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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
8
Local notices advertise buggies carriages and harness from QJ C Gurdon with sale days on Saturday and Monday. A court case involving an estranged husband and wife, with custody and alleged misuse of clothing and property, recalls a long family history and a separate ad seeking a strong horse with good bearing.
A garbled obituary style record outlines Robert W. Taylen born in Youngstown, Ohio, his teaching and editorial career in Lisbon and eastern Ohio, admission to the bar in 1877, service as Columbiana County prosecuting attorney with re-elections through 1888, and a 1884 election to the Fifty fourth Congress as a Republican from the Eastern district. It notes his congressional tenure extending to March 4 and mentions committee chair duties and political activity in Utah.
Tuesday's social column lists visits and hometown contacts. Individuals named include Father Synan of Cosboctor, Father Hartley of Ghas WV, Misa Renn Reaves of Wellsburg, Dr J T Purviacos and family, Mina Htella Cox, Mr and Mrs Saml Hooke, Mrs Rooks's mother, Mrs J5 Ieving of Chicago, John Brown of Wilmingioe Del, and Odessa Neal of Southfield. Also noted are Miss Odessa Neal completing a business college diploma in shorthand and typewriting, and Judge W C Ong of Cleveland filing a $200,000 damage suit against H R Match & Co in bankruptcy proceedings.
A dense docket of court entries shows multiple overruled petitions, appointments, and judgments. Cases include Nettie MuNamee v John McNamee, J. J. Leighton v American Marble Co, Ron Couper v Rotors Couper, and Elisabeth Stilwell v Walker Grant, with various appeals, bonds, and costs noted alongside trustee appointments and mortgage actions.
Fragmentary OCR lists guardianships and ward funds with names like Ametia Lopeman and Hixtol Thompson, plus sums such as 1310 and 1122 15. It mentions orders to sell real estate in Bisth ward and references individuals Bonar Mary Burcher and others in a probate like context.
The Cleveland Leader reports a new Berkghulz Road project funded by Calvary Morris and capitalists to run from Mergho south into Jefferson county coal fields with plans to extend to Fairport and gain a lake outlet. The contract for the provisional line is to be let soon for the Weysting Alliance and Like Erie route, part of the Alliance Northern purchase.
Charles McKinney of the Ryqualiz Board arrived en route to Srmitthfield after the decennial session adjourned sine die. Counties in the 20th-994 district fared well despite efforts to raise property valuations. McKinney aided reductions or held valuations steady as the wind up of business proceeded.
The local board of equalization kept most property valuations but reduced farm land values in Jefferson Belmont Columbiana and Bellaire counties by 10 per cent with five per cent elsewhere. The adjusted values, about half a million dollars lower than the duplicate, will govern taxation for the next ten years.
A fragmented narrative follows a British observer amid the Boxer upheaval in Peking. The narrator, bound by a secret society, describes recruitment plots, a vessel task, and a coded warning as tension thickens around a looming royal upheaval and imperial plots.
A St Louis reader Miss Lucy Durant credits Dr Greene's Nervara Blood and Nerve Remedy with restoring health after headaches sleeplessness and despondency. The letter urges others to test the medicine and notes free advice from Dr Greene at 35 W 14th St New York City.
In a London promenade scene Davie and his uncle spy a suspicious Englishman linked to a secret society offering easy work for wages. They tail the man toward Piccadilly then retreat to a bar as tension rises about an unseen plan and possible danger. An executor notice interrupts the narrative.
A hunted man seeks brief respite among pleasure houses near Delceater Square after a chilling threat. He and his uncle visit a temple of art, exchanging brief greetings with acquaintances while fearing a confrontation that never materializes.
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