Local Happenings From The Independent
Disconnected notices of travels and visits in Massillon's area include Lillian and Estella Digel visiting relatives in Bolivar, Miss Nickolan's Philadelphia and Atlantic City trip, Winifred Firkins visiting Mrs Heckert, and Mrs Brown hosting guests on West Main. Rural free delivery planned for Marshallville, and local business Bechtel & Taggart purchased Klein & Son stock. Several town events, funerals, and a runaway incident near The Independent office are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independen
Edward Weible
Lee Street
Lillian
Estella Digel
Bolivar
Mary Nickolan
Philadelphia
Wilkesbarre
Atlantic City
Winifred Firkins
Buffalo
N. Y
E. A. Heckert
West Main Street
Samuel Arthur
Barberton
V. 8. Brown
John McGlinchy
Owen McGlinchy
Mineral Point
Edna and
Margaret Winder
Findlay
L. ©. Lipps
Cleveland
Ray Arthur
Duncan Street
California
Marshallville
Bechtel & Taggart
Main Street
C. Klein & Son
Mrs Frank Warth Obituary Notes Heat Decline Breath
Mrs Frank Warth aged years died Wednesday night at the family residence 149 State Street after a heat fainting incident Monday. She leaves husband six children Charles Frank Joe Warth Mrs John Kracker Mrs John Stutz of Massillon and John Warth of Kent. Funeral Friday at 9 from St Marys church. Wrinkles are smoothed away by its healing touch. Brain tired and depressed people will find a cure in Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cts. 7 T. Baltaly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Marsh
Russell & Co
William Kay
Massillon Bridge Company
California
Fred Farmer
North
Lawrence
Massillon
McGuire
Farmer
J. W. McClymonds
Seattle
Wash
C. M. Russell
J. F. Pocock
C. J. Brown
Alaska
Yellowstone Park
Taylor Clay
L. H Stewart
Hart Post
Grand Army
Knights ‘Semplars
Elmer McFadden
Wooster
McFadden
Frank Warth
Warth
State Street
John Stutz
John Warth
Kent
St. Mary’s Church
T. Baltaly
Relief Fund for Strikers Advances Anthracite Crisis
A Wilkes Barre Dispatch summary details a secret strike relief plan for soft coal workers. It says a $1 per head assessment begins mid August and funds may not cover all strikers. Union urges self-reliance if possible, warns a failure endangers wages and jobs across anthracite mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Filipinos Hunt Dio Dios Band in Tayabas Range
Manila dispatch reports a five day chase of the Dio Dios organization by native police and farmers from four villages led by a presidente. Major General Davis arrives to take command temporarily as General Chaffee departs. Cholera deaths drop to twenty four in the last day. Public reception plans for Governor Taft are outlined with possible holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Presidente
Tayabas
Davis
Chaffee
United States
Taft
Filippinos
Republican Headquarters Opened in Columbus for Campaign Drive
John R. Malloy, secretary of the Republican state committee, opened the state headquarters in Columbus as the campaign begins. William E. Marsh joins Malloy. General Dick plans to spend the week at Newark with the Second brigade and will move to Columbus next week to lead stump work, staying through the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
John R. Malloy
Republican State Executive Committee
Malloy
William E. Marsh
Washington
Newark
Harry Tracey Dead After Shootout in Washington Wheat Field
Spokane reports the outlaw Harry Tracey, cornered by sheriffs and armed locals, killed himself at dawn near Fellowes after being wounded in a prior chase. A Seattle account attributes the wounding to Creston citizens, noting a leg fracture and severed artery before the final self-inflicted shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Harry Tracey
Fellowes
Tracey
Seattle
Creston
Woman Freed From Jail In Grand Larceny Case
Canton August 6 Mrs Nettie Walzer wife of Empire hotel proprietor Canal Fulton has been released from county jail and sent home. She and telegraph operator George Eckfield were accused of stealing 125 dollars of her husband’s money and fled before being captured at Mt Vernon. Mrs Walzer posted bond and Eckfield remains jailed awaiting an examining court in probate set for August 11. He says he did not take the money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Nettie Walzer
Joseph Walzer
Empire
Canal Fulton
Walter
Eckfield
Train robbery on express car nets two thousand dollars
At Marcus Illinois on August 6 a Chicago Burlington & Quincy express train was halted by six masked men who blew open safes and seized six sacks of cash. One robber was killed on the engine and tossed off. another comrade suspected of the fatal shot. The dead bandit wore a railway ticket in the name A L Jacobs. Passengers not harmed. The robbers abandoned the engine at Hanover after it died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Carroll, Ill
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Marcus
Hanover
A. L. Jacobs
Senate Passes Loan Bill To Aid Cuban Cane Growers
Havana reports the Senate approved a loan measure to raise four million dollars at ninety minimum price and five percent interest payable over thirty years to aid sugar cane growers. A second loan of eighty five million dollars may be raised within six months to fund the revolutionary army debts and other revolution needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Senate
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Blanche Weaver
Sandersville
Lydia Miller
Shetler
Navarre
Fred Hess
South
Erie Street
Albert Stephan
East End
Skagway Daily Alaskan
Massillon, C
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Independent
Myrtilla V. Dosh
Milford
Dickinson County
Thomas W. Chapman
Dash
Jonathan Holden
West Brookfield
Mill Street
Cherry Street
William F. Wiseman
Dorothy Bessler
St. John’s Church
J. E. Diger
Albert Wiseman
Margaret Myers
Bertha Besler
Elizabeth Strobel
Cliff Street
H. F. Pocock
L. H. Stewart
E. H. Pille
E. 5. Fox
D. S. Savers
R. B. Crawford, Jr
George Geis
L. P. Schimke
Uhrichsville
Elks’ Organization
H.C. Foltz
Albert Loew
Otto Seibold
Ww. A. Diebhenn
J. J. Blotz
Victor H. Morgan
Independent Office
Jacob Gross
Gross
Plum Street
Canton, Ohio
Folwell Silos
Baylight
A&r
Martin Hays
New York City
Fr Rerio Ie
Relief Fund For
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UNION
Filippino Bandit Chase
Tayabas Mountains
Republican Headquarters
Notorious Outlaw
Sheriff’s
Himself
Louisville, C
Slusser
Louis Baughman
Tun Inn- Penpent
Tvor- CB Dent
Hairy
Llir
Miles
B. M
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Ind
DR. Clouse
Conrad
Cleveland Ave
Fourth St
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