Dowie Death, Lima, and Regional News Highlights
Obituary notes for John Alexander Dowie, founder of the Christian Catholic Church, detailing his life from 1817 birth in Bootland to Chicago years, and his death in Shiloh house. Also reports Eliza Heany Mircnent killed by train in Lima aged 89, plus St Marys graduates to wear caps and gowns. Isaac Rup, 61, crushed when a straw shed collapsed. Reports on Ontario Columbus lecture issues, gambling disputes in Lima, and legal actions around rail passenger rates being capped at two cents per mile, affecting Chicago to New York schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobin Alexander Dowie
Christian Catholic Church
Shiloh House
City
Bootland
Australia
Scotland
Sydney
Melbourne
Jicago
Woodlawn
Zon City
Tsaac Rup
Allen County
Lake Shore
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Chicago
New York
Ohio
Indiana
York
Indictments Return Against Officers in Bribery Case
Franklin county grand jury returned 58 indictments against thirteen men including Fred Immell Fred Lied Charles Burr M F Bramley H C Lang Arthur Beck A A Shoemaker Nelson Cannon R Stanley Rhoads Lawson Emerson Edward Moriarity Charles Irwin J W Johnson for bribery related to paving contracts and office corruption. Emerson Moriarity Irwin Bootnote: Emeron paid back 3151.05 amid state audit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Express
Columbus
Franklin County Grand Jury
Cducate
Nelson Cannon
Cleveland Trinidad Paving Co
Fred J.mmel
Board of Public Service
Fred Lied
Charles B. Burr
M. F. Bramley
the Paving Co
H. C. Lang
Broad Street
Emerson
Moriarity
Iewin
Johnson
Slater
Bramley
Lang
Cannon
Shoemaker
Beck
Immell
Lied
Rheads
Burr
Climax Hardware Co
Lannon Emeron
Supreme Court
Local Notes From Cicero and Surrounding Towns
A roundup of area moves and visitors including A. E. Barrows at Shank farm and Albert Heisler buying the Ridenour farm. Mrs. Thomas Ried moves to Defiance. Chas Kellermeyer and Hammon family relocate in Tiffin township. Joe Mack and Andy Hiler return to Toledo for bridge work. Frank Blosser improves from scarlet fever. Preaching at Lost Creek church and a literary question on American rights in Japan. Mrs. Ellen Packer visits before returning to Trumbull county.
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A. E. Barrows
Thomas Ried
Defiance
Kirkendaugh
Ried
Chas. Smith
Joe Lero
Titus Johnson
Pierce
Continental
Brunersburg
Chas. Lehman
Tiffin Township
Chas. Kellermeyer
O Decker
Mr. Hammon
Houck Place
Joe Mack
Andy Hiler
Toledo
Fred Brown
Alex Mcvonkey
W. Wilson
Isaac Fry
Bryan
Dave Ridenour
Trumbull
David Ridenour
Ed. Eosign
Frank Blosser
Ethel Spangler
Melborn
Edith Fry
Spangler
Oklahoma
Lost Creek Presbyterian Church
Lilly
Japan
Ellen Packer
Hicksville
Rew
Trambull
Bert Rodger
Fordas Hutchen
Clark Baker
Montpelier
Perry Burns
Santa Paula
Cali
Trumbull County
Wil
Elmore Hanna
L. W. Wilder
Mr. Wilder
Glen Sewell
William Z2agle
Oliver
David Blaseer
Will Walden
Allen
Headly
Parmer
Otis Wilder
George Jones
New Baltimore & Ohio depot opens at Fostoria for public
The Baltimore and Ohio depot at Fostoria opens Monday as a handsome pressed brick building with modern conveniences. Other items note the death of Francis Harvey, assorted local incidents, a French naval disaster, Arbor Day proclamation, and several local moves and events.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Fostoria
Advertised Letters At Defiance Post Office 1907 List
The following letters remain uncalled for in the Defiance Ohio post office for the week ending March 12 1907 Theo Beverly Wilbert Frederica Gucketti Music Co Walter Jackson C A Logan A P Scott J L Tow ler Mrs Ella Davie Mable Kaufmann Hazel McColly If not called for within 14 days please say advertised and give date of list Postmaster O J Thompson
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Defiance
Ohio
Theo. Beverly
Wilbert Frederica Gucketti
Mennonite Mission Plans Rest Home West of Lima College
Seventy acres near Lima college bought for 10000 dollars by the Mennonite denomination to establish a National Mission Rest home for the public. Rev L J Lehman says the facility will house young women and serve as executive offices for the denomination. The site, praised for access and size, marks the largest land price in Allen county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Lima College
United States
L. J. Lehman
Mission
Allen County
Ohio
Public sale at Mart Snyder farm changes hands in Paulding
Monroe residents attended the sale where Mart Snyder sold the farm to Crockett. The item notes farming families visiting, moves, and illnesses, a debate planned March 22 between Continental and Kalida at Continental High School with a supper, and local burials at Mt Zion.
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Monroe
Mart Snyder
Paulding
Snyder
Mr. Crockett
W. J. Doenges
Ada College
F. M. Stecker
Continental
Kalida
Molly Daub
Curtis Hursey
St. Lewis
Kan
Mac Hursey
Dan Hursey
Julia Hughes
Sop
Alabama
Bart Ernsberger
Meflance
John Myers
Jay
Chas. Halbgewoke
Charley Halbgewoke
Rhubush
Stranee Bros
Melvin Spencer
Mt. Zion
Henry Wiog
Warmouth
John Fifer
Dupont
King
Pate Noiret Farm
Dunkard Divorce Granted in Historic Case
In Bloomington Illinois on March 11 Judge Conrey granted the first divorce ever to a Dunkard, Ruth Kate Wolfe accusing Charles Abram Wolff of cruelty. The Dunkard Brethren church disapproves divorce. the couple wed in Lordsburg in 1902. Wolfe granted custody of their three year-old son and ordered $10 monthly child support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Ill
Dunkard
Ruth Kate Wolfe
Charles Abram Wolff
Conrey
Church of the
Dunkard Brethren of
Lordsburg
Wolfe
Wilhelm's Injuries After Cuba Officers Camp Fire
Mrs J R Wilhelm reports her son Walter wrote of a Cuba officers camp fire. Lieutenant Wilhelm arrived as a boy cried fire and led the men to safety. He escaped a burning house by breaking a window and escaping, injuring his arm and bands but nothing serious.
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J. R. Wilhelm
Walter
Cuba
Wilhelm
Death of Rushville native John W. Shaw noted
John W. Shaw born 1828 in Rushville died in Rushville Fairfield county Monday night. He lived on a farm and engaged in stock and tobacco trading. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs H B Harris and Mrs Ed S Raffoer four sons Thomas P Shaw J J Shaw C H Shaw and Judge T T Shaw. Funeral held in Rushville Thursday. Judge T T Shaw and Mrs H B Harris traveled to Rushville for the service. An April 6 rural mail carrier examination was announced.
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H.B. Harrie
Rushville
Fairfield County
John W. Shaw
Tme
H. B. Harris
Ed S. Raffo
Markets Review Bulk Commodity Prices and Livestock Quotes
East Buffalo and Toledo markets show mixed cash and futures quotes for corn, oats, rye, clover seed, hogs, cattle, sheep, and lambs. Active receipts listed for cattle and sheep with ranges for steers cows heifers and veals, plus regional price movements and market tone notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Three Arrested in Morenci Post Office Robbery
Toledo reports twelve hours after Morenci Michigan post office safe was blown and raided for 300 dollars, three men named Frank Jones James Smith and James Stowe alias Doc Sweeney were captured at 26 Raynolde Street. Officers found rain coats of Morenci switchmen in the house and recovered a bottle of soap caps under a kitchen sink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Morenci
State Line
Michigan
Raynolde Street
Frank Jones
James Smith
James Stowe
Hias
Doc Sweeny
Barber Zach Busby Dies After Wabash Train Incident
Zach Busby aged about 49, a city barber with a roving life, died Tuesday morning after a Saturday accident near the Wabash station. He was en route from Napoleon to Antwerp for home when ill health halted him. A brother Geo W Busby and an Antwerp undertaker transported the body for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busby
Napoleon
Antwerp
Zach Busby
Wm. Corein
Geo. W. Busby
Personal appeal for stock sale at L Wertheimer's Defiance Ohio
The notice invites readers to visit L Wertheimer's at 319 Clinton Street Defiance Ohio for a going out of business sale on clothing and furnishings. It promises suits made to order with fit guaranteed and offers Easter and confirmation suit bargains in black worsted or serges with long and knee pants. It warns bargains are selling fast and urges not to delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Wertheimer’s
Clinton Street
Defiance
Supreme Court Sustains Jones Law in Lucas County Case
The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed the Lucas county circuit court ruling in the Jones law cases of Gotlieb J Noller George Krupp and Leo C Ott. The defendants motions to file petitions to error were overruled and the law's constitutionality upheld. The rest reports cover census methods in China fuller's earth uses and finger valuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Supreme Court
Lucas County
Gotlieb J Noller
George Krupp
Leo C. Ott
The First Stave and a Balloon Driven Railway
The article contrasts early fire use teaching by fire itself and notes the creation of the first stove as a house and chimney concept. It then describes Hochstaufen Germany planning a balloon operated railway to climb a steep mountain with a balloon lifting a car while clamps hold wheels to rails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hochstauffen
Bad Reichenhall
Germany
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Court Street
P.O
Northwestern Telephone
Dowie
Jbheany Mircnent
Tu Board of Education of
St. Marys
Buna Gotpsan
Eaking
James Goppano
J. J. Davis
Wee
Danfile, Ill
Cicero
Lost Creek
Francis Harvey
Wood County
Hobart
France
Colorado
Wambaugh
Sophie Finlan
Mies
Denver
Adigard
Vertier
Manceron
Lutio
The
Board of Health of Frenont
E. E. Lower
Ottoville
Cleveland Lander
Harris
J. W. Goddard
Goddard
Washington
Henry Moog
Arno Burgbacher
Otto Koeppe
Wm. Sanders
G. I Moon
Belle Stailey
Lafayette
Louisiana
Ney
A. Donze
W. S. Baxter
Elizabeth Kryler
Deckrosh
Holgate
Vinci
Woodward
Mennonite Mission
Zeb Busby
China
Imperial Census Bureau
Champagne
Perignon
Florida
Joaror Fil
Crosby House
Barnes
Christman
Wellington
Afahon
Rush Medical College
Dr. Mahon
Winthrop Street
Carroll
Christian Advocate
Disciples of Christ
Episcopalians
Congregationalists
Methodist Episcopal Church North
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