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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1911
Page
7
Public Service Commission to receive seventy five thousand dollars for improvements at an industrial home in Columbus. Saloons in Newark challenge the right of the state to tax liquor sales in dry territory. Attorneys McCoy and Jones & Jones represent saloonkeepers. Wayne Wheeler notes U S Supreme Court rulings on liquor taxation and enforcement.
Gov. Harmon plans no special session this fall while at Charlevoix. He backs the Smith tax limit law without amendment and sides with Judge Dittey that nonpartisan delegates are permissible. Secretary Graves debate over convention ballot design heads to court. Smith law dispute also to court with the director's stance that annual halfyear appropriations may be only directory, not mandatory.
The Ohio River and Western railroad faced the largest jump in the state tax commission’s latest appraisal rising from 102 087 to 270 500 dollars. Other adjustments included Addyston and Ohio River Columbus and Southern Culver and Port Clinton Lorain and Western Toledo Angola and Western and Dayton Lebanon and Cincinnati Railroad and Terminal Company with substantial increases.
The state agricultural board proposes bringing two boys from each county to run chores during the fair. Railroad fares and keep are provided, tents from Adjutant General Weybrecht, and a National Guard officer will organize the farm lads into a working force. The public service commission cannot raise 75000 under the new utilities law due to late railroad reports. funding shifts to old appropriations until next year.
The state board of control visited the Delaware girls industrial home and found conditions much better than in years. John Mc Namara of Columbus, promoted to superintendent after D. Webb resigned, has paroled many girls to ease crowding as enrollment reaches 365.
A sanitation committee led by Dr. C. C. Probst of the state board of health aims to ban railroad passenger car drinking cups to improve train sanitation. The panel, formed at a San Francisco conference, seeks better conditions on trains as Dr. Probst returns from a three weeks West tour.
Robert Patterson chief engineer of the Robinson Clay Product Co., Akron, named district examiner of stationary engineers, succeeding W. R. Bartram of Canton who’s term expired. Both are Republicans. Arson charges involve a Madison county Amity fire. John Armentrout accused of burning his home to obtain 2200 insurance, arrested at Plain City and brought to Columbus by Fire Marshal Zuber and Deputy Vertinee.
Preparations to nominate delegates to a constitutional convention will continue under the Green law with nonpartisan ballots. Secretary Graves alleged a constitutional provision to be used like legislative elections. Governor Harmon Attorney General Hogan and lawmakers argued the point during the Green law debate. The supreme court could decide this in a test case but has favored liberal interpretation to avoid state crises.
The Hocking Valley Railway Co. sues Ohio Public Service Commission seeking to block enforcement of a June 27 order. It contends coal rates from Nelsonville to Toledo are too low and discriminate against the carrier.
Judge E B Dillon granted the prosecutor’s motion to nolle the two remaining indictments against Fred Lied once a Columbus Public Service Board member. Lied, serving a four year penitentiary term for accepting a bribe from the Cleveland Trinidad Paving Co in the BE Broad street contract matter. Lied was convicted on December 1 1909 and began his sentence February 1910 after appeals.
State miners officials head to Zaneaville to meet Crooksville district operators to untangle grievances that could trigger a strike. Sandusky reports Dr Albert Basinger, 28, of Bluffton drowned at Lakeside. he was married on June 21 last year.
Ohio Attorney General Hogan will investigate the purchase of four governor portraits paid with $1000 to state library clerk Mrs. BH Hollingsworth. The four paintings are now hung in the capitol rotunda as part of the portraits controversy.
In Canton Robert Skilling inherits over 15000 but remains at his blacksmith job at United Steel mills. In Havena William Fought 69 dies of sun stroke. Captain Abner Martin 91 recalls teaching Mark Twain river knowhow. Richland bank closes, A. J. Solomon leads, funds tied up. Mt. Gilead company seeks gypsum potash fertilizer venture with Amargo plant. Dynamite threat to Lorain fresh air camp disputed. Runaway buggy rescue by Bellefontaine foreman saves daughter. Akron man arrested in murder case. victim Frank Price, 54. Marietta man Silas Haller found dead. Toledo boy killed by accidental gun. Springfield real estate magnate Charles Fisher dies in workhouse after delinquency sentence. Cleveland steamer Huron wreck near Sault Ste. Marie, 200 passengers moved to City of Chatham.
Nine firemen were hurt when brick and glass flew during the blaze that consumed the B. F. Stevens plant in Toledo. No fatalities reported. The Stevens building loss is about 300000, covered by 290000 insurance. The fire also destroyed nearly a dozen nearby frame houses and stores, with total damage reaching roughly 325000.
In Pittsburg two pairs of thieves used a speedy car to blow open the Bauer Brothers Bakery safe near police headquarters. They secured more than $5,000 and fled as the watchman was surprised. Two conspirators had hidden in the building all night awaiting the others.
Rain drenched 14 states across the corn belt bringing relief to farmers. Agriculturists say corn will develop with a final spurt and the rainfall signals a new era of prosperity for the country.
Port au Prince reports say President Simon is ill and government forces are disrupted. Northern towns are in rebel hands as insurgent advance guards press on the capital, signaling the possibility of a new administration soon.
The steamer Ka nawha carrying the congressional rivers and harbors committee ran aground on Wheeling creek bar after moving only a few hundred yards. Most of the committee members were settling for bed when the jolt occurred. The vessel sustained no damage.
Mrs John Singleton and Miss Ethel Conrad told police that Miss Lillian Graham, charged with attempting to kill W E D Stokes along with Miss Conrad, has vanished from custody.
Henry L. Stimson, secretary of war, who has been in Panama for a week, boarded the cutter North Carolina. He will proceed to Puerto Rico and Cuba.
Thieves blew the Tennessee Valley bank site using nitroglycerin and absconded with $1,200. In the haste of the getaway they overlooked $5,000 in an inner drawer of the safe.
Jaurez railroad officials report a major strike to cover the entire national rail system in Mexico, with plans to inaugurate on August 1. The move stems from ongoing labor tensions and demands for improved wages and conditions across lines.
Two men threw a stone through a jewelry store window, stole a tray of diamonds valued at $10,000, killed a clerk who tried to stop them, and fled in a taxicab. Police search for the suspects after the brutal daytime crime in the city.
Hazel Berry four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs George Berry died at St Vincents hospital after suffering for more than 24 hours when her clothing was ignited by a match while playing in the kitchen in a tragic accident in Portsmouth Osie Blake of Adams county pleaded guilty to selling his vote before Judge Blair causing Edward A Crawford state printer to be implicated in the vote selling scandal Blake was fined 25 and costs six months workhouse and five years disfranchisement Fire at Olentangy park in Columbus destroyed the old mill the penny arcade the temple of mirth and damaged the dancing pavilion two hospitalizations noted from burns the fire blamed on a discarded cigarette New Philadelphia Tuscarawas County Law Enforcement League held a convention naming J E Hurst and W B Stevens as candidates for the constitutional convention delegates Nearly 300 delegates attended the first such convention in the state Major Mansfield case involving Mrs Lilian Bowers wife of a Cleveland detective and two men held without bail for drugging a woman at Mansfield Cincinnati Republican open primary policy urged resignations for civil servants to ensure nonpartisan participation at November election Sandusky Perry’s victory centennial leader William Homer Reinhardt faced assault charges at Put in Bay Xenia ten private detectives in town for speakeasy clean-up Sparsely resisted except at Maggie Day’s near the Pennsylvania depot Akron William Cotter of Barbertown sentenced to 30 days jail and $10 fine for contributing to delinquency of a 16 year old girl
Winnipeg reports confirm a wheat yield near 200 million bushels across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with a worker shortage. Government agents in the United States guide applicants to take advantage of low boundary rates and cheap homesteads from 7 to 20 dollars per acre with potential returns of 8 to 10 dollars per acre.
A terse exchange hints at mischief and dark amusement as the unnamed speaker recalls stealing candy from a baby and reveling in the reaction, described as a scream, with a sly tone. The line juxtaposes playful cruelty and theatrical delight.
Advertises Paxtine Toilet Antiseptic as a preventive and cure for sore throat. Claims cleansing and germicidal action with a gargle in water, promising rapid relief and strengthened throat membranes. Priced 25 and 50 cents a box, available at drug stores or by mail from The Paxton Toilet Co. Boston Mass.
A St. Louis man sues a widow for $100,000 claiming she refused to marry him. The complaint labels him an aging, porch bound suitor chafing at a life built by another man’s money.
An advert notes rosin in rival laundry soaps weighs down washgoods by binding dirt. It claims Hewitt's Easy Task soap uses only soap elements, sinks dirt during soaking, and costs five cents. The copy urges diligence in washing and criticizes adulterated products.
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