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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1921
Page
1
Floods that swept Pueblo since Friday night receded but relief officials report eighty eight bodies in the morgue and a potential death toll as high as fifteen hundred. More than 2,600 families homeless, trains submerged, disease threats rise as relief workers scramble.
International News Service reports a renewed war in Siberia between white Russian forces and Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Japan allegedly aids the White armies by transferring General Wrangle's corps from Turkey to join remnants of Wrangle and Semenoff.
Theodore Doitz and Mike los Matyas stand trial over a Lorain bank robbery. Attorneys Adams and Grills argue witnesses place the defendants at another location during the March 9 holdup. Prosecutor Webber counters that arrests in Akron connect the men to the crime and that stolen items linked to the Warren machine match the Lorain robbery. A watch chain and charm found with a boarding house proprietor tie the suspects to the case.
Mary Meyers of Ridgeville aged 21 died this morning at 9 at her father's home August Meyers. She leaves her father two sisters Mrs James Worman and Mrs Louis Ross of Elyria and brother Otto Meyers of Lorain. Funeral services at Wilkins Hurst Funeral Parlors Wednesday at 1 30 PM Rev W L Burner officiating. Burial in Ridgelawn Cemetery.
The council reconvenes after rejecting a $360,000 water works bond at last Wednesday's special meeting. Tonight's regular session will consider this issue alongside other important business.
A major blaze at 1 a m destroyed the Pittsburgh Office Equipment Company at 109 Wood Street and heavily damaged three other firms in the Wood Street block. Estimated losses range from 400000 to 500000 with the fire under control early today. The impacted properties include the New York Wall Paper Company 107 Wood Street the Fairbanks Company building 111 Wood Street and Young Paper Company at 105 Wood Street.
Park custodian Tom Monroe captured a carnivorous gar from the park fountain with a bamboo pole and wire net while about 250 spectators watched. Several days of dead small fountain fish were blamed on the gar population recently added to the display.
Mrs Nellie C Lock aged 45 years 5 months and 13 days died Saturday at Elyria Memorial hospital. She leaves a husband in Texas a mother Mrs Chapman of Elyria a sister Mrs Christopher of Colorado Springs and a brother H G Chapman of Elyria. Funeral is set for this afternoon at 2 00 at Friday Funeral Parlors with Rev Burner officiating. Remains to be taken tomorrow morning to Cleveland cemetery.
Dayton officials consider asking streetcar companies to roll back fares from seven to five cents after wage reductions. If wage cuts spread citywide, the lower fare would apply across the system.
County Treasurer A. Baker warns that taxes unpaid by June 20 incur penalties of 15 percent on real estate and 10 percent on personal property. Cigarette taxes must also be paid by June 20 to avoid penalties and collection costs. Citizens delaying payment should expect immediate attention at the Court House.
Mrs Mary Brickel and Miss Marion McArdle were indicted in Cleveland by the Cuyahoga county grand jury for murder in the Daniel E Kaber case. The Lakewood publisher was killed July 18, 1919. Prosecutor Edward C Stanton and Lakewood police chief P S Christensen secured signed statements after hours of questioning.
Admissions list includes Earl Taylor and multiple residents with street addresses. a birth is reported to Mr. and Mrs. Urban Obringer. Discharges include Joe Hittes, George Pott, John Kotnick, and several others, alongside families and individuals across numerous streets including Vermilion and Ridgeville. Local hospital records reflect ongoing patient movement.
Mrs Sarah J Coley aged 77 died Sunday night June 5 at the home of Mrs A G McPearson She came from South Amherst twenty years ago and lived in Brownhelm since She leaves a daughter Mrs A G McPearson a son E C Chapin three grandchildren Mrs Abbot Latterman Mrs George Ruth and Mrs Hard Alten The service was held Wednesday afternoon at 2 at the church.
Alfred Pember of Amherst filed an answer denying he alienated the affections of Alfred Werner’s divorced wife. Werner had charged that Pember visited the home, won the wife’s affections, and caused the divorce and separation. The wife remarried Pember a week after her divorce.
Catherine E. Dorsey of Lorain filed for divorce from Valentine Dorsey an employee of Tower Supply Co alleging gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty She seeks restoration of her maiden name Catherine E Beck Married in Lorain July 17 1920 the couple have no children
Patrol officers found four business fronts unlocked in the district over the weekend. Wilkins. Hurst Co. and Ze of Fred Laundon had keys in front doors while Auto Top & Repair Shop on West Avenue was unlocked and Charles Baron jewelry store rear window stood ajar. No entries reported due to early police detection.
The Kiwanis club has called a special business meeting to be held Tuesday evening starting at 7:36 o clock.
Police recovered an abandoned bicycle found in front of the Fisher Bros store. Proper identification is required to reclaim the bicycle from authorities.
The Lorain County Printing & Publishing Co announces the Sunday Chronicle Telegram will suspend weekly Sunday issues due to a nationwide paper shortage caused by a strike in U S and Canada. The move aims to maintain daily publication until paper supply returns to normal.
International News Service reports a small revolt in Oaxaca was put down. Sanchez Juarez, grandson of the Mexican liberator, was killed by rebels. General Fernando Viscaino, former chief of staff to General Pablo Gonzales, was executed after being found guilty by a court martial of conspiring with Oaxacan rebels against the Obregon government. He was a Chapultepec academy graduate and remained on the army's technical staff.
The Chamber of Commerce reports 641 memberships secured after a three day drive. Teams will report at noon this week to continue recruitment as directors plan to pursue a thousand members with Charles Sotherden directing Friday meetings and possibly forming a permanent committee.
Local Spiritualists plan to attend the annual Ohio Spiritualists convention in Toledo from June 16 to 19. Renowned medium John Slater will deliver tests and messages, with other noted speakers scheduled to participate.
Mrs. Adolph Haskevitch of Cleveland drowned when her car struck a fog bound bridge and plunged into Yankee Run near Hubbard. Her husband suffered minor injuries. The couple had been visiting relatives in Farrell Pennsylvania and were returning home.
President Harding Senator Knox and the presidential party left Senator Knoxs country home in Valley Forge Pa at 730 this morning. They returned to Washington by motor car and expect to reach the White House by early forenoon.
Egbert Norris aged 45 committed death by own action by hanging yesterday at his home in Clathorne Union County. He had been ill for several years and was found by his 18 year old son Robert.
Lorain Mayor Will Grall pleads not guilty to libel charges stemming from articles in the Lorain Citizen. The case ties to state prohibition raids and efforts to oust the mayor for alleged incompetency. Other defendants include City Solicitor Van Deusen and Police Chief King with bond set at 500 dollars.
The Stevens chair announces that H Symons will head the education committee and Mrs Boyd Loughry will lead the political committee. The meeting for all women is opened by SECU East Hate Will Be a Business and notes Symons’ notable work in civic education.
Mayor Asaph R. Jones was to return from Virginia after his son Sumner Jones graduated at a military academy. He planned a Baltimore stop before home and was now due late today or Tuesday. Over a dozen persons awaited arraignment before his honor.
London June 6 The executive committee of the Federation of Miners accepted an invitation from the colliery owners for another conference to attempt to settle the national coal strike by compromise.
The House Foreign Affairs committee voted 23 to 25 to favorably report the Porter resolution. The resolution allocates 1,006,000 dollars for a disarmament conference.
Timothy Connor a 69 year old conductor from Columbus disappeared when Pennsylvania freight train No. 480 reached Xenia at 6 am. His body was found two miles south of Xenia with a broken neck, presumed to have fallen from the moving train.
Detective J. Metzler of the North Carolina force seized Ed Moran a cred man living in Youngstown near the depot Saturday night. Moran had 60 Pathe phonograph records he could not account for and led officers to boxes hidden on elevated tracks near Fast avenue. Police believe the records were stolen from a freight shipment and Moran was jailed as inquiries continue.
Akron June 6 Wesley Henigberger owner of the property where Peter Shurwag's body was found last October testified as the state began adducing testimony in the murder case Ohio vs Charles Smith and his son.
The Superfix Rubber Co plans to relocate its factory from the Quality Rubber Co site north of the New York Central depot to Medina. The Elyria firm dissolves its merger with Carbonoid Chemical Co and is absorbed by Akron Universal Tire and Rubber Co of Medina. The company, capitalized at 15000 with 14266 sold mostly to Myrians, employs three workers and will move its inventor Brandt to Medina.
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