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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
GUFFEY IN RECEIVERS HANDS
Inability to Realize on Assets Which
Consist Largely of Coal Lands
Said to be Reason.

Pittsburg, Pa-The business af-
fairs of Col. James M. Guffey, Demo
affairs of Col James M. Guffey, Demo
cratic leader of Pennsylvania, mem
ber of the Democratic national COM
mittee and one of the best known oil
and coal men of the entire country,
have been placed in the hands of
receiver. The assets of Colonel Cuff
fey are estimated at $17,O00,000; his
liabilities are less than $7,00O,000. In
ability to realize on his assets, which
consist largely of coal lands in West
Virginia, is said to be the reason for
Mr.. Guffey's embarrassment.
The receivership proceedings when
made public caused somewhat of a
sensation. John H. Galley, one of Mr..
Guffey's creditors and former busi-
ness partner, went into common pleas
court No. and asked for a receiver
for the oil and coal king. John S.
Willard of Pittsburg was appointed
receiver and was placed under $780,
600 bonds by the courts, the American
Security Co. of New York furnishing
the bond. Colonel Guffey issued a
statement expressing regret, but says
that it would afford protection to him
self as we'll as to all of his creditors.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
UN|ONIzE UNORGANRED LABOR
John Mitchell Issues a General APP
peal to Members of American
Federation of Labor.

New York City-Vice President
John Mitchell of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor has issued a general
appeal to the 100000 members of
the federation to constitute them
selves each committee of one to or,
ganize the 2O,OO0,OOO unorganized la
borers of the country. "If the 3,O0O,-
600 organized workers of this coun-
try could be awakened to sense of
their personal responsibility" Vice
President Mitchell said, IF each one
of them should become imbued with
a realization of his own strength,
and if these forces were applied intel
ligently and enthusiastically how
long would it be until every man and
woman working for wages would be
a member of a union?"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
SOFT, WHITE HANDS
May Be Obtained In One Night.

For preserving the hands as we'll
as for preventing redness, roughness,
and chapping, and imparting that vel
vety softness and whiteness much de-
sired by women Cuticura Soap, assist
ed by Cuticura Ointment, is believed
to be superior to all other skin soaps.
For those who work in corrosive
liquids, or at occupations which tend
to injure the hands, 1t is invaluable.
Treatment-Bathe and soak the
hands on retiring in a strong, hot,
creamy lather Of Cuticura Soap. Dry
and anoint freely with Cuticura Oint-
ment, and in severe cases spread the
Cuticura Ointment on thin pieces Of
old linen or cotton. Wear during the
night old, loose gloves, or light BAN
dage Of old cotton or linen to protect
the clothing from stain. For red,
rough, and chapped hands, dry, fis-
sured, itching, feverish palms, and
shapeless nails with painful finger
ends. this treatment is most effective.
Cuticura Remedies are sold through
out the world. Potter Drug & Chem.
Corp. sole proprietors, Boston, Mass.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
e,722 Killed on RalIroads.

Washington. d. C.-The total num-
Der of casualties to persons ON the
railways for the year ending June 80,
1909, was 104.34S, of which 5,722 per-
sons were killed and 95,626 injured,
according to an announcement of the
Interstate Commerce Commission. OF
those killed 253 were passengers. OF
the injured 10,311 were passengers.
The number killed while trespasslng,
stealing rides or run down at railroad
crossings was $3.50 and those injured
10.309. One passenger was killed for
every 3,523. .606 carried.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
RAILROAD HEADAND
EMPLOYEES AGREE
THREATENED STRIKE ON PENN
SYLVANlA LINES EAST OF
PITTS5URG is AvERTED.
BOTH SIDES CLAIM THEY WON
Company Claims Arrangements Made
Is Exactly What Was Offered
While Men Declare Railroad
Accepted Their Contention.

Philadelphia, Pa.-With both sides
strike of the conductors and
trainmen on the Pennsylvania rail.
road east of Pittsburg was amicably
settled when the employees general
committee met with General Manager
Myers and agreed upon a basis of
wages and working conditions. Ac.
cording to the company the arrange.
ment made is exactly what was offered
when the men first gave vent to
dissatisfaction as to the present con-
ditions. On the other hand the mem
bers of the committee declared that
the company had accepted the princi-
pie for which the men were fighting
namely the Standardization of work
ing conditions.
What was actually agreed upon at
the conference was the adoption of
the exception of those cases where
men were formerly getting higher
than the award. In these instances
the rates of wage and the hours of
working were allowed to stand un-
changed. The chief point won by the
men was the agreement on the part
of the company to establish a 10 hour
working day, and to pay a full days
wage to any man working any part of
10 hours. The men declare that this
is concession from the company, but
the company declares that this was
offered originally and tnat it has not
receded in its position in order to
make this change.
The main point won by the company
was the retention of the IL hour day
for men receiving IL hour rates. 1t
was originally understood that the
men wanted 10 hour day with IL
hour rates, but the men denied today
that they had ever asked this con-
cession. They said that they were
willing to allow IL hour day in some
instances where the pay is much
higher provided that the 10 hour day
was installed where the pay is lower.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
W0MAN'S BODY IS DISSECTED
Police Are Trying to Arrest Man
Who Is Believed to Have Muir
dered His Wife.

London, England.-Investigat of
the murder of Belle Elmore, an Amer
ican actress, whose body was discov-
cred beneath the cement flooring of
her husbands home at 80 Hilldrop
Crescent, indicates that the crime was
attended with extraordinary brutality
and callousness. Efforts are now be-
ing centered on the arrest of her hus-
band, DIR. Hawley Harvey Crippen,
also an American. The remains un-
earthed under the cellar flooring have
been removed. They are unrecogniz-
able. Doctor Pepper, London Grim
inologist, who has assisted the police
in solving former crimes, has made a
careful examination of the body and is
searching for traces of poison. But
for the fact that the head is disfgured
proof that would at present be accept
ed by the law that the body is that of
Belle Elmore, is not available, how
ever, Scotland Yard accepts it as a
fact that the remains are those of
Belle Elmore. Although no official
statement was made, it is learned on
excellent authority that Doctor Pep
per's examination disclosed that the
victim was subjected to much mutila-
ton. Obviously the body had been
dissected before burial and a grue-
some fact in this connection is the dis.
covery that practically all of the
bones of the skeleton are missing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
GRAND TRUNK MEN STRIKE
Refusal of Company to Grant Increase
to Employees Cripples Cana
dian System.

Montreal Quebec.-Peace on the
Pennsylvania lines barely was as
sured when the conductors and train
men of the Grand Trunk and Central
Vermont railways walked out, their de-
mands for an immediate increase in
wages having been refused. The
strike will tie up, it is claimed, the
entire system from Portland, Me-, to
Chicago. The total number of men
affected by the strike is $500 trainmen
and conductors on the Grand Trunk
and $50 on the Central Vermont, sub
sidiary line. In addition 5000 men
engaged in shop work will be laid off
temporarily.
The strike was declared automat-
ically following the decIsfon of Presi-
dent Hayes of the Grand Trunk not
to accede to the demands of the men.
Dispatches from London, Stratford
and Sarnia say that the shops there
have been closed down and that no
attempt is being made to send out
freight trains. The passenger trains
are running an hour or two late.
The Grand Trunk railway teleg-
raphers will not strike with the train
men and conductors, as had been
promised.
At New London, Conn.,, all conduct
ors and trainmen on the Central Yer
mont railroad walked out on strike.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
FLOODS DAMAGE CROPS
SEVERE STORM VISITS HALF
DOZEN KENTUCKY FARMS.
Now Believed That the Loss to To-
bacco and Property viii Reach
$3,ooo,ooo at Least.

Louisville, Ky.-Reports from over
the flooded district of Kentucky
show that the storm which visited
half dozen central Kentucky towns
was of much greater proportions than
first reported and it is now believed
that the damage to crops and prop
erty will reach S3,000,000 at least. The
heaviest loss fell on the tobacco crop
In the flooded counties 1t will be al
most a complete loss. The lowlands
it is rumored, are still standing three
feet deep in the water. The streams
quickly overfowed their boundries fol-
lowing the cloud burst, sweeping the
crops before them
Much property besides the crops
was also damaged. Never have pros
poets for good crop year been so
gloomy in Kentucky as they are at
present. The cloudburst at the head
of the Licking Valley the latter part
of June brought much damage as also
did the cloudburst in Breathitt county
one week later, but it is believed that
the last storm exceeds the former
one.
Lancaster Pa.-Northern Lancaster
county was swept by storm that
caused a loss of $4,000. Buildings
were demolished, five barns destroyed
by lightning, and damage done to
crops.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
Grain Reports Are Better.

New York -Bradstreet's says:
Quiet still characterizes most lines
OF trade and industry with OPP
erations limited by vacations and
summer shutdowns. The first of the
fall buyers are in the leading markets
but their operations are conducted
with caution or conservatism pending
clearer views of crop outcome. Better
crop reports from grain growing sec
tions are a feature this week. Cur
tailment is still largely in evidence
in the iron and steel, cotton, wooden,
coal, lumber and coke trades.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
WIFE BETRAYS, MAN SUICIDES
Broken Down Race Track Bookmaker
Hangs Himself to the Door of
Prison.

Washington, d. C.-Charging his
wife with Judas Kiss for tipping
the police off to his presence in the
city, William Lyons, broken down
race track hanger-on, committed sui
eide by hanging himself to the door
of his cell at the New Jersey avenue
police station. Lyons was so years
old and was arrested with eight 9TH
ers in series of raids made by Cap
tain Hollinberger in concerted cru
sade against making of handbooks on
the races slated at the Empire City
track Lyons was the only prisoner
nuable to give bond.
Lyons had been arrested year ago
for making handbook. He gave bond
and left town. Nothing was heard
from him until his wife, whom he had
deserted, told the police that he had
suddenly returned and where he could
be found. Acting on this information
the authorities promptly arrested
Lyons and were holding him at the
Sixth precinct station when they dis
covered that he had slipped the end
of his belt through it's buckle, tied
a knot in the end, passed it through
the upper bar of his cell door, and
leaped from his bench.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
MEN WHO make BUSINESS
Members of the Associated Advertis-
ing Clubs of America Begin Their
Convention in Omaha.

Omaha, Neb.-President S. C. Dobbs
of Atlanta, Ca, arose in the
convention hall of the Hotel Rome
July 18 and called to order the
sixth annual convention of the As
sociated Advertising Clubs of Amer
ica, "a gathering of Americas busi-
ness creators" as he styled it. After
an invocation by Very Rev. George
A. Beecher, chaplain of the Omaha
Ad. club, and a welcoming speech by
President Ralph e. Sunderland
Of the same organization, there were
addresses by Governor Shallenberger,
Mayor Dahlman and Gilbert M. Hitch
cock of the local club. To these re-
sponse were made for the south by
A. L. Lipscomb of Louisville, for the
east by Joe Mitchell Chappelle of Bos-
ton, for the north by A. H. Wander
berg Of Grand Rapids, Mich, and for
west by Pet Clayton, st. Joseph, Mo.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
STARTS TERROR REIGN
MADRlz SHOWS HIS HAND IN
WESTERN NICARAGUA.
Pittman, American Prisoner, lnhu
namely Treated by Starvation
and Other Privations.

Washington, ID. C.-The United
States must soon intervene in Mic
aragua or allow peace to be effected
there by England and Germany. Un-
mistakable significance attaches to
important reports from its diplomatic
representative in Nicaragua to the
state department showing that Ma
driz has produced Intentionally a
reign of terror in the western half of
Nicaragua in which four-fifths of the
white people of that republic live.
The dispatches show that William
Pittman, an American prisoner in the
hands of Madriz, was inhumanely
treated by starvation and other priva-
tions since he left Greytown on July
4, on his way to Managua. The dis
patches declare THAT his captors
failed to provide him with food, leav-
ing him altogether dependent for sub.
sistence upon the charity of his fel.
low Travellers"
When he was put in prison in Man
aqua it was in "a filthy CELL" five feet
by six and there again he was
starved. A prompt protest from Con-
sui Olivares at Managua secured the
transfer of Pittman to a better cell
and the United States is furnishing
the money to feed him properly as 1t
is also furnishing the money to take
care of the relatives in Nicaragua of
the murdered Groce. The more seri.
Gus aspect of the general situation is
that citizens of Germany and Great
Britain are protesting against the
reign of terror in western Nicaragua
Nicaraguans openly make threats
against the lives of American citizens.
1t is already understood here that
foreign nations have asked the United
States to keep the situation we'll in
hand. A similar request was made
when conditions were precisely the
same in San Domingo. There is no
question about the accuracy of the
statements of Consul Olivares. At
this time, there is in Nicaragua Mr..
Eberhardt, American consul general
at large. He cables the state depart
ment specifically that at Matagalpa,
the foreign residents have been great
ly alarmed by repeated threats
against their lives and property by
local Nicaraguans.'
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
SAYS AUTO IS NOT AN AUTO
Toledo Judge Holds Car May Not be
Motor Vehicle, Therefore May
be Speeded.

Toledo, O.-It is no longer to
be considered a violation of law to
send an automobile whizzing through
the streets of Ohio cities. Absolu-
tion from the practice has been pro-
nounced by Judge Curtis Johnson of
the common pleas court and incident
ally new interpretations are given of
the words Automobile" and motor
vehicle" Judge Johnson, sitting in
the common pleas court. discharged
Walter f. Brown, chairman of the
state Republican committee, from the
charge of speeding his auto in the
streets of Toledo. In reaching his de-
cision, Judge Johnson takes the Ian
guages of the special statute of Ohio,
whose prescriptions apply only to
motor cycles and motor vehicles.
After an exhaustive discussion as to
the definition of the word "automo-
bile" Judge Johnson holds that 1t is
not necessarily motor vehicle"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
NEVER SWEAR
IS NAVY DECREE
NEW ORDER is ISSUED TO UNCLE
SANS SAILORS BY
DEPARTMENT.
FUTURE HEROES MUST BE POLITE
officers of Marine Corps Are Con-
sured for Using Bad Language,
After Court of
Inquiry.

Washington, d. C.-Sailors, beware!
The navy department DEGREES,
Never swear" The word has just
passed. And now every Jack Tar
aboard an American warship grabs
gun swab and chucks it down his
throat when he's threatened with an
upheaval of those words which ap-
pear as-or *%**~ The pro-
profaners have lost on every count.
Naughty words went by the board
here. The navy department, after a
court of inquiry, sent letters Of CEN
sure to officers of the United States
marine corps. Those officers had
sworn. One of them, Gen. George F.
Elliott, in addition to having voiced
blank spaces on several occasions,
had been found guilty of irritability
and Feasibility.
When future John Paul Joneses
sail to battle foes that posterity may
have, pink teas and siestas may be
fight preliminaries. No David Glas-
gov Farragut will cling to the rig
ging and shout asterisks at the
enemy entrenched along the river
bank Neither will Lieut.. Stephen
Decatur exhibit irritability as he
steals into the harbor of a pirate
town and burns a captured warboat.
Heroes of generations yet to come
will be polite, generous, truthful,
plain, blunt, soldierly, open and
frank" if the navy department of the
future rules as does the navy depart
ment of today. That is, of course, if
man can qualify for heroism and
be polite, generous, truthful, plain,
blunt, soldierly, open and frank"
The officers on whom censure fell
are: Maj. Gen. George F. Elliott,
commandant of the marine corps;
Col. Charles H. Lauchheimer, ad-
jutant and inspector; Col. Frank l..
Denny, the quartermaster at Wash
ington; Col. Charles A. Doyen, COM
manding the marine barracks at the
navy academy at Annapolis; Lieut..
Col. Thomas C. Prince, assistant quar-
termaster at Washington; Lieut.. Col.
Henry G. Haines, assistant adjutant
and inspector at Washington, and
Majs. Louis ]. Magill and David d.
Porter, assistant adjutants and inspec-
tors at Philadelphia and Washington
| respectively.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
INVENTOR DIES
Alois Wirsching Patented Stock Quo
tation Telegraph Ticker and
Many Other Devices.

New York City.-Alois Wirsching,
the inventor of the stock quo
tation telegraph ticker, who in 1869,
while superintendent of the Charles
E. Chester Electrical Apparatus Co. in
New York, assisted in installing the
present fire alarm system in Manhat-
tan, died at his home here in his sew
enty-ninth year. He was born in
Vienna and when he came to America
62 years ago he settled in New York
and apprenticed himself to the cleo
trical engineering trade, which was
then in its infancy. He was the in
ventor of many other electrical de-
vices.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

1t is stated that the recent missile
test against the ram Katahdin has
demonstrated that the theory as to the
piercing power of big projectiles fired
a modern battleships range is wrong
that the missile really drops from the
trajectory at SO sharp an angle that it
delivers glancing blow and therefore
does not penetrate armor plate of only
moderate thickness. If this is true,
the fighting will have to be at closer
range, and the guns of smaller caliber
than the big 13-inch rifles will come
into greater favor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
Frelaht Rate soost suspended.

Washington, ID. C.-The interstate
commerce commission has just an
nounced the suspension OF all tar
ifs, naming general and important
freight rate advances, pending inves-
tigation of the reasonableness of the
increased rates. This means that all
the general increases in that enor-
nous territory between the Missis.
sippi and the Missouri rivers and be.
tween the Mississippi river and the
Atlantic seaboard will be suspended
until an investigation is made. Spe
cial agents are collecting data.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

The peril of the four young men
who put out upon lake Michigan in a
gasoline launch with a supply of fuel
close to exhaustion Should remind mo-
tor yachtsmen that a small boat with
out power is helpless in comparison
with sailing yacht. The latter can
be handled so that she will be safe in
the toughest of weather. while the
powerless motor boat must wallow and
take what comes, unless those in
charge of her have seamanship enough
to rig sea anchor and ride behind it
while awaiting succor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
MauIs Wife as Boy Dies.

Pittsburg, PA trolley car and
a delivery wagon exacted toll
of juvenile death in this section. At
Ford City, the three-year-old son of
Gearhard Szffran, a merchant, was
ground beneath a trolley car. His
neck and back were broken. He had
escaped from his mother on porch
and the father infuriated at what he
charged with being her carelessness.
knocked her down and was beating
her when the police interfered. At
Canonsburg. nine.year-old John Car
mack was run over by team.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

Russia has not figured extensively
as cotton-producing country. But it
seems to have ambitions in that direc-
tion. Reports from Tifiis are to the ef-
feet that the area sown to cotton this
year is double that of 1909. In one dis
trict 400 acres are devoted to the
stape. That is tiny fraction of the
total in the United States. but high
prices have stimulated cotton growing
wherever practicable, and the aggre-
gate result may be a substantial gain
IN the foreign output.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

The ice cold geyser discovered in
Yellowstone park not only upsets the
accepted theory as TO the origin of Pc
riodical natural fountains. but adds a
feature of economic value to the scene
OF natural wonders Heretofore tour.
lists have been able to catch fish and
swing them from the river into gey.
ser basin of hot water, to be cooked
while still upon the hook. Now they
will be able TO catch the fish and
swing them into cold storage.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

The latest government report is ad-
ditionally favorable to a big wheat
crop. The returns, as interpreted by
the skilled statistician of the New
York produce exchange, indicate to-
tai harvest of 702,404.000 bushels,
against an indication for the same
time last year of 652,351 900 bushels.
The estimate for 1909 fell below the
actual result, for the total yield last
year was 797.159,O0O bushels. Should
there be similar excess this year there
will be good chance for record
breaking output.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22
Their Object.

Banks-The women of my town
have formed secret society.
Rivers-A secret society? Surely,
that's misnomer; women don't know
how to keep secrets.
Banks-But they know how to tell
them, and that's why they formed
the society.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

A judge advised speed maniac to
see a doctor. A good, reliable prison
doctor would be particularly likely to
afford him relief.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

To atone partially for the poor dis
play made by the comet there will be
another total eclipse of. the moon on
November 16. Wait for it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

These long-distance weather predic-
tions give one chance to worry for
O week about weather that never
comes
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

The satirist can talk about the "av-
erage man" with impunity, because
every man considers himself above
the average.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

Considering that 1t is an amusement
of the rich we ought to hear that
smuggling is a matter of tempera-
ment.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

Dancing masters wish their art to
be highly diffedentiated from wrest-
ling contests and one cannot blame
them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-07-22

In London safe has been made to
hold $5,OO0,000,00O worth of radium.
The problem now is to get the radium.