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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1913
Page
2
Ohio Attorney General Hogan says charges may be filed against Walter A. Vincent of Cincinnati after evidence shows forged signatures to referendum petitions across counties. Dead people and ineligible names appear, with experts reviewing the petitions to uncover widespread fraud affecting the Green workmen's compensation referendum.
Washington D. H law group seeks removal of Mayor Harvey W. Smith accusing gross immorality and failure to enforce mayoral regulations. They allege Smith went to Columbus on June 26 with Fannie Laporte, was arrested at a resort, and taken to the police station. Governor Cox will set a hearing date after review.
Experts reviewing the books of Merchants' & Manufacturers' Bank and Union National Bank of Columbus estimate the state is owed about 200000 with four and a half percent interest. About 160000 is due from Merchants' & Manufacturers' Bank. Funds deposited in banks are cited as contrary to state law, and an order of the court will be needed before the state can collect.
Delegates at the twenty sixth international convention in Los Angeles hear Rev. Daniel A. Poling outline a two year program to push a salonless United States by 1920 and a federal constitutional amendment. Poling criticizes Hobson's bill for loopholes and urges stronger action.
Van A. Snider, once a Harmon's staff member and Knights of Pythias chief, will trace Gen. Morgan's Confederate raiders route in Ohio on a horse. He aims to collect data for the Ohio Historical Research Society, stopping at former camps and ending near the West Virginia line where Morgan was captured.
State Board of Health Attorney General Hogan says the Snyder flood emergency act does not require counties to bear cleanup costs or supplant local health authorities. It only empowers counties to act. Firemen and policemen cannot draw overtime pay. their extra services are covered by annual salaries.
Cincinnati meat packing houses will be inspected by a panel of experts selected by Secretary of Agriculture Houston from outside the government. The six month program will cover plants nationwide with Cincinnati arrival expected in the fall. The move follows criticism of federal meat inspection to restore public confidence.
Indications are that former state Senators Isaac Huffman of Butler and George Cetone of Montgomery may have their prison sentences extended, while Rodney Diegle, former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms, seeks parole with a board hearing planned next month. Prosecution leaders Hogan and Turner have not disclosed their stance, though prospects of release appear unlikely. Diegle received a three year term as an accessory, contrasts with principal L. R. Andrews who drew nine months.
The Grand Encampment of Ohio adjourned and selected Portsmouth as the next meeting location. New officers include J. C. L. Pugh of Columbus as grand patriarch and W. W. Rhoderick of Wellington as grand high priest. EB. C. Corn of Ironton to represent at the Sovereign Grand Lodge in Minneapolis in September. A military ball closed the visit.
Mrs Z Coles of Marietta watched from two miles away as her granddaughter Lillie Tefft 18 of McMechen W Va drowned after a small boat capsized on the Ohio River. Tefft and three others aboard were capsized by a gust of wind while picnickers on shore thought they were swimming.
National Red Cross director B P Bicknell and secretary Louis Stein visited Dayton to assess recovery progress signaling the city as the first large Ohio city to reach a point where further aid may not be needed. Red Cross has spent about $200000 aiding 65000 families. Dayton has raised $135000 for rehabilitation. Red Cross work in Columbus expected to continue through August.
Miss Sarah Foster, 18, leader of Enterprise Enamel Co. girl strikers, pleads I whipped three of em and is fined five dollars and costs. Strikers attacked strikebreakers as they left the plant, using hat pins and hair pulling, injuring several.
In Newark Ohio Judge T B Fulton ruled the safety director lacks authority to fire a police officer. Patrolman C O Burke was suspended May 23 by Director Collier, then dismissed, with the civil service commission sustaining the director before Burke was ordered reinstated.
An alfalfa campaign in Belmont County featured speakers from Iowa Illinois and Ohio universities urging farmers to attend to alfalfa. After talks, automobile parties began promoting awareness and the plan is to be expanded to other states.
Newark police arrest Mrs. M. Livingston of Cleveland for a slit skirt seen on the street. She is charged with disorderly conduct and tells officers the skirt was allowed in Coshocton, challenging the police.
Willie Anderson aged 17 confessed to killing Edgar Coleman one year old of Sheridan to obtain a $250 life insurance payout. The weapon and motive centered on securing the policy proceeds. Authorities report the suspect is Elihu Anderson’s son from Sheridan.
A Cleveland project to rebuild the old Ohio Canal from Thornburg in Cuyahoga county to Dresden in Muskingum county will pass through Coshocton county. The restored canal would connect the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via the Muskingum at Dresden and Marietta, with an estimated cost of 3.1 million dollars.
The following pension examining surgeons were named Dr Chas Huber in Harrison Ohio R B Hannan H C Guthrie and H P Shelton in Georgetown Ohio for a reimbursement and medical review program.
Former State Senator C. P. Godfrey now an examining auditor for the state bureau of public accounting and inspection revealed irregularities in the accounts of township Clerk Isaac Osban who died by his own hand. Osban had long served as clerk and was a leading city figure with church involvement.
A rear end collision of electric trains at Vineyard power house near Los Angeles leaves about twenty dead and one hundred seriously injured. Three-car trains from Venice and Ocean Park stalled by a broken trolley wire collide with a following train. About a thousand people aboard.
In Zanesville Ohio four people were killed and 16 injured when Baltimore and Ohio passenger train No 16 west bound struck a Cambridge and Byesville interurban car at a grade crossing about a mile from Cambridge. The wreck happened after the interurban conductor mistook a locomotive headlight for lightning and signalled the motorman to proceed.
Miss Leila M. Chester and Miss Harriet Kennedy of Chicago ran a locomotive 20 miles through Granite Canyon under an engineer’s supervision. Chester guided the engine while Kennedy fed coal, sharing the thrill of a real locomotive experience.
An interurban car struck picnickers a few miles west of Detroit, killing Alfred Dix the band leader and injuring two others who were returning from a picnic.
Market list for Cincinnati shows corn, hay, oats, wheat, rye, eggs, cattle, calves, hogs, turkeys, geese, and other prices. Entries include various grades such as No 2 No 3 and No 4 across commodities with figures in cents and dollars, reflecting a broad auction or market-table update.
Vienna reports King Ferdinand of Bulgaria lying ill in his Sofia palace as newspapers suspend and crowds gather outside. Dispatches say the king fears facing a rising public anger over severe army reverses, with palace guards posted day and night.
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