Ohio braces for Night Rider incursion from Kentucky
Ohio officials prepared to deploy the National Guard to counter a Kentucky Night Rider invasion into tobacco country. Governor Harris and Adjutant General Critchfield endorsed Sheriff Rapp of Clermont County in calling out Company K, First Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and ordered obeying Sheriff directives. Militia guarded tobacco warehouses in Batavia and Bracken and Pendleton counties as bands reportedly gathered across the river. one residence burned with a family narrowly escaping.
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Columbus
Harris
Kentucky Night Riders
Ohio
National Guard
Kentucky
Tobacco Trust
Critchfield
Sheriff Rapp
Clermont County
Clancy
Gen
Cincinnati
Hopkinsville
Bruce Gregory
Bruce Gregory, West Fof
Gregory
Babe Narrrowly
Batavia
Chile & Neville
Removal bid of NY County DA Jerome by Metro traction stockholders
Wm PF King chairman of minority stockholders in the Metropolitan Street Railway Co asks Gov Hughes to remove New York County District Attorney William Travers Jerome. The charges state Jerome failed to prosecute traction cases after election and was negligent in office.
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Albany
Wm. Travers Jerome
New York County
Wm. PF. King
Metropolitan Street Railway Co
Hughes
Jerome
Plot to murder Chicago priest thwarted by chance
Chicago February 27 prosecutors charge a plot to kill a Chicago priest at his church altar. Father Dunne chancellor of the archdiocese will confer with Police Chief Shippy today to arrange arrests. The alleged plot echoes the Sunday slaying of Father Heinrichs of Denver.
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Chicago
Father Heinrichs
Denver
Father Dunne
Shippy
Missouri Convention Seeks Delegates at Large to Chicago
In St Louis on February 27 the Republican State convention adjourns after endorsing the War Secretary for the Presidency. Four delegates at large will be chosen with Senator Warner and Attorney General Hadley among the two named as delegates.
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St. Louis
Wm. Warner
Hadley
McKinley Homestead to Be Sold by Auction Likely
Canton Ohio February 27 Judge Har ter ordered administrator Shields to partition the estates of Abner and William McKinley Owing to heirs inability to agree the President McKinley homestead will probably go under the hammer
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Canton
Harter
Shields
Abner
William McKinley
President McKinley
U S Gunboat Paducah Sails to Haiti Crisis
Washington reports the U S gunboat Paducah has been ordered to Gonaives amid Haiti government demands for revolutionary refugees in foreign consular agencies. Paducah left Guantanamo yesterday and should reach Gonaives today. Foreign powers are not expected to draw the United States into trouble.
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Washington
Haiti
United States
Paducah
Gonaives
Guatanamo
Clash Looms Over Seizure of Japanese Vessel
Beijing reports a possible clash as China seizes the Japanese steamship Tatsu Maru at Macao for alleged arms smuggling to Chinese revolutionists. A formal complaint targets Japanese interference with the Chinese postal service in Manchuria.
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Pekin
Japan
China
Macao
Manchuria
Mrs J T Morton Commits Rash Act After Leaving Friends
Mrs J T Morton wife of the Methodist pastor at New Philadelphia cut her throat with a razor shortly after noon Tuesday and died at 6 last night. Aged 48 she had been an invalid for years and recently stayed at a private sanitarium at Cuyahoga Falls. She was found by a niece Miss Turkle after returning home and locking herself in her room. She was a daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Cowgill of Fairview Guernsey county.
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J. T. Morton
New Philadelphia
Miss Turkle
Morton
Ralph Cowgill
Fairview
Guernsey County
Counterfeit Half Dollars Flood Pittsburg. Post Office Bills
Pittsburg reports a dangerous counterfeit half dollar with a 1907 date circulating, prompting United States Secret Service reinforcements from New York Philadelphia and Washington to pursue the ring. The Bellaire post office bill seeks 100000 for a new building, while Steubenville's 199600 post office appropriation remains awaiting House action.
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Pittsburg
John Washer
United States Secret Service
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
Scott
U. S. Senate
Bellaire
Ohio
Steubenville
Wheeling Intelligencer
Senate
Fire in tenement on First Avenue Burns Four and Injures Dozens
A February fire in a First Avenue tenement caused four serious burns and twelve injuries as residents jumped to safety. Firemen faced dangerous conditions while saving fifty occupants after discovering the blaze was set with oil.
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New York
First Avenue
Official Dies After Horse Accident in Dayton
Dayton February twenty seventh an official of the National Cash Register Co. named C. D. Anderson was thrown from his horse suffering a skull fracture. He died later from injuries.
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Dayton
C. D. Anderson
National Cash Register Co
Mother and Child Burned As Clothes Catch Fire
Gallipolis reports a tragic morning fire when Mrs. Joseph Partlow of Hemlock Grove Meigs County was fatally burned and her three-year-old child burned to death after clothes on the mother caught fire from a grate.
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Gallipolis
Joseph Partlow
Hemlock Grove
Meigs County
Rose option bill passes Ohio House by 79 to 36 vote
Columbus February 27 the Rose local option measure cleared the Ohio House 79 to 36 and goes to Governor Harris for signing. Amendments were debated but all failed, with temperance leaders aiming to limit saloons to four wet counties and set election triggers after September 1.
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Columbus
Harris
House
Friends
Senate Temperance Committee
Senate
Briggs
Fulton
House Temperance Committee
Lehman
Sandusky County
Kealy
Hamilton County
Foster Hancock
Secretary of State
Ohio
Hamilton
Cuyahoga
Franklin
Lucas
Ackley
Aiken
Anderson Bassett
Bishop
Bronson
Burnett
Chamberlain
Cosgrave
Crawford
Crist
Demuth
Dever
Ditmars
Fley
Filson
Ervin
Meigs
Freiner
Reed
Ritter
Roberts
Roll
Schurr
Shankland
Shuler
Smith
Wyandotte
Spicer
Stephenson
Steward
Fairfield
Stewart
Clarl
Stukey
Thomas
Thompson
Trott
van Oesen
Watson
Wertz
White
Wilson
Woodburn
Woods
Yost
Eagleson
Damages sought in Wellsville railway death case
James T. Conn as administrator for Floyd Guerin sues the C P RR company for 2000 dollars alleging a boy of 11 was killed July 6 while walking the tracks near the Wellsville railroad shops. Trainmen could have warned he did not hear due to another train on a different track. The suit cites dangerous speed and negligence. Attorneys P P Lewis and Porter. A separate Powers vs P T W Ry case ends in a cross ing at grade with costs against the railway.
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Pittsburg
John Ll. Welshons
Augustus Hartje
Clifford Howe
Hope
Mary Scott Hartje
John P. Geyer
Welshows
Cholmondeley
John L. Welshons
Mary Jean Hartje
Hartje
Welshons
Mali
Howe
Hooe
New Castle
James T. Conn
Floyd Guerin
Wellsville
Guerin
P. P. Lewis and
Porter
B. F. Powers
Attempted wreck on Wheeling traction line near stop 29
An apparent attempt to derail a Rayland division car occurred Tuesday night near stop 29. Stones were placed on the track but the motorman stopped the car in time. Foreigner passengers were blamed for the outrage and ejected from the car.
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Rayland
Wheeling Traction Companys Lines
Counterfeiters Target Pittsburg for Race to Identify Culprits
Report notes counterfeiters in Pittsburg scouring the area to secure information and race the culprits, with authorities urging caution as investigations proceed.
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Pittsburg
Weather Forecast for Ohio and Washington
The weather map reports fair conditions in Ohio tonight and Friday with snow flurries in the northeast portion. Colder tonight. The bulletin notes colder temperatures across the region with a brief寒.
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Washington
Ohio
Vote on Aldrich Bill Moves to Senate Next Week
Washington Feb 27. Voting on the Aldrich financial bill in the Senate will begin a week from today unless present plans miscarry.
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Aldrich
Washington
Aldrich Financial
Senate
Mingo Sewer Contract Reopened After Perpetual Injunction
Judge Richards rules the Mingo Junction sewer award to Ferry and Neville lacked proper discretion and makes the injunction perpetual. He orders re-setting of the contract with proper hearings, citing that bidding and council actions showed insufficient proceedings and possible improper influence.
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Council
Mingo Junction
Ferry & Neville
Richards
Peearl
Ile
Boyle
Fithen
Floto
Goodfriend
McCaffrey
Floto Bros
Two Held After Hearing In Railroad Offices Interference Case
At the hearing's end in the case involving three men who interfered with Railroad Offices, Hinchcliffe ordered William Jones and William Hopkins bound for the grand jury in $300 each, while Noble P. Coen was discharged as evidence failed to incriminate him.
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Hinchcliffe
Porter
William Jones
William Hopkins
Noble P. Coen
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U.S
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Lars
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York Today
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Adler
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Diehl
Foster
Goll
Hill Hillenkamp
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Hunt
Jessup Kealy
Kehnast Kolinsky
Maulberger
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Pettit
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Rolf
Samicki
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Spangler
Stockwell
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McGowan Bros
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Mingo
Judge Richards
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