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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
10
Robert B. Lander filed an affidavit with Mayor Porter alleging assault and battery by William Burns Sr and William Burns Jr of West Market street. A verbal dispute near the old floor mill led to a Burns swing with a shovel striking Lander, who sustained a large head wound.
Additional particulars from Cincinnati detail Edward Zinsser's death while repairing pipes at Torrance Road station. He built a scaffold between a balcony and a wall ladder. the ladder slipped and he fell 70 feet into the pump pit. Dr. Dickinson and later Dr. Prugh treated the injured and fainting wife. Zinsser worked for Best Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburgh. Robert Skidmore aided him and escaped injury. Mrs. Zinsser is a relative of John Sterling of George's Run.
Columbus March 13 The Ohio House passed the McCord bill raising the indigent soldier burial allowance from 50 to 75 dollars. A two member committee in each township ward will contract with the undertaker to cover all expenses, curbing any exploitation of grieving relatives by undertakers.
Joe Benze, a former Martin s Ferry resident now in Cleveland jail, allegedly forged a name on a check after moving. Cleveland authorities have requested his Martins Ferry record. he is recalled as a local trouble-maker with prior docket appearances and a past gambling altercation not reaching court.
Judge Richards handed down a decision on Ferry and Neville in the Mingo Junction sewer contract injunction and made the injunction perpetual. Witness to be brought from Mansfield Reformatory to testify. Also noted are a burglary case in Ohio versus Webster and a slander case McDonald versus Morgan with damages set at six cents. Rosa Belle Blake versus Mary Blake et al sale confirmed. Wm. Boman sues for divorce from Rosa Boman alleging neglect and misconduct. navy service and early marriage cited. attorney C. A. Vail.
Constable Drake of Dillonvale and a Plum Run Italian boarding house keeper traced an Italian who fled Plum Run with $250 of another’s money. He bought a ticket for Scranton, Pa. Also noted is an exaggerated report on Fred Sharon’s gasoline accident, with him recovering after care from his railroad-building uncle in Tennessee.
Phillip Johnston a 70 plus year old janitor at the Kelly school building in Bellaire dropped dead about 8 30 Friday morning in the school yard. A Civil War veteran he served in Co H 18th Ohio Infantry. He is survived by a wife and one son.
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