Taft Dominates Delegates as Ohio Contests Heat Up
Chicago June 11 The Republican National Committee seated Taft delegates from South Carolina First and Fifth districts, giving Taft 491 votes on the first ballot. Ohio Attorney General Wade Ellis arrived with the prepared platform for the resolution committee. Roosevelt supporters distributed literature and buttons as contests in Ohio drew sharp reactions.
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Chicago
Republican National Committee
Taft
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Wade Ellis
Ohio
Manufacturers’ Association
Ellis
National Committee
Roosevelt
Republican Committee On
Charles Kurtz
Senator Foraker
Bethany College Commencement Held With Local Attendance
Commencement exercises were held today at Bethany College with many Steubenville residents in attendance. Two new trustees were named while the remainder of the old board was reappointed.
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College
Steubenville
Bethany
Tri-State Traction
Wellsburg
Mary E. Smith
Claysville
Bethany College
Col
Samuel
Church
Pittsburg
Dipionae
Thos. E. Cramblett
Massillon Hospital Abuse Testimony Shocks Board
Steubenville witness John H Low testified before Massillon hospital investigators about brutal treatment of patients at the Massillon State Hospital. He described forced feedings, restraints, and beatings at the ward, with others named including Walters and Clarence Mitchell. Officials called for larger appropriations and more attendants to prevent neglect.
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John H. Low
Steubenville
Massillon Hospital
Herald-Star
Mr. Low
H. H. MceFadden
Walters
Dillonvale
Low
Clarence Mitchell
Youngstown
Mitchell
Ora D. Tatte
Medical College
Massillon
Prober
H. H. McFadden
McFadden
R. H. Platt
Govenor
Miss Margaret Gault Falls From Cherry Tree in Fernwood
Miss Margaret Gault of Fernwood, while picking cherries, stepped onto a limb and fell twelve feet to the ground. She sustained a fractured right hip and other injuries. Drs Gourley of Wintersville and Curtis Sanene attended.
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Margaret Gault
Fernwood
Miss Gault
Drs. Gourley
Wintersville
Curtis Sanene
Water Rising Threatens Great Flood Damage
St Louis reports Mississippi River above danger level and rising inch by inch. Crest of Kaw and Missouri floods approaches from above threatening lower tracks of Terminal Railroad and nearby buildings near the levee. With three feet more rise expected, large losses feared, especially in regions north. Lower St Charles County already underwater.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Terminal
Weather forecast for Ohio and Washington
Washington reports fair weather tonight with warmer conditions in the extreme southwest portion. Friday is expected to be fair and warm across the region, with temperatures rising in the southwest.
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Washington
Ohio
Recluse Attinger Found Dead at Spence Farm
The 52 year old George A Attinger caretaker at the Spence farm one mile west of Martin's Ferry was found with a bullet wound to the temple and a revolver beside him. The body lay in the house for several days and three notes were discovered including a Suicidal message. He had lived there thirty years after his parents died.
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George A. Attinger
George J. Spence
Martin's Ferry
Liza
Will
Eliza’ Schmanberger
Clinton Street
Attinger
Spence Farm
Hitchcock Comedian Acquitted in Altercation Case
New York June 11 The jury acquitted the comedian Raymond Hitchcock of charges brought by Helen Von Hagen a 17 year old girl after lingering court sessions and repeated jury instructions.
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New York
Raymond Hitchcock
Helen von Hagen
Aggressive anti race track bill passes NY Senate by one vote
In Albany on June 9 the Agnew Hart anti race track gambling bill cleared the New York Senate by 26 to 25 after a late bid to kidnap Senator Peelker, who rose from a sick bed to support the measure. The vote adjourned the chamber and the bill goes to Governor Klughes for approval, becoming effective at once to end race track gambling in the state.
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Albany
N. Y
Senate
Agnew-Hart
Klughes
Peelker
New York State
Inquests Return Verdicts on Two Fatal Accidents
Coroner Campbell files verdicts dated June 1908 for Albert Thorpe at Piney Fork and William Barrett at Mingo Junction. Thorpe died from a rupture of the lateral sinus after a blow by a trolley pole held by Harry Richards, intended as murder. Barrett died June 3 from injuries after falling between a street car and a truck as the car ran at high speed. death ruled accidental.
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Campbell
Albert Thorpe
Piney Fork
Harry Richards
Wm. Barrett
Mingo Junction
Grain Closing Prices Show Mixed Grain and Pork Rise
Grain Market in Chicago reports Wheat at 8.714, Corn 6.714, Oats 4.25, Pork at 14.05 dollars. Market notes reflect gains in pork while grains hold near prior levels amid June trading.
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Chicago
Missing $50,000 Registered Mail Sack Case Sweeps Postal Force
Kansas City June 11 post office inspector says eight sacks of registered mail arrived on the same train as the sack said to hold $50,000 and vanished. It is unclear which sack held the money while every post office inspector and secret service agent work the case. Patterson-Boxwell commencement in Ragland heard six graduates with L. E. York addressing the class and music by the Sylvan quartet of Bridgeport.
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W. J. Vickery
Post Office
Secret Service
Warren Township
Patterson- Boxwell
Presbyterian Church In
Ragland
L. E. York
Sylvan Quartette
Bridgeport
Remarkable Effort to Save Billik From Gallows
Chicago on June 11 reports a major push to commute the death sentence of Kerman Billik the necromancer and fortune teller scheduled to be hanged tomorrow. Rev P J O Callaghan leads meetings and a 15000 signature petition urged Governor Deneen to grant clemency. Federal Judge Landis to rule on a writ of habeas corpus. Supreme Court appeal possible.
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Chicago
Kerman Billik
P. J. O’callaghan
Billik
Father O'Callaghan
Deneen
Landis
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Fires Ravage Cape Cod As Wind Shifts Endanger Twenty
North Eastham and South Wellfleet face prolonged flames after more than two months of intermittent fires. Twenty men trapped in a clay pit fought back the blaze through the night until a fortunate wind shift allowed their escape. The region lies between North Eastham and Wellfleet in ashes.
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North Eastham
Mass
Cape Cod
South Wellfleet
Levy details for county purposes set at 10.005 mills
The county commissioners fixed the annual levy for county purposes at 10.005 mills total. The breakdown covers County Fund 2.885 mills, Judicial 0.600, Election Expenses 0.260, Stanton Monument 0.760, Bridge 1.000, Soldier's Relief 0.150, Special Road 3.000, Agriculture 0.620, County debt 1.100, Deficiency indebtedness 1.100, and Pike Fund 0.780 for townships in the pike pool, with estimated collections totaling about 231,375 dollars.
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Pike Pool
Cross Creek
Island Creek
Salem
Steubenville
Wells
Realty company makes 225 barrel oil well near Mahan lot
Brooke county on the river front reports another big gusher as Realty company drills near the Mahan lot. The 225 barrel per day well, measured by latest gauges, follows a prior test by Mahan Oil Co. and sits about 45 feet from the second Mahan lot well. The Mahan wells remain among the largest in the field and hold near original production.
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Follawsbee
Brooke County
Frank Mahan Lot
Mahan Lot
Mahan Oil Co
Wife Seeks Court Relief in Chalfant Custody Suit
Mrs Mary E Chalfant sues George W Chalfant for alimony alleging ten years of muscular rheumatism left her an invalid with twisted hands. She states he curses and abuses her, has threatened harm, drove the children away, refused food and clothing, and that cruelty impaired her health. They wed March 21 1867 at New Alexandria, and four children are married.
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Mary E. Chalfant
George W. Chalfant
New Alexandria
Portrait of Spence Wallace as Grand Master at Arms
A portrait in the Ohio State Journal shows City Treasurer Spence Wallace elected Grand Master-at-Arms of the Pythian Grand Lodge in Columbus. Installations by Past Grand Chancellor John W. Winn name John A. Ringgold as grand chancellor and others including Jacob Woehrle Clem Hoke George Donavin James Walker and S. A. Hoskins. The grand lodge rejected a proposal to let the Pythian home adopt children into Pythian families. The Grand Lodge will meet in Dayton next year.
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Spence Wallace
Pythian Grand Lodge
Columbus
Ohio State Journal Today
John W. Winn
Defiance
John A. Ringgold
Cincinnati
Jacob Woehrle
Clem V. Hoke
van Wert
George B. Donavin
Son’s $5 Monthly Support and Property Profits Case
The claimant states she would have suffered without her son's $5 monthly support. She alleges he owns real estate and household goods earned from their joint labor before she became an invalid, when she kept 25 boarders, did washing, milking nine cows, churning butter, and raising chickens, with the defendant pocketing proceeds and investing in land and property. He also receives a $40 monthly pension. Attorneys Erskine and Smith.
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Erskine & Smith
Drowning of Clarence Dunn After Canoe Accident Near Dam No 11
Clarence Dunn 18 of East Liverpool drowned when a canoe with Roy Winters overturned near Dam No 11 two miles below Brilliant. Winters endured a near-drowning and was rescued by William Webster who saved him in a skiff. Dunn, a Fleishman yeast wagon driver, vanished beneath the river as Winters was rescued. Dunn was nephew of Chester’s ex-mayor and son of East Liverpool residents.
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Steubenville
Dam No. 11
Brilliant
Clarence Dunn
Liverpool
Roy Winters
William Webster
Webster
Winters
Young Dann
Young Winters
West Va
Wellsburg
East Liverpool
Poligel
Elmer E. Dunn
Robert Dunn
Chester
Young Dunn
Newell
Dunn
Samuel Winters
the Tribune
Fleishman
Finley
New Cumberland
Wheeling
Gompers Afl Labor Leader Seeks Anti Injunction Plank
President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor travels to Chicago to press for an anti injunction plank in the Republican platform. He convenes the AFL Executive Council for Saturday to outline labor's campaign strategy.
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Washington
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
Executive Council
Federation For
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