Insane Man Wields Knife at Saloonkeeper’s Home
Charles Fisher, once rational, became violent Monday night at his mother in law’s home on East Broad Street. He seized a butcher knife, threatened boarders, and wounded William McDonald as police restrained him. Fisher was taken to the station, resisted, and fought to keep the knife. Neighbors and officers mourn the tragedy and fear asylum may be needed after a medical exam for his Newcastle-based family.
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Charles Fisher
Newcastle, Pa
East Broad Street
Theoir
Wm. HcDonald
Fisher
Tig
New Castle
Buckholt
Hest Broad Street
Columbia Iron & Steel Co
Hia Wie
Newcastle
Missillon
Electric Theatre
McDonald
Idolatrous love drives desperate family frictions
A fractured marriage ends with Fisher storming to take their child to Newcastle. After head injuries and temporary illness, he returns to Elyria for the child. Monday night he planned to take the child to a film, pleaded, then attacked with a butcher knife. boarders intervened and restrained him after a violent struggle.
Wabash Buys Its Terminal In Lorain County
The Wabash railway completes a major land purchase at the Avon Beach Park junction with the L B & P in Sheffield township totaling about 151 acres. The site will host slope, roundhouse and yard facilities as part of expanded river property plans for the tube mill business. Also covered is Elyria Liquor Dealers Association concerns over Sunday closing enforcement, investigations of druggists, and related grand jury questions, with Prosecutor Stevens defending enforcement and promising ongoing action.
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L. Gutseb
Te Wabash Railway
Avon, Beach Park& Southern Railway
Sheffield
Wabash Railway
Wabash
Burrell
Day
Cleveland
Uite
Ollie Klein
Elyria
Westley Worden
Laborer
Lolata
Alice Vincent
Lorain
intoxicated man arrested after disturbance at Wagner's saloon
John Quinn became intoxicated Monday night and created a disturbance in Wagner's saloon on East Broad Street. He resisted being removed, was punched, and police placed him under arrest. Tuesday morning Mayor Chapman fined him five dollars and costs. he paid and was released.
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Wagner
East Broad Street
Chapman
Dr Hart to Address Men at Sackit Club Meeting
Dr Hart will speak to the Men’s Sackit Club in Sunday school rooms of the Church of Christ at 7 30. The address titled The First Care for the Sick and Nahered or What Not to Do Until the Doctor Comes will be followed by a general discussion where each member shares a home remedy. All men are invited and welcome.
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Church of Christ
Dr Bradley to Lecture at Second Congregational Banquet
The Second Congregational Church will host a Friday banquet in its parlors. Dr Bradley of Pilgrim Church Cleveland will lecture on The Land of the White Elephant, as the church continues rapid growth in membership and influence.
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Bradley
Pilgrim Church
Cleveland
Lorain and Ashland Railway Pays 7400 for Farm Right of Way
The Lorain and Ashland Railway Co paid 7400 dollars into the probate court on Monday to be disbursed to Frank Standen as verdict rent for a right of way through his farm north of the city.
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Lorain & Ashland Railway Co
Frank Standen
Standen's Land Suit Goes to Higher Court
A jury awarded Standen in a land appropriation suit brought by the railroad. It is not believed Standen will accept the money, and he is expected to carry the case to a higher court.
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Standen
Bankruptcy Petition by Local Contractor Abbey
Abbey, a well known contractor, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in the U S district court. Assets are listed at 3654 20 with liabilities at 4492 57. Real estate 3200, machinery and tools 25, debts due 9407 20. Liabilities include taxes 14 36, unsecured claims 1920 64, secured claims 3317 57.
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Abbey
United States District Court
Machin. Lee and Tools
Fire department receives framed horse head portrait
The Elyria Fire Department was presented with a handsome picture by John Lersch & Company on Tuesday morning. The artwork, a horse head in quarter sawn oak with Old English finish, will be hung in the department dormitory in the city building. The department thanks Mr. Lersch for the gift through the paper.
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Elyria
John
Jolly Pathfinders Repertoire Stock Co at Elyria Theatre
At the Elyria Theatre the Jolly Pathfinders Repertoire Stock Co presents a week of shows with From Sire to Son opening to a full house and favorable notices. Tuesday offers Money Mad while Wednesday matinee Camille features Miss Coral Congleton in her first appearance with the company. The program includes vaudeville between acts and its own orchestra. Separate notices report a dressmaker Baker leaving with property, prompting a hot pursuit by two colored women, but she escaped. Also noted is funeral attendance by Mrs. J. R. Jameson of Michigan for her uncle Seth Griffin.
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Jolly Pathfinders Repertoire Stock Co
DHL
Elyria Theatre
Sire T
Son
Laudeville
Camille
Coral Congleton
New York
Empire Stock Co
Mrs Gibbs Is Dead
Jane M. Gibbs of Carlisle dies at 77 and will be buried at Murray Ridge cemetery.
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Jane M. Gibbs
Carlisle
Murray Ridge
News tips requested by The General Public
The Reporter asks readers to phone in news items such as visitors trips club or society notices. Items received by 2 30 will be given prompt attention and appear the same day in our column.
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Columba
Girl 14 in trouble for nightly outings at Wallington
Etta Lowe, 14, of Wallington, appears before Judge Hina this afternoon charged with unsuitability. Her parents protest and friends say they cannot control her night outings with boys. She faces possible placement in the Girls Industrial Home at Lancaster.
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Etta Lowe
Wallington
Hinamap
Fellows
Lancaster
Durham and Durham fined for disorderly conduct in row at East Broad
Thomas Amato proprietor Ly the et a ai e on wood acted as interpreter for Italians injured and witnesses to an accident in Lake Shore shops. Butler and Chester Durham were each fined five dollars and costs in police court Monday evening after a dispute at Cale Moucre's on East Broad street Sunday. Grant Durham tried to intervene and was beaten.
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Thomas Amato
Lake Shore
Butler
Chester Durham
Cale Moucre
East Broad Street
Grant Durham
Heir Sues Over Lorain Land in Whitford Will Case
H Whitford sues Lillian Kunitz in the Court of Common Pleas claiming inheritance under the Salina Whitford will dated October 27, 1904. He seeks to confirm her interest or be forever barred from asserting any claim to the land at Lorain.
Boys Arrested for Drunkenness in City Return
Antone Webber and Frank Wagner, two Cleveland youths, traveled to this city Monday and became intoxicated. They were arrested and, after arraignment before the mayor on Tuesday, were ordered out of town.
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Antone Webber
Frank Wagner
Cleveland
Harold Andison Maggie Merges Marry In Quiet License Room
Harold Andison age 21 and Maggie Merges age 20 obtained a marriage license. The ceremony followed in a small city office, with no public witnesses noted.
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Harold Andison
Drunken Man Disrupts Kimbel Restaurant on East Broad
John Trin ks caused a disturbance at Kimbel restaurant on East Broad Street Monday night. Mrs Kimbel alerted police. he was arrested and arraigned before the mayor, pleading not guilty and awaiting trial this evening.
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John Trinks
Kimbel
East Broad Street
Elyria Leads Delegates in County Republican Plan
In the next county convention Lorain and Elyria split delegates with Lorain and Black River township totaling 43 while Elyria and Elyria township total 41. The piece notes Lorain should target county offices, mentions Branson of Wellington for treasurer, and lists delegate distribution: Lorain city two, Elyria city and township four, Wellington fifteen, Oberlin twenty three.
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Elyria Liquor Dealers’ Assotiation
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Michigan
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