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Newspaper
Defiance Weekly Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
8
The Ohio law requires two papers to publish a detailed county commissioners financial report. Officials abridge reports to save costs, risking hidden misdeeds. Advocates insist detailed statements, costing little per capita, would prevent embezzlement and restore public trust.
Citizens call for full disclosure of county expenditures arguing open records deter favoritism and waste. critics at state meetings push to amplify public expense publications as defalcation, illegal fees, and reckless spending rise, stressing accountability of county commissioners and officials.
County and township officers met in Sherwood Ohio on February 23 to plan future Sunday school work. Defiance county may send ten delegates to the June 4 6 Ohio convention at Chillicothe with township selections due by May 15. The session urged smaller talks, active school visits, and a high standard including annual conventions, donations, and copies of the Ohio Sunday School Worker.
Local youths in Haviland Paulding county debated why girls shut their eyes when kissed. Five fathers protested in the Paulding Democrat, arguing insults to women and demanding reasons. The piece also notes Chinese forces near Hankow and U S legation defense discussions amid pending decisions on legation barracks.
Peking dispatch reports American departure preparations underway with supplies packed for Manila. British strategy favors a summer move along the Pei Ho and withdrawal to India. Germans seek to sell 60,000 American and Austrian horses and camels while France contemplates withdrawing most troops except for legation protection.
News from Seoul and Peking reports 3600 Boxers crossed from Manchuria attacking Incherg and looting it. Korean troops deployed to counter the assault while Russians push Boxers south, with American and local forces preparing defenses at Wonsun. A Danish officer and his wife, Mrs. Lindsberg, were involved in a murder suicide near Peking.
Ut and William Rebelski were severely cut by Dick Star after a quarrel at Mount Zion. The assailant grabbed a hatchet during a confrontation in a saloon and attacked the brothers as they rode home, leaving them badly wounded and Star fleeing.
The Thirty-fifth United States volunteer infantry arrived in Manila from Bulacan and may sail home March 15 on the transport Thomas. Captain Draper led 180 marines to scout Bataan, capturing two insurgent officers fourteen men with twenty six rifles and destroying fourteen thousand bushels of rice and one hundred four carabous.
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