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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1900
Page
2
A determined effort to defend Ohio game laws as constitutional follows a Cleveland meeting held Thursday and Friday. Forty four shooting clubs and significant funds were represented as the best legal talent in Ohio is assembled to push a test case through the supreme court.
The piece notes a string of robberies targeting refrigerators on the frontier with little labor needed beyond a porch walk. George Bing, a Tuscarora artist, is named as the latest in the series. The stolen refrigerator was packed with rare materials for a hearty breakfast, but nothing identifiable remained.
A North Fourth Street resident named Struble reported a roll of money missing after visiting Semrisis saloon on Friday night. Police found the money on the floor. it had been dropped and picked up by another patron. Struble was sent home with a remark that too much money is not a good thing to have.
The Pan Handle announces changes to its Coshocton stationtracks including removal of the Walbonding transfer and installation of several new freight house tracks. Additional improvements are contemplated but details are being kept secret.
Edward A. Brown moved from track supervisor on the Walhonding line between Loudenville and Coshocton to foreman of the Akron yards. John O'Shea takes Brown's former role as track supervisor.
Reports indicate new schedule changes and added trams on Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh. The shift prompts a large number of applications for passenger brakeman positions, with many openings filled by staff from other branches of the service.
London reports opinion favors protracted talks to pacify the Transvaal amid ongoing Boer resistance. Botha reportedly managed two days of defense with no losses, while Buller’s forces face tough fighting along Ficksburg and Almond’s Nek as operations continue and roving patrols suffer minor casualties. President Steyn resides at Citkop, and Boer agents hint at negotiations though details remain private.
A vintage mailer touts Alen's Foot-Ease powder to ease tight shoes and soothe corns bunions and blisters. It pledges relief for sweating and hot feet, claiming a cure for swollen feet with a trial package offered free by mail from New York.
Thomas Bach 50 shot and killed Mollie Bach 28 at the Bach farm near Louisville after learning of her secret marriage to Newton Thorne. Mollie, adopted 12 years earlier, tried to flee but Bach shot twice and then again near the heart. The report also notes other disparate items from the era including Mexican skirmishes near Yaqui and local labor unrest in Ohio and coal mining disputes in Russellville, Arkansas.
Kentucky Democrats at Louisville convention approve at large delegates and call for changes to the Goebel election law to ensure fair counts, including an educational voting qualification and equal representation on election boards. Lead speakers include Senator Blackburn. governor to be nominated July 19 in Lexington. Philadelphia hosts Republican prepping for convention with possible vice presidential bids. Georgia delegates pledge support for Bryan.
An old advertisement copy touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a blood and mucous system remedy, priced at 73 cents per bottle, with endorsements and testimonials claimed. It lists wholesale druggists in Toledo and mentions local businesses like Smith & Priewer’s restaurant for calling and proving property.
A stream of disparate items describes spring imagery and poetry, then shifts to a 19th century civic notice: a city law mandating kerosene for open poultry and bottom-spigot tanks to curb mosquitoes, followed by brief historic notices of a Kansas streetcar crash, a white man charged with compelling a Black census worker, and Richard Croker planning return to New York from England.
Happenings at Home and Abroad in terse notes report eight miners killed in a Canmere mine explosion. An elevator accident in Springfield kills Colburn Schroeder. Rt Rev Richard Hooker Wilmer dies. James Reddick, 123, died in Lisbon, Virginia born slave. Vermont Democrats nominate for Brian and the Chicago platform. Mrs William E Gladstone dies and to be buried at Westminster Abbey. Train wrecks near Atlanta and Asheville leave engineers fatally hurt. An ad notes indigestion cure with Kodol Digestive Aids from E Anderson’s drug and book.
A fragmentary account details a woman’s medical rescue and month long treatment with unclear medications. The text references a doctor advising, a trial product, and a seller offering a “free trial” of a chemical or remedy, with mentions of recovery then death following a household accident and questionable substances.
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