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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
5
Residents and visitors frequent Toledo and nearby towns with social calls and travel. The item lists many people from Napoleon, Paulding, Bryan, Lima, Defiance and Chicago visiting, plus local business moves, a boat excursion, a new Red Men hall, and a new riverboat launch named Oscar.
Local notes report a Sunday traffic wreck injuring Miss Nellie Langdon and others. trips and relocations include Gus Otto taking a position in Muncie and Dan Deindoerfer guiding the German Lloyd line. Sheriff Poiser to Columbus with prisoners. community updates cover travel plans, licenses, and upcoming European work trips.
Judge M Donnelly of Napoleon presided in the common pleas in the Saturday session to decide paying Wm. Kirtley for boarding the Johnson jury. The court ruled the law allows payment for jury keeping and entertainment and authorized the bill of $643.50. Evidence showed sheriff contracts with Kirtley to cover daily rates at the Crosby house and the court ordered the auditor to draw a county treasury warrant to Sheriff John Poiser for the full amount.
M E Lynde of the Hotel Defiance filed a bill Monday for entertaining the Rumbaugh jury. The jury stayed 13 days at his house. the bill totaled 195 dollars and was approved by Sheriff John P Eiser before filing in the auditor's office. New cases note foreclosure by B A Sweet and a suit by the National Bank of Commerce Toledo against John Greenler for 102.06 dollars.
The State v Floyd Rumbaugh jury delivered a manslaughter verdict after a lengthy deliberation that spanned Friday to Sunday. Foreman J W Huff announced the jury could not reach a higher-degree verdict before midnight, and the panel returned with the manslaughter finding. Attorneys for the State and defense were present. a motion for a new trial was hinted.
Sophia Skiver of this city was granted a divorce Monday in probate court from Jocyrus Skiver on the charge of habitual drunkenness. The couple formerly lived in Highland township. The obituary notes Mrs Catherine Schoeninger, 31, died at her mother's home after two operations for a tumor. She leaves a husband A E Schoeninger and three children Ruth Adele Raymond. Funeral at St John’s Catholic Church with burial at Riverside cemetery.
Floyd Rumbaugh’s attorneys Col Enos and John Lamb filed four motions for a new trial and four petitions in error in the Edward Johnson case. A call fell into the old creamery well above the B&O depot Monday afternoon and drowned before retrieval. Mrs. John W Smith of Sandusky and Mrs. John C Hilton of Toledo visit Geo E Rowland’s family at 243 Gray Street. Al Maag removed electric lights and Kitchel system wiring caused a ceiling fire but wires were cut to halt damage.
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