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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1901
Page
6
Washington notes describe Congress reconvening after holidays with focus on the army reorganization bill and timing for an early vote. Letters to Senator Hanna reveal divided views on shipping subsidies and foreign built ships, reflecting regional positions and a patriotic, nonpartisan undercurrent.
Father Felix Marian Lepore pastor of the Italian church in Denver and editor of La Vazione plans manufacturing in Chicago for patents including a fire escape life preserver invalid's bed a self threading sewing needle and a salt and pepper holder His surface electric road switch patent would automate street traffic Chicago named as base of operations with Lepore calling it the commercial metropolis of the country.
Located in Central America, Cincinnati January 12 It is learned that Frank M Brown charged with defrauding the German National Bank of Newport Kentucky out of 191000 has returned to Central America Brown was in New Orleans this week where friends from Newport met him It is believed they aided his return to Honduras Reports say Brown would return to Newport to surrender and make a confession involving prominent people
A movement urges public school teachers and pupils to engage with the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo next summer. Originating in Pennsylvania schools, the plan asks teachers to write essays on the exposition objects and global commerce impact, following a successful Paris Exposition program.
Washington dispatch reports intense battle over the ship subsidy bill as Congress shifts to army reform. The New York Reform Club circulates letters to fund anti shipping arguments and plate material for hundreds of newspapers. J B Acres notes the fight pits American shipbuilding aims against foreign interests and critics claim publicity funds threaten fair debate.
Defiance County Court of Common Pleas under Judge William H Hubbard orders a special term for hearings in the case of E Hope Norton et al v Columbus Lima Milwaukee Railway Company et al. to begin January 22, 1901. No juries to be summoned. Clerk Schmaltz to publish notice per law.
Dispatches from Sebastopol describe 3,000 passengers stranded on trains in the southwest with extreme suffering. One train was inaccessible for a week and others for two to three days, many were school children and travelers returning home for holidays.
Half a million cases reported in New York. Carey EB and Paul, wealthy Delaware citizen, die of pneumonia. William L. Trenivein ex controller of currency dies in New York. Sitka Indians vote to adopt the American flag. J D Keith convicted of murdering Nora Keifer and sentenced to death at Franklin. Naval station recommended at Sieeeeen Sa. G W Dozer dies in Columbus Ohio from laudanum overdose. Robbers raid Franklin post office safe. Boiler explosion at Bidar Mill near Chicago kills two. Finns to be colonized in Fentress and Morgan counties Tennessee. over 100000 acres purchased.
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