Populist Decline and Economic Outlook in Early Reports
Last week's summaries ease anxiety about the cereal crop as the season advances. Populist influence fades with sparse Texas Fort Worth delegates and Atlanta’s governor hopeful declining. The New York Financier argues farmers are the country’s wealth backbone, outperforming rail magnates. Cuba’s occupation costs cited. United States praised for aid, with future uncertain. Gladstone’s prophecy of American commercial primacy revisited, suggesting America may surpass England by strength.
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Texas
Fort Worth
Atlanta
Judge Hines
Hines
America
William E. Gladstone
St. James’s
England
Treasury figures spark debate on July deficit and yearly outlook
A July deficit of 7.5 million prompted claims of imminent national financial ruin. Treasury experts dispute the conclusion, warning July's high spending distorts yearly projections and arguing August data show no year end deficit. Democrat critics press the contrast, while officials defend the fiscal outlook.
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Treasury
Nash municipal code seeks strict franchise limits and city earnings share
The Ohio State Journal reports that the Nash municipal code will restrict franchise grants to the council with mayoral veto power and bar executive council overlap. It calls for strict reciprocity, bidding rules, 5 percent gross earnings to the city, and potential municipal ownership as a gradual, permissive option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Public Service
Nash
Ohio State Journal
Car Wheels From Money Robbed From Notes
A historic claim asserts government destruction of nearly half a billion dollars in worn bank notes yearly for reuse as railroad car wheels. The text also promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for digestive and nervous ailments, and advertises Pittsburg Trust Company deposits offering 4 percent on savings and 2 percent on checking, with mail banking and a free 200 year calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg Trust Company
Combined Capital
Fourth Ave
Pittsburg
Union Medical Association Meets in Canton for 124th Session
The Union Medical Association of Northeastern Ohio opened its 124th quarterly session in Canton at 10 am with Dr. E. J. March of Canton as president and Dr. J. H. Seiler of Akron as secretary. Members from Cleveland Canton Akron and other cities attended including Dr. Crile who gave a surgery lecture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Medical Association of
Northeastern Ohio
E. J. March
Canton
J. H. Seiler
Akron
Massillon
E. W. Crile
Cleveland
N. B. Dawson
Sterling
C. T. Hill
Seville
J. P. Dewett
Geb Gardner
Doylestown
A. J. Lichty
J. H. Tressel
Alliance
H. C. Theiss
M. M. Bauer
Jake
8. E. Rankin
W. E. Lower
Association
J. F. Gardner
R. 8. Biechele
W. A. Sackett
F. J. Bauer
D. F. Banke
C. H. Sawyer
Howard Straight
R. J. Pumphrey
C. E. Held
W. H. Hamiston
J.F. Marchand
H. Blankenhorn
H. M. Schaftel
E. H. Tobias
T. H. Brannon
A. K. Foltz
A. B. Campbell
H. G. Sherman
B.C. Pilkey
J. F. Kohler
Anton
GC. E. Norris
Edward Lauder
W. Millikin
H. H. Jacobs
Hotel Opens With Dance At European House
Joseph Grapewine opened his new European Hotel to the public with a Monday evening dance. The Electric orchestra played from 8 o'clock as guests danced crowded the floor. Grapewine served as master of ceremonies and announced the dances then delivered a brief speech about making the hotel a model hostelry before guests departed at 12:30 after a reception for about two hundred attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Grapewine
Mr. Grapevine
Alpert Rider Pleads Guilty in Police Court
In police court Tuesday morning Alpert Rider pleaded guilty before Mayor Bell to assaulting A Klickner and was fined 82 and costs. Two drunkenness cases received usual penalties. One intoxicated man required officers to carry him a couple blocks to the patrol wagon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alpert Rider
A. Klickner
Bell
Eckfield Bound Over In Canal Fulton Larceny Case
Canton reports George Eckfield eloped with Mrs. Walzer from Canal Fulton. At Probate Court Judge Aungst found him guilty of grand larceny for taking money with the woman, denying he took the funds himself. Eckfield remanded to jail. bail set at 500 dollars pending grand jury action.
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Canton
George Eckfield
Canal Fulton
Walzer
Joseph Walzer
Aungst
Eckfield
Canton Dismisses Suspect After Carnival Watch Theft
Canton August 12 John Crawford known as Jack Carlton of Massillon was released by Mayor Robertson for lack of evidence after being arrested for stealing a watch at the carnival last week. The mayor alleged gamblers bribed witnesses. Civil actions loom as Canton & Akron Electric Railway Co is named defendant for 1000 damages over Uniontown grading harming Lucy Bolender. Charles Bolender seeks 500 for same property damages. For forging checks, Charles White alias Charles Hamilton faced preliminary hearing and was bound over to common pleas under 500 bond. Marriage license issued to Harry L. French and Eva A. Sheiller. Real estate transfers include multiple Massillon parcels and sums from 200 to 10,000 dollars.
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Canton
John Crawford
Jack Carlton
Massillon
Robertson
Canton & Akron Electric Railway Company
Lucy Bolender
Uniontown
Common Pleas Court
Charles Krichbaum
Charles Bolender
Charles White
Charles Hamilton
Rifte and
United States
Harry L. French
Eva A. Sheiller
S. Burd
Idella Ballinger
First Ward
C. V. Hammersmith
Arthur M. Q O’ Toole
Second Ward
Louis Mallman
George
Josephine Moore
Third Ward
Thomas ©. Miller
Joseph Schradex
Fourth Ward
Massilton
William L. Bennett
Johanna Burke
Innocent men lynched in Civil War era note from Parsons
Lancaster, a jailed Black man in Parsons West Virginia, claims Clements and Carroll were innocent lynched men. He identifies James Black as the real murderer of Chief Wilmuth at Womelsdorf. Wilmuth arrested Lancaster before being shot from ambush.
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Cumberland, Md
Lancaster
Parsons
W. Va
Wilmuth
Womelsdorf
Clements
Carroll
James Black
Grand Parade of Pythians In San Francisco
Knights of Pythias and auxiliaries held meetings with a forenoon review of uniform rank and drills. The main event was a grand parade at 3 p.m. with twenty five brigades and thousands of knights in line. Colonel Logan of Louisville aims to host the next convention and supreme encampment in that city.
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San Francisco
Knights of Pythias
Logan
Louisville
Postoffice Robbed in Williamstown Heist at 1 A.M.
Williamstown West Virginia August 15 two men and a boy blew open the postoffice safe at 1am securing eight hundred dollars and several registered letters before escaping.
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Williamstown
W. Va
County seat news jurors duty two weeks in Canton
Prosecuting Attorney Robert H. Day starts grand jury preparations for September 15 with eighteen cases bound over from various courts. The session is expected to last ten days or two weeks as juries are drawn. Alexander Hurford, Canton’s oldest native, died Tuesday afternoon at 98 after a long illness. He helped build the O. and P. railroad and later owned the Harford House. Massillon couple Philip J. Piero and Theresa Kohlm aier were licensed to wed.
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Canton
Robert H. Day
J. J. Wise
Alexander Hurford
D. L. Spotts
South Market Street
Hurford
Pennsylvania Lines
Harford
Crawford and Hill
Portage County
Portage County Tuesday, Where They Viewed the Joint County
Philip J. Piero
Theresa Kohlmiaier
Massillon
Thieves at West Lebanon Saloon Burglary
West Lebanon on August 14 reports burglars entered Daniel Mossop s saloon between midnight and 8 am and stole about 20 in cash and valuables. Mossop slept in a back room on the second floor and had placed 300 in a money drawer under his pillow before discovering the theft. Police note three beer glasses used and entry via a transom over the back door.
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West Lebanon
Daniel Mossop
Cleveland Murder Shocks City Woman Tests Police Claim
Mrs. Ignatz Wiarchowski files a written statement naming Charles Janeski, a former boarder, as the man who shot and killed her husband on Sunday night as they were returning home. Janeski sprang from bushes and fled, but Wiarchowski died at the scene.
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Cleveland
Ignatz Wiarchowski
Charles Janeski
Janeski
Wiurchowski
Hope of China Inspires Chinese Minister's Family Education Plan
Sir Liang Chen Tung, soon Chinese minister to the United States, vows his seven children will receive American schooling in Andover Massachusetts. He states the hope of China lies in educating its youth in the United States. An advertisement touts Genuine Rocky Mountain Tea by Madison Medicine Co. priced at 36 cents and signed Z. T. Baltzly.
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New York
Liang Chen Tung
Mr. Wu
United States
Andover
Mass
New England
Madison Medicine Co
Z. T. Baltzly
Students steal horses in Michigan City case
Robert C. Hoffman of Newark Delaware and C. G. McDonald of Washington DC, university attendees in Cleveland, were arrested in Michigan City on horse stealing charges. They rented two rigs from Laporte to the city and allegedly sold them to A. F. Earl the local liveryman. They confessed at the police station saying they left college to join a civil engineering corps but were stranded and turned to theft to reimburse themselves. Hoffman was described as a university baseball pitcher from his family background.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
Robert C. Hoffman
Newark
C. G. McDonald
Washington
D. C
Cleveland
Hoffman
McDonald
Laporte
A. F. Earl
Illinois reaches $50,128 for McKinley Memorial fund
The Illinois auxiliary of the McKinley Memorial Association reports that over 50,000 subscriptions have raised the $50,000 target. Including schoolchildren penny offerings, Illinois contributors reach into the hundreds of thousands. Local committees expect funds to climb to about $60,000 as all lists are tallied.
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Chicago
Illinois
McKinley Memorial Association
Will Carry On Strike In Charleston Case
In Charleston West Virginia August 13 John Richards and others face contempt for violating an injunction from Federal Judge Keller's court. The case was argued yesterday and will be decided today. National Secretary W B Wilson of the Mine Workers of America says his visit aims to direct the strike movement and will observe the court's order as far as he believes it is lawful. He would violate the injunction if necessary to continue the strike business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
John Richards
Keller
W. B. Wilson
Mine Workers of America
Meet Old Friends and Unclaimed Mail in Massillon
Charles H. King invites Massillon readers to reconnect during September attendance at the Pigeon Run teachers and scholars reunion. He lists schools and teachers from 1829 to 1881 and requests addresses for visits. The Aug. 12 unclaimed letters at Massillon post office include Edith Edwards, Miss Lizzie Rice, Mrs. G. A. Miller, and others, with notices to callers to state advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. King
Massillon
The
Independent
Septembber
Pigeon Run
Thomas Kleckner
Kendal
Henry Wolf
John Eberhart
John M. Lowry
Miller's Tavern
John Marks
Bowman St
Mansfield
Masaillon
Edwards
Edith Rice
G. A. Miller
Lizzie Smith
Alice Myers
Bessie = Teach
Lizzie Williams
Dot Men
City Teachers Examination Scheduled for Aug 22 23
The city examination of teachers will be held in the high school room North street building on Friday and Saturday August 22 23. The exam will begin Friday morning at 8 30 and close at noon Saturday. L L Nave President E A Jones Secretary.
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North Street
L. L. Nave
Pres
E. A. Jones
Sec’y
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Union Medical Association
DR. Grile
Ton
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County Seat News
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West
Lebanon
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Louis A. Koona
P. M
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