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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1906
Page
4
A string of local notices reports losses from a major fire totaling $115,000 and multiple deaths. Prominent residents Grant Forserson and Spr B Payton die around Lima and in secret service circles. Other obituaries include Cecilia Shulters, Wesley Gallogly, and W L Blue in Beech Grove, Lima, and adjacent areas. A jail escape leads to arrest. a mayor fines Charles Solomon for neglecting child support.
The Reverend Bishop McCane died in a New York hospital on Wednesday from a stroke suffered a week earlier. Born in 1836 in thens he graduated from Wesleyan University. In 1862 he became chaplain of an Ohio regiment and in 1863 was captured and held four months in Libby prison. He was known as a lecturer and long served as secretary of a missionary society.
A New Jersey train death clears John P. Long as presumed alive at divorce time. His widow seeks full estate, claiming the divorce and $5,000 alimony decree invalid. Relatives contend she may only claim the alimony, promising a knotty courtroom battle.
The Defiance County Farmers Institute began in Defiance city hall with about 150 agriculturists attending. State lecturers Farnsworth and Nicodemus led talks on soil fertility hog care pruning fruit trees and farm management, followed by discussions and a closing note on the value of modern farming practices.
Clifford Fernwald, 6, son of John Fernwald, was struck by a street car and killed instantly while returning home from a grocery trip. His father, a millwright, was at work in Cleveland when the accident happened.
Sam Myers of Napoleon spent Tuesday visiting the city, described as a visitor in local reports.
Carnegie funded expansion of Trowbridge Hall at Defiance College will raise capacity to about $21,000 total with $2,500 still needed. Plans call for an east end addition forming an L, aiming to finish by August 1. Related local items note Maud Chaney’s return and nearby town news.
The 1905 fire devastated Defiance College causing about 5000 losses after insurance. Andrew Carnegie contributed 5000 toward rebuilding and expansion if 15000 more could be raised, enabling a new Trowbridge Hall with dorm rooms a gymnasium art studios dining hall and a YWCA facility to replace the damaged main building and broaden classrooms.
A farmer named Thomas Britton was fatally injured in Marion when walking between two teams he paused to light a pipe and was pinned on the tongue of a rear wagon as the forward team stopped. The accident occurred yesterday as teams moved through the yard.
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