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Newspaper
Elyria Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1903
Page
8
Oberlin mayor urges citizens to form a vigilance committee to catch the firedog behind a wave of incendiary fires. Fire Marshal Hollenbeck reports incipient clues scarce after 48 hours of inquiry and departs for Columbus to resume early next week.
Common Pleas Court Luella Bets. s minor sues Herbert Norris by Martha Bets as next friend seeking $5000 for alleged criminal assault on August 10 at Wellington. GL Blinn represents the plaintiff.
A Cleveland barber shop nearly emptied in minutes as moving crews loaded chairs and furniture into vans. A witness recalled the barbershop being dismantled after John D Rockefeller's property ownership sparked a teardown to build a new hotel, with the shaving chair left in the street.
Citizens nabbed a pickpocket on Lorain Street Friday night after a man shouted and a chase ensued. The thief was caught and his case will be presented to the grand jury before adjournment.
The Cleveland Stone Co announces a landmark upgrade at No 6 quarry with about 150000 dollars to switch from steam to compressed air driving all machinery. The system includes two 1000 horsepower Corliss compressors, three water tube boilers, automatic draft, and an air pressure of 100 psi. Expected gains include cutting coal use from 60 to 15 tons daily and reducing firemen and boiler needs.
A special car with Senator Hanna Col Herrick and party derailed three miles east of Berlin Heights at 11:88 Saturday morning. Occupants were thrown from seats but not seriously injured. they were badly shaken. A Sandusky special later transported the party to Berlin Heights. Herrick also had a separate auto accident from Cleveland, striking a pile of stones but sustaining no serious damage before boarding the special car at Rocky River.
Frank Leske of Elyria stands accused of causing a rear end trolley collision on the 6 and 8 W railway near the Cottes Brook curve south of town on a Saturday night. He boarded the Elyria bound car at 7:80 and after a second car followed, a wheel came off the rear car. In darkness the motorman could not stop in time. the rear car wrecked and the forward car roof was stove in. Leske was arraigned before Mayor Fo ger and pleaded not guilty. hearing set for Tuesday morning.
In memory of Comrade Ransom KE Bra man of Hirjah Hayden Poet No 49, death has entered our post. He was a faithful member, a good citizen, a loving husband and father to his widow and children. The post extends sympathy, mourns for thirty days, and copies are sent to the family and local papers for publication. Signed by J. E. Burrell, J. L. Houghton, WS. Biggs.
George Brackett files for divorce in common pleas court from Adora Brackett citing extreme cruelty and neglect. Married April 15 1899 with no children. He alleges repeated desertion and that on March 10 she threw his clothes out a window and shouted take your old rage. He seeks divorce and equitable relief.
Machinery on site at the Nickel Plate sidetracks toward the Elyria pumping station west of Lorain carries cars loaded with equipment for the new plant. Pumps are from Snow Engine and Pump Works as the plant nears readiness. roof trusses are being positioned.
Funeral held Monday at the family home conducted by Rev W E Cadmus and Rev Samuel Earley. A quartet provided music. Remains laid to rest at the cemetery with Elijah Harden post grave services. Royal Afroanum Knights of Honor and Richard Allen post attended in a body. Commandes-in-arms of the 8th OVI acted as guard of honor. pallbearers named from LaGrange Oberlin Pittsfield North Olmsted Cleveland Elyria.
Officers Whitney and Myers arrested five hoboes in the Toraday forenoon on railroad property theft charges. The suspects fled but were halted by two shots from Whitney’s revolver, then handcuffed and marched to the stockade in quick order.
Rev John Johnston of St Marys Catholic church will officiate a triple wedding on Wednesday morning. Three Grondin family members from Gregg Avenue will wed. Mary Grondin will marry John D Carney, a pipefitter, from the local area. One Grondin son travels from Columbus to wed Loretta Gerran of Cleveland, and another son travels from Michigan with his bride.
An advertisement touts a 64 page fully illustrated book describing the gold fields being opened in Utah. It urges Americans to send ten cents for a copy, claiming it to be the only print on the topic and promising timely information. Address to Tre Stuyvesant Publish, Rascal Telegraph Building, New York City.
C. M. Gardiner, once linked to an ins or anode swindle, was released from county jail Friday afternoon, then put in irons and taken to Canton by Sheriff Frank McKinney to answer bigamy charges. He is accused of a Canton wife in addition to a wife in Elyria, after leading an insurance union in Washington and dispersing from town to town amid prior embezzlement allegations. The grand jury did not indict in Elyria.
Lorain mayor F J King informed W A Aust of Wadsworth that he cannot accept the state senate nomination offered by the Democratic party at Medina. He called the honor high but said duties to his party and to the people of Lorain require his remaining in his current office and not delegating it to others.
A compiled list shows multiple marriage licenses issued to individuals including Frank L Bark a 28 year old policeman from Lorain and Mary Carpenter 30 a house keeper from Lorain as well as George Unger 26 a laborer from Henrietta and Elia Saner 25 from Elyria. Other entries include Thomas Melvils Cummings 23 a farmer from Berlinville Bartha May Hungerford 23 of Oberlin Micheal Manos 69 a farmer in Russia township and Mrs Margaret Leiff 44 a housekeeper from Carlisle. Also listed are W J Gould 25 a clerk and Elizabeth Benson 21 both from Lorain George Unger 26 laborer from Henrietta Ells Sauer 35 of Elgris Emil M Fressmen 25 a hatter from South Lorain and Minnie Schwartzentraube 21 from South Lorain.
A probate office clerk notes many brides older than their husbands and suggests changing social norms may push women to seek younger partners. The piece questions causes, including shifts in gender roles and household leadership, hinting at evolving matrimonial norms.
The county commissioners signed a contract for a low truss steel bridge across Baker Creek in Columbia. The superstructure is to cost 81 134. Wangerine began his term as president of the board. A buggy sale begins October 3 and runs to December 1 at A Nicholl and Co., 54 Broad Street, Elyna, O.
Thirty relatives gathered on Wear Avenue to celebrate Mrs Peter Parech’s sixty fourth birthday with baskets, dinner, and music. Guests included Mason Parsh Ed Parach Harlo Ma Nally of Cleveland Alec Parech Fred Ielster Elyria Aliie Mason Carlisle and others. Mrs Parech received olive knives and china from family. Also noted: Mathias F Warner petitioned for court order to sell lands to pay debts and Mary Newport was appointed guardian of William Newport, a Wellington minor.
The Pittsburg Steamship Co. has twenty four vessels idle on the river due to a mates strike. Each ship carries at least 150000 tons per trip, with an estimated ten trips left in the season by December 15. The halt wastes 6400000 tons potential freight and $800000 capital, plus about $24000 monthly interest at 4 percent. Negotiations between steel companies and workers may not yet yield an amicable settlement, but a compromise could restore movement.
Probate Court George S. Couch has been appointed executor of the will of James Sheldon of Wellington under a $2400 bond. The estate is to be divided equally among Lettie Hawk, Jessie Manning, and Charles Sheldon, with $3000 to go to Chartes IA Webster administrator of Augusta Brown's estate. Webster petitions the court for an order to sell lands to pay debts.
Elyria Gun Club members attended a Berea tournament, marking the first time the Elyria group shot on professional grounds. OJ Smith led with one first, three seconds, one third, and one fourth in six events, breaking 80 of 95 birds. Other club members also earned prizes and felt benefited by the experience.
A large farm barn of Alfred Facver located one half mile east of Eston center burned to the ground early Thursday. The entire contents including nearly all this season’s crops were consumed and two valuable farm horses perished. Losses are heavy and partly uninsured. A near Shawville fire destroyed George Jackson’s remaining house. The F W French residence at North Olmsted was partly ruined by a fire started by a lace curtain touching a gas jet.
A five month old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. J C Merthe, died after several weeks of illness. The couple were staying with Mrs Merthe’s sister in Oberlin when death occurred on a Saturday in September. Funeral services were held at Henry Merthe’s home with Rev. P E Harding officiating, and the casket placed in the Horn vault at North Amherst cemetery. Also, Aswad Zygab, a Syriana fruit store operator in Oberlin, remains confined at his Cleveland parents’ home from injuries received in the Cottesbrook switch wreck on July 19.
Grand jury considered thirty seven cases this term and returned true bills in twenty four. Publicly named defendants include Harvey Martin who cut Patrick Nolan on a freight train near Ridgeville, John Price a Lorain pickpocket, Katherine Berrie of Grafton for keeping a saloon open on Sundays, William Horner and Fred Bail of Grafton for selling liquor to minors, Joseph Perry for burglary, Frank Moore for highway robbery in Lorain, and Jim Donahue of Elyria for selling liquor to a minor.
A draft from Calvin Ensign’s wagon ran away on Thursday morning in the alley between Mill street and Washington avenue. The tongue pierced a horse belonging to G P Walton’s ice wagon. the animal died after Walton struck it with a sledge. Driver Frank Slack blamed fright and attempted control, while Ensign stated no fault lay with Slack or his team. The dead horse valued at 200 dollars.
A brief notice lists Frank Weasley Farnewall, 21, a farmer from Huntington, and Elisabeth Levengood, 10, Huntington, in an advertisement. The fragmentary notice lacks further context or details about their relationship or the ad’s purpose.
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