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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
2
Notable arrests and trials ripple across states and nations
Springfield Chief Morris is jailed on political tribute charges against saloon owners. Pacific Copper manager W H Austin faces kidnapping allegations in Mexico City tied to Vera Cruz. Aero planes fly at Brighton Beach while Gov. Little seeks treatment for melancholia. Rex Beach returns from Alaska with possible eye issues. Frederick Dorr suspends NYSE and CBOT activity amid low patronage following a broker network across multiple cities. Shigetaro Korikubo weds Marie Louise Harrison in La Crosse. Archie Herron convicted of the July 15 New Brunswick murder and faces electrostatic execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Springfield
Ill
W. H.austin
Pacific Copper Company
Chicago
New York
Denver
Mexico City
Lawrence Ross
Buena Vista
Vera Cruz -of -France
Brighton Beach Racetrack
St. Joseph
Gonmpers
American Federation of Labor
Rex—Beach
Alaska
Frederick Dorr
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
Butte
Mont
Spokane
Wash
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Shegetaro Korikubo
Marie Louise Harrison
L. A. Harrison
la Crosse
Wis
Archie
Herron
W. B. Prickett
New Brunswick
N. J
Multiple Disasters Mark Westward Canada Fire And Uprising
A sweeping Canadian disaster leaves Fernie Coal Creek Hosmer and Michel in ruin with at least 100 dead and 6 000 homeless as fires in the Crow’s Nest district blaze through British Columbia. In Paris a 24 hour general strike protests Vigneux killings while labor violence erupts in Gates Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernie
Coal Creek
Hosmer
Michel
B. C
Crow’s Nest
Kootenay
British Columbia
Paris
Was
Gates
Masontown
Winstead
Conn
State Armory
Odd Fellows
Manchester
United States
Colon
Washington
Aetna Portland Cement Company
Fenton
Mich
Canonsburg
Frank Talmer
Vast 1907 News Digest Spans Kidnapping, Fires, Crimes, and Politics
A sprawling roundup reports Veronica Cassidy’s return from Cincinnati after a Chicago kidnapping. Reinstated West Point cadets face hazing backlash. Fires destroy Hamburg America pier and a Lake St. John hotel. Miners entombed in Crow’s Nest Pass. 21 rescued. Multiple suicides, murders, robberies, and political shifts across the United States and Europe, including a Turkish amnesty and West Virginia governor race developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veronica Cassidy
Chicago
Cincinnati
Roosevelt
Wright
United States Military Academy
West Point
Grand —Army
Ohio
United States
Philadelphia
Hamburg-America Line
Crow's Nest—Pass
B.G
W. B. Whitwell
Ripley County
Missouri
Bolivar
Zoological Gardens
Aurora
Leonard Hendricks
Cranston
R. I
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chillicothe
Frank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Bonaparte
Lenox
Mass
United States ‘Circuit Court of Appeals
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
William Oliver
Mason, Mich
Hague Park
Jackson
Mich
Brooklyn Bridge
G. Winthrop Sands
W. K. Vanderbilt
Deadly forest fires sweep Elk River region in British Columbia
Vancouver reports say about five hundred people are known to be dead as fires rage across Elk River, Sparwood, Olsen, Fernie, Camp No. 4, and surrounding mines. Wires down, refugees describe a 100 mile square devastation with property losses possibly reaching 20 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
B. C
Elk River
Sparwood
Olsen
Homer
Michel
Hosmer
Biggs
Miners’ ‘Union
Fernie
Hfe
Prairies
Elko
Kootenay
Elk River Lumber Co
Crows Nest Pass
Montana Line
Daughter accused mother in stove fire case in Cleveland
Police issued a warrant for Mrs. Alexander Nagy on assault and battery after her five year old daughter Elizabeth suffered severe burns when a paper in her hand caught fire while the girl was in the kitchen. The mother said the child had taken a quarter she hid on the table and spent it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Cull
Alexander Nagy
East Seventy-first Street
Sweeney
Carl
Elizabeth
Massive warehouse fire devastates Chicago grain district
A blaze started after 1 p m in Burlington freight house quickly spread to Armour & Co and Union elevators, destroying 1 875 000 and 60 000 plus 52 000 bushels of grain. Firefighters battled wind driven flames across six blocks with 50 plus injuries and property losses estimated at 2 to 2.5 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Burlington Road
Armour
BE. &F
Union
Armour & Co
Union Elevator Co
Burlington
Pennsylvania
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Chicago & Mt
Eastern Illinois
Riots Between Italians and Slavs Near Masontown
In Uniontown area, a riot at a Gates plant left one man dead and 25 injured or severely hurt among Italian and Slav workers. Pay night drunkenness preceded clashes after Furance and Molanski fought at a Slav boarding house, sparking a larger melee with arrests by state police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Gates
H. C.frick Goke Co
Mascontown
Jacob Furance
Furance
Alex Molanski
Antillo Ronco
Pennsylvania State Constabulary
Masontown
Cleveland Bank Cashier Surrenders to Police
John Schulte, cashier at the First National Bank of Racine, Wis., gave himself up at Cleveland’s Central Station. A nationwide lookout had been issued. he is charged with taking 15 000 dollars from Racine bank funds. Milwaukee authorities were notified to return him to Racine. Circumstantial reports say speculation and years of market losses led to his downfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pensacola
Fla
Leander A. Shaw
Lillian Davis
Sayyid Muhammed
Mirabeau
Hamadan
Frank T. Wells
Kenosha
Wis
Cambridge
Mass
First National Bank
Frank Litzenberger
Eaton’ Lumber Odingaigy
Eaton, O
Clare L. McNown
Grover Willoughby
Lebanon
Cleveland
Racine
John Schulte
Central Station
Jong
Schulte
Wisconsin
Rowe
First National Bank of
Miilwaukee
Castro’s Move Sparks High Tension With Venezuela
Washington reports that Castro, Venezuela’s boss, has further tightened the crisis by turning away all Dutch consuls. Officials deem the gesture almost an act of war as most trade between the two nations ceases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castro
Venezuela
Washington, D. C
Holland
Manufacturing Firm Seeks City License Test in Ohio
Harry Probasco attorney for the Cincinnati Automobile Club filed an application and payment for a license for the Waltham Mfg Co auto with the secretary of state. A formal protest accompanies the payment as the club prepares a suit in Cincinnati to challenge city licensing authority in addition to state licensing and to test the validity of the state law. The suit is expected to be filed early this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Harry Prebasco
Cincinnati Automobile Club
the Waltham Mfg. Co
Cincinnati
Secretary— Of-State
Probasco
Ohio auditor cites underfunding in state department
Columbus Ohio Auditor Guilbert said Monday night he refused to sign the Hafner Lersch report because he deemed the claims just and believed the adjutant general enforced laws, though his department was cut for funds. He also said the attorney general’s department estimated in advance the cost of legal proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Columbus
Guilbert
Hafner
Lersch
Adjutant General
Altho
Attorney ‘General
Proprietor Bound Over in Jeffersonville Fire Case
Springfield reports C Rex Young, former owner of the restaurant where a Wednesday night fire began, arrested after a preliminary hearing and bound over to the grand jury on an incendiarism charge. Officials say he was seen in the place before the blaze and disappeared until the next day, having renewed his $400 insurance and vacated the rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Rex Young
Jeffersonville
Young
Doctor Denies Charge in Hartville Assault Attempt
Justice J W Richards issued a warrant for the arrest of his cousin Dr Finley B Richards a Uniontown physician of 30 years practice on a charge of attempting to assault Eva A Ray 14 daughter of a farmer near Hartville. Richards 57 and with a family denies the accusation sparking a local sensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton, O
J.W. Richards
Finley B. Richards
Uniontown
Eva A. Ray
Hartville
Patient Jumps Through Window at Mount Carmel Hospital
Mrs. Samuel Gans of Moundsville West Virginia a patient at Mount Carmel hospital for four weeks jumped from the eighth story window escaping a nurse and the rooftop garden. She died within two hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Samuel ‘Gans
Moundsville
W. Va
Mount ‘Carmel Hospital
State Treasury Surplus Report For Ohio Exceeds Five Million
The Ohio state treasury shows a total surplus of 5,767,653 with nearly all in the general revenue fund. Deputy State Auditor Fullington expects the surplus to remain largely intact for the rest of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
General Revenue Fund
Fullington
Prisoners Pay Funeral Expenses for Late Ohio Man
Friends and relatives of James Ryan of Cleveland learned of his death Saturday as a convict in Ensley Alabama mines. He died when a coal car toppled on him. Fellow prisoners, noting his model conduct, voted to cover his funeral expenses from their overtime pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
James Ryan
Cleveland
Ensley
Ala
Ryan
Ex-Banker Ridiculed At Old Home Reunion
At Burton reunion hundreds of former residents ridiculed R N Ford once with Bough ton Ford Co. Bank after a circuit court found him guilty of embezzlement and sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary. He was discharged by the circuit court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Booth
James H. Booth
Roseburg
Thomas E. Singleton
Portland
Ore
S. L. Barr
Webster City
Oklahoma
Bonaparte
Jatter
Chardon, O
Burton
R. N. Ford
Bank of Boughton, Ford & Co
Plunges to His Death in Cleveland Iron Worker Falls
Bert Simpson an iron worker living on Woodland avenue fell 75 feet from a belt line bridge on Marcelline avenue Monday morning. He died from a broken neck at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
Bert Simpson
Woodland Avenue
Marcelline Avenue
Crashed Arm Incident On Detroit Avenue
Cleveland man William Karvorek was riding in a car on Detroit Avenue when his arm, projecting from the window, was crushed by a passing vehicle. He was taken by Saxton's ambulance to St. John's Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starm
Cleveland
William .Karvorek
Detroit Avenue
Saxton’s
St. John’s Hospital
Old Lady Kills Herself in Ohio River Jump
In Canton Ohio 86 year old Mrs Nancy Cable, frail with age, ended her life by leaping from a bridge into the Tuscarawas River near Beach City. She was living with a grandson at the time of the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton, O
Nancy Cable
Tuscarawas River
Beach City
Governor Harris Improves and Plans Return to Duty
Governor Harris is much improved and will proceed to Columbus to resume his official duties. The statement notes visible recovery and forthcoming return to office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eaton
Harris
Columbus
Also Mentioned on This Page
General News
Union—Elevator Co
Racine, Wis
Treasury
Harris Better
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