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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1902
Page
2
William P. Holienback shot his wife three times in bed after domestic troubles and then killed himself. He also forced his 11 year old stepdaughter to the street before shooting himself. The wife was badly wounded. the daughter escaped.
Reports from St Petersburg dated December 26 say earthquakes persist in Russian Central Asia with four or five shocks daily. A violent sequence on December 22-23 set rolling stock in motion and sparked panic among railroad workers. Military authorities seize control for some distance from Andijan. damage runs into millions of dollars.
In central Louisville on Third and Jefferson streets a pistol duel left one man mortally wounded and two others seriously hurt. Ed Garrity and Arthur and Chance Schumaker, all painters, were involved after a dispute over Garrity’s attentions to Arthur Schumaker’s wife. Arthur Schumaker was shot and likely to die. Chance Schumaker and Garrity were wounded but Garrity escaped arrest.
Two Coshocton residents died on Christmas Day Elmer E Mizer aged 38 after a ten day typhoid illness and Mrs Benjamin Valentine aged 83 from cancer Both leaves wives and children Elmer married Libble Turner last June and worked at Lenhart Mizer Meat Market then Ralston grocery. Valentine survived by husband two daughters Jennie Rose Rickets and son William with local ties to Newark and Coshocton
Prince Leopold Kerdinand and his sister the crown princess of Saxony plan to emigrate to America to escape pursuit and public curiosity. They state America offers a fresh start and relief from scrutiny, as reported from Vienna on December 26.
A band of three to seven experts robbed Union Bank early today. They forced the front door, used nitro glycerine to blast the vault and safe, causing four explosions and wrecking the bank interior. About $15,000 was taken as residents watched a gun battle to fear and the thieves fled on horses.
Mr and Mrs Allen Renner have moved into their new residence on South Third street. Joe Karr from Pittsburg is visiting his Millcreek township home. Miss Mamie Loder spends holidays at her Newark residence.
Washington reports from Manila reveal a colossal smuggling system within the archipelago. Col. H B McCoy, deputy collector of customs, charges army transports officers and men with running a large profit making operation. Smuggling also runs in the Sulu Archipelago with a coast wise trade by chartered transports.
William Griley, from Zanesville, visited his home in the city Wednesday evening after an accident at the Wheeling and Lake Erie round house. While in the engine cab on a turntable, a component failed and the engine tipped into a pit. Griley suffered a dislocated ankle and severe bruising, but escaped death. the engine remained in the pit until yesterday. He will be unable to work for two or three months due to the injuries.
Telegraphing from New York to The Age reports three firemen killed at Arbuckles sugar works in Brooklyn. Four others injured with two possibly fatally. several more off duty from bruises and burns. Names include Michael Otolo 55 engine company 68 buried under wall, Lieutenant Philip Jeffries water tower 6, Thomas F. Coppinger chief of Twenty third battalion. Loss quoted at 300000. Fire began in the cooper shop.
Worthy Palmer, a farmer living about a mile from Warsaw, woke to a blaze destroying his house and most contents along with the barn. The family escaped in night garments. Palmer, recently moved in, had no insurance. The home and barn were owned by Pierce Reynolds, with Palmer as tenant. Palmer had started the fires to warm the house before his children woke to gifts, then returned to bed as the fire spread.
At Broomstick Church Rev D E Day will preach in the Broomstick M P church Sunday at 11 a m and 7 p m.
The charter for the Gum Cutters Embossers and Designers has arrived and will be organized as soon as arraignments are completed.
A woman who writes abandons daily office life for a vast city view yet keeps returning to a tenement window where a distant English family dream flickers through blue gray eyes. After a disillusioning spring, she covets a mother’s life and writes a revealing note to her husband, seeking union at last.
Washington reports Commander Schroeder governor of Guam presents a troubling financial picture. Receipts last year totaled 66 000 dollars with expenditures of 57 000 dollars leaving an 8 000 dollar balance and a sizable drop from the prior year. The decline stems from leper colony costs and reduced import duties. Exports and imports were 35 549 and 35 165 dollars. copra cocoa and coffee yields were weak due to 1900 rains. Governor Schroeder urges a 13 000 dollar appropriations for public works and a possible agricultural experiments station.
R W Austin of Knoxville trading as Live and Let Live Coal company says Southern railroad withholds cars for coal transport from Jellico to Knoxville and beyond. He claims rivals fix inflated prices and bars below schedule, harming mines, consumers, Knoxville and Roopville. He asks Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and require sufficient cars to compete.
A Norfolk era anecdote recounts Senator Hanna's influence as a Pullman car mishap occurs on a Cleveland to Washington trip. Bonded Warehouse men fret when the sleeping car vanishes, but a quick Pullman upgrade to Altoona restores comfort. Also shared are tales of Justice Gray mistaken for John Sullivan, Abe Gruber’s stenography quip, and a Milner Transvaal coffee scene with Grey’s preserved chair and an eggs remark on scarce governors.
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