New Democratic Executive Committee Named in Summit County
The Democratic State Central Committee adjourned as the new Summit County committee contentions were aired. The old slate led by W A Spencer and C B Benner was defeated, with the Finley faction scoring a victory. The executive committee includes John L. Shuff Jeptha Garard Isaac Huffman Charles Marshall John Snook C A Gain John P Brennan D C Donavin L Belford Wallace Yaple Willis Sharp A D Follett H Glass A C Miller T P Schmidt George R McKay. Several districts left unnamed await full selection by the State Central Committee.
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Summit County
Democratic State Central Committee
W. A. Spencer
C. B. Benner
Finley
John L. Shuff
Cinabond
Jeptha Garard
Cincinnati
Isaac Huffman
Ton
Charles Marshall
Sidney
John S. Snook
Paulding
C. A. Gain
Lofdon
John P. Brennan
D. C. Donavin
Linds
L. Belford
Jackson
State Central Committee
Attendants Charged in Death of Veteran at Massillon Asylum
Canton May 27 Acting Coroner Bothwell says John Adams a 70 year old veteran was killed by attendants at the Massillon State Hospital and he will charge two attendants with manslaughter. Adams died after being beaten and trampled Friday night with pneumonia listed as the death certificate. The case referred to Governor Harris for county authorities.
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Canton, O
Bothwell
John Adams
Massillon State Hospital
Stark County
Massillon Asylum
Beach Cuy
Adams
Harris
Crites
Governor orders inquiry into Massillon hospital death
Governor Harris directed the State Board of Charities to probe charges that Civil War veteran John Adams died from injuries at Massillon State Hospital. Stark County prosecutor had urged review and trustees reported no evidence that death resulted from violence.
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Columbus
Harris
State Board of Charities
John Adams
Massillon State Hospital
Stark County
Massillon Institution
Adams
Kentucky Firms Lose Ground in Tobacco Trade Report
Frankfort May 27 The first part of Fire Volume the annual report of State Insurance Commissioner Bell shows a sharp drop in Kentucky company business during the year ending December 31 1907 due to tobacco troubles and the Star Fire Insurance case. Risks written totaled 474090 premiums 4610301 03 and losses paid 2214525 96 They appeared before Judge Wentworth pleading not guilty. their cases were continued to June 12.
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Frankfort
Bell
Kentucky
Wentworth
Woman's Suitor A Death by Own Action
In St Louis on May 27 Grace Jackson a young widow attempted suicide by drinking water soaked with match heads hoping it would win her love. L Feager a soldier at Jefferson Barracks killed himself with carbolic acid in his mother's home today. Mrs Jackson is recovering and said Feager was not the man she loved.
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ST. Louis
Grace Jackson
L. Feager
Jefferson Barracks
McIntyre Indicted Again In Grand Larceny Case
Four new indictments charging grand larceny were returned against Thomas A. McIntyre head of the suspended firm T A McIntyre & Co. A second man named George C Ryan, a McIntyre partner, was also indicted and is reported to be in Syracuse. McIntyre had been at liberty on $25 000 bail and posted $40 000 on the new indictments.
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New York
Thomas A. McIntyre
T. A. McIntyre &Co
McIntyre
George C Ryan
Syracuse
Liberty
Monitor Turret Defies Gun Fire in Bold Tests
The test of a battleship turret and a fighting mast met with success as the turret remained intact amid multiple hits from Arkansas guns. A four-inch explosive shell and a twelve-inch shell caused damage to tubes but the mast stayed firm. A torpedo test will follow with bulkheads to be fired at by a Whitehead torpedo within ten days.
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Arkansas
R. D. White
Mason
Norfolk
Florida
Arm Bone Found by Gunness Hogs at Laporte Farm
Hogs at the Gunness farm pond in Laporte Indiana unearthed a human arm bone. Sheriff Smutzer believes other bodies lie buried in the pond mud as searchers plan long rake work along the shore. A letter from Minneapolis mentions a Gunness cousin and potential accomplice clues. Coroner Mack sent samples to Rush Medical College for poison analysis on Mrs Gunness stomach and children.
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Ind
Gunness Farm
Sheriff Smutzer
Minneapolis
Gunness
Ashly
Minn
Gunness Place
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Sheriff Smutzer in Sherman Denison Route for Vernon
Sheriff A F Smutzer of La Porte Indiana traveled through Sherman with two men yesterday and headed to Vernon after a day in Denison He did not stay at a hotel or visit the local sheriff office and declined to discuss the Gunness affair while asking that no mention be made of his presence in messages to a deputy sheriff signed A F Smutzer
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Tex
A. F. Smutzer
Laporte
Ind
Denison
Vernon
Smutzer
Gunness
Ais
Vaeeland Aldrich Measure Battle Ends With Party Split
Debate over the Vaeeland Aldrich currency measure ends with a conference report adopted 166 to 140. Fourteen Republican insurgents join Democrats to oppose the bill, spotlighting divisions over banking powers and emergency currency provisions.
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Wisconsin
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Fowler
New Jersey
Hill and Henry
Connecticut
Lindberg
Minnesota
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Calderhead
Campbell
Kansas
Prince
Illinois
Wallace
New York
Darragh
Michigan
Belvidere Man Believed Victim of Mrs Gunness
Olaf Jensen of Capron disappeared after a preliminary trip to Laporte and Indiana. Friends say he planned to wed a rich widow near Chicago and left Capron with 500 dollars, later returning, drawing 300 dollars, and vanishing.
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Ill
Olaf Jensen
Capron
Gunness
Laporte
Indiana
Chicago
Engineers Seek Higher Pay at Locomotive Engineers Meet
Columbus May 27 The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers delegates debate pay reforms with a proposed seven dollars per day no expenses for all delegates, replacing local subdivision rates and expenses. The plan aims to cut costs by about one third, while headquarters sites in Chicago Cleveland Detroit bid for the next convention location.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Chicago
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Detroit
Birmingham
Ala
Harrisburg
Buffalo
N. Y
Indianapolis
Desgued From Helpless Launch Off Catalina Coast
Captain A Crist of the launch Zeus and Hooline an ordinary seaman aboard the Buffalo were drowned after a rescue attempt. E E Easton his wife and two children and a colored nurse survived after two days drift in a small launch. Easton, former Harper's Weekly war correspondent and ex secretary to Webster Davis, was brought to Avalon by the Buffalo.
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L Hooline
United States
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E. E. Easton
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Hooline
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Harper's Weekly
Webster Davis
McKinley
Luke E Wright Named To Succeed Taft As War Secretary
Luke E Wright of Memphis Tennessee is slated to succeed William H Taft as Secretary of War. The change is set for July 1 the start of the new fiscal year. Wright is Tafts close ally and former Governor General of the Philippines.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Luke E. Wright
Memphis
Tenn
William H. Taft
Wight
Taft
Philippines
Prisoner Dies After Wood Alcohol Poisoning
Gallipolis Ohio May 27. Christopher Karnes of Gallipolis died last night at the Mansfield Reformatory and three other prisoners are reported dying from drinking wood alcohol. Karnes served in the navy during the Spanish American War and was sent to the Reformatory for burglary alleged to have been committed in Columbus.
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Gallipolis
Christopher Karnes
Gallipoli
Mansfield Reformatory
Karnes
Reformatory
Columbus
Coroner's Jury Rules Death By Own Action
Appleton Wisconsin May 27 The Coroner's jury found Mrs Carrie Shaw of Hortonville Wis died by her own action Her body was found in a mill pond a week earlier.
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Appleton, Wis
Carrie Shaw
Hortonville
Wis
Bridal Pair Found in Box Car on Railroad Honeymoon
Max J. Bender of New York and a woman claiming marriage were arrested in Chicago after being found in a boxcar on Lake Shore rail lines. Bender said they wed May 18 in New York and planned to settle in South Dakota with no money for travel. They were to be held for investigation.
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Max J. Bender
New York
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad
Bender
South Dakota
Ohio to Spend 492000 on Canal Improvements
The State Board of Public Works approved plans for canal work funded by the Legislature. The allocations include 218000 for the Miami and Erie improvement, 333000 for Lewistown Reservoir repair, 15000 for northern Ohio Canal work, 30000 for a cement wall at St Marys Reservoir, 30000 for piling along the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, 16000 for canal street paving in Cleveland, and 15000 for southern division canal reconstruction.
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State Board of Public Works
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Lewistown
St.Mary’s Reservoir
Cuyahoga River
Cleveland
Admiral Crowninshield Dies at 72 After Hospital Stay
United States Navy retiree Admiral Crowninshield died at Episcopal Hospital Philadelphia after a month of illness and nose surgery. The immediate cause was tissue hardening. Funeral services were held, with Bishop Mackay-Smith preaching. Interment will be at Arlington Cemetery after a Washington-bound train trip.
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United States Navy
Episcopal Hospital
Philadelphia
Mackay-Smith
Washington
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Brownell
Masonic Lodge
Methodist Church
Hamilton Board approves teachers’ pension plan
The Hamilton Board of Education created a teachers pension system for twenty years of service. Six teachers will retire on pensions at the end of the current year. The board fixed its annual tax levy at $1.94 per $1,000.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Hamilton Board of Education
Ohio National Guard to joint maneuver camp
Ohio Adjutant General Critchfield decides to send all state troops to a joint National Guard and Federal maneuver camp at Camp Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis. The Ohio forces will train together the first week of September, instead of separate regimental camps.
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Critchfield
Ohio National Guard
National Guard
Ohio
Camp Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Camp Harrison
Woman Sends Herself to Death Over Husband's Kiss
Mrs. Clara Wesson killed herself in Houston on May 27 reportedly saying her husband would not kiss her goodbye. She drank two ounces of carbolic acid in the act.
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Houston
Tex
Clara Wesson
Leading Boston boiler works officials arrested for fraud conspiracy
Six top officers from major boiler and structural iron works in Boston were arrested on charges of conspiring to defraud the city. The arrests followed a Boston Finance Committee report into contracting bids and alleged bid rigging in city contracts. One defendant was released on two thousand dollars bail.
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Boston Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
Alfred of
Cox
Atlantic Boiler Works
Executive Council of
Massachusetts
Duncan D. Russell
James Russell
John EB. Lynch
Hodge Boiler Works
Charles F. Hoopman, Jr
Cunningham Iron Works
David,h. Andrews
Boston Bride’ Works
Charles A. Fitts
New England Structural Company
Four Ohio Miners Killed in Mine Explosion
An explosion at Solineville near Lisbon Ohio today killed three miners and a fourth man died when a pipe fell on him after he was dragged to the surface by a rescuer. The deceased are John Rowe Westerly Wright and Theodore Lewis Frank Skinner died after being saved from the mine.
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Solineville
Here
John Rowe
Westerly Wright
Theodore Lewis
Frank Skinner
Veteran Digs Grave and Dies of Heart Disease
H K Inman 76 an old Civil War veteran of the Ninth Ohio Cavalry dug his own grave and arranged burial in his army blanket after a premonition. He was stricken with heart disease and died today, leaving a widow. He had read the Bible a hundred times. Columbus Ohio May 27.
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Columbus
H. K. Inman
Ninth Ohio Cavalry
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