescue stations are
to be erected in cooperation with the
mine owners and state geological sur
veys.
One of the rescue stations will be
at Urbana, ILL.,, in connection with the
University of Illinois. This station
will take care of Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, Iowa. northern Missouri
and western Kentucky. A second sta
ton will be located probably at Ra-
ton, N. NJ, to take care of New Mex.
leo, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and
Montana. The largest coal output in
New Mexico and Colorado comes from
the Trinidad field, which is imme-
diately accessible to Ration. A second
station is suggested for this district,
to be located at Salt Lake City, Utah.
This station will be central for the
several Utah fields and will be acces-
sible to the Montana fields and also
the Washington fields. The coal fields
of. Oklahoma, Arkansas and south
western Missouri will be taken care of
by station in the neighborhood of
South McAlester, Okla.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
PERSONAL.

Jack Johnson (colored) won the
heavyweight championship of the
world from Tommy Burns at Sydney,
Australia. The fight went IA rounds
and Johnson was declared the winner
on points. The police stopped the
bout.
Cipriano Castro issued a statement
in Berlin virtually surrendering the
presidency of Venezuela.
Thomas f. Ryan, admittedly one OF
the greatest powers in the financial
world, announced that, yielding to the
advice of his physicians, he had re-
signed from the directorate of 81 cor
porations.
II. Barr Elliott, formerly assistant
cashier of the First National bank of
Eufaula, Okla, was arrested on infor-
nation charging him with the robbery
of that bank on the night of December
IA last
William H. Newman resigned as
president of the New York Central,
the resignation to take effect February
l next.
John T. Atkinson, recently elected
captain of the Galveston Rifles, was
arrested by the United States marshal
on capias issued by the federal grand
jury at Waco, Tex, charging embez-
element of government funds.
S. c. Lillis, wealthy banker and
stock man of Lemoore, Cal, was SEN
fenced to six months in Jail and fined
$1,000 for illegally fencing public
lands.
William A. Dolph of the firm of
Neil-Dolph, lumber dealers of Mem
phis, Tenn, was arrested in San Fran
cisco on a Memphis warrant charging
him with embezzling $1,000.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
PICKED UP IN BUCKEyEDOM
NEWS cuLLED ESPECIALLY FOR
OHIO READERS.
Happenings Of Importance In Nearly
Every City and Town In the
State chroneled.
HAZEL CONVICTED OF MURDER
In the Second Degree for the Killing
Of His Mother.

Toledo. o. - After deliberating 12
hours, the jury in the case of Har-
vey Hazel, the 17-year-old boy charged
with murder in the first degree for the
killing of his mother, at 10 o'clock
Wednesday night returned verdict of
murder in the second degree.
The finding of the jury means that
the boy must go to the penitentiary
for the remainder of his natural life.
The court can give no other sentence,
but he has hope of pardon or parole.
In the latter case, however, the SEN
tenoe would have to be commuted by
the governor or board of pardons.
The boys defense was that he was
victim of adolescent insanity. The
verdict shows that the jurors did not
consiCer him insane, but at the same
time they did not believe that he delib-
erately planned to kill his mother.
Harvey Hazel was placed on trial No
vember 80 accused of Staying his
mother by beating her to death with
hammer. Robbery was assigned as
the cause.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
FAR LARGER THAN NIAGARA.
lsuazu Falls Are Easily the Greatest
In the World.

Larger than Niagara is the cataract
of the Iguazu falls, almost at the in
tersection of the three frontiers of
Paraguay, Brazil and the Argentine re-
public. The river takes its name
from Spanish word meaning great
waters"
About 10 miles from its mouth the
bed drops suddenly down a rocky per-
pendicular cliff some 213 feet high.
hence there is waterfall OF that
great height. At this spot a delight
full little island, beautiful with vege-
tation, divides the river into two arms.
so that the total width is about two
miles and half. The Brazilian arm
of the river forms tremendous horse
shoe here and plunges into great
chasm with a deafening roar, while
the Argentine side spreads out in a
sort Of amphitheater form and finishes
with one grand leap little over 229
feet
Below the island the two arms unite
and flow on into the Parana river.
From the Brazilian bank the,spectator,
e'' q hSiShI VI AoU leSl, SdLSS ouJ oNel
two and half miles of some of the
widest and most fantastic water seem
cry he can ever hope to see.
Waters stream, seethe, leap, bound.
froth and foam, throwing the sweat
of agony high in the air, and writhing,
twisting, screaming and moaning, bear
off to the Parana." Under the blue
vault of the sky this sea of foam, of
pearls, of iridescent dust bathes the
great background in shower of beau
ty that all the more adds to the riot
of tropical hues already there. When
a high wind is blowing the roar of the
cataract can be heard nearly 20 miles
away. rough estimate of the horse.
power represented by the falls places
1t at 100000.
Few sightseers ever catch a glimpse
of the great Iguazu falls because it
takes six days to make the picturesque
journey of about 1880 miles from
Buenos Aires, amid the fair fertile
plains of Santa Fe and the savage
luXuriance Of the virgin forest, passing
through the territory of the missions
and the ruins of Jesuit churches and
converts.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
GENERAL NEWS.

Tortured by lighted matches ap-
piled to his bare feet, III. A. Schabow,
a farmer near Curtice, o., turned over
TO robbers $3.50 belonging to an in
surance company.
Because Julia Pice, aged IA would
accept neither as her husband, Powell
Formich and Michael Milanovitch of
Cleveland, o., fought duel with short
knives in a darkened room. Formich
was killed after he had buried his
knife in the neck of his opponent
President Clement Armand Fal-
Heres of France was attacked in cafe
in the Place de l'Etoile by politician
named Mappis. The aged president
grappled with his assailant and was
severely bruised.
In a game for the high-school cham
pionship of the United States. the
Longmont high-school team OF Long
mont, Col, defeated the team from the
Englewood high school of Chicago, 13
to o, at Denver.
The Salvation Army prepared Christ
mas dinners for about 100000 poor
people throughout the country.
The United States Steel Corporation
is planning to build s10,OOO,OO0 town
at the head Of Lake Superior, about
six miles from Superior and Duluth,
similar to Gary, Ind.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas pardoned John
Collins. serving a life sentence In the
Kansas state penitentiary for the mur.
der of his father. j. s. Collins, we'll.
to-do real estate and insurance man of
Topeka. In 1898. One of the witnesses
against Collins has admitted his testi-
mony was perjured.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
London Landmark VANISHING

The picturesque red.sailed London
barge, formerly so plentiful on the
river reaches, is slowly vanishing. The
coasting trade in and out of the
Thames has been so bad lately that
barges have had to look elsewhere for
living. The London barge is the
most economic of all coasting YES
sels," says the Express. Her rig is
so simple that two men and boy can
work a barge carrying 200 tons dead
weight. Her shallow draft and ponder
GUS leeboards enabfe her to navigate
channels across which a man could
wade, and to answer her helm like a
racing yacht"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Farmers to Eoreaather.

Columbus, o. Members of all
the important agricultural societies
in the state will be in this city the sec
ond week of January to attend the
meetings of the State Farmers insti-
tute January IL and 13 and of the state
board of agriculture January IA.
While these two organizations are
meeting at the board of trade, minor
ones will hold business sessions at the
hotels. Among the latter will be the
American Delaine Merino Record asso-
citation, the Ohio Swine Breeders, Ohio
Plant Breeders, Ohio Jersey Cattle
club, Ohio Association of Fair Presi'
dents and Secretaries, American Ches'
ter White Record association, Ohio
Horse Breeders association, Ohio
State Horticultural society and Ohio
Agricultural Students union.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Will Propose New Liquor Law.

Columbus, O.-The Legislative com.
mittee of the Ohio State Hotel
Keepers association at a meeting
Wednesday approved resolution to be
submitted to both houses of the general
assembly providing for vote at the
November 1910, election on an amend
ment to the constitution licensing the
liquor traffic after the Pennsylvania
plan. The proposed amendment pro-
vides for the appointment by the COM
mon pleas court of non-partisan Ii
cense commission of four members in
each county, and before any liquor
dealer can engage in business, he must
secure license from this commission.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Worlds Sugar Production.

1t is estimated that the total pro-
duction of sugar throughout the world
is about 2,OOO,O0O tons per annum. OF
this quantity nine-tenths are afforded
by the sugar cane, 25,0O0,OOO tons of
which are required to produce the
above quantity of cane sugar. The
average Of saccharine matter in the
ripe West Indian sugar cane is from
1s to 21 per cent, of which only s per
cent is available to commerce. The
total value of the sugar in the cane, If
it could be extracted, would be about
$230,000,000, but one-half is lost in the
process of manufacture
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
NEWS NOTES.
FOR The
BUSY MAN
Most Important Happen
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Roosevelt received so
many kilograms urging him to pre-
vent the imprisonment of Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison, sentenced for
contempt, that he asked Attorney
General Bonaparte to go over the
record with him.
Twelve months in Jail for Samuel
Gompers, president; nine months Tor
John Mitchell, one of the vice-presl-
dents, and six months for Frank Nor
rison. secretary, all of the American
Federation OF Labor, was the sentence
imposed by Justice Wright of the su-
preme court of the District of Column
bia for contempt of court in violating
an order previously issued enJoinlng
them from placing on the Unfair or
I'VE don't patronize' list the BUCKS
Stove & Range Company of st. LOUIS
Mo- The defendants were released on
bail pending appeal.
President-elect Taft decided to visit
Texas at some convenient time after
his Inauguration, preferably at the end
of the special session of congress.
The Panama canal will be opened
January 1, 1916, according to an Of
fetal communication received by the
California promotion committee from
Joseph Buckline Bishop, secretary OF
the canal commission.
Andrew Carnegie appeared before
the house committee on ways and
means to testify about the tariff on
steel and made an entertaining but
not instructive witness.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Drew Illegal Fees.

Columbus, O.-S State Examiner
Mahaffev filed a report with the
state accounting bureau on Wednes-
uay which shows that Harrison county
officials drew $2,533 illegal fees.
Sheriff Martin was the chief offender.
the finding against him being $557,
mostly retention of unclaimed moneys.
The county commissioners and deputy
election supervisors also got in deep.
Commissioner II. ii. Finnical took
S204.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Supreme Court Decisions.

Columbus, o. - The famous Cleve-
land court house bond case was
decided by the supreme court Wednes-
day, the court sustaining the judgment
of the lower courts, to the effect that
The million-dollar bond issue for new
court house was valid. The court up
held the validity of law enacted by
the legislature last winter, giving rail-
road companies authority to charge an
extra 10 cents for tickets purchased on
trains.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Rath Me

lDdlh, MIC.
Query-Your pension column is ap-
preciated by the veterans of the civil
and Spanish-American wars. | am
making up a statement for the infor-
nation of our G. A. r. post and would
appreciate it if you will inform me of
the number of pension certificates is
sued under the act of February 8,
1907, to June 80. 1907; also the total
number of pension certificates issued
under all laws for the full fiscal year
ending June 80, 1907.-Capt X. X.
Answer-The number of pension
certificates issued under the act of
February 6, 1907, to June 80, 1907, is
120,355, and the number of pension
certificates issued under all laws dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30 1907,
236,516.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Breese, Ill.


Query-I am drawing pension under
the general law on account of the
death of my husband, who was pri-
vate in the war of the rebellion and
whose death was due to his service. /
drew pension for an idiotic child (who
has been in such condition since
BIRTH up to the time the child be-
came 16 years of age, which was last
year. Should application be made for
the continuance of this child's pen
sion, or does the fact that draw pen
sion prevent me from making such ap-
plication?-Widow Pensioner.
Answer-You should make applica.
tion for continuance of pension on ac-
count of the helpless idiotic child,
under the provision of the act of June,
27, 1880, which provides THAT in case
a minor child is insane, idiotic or 9th
erwise permanently helpless the PEN
sion shall continue during the life of
said child, or during the period Of
such disability" The fact that you are
drawing pension as widow will not
prevent you from making application
for continuance on account of your
idiotic child under said provision of
the act of June 27, 1890.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Burned to Death In Home.

Sandusky. c. Miss Bertha Iced
err was burned to death in her
home near Bogarts Wednesday night.
The origin of the fire, which destroyed
ihe house, is unknown. Miss Leeder
Sas Al years old and lived alone.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Shock Restored sneech.

AS the result of shock sustained
through falling into a copper of boil
ing water, boy named George Her
bert Foster, age IL. living at Spald-
ing, England, who was practically
dumb, has partly regained his power
of speech
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
100000 Fire at oneonta.

oneonta, N, Y,-'Fire destroyed
the Arlington hotel and seven other
buildings in the heart of the city
Sunday, causing a loss of 100000.
Many of the occupants of the hotel and
of the living apartments in the other
buildings had narrow escapes.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01

ouery-I am receiving $50 per
month pension. | have filed claim
for increase of pension twice during
the last year and each claim has been
rejected Will the pension Office give
consideration to another application If
file it? l am so crippled that l am
unable to help myself, and the $40 per
month are not sufficient for my sup
port.-Henry O'D.
Answer-The pension bureau will
consider another application for in
crease of pension if it is accompanied
by the affidavit of a physician show
ing that you are disabled to such an
extent as to necessitate the periodical
or regular aid and attendance of an
other person by reason Of the disabili-
ty for which you are pensioned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
PENSIONS /
Points for
Soldiers and Sailors
and Their Heirs
Copyright, 1905, by G. Il. Jonss)

Information for soldiers and sailors and
their heirs, who are invited to make ugo
of this column for such information as
they desire relative to pension matters.
Letters stating full name and address of
writer's should be addressed to c. E.
Jones, Washington, d. c. In replying
thereto, only the initials of correspondents
will be quoted.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
WhitestoWn, Ind

WHlteSlOWn, lnu
Query-My father was injured In
the civil war and died shortly after he
was discharged from disease contract
ed while in active service. My mother
made several attempts to secure pen
sion, but failed to establish her case.
Since then she has remarked and
died and am the only surviving child.
Was she not entitled to pension, and
was l not entitled to a minors share,
and is there any opportunity to re-
cover any portion of this under any ex-
listing laws?-J. H. l..
Answer-If you were under 16 years
of age at the date OF your fathers
the satisfaction of the pension bureau
that his death was due to service and
line of duty, you would be entitled to
pension under the general law from
the date of his death to the date you
attained the age of 16 years. To pro-
ceed intelligibly, you should ascertain
the status of your mothers claim by
writing to the pension bureau for the
same, giving her full name, the name
of the soldier and the company and
regiment in which he served and the
number of her claim. The fact that
you are now over 16 years of age will
not prevent you from making applica-
ton for minors pension under the
general law, but the fact of being
over 16 years of age would bar you
from obtaining pension under the act
of June 27, 1890.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Gas Fumes Fatal.

Washington, d. C.-Poisonous gas
fumes from water heater on Sun.
day caused the death of William Nc
Gowan, bartender, while he was in
the bath tub al lIs Icle In this city
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
New Head for otterbeIn University.

Columbus, O.-ft is said that
Rev. Dr. Lawrence Kiester, presi-
dent of Lebanon Valley college at Ann
Vile, Pa, probably would be chosen
to succeed DIR. Lewis Bookwalter in
the presidency of Otterbein university.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
Will Exhibit silk Plant.

A complete silk plant from the
worms on the trees to the looms, will
be feature Of Japan's exhibit at the
Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition at
Seattle.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1909-01-01
MOberly. Mo.


Query-My son served in the Span
ish-American war and was honorably
discharged. He died about three years
ago. l am very poor and have no
means. My husband is living, but he
is unable to earn support for us.
Please inform me if / am entitled to
pension as a dependent mother, and II
the fact that l have living husband
would prevent me from obtaining the
same.-Mrs. Phoebe T.
Answer-If it can be shown that your
sons death was due to disabilities con-
tracted in the service and line Of duty
and that you are now dependent you
should make application for depen-
dent mothers pension. The fact that
your husband is living will not prevent
you from obtaining this pension,
provided he is so disabled that he can
not support you and that he has no
income or property.