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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1924
Page
1
The council approved a meeting with F. W. Cohn of Lake Shore Electric to discuss a new franchise while vowing to pave Lodi street with rail company help or removal. A committee will notify Mr. Cohn to attend Monday’s session as talks resume.
Firefighters were called to The El Dotread Tire & Supply Co on East Broad Street for an overheated chimney fire with no losses. At 9 am a gasoline tub at Fauver and Roberts dry cleaning plant ignited. smothered blaze caused minor damage, 00 garments destroyed.
While the Fauver Robson plant fire was being fought this morning, a large ladder truck skidded while turning from Second to Middle avenue. It struck Anthony Nieding’s automobile, shoving it over the curb and causing heavy damage to the side and rear of the car.
A string of early morning fires in New York City and Vermont left three people dead and millions in damages. In Brooklyn and Long Island City, firemen battled blazes amid zero weather while one firefighter died of heart disease and another injured crew fought to avert catastrophe at a Standard Oil area. In Lyndonville a 70 year old woman fell to her death as a business district burned, and in Canton the Boyer Company printing plant was destroyed with unknown origin and the fire chief suffered injuries from a slip on ice amid the blaze. The winter chill drove temperatures to near two degrees above zero in some areas as crews contained the fires.
London reports Premier J Ramsay MacDonald forms Britain first labor government after Baldwin resignation. Cabinet list includes MacDonald as premier and foreign secretary, with Lord Haldane chancellor and Phillip Snowden as exchequer. Isabel MacDonald visits 10 Downing Street as transition begins.
In Lorain on January 22 radical cuts were proposed to the police and fire departments and the services division. A committee recommended suspending thirty five workers while the service director urged twenty six more removals with Mayor Hoffman backing the move to balance city finances. The council will study the proposals. Meanwhile in Columbus robbers took four hundred sixty dollars from the City Ice and Fuel Company plant safe.
A historic Emancipation Deed dating from Madison Indiana in 1851 records the freeing of five enslaved people Ellen Mary Virginia Andrew and Alonzo children of Ellen. The document shows the slaves were freed by payment and released from all obligations, then recorded in this county on September 3 1869.
Two air tight death cells were under construction at Nevada State Penitentiary yard in Carson City for the first U S lethal gas execution. Convicted murderers Gee Jon and Hughie Sing, a 19 year old Nevada native, face inhalation of cyanogen gas in a planned February 8 event. Gas will be piped to glassed cells from cylinders, with five guards supervising and a test on harmless air possible. Warden Dickerson will set the execution time, unless the state pardon board intervenes.
Madrid reports show the directory reforming schooling with standardized texts and issuing notes on new demands before signing the Tangier treaty, outlining allied rights in Morocco. Other items note unrest among Don region Cossacks, a Tabuenca gang war, police caution, and visits by Charles M. Schwab in Berlin.
President Coolidge told federal bureau chiefs he will not tolerate expenditures beyond Budget Bureau estimates. He praised the year’s economy, noting a surplus of over 200 million dollars. The next day he sent to the Senate the nomination of George B. Christian Jr. to the Federal Trade Commission, a position paying 100 thousand dollars annually.
Jan 22 report from Washington and Moscow outlines Ohio delegates for the Republican national convention with Garfield or Garford as second choices and a large seven at large slate. In Moscow the death of Nikolai LeVine triggers a state funeral plan and a potential Lenin trio leadership reshaping Soviet power.
Mrs. Mary McClintock notes a grand sleighing event led by John Houghton forty seven years ago marking the fifty day of sleighing. Eight four horse sleighs, twenty eight two horse and twenty four single sleighs joined by Elyria and Grafton bands. A trip to Grafton and back ended with an oyster supper. Sleighing lasted seventy days before fading.
Mayer Hinkson and attorneys Den Miers, service director James Hewitt, and city engineer Jack Powell traveled to Lorain to seek approval for a land easement inside Elyria city limits along the main line of the new water main. They were well received and the matter was referred to the proper committee with instructions to report as soon as possible.
Lester Botamer of Elyria was severely burned at 7 13 p m Sunday while replacing wires at the National Tube Co. skelp mill in Lorain. A wire contacted another high voltage line, causing injuries to his face eyes and hands. He received first aid at the plant hospital from Dr G M Blank and was later taken to St Joseph's Hospital for further treatment.
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