The Conneaut, Ohio, Gazette, will probably be relieved of its wonder at the course taken by the U. S. District Judge.  It was the only course by which he could detain these injured individuals in jail, to die by inches, or to be delivered over to their Spanish oppressors.  If not detained as criminals, they would have been within reach of a habeas corpus from the State courts.

The Bridge over the Conneaut Creek, in Ohio, recently fell, just as the Cleveland stage had passed it, and while the hind wheels were on it.  The driver was thrown off, but the horses had a firm footing upon the bank, and sustained themselves.  The bridge was twenty feet above the bed of this deep creek.

Samuel P. Fenton has been appointed Postmaster at Conneaut, Ohio, vice Judge Dart, deceased.

    We had the pleasure of taking by the hand on Monday, our old friend ALLEN, of the firm of Allen & Rollo, publishers of the Conneaut Reporter, a sterling Whig Journal in the "Western Reserve."  He was on a cruise up the Lakes in the fine brig L. A. Blossom.

     The Brig LADY A. BLOSSOM of Conneaut, Capt. J. L. Wood, came into our port Sunday morning with a large load of freight, - 16 cabin passengers and 40 steerage.
     This fine brig, of which Messrs. Lake and Carpenter of Conneaut are principal owners, was launched at that place last April.  She measures 300 tonage - 24 feet 9 inches beam and 9 feet 1 inches of hold.

We learn from the Conneaut Reporter that the Academy in Kingsville, Ashtabula county, was destroyed by fire early on Monday morning last.  How the fire originated is not known, but is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.  Most of the apparatus connected with the school, a very flourishing one, was destroyed, and the loss will be severely felt by Mr. Graves, the Principal.  Many of the books belonging to students were also lost.

FIRE AT CONNEAUT - The town of Conneaut was visited by a severe fire on Monday night.  It broke out in the large store and warehouse of Charles Hall, Arcade buildings, which was destroyed.  The lower rooms were occupied by Mr. Hall as a Dry Goods store, and the upper story by Odd Fellows and Sons of Temperance.  The building was insured for $1200 in the Portage Mutual and Mr. Hall had an insurance on his goods in the Aetna for $5000.  Goods mostly saved in a damaged state.  The furniture and regalia of the Odd Fellows insured for $200 which mainly covers the loss.  The Sons saved theirs - Cleveland Her.

Destructive Tornado.
A tornado passed over a part of Ashtabula County, Ohio, eight or ten days ago, which did immense damage to crops, fences, trees, &c.  It came from the lake, and struck the shore not farm from Conneaut.  Its course first was nearly south, and after demolishing fences, acres of woodland, growing crops, &c., it suddenly turned North, and when again near the shore of the lake took an easterly direction, pouring upon the earth a perfect torrent of water accompanied with hail.  Everything within its range was leveled with the ground for two or three miles.  East of Conneaut it continued about ten miles, laying completely desolate a strip of country a mile wide.  Large sound forest trees, two and three feet through, were twisted off and carried several rods.  Some farmers lost all their crops by it, and suffered much in their improvements.  The aggregate destruction is stated by the Conneaut Reporter to be very great.

CONNEAUT, OHIO - By the recent census, it appears that the population of this town is 2813.  Increase 300 since 1840.

Conneaut P. O., Ashtabula co., Ohio, Dec. 2, 1852.  There never has been a time since the Era started that subscribers could be obtained as easy as they can be at the present time.  Now is the time for Anti-Slavery men to work.  I mean that you shall hear from me again with another club before long.

Weston failed a third time on his hundred mile feat, Saturday, and stopped for the night at Conneaut, O., thoroughly exhausted and with his feet badly swollen.  He made the first 58 miles in 13 hours and 10 minutes, and the hopes then were strong that he would succeed.  He has one more trial.

Accident to a Jamestown Lady in Conneaut, O. -
     Mr. O. E. Jones, who was on Monday hastily summoned to Conneaut, O., by a telegram announcing that his sister, Mrs. Sarah Hall, had been severely hurt, reports that the accident was caused by a fractious horse.  The following are the particulars of it.  Mrs. H. was going to church and a gentleman called for her with a horse and carriage.  After she had got into the buggy and before the gentleman had taken his seat the horse, which was a spirited one, gave a jump.  The driver was thrown against a fence and fell to the ground, the reins being drawn from his hands.  The horse ran some distance and in crossing a sluice Mrs. Hall was thrown out.  Unfortunately her skirts caught in the steps and she was thus dragged head downwards for some distance.  Her clothing gave way finally and she was left insensible on the road.  Her injuries consist of a dislocation of the hip, some of her teeth knocked out and severe bruises and wounds about the head and body.  When Mr. Jones left her she was comfortable and hopes were entertained of her recovery.  We hope they may be realized as Mrs. Hall would be sadly missed in Jamestown.  She is one of the best teachers in our school and socially has hosts of friends.  May her recovery be speedy and complete, will be the wish of all.  She of course remains with the friends whom she was visiting in Conneaut.

CONNEAUT:
How to Marry Without a License and No Go Out of Ohio - "Salems" - Conneaut - The Earliest Settlers - A Mysterious Rise in the Lake - It's Cause - Present Aspect of Conneaut - A Mammoth Brick Enterprise.
(Special Correspondence Cleveland LEADER)
     CONNEAUT, November, 18, 1872.
     Young people who stand on the verge of a life where single blessedness is to end, and who either from youth or too great haste prefer not troubling our Probate Judge for a license to pledge themselves to love, honor, obey, reverence, cajole, etc., generally take an express train on the Erie division of (the the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and sped on into Pennsylvania where they can impose all those little obligations on each other without any of the dry, red tape, legal formality comprehended in a license.  The people of the Keystone State showed a fine, chivalrous sense of propriety when they refused to exact a license to commit matrimony.  They saw the great necessity in keeping all barriers out of the way in order to let the course of true love run smooth if it would.  They knew that a certain poet once expressed the opinion that
"Love rules the camp, the course the grove And men below the God above."
They knew also that it was a flame a single look might kindle, while all the oceans together could not quench it, and that the best way to deal with it was to put the fewest possible obstacles in the way of its progress.  Therefore all must admit that the law makers of Pennsylvania were wise.

A WISE OHIOAN.

     There is a Buckeye boy in the neighborhood of Conneaut, and on the very line that divides the two states, who can also put in a claim for a few grains of sense.  Most of his land is in Ohio, but a small neck of it runs into the Keystone state.  When he built a house he laid the foundations on the line, and built one room in Pennsylvania.  Some of his children were born in this room and are thereby Pennsylvanians, notwithstanding the fact that they were half blind as long as they stopped in that state, and never showed any signs of intelligent life until they had passed some days in Ohio.  When called upon to serve in the Pennsylvania or Ohio forces during the war, this citizen of a double birth-place hardly knew to which state he belonged.  He was born in Pennsylvania, but thought he never saw daylight until he reached Ohio.  As the war was against state rights, and as a practical enforcement of that doctrine would have drawn a knife through his birth-place, he entered the army and did good service for the cause that just achieved another great triumph in the last national election.

THE EAST ROOM.

in this house, being in Pennsylvania and near Conneaut, furnished me an excuse to open my letter with a few remarks on the forethought of the Pennsylvania Solons.  It is in the room that a large number of marriages are consummated.  A young couple of the surrounding country have only to take a carriage, obtain the assistance of a clergyman or justice of the peace in Conneaut, drive out to this house, enter the convenient East room, and there a safe defiance can be thrown to the license law.  It is a short, pleasant drive from Conneaut, and after the ceremony the distance is equally short to the Commercial House, at Conneaut, where the wedded ones will find every accommodation suitable to the bright hopes and blissful visions always accompanying such occasions.

"SALEMS"

     This place which was known once by the above name, has very interesting features connected with its history.  In 1797-]8 the original survey was made for a town, and James Harper and family and Robert Montgomery and sons were the first settlers.  Aaron Wright, Samuel Bemis and a few others joined the early settlers and this Wright soon married Miss Anna Montgomery, without going to the "Eastern room: for the performance of the ceremony.  At that time this settlement, together with half a dozen other settlements along the late shore, where all known by the name of "Salem."  There were about twelve Salems in the state and the mixture of letters in the different post-office was a greater plague than the witchcraft in the old original Salem.  At length Mr. Hiram Lake, an esteemed citizen to-day, had the name of the town changed, calling it after the Indian sppellation of the stream that flows through it, and since 1831 it has been known as

CONNEAUT.

     In early steamboat days the town was very lively and the citizens entertained no doubt whatever that Conneaut would surpass Cleveland.  The harbor is the best anywhere along the north shore of Lake Erie and if a city were to be built, as public edifices are, on the most suitable location, no one could have wanted a better site than that which the Harpers and Montgomeries selected for their home.  Passengers going to any place on the Ohio river found a daily line of stages running from Conneaut to Beaver, where boats plied up and down the river.  The building of the Ohio canal soon put Cleveland ahead and withdrew a little business from Conneaut.  Next came from formidable projects of building long lines of railroad, and the establishment of a road from Pittsburgh to Cleveland dealt a heavy blow to the rising fortunes of Conneaut.  The line of stages soon looked for a neighborhood more remote from railroads, and the hotels, which had maintained a good trade through stage travel, saw their business slip rapidly out of their hands as the stages disappeared.  Thus the fortune of Conneaut declined, while her more fortunate but not more deserving rival, Cleveland, caught the trade of all the surrounding country in her iron nets, saw the lake year after year whitened with flying sails, and all the surrounding suburbs noisy with the hum and whir of machinery, or smiling with the presence of princely mansions.

A RISE IN THE LAKE.

     While in Conneaut I was told by Mr. Lake that the water of the lake had crept up the bank about sixty rods higher than it was forty years ago. At that period a broad, gray bench reached along up from the water's edge, running back to hills that were never attained by the most venturesome waves.  At some points it was covered with pebbles, at others large trees grew up wrestling with the stormiest winds of the lake, and in other spots the early settlers had planted orchards.  All at once the water was seen to rise.  Every day it crawled a few feet and sometimes a few rods up the beach.
     The trunks of fest and orchard trees were seen hidden from view and in a few days the water had gained so much ground that the whole broad beach was lost sight of.  The green branches arose as if the orchard had been planted in the bosom of the lake, and apples were plucked from the trees by men in boats and boys in the water.  The shaggy forests moaned in the blasts a few seasons and then disappeared.

THE CAUSE

of this phenomena was shrouded in mystery.  The Indians would have regarded it as a warning from the Great Spirit, and men less prone to superstition would, in beating the winds for a clue to the secret, have been disposed to ask nature to aid them, and to say:

Party they blue lips, northern lake;
Moss-grown rocks, your silence break/
Wandering wave and tottering tree,
Explain this awful mystery.

     The people of Conneaut, however, did no such thing.  They gave the subject a full investigation, and soon learned that the rising wave was caused by the building of the Black Rock dam at Buffalo.  This dam was built for the purpose of filling the Erie canal with water.

NOTWITHSTANDING THE REVERSES

that Conneaut has encountered, the town has prospered.  They have kept it from becoming a metropolis like Cleveland, but nothing could keep it from growing to a thriving town.  It now has two thousand inhabitants, with large brick blocks and commodious stores.  Among the business houses worthy of a large city are those of Messrs. George J. Record, S. J. Smith, H. Judson and L. Lyon.  Conneaut has an enterprising paper, the Reporter, owned and conducted by Mr. Rieg, a newspaper man of experience and ability.  It has two cheese factories, one foundry, four grist mills, a large paper-mill, a bank, and funds are now raised for a town hall.  Seven vessels are owned there, five of which belong  to Captain Capron, a gentlemen whose enterprise and public spirit were praised by every man I met in Conneaut.  The schools of Conneaut, which are in the best condition, are under the direction of Mr. Austin Jennings.  Every establishment in town does a good business, and the paper-mill averages about 3,900 pounds per day, all strong manilla paper.  I say nothing about the churches, because every one must know that religion is not neglected in the midst of such an enterprising community.  The people are all gentlemanly and intelligent, and have all the ability to support the high positions which would have fallen upon them had their town gone ahead as Cleveland has, and they stood at the head of their community.

BRICKS!  BRICKS!

     A new enterprise in the way of a brick manufactory is soon to be established in Conneaut, and it is expected to add greatly to the business of the town.  I was told that parties had examined the clay all along the lake shore with a view of opening a brick yard of mammoth proportions.  When they came to Conneaut, and tried the clay in that neighborhood, they determined to stop there.  It produced a smooth, hard, compact, clear red brick.   The color is most pleasing to the eye, and the effect of a row of fine buildings of this material would be invaluable among the imbellishments of a city.  Captain Capron, of Conneaut, has built a small tenement of this brick just to show visitors what it is.  A company is being formed to manufacture brick, and it is expected that 70,000 brick per day will be produced.  Whoever takes hold of it cannot fail to make it a success.                                                                                            DASH.

It is generally considered in Conneaut that John Sisson, aged eleven, has a hard skull; because one of the hind wheels of a 8,050 pound wagon ran over his head and merely chafed the skin.

The Firey Element.
     CONNEAUT, Ohio, Dec. 11 - This morning fire destroyed the buildings of the Conneaut River Paper company and the Herald newspaper office.  Loss $40,000.

A Cyclone in Conneaut, O.
     CONNEAUT, O., Oct. 27 - At 6:30 o'clock last evening a cylone swept over the town, destroying about thirty houses.  The large butter-tub factory owned by C. J. Record is badly wrecked, thousands of dollars' worth of stock, being completely destroyed.  Record's loss is about $50,000.  The planing mill of H. E. Pond, adjoining Record's, is greatly damaged.  His lumber yard is strewn all over the town and two smoke stacks are blown down.  Many fine residences suffered heavily, roofs being torn off and windows broken.  Two telegraph poles were blown through the roof of the Lake Shore depot, and the baggage room was completely destroyed.  The total loss is $100,000.

Conneaut is Calm
CONNEAUT, O., July 16.  The militia broke camp yesterday afternoon and went home to Geneva.  All signs of trouble are over.

IMPORTANT GAME SEIZURE.
Sportsmen From Conneaut Tried to Ship Out Moose Meat.

Deputy State Game Warden John Green made an important-seizure of moose and caribou meat and hides at Two Harbors yesterday.  He has had his eye upon a party of Conneaut, O., sportsmen that have been east of Two Harbors for some days, but when they returned to Duluth they had nothing contraband about them so Mr. Green took the back trail and went to Two Harbors to investigate.
     On the platform in front of the engine house and just delivered to a drayman the warden discovered about 500 pounds of moose and caribou meat, some hides, two Winchester rifles and a Parker shotgun, all billed to be shipped on board the steamer Olympia for below.
     The guns, meat and hides are now the property of the state of Minnesota and the Conneaut men will have to settle with Sam Fullerton.  They will most probably do this at long range.  Deputy Green is inclined to believe that the meat was purchased from Indians, but even then it is liable to seizure.

COMMISSIONS FOR GUARD OFFICERS
 A BATCH THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN OUT DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE.

THE CONNEAUT CAMP
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It has to Be Named After the Late Commander of the Fourteenth Infantry.
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Adjutant General Thomas J. Stewart announces for Governor Hastings the following appointments on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief.
     Corporal Hugh Murray, Ninth Regiment Infantry, Wilkesbarre, to be Sergeant Major.
     William T. Simpson, Scranton, to be Commissary Sergeant, vice William H. Burke, honorably discharged.
     Commissions have been issued during June for the following officers:
     First Brigade - Major David S. B. Chew, Brigade Quartermaster, with rank from June 9, 1897, vice Beverly Randolph Keim, resigned.
     BATTERY C. - Second Lieutenant Bethel M. Krohn, Quartermaster, with rank from June 17, 1897, vice Henry H. Quimby, resigned.
     STATE FENCIBLES BATTALION INFANTRY - Second Lieutenant William T. Burton, Company C. with rank from April 29, 1897, vice Charles F. Lumb, to Adjutant.
     FIRST REGIMENT INFANTRY - Captain Clarence H. Staley, Company A. with rank from June 11, 1897, vice Winfield L. Margerum, resigned.
     First Lieutenant William C. Knox, Company A., with rank from June 11, 1897, vice Clarence H. Staley, to captain.
     First Lieutenant Charles C. Allen, Company C. with rank from May 13, 1897, vice George E. Phillips, resigned.
     Second Lieutenant Augustus D. Whitney, Company C. with rank from May 13, 1897, vice Charles C. Allen, to first lieutenant.
     Third Regiment Infantry - Second Lieutenant Henry D. Reiss, Company B, with rank from June 21, 1897, vice Gustav Schlachter, resigned.
     Second Lieutenant Oliver Hough, Company G. with rank from June 10, 1897, vice George A. Avery, resigned.
     Fourth Regiment Infantry - Second Lieutenant Edward E. Machamer, Company A, with rank from May 10, 1897, vice John R. McKnight, resigned.
     Fifth Regiment Infantry - Captain William M. Mahan, Company F., with rank from May 15, 1897, vice David W. Simpson, resigned.
     First Lieutenant Samuel H. Hughes, Company F, with rank from May 15, 1897, vice William M. Mahan, to captain.
     Second Lieutenant William F. Elkin, Company F, with rank from May 16, 1897, vice Samuel H. Hughes, to first lieutenant.
     Sixth Regiment Infantry - Captain Gibbons Gray Cornwall, Company I, with rank from May 11, 1897, vice Sharpless M. Paxson, resigned.
     First Lieutenant Granville S. Bennett, Company I with rank from May 11, 1897, vice St. Julian Ogier, resigned.
     Second Lieutenant Herman J. Smith, Company I, with rank from May 11, 1897, vice Granville S. Bennett, to first lieutenant.
     Brigade orders for the Conneaut Lake camp were received in Pittsburg Wednesday.  The camp will be known as Camp Joseph H. Gray, after the former commander of the Fourteenth Infantry, who died on the train on the way to New York to attend the Grant Monument exercises some weeks ago.  The routine of the camp will be as follows: Morning gun, 6 o'clock; reveille, 6:05; police call, 6:30; breakfast, 7; surgeon's call, 7:30; guard mounting, 8:30; dinner, 12; supper, 7; tattoo, 9:30; taps, 10.45.
     In the order it is stated that "Colonels and captains have no power to excuse any one, and a failure to secure the proper permission for absence may result seriously.  It must not be understood that the brigade commander has unlimited power to grant leaves and furloughs, but can only do so for reasons which would be sufficient in actual service in the field.  Mere personal or business inconvenience cannot be accepted as a ground for excuse.  It is the desire of the general commanding that this be made the best and most successful encampment we have had, and to that end the absolute and constant attention of all is invoked.  Bathing in the lake must be before 7 a.m. and after 8 p.m. and must be in proper costume.  Target practice will be discontinued during the time of camp.  The postoffice of the camp will be Conneaut Lake, Pa."
     Colonel N. M. Smith, Eighteenth Infantry, went to Greensburg Thursday to confer with Brigade Quartermaster E. E. Robbins in regard to the movement of his regiment.  Major Robbins wanted the regiment to leave at noon Thursday next.  This would put the boys in to Conneaut at night, and in case it should be raining on their arrival they would have to lie out all night.  As no detail will be sent ahead to erect tents, Colonel Smith wanted to arrive in camp during the day, and suggested that his regiment leave Pittsburg at night.  The object in not sending details to erect tents is to allow every man to learn how to erect his own tent.  Colonel Smith thinks this is something every Guardsman should know.
     The camp orders for the Fourteenth Infantry were issued Thursday.  The regiment will leave Pittsburg Friday morning at 7.30.  Captain A. T. Easton will have command of the detail that will leave Wednesday to erect the tents and put the camp ground in readiness.  Captain J. F. McLain has been detailed as Officer of the Day July 16, and Lieutenant E. E. Fulmer, Company C, as Officer of the Guard.
     A meeting of the officers of the Fourteenth Regiment was held Monday evening and some action taken in the fight between the regiment and Captain T. J. Keenan, of the brigade staff, who is now in Norway.
     A meeting of the Eighteenth Regiment Line Officers' Mess Association was held Thursday evening.  Captain Charles H. Roessing was elected president; Lieutenant Detmer Straub, secretary, and Lieutenant George Ward, superintendent.
     The bitter feeling between resident of Homestead and the Guard cropped out again this week when members of the Fourteenth, who had been working at the rifle range across the Monongahela River from Homestead, went to that town for provisions.  They drove across in a wagon, which was attacked by a mob of toughs.  Privates Stocke and Ray were pulled from the wagon and kicked insensible.  The toughs then fled.  The next detail that visits Homestead will give the toughs of that town some excitement if they were attacked.
     Some of the members of the Guard in Pittsburg fear the coal miners' strike may interfere with the movement of the brigade by the railroad at the break of camp.

Fire in a Conneaut Hotel.
Special to the Plain Dealer.
CONNEAUT, Sept. 30. - The Central house came near being burned this afternoon.  Fire started in the apartment occupied by the female help and but for the promptness of the fire company the hotel would have been destroyed, entailing a heavy loss.  The women escaped from the burning building.  One nearly lost her life. 
     The nineteenth district convention of the W. C. T. U. closed a two days' session here tonight.

Box in Which Body Was Found at Cambridge Springs, Purchased at Conneaut, Ohio.

Special to The Inquirer.
CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS, Pa., May 3. - Just a ray of light was today thrown on the corpse mystery.  Chief of Police Sutton went to Conneaut, Ohio, this morning, taking along the box in which the woman's body was found, the place of false teeth and a photograph of the dead face.  A clerk at Pelton's dry goods store, recognized the box as one of two boxes he sold April 15 to a man who looked like a workman, and who said another man would call for them.  The other man, described as about 50 years old and well dressed, called a little later and took the boxes away.
     The theory that the false teeth plate was made in Conneaut is dissolved by all the dentists of the town declaring they never saw the plate before.  There are various rumors and sensational stories regarding the affair, but the foregoing covers today's developments, and the matter is as much a mystery as at first.  The story that a bullet wound has been found in the body is pure sensation.

GOV. STONE TALKS TO CROWDS AT CONNEAUT
It was the Greatest Republican Demonstration Ever Held in Northern Ohio.

Special to the Inquirer.
     ASHTABULA, Ohio, Oct. 31.  Tonight in Conneaut, Carnegie's Great Lake port, Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, delivered an address at one of the greatest Republican demonstrations ever held, in Northern Ohio.  The city was profusely decorated with flags and bunting.  The parade was nearly a mile in length.
     A feature of the parade was the marching of the laborers employed on Carnegie's docks.  The Hungarians, Italians and Fins formed in separate companies, under different banners.  The line of march included Conneaut Harbor, two miles from the city, where are located the extensive ore and coal docks.  The total number of foreigners in the parade was about 700.  Nearly 200 foreigners were in attendance from Ashtabula.  The foreigners from here were from Mark Hanna's docks.
     Special trains were run a distance of twenty-five miles.  Geneva, Jefferson, Saybrook, and Kingsdale sent large representations.  Nearly every outside town in the county to the west sent a brass band.  Governor Stone was given a rousing reception.

A BRIDGE COLLAPSES.
ON THE NICKEL PLATE ROAD WITH THREE HEAVY LADEN CARS.
WITH AN AWFUL CRASH AND WITHOUT WARNING.

ON THE HELPLESS WORKMEN ENGAGED IN MAKING REPAIRS BELOW - ELEVEN KILLED AND TEN SERIOUSLY INJURED - THE LIST OF DEAD.
Conneaut, O., July 11 - Just after 10 o'clock today three cars of the east end local freight went through the Nickel Plat bridge at Springfield, PA.  The train left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident in charge of Engineer Wm. Griffith of Buffalo and Conductor Phil A. Moore of Buffalo.  The latter was killed outright.  The bridge crew was at work on the bridge and the 11 men killed and 10 men injured are mostly working men.  A fill was being made at the bridge and about 25 workmen were about the structure.  The Conneaut wrecking train with local officials and doctors left for the scene at 11 o'clock.
     The horrible affair occurred just after passenger train NO. 3 had pulled through.  The local, after the passing of the passenger train, pushed three cars heavily laden out on the structure to unload stone for the masons working beneath on the large stone abutments.  The unloading had hardly been begun when without warning the whole structure bearing the three laden cars filled with laborers fell with an awful crash into the valley.  So sudden was the affair that only one man, a mason named George Smith, had a chance to leap in time to save himself from injury.  The list of dead include:
     Conductor Phil A. Moore, Conneaut.
     J. Zaboss, workingman, Cleveland
     George Swartz, workman, Springfield.
     Homer Beckwith, foreman, Conneaut
     Five Italians, names as yet unknown.
     Randall West, Springfield.
     The men as the train fell had all leaped as far as possible so that only two or three were buried beneath the awful mass of debris at the bottom of the ravine.  These were easily pulled out and carried to the top of the hill and placed on the lawn awaiting the arrival of medical assistance, which came promptly.  As soon as news of the accident reached Conneaut, a wrecking train and a hurriedly constructed ambulance train were dispatched to the scene.  The wounded were first attended to.  They were placed in cots and all were brought to Conneaut with the exception of the men named Randall, Beckwith and Swartz, who were taken in charge of by their parents at Conneaut.  The living were conveyed to the hospital.  The remains of the dead were transferred to the morgue to await identification.

LOFTY RAILWAY BRIDGE CRASHES DOWN WITH CARS
TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE NEAR SPRINGFIELD, PENN
CAUSED BY FALL OF STRUCTURE ON WHICH THREE HEAVILY LADEN CARS WERE STANDING.
Men Working Below buried in debris
Cleveland, O., July 11 - Just after 10 o'clock today three cars of the east end local freight went through the Nickel Plate bridge at Springfield, Pa. 
     The train left Conneaut only a few minutes before the accident, in charge of Engineer William Griffith  of Buffalo and Conductor Phil A. Moore of Buffalo.  The latter was killed outright.  The bridge gang was at work on the bridge and the 10 men injured are mostly workmen.
     A fill was being made at the bridge and about 25 workmen were about the structure.
     The horrible affair occurred just after passenger train No. 3 had passed, pushed three cars heavily laden on to the structure to unload stone for the masons working beneath on the large stone foundations.  The work of unloading had hardly begun, when, without any warning, the whole structure bearing the laden cars, filled with laborers, fell into the valley.  So sudden was the accident that only one man, a mason named George Smith, had a chance to lean in time to save himself from death.
     The dead:
     Homer Beckwith, foreman, Conneaut
     Phil A. Moore, conductor, Conneaut
     George Swartz, laborer, North Springfield, Pa.
     John Cenos, laborer, Cleveland
     Carl Randall, West Springfield
     Five Italian laborers, names unknown.
     The injured: -
     J. J. McDermott, a brakeman, Ashtabula, jaw broken, badly bruised.
     Five Italian laborers, names unknown
     The place where the accident occurred was at Crooked Creek, directly north of East Springfield, Pa.
     For many years the creek has been spanned by a heavy structural steel bridge.  On May 1 the work of filling up the valley was commenced.  Down in the ravine 55 feet below, masons were at work building a large stone abutment.
     The wreck presented a terrible appearance.  The steel was wrenched and distorted into one huge mass.  The three cars containing stone were broken to bits and the railway track was obliterated in the pile.
     The cause of the wreck can be laid only to accident.  For a long time all the trains have been required to reduce their speed to four miles an hour in passing over the bridge.  The railroad men regard it as little less than miraculous that the structure withstood the strain of heavy laden passenger train No. 3, which passed over it a short time before, and then fell with three loaded cars standing upon it.
     Conductor Moore was on one of the cars while the crew of workmen was waiting underneath to level off the stone as it was dumped off.  Without a word of warning the bridge gave way.  The three cars with their heavy loads were buried into the gulley a distance of about 80 feet.
     Into the very midst of the workmen the train tumbled and many were crushed.
     Special trains from Conneaut and Erie carried physicians to the scene of the accident.  The work of recovering the dead and rescuing the injured, was difficult, as they were buried under the heavy cars.  It appears from later reports from the scene of the accident that the engine did not go down with the wrecked bridge.  Only the cars heavy loaded with stone, were carried down.  It was at first reported that engineer Griffith had been killed but this now seems to have been erroneous.

OHIO TOWN BURNED OUT.
CONNEAUT, O., Feb. 25 - Fire today practically wiped out the business portion of Conneaut Harbor.  The loss is $100,000.

Source:  Morning Olympian
December 21, 1904

Two other Banks Suspend. 
Mrs. Chadwick the Cause of Trouble in Conneaut, Ohio.

CONNEAUT, Ohio, Dec. 20 - The First National Bank of Conneaut and the Marine bank of Conneaut Harbor did not open their doors for business today.  The suspensions resulted from runs on both concerns during the past few days.  Officials claim the concerns are entirely solvent, and declare that business will be resumed again in a short time.  The two banks are closely affiliated, O. C. Lilly, the cashier of the First National bank, being the president of the Marine bank of Conneaut Harbor.
     Cashier Lilly made the following statement on behalf of the First National bank:
     "Ever since the exposure of the Chadwick matter our depositors have been withdrawing their funds.  We do not hold any Chadwick paper, but there was a general feeling of unrest.  The money has been taken out gradually, but on Saturday $50,000 was withdrawn.  On Monday practically the remaining cash on hand was taken out."

Bank Officials Arrested President and Cashier of Conneaut, O.,
Bank Must Answer Charges

CLEVELAND, O., Dec. 30. - Cashier O. C. Lillie and President C. M. Traver of the National Bank of Conneaut, Ohio, were placed under arrest this afternoon at Conneaut by United States Marshal Chandler upon a warrant charging the bankers with a violation of the national banking laws, the specific charge in Mr. Lillie's case being the making of a false entry in the books of the bank.  Mr. Traver is charged in the warrant with being an accomplice of the cashier in the alleged falsification.  Cashier Lillie waived preliminary examination and gave bail in the sum of $10,000.
     The National Bank of Conneaut closed its doors nearly two weeks ago, after a run upon it the preceding day.  The bank has a capital stock of $50,000.
     The cause of the run, the bankers said at the time, was that the report had gained currency that Mrs. Chadwick had succeeded in securing large loans from it.  The bank officials deny holding any Chadwick paper.

BANK OFFICIALS EXPLAIN
President and Cashier of Conneaut Institution Declare their Innocence.

CONNEAUT, Ohio - Dec. 13 - President Traver and Cashier Lillie of the defunct Conneaut First National Bank, who were arrested and taken to Cleveland last night on the charge of violating the national bank laws, have returned here after giving bond for their appearance before the Federal Court.  Both men declare that they will be able to prove their innocence.
     According to the statement of the officials the wrongful entry made by Cashier Lillie, showing the bills receivable to be $10,000 less than they were, was made for the purpose of covering up a deficit of years standing, before Lillie had any connection with the bank.  The entry was made, it is claimed, to avoid trouble for the bank.
     Travers' act on which the charge of embezzlement is based, consisted of renewing a note for $5000 held against him by the bank.  As president he extended the time on the note which recently became due.

WAS HEADED WEST, WILL RETURN HOME.
Young Boy Detained by Police Admits That He Ran Away From Parents.
     Jacob Lemponen, a 15-year old runaway boy from Conneaut, Ohio, was detained yesterday at the central police station until his parents could be notified.  It was only after being locked up that the lad began to realize the error of his way and when not looking out of the window he lay on a cot bewalling his fate.  Were it not for a cross-fire of question put to him yesterday by Lieutenant Scoon the boy might still be wandering about the city or on his way west.  He claimed that he left home with the intention of going to 'Frisco.
Roaming the Streets.
     "I'm looking for my father.  He's a tall man with a light suite of clothes and if you can't find him I want a place to sleep," was the reply of the boy to a query of Police Officer Pounder when he found the lad roaming about the lower end of town early yesterday morning.  Further questioning led the officer to become suspicious and he took the boy to the central station, where he was turned over to Lieutenant Scoon.  Contradictory stories were told the lieutenant with the result that the boy was searched for marks of identification.
Lad Breaks Down.
     The first think the officer found was a 22-caliber revolver in a hip pocket while another contained a couple of dime novels.  The lad broke down when divested of his weapon and finally made a clean breast of things.  He said he left home Sept. 8, and came to the head of the lakes by boat.  He worked in a camp as a "cookee" for a short time.  He earned money enough to buy a revolver which he said he wanted for protection on his way west.
     "It's a small reason that caused me to leave home," said the lad between sobs.  "Mother was good to me, but father was so cruel and I couldn't stand it any longer.  I ran away just because father whipped me when I wouldn't go to school.  This old blue suit of overalls is the best I ever hand and I wouldn't be seen at school with such old clothes.  I guess I have had enough of this knocking around and if the folks will send a ticket I will be glad to go home and try to get along better."
     The police have communicated with the authorities at Conneaut with the expectation that the boy's parents will arrange for his transportation home.

LOCAL DISBANDS AT CONNEAUT, (News Tribune Special)
CONNEAUT, June 27 - Another Conneaut local of the longshoremen's association was disbanded Friday night when No. 98 resolved to dissolve.  About 100 hoisters and engineers were members of the organization.  Local 154 of the same organization was dissolved on Thursday last.

WESTON REACHES CONNEAUT
(By Associated Press)
ASHTABULA, Ohio, April 14 - Edward Payson Weston, tramping, passed through here this evening.  Word came at 9 o'clock that he had reached Conneaut and would spend the night there.   Weston covered fifty miles today.

Weston Now in Pennsylvania
     (Associated Press by Leased Wire.)
     Conneaut, Ohio, April 15. - Edward Payson Weston, left here at 5 o'clock this morning and in a few minutes crossed the Ohio state line and entered Pennsylvania.  He hopes to reach Northwest, Pa., tonight, a distance of sixty-one miles.

CONNEAUT RECEIPTS LESS.
CONNEAUT, July 2. - Collector of Customs J. P. Reig and completed his report of the business done at the local harbor during the month of June.  The report shows that receipts of ore were 320,772 tons, which is 90,000 tons less than the same month last year.

Source: Duluth News-Tribune - (Duluth, Minnesota)  Vol.: 43 Issue: 111 Page: 9
Dated: Aug. 25, 1911
BREAKWATERS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AT CONNEAUT
     CONNEAUT, Aug. 24 - The Gillen Dock, Dredge and Construction company completed the work on the new breakwater today.  It is not known when the contract will be let by the government o when the work will start on the addition to the west breakwater.
     It is thought that August will be the banner month of the season in regard to ore receipts at the local harbor.  At the present time they are within a few thousand tons of the million ton mark.
     The steamer Gratwick cleared today for Fort William with cement.  The steamer Chilli will sail tomorrow for the same place, the vessels carrying 17,000 barrels of cement.

Conneaut Lumberman Killed by an Employe
CONNEAUT, Ohio, June 6, - F. R. Brydle was shot and killed today at the yards of the Pond Lumber company of which he was vice president by Jesse Sharp.  Sharp was arrested and hustled away in an automobile to Jefferson to avoid a possible lynching.
     Sharp was an employe of the yards.  The cause of the shooting is not known.
     Brydle was wealthy and prominent here.

Will Allow Boy to Retrace Steps Conneaut Police Wire for Information and Are Told to Free 15 Year Old Joe Brown.
     Joseph Brown, a 15-year-old Superior boy, was detained by the police of Conneaut, Ohio, pending word from the police of Superior as to what disposition to make of the boy.
     In reply to a telegram received by Chief of Police McKinnon from Chief of Police Randall of the Ohio city asking for information concerning the runaway the latter wired in effect as follows:
     "Turn him loose and let him see if he can find his way home."
     Brown is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Brown of 5529 Sylvia avenue, Superior.  He has been missing from home sine last February, and on being apprehended by the police of Conneaut stated that he desired to return to Superior but that he had no funds with which to pay his fare.
     Chief McKinnon, before replying to the Conneaut police, communicated with the boy's father and ascertained that the elder Brown was not worrying about the disappearance of his son.
     "He's having his fling," said Brown senior.  "To make his way home on his own resources without assistance may have the desired result of curing him of the desire to leave it.

JEFFREY QUAD SOLVES HARD HAULAGE PROBLEM
     Because a Jeffery Quad proved its ability to negotiate the heavy mud roads leading into a tract of timber near Erie, Pa., after teams and rear drive trucks had been abandoned in dispair, the Conneaut Shovel company of Conneaut, Ohio, saved 40,000 feet of first quality white ash timber.
     "We purchased this timber under a contract with a teaming concern to haul the logs into Erie at $7.50 per thousand, loaded on the train."  says G. W. Benton, secretary, treasurer and manager of the Conneaut Shovel Company, in a letter to C. W. Nash, president of the Nash Motors company.
     "The teamsters went into the woods with three big teams and worked two months.  At the end of that time they had made no advancement and we were forced to loan them money to continue their contract, incidentally advancing the price per thousand to $10.50.  They finally threw up the contract.
     "I went to Kenosha and saw a Jeffrey Quad perform.  We tried the Quad on the timber and found that we could bring the logs from Erie at a saving of $7 a thousand.

Municipal Summer Resort.
Little Town of Conneaut, O., is Run Strictly for Benefit of People There.

CONNEAUT, O., June 29 - The little city of Conneaut with only 9,000 inhabitants and lying forty miles east of Cleveland on Lake Erie has "out-municipated" municipal Cleveland.  This quiet little port claims the distinction of being the only municipal summer resort in the country.
     Every night hundreds of men and women leave the wharves and glass factories to enjoy a municipal swim at the municipal beach, to eat a municipal meal or to sleep in a municipal bed at the municipal hotel.  If they wish they can dance at the municipal dance hall or ride in the municipal roller coaster, and Sunday they can see a baseball game played by municipal teams.  For twelve years Conneaut saw its resort which had been purchased at a cost of $12,000, mismanaged and run down by private individuals to whom it had been leased.  Last fall D. W. Brace was elected mayor and S. W. Mahaffey director of public service on a Socialistic ticket.  Brace had been a railroad conductor and Mahaffey a day laborer.  The first thing Brace and Mahaffey did was to clean up the park so that it might become a real place of rest for people of small means.  That they succeeded was shown in the first warm days of June when people had to be turned away for lack of room.  Enlargement of the resort is planned for next year.

     Touchdowns - Poad 5, Deveney 3, Fairbairn 3.  Referee - Phelps, Ashtabula.  Linesman - Stone, Conneaut.

BRIDGE IS BAR TO ANNEXING SUBURB - Last Toll Structure in Ohio Balks Conneaut in Absorbing E. Conneaut.
Special to The Plain Dealer
     CONNEAUT, Nov. 25, - "When you own that bridge, tell us.  Then we will talk business with you."
     These words spoken by a committee of residents of East Conneaut has not been able to annex East Conneaut.
     The spot-- the barrier between Conneaut and East Conneaut - is the only toll bridge in the state of Ohio and one of the very few in the United States.
     Known as the high level bridge, the viaduct spans Conneaut creek at a height of nearly 100 feet with a length of over _00 feet and connects East Conneaut with Conneaut.
     A short time ago city council passed an ordinance to annex to the city East Conneaut, which is a rapidly growing suburb of nearly 1,000 inhabitants.  But the people of that section put up strenuous protests.
     At the present time they have city lights, city water, pavements and all the other conveniences, but they have to pay their cent each time they cross the bridge.  As most of them work on this side of the creek it means a lot of money to them in a year.
     The bridge was built by Girard, Pa., capitalists about fifteen years ago, in order to allow the Cleveland & Erie Electric line to enter this city.  When the road was reorganized several years ago, the company that owned the bridge took it over, and the street car company now pays toll.
     The bridge takes in considerable amount of revenue every day, just how much officials refuse to state.  But when the number of people that use for which a toll of from 5 to 10 cents each, is taken into consideration, it is evident it is a good money maker.
     Two yeas ago the Conneaut Chamber of Commerce and the county commissioners tried to get the county to buy the bridge, but the county would only pay $80,000; while the owners wanted almost double that.  At that time the bridge could have been built new for what the county was willing to give, but at the present time, with the increase in costs, it would be impossible to build a new bridge at that price.
     Then the question of a site looms up; there is no other good place. The bridge is the key to the whole situation.
     East Conneaut residents want to come into city, but will not as long as they have to pay one cent every time they cross from one side to the other.  The city wants them to come in and help it grow, but can't afford to bond itself to buy the bridge.  The county, would like to eliminate the toll part of it, but can't find enough money.
     The only person who is really pleased about it at all is William Hanlon, Civil War veteran, who collects the fee at the little station at the west end of the bridge.  And no one gets by him either.  But he is not worrying, for he lives in East Conneaut, and it costs him nothing to go and come.

Times-Leader Travelette, CONNEAUT
     Conneaut, Ohio is where iron meets coal.  It is a shore city on the Lake where the coal trains from the Pennsylvania fields are dumped into boats and the boat-loads of iron and copper ore from the Michigan fields are dumped into trains.  Incidentally, it gives the impressive glimpse of the power and immensity of the steel industry of our Eastern district that is doing so much to win the war.
     The steel coal-cars come rumbling down to the lake-front and on each car is stenciled its weight and its capacity.  The two figures will total seventy or eighty thousand pounds.  A string of them makes the earth shake and the car of Juggernaut looks like an infant's perambulator.  But as each car reaches the wharf it is seized by a disrespectful and sturdy piece of mechanism that jerks it up on end as though it were a toy car and shoots the coal into a waiting steamer's hold.  After the black torrent has crashed down, the giant power adds the last touch of indignity by giving the car a few careless shakes to dislodge stray lumps, and then reaches out for the next.  It is an impressive spectacle.
     No less impressive is the contrary process of unloading the copper and iron ore from the boats.  The ore is dumped in huge red hills along the shore that dwarf the ships that bring them.  By this process both boats and exchanging burdens at Conneaut.  The scheme for this simple and efficient back and forth traffic was one of the things that built the Rockefeller fortune.
     For the rest, Conneaut is a pleasant, three shaded little Ohio city, with the lake before it and the broad fields behind; prospering in the shadow of the ceaseless flow of the minerals that make the skeleton of modern civilization.

(Sharon's Note:  This is funny)
A CHIROPRACTOR (whatever that is), of Conneaut, Ohio, advertises, "Eye and Ear Glasses Fitted."  We are foolish about keeping up with the styles, but if the 1918 rules require us to wear specs on our ears, that's were we renig.  There ain't no sense in it.

Conneaut Baker Loses License.
WASHINGTON, April 12 - The food administration today revoked the license of Albert B. Bauss, a baker of Conneaut, Ohio, charged that during the month of March he used only five per cent, substitutes in his bread instead of the required twenty per cent.  He has been notified that his license will be renewed April 20 if he proves himself willing to comply with the regulations.

(Plain Dealer Special)

     CONNEAUT, O., Dec. 2 - Tentative acceptance today by state officials of plans for a new high level bridge for Conneaut may be said to mark the culmination of a long fight by the citizens of Conneaut for a free bridge that began almost as soon as the Pennsylvania & Ohio Bridge Co. of Erie had erected the present toll bridge back in 1903.
     The old bridge is 2,700 feet long and spans Conneaut creek, connecting Conneaut and East Conneaut.  Since it was built a toll of 1 cent for each pedestrian has been charged, 3 cents for all stock on foot, 5 cents for each automobile and 1 cent additional for each passenger.
     The Cleveland & Erie interurban line between Conneaut and Erie pays the bridge company 1 cent for every passenger carried.  Part of the bridge was moved to its present location from Girard, Pa., where it was used by the Nickel Plate railroad to span Elk creek.
     Three years after its removal it began to sag, a portion of it giving away while an electric car was crossing it.  Soon thereafter the agitation for a free bridge began, county commissioners endeavoring to buy the old one but being unable to agree on a price.
     The agitation which now seems to have resulted in getting state and federal aid for the bridge, ahs extended over two years during which numerous public meetings have been held with the view of ridding Conneaut of the reputation of being the only toll bridge town in Ohio.
     At a recent public meeting at which citizens voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Main street approach to the bridge as at present.  Williah Culberson, president of the bridge company, offered the old bridge to the county for $225,000.  No action has been taken.

CONNEAUT PLANS HOSPITAL OPENING
Public to be Received Tuesday at New Institution Built as Memorial
(Plain Dealer Special)
     CONNEAUT, O., April 3, - A public reception and celebration will be features of the formal opening, Tuesday of Brown Memorial hospital, Conneaut's new $80,000 institution, constructed by popular subscription on a site donated by William H. Brown
     The hospital was constructed by remodeling and enlarging the Brown family home founded here by John Brown, grandfather of the donor of the homestead.
     There original John Brown walked to Conneaut from Vermont in 1816.  He bought a farm of 120 acres on which the hospital now stands in 1821, then walked back to Vermont to claim his sweetheart, Arethusa Hosford, whom he married and brought back with him.  She made the trip on horseback while he walked.
     The original home was a log cabin, torn down in the 50's to make room for a frame structure, which later gave way to the brick structure which was donated for the hospital.  Six of the Brown children grew to maturity in the home and four of them died there.
     It was in this home that George Morton Brown, 90 year old bank official, was shot down by an unknown intruder in November, 1919.  He was the last of the children of John Brown.
     Shortly after the banker's death, W. H. Brown, grandson of John Brown, disposed of his banking interests in Bloomington, Ill., came to Conneaut and took charge of the property left by his uncle.
     At the time of G. M. Brown's death, Grace hospital had for years been maintained by a citizens' association.  A movement was under way for a new hospital, but the financing of the project loomed so great little headway was made. 
     Then Brown offered the family homestead and grounds for hospital purposes, provided the hospital would be erected as a memorial to his family, of which he is the last male survivor.
     The directors of the association accepted his offer.  Necessary funds were raised in three public campaigns.  Contributors number 2,000.
     New equipment has been installed throughout the hospital.  Major and minor operating rooms, X-ray room, nurses' demonstrating room and other features of the modern hospital have been provided.  A training school for nurses will be conducted in conjunction with the hospital.
     Wednesday and Thursday will be moving days for nurses and patients now at Grace Hospital.

FORMER BIG LEAGUER CAUGHT HAULING BOOZE
CONNEAUT, Ohio, Nov. 15 - Frank Delahenty, former major league baseball player and former member of the Ohio legislature was arrested here late today on charges of transporting intoxicating liquor.  When arrested he was driving a motor truck containing 16 half/barrels of beer, according to the officers.
     Police say Delahenty confessed to having made regular trips between Erie and Conneaut for several months.
     Delahenty resigned as a member of the legislature from Cleveland in 1919 after pleading guilty to a charge of accepting a bribe in connection with legislation pending.

     Conneaut marked the opening of its new viaduct yesterday with a pageant, a part of which is seen in the above picture, waiting on the structure for word to proceed toward the west approach into the city.
     In the lower photograph is seen an old prairie schooner, drawn by two yoke of oxen, which appeared in the pageant depicting the Western Reserve's transportation development since the days of the red man.

CONNEAUT BRIDGE OPENS TO 30,000 - Visitors From Three States Watch Dedication of $516,000 Viaduct.
      BY J. K. SCHMIDT. - Staff Correspondent.

CONNEAUT, O., July 18 - A crowd estimated at 30,000 people gathered at the west approach to the new $516,000 viaduct over Conneaut creek here this afternoon to witness the formal dedication of the magnificent 1,317-foot concrete span on the main Buffalo-Cleveland-Chicago highway.
     Conneaut, gay with flags and bunting, marked the bridge's opening with a mile-long pageant depicting the history of transportation development in the Western Reserve from the days of the Indian.
     This city of 12,000 made the occasion a holiday and closed all places of business during the dedicatory ceremonies.  Automobiles bearing Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York licenses filled every street.

Cyrus Locher Speaks.

     While Cyrus Locher of Cleveland, state director of commerce, was conveying the official regrets of Gov. A. V. Donahey - detained at his office because of the Lorain relief work - Director Locher's remarks were punctuated by the explosion of bombs dropped by an airplane pilot.
     As D. A. Boulay of Toledo, state director of highways, was accepting the structure from E. L. Wilcox, secretary-treasurer of the Pitt Construction Co., Pittsburgh, the contracting firm, Conneaut's name was being written by the airman in huge letters of blue smoke overhead.
     Upon being tendered the viaduct by Director Boulay, A. F. Gordon of Washington, D. C., senior bridge engineer of the federal bureau of public roads, accepted it on behalf of the government, and declared he believed the $200,000 in federal aid expended on the project had been well spent.
     "There has been no stinting of cement on that structure," asserted J. R. Burkey, engineer in charge of the construction of the viaduct. "It is all that the best of materials and the best of workmanship can produce."

Says Co-Operation Built it.

     "Co-operation built this bridge," declared Director Locher.  "The governor has asked me to say that the people of this city and county and of Ohio as a whole are to be congratulated upon the completion of this monument to our progress.
     "You taxpayers are to be congratulated on this investment, which will pay increasingly large returns in service as the years go by."
     Thad H. Brown, secretary of state, stressed the importance of highway maintenance and repair and said that so far in 1924, a total of 1,2000,00 motor vehicles had been licensed in Ohio, bringing into the highway maintenance fund of the state and into the funds of taxing units close to $11,000,000.
     "Ohio is receiving $5,000,000 in federal aid of the $50,000,000 appropriated" Vernon M. Pierce of Washington, D. C., chief of the bureau of public roads, declared, adding that since the passage of the federal road act in 1916, $452,000,000 has been apportioned among the states in federal highway aid.
     This state's intercounty highway system, now half completed, will be entirely improved within the next five years, Director Boulay asserted.
     "The people of Cleveland congratulate Conneaut's enterprising citizenry on the completion of the improvement," said City Manager W. R. Hopkins of Cleveland, who pointed out that Moses Cleaveland, founder of the Western Reserve's metropolis, established his headquarters on the site of Conneaut eighteen days before his party anchored at the mouth of the Cuyahoga.

Many Ties Bind Two Cities: 

     "Cleveland and Conneaut are bound by many ties of sentiment, many of them based upon incidents of their early history," he said.
     R. R. Richardson, general superintendent of the Conneaut docks of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., as master of ceremonies also called upon Charles, Sargent of Jefferson, O., prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula county, who paid tribute to present and former county officials for their zeal and energy in carrying the project through.
     Other speakers were Congressman John G. Cooper, of Youngstown; G. F. Schlesinger, chief engineer of the state highway department; A. W. Zesinger, chief engineer of bridges of Ohio; G. R. Logue of Conneaut former state bridge engineer, and Wendell P. Brown of Cleveland, and viaduct's designing engineer.

Woman, 90, Christens Bridge.

     After the speaking came the christening of the structure by Mrs. Ella Chiddester, 90, said to be the city's oldest woman resident.  Water from Chicago, Buffalo, Cleveland and Conneaut was poured into a large glass jug and swung from one of the viaduct's pylons.  The jug was an unusually durable one and Mrs. Chiddester threw it against the concrete pylon three times before the glass was shattered.
     Then came the pageant over the bridge, led by William Luce, 89, of Conneaut, declared by his fellow townsmen to be the last surviving scout who served under Gen. Custer in his Indian campaigns.
     Behind the Conneaut Finnish band, on ponies rode a score of men dressed as Indian braves, arrayed in feathers and war paint.  They were followed by a number of warriors afoot, no less vividly decorated, and accompanied by squaws and children, who apparently had vied successfully in the art of warpaint make-up.
     A corps of young men, wool-whiskered and bearded to represent pioneers, was followed by floats representing Washington surveyors in costume, Moses Cleaveland's landing party and many others.  A four-ox team, a reputed original prairie schooner placarded "Crossed Great Divide in 660 Days" and original coaches in which Gen. La Fayette and King Edward VIII as the Prince of Wales rode while visiting in this country, were in the procession.
     Conneaut citizens rubbed their eyes to see the old Central house bus of many years ago in the line.  In the bicycle division were a half dozen high-wheelers and two tandems.  An Albion, Pa., band and several fife and drum corps were interspersed among quaint automobiles of ancient vintage and smart motor equipages of the modern day.
     The production of the pageant, said to have been the most pretentious in the history of northeastern Ohio, was in charge of R. E. Handertmark, an instructor of Conneaut High School.

Displaces Last Toll Bridge.

     The new viaduct, as several speakers pointed out, displaces the last toll bridge within the state and eliminates two of the most difficult hills on the Chicago-Buffalo highway.  Of reinforced concrete, the structure has seven main arch spans and six small approach spans.  It contains 12,500 cubic yards of concrete and 1,100,000 pounds of steel.
     The total weight is put at 30,000 tons.  The width between the curbs is 32 feet and the height from water to sidewalk is 85 feet.

For pictures, taken by Sharon Wick, of the bridge before its demolition and replacement, click here http://www.conneautohio.us/hi_level_bridge.htm
These pictures were taken to preserve the beauty of the structure.
For more pictures, click here http://www.conneautohio.us/oldphotos_bridges.htm

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Source: Plain Dealer - Cleveland, OH
Dated: July 10, 1926
CURFEW SHALL NOT RING
In Vain in Conneaut, Says Chief in Order to Children
(Plain Dealer Special)
CONNEAUT, O. July 9 - Curfew in Conneaut is going to mean something more than ringing the fire bell at 8 o'clock, Chief of Police M. C. Childs has decreed.
     boys and girls under 16 must be off the streets after that hour.  Complaints of depredations by children led to the order.

Handy Lake Serves in Dousing Human Torch
CONNEAUT, Ohio, Nov. 26 (AP)
- The proximity of a small pond probably saved the life of Stephen Reydak, 18.
     Working with an acetylene torch on an old automobile in a scrap yard he was showered with flaming fuel when the automobile's gasoline tank exploded.
     His clothing aflame, he leaped into the pond.  At Conneaut Hospital he was treated for burns about the thighs.

Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dated Mar. 21, 1976

Source: News Herald
Dated Aug. 28, 1984

AMY KAUKONEN - FIRST WOMAN MAYOR

     The first woman Mayor of Ohio, she was born May 2, 1891, in Elyria, Ohio.  She was the daughter of the Joseph Vilhelm Kaukonen's.  She was "the first Finn kid: to graduate from Conneaut High school, in 1910, going on to study medicine at Pennsylvania Women's Medical College, where she was its youngest graduate.
     Her father, Joseph Kaukonen, organized the Conneaut Shovel Co., in 1906, employing 100 people, in 3 shifts.  The ore shovel was invented by another Finn, named Mikkola.  Conneaut Shovel was later bought by American Fork and Hoe.
     Dr. Kaukonen, described as an attractive, petite blond, married James Lawrence Walsh, of Boston, in 1920.  He died in 1971; they had no children.  She was a practicing physician in Fairport Harbor, Ohio, Seattle, Washington, and San Francisco.  They returned to Ohio in 1936.
      In 1922, at 31, she was elected mayor of Fairport Harbor, promising to "wage war against the whiskey runners," which she did.  This was during prohibition, and Fairport Harbor had a national reputation as a bootlegger's paradise.  It was reported she received a black eye while participating in a raid, on a speakeasy.  An article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in 1923, said of her "Ever since she assumed the reins of the local government, there has been constant excitement in the little city.
     Dr. Kaukonen's last days were spent in Painesville, Oh., where she was cared for by niece Maija Niemela.   She died August 26, 1984, aged 93, at Lake County Memorial Hospital, and was buried in Edgewood emetery, State Road, Ashtabula, Ohio.
(Sources:  Reva Aho; Torma Kaukonen; Eli Nikolai Hersimaki; Helen Humrichouser, Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 21, 1976, and Janet Podolak, the News-Herald, Aug. 28, 1984.)