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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1899
Page
7
Special report from the Age Reacers by Ger Mustling Carrspendents covers town and township notes. Readers learn about community events, local updates, and brief notices across the region.
Sept 25 reports include funeral attendance for Edward Dewon at Cosheeti and visits by families such as McDonald Reed and Trego near Uhelianin. Mentions of births, jokes, and social events appear alongside church talks by Rev. Hyatt and local political conventions nominating Floyd and Wolfe.
Mrs Gotreb Fetters II ill mother prompts Fred Fetters of Aiden Town to travel home. Mr and Mrs W O Renner return after months with Fetters in Newcomerstown. H C Armes visits Cohocton on Saturday. Ore Ohuger finishes school term at White Eyes last Monday. W O Lower attends Coshocton teacher exams Saturday. W O Renner to begin Pearl Township school term next Monday. Fred Barth travels to Cleveland to visit relatives.
In Center Valley Dexter Valtry notes a corn crop in poor condition as farmers switch to sowing wheat. Dr A. Calhoun of Newcomerstown visited his parents Mr and Mrs W A Catheun. Rita Sergeant remains convalescent after illness. Elmer Thompson and wife of West Lafayette visited the Edward Thompson family. A W Shartz and family of Newomerstown visited with A J Calhoun and wife.
Wiltow Broon and John M Lacy of Adams Milly wed Miss Mary Cooksey of this place last Wednesday evening. Mrs Kendle of Taane Hil was buried at Warner cemetery Friday. Mrs Marrey of Philadelphia and Mr and Mrs Congle of Champaign county visited last week. Miss Pearl M Senter works in Con hocton for J M Compton. Dr James Slaughter was very ill.
H F Carleton deeds property to Myron T Herrick and bondholders for 1950 dollars and Herrick transfers interest to Wheelmen Lake Erie railroad, merging holdings. A mortgage of 15900000 is issued by Ver cantile Trust Co of New York. Henry Shepler boosts band growth. new member E A Penera joins from Battle Creek. Also notices on hardwood lumber sales and patent bread boards at Ohio fairs.
Colonel Charles X. Zimmerman arranged for Nine companies of the Fifth Ohio National Guard to travel to New York in special trains for the Dewey parade. Officers and hospital corps will accompany the regiment as part of the mobilization plan.
Independent candidate for governor Alasor Jones spoke in Columbus at Kitdzike square attacking the two parties. The audience showed sympathy with the speaker as Jones urged his Golden Rule platform. In Cincinnati Mayer Jones of Toledo addressed workingmen at Chester Park and spoke near Carzid statue and at Vine Street Congregational Church.
J F Heimacher of Findlay sells oil rights in Wood county to Northern O22 company of Cleveland for 88699 dollars. lease of Peters farm at 249 acres with 19 wells producing 290 barrels daily. Other items report fatal and injury accidents in Akron Galion Lorain and Gallipolis with victims: Mrs Dresser and infant in Akron, Dutehil and Moneysmith injured near Galion, Seeley fatal in Lorain, Whittaker drowned near Gallipolis.
Washington advised Vandalla officials to mobilize five trains carrying the Twenty-eighth Volunteer Infantry stationed at Camp Meade Pennsylvania. Trains will cross the continent to San Francisco for transshipment to Mansila aboard transports. Also notes Stockholm election results and the death of Thomas D. Sheridan of the Grand Trunk Railway.
Austrian ministry has resigned. Thirty new cases and two areas reported at Her West. Transport Senator sailed from Ma mita with Iowa volunteers. New York carpenters strike for higher pay and half holiday on Saturday. Senator Wellipscon resigns Maryland Republican chair. British troops train derailed near Halifax injuring several. Allegheny Valley collision at Parker Pennsylvania injures twenty. Explosion kills three stevedores aboard transport Sherman. Mayor Jones seeks joint Ohio campaign debate with McLean and Nash. Rio Grande collision near Florence, Colorado kills six.
Los Angeles reports two clashes between Mexican troops and Apache Indians with casualties on both sides. Torres’s forces crossed a river, engaged rear guard actions, and dispersed the Indians after hours of fighting leaving about 40 dead or wounded. Mexican losses cited as 14 soldiers killed and 33 wounded. Nearby fire and other regional updates follow.
Reports from Yakutat describe a sequence of shocks beginning September 3 with a devastating 3 PM quake. Residents fled as houses rocked and a 30 foot tidal wall threatened, then subsided near the harbor. Most campers remain on hillsides fearing another surge. Civic, military, and local officials respond to the event.
The Northern Pacific Trading and Packing property at Wrangell Alaska near Kia-Wwfk on Prince of Wales Island burned. The salmon cannery and packing plant were lost with about half the season's pack destroyed estimated at 60,000 cases. Loss placed around 160,650 with no insurance.
Governor Sayers and Attorney General Smith return to Austin Texas after attending a St Louis conference on trusts. The governor says the meeting was pleasant and harmonious overall, noting as a caveat the Iowa governor’s partisan stance hindered progress.
In Cleveland on September 22 Senator Hanna disputed John R. McLean's claims about stock shrinkage. He said Republicans benefit no more from trusts than Democrats and defended the intrinsic value of properties. Separate item from Columbus notes name changes and company amendments in Ohio.
Toledo reports that Charles N. Haskwell and W. B. Strang have bought the St Marys division of the Detroit and Lima Northern road. The new line will run from Columbus to Chicago, directly competing with the Pennsylvania road and tapping rich territory in Gafo. It will offer strong connections across the region.
Edward Baltzley of Washington DC has purchased the Kellogg seamless tube plant, the court affirms the sale, and the plant will be run independently. The original cost was $200000 and it has been under a receiver. Miss Lote Ward fatally burned. mother and brother injured tending a stove with rosin. Ward’s clothing ignited. Toledo oil field operators plan a western combine which could shut wells indefinitely.
In Ottawa Ohio on September 22 James Foley fatally stabbed Anton Schoemacher a Kalida barkeeper during a forcible ejection Foley fled the scene after the attack.
An old advertisement extols Doans Kidney Pills as a lasting cure for kidney troubles. It quotes Geo Hosier of Troy Ohio praising the remedy, claiming long lasting relief after prior claims of sickness and cold-related kidney pain. The item notes the price and availability through Foster Milburn Co and warns against substitutes.
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