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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
16
Defiance city council in regular session approves a claim ordinance for taxes paid and awaits decisions on sidewalk raises. The body discusses water company settlement options, street improvements, and financial strains while noting personnel changes and local notices.
A local notice reports James Crites and Theodore and Eric Koeppe swapped farms while Allen Slusser sold to Enos Morton. It also notes biographical items such as Col Sobieski’s life story publication, community deaths, marriages, and postal route statistics alongside various local happenings and plans.
A former officer, Joe Seibert, now works for the Turnbull Wagon Company. A large cottonwood tree near Judge W H Hubbard’s residence, condemned by the board of health, was cut down today.
J H Beiderwell of Paulding county visited recently. John Peter Jr. has been in Williams county for poultry business. E F Shumaker's children have scarlet fever. Hattie Alehouse dined with Mary Gates Sunday. Chas Kellermier filled his regular appointment last Sunday. Mr and Mrs Wm Linebrink called at Stringtown Sunday. Alfred Sigg made his regular trip north Sunday. Jesse Linebrink guest of H L Stock Sunday. 8 F Stock and wife visited his parents Sabbath. Mrs Florence Handy returned home this week. Dora Alshouse spent Sunday with Bertha Stever. Geo Ganemiller entertained a crowd Sunday. Diamond Hill improving. A new saw mill shed is being erected. Young folks gathered at A J Carpenter's Saturday evening. An enjoyable time. Fred Gire shipped a car load of cattle to Buffalo Saturday. Next Saturday he expects to ship a car of hogs. District No 6 school closed Monday for a week due to scarlet fever. Frank Siler butchered Monday. Dr C Hane called on his parents Monday evening.
Mal Blosser welcomes a boy born January 6. A Forthem buys a Bryan party organ last week. A stranger from Archbald aims to buy Wm Yeagley's store. Dr J W Cameron attends Eva Thurp who is ill. Young and Fortham cut logs for Chas Fieldner of Ney. The L W Chapman building moved to F Buda’s lot on South Cleveland. Minnie Mavis becomes president of CE society. Otis Shirkey travels to Garrett Indiana.
John Lawton a teamster from 240 Gray Street testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills cured his wife and himself of severe lumbago and back pain. He praises the druggist N G Woodward for selling Doan's Kidney Pills and asserts the remedy provided relief where others failed.
William Craft of three miles south of the city on the Ottawa pike sustained a broken right leg below the knee when kicked by a horse Saturday. The same leg had been broken years earlier. Dr. M B Stevens attended to the injured man.
William A Brady wires from New York that he remains confident the Jeffries Ruhlin bout will occur in Cincinnati. He warns Kansas City protection would be required if the fight is proposed there and notes the county sheriff will not permit it. In Missouri, requests surface for the murder of John B Richardson's brother, financier Frank Richardson, with a large reward expected in Savannah near St Joseph.
Washington January 16 Chief Wilkie of the secret service reports a new photographic counterfeit ten dollar national bank note. It imitates poorly the Tompkins County National Bank Ithaca New York note check letter B charter 1561 bank 3894 series 1882.
Indianapolis January 16 Governor Durbin said he had nothing to say about requisition papers from Kentucky for former Kentucky Governor W S Taylor and ex secretary Charles Finley. He would consider the documents when they reach his desk.
Washington reports a meeting of the new American Baseball association is set for Thursday evening at the Marlboro hotel in New York. The national board of arbitration will convene Friday evening at the Fifth Avenue hotel to hear the American association representatives.
John G. Dotterer sues Mary Stillwill Helen Humphreys and W H Bouton in Defiance County Ohio to quiet title on the northeast corner of lot 100 in Defiance city parcel fronting 20 feet on Clinton Street and running 50 feet back with claimed adverse interests from a Stillwell mortgage and a Bouton mortgage. Defendants must answer by March 9, 1901.
Jan 15 market update covers Chicago Cleveland Pittsburgh Buffalo New York Cincinnati and Boston prices for cattle hogs sheep lambs calves and grains. It lists ranges for steers cows bulls and sheep with regional notes and commodity quotes including No 2 red wheat corn oats and fats.
Cambridge January 16 Harvard observatory professor Pickering says Lowell observatory in Arizona reported a shaft of light from Mars lasting 70 minutes in December He wired Europe and sent neostyle copies nationwide The Europe report claims he communicated with Mars and states there is no means to know the light’s source
Acting on Chief Detective Titus instructions Scotland Yard officials were cabled to arrest a Walker Street firm clerk upon landing from an incom steamer in Liverpool. The embezzler allegedly carried away 50 000 dollars and defrauded nearly 200 000 dollars before suspicion arose.
The arrival of the United States cruiser Philadelphia in Panama has prompted cordial official relations and no disruption. Revolutionists have dispersed into the interior and no unusual political comments are reported as quiet prevails.
Washington dispatch notes fierce opposition to the shipping bill by foreign interests while the House moves ahead with the river and harbor bill funding nearly 70 million for national commerce. The Senate showdown, filibusters, and armies in transit shape a tense political scene. J. B. Acres.
The article traces ancient and early methods of blood transfusion and blood washing. It explains how defibrinated blood was risky, leading physicians to use saline solutions with chlorides injected into veins or tissues to replace lost fluids and to wash poisons from the blood, a practice credited with saving lives.
An editorial urges housekeepers to save fuel by sifting ashes and cinders daily and pouring cold water over them before reuse. It notes better fuel when mixed with coal and argues fires in bedrooms are safer with cinders. The piece cites the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on efficient, steady fires.
A Massachusetts shopkeeper narrates a day in the life of his grandson John who assists in a small grocery. The grandfather briskly tasks John with simple chores, hints at a dinner break, and suggests composing a few bills before the end of the noonday pause.
A London coal heaver shoveling coal in the suburbs is startled by a loud shout from a neighboring house. A disheveled man bursts out claiming the coalman is loading the coat into the wrong hole, insisting his wife’s relatives live there.
The Washington Star quotes Mr Com rox saying he is progressing slowly and plans to refine his manners through travel with Mrs C and the girls. He doubts he will ever distinguish bric a brac from junk in an antique store.
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