07 Jan 1891
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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1891
Page
1
Ohio weather predicts snow or rain on Thursday with slight warmth. numerous short notes: illnesses, visits, and travels of local residents. field meetings of the Stark County Horticultural Society. reports on deaths, births, and marriages. business notes on Wells Fargo office move and a Massillon stone shipment for a Birmingham church. several brief anecdotes and quotes from local presses.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette reports Mr. Dueber’s financial distress and his claim of fighting the watch trust for three years. He says the assignment protects him from mischief by supposed friends while work remained, and notes plans to pay Hampden Company in full though about twenty thousand dollars beyond preferred claims. Witnesses Douglass and Tudor support his view, with Tudor adding time prevented detailing further.
Inquiries reveal the youngest sister plans to move the six Griswold orphans to Massillon to keep them together. The older children prefer unity, though separation is considered. The thirteen year old lost a leg in a train accident and the youngest girl, nearly blind, may recover sight. The home visit shows severe hardship.
Alfred Burton Henry Adair and Chas Johnson, Canton residents, were arrested for drunk and disorderly behavior. Johnson claimed to drive the pair and was discharged. the others paid $5.60 each. Separately, Lizzie Roberts was sought on a theft accusation by Wa H Crooks after a silk dress valued at $25 vanished from his daughter Jennie Crooks. An officer with a search warrant pursued the case in Canal Fulton.
A freight brakeman named J. G. Cohen was injured this morning near Justus depot when a moving train struck a stationary car on a switch. Cohen was knocked from the box car, stunned and badly bruised but survived with no broken bones as the two cars were severely damaged.
The House bill No. 992 exempts from taxation property of G A R posts and the Union Veterans League aiding indigent comrades. It is with the senate finance committee and will be reported back soon to come before the senate for consideration.
Mrs Vy Wert and Mrs Er C Wert, wife of J B Wert, died yesterday evening after a nine week illness. She was 44. The funeral will be from the family residence on North Street at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Obituary notice to follow.
A special meeting of the board of trade directors is called for Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the mayor's room. All are requested to be present. By order of ArtHonges, President.
An advertisement notes Boye watches offered at Von Kanel's with prices ranging from 450 dollars down to 6 dollars, signaling a clearance or discount event.
The Rev. Howard MacQueary of St. Paul’s Canton faces a public ecclesiastical trial in Trinity House Cleveland for doctrines deemed contrary to the Protestant Episcopal church. The charges allege he teaches in Christianity and Evolution that Jesus was not born of a virgin and did not rise on the third day, violating ordination vows.
A Fairmount, West Virginia clergyman details his journey from orthodox evangelical training to a rationalist synthesis. He describes attending the 1881 New Haven church congress, studying Darwin and Huxley, rejecting eternal punishment and Calvinist atonement, embracing a non fleshly resurrection, and reconciling incarna tion with natural generation while critiquing orthodox defenses.
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