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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1899
Page
4
In New York a public splash greets Admiral Dewey with praise and planning for a grand reception. The piece notes the clash of etiquette headlines and the need to balance precedence among dignitaries while the city preps for a lavish tribute to the famed naval hero.
Chicago Platform Democrats packed Cooper Union to hear ex Governor John P. Altgeld ex Judge James Tarvin and Congressman John J. Lentz of Ohio endorse Bryan for renomination and oppose McKinley policy in the Philippines Lentz denounced imperialism and linked reform to Jefferson and Lincoln while attacking Wall Street influence on finance.
London Sept 5 Senator Mark Hanna arrives for rest before sailing home and says Republicans nationally and in Ohio face no fear in the issues contest. He predicts free silver anti expansion and tariff themes will dominate as McKinley’s policy guides Congress and notes Philippine war timing before 1900 vote.
Seven people drowned when a sailboat capsized near the mouth of Halifax harbor during a squall. Eleven aboard. four saved. Names include Robert Davidson and John E Hancock among others. One body recovered. survivor Poole of H M S Talbot helped save two others. Other notes: congress of agriculturists planned in Chicago. US regiments to Manila. Memphis post office clerks meet.
President McKinley will skip a planned western tour, attending the October 1 cornerstone laying at the Chicago post office building. It is unlikely he will travel beyond Chicago on this trip.
The prolonged building trades lockout in Copenhagen is ended after a satisfactory agreement. About 25,000 workers were affected and are expected to return to work by Thursday.
Columbus Ohio September 5 The Ohio State fair opened auspiciously with all departments exhibiting their best displays in both new and old buildings. Attendance was encouraging as crowds filled the grounds to view the exhibits.
In Puerto Plata on September 5 the populace anticipates General Jiminez with elaborate preparations for a brilliant reception. Enthusiasm runs high as citizens await his arrival and performance upon the scene.
Rev. J. Reeves presiding elder of the Lexington district of the Methodist conference of Kentucky was found guilty by the conference investigating board and expelled from the conference on September 5.
A Clan line steamer, unnamed, foundered off Sagres after colliding with a Danish ship in fog. The Danish vessel rescued the crew of the wrecked ship. Elyria, Ohio reports F. E. Wheeler bound over to the grand jury for the Lorain shooting of Philip Myers.
Black Hand leader of the Winnebago tribe dies. Steubenville grocer Isaac Robinson burns with rage. Julie Seiger an herb doctor dies suddenly at Tifa. Rochester wins Eastern league baseball title. Change of venue granted for Daren meters in Georgia. Russell Harrison ill in Cuba from yellow fever expects recovery. US transport Morgan City wrecked off Japanese coast. tug Red Cloud wreck reported off Cedar Point Erie is false. Harman’s near Upper Sandusky fatality. John McKane, ex Coney Island boss, dying from acute dyspepsia. Marysville jail for C H T Sullivan on embezzlement charge. Farmhand Michael Lynch and Arther Ahearn drown in Batemiske due to boat upset.
Lieutenant Ara L. Reeves of the Seventeenth Infantry recalls a night patrol near San Fernando when a boloman attacked him in rain dark. Reeves sustained cuts and a gunshot to his foot but overpowered the assailant with his left knee and revolver, later recounting the struggle and his wife’s reactions. He has prior combat wounds in Cuba and a New York street fight record.
An ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for poor digestion and general weakness. It claims the product drains sluggish bowels and strengthens the stomach liver and bones, urging readers to buy at Anderson’s drug store No 2 Forbes Blocks.
A Hannibal resident credits Typhoid Fever and pneumonia recovery to Dr Bines New Discovery. He was weak and bedbound for weeks before one bottle relieved symptoms. The ad claims the medicine cures throat and lung troubles and offers trial bottles free from C E Anderson's Drug Store in Conderon Ohio.
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