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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
BOTH END THEIR LIVES WITHIN
A FEW HOURS OF EACH
OTHER BY TAKING CAR,
BoLiC ACID.
NO TRACE OF SUICIDE PACT
Unable to Retain High Standing In
Class at School Is Given as Cause
Of Deed Of One Girl, While
Love Affair Prompted
Act Of Other.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Mildred Brown, 10,
and Naomi Hayslit, II, chums and
schoolmates, committed suicide within
few hours of each other, each by TAX
ing carbolic acid. While the Brown
girl killed herself admittedly because
she had been unable to retain high
standing in her class at school, the
Hayslit girl killed herself because she
was in love. No trace of a suicide
pact can be found, though the Hayslit
girl knew of the death of her friend
and apparently hastened her own sui
eide. Mildred was small for her age
while Naomi was large, and the
strangely mated pair were almost in
separable. They each were orphans.
chums Have Talk Together.
The evening previous to taking their
lives they had long talk together at
which it appears their troubles may
have been mutually told. Mildred was
dsconsolate because she had failed
to secure a good standing in her high
school class and, what was worse,
Miss Nuenhagen, her teacher, had
complained to Mrs. William Stewart,
the woman who was raising the little
girl, that Mildred was not doing we'll
in her studies. The little girl, too, had
been accused of changing the marks
on her monthly reports from school so
that her foster parent, Mrs. Stewart,
might not know how poorly she was
doing.
In the evening Mildred bade Mr.. and
Mrs. Stewart good night, retiring to
her room, saying she had to study. In
some way she slipped bottle of car
bolic acid from the pantry to her room.
She rose the next morning and ap-
pears to have studied from till s
o'clock. Then after writing letter of
20 minutes after she was found. The
letter the little one left follows:
II will not live under the lies of
Miss Nuenhagen and my mother
say good bye to the following only:
Mary Brennan, Mrs. Liebert, Lillis AL
bright, Ruth and Virginia Liebert. l
know this deed will please the first
two mentioned in this note-Mildred."
"Put My Picture in Papers"
Mrs. Stewart raced through the
streets in her night clothing and bare
feet to get physician and fell faint
ing on her own steps as she returned
with him, but life had fled from the
little orphan. Miss Nuenhagen, the
teacher, became apparently crazed
with grief and kneeling by the dead
little girl begged her to come back to
life until she could be told that the
teacher meant only kindness. Early
editions of the evening papers carried
the picture of the girl, and Naomi
Hayslit, who lived with her sister
Mrs. Edward Baldinger, saw one OF
the papers and retired at once to her
room. Soon her groans caused hel
sister to break into the room to find
her dying with note pinned to hel
breast. The note scolded one oi
Naomi's beaux named George for his
fickleness and bade good bye to the
world. She made no mention of heI
little chum who had killed herself.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
SLEEPING WORKMEN BURIED
Dynamite Starts Landslide in Con.
struction Camp that Kills
Nearly Score.

st. Alphonse, Quebec. - An inn
mense landslide, started by blast
of dynamite, carried score of men
down the side of steep hill and
buried the construction camp of the
Haha Bay railway under tons of
earth and rock. Not a workman in
the camp escaped and practically
every one in the working gang on the
hill was more or less seriously hurt.
The men killed were asleep in the
camp at the foot of the hill when the
blast was set off.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
win Care for Injured and Disabled.

New York City.-By the pention-
ing of its employees. involving an
additional liability on the part OF the
United States Steel Corporation of
$9000,000 OF more year, Judge FL
bert II. Gary. chairman. announced
that plans had been perfected where
by the 225,000 employees are to be
protected in case of injury or disable.
ment, by an elaborately devised acci-
dent and insurance scheme free OF
cost to its wage earners. Relief will
be paid for temporary disablement,
for permanent injuries and for death.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
A Land of Hunters.

Germany is a country of nimrods.
There are 100000 sportsmen, which
means one gun for every 100 people.
Each year fall to the gun, on an av-
erage, 100000 hares, 100000 part
ridges, 100000 thrushes. 100000 rab-
bits, 10000 deer, 145,O0O woodcocks,
10000 wild ducks, $4,000 pheasants,
22,5OO deer, $4,000 quails, 13,500 bucks,
1,4OO wild boars and 1900 bustards. In
weight this bag" represents 25,O00,-
900 kilogrammes. The monetary value
is 32,oOO.OOO marks, or e1,2S0,0O0. The
sum received for licenses to shoot is
100000 marks. or f3OO,000.-Baily's
Magazine.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
klno EDWARDS Many TITLES.

Edward VII. Is "by grace Of God
of the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain and Ireland and of the British do
minions beyond the seas. king. de-
fender of the faith, emperor of India" T"
duke of Cornwall lin the peerage OF
England, creation 1870, duke of
Rothesay. duke of Saxony, prince of
Coburg and Gotha (the dukedom he
resigned in 1859, prince of Saxe-Co
burg SaalfeId. earl of Carrick, baron
of Renfrew. lord of the isles, prince
OF Wales. earl OF Chester, duke o.
Lancaster aud earl of Dublin.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
Four Mail Clerks Die in Wreck.

Memphis. Tenn.-Four mail clerks
were killed and three trainmen and a
mail clerk injured in wreck of pas
senger train No. 2 from New Orleans
to Chicago, on the Illinois Central
road, five miles north of Jackson. Miss.
The wreck was caused by the en-
gine leaving the track and plunging
down 15-foot embankment, carry
Ing with 1t the baggage car. mail and
library cars and two sleeping cars.
The wreckage caught fire and the
bodies OF the dead mail clerks were
cremated.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
Admits Killing Missionary.

Pittsburg. Pa.-After a vicious bat
lie in which he was severely hurt,
by policemen. Mike Shenko, 81. is un-
der arrest, charged with murder in
shooting Frank Skala, a Bohemian
missionary worker, as Skala was ON
his way home from church
where he had supplied the pulpit.
Ehenko was arrested on charge of
vagrancy and fought the officers until
help had to be summoned. At police
Headquarters. through an interpreter.
shenko confessed to the shooting, but
could give no reason.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
Two Are Dead In Feud Battle.

Lions. Ga.-As the result of a
feud battle here. A. s. Collins and
his son Marion are dead, James Lewis
Is dying and Martin Hill and Harry
Johnson. friends of Lewis. are badly
wounded. Collins and his son, while
walking along the principal streets,
were attacked by the three men who
had long been at outs with the Col
Inns family. The men used pistols
and the fighting was fast and furious
The elder Collins fell first. Two of his
opponents were then dropped by the
younger Collins.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
SLIDE KILLS TWENTY : FIVE
Avalanche Buries Dominion Train,
Englishmen, French Canadians
and Italians Perishing.

Quebec.-Twenty-five men met in
stant death when landslide engulfed
ballast train on the Transconti-
mental railway at Kakouiche, 60 miles
above LaTuque. Among the dead are
two Englishmen, three French Cana
dians and 20 Italians.
Because the avalanche carried away
all wires, the only means of commun,
ication between here and Kakouiche,
the telephone, has been put out of or
der.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22

OF scarcely less Importance. and
certainly of more sensational ma
ture because it was unexpected, was
the announcement made here follow
ing closely upon the positive news of
Senator Aldrich's retirement, that
Senator Eugene Hale of Maine will
also make his exit from public life
at the close of his present term,
which expires March next. Senator
Hale's retirement is not as definite as
that of Senator Aldrich's.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
-FOUR MEN PLUNGED TO DEATH
Balloon Is Swept in Thunder Storm,
Struck by Lightning and Gas
Envelope Explodes.

Berlin.-The balloon Deutsch, car
rying four men passengers and
sailing about 500 feet aloft was
swept into a thunder storm and
struck by lightning. The gas en-
velope exploded, the car was demol-
ished and the four men plunged to
death.
The fatal lightning strike came as
the balloon was passing over the viii
lage Of Reichhensachsen. about 20
miles northwest of Eisenach. 1t had
started from Butterfields in Prussian
Saxony early in the evening.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
Queer Attribute of salmon.

Only about 20 per cent. of salmon
spawn before they return up the river
from the sea, and those that do return
after spawning are coarse, and, when
cut up, white in the flesh; in fact, are
known as bull trout, for so-called
bull trout" are not different kind
of fish, but are plainly salmon which
have spawned.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
Fast Color EueIet

The genuine have W. L. Douglas name and price
stamped on the bottom. Take No Substitute.
Ask your dealer for WI. Douglas shoes. II they
not for sale in town write for Mail Order Catalog.
giving full directions how to order by mail. Shoes
ordered direct from factory delivered to the wearer
all charges prepaid W. L. Douglas, Brocktou, Masa-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-04-22
Important TO Mothera.

Every man should keep fair sized
cemetery in which to bury the faults
of his friends-Beecher.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS
 ITS OWN BODY.

Speaking of the recent dismiss al from the Christian Science church of one of the most promi uent figures iu the Christian Sci euce churches in New York City, the Baltimore American says:
 ''It is only just to observe thal Christian Science has thereby shown coherency and a power to offset dividing opinions that for the time at least, saves 1t fire Il the rock. Whatever may be the future of the organlzatiou when it shall lose the able leadership il now has is matter of uuprC fita. bic speculation. This, in com. mon with all movements of It. ligious or social nature, comes under the rigid behest of the higher laws of society. These laws, with absolute fatility, de termine which shall prosper, tli. or that.
 ''Thcse persons, therefore, who concern themselves in greal measure as to the future ot Christian Science might well Ia, aside speculation with the full as, surance that 1t has 70 other char ter than that which is held by al other churches ar social organiza tions-which IS the charter O service. Should this cease tn, organlzatioa would cease.
 ''Iu the meantime the healing of the schism proves that Christ ian Science has powers of healing within the organization as re mar kaole as the powers of heal lag of another kind to which it: adherents lay claim"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
LOUISVILLE NEAR COAL FAMINE
Cold Weather Shuts Off Fuel Supply of Cities on Lower Ohio
 River.

Louisville, Jan. 1.-Fast in tue grasp of the coldest weather in years, Louisville with several millions of bushels of Pittsburg coal almost at it's back door, faced a threatened fuel shortage.
 The Ohio river, which has for two weeks been unnavigable because of floating ice. was frozen almost from shore to shore for the first time in many years, and this condition, accord ing to the river men, precludes the possibility of bringing any coal down the river for a week at least. The fuel is less than l2 miles away at the Pumpkin Patch" the storage place for Pittsburg coal for Louisville and many points south.
 The minimum temperature in Louis vile last night was one degree above zero. The cold wave which has set the South shivering seems to have fol- lowed almost straight line from Winnipeg to the Gulf of Mexico.
 Jacksonville was the coldest place in Florida with temperature of 20 de, grees.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
MANY NEEDY ONES HELPED
Scene Around Charity Headquarters Today Would Gladden. the Hearts
 of the Givers.

The call of..the Beard of Charity for more clothing, bedding, etc., met with hearty responses and over 100 women. boys, girls and babies were made more comfortable today by the distribution of clothing, etc. donated.
 This good work will be continued through January at least, and if there are others who have anything for the cause, send it down by your grocer to the Boards headquarters, or phone one of the committee and the goods will be called for.
 It is not the purpose of the Board to help any but the sick and needy. but especially the widows and or dhans. The Board is gradually get ing hold of the work in systematic manner and wants the cooperation of all.
 The scene Thursday at the Board s headquarters was an impressive one tn the observer, and it is the desire of the Board to have all acquainted with it's work.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
PROSECUTE ALLEGED FOOD TSUST
The Kansas City Fruit and Produce Exchange Win be Charged With
 Restraint of Trade.

Kansas City, Jan. 1.--Acting under the instructions of Prosecuting At torney Virgil Conkling, M M. Bogie, an assistant prosecuting attorney, is now preparing a petition to be filed early next week in the circuit court to oust from Missouri the Kansas City Fruit and Produce exchange, indict- ments against 12 of whose officers, di- rectors and members were returned by the Jackson county grand jury.
 An effort will also be made to col lect s7,000 to $7O.000 alleged to be due in fines of from $10 to $100 per day The Fruit and Produce exchange was organized two years ago. If judgment Is secured, it cannot be less than about slo.0o0. The exchange is organized as a fraternal association by pro forma decree of the circuit court It's mem bers are charged with conspiracy in restraint of trade.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
GRAZING GROUND FOR GEESE
A Lot of Pasturaee Is Needed for These Birds of Christmas, Says
 an English Writer.

The goose is not commonly regard. ed as cousin to the COW yet one is about as persistent grazer as the olher There are farmers who won't turn geese into meadow because they think the geese make so clean sweep of the pasturage that it is spoiled for cattle.
 An English authority says that geese do not eat an excessive quantity or herbage if the goslings are killed oH the grass at the green stage or are Kept till after harvest and finished on me stubble. As for the common pehet that geese damage the pastur. age the same writer says that they destroy mainly the tuberous roots of the ranunculus, a weed which could well be spared.
 nowadays in England the green goose, or more correctly the gosling IS more generally esteemed than the rat goose of Christmas. says the Queen, and the lingering regard foi the Mlchaelmas bird is perhaps more sentimental than actual. The poul. tefers tell us that goslings are in sea. son from April to October, but from the point of view of the English ITO. queer 1t must be admitted that a nome reared gosling of satisfying pro. portions Is a comparatively rara avis m the earlier months and that from July to October would more accurate. " describe the English season.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
COMPANY MUST PAY P0LIcf
court Holds That Legal Execution Does Not lnvalidate insurance
 of Culprt.

Careful life insurance companies Fill do well to include in their queries o applicants for insurance a few as to what heredity has done for them n giving them 3 taste for harder.
 Have you haL any murderers iL your iamllyY might answer the purpose. and 1T the applicant knew of any such nearer than Cain it would be in order tor the company to turn the applIca. tlon down, lest the applicant initiate ois ancestor by doing something per. fectly killing. thus costing the com pany good money.
 A final decision has been issued by the United States circuit court of ap. peals, Judges Pritchard. Wadden and Dayton rejecting petition from the Northwestern Mutual Lite lnsur ance Company of Milwaukee for a re nearing in the case og the heirs of ] samuel McCue, former mayor of Charlottesville, Va. which means tha. lhe Northwestern Mutual will be iofced to pay the death claim of s20. 'l09 on the life of McCue, hanged at Charlottesville, Va, for wife murder
 The case was tried in the Unite states circgit court for the SNcster Nstrict of Virginia at Gynchbhhg fhere a1 opinion was handed dow; aFniahie to the insurance company he case was taken to the Unite states circuit court of appeals, wher, ! was brought to trial at the Noyem per term, 1908, at which time the de cree Of the lower tribunal was re sefsed. On December If, 1908. ths northwest arn Mutual, through it's law tefs lied a petition with the appeal late court, begging for a rehearing oi me case. This is the petition which $ refused. Judge Pritchard presided when the petition Tor a rehearing was submitted
 De decision is significant in that means that life insurance com pahies hereafter will be required tt pay policies in cases where the pollc, 'osaers have been legally executed.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
NlK0LA TESLA ANNOUNCES
 NEW WIRELESS INVENTION
Proposes to Light Entire United States From One Main Station
 Plant Nearly Ready.

New York, Jan. 1-Nikola Tesla, who has been at work on a wireless electric light for 20 years, announced that he has practically brought 1t to a state of perfection. He says a plant for it's production is now nearing com pletion at his laboratory on Long ls- land
 ''It would be possible by my wireless transmitter of great power" MT. Tesla said, ito light the entire United States from one station The current would pass into the air and spreading in all directions produce the effect of a strong Aurora Borealis. It would be of a soft light, but sufficient to dis tinguish objects. Some day my idea will be carried out. I would like noth- Ing better than to undertake to illumi- nate first the harbor of New York for distance of say 100 miles around"
 When asked how soon he expected to demonstrate his discovery in a com pleted form the inventor gave a hint of another invention already com pleted.
 "It will not take long to complete my plant" he said, but l am now copelled to concentrate all my efforts on the introduction of my new steam and gas turbine which my friends con slider the most valuable result I have accomplished. It has to do entirely with the great question of waste and believe will be tremendous money saver. Just as soon as l get it started on it's way I shall devote all of my time to the wireless"
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
Oddities in Invention.

Moving pictures are produced, as it is well known. by film travelling with intermittent motion before a pro jector or lantern which throws sue eessiye views on the screen. The same result could be obtained if the pictures were stationary and the au- dience itself were in motion. so as to view the pictures successively. An ingenious inventor has hit upon this scheme to relieve the monotony of subway travel He proposes to mount q continuous band Of pictures at each side of the subway, and have these pictures successively illuminated. by means of lamps placed behind them. The circuits of tlle lamps would be successively clos4i, hy means of a shoe upon the slhwav ear engaging contact plates at.sach side Of the track. Scientific American
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
INDICTMENTS AT KANSAS CITY
Grand Jury Finds True Bills Aoajnst Officers and Members of Prod
 uce Exchange.

Kansas City, Jan. 1.-Three off cers and six members of the board of directors of the Kansas City Fruit and Produce Exchange were indicted by the Jackson county grand jury. Roy Stearns, the representative of Swift X Co, and John Hoagland, representa-. tive of Armour Packing Co, also were Indicted. Both of these companies were members of the exchange untn ten days ago. Swift & Co. withdrew rom the excnange last week. but the Armour Packing Go. still is a member or the exchange. That will make m inference with the indictment. as Swift & Go. has been member of inc exchange for long time.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
DAVIS CASE DISMISSED
Man Whom He Thought He Had Fatal. ly Stabbed. Fails to Appear
 Against Him.

The case against B. w. Davis charged with assaultiug l. c. McCurdy near Quito several weeks ago, in which McLurdy was seri- onsly stabbed by Davis was dis missed in Justice Hays court Thursday.
 At the time of the trouble Da- wis came to Mena and gave him. self up to the law, believing that he had fatally wounded McCurdy. McCurdy recovered from his in- Juries, however, but for some req son refuses to prosecute the case. This was the third t.me set for the hearing, the prosecuting wit ness, McCurdy, failing to appear on both former occasions, and upon his failure to be present Thursday the above action was dismissed proper by Justice Hay.
The Mena weekly star., 1910-01-06
GREATEST TRADE
 YEAR IN HISTORY
Bradstreet Says 1909 Beat All
 Records.
BANK CLEARINGS 25 PER CENT
Value of Agricultural Products Was 12.6 Per Cent Above Best Previ- ous Year-Expendltures
 Greater.

New York, Jan. 1.-The greatest bus mess year in the history of the coun- try Is the record for 1909, according to figures compiled by Bradstreet.
 Total bank clearings of all cities reached the tremendous total of $164,. 900 0,O00, ,000, showing an increase of % percent over the record for 1908 and 3 per cent over the figures of 1906, the best previous record. The significance of these comparisons in showing the present state of trade is only realized when 1t is remembered that the busi- ness of the last half of the year over. came important deficiencies in the first half. The value of agricultural prod ucts in 1909 was $S,76O,OOO, 100000. an increase of 12.6 per cent over that of 1908, the best previous year.
 The years pig iron production, 25,- 100000 tons. was 61 per cent greater than in 1908, and fell short only few thousand tons of exceeding that of 1907. The output of copper was 1,400,- 000,00O tons, an increase of AT per cent over that of 1908, the best previous year.
 Foreign trade amounted to $3,226,- 100000, F per cent more than in 1908, through st2OOOO,oOO less than the rec ord year of T. Imports last year, amounting to $1,476,O 100000, were greater than ever before, and 31 per cent over those of 1908. Exports fell short a little
 Expenditures for new buildings in the United States last year were $S50,- 000,000, 40 per cent more than in 1908, and exceeding those for any preceding