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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
7
Corrected price listings show butter at 2.8 per pound and chicken at 2.0 per pound. Potatoes and cabbage appear with per bushel and per pound quotes. Lard and country ham are cited, with flour and meal prices noted and various grain items listed in bundled market data.
The Wheeling and Lake Erie schedules list daily northbound service from Coshocton to Cleveland with stops at Fresno Chillicothe Sugar Creek Barrs Mills Cundese Beach City Justus Navarre Massillon Canton Kent and Toledo plus late Sunday variations. Through connections available at Toledo Cleveland Kent Canton and Zanesville for east west north and south routes. Homeseeker tickets offered on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays monthly. For folders and rates contact Cr S Crane or R B Kelley in St Louis Pittsburg.
East Buffalo to Toledo markets show cattle prices: steers 4 5 to 4 25, cows 2 50 to 4 50, bulls 3 50 to 4 50. calves up to 8 00. Sheep and lambs trade 4 60 to 7 30, hogs varied. Chicago and Pittsburgh quotes reflect similar ranges. Wheat No 2 red around 5 40, corn No 2 around 4 40 to 4 50. regional price spreads noted.
General Wood disputes claims of wanton slaughter in the Mount Bajo fighting on Jolo. He asserts women and children died because they were in the works, while others wore trousers and used as shields. Taft and the president call the exchange satisfactory and unavoidably tragic.
From Feb 15 to Apr 7 and Sept 16 to Oct 7 1906 the W and L E will offer one way second class Colonist tickets to Utah Colorado Washington Oregon Montana Idaho British Columbia and intermediate points at greatly reduced rates. Tickets permit stopovers at select points and are valid in free reclining chair cars and tourist sleeping cars. For details contact W J Davies agent.
The Newark team will miss Wilbur Bissell who played in the left garden with Newark last season. In a letter to a Newark fan he states his health is poor and he is at home in Bedford Ohio with boils and carbuncles delaying the season. His loss is keenly felt by Newark fandom as he was a valuable asset and fans hope for his speedy return to a uniform.
Coshocton bowling fans will see six games on Star alleys next Monday with a $100 side bet. R A Glaser and McMillin challenge any two bowlers. Henry Wildebrand captains Star team and will bowl. past scores show Glaser and McMillin won three of six last week in Zanesville rematch.
A Coshocton bowler travels to Zanesville to compete at the Brunswick alleys with partner McMibin from Pittshore. Glaser plans to join the Nets team while The Loral Star train has not entered. The event runs all day and evening.
Coshocton likely sees no more polo games this season though the city team won all six winter games. They outplayed Utica and Mt. Vernon and impressed at the Main Street rink, while efforts to schedule matches with East Liverpool and upstate teams failed. The sport grew popular and efforts to keep the team intact for a early next season are hoped.
In Philadelphia on March 15 a crowd of about five thousand watched Battling Nelson of Chicago and Terry McGovern of Brooklyn fight to a draw after a slow start. Nelson pressed early and used a straight left, while McGovern countered with hard blows that lacked impact. The bout heated in round three and McGovern suffered a slip in round five, with Nelson landing a decisive left to the jaw before the climax of clinches. No official decision was rendered as both fighters remained on their feet. Separately, the Colorado Tests and Mexico Railroad was chartered to build a 2,500 mile line from Cheyenne to Corpus Christi with branches into Mexico, capitalized at 75 million dollars, listing Mangum as a key base and naming Morris R. Locke and several Mangum directors.
Representative Hearst of New York introduces a bill to ban secret rebates and discriminations with penalties of one to ten years imprisonment for giving or receiving such concessions or rebates. Jury in Wife Murder Case in New Albany Indiana completes selection. Prosecution to prove minister murdered his wife on October 12, 1904, then hanged the body in a door transom before leaving with the baby.
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