Lisbon Centennial Draws 6000 for G A R Parade and Meetings
Lisbon Ohio marked its centennial with a Grand Army of the Republic and Sons of Veterans parade led by department officers. About 800 soldiers and sons joined the march and an afternoon program featured ex congressman R W Taylor Senator Hanna and Gen Anton G McCook. Hanna noted his aging title Uncle Mark as he sent greetings to the town. McCook, cited for Civil War service and later roles in Congress and New York City finances, spoke at length on public money handling.
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Lisbon
Grand Army Posts and Sons of Veterans
Columbiana County
G. A. R. Department
Tom Johnson
R. W. Taylor
Hanna
Anton G. McCook
New York
Ohio
Mark
McCook
Secon
Congress
New York City
Oil men donate to Salvation Army tambourine drive
In Lima Ohio on June 20 two wealthy oil men John B Kerr of Lima and Jas Leslie of Bradford Pa contributed to a Salvation Army tambourine collection. They initially dropped five dollar bills and continued for several minutes until the tambourine held over 500 dollars, after which they used checks to cap the amount.
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Lima, O
John B. Kerr
Lima
Jas. Leslie
Bradford
Lima House
Salvation Army
Leslie
Kerr
Ohio Coal Output Breaks Records in 1902 Report
The state Mine Inspector’s annual report to the governor shows Ohio produced 23,929,267 tons of coal in 1902, up 3,607,977 tons from 1901. Ohio remains the third largest coal producer, with West Virginia ahead of it in previous years.
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Columbus
Ohio
West Virginia
Woman Arrests Husband Over Accordion Playing
In Cleveland Ohio on a Saturday, Mrs. Adam Hanz had her husband arrested after he refused to stop playing an accordion. He started playing shortly after noon and continued despite her protests, leading to police involvement.
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Cleveland, O
Adam Hanz
Hanz
Parkersburg Conductor George Connor Dies of Heart Attack
Word reached Loveland on Friday that Conductor George Connor of Loveland dropped dead in Parkersburg, West Virginia, while in his office making his report when he suffered a fatal heart attack.
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Loveland, C
Parkersburg
George Connor
Merion Dies After Apoplexy in Columbus
Columbus, June 22. Frank Merion died Sunday morning of apoplexy. He was son of Nathaniel Merion, warden of the Ohio penitentiary when Morgan and his raiders escaped. Father and son later engaged in business in this city.
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Columbus
Frank Merion
Nathaniel Merion
Ohio Penitentiary
Morgan
Ohio Engineers to Meet in Cincinnati Next Year
State Engineers' Association Akron reports the Ohio convention will be held in Cincinnati next year. State Examiner Collier says 12,722 licensed engineers exist in Ohio with over 3,000 failures since the new law took effect.
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State Engineers’ Association
Akron
Ohio State Engineers’ Association
Cincinnati
Collier
John Quigley Circus Acrobats Pioneer Dies in Columbus
Columbus G June 20 John Quigley once a leading circus acrobat died of consumption in Columbus He was famed for first triple somersault over elephants He performed with large sawdust shows Remains to be interred Sunday. Columbus O June 19 Gen Charles Dick Akron chosen to direct Ohio Republican campaign. Danville O June 22 Mrs Elizabeth Chamberlain Akron physician’s wife killed by train at C A C depot while visiting sister.
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Columbus
John Quigley
Chas. Dick
Akron
Republican State Central Committee
Ohio
Danville
Elizabeth Chamberlain
W. E. Chamberlain
Cleveland restaurant Owners Form Protective Association
Cleveland restaurant owners in Ohio organize a protective association to prepare for a July strike announced by employees. The action signals rising labor tension as venues coordinate responses ahead of potential disruption.
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Cleveland, O
Assault on Constable During Sunday Ball Game Incident
Findlay Ohio June 22 Constable Enoch Johnson was assaulted by Geo Bell an oil well driller Sunday while stopping a ball game between the Eberhards of Cleveland and a local team Bell allegedly struck Johnson in the face dragged him 200 feet then surrendered to a deputy marshal The incident triggers town debate on Sunday ball games with players arrested and released after fines paid.
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Findlay
Enoch Johnson
Geo. Bell
Eberhards
Cleveland
Bell
Johnson
Maj Stephen Johnson of Ohio Dies at 91 in Piqua
Maj Stephen Johnson of Piqua Ohio died Sunday at age 91 from paralysis. He drafted the Columbus Piqua and Indiana railway charter later the Pennsylvania line to Chicago and St Louis and served as its counsel for 25 years. Johnson held county offices, served in the legislature, and fought in the Eleventh Ohio during the Civil War. He was a presidential elector for Lincoln and the Greenback candidate for Ohio governor in 1877. long trustee of Ohio State University and active with public works boards.
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Piqua, O
Stephen Johnson
Columbus, Piqua& Indiana Railway
Pennsylvania Line
Chicago
St. Louis
Ohio
Lincoln
Ohio State University
Boards of Public Works
Woman Dies After Saving Baby From Inferno
Mrs. E A Wahlgamuth 21 a farmer's wife near Dukay Ohio died hours after a lamp exploded in an incubator flames. She saved her sleeping baby from the fire but clothing caught fire. She died late Thursday from burns sustains while rescuing the child.
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Bowling Green
E. A. Wahlgamuth
Dukay
Wahlgamuth
Lightning and dynamite ruin Senecaville mine site
Lightning struck a hut storing 3,000 pounds of dynamite at a new mine near Senecaville, Ohio, during a storm. Six men were killed and about twenty injured, all carpenters and workers building the shaft, as windows were shattered in the nearby mining town of 300 residents.
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Cambridge
Senecaville
Illness Strikes Twenty Chorus Girls During Cleveland Show
Twenty chorus girls at a Cleveland theater became ill with cramps during a Friday night performance. Eight fell sick for two hours and were sent home by carriage as three physicians treated the cases for several hours. Officials attributed the illness to suspected food poisoning.
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Cleveland, O
Lawrence T Neal to Wed Miss Charlotte Walker in Gambier
Columbus Ohio June 19 Lawrence T Neal 58 attorney and long time Chillicothe district congressman and Democratic governor candidate against McKinley in 1893 will marry Miss Charlotte Walker of Gambier Ohio on June 30.
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Columbus
Lawrence T. Neal
Ohio
Chillicothe
McKinley
Charlotte Walker
Gambier, O
Reprieve Granted in Ohio Electrocution Case
Columbus Ohio June 22 Word came to the penitentiary that Albert Wade, among the murderers of Kate Sullivan, was reprieved by the Lucas county circuit court unless his appeal can be heard at the fall term of court.
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Columbus, O
Albert Wade
Kate Sullivan
Lucas County
Crape Stolen From Door Across Two Cities
Dayton report says someone stole crape from the door of the residence of O Edward Herman at 187 Brown Street where he lies a corpse from injuries after a fall from a scaffold. In Cleveland Jesse Hale Morley aged 84 died Sunday after leading Morley Lead Co for years and retirement seven or eight years ago. born in Brutus New York.
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Dayton
O. Edward Herman
Brown Street
Cleveland, O
Jesse Hale Morley
Morley Lead Co
Brutus
N. Y
Collar Button Sparks Fall Injury in Columbus
Fred Dell aged 55 suffered a serious injury after a collar button broke on a Livingston avenue car causing him to fall. A fragment ruptured his windpipe and the mishap occurred in Columbus on June 22.
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Columbus
Fred Dell
Livingston Avenue
Chase guardian seeks recovery of Moses Fowler Chase estate
Judge De Hart grants Frederick S. Chase guardian authority to sue Mrs Ophelia F Duhme and others to reclaim real estate and assets valued around 750000. A separate accounting suit filed by Fred B Chase in federal court last March remains pending.
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Lafayette
Ind
de Hart Friday
Fredericks. Chase
Moses Fowler Chase
Ophelia F. Duhme
Ophelia Fowler Duhme
Duhmes
United States Circuit Court
Fred B. Chase
Duhme
Chase
Seizure of Cruiser Chattanooga Hits Shipyard in Elizabethport
Secretary Moody received a dispatch from Elizabethport announcing the seizure by the sheriff of the cruiser Chattanooga being built at New York Shipbuilding Co. boilers unpaid, claimed by boiler makers as supplier to the shipyard. The ship remains the builders property and not yet accepted by the government.
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Washington
Moody Friday
Elizabethport
N. J
Chattanooga
New York Shipbuilding Co
United States Shipbuilding Co
Geo. M. Keasley
Newark
United States
Shipbuilding Company
Bomb Explodes Wreaks Havoc At Chicago Saloon
Twenty people injured seven severely as a bomb explodes before Fred Cummings saloon at 954 Clybourn avenue. John Laxner found the device and was arrested. A wagon dumped additional bombs at Western avenue and Addison streets. McNally drilled the bomb and lit a fireworks display causing severe injuries to himself.
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Chicago
Fred Cummings
Clybourn Avenue
John Laxner
Western Avenue
Addison Streets
Laxner
Western
Melrose Avenues
Cummings
John McNally
McNally
Cloudburst Deluges Newman Grove Causing Wide Damage
A Friday cloudburst in Newman Grove Nebraska dropped four to five inches of rain in ten minutes with hail and wind. Fruit grain and trees suffered widespread damage while a string of eight cars was blown from a switch to the main line despite brakes. O W Lyons barn unroofed and moved off its foundation.
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Newman Grove
Neb
O. W. Lyons
Young Man Poisoned Near LaFollette Killing Case Stirring
James Lovely a LaFollette Tenn. resident died after a recent poisoning. A coroner ordered a post mortem, a verdict of poisoning was returned, Mrs. Lovely arrested, and Campbell county grand jury to hear the case. Lovely married three weeks ago. Also noted are weekly business failures in the United States and Arnold Turf Investment Co. surrender in St Louis on fraud charges.
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Knoxville
Tenn
James Lovely
LaFollette
Lovely
Campbell County
Grand Jury
Arnold
St. Louis
E. J. Arnold
Arnold Turf Investment Co
Sets of Philippine Coins Presented to President and Cabinet
Root presented the president and each cabinet member with a set of coins intended for use in the Philippines. Each eight piece set is led by the peso as the most valuable coin in the collection.
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Washington
Root
Philippines
Queen Draga's Sister Traveled Second Class to Vienna
The sister of Queen Draga traveled second class on the Belgrade to Vienna train. Reportedly ruined, she was given only 400 dollars to cover travel expenses.
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Belgrade
Queen Draga
Here
Vienna
No Verdict Reached in Breathitt County Murder Case
Jackson Ky June 20 jurors deadlock over murder convictions in the case of Town Marshal Cockrill and nearby killings. Curtis Jett would have been convicted without one juror, while Thomas White also faced a likely conviction. Jett and White were moved to Lexington for new trials, with crowds orderly at the station.
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Jackson
Curtis Jett
Marcum
Thomas White
Lexington
Cymbhiana
Blue Grass
Breathitt County
Jett
White
Harrison County
James Cockrill
Cynthiana
Maj. Allen
James Hargis
Breathitt
Oneal
French
Hargis
Wallace
Fayette County
Kentucky
Frankfort
Beckham
Hines
Col. Williams
First American Child Born in Guam Celebrated
Advices from Guam report the birth of the island’s first American child, a girl, to Paymaster Ryan. A large christening celebration followed with participation from the entire community.
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Guam
New York
Ryan
Judge Oliver P. Shiras Announces Retirement
Dubuque Iowa reports that United States Judge Oliver P. Shiras of the Northern District of Iowa will retire from the bench on November 1. He will turn 70 years old in October.
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Oliver P. Shiras
Dubuque
United States Court For
Northern District of
Iowa
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