Calamity speech attack stirs Ohio campaign responses
The Cincinnati Enquirer and Cleveland Plain Dealer criticize Johnson and Clarke for quieting prosperity with calamity talk. They argue the pair exploit public misfortune for votes, urging restraint and warning against stirring a panic that could harm capital and labor.
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Johnson and Clarke
General Welfare
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Clarke
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Plain Dealer
General Dick
Tom L. Johnson
Stolen Pocketbook Amid Traction Car Pickpocketing
Urbana report details a bold pocket picking on a traction car involving stock buyer and former county commissioner Alex McBeth. A trio of strangers distracted him, lifted his pocketbook containing multiple checks and cash, and fled toward Springfield. Police later arrested two men in connection with the case. The incident follows McBeth’s earlier suspicions of being shadowed.
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Alex McBeth
Otto Henry
Canada
S. M. Smith
McBeth
Douglas Inn
Mr. McBeth
Beal law violator sent to Columbus work house
Harvey Allen was ordered to serve 583 days in the Columbus work house for selling whisky at Magnetic Springs after the town voted dry. He received a $300 fine plus costs, totaling $350, with seven indictments by a grand jury. Allen’s wife paid a $50 fine for the same offense.
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Marysville
Harvey Allen
Columbus
Magnetic Springs
Allen
Dow
Ohio
Union County
Miami University Students Parade Through Oxford Night
About 150 Miami University students dressed in night shirts paraded the streets at night after a street fair began. They tried to take the merry go round but were repelled. one student was struck by a bludgeon wielded by proprietor Herbert Miller. The group moved to the canvas for agricultural displays before Mayor J. Muddell ordered them away and Marshal J. E. Woodruff intervened at Oxford College.
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Oxford College
J. E. Woodruff
Beaten by Two Girls in Ore City Case Report
Eva Stevenson, 18, was beaten and choked by A G Thompson, 17, and Matilda Buffington, 15 after naming them at a Cottonwood dance. Stevenson is unconscious with a fractured skull and swelling of the neck. the assailants, charged with assault with intent to kill, are in custody and to be moved to Bowling Green.
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Eva Stevenson
Cottonwood
A. G. Thompson
Matilda Buffington
Stevenson
Bowling Green
Wood County
Springfield reunion nearly ends in assassination attempt
At the Tenth Ohio battery reunion in Union Veteran hall J W R Cline was targeted when M Hill pressed a revolver to his face and pulled the trigger The gun misfired Hill was grabbed by a policeman as he pursued Cline who blamed interference in his domestic affairs in Covington Ky.
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Tenth
Ohio Battery
Union Veteran Hall
J. W. R. Cline
Covington
M. Hill
Prn
Cline
Hill
Pocketbook thefts mar Lima meeting with multiple losses
Lima Ohio police cuffed by a rash of pocket picks at a Republican rally Friday night. Postmaster John L. Sullivan lost a watch and $200 in valuables, Judge Lowrey over $100 in drafts and checks, Ex Mayor Rogers and Attorney Andrew Graham also robbed, with a dozen more reporting losses. Mayor Jones referenced as Grandpa amid city chatter. Toledo also reports a newborn and notes Mayor Jones’s absence in Chicago.
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John L. Sullivan
St. Mary's
Lowrey
Rogers
Andrew Graham
Margarette Noyes Sends Gen E F Noyes Sword to Capitol
Margarette P. Noyes of Cincinnati presents to Governor Nash the sword carried by her late husband General E F Noyes a colonel of the 39th Ohio volunteer infantry. The blade will be placed in the state capitol relic room noting his 1872 1873 governorship.
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Columbus
Margarette P. Noyes
Cincinnati
Nash
State Capitol
Ohio
Former public affairs board member fatally injured by streetcar
Hugh Russell, ex member of Springfield public affairs board, was seriously injured Friday morning when struck by a street car while crossing the track. He died later or was fatally injured, in Springfield, Ohio, on October 3.
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Hugh Russell
Board of Public Affairs
Gilkey Named State Law Librarian in Ohio
The Ohio supreme court on Friday appointed D Howard Gilkey as state law librarian to replace the late Frank Beebe. Gilkey currently serves as bookkeeper and first assistant in the office. The announcement appears in a Columbus report dated October 8.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
D. Howard Gilkey
Frank Beebe
Gilkey
Wynne Named Democratic Candidate for Short Term Public Works
Columbus Ohio October 2 William A Wynne a Pike County farmer was chosen by the Democratic state central committee to fill the short term vacancy on the board of public works caused by the death of Charles A Goddard.
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Democratic State Central Committee
William A. Wynne
Pike County
Board of Public Works
Charles A. Goddard
Body of Infant Found at Nelsonville Box Car Door
Workers at Nelsonville Sewer Pipe Co discover the strangled corpse of a white female child beneath a box car hoisting door. A piece of muslin forced down the throat is the cause of death. The grim discovery rocks the Ohio town.
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Babe
Nelsonville, O
Nelsonville Sewer Pipe Co
Boy Dies Nutting Accident in Luckey Nearby
Frank Akerman aged 20 was crushed by a heavy pole that fell from a hickory tree while nutting near Luckey Ohio. He died instantly at the scene according to Bowling Green dispatches.
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Nutting
Bowling Green
Frank Akerman
Luckey
Democratic Paper Attacks Tax Scheme as Communism Threat
The Columbus Citizen denounces an amendment to enlarge the general assembly tax powers as dangerous and potentially communistic. It labels Johnson a single taxer and warns a Johnson-controlled legislature would tax land values heavily. Democrats organize nationwide to oppose Johnson Clarke, while Monnett is supported for attorney general for reform of county officer fees.
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Ohio
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Citizen
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