Trains Collide On Harlem Elevated Track Killing One
A rush hour collision on the elevated New York Central tracks near 110th Street killed one passenger, J. W. Knapp of New Rochelle, and injured about 40 others. The Poughkeepsie express struck the local day coach. rescue was hampered by the 20 foot high track. Engineer John D. Horn was charged with manslaughter and released on bail.
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New York Central
New York
New Haven & Hartford
Poughkeepsie Express
Central
Port Chester
New Rochelle
N. J
Greenwich
Stamford
Connecticut
New York State
John D. Horn
Hold-Overs Get Bump by Court
Toledo attorney J Y Todd sought Supreme Court leave to file a case on whether a biennial election amendment extends terms of officials already in office. The court refused, directing appeal to Lucas County courts. The ruling notes a justice of the peace term ends when his successor is elected.
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Columbus
J. Y. Todd
Toledo
Supreme Court
Lucas County
Todd
Elks Hold Open House and Install Five New Members
The Elks voted in five new members at a Tuesday evening meeting. Three other applications were approved while two more were received. A committee led by E B Uybarger and others was appointed to arrange the annual reception and open house. The lodge will toast absent brothers and send telegrams to the grand lodge exalted ruler, coordinating healths nationwide.
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the Elks
EB. L.uybarger
C. A. Lamberson
F. S. , Townsend
George Leutzel
Carl Herbie
Howard Robinson
Grand Lodge
United States
Marysville suit contests McCormick appointment in county probate
In Union county court at Marysville a suit by S R McCormick M C McCormick and Mrs Ann Boyd of Licking challenges M H McCormick’s appointment as administrator after the death of Cath erine McCormick. Attorneys Voorhees and McCampbell represent the heirs.
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Coshocton
Union
Marysville
Catherine McCormick
M. H. McCormick
S. R
M. C. McCormick
Ann Boyd
Licking
M. H McCormick
Voorhees & Voorhees
City
Juige McCampbell
Coshocton Daily Age Suffers Supply Surge
The Daily Age set a local record with 2496 copies sold amid high demand except on the murder day. A merchant sought 225 extra copies but was turned away due to limited supply as exchanges were paused to fulfill street sales and subscribers.
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Roger
Daily Age
Coshocton
Lst
Dayton man charged with mail fraud over jewelry scam
Prentiss Tiller alias Morris Willard Chambers was arrested on a mail fraud charge in Dayton. He allegedly tried to defraud the J. M. Lyons Jewelry Company of New York of 1500 worth of diamonds by posing as W. M. Chambers, a local jobber.
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Dayton
Prentiss Tiller
Morris Willard Chambers
J. M. Lyons-Jewelry Company
New York
Tiller
W. M. Chambers
Ruling In Taggart Case In Wooster Court
Judge Eason overruled Captain Taggart's attorneys request to set aside a verdict and denied Mrs Taggart's motion for a new trial. He stated a final decision would be given later in the week as affidavits filed in connection with the motion were reviewed.
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Taggart
Wooster
Eason
de Dolce
Cooperdale Faces Deepening School Crisis
Cooperdale again takes center stage as conflicts over sending local children to Wakatomika two miles away escalate. The Washington township school board plans a Saturday meeting to award a transport contract for two teachers in one crowded room. Parents threaten truancy actions, while officials hint at fines and legal challenges. Amicable settlement seems farther off.
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Cooperdale
Washington Township
Wakatomika
Schoool
Glenn and Voorhees
J. C. Adams
Roche & Roche
Cooperadle
County spending under scrutiny over road and cistern contracts
The Age reports costly county deals in 1904 1905 highlight a road right of way swap with J H Senter yielding 337.50 for land and old road plus 300 value, and a 465 cistern contract for the infirmary with price doubts. Investigators demand thorough bill checks to curb “easy” payment practices.
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Newcomerstown
Theounty Infirmary
Virginia Township
Age
Commissioners’ Journal
Journal No
J. H. Senter
Senter
Miriam E. Senter
3. H
Miram &. Senter
J. J. Norman
J. H. Henderson
County Infirmary
Arc
Hydrophobia Claims Life Of Local Child In Lima
Four weeks after a dog bite, three year old Lucile Strayer died in Lima from a developed hydrophobia case. The article notes other neighborhood children and kept stock were attacked by the same dog before it was quarantined and removed.
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Lima
Lucile
Ross Strayer
Kenyon College Glee Club May Sing Here
The Kenyon College glee club may visit Coshocton for a Christmas week concert. With 32 members and a strong tenor, the group could perform at the Episcopal church and possibly a theatre date, attracting many returning students and local music lovers.
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Kenyon Club
Glee Club
Kenyon College Glee Club
Coshocton
Episcopal Church
Bomb strikes nonunion employment office in New York
A bomb exploded through a front window at the Allied Iron association on East Fourteenth Street injuring no one directly but causing destruction in a telephones room. The office served as a nonunion employment bureau for striking Structural Iron workers. The blast follows a recent strike against Post and McCord, contractors for the Altman building project, where a earlier dynamite blast killed three and injured others.
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New York
Dev
Allied Iron Association
East Pourteenth Street
Exjros Cn
Structural Iron Workers
Post & McCord
Altman
Thirty-fourth Street
Wirth Avenue
Jacob's Ladder to Be Featured at Christmas Services
The Lutheran church will host an elaborate Christmas program with a morning service including a Christmas sermon and music. An evening program features child participants, recitations, and music, culminating in a dramatized Old Testament vision of Jacob's Ladder with an angelic ascent and descent using a mechanical device.
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Lutheran Church
Ada Davis Acquitted in Newark Murder Trial
The jury found Ada Davis not guilty in the murder of John Hammond a bartender in Newark Spectators applauded the verdict in court on December 20.
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Ada Davis
Newark
John Hammond
Suffocated by Gas In Pit On Mahoning Avenue
Two Mahoning Gas Fuel company workers William Moore and Elmer Waldron were suffocated while inspecting a natural gas pit on Mahoning avenue in Youngstown. They entered the pit to make repairs. Cincinnati business news notes Joseph R Neave, reputedly worth several million dollars, chosen as superintendent of the city street cleaning department.
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Youngstown
Wiliam Moore
Elmer Waldron
Mahoning Gas Fuel Company
Mahoning Avenue
Neave
Cincinnati
Joseph R&. Neave
City
Wen
Final Fights for Mastery Clash in Russia Strike Declared
Russia braces for a general political strike endorsed by the union of unions and the railway workers to paralyze industry, with loyalist troops patrolling St. Petersburg and Moscow amid warnings of looming conflict and economic ruin. A Moscow committee warns thousands of bankruptcies and cites urgent steps to avert national collapse.
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Union of Unions
Union of Peasants
General Railway Union
Councils of Workmen
St. .Petersburg
Moscow
Russia
Durnove
Moscow Bourse
Count Witte
Association of
Eydtkuhoen
East Prussia
League
Ite
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