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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1906
Page
3
A Cincinnati tenement tragedy unfolds as Thomas McKenna 39 a Grand Hotel head waiter murders his infant by tossing it from a fourth floor window then leaps to death. Witness Emma Halley of Camp Washington follows by jumping from a third story window and dies.
Jennie Gross aged 16 of 174 Greenwood Street Cleveland died from what authorities describe as too much medicine. Coroner Siegelstein notes potential morphine overload from ten doctors treating summer colic and mother with similar illness.
In Cleveland a man dies and a woman lies in a trance after a potion given for epilepsy by Joseph Marx. The coroner holds Marx as a witness. he claims the cure comes from Poland and has cured many others.
Fremont Ohio reports a alleged kidnapping case as George Overmyer of Toledo is accused of abducting his eight year old daughter from the grandparents with divorce actions filed. Marion Ohio notes a $5000 suit against Rev A A Thomas and others to be withdrawn from Dining Gar Farm. Bellefontaine Ohio says New York Central Railway Co seeks to buy 200 acre Riddle Rutan farm at Ridgeway to run fruit and vegetable service for dining cars. Newark Ohio announces Licking Mining Co upgrades new machinery and plans to mine gold soon with a metalled muleway.
In Newport Ohio county Washington a wealthy resident A J Pegg died by his own hand using a jackknife. Reports say an alleged affair with a married woman spurred his action. The wife and husband knew of the affair. Pegg left a wife and large family. A warrant for arrest was being prepared when the death occurred. The woman involved had a previously good reputation.
In Lima Ohio Judge Arm strong of Celina grants Pearl Chown Briggs a divorce from actor Homer T. Briggs. The couple’s November wedding, first in the country under Spiritualistic ritual, drew hundreds of attendees and claims of blessings from departed friends. Chown testified to gross neglect and cruelty by Briggs.
A murder committee surfaced as Miss Able found a badly decomposed child’s body in an old well at Mortimer. Sheriff Groves Deputy Sheriff Johns and Coroner Balsfey handle the case. The sex cannot be determined. no missing child matches the vicinity. A string tied about the neck suggests murder by strangulation.
Mayor Hursell spurned a $200 monthly bribe from saloon men to avoid Sunday openings. The offer aimed to secure votes from the majority to lift the Sunday ban.
In St. Clairsville Ohio several miners Wm Rice John Wright and Isaac Francis were fatally hurt when an explosion ignited gas in the Berry mines near Pipe Creek. Oil-field gas is suspected to have migrated into the mines via miners lamps.
John Sharp Williams argues Democrats could capture the next House if they act together with common tact and sense. He criticizes free trade and praises protection, citing past losses and urging unity against Tammany and Bryan in the 1908 political landscape.
The passage argues that a nation may not gain from increased foreign trade. Using Connecticut and New Jersey as examples, it shows how exchanging with France could raise exports and imports by 2 million dollars but transfer labor and production costs, yielding a net loss to the nation. It concludes a potential 20 percent Schiffownes could still leave a net annual loss of 800 000 dollars.
The article reviews Senator Warren of Wyoming urging against removing the wool tariff and warns free hides would threaten protection. It cites his June 27 Senate speech on livestock statistics and the broader case for universal protective tariffs as farmers and manufacturers interdependence is stressed.
May 7 106 introduces new East Round service with Nos 23 24 25 26 201 206 at Pennsylvania Lines station Pearl and Butler streets. Nos 35 36 I local trains run daily except Sunday from L N R R Court and Broadway. Nos 24 26 run daily through to Roanoke Richmond Norfolk via Norfolk & Western. Pullman sleepers Cincinnati to Bluefield and Roanoke on No 24. Hillsboro Branch.
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