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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
2
A broad digest notes deaths in Galena and Isoline, blackmail threats, ship collisions and drownings near Port Iroquois, Port Cost labor unrest, and a surge in currency and debt data. It covers navy secrecy, crop forecasts, homeseeker wreck, court indictments, and notable murders and dignitary visits.
Rev Adam Miller founder of the German Methodist church in the United States died in Chicago aged 91 leaving a wife aged 92. George H Yenowine noted Western newspaper man died in Milwaukee at 44. Bryanites in Columbus Ohio formed a progressive Democratic ticket with Rudolph Reemelin for governor. Mrs Rebecca Lovell aged 104 celebrated at Hopkinsville Kentucky. John Davis former Fifth Kansas district congressman died in Topeka aged 74. Maryland Democratic convention at Baltimore aimed to eliminate the negro from politics. National Socialist convention named St Louis as party headquarters. James P Goodrich elected chairman of Indiana Republican state committee.
Summary of scattered reports: a passenger seized in Cartagena on the Atlas line steamer Allegheny under a German flag. Italy marks the first anniversary of King Humbert’s assassination with commemorations. William Redmond and Patrick O Brien disciplined by the British House of Commons for disrespect to the speaker. Cuba’s constitutional convention reads a proposed electoral law. naturalized voters must eight years in the island. France and Germany plan long Shanghai occupation with troop barracks. an unknown man tried to assassinate Queen Dowager Maria Pia at Aix les Bains. Nellie Grant Sartoris buys a summer home in Coburg Ontario. last German troops leave Peking. British clash with Boers at Nquta leaving four British dead. Austrian garrisons in the Balkans placed on war footing amid Albanian unrest.
An Arctic mission sees Baldwin depart from Vardee heading to the pole. The report mentions various geopolitical and naval notes including a prize promise by Thomas W. Lawson tied to the Inde pendence versus the Columbia, and global events from Venezuela to British actions in South Africa.
Reports say John D. Rockefeller will build a marble palace at Pocantico Hills New York costing about 1 million dollars. The estate includes 2000 acres in northern Westchester, a granite stable nearing completion, and a palace modeled after English and Scottish castles.
Red Cloud the Cayugas chief is 83 and says he is civilized. Krupp's fortune nears 50 million and 4 million income with 80 thousand payroll. Nathan Church in Minneapolis cleans streets for 1.50 daily. De Wet praised as finest horseman in South Africa. Buckstuhl named director of sculpture for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Waldemar Schmidt plans European museum visits for Egyptian antiquities catalogue. Carnegie admires pansies and exotic plants. Fillmore to receive 1800 monthly until year end plus lifelong 500 pension. William C. Sanger, US assistant secretary of war, works from eight to six with full duty and access to all.
A historical statistic notes the press expanded dramatically over the 19th century, rising from 63 papers of all kinds in 1800 to 2,262 dailies and 20,900 weeklies by 1900, reflecting rapid industrial and social change.
The Groot convention of bolting Democrats met at the Great Southern hotel and adopted a three named state ticket headed by Governor Rudolph H. Reemelin of Cincinnati with Henry C. Cordery of Prairie Depot as lieutenant governor and Rial M. Smith of Akron as supreme judge.
President Haskins Vice President Sullivan and Secretary Savage of the Ohio Mine Workers held a lengthy session at headquarters. They stated the miners of Ohio are ready to assist organized labor and acknowledged an agreement with Ohio operators that expires April 1, 1902. If corporations use injunctions to thwart labor, the miners cannot predict their policy.
The Aug 3 Cincinnati report describes a shooting at Crosby’s airhome in Addyston. Orville Rudisell and Edward Crosby exchanged ten shots. Rudisell lies near death while Crosby is jailed. Crosby’s wife warned against approaching the room, and a lamp was shattered as the duel continued in darkness.
Lorain August 2 a wooden trestle at Oak Point between Lorain and Vermilion collapsed under a picnicking crowd from Cleveland Lorain Oberlin and Hyra colored congregations. Excursionists rushed to the grove and about five hundred people fell into the swamp ten feet below. several were seriously injured.
Canton Ohio August 3 Senator Hanna visiting President McKinley issued a statement denying reports he is involved in any effort to settle the steel strike. He said he is not taking part in negotiations and that his visit is purely social, with his meeting with Senator Cullom of Illinois accidental.
Cleveland attorney Harry C. Mason died in Prescott Arizona after going there for health reasons. He was a former speaker of the Ohio lower house and later attorney for the state food commission in the Cleveland district. An active Republican politician, his death was caused by consumption.
Post Commander W. T. Patterson and W. H. Bushing of Eugene Reynolds post in Bellefontaine visited Cleveland on Wednesday to request free quarters for 150 veterans and a band for the national encampment. The Logan county Grand Army association comprises five posts.
Newark on August 3 saw the city street railway and the Newark and Granville road tied up by a strike. Workers demand 17 cents per hour for a ten hour day 25 cents for overtime and other minor requests.
Consolidation of the Tiffin Light and Fuel Co the Tiffin Electric Light Co and the Tiffin Gas Light Co was effected Friday. The new company is backed by Toledo and Detroit capitalists who control plants at Delphos New Bremer and Minster. Beheaded by a Train near Marion reported.
Columbus announces a race over the Brighton Beach track on August 15 between Crescens and The Abbot after W L Marks manager of The Abbot witnessed a mile in 2 11.
Warren August 3 The employer of the Warren boiler works 125 in number has asked for a straight eight hour day with ten hours pay They have been working ten hours except on Saturday when they worked four hours Their demands will be met.
A frontier tale recounts a minister who declined a drink from a cowboy. The cowboy insults him, but the parson answers with trained discipline, knocks the attacker down, then helps him up and walks away amid onlookers. The cowboy, carried away by the ambulance, admits the parson was full of fun.
County Judge in St Paul Nebraska declares the state curfew ordinance illegal after four young women from prominent families were arrested for being out late. Proceedings were begun and the law deemed unconstitutional, with the girls ordered released. An appeal to higher courts will follow.
A jumble of recipes and advertisements from an old paper includes a fruit date muffin method with milk and baking powder, an Allen’s Foot-Laze shoe powder ad, a brief joke about divorce, Piso cough cure claim, and stray notices about railway collisions and reader chatter.
An OCR fragment discusses a cough remedy labeled Hoxsie's Croup Cure priced at 50 cents and mentions a conversation about fashion and style. It cites the Philadelphia Press and a quoted note praising finding the right pair as paradise.
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