Sixth District Republicans Nominate Seth W Brown at Wilmington
The Sixth District Republican convention met in Wilmington with enthusiastic support for Seth W. Brown as the nominee after friendly rivalry. Delegates endorsed the Columbus platform, praised G. W. Hulick and Asa S. Bushnell, and pledged backing for McKinley for President. Col. C. R. Fisher organized the affair, ensuring orderly proceedings and a warm welcome to Clermont delegates.
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Ohio
Wilmington
A.N. Spahr
W. W. Savage
Grant
Corwin
Foraker
G. W. Hulick
Congress
Asa S. Bushnell
J. B. Foraker
Senate
Wm. McKinley
St. Louis
W. A. Dixson
Brown County
J. C. Leggett
Louis Hicks
Clermont
L. J. Walker
Clinton
E. J. West
M. A. Broadstone
Greene
John Little
Cyrus Newby
Highland
D. Q. Morrow
George Burr
Warren
Seth W. Brown
Col. C. R. Fisher
Wilmington Journal
Amelia High School Graduation Delights with Music and Oration
The Amelia High School fourth annual commencement on April 21 featured the Star Spangled Banner, class motto Thus Ends Our fret Lesson, and performances by Hermann Bellstedt and his orchestra. Students Nesbitt Pattison Hutson Huntington House delivered orations. Miss Ada B. House as valedictorian spoke on How to the Line. Dr. D. A. Long gave the annual address and diplomas. Sheriff Teal later sang at the clerk's office. Simmons Liver Regulator ad ends.
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Amelia High School
M. E
Charles Gray
Board of Education
Batavia
New Richmond
Williamsburg
Bethel
Hermann Bellstedt
W.P. Jackson
Albert T. Nesbitt
Nesbitt
Edgar S. Jackson
Bellstedt
Edward Pattison
Our Republic
Ivy L. Hutson
John A. Huntington
Ada B. House
D. A. Long
Antioch College
A. Sherman
Amelia
Tribute to Grant by Foraker Sparks Republican Pride
Senator Foraker lauded General Grant as a soldier and statesman at a Brunswick club banquet in Batavia praising his war leadership and postwar vision. He highlighted Grant’s restraint with Lee’s sword, belief in union and liberty, protectionist economic views, and support for a strong party, merchant marine, and Nicaraguan canal.
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Senator Foraker
Boston
Brunswick Club
General Grant
Grant
Fort Donaldson
Appomattox
Lee
St. Louis
Massachusetts
Thomas Brackett Reed
Ohio
William McKinley
McKinley
Gen. Grant
Unscheduled Gravel Train Smash At Vail Station
A prearranged rail mishap near Vail station thirty miles east of Tucson drew a large crowd. Thirteen loaded gravel cars derailed at 58 to 70 mph, smashing into a side track and obstruction, wrecking all cars and tearing up the station yard.
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Tuscon
Arizona
Vail’s Station
Tuscan
Sunday not counted in filing motion for new trial
Cincinnati court rules Sunday not counted in the three day window for filing a motion for a new trial. Littleford Brothers v Mercantile Credit Guarantee Company held dies non as to court matters, aligning with common law unless statute says otherwise. The ruling cites Missouri precedent and emphasizes absence of Ohio law altering the rule.
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Cincinnati
Littleford Brothers
Mercantile Credit Guarantee Company
Ohio
Missouri
Baccalaureate Sermon Marks Batavia Class of 1899
The Batavia M E church hosted the 1899 graduating class with superintendent Chatterton leading a parade of students and teachers. Rev Morris delivered the baccalaureate sermon as Miss Mary Lane and Mrs Closson Baum provided organ and vocal music while Nelson Cramer is noted as a non-graduate quasi member. The event closed with the High School Cadet March and a crowded, pleased audience.
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M. E
Chatterton
Batavia
Della Nichols
Gail Hamilton
Julia Long
Tena Ehrnsburger
Eva House
Almeda Hewitt
Cora B. Hey
James K. Ashburn
John Thalman
Nelson B. Cramer
Fred Apple
Joseph Thalman
Noah Apple
Morris
M. E. Church
Bell
Presbyterian Church
Mary Lane
Closson Baum
Golden Fleece play to honor Odd Fellowship in Batavia
The Batavia Lodge plans a May 8 and 9 city hall performance of the play Golden Fleece. The sketch follows a woman infiltrating a lodge room, witnessing a rough initiation, and rushing to stop the branding of a novice. The piece blends drama, spectacle, and humor while celebrating the Odd Fellowship brotherhood, now about one million members strong with substantial benevolence.
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Odd Fellowship
United States
Cincinnati
Batavia Lodge
City Hall
Joseph Kidd
Order of the Golden Fleece
Odd Fellowship Brotherhood
England
London
Baltimore
Thomas Wildey
William Irwin Questioned in Leesburg Bank Heist Case
Dispatch records Sheriff Tom South arresting Jack Holmes in Fayette county on a warrant for bank robbery complicity tied to the Leesburg theft of February 16. Ed Holton, now jailed for horse stealing, claims $500 in bills passed by Smallwood, Irwin, and Holmes, with most money later hidden or missing. Holmes traveled to Buena Vista boasting about the Leesburg safe, while Irwin remains at large among others implicated.
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Sabina
William Irwin
Jack Holmes
Fayette County
Tom South
Wilmington
Leesburg
South
Ed Holton
Holmes
Buena Vista
Batavia
Hillsboro
Smallwood Smiles in Spite of Arrest in Wilmington Tale
Merrick Jones once Wilmington fair proprietor and horse dealer figures in a tale of Smallwood a Cincinnati bartender arrested on a Wilmington capias for blackmail Detective Keating Sheriff South and ex Sheriff Stout moved to Wilmington and back justice theories swirl as Smallwood recounts his supposed arrest in Delaware and ensuing habeas corpus papers and escape with Hudson Scott amid talk of a larger case and new charges by Sharon officials.
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Courier
Merrick Jones
Batavia
Wilmington
Keaiting
Tom South
Daniel Stout
J. W. Smallwood
Cincinnati
Central Station
Smallwood
Stout
Court of
Orton
Jones
Delaware
Smallwoo
Hudson Scott
Sharon
Mrs. Jones
Caplas
Scott
Sheriff South
Keatting
Hudson
Station at Freestone Defies Closure and Removal
Freestone station in Sciote County faces opposition from locals led by Homer Coe against its potential shutdown. A writ of injunction was sworn to stop removal, but President Hunt sent workers to demolish the station and remove the structure despite sheriff papers.
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Freestone
Sciote County
Hunt
Homer Coe
Custody Battle Drives John Ross and Alice to Court
In a habeas corpus proceeding Judge Breeding awarded custody of an eighteen month old child to Alice Ross, the divorced wife of Jim Culbert, who had previously fled to the penitentiary. The case arose after Alice and John Ross, a farmer on the Jake Haney farm, rebuilt their alliance then drifted apart, prompting the latest legal contest over the child.
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John Ross
Jake Haney
Alice
Jim Culbert
Mr. Ross
Ross
Haney
Woman's body found in Jhio river at Twelve-Mile
The body of 86 year old Mrs Catherine Feldcamp was recovered from the Jhio river near Twelve Mile by flat boatmen. Identified by her son Henry she had reportedly ended her life in a deranged fit after tying her legs with her apron strings, with coroner first determining the manner of death.
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Jhio
New Richmond
Catherine Feld Camp
Henry
White
The Sixth District in History
Editor Hummel recalls six former Sixth District Congressmen from Ohio counties: Morrow, McLean, Corwin, Hamer, Schenck, and Campbell. Each influenced Congress for decades, with roles in state and national government, gubernatorial, cabinet, chief justice, diplomatic posts, and early Ohio constitutional conventions.
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Hummel
Clinton County Democrat
Jeremiah Morrow
John McLean
Thomas Corwin
Thomas L. Hamer
Robert ©. Schenck
Lewis D. Campbell
Supreme Court of the
United States
Mexico
Brazil
England
Ways and Means
Ohio
Congress
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Petit Juries
Tom Teal
Court of Common Pleas
Clermont and State of
Simmons Liver Regulator
Simmons Liver
Shepard
Cochran
Grand Jury
Silas Schooley
Wayne Abram Brower Port Rab Eater
Miami
Wy Bthaere
Ee Batavia
Adam Myers Pre
Albert Carter
Ee Beer Artemerees Union
John W. Lytle
Neel Williamsburg Cord, Btes Ee
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Fisher Te Desdis
Avee
de Sevves
Monroe
Nelson Applegate
Prapeernieeess
Wreeese
Oscar Buchanan
Washington
W. A. Fagley
Pierce Thomas M. Needham
Wayne John Barkley
F. M. Purcell
F. J. Roudebush
Stonelick Petit Jury
Silas English
Tate
Edward Boothby
Monroe R. C
Ernest Peireperes
Monroe Henry Beggeman
Tse
Teneseestsgones
E. D. Titus
Ween
Preccetose
E.J
Jackson
Albert Taylor
P. H. Goslin
Franklin Alonzo Daly
Seeee Pierce
W. L. Manning
Bees
Tate John Grant
Bwades
Wm. Trees, Jr
Seeeree
Washington Michael Paul Union
Daniel Bohl Monroe
James Brazier
Seeaes
Worth
Forak
Nelson Cramer
L. D. Manning
Captain Manning
IS William Irwin
Leonard Deller
Valentine Deller
Andrew Deller
A. M. Jeffries
Batavia and
Back Run
Cincinnati Suburban Telegraph Company
Moscow
Swope
Mercer
Rider
Muskingum County
Zanesville
Joseph Homan
River Road
Charles I
Jacob Young
Mr. Young
Young
Thomas Sheridan
Mr. Sheridan
W. H. Dodds
Pittsburg
Youngstown
Pennsylvania
Theresa Lee
Judge Lee
Jacob Mount
Jones’s Falls
Druid Hill
Palo Alto
National Soldiers’ Home
Dayton
Ohio State Association of
Georgetown
Cuba
Melvine Brown
Havana
George R Griffin
Osgood
Indiana
Mr. Griffin
Lori &D
Shaffer
Milford
U. S
National Treasury
Treasury
Treasury Department
Cleveland Administration
U. S. Sub-Treasury
France
Assay
Hood
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