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Newspaper

Massillon Independent

Location

Massillon, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jan 20, 1896

Page

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Mrs Aultman Testimony in Guardianship Case

Mrs Aultman testifies in private on her life estate and guardianship dispute. She details inheritances from her father and sister, ownership changes after her marriage, and a wish to end guardianship to fund a hospital memorial. She denies hallucinations and disputes about proposed marriages.

Aultman Father Arnould Guardian Miller Massillon Charles Swansen Ilrs Bertha Boren Tik Indepen Mars. Aultmnan George D. Harter Mary Harter Mary Harter Had Once Said In Her Hearing That They Were Sorry Mrs. Aulomian Caxton

Harter Appears in Aultman Case Defense

Canton January hearing in the Aultman suit adjourned to January 27 to allow Michael J. Harter to testify. Harter’s witness from Philadelphia testified about stock purchases in the Aultman Saylor Company Mansfield worth 15,000 with a note for 250,000 and a 20,000 endorsement, affecting Mrs Aninmao's claimed ownership.

Canton Aultman Michael J. Harter M Flarter Philadelphia Aultman Saylor ,Company Mansfield Aupus Harter Aninmao

Canton Court Arraigns Prisoners in Malicious Destruction Case

Prisoners indicted by the grand jury were arraigned before Judge McCarty and others. Several defendants pleaded not guilty to charges of malicious destruction of property burglary and larceny and shooting with intent to kill. J. L. Robb and Robert Day were assigned as counsel. Trials slated for the week beginning February 3.

Massillon Canton John Yost McCarty Willison & Day Pease, Baldwin & Young Yost Rose Ann Morgan John E. Morgan J. O. Garrett Robertsville Louis Monnot Nimishillen Township Cxron William Shanks Charles Leonard Louis Martella William Blackman Charles Coe J. L. Robb Robert Day John Marcen Joseph D. Wilder George Frush McDowell William F. Schwier Yohe

Wheeling & Lake Erie Plans Raise Earnings and Capacity

New York January 16 The Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad reports a 49.28 percent rise in net earnings for the first half of fiscal year 1895 96 and outlines major improvements. Contracts for steel bridges ten new 10 wheel locomotives 59 tons each and a shift to 60 pound rails to approach Lake Shore standards are approved. Additional coal cars new docks at Huron and expanded lake transport capacity aim to boost traffic and dock throughput.

Blair New York Wheeling & Lake Erie Lake Shore Wheeling Huron Docks Rockefeller Hi Associates

New Daily News Threatens Local Newspapers In War Of Papers

In New Prunapenelta six weeklies share the field but a Steubenville publisher plans an Evening Daily News at ten cents a week. The rival Daily Times launches with independent politics at ten cents weekly, as local editors brace for a fierce competition.

Tapis Tribune Ohio Democrat Cignes The Advocate Jourmonwealth Beobachter A. J. Baughman Steubenville the Times

Ratchford doubts district calls for wage advance insistence

President Ratchford of the United Mine Workers of Ohio says the Massillon district misrepresents wages. He cites Columbus convention deals with advance payments and notes operators already agreed to pay if authorized elsewhere. He criticizes the Massillon officials for creating an open wage question.

Ratchford Ohio United Mine Workers of America Mine Workers’ Journal Massilon Columbus Dispatch Massillon United Mine Workers of Ohio Pittsburg Drake Walter J. Mallins Columbus

Tramps in Massillon and a Marshal's remarks

Marshal Markel notes fewer tramps in Massillon as nearby towns lodge their own, recalling past nights of twenty to thirty seeking shelter. He explains Massillon was removed from the knights of the road shelter list, contributing to current scarcity. Frederick Wagner thanks area neighbors near East Greenville for support after his wife’s sudden death.

Walter DeCosta J. E B. Carl Marshal Markel Knights of the Road Massillon Frederick Wagner East Greenville George Earl Postal Telegraph Company Hil John McCane

Pay Op Teach ers and Ohio School Reforms

Advance sheets of Commissioner Q T Carson's Ohio common schools report for the year ending August 31 show a shift toward better organization and supervision. Township supervision gains support, Workman law remains debated, Boxwell law admits 17 024 high school entrants, with detailed teacher, pupil, and expenditure figures and a Canton notice list of grammar and education questions.

Q.T. Carson Ohio Tumber Canton San

Postoffice Clerk Allowance Hike Sought for Massillon Office

Special Inspector Moore backs aligning the postoffice clerk hire allowance with actual costs at the Massillon office. Current legal and budget figures show clerks earning lower salaries than required, with receipts rising yearly from 1889 to 1895 and payrolls uneven between white clerks and other staff.

Postoffice Department Mansillon Hassell Wm. 8. Moore Russ Sell Russell Ipcum Bency Cesnuz Jerome Shepley Frank Brown P Mer.iWin Milo Alden Rrm Massalon D P. Merwin Mevars Massillon

Public School Debate Fosters Candid War Talk

A literary and debating society formed in East Street School held a formal session with parliamentary procedure. The debate featured a split on war with Great Britain over Venezuela, with the affirmative arguing expansion and strength, while the negative warned of debt and naval weakness. The topic for next week concerns Native American suffering under white rule. Hopkins faces charges after a false pretenses aid claim linked to John Wisdom.

A Grammar East Street Oberlin Atlantic Leander Ropkins Ford Sailor Hineelf Hopkins Wisdom Cincinnati Perry Township Bin Hamilton County Hamidion County Aneinnati Hopkine John Wisdom

Railroad notes and railway men visit town

The month brings 754 coal cars loaded at Krause Western Ohio and Pocock mines on the W. and L. E. line while Chippewa lake ice fills the L. C. L. W. house. Q P Dunbar of Norwalk and P J Hines of Toledo, W E railway officials, are in the city on business.

Krause Western Ohio Howelie Pococki and Q. P. Dunbar Norwalk P. J. Hines Toledo W. & LE. Railway

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