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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
1
W C Scott performs deeds mortgages liens contracts and all legal acts with prompt legible execution in town or country. Full stock of legal blanks always on hand.
An 19th century style roundup mentions Queen Alexandra’s deafness onset, a Norwegian expedition balloon shipment, a French movement for kapooray cultivation, kangaroo tendon use in hospitals, a new UK bill on safe and feathers millinery, Philadelphia pallbearers and mourners' pay, Smithsonian children’s department opening, and Greenland coal found in cliffs used to fuel ships.
A French chef plans a Paris eatery offering concentrated meals. The menu uses tabletlike portions from hors d oeuvres to dessert, all presented in a few square inches. Drinks come in the same compact format so a busy diner can eat quickly and carry meals in his pocket.
In Paris a shop offers a genuine lightning hair cut using a heated wire along the teeth fed by a storage battery. Miss Jessie M. Fry from Idaho runs horses, brands 3-F57, supervises branding, and is noted as a top local rifle shot. A Notting Hill church opens with 400 chairs donated, each with a hat-holding space. A Delaware and Atlantic line fault yields a noisy line and a broken wire, causing linemen to investigate a wet-earth contact near a ditch.
The article reports a conference of top engineers addressing Venice threats from the Adriatic. They signal imminent danger as sea encroachment increases in several crowded areas, urging a plan to protect the city.
A collage notes diverse items from oil investments by Hetty Green to ocean depths, population shifts in Northern China, and a Beatrice traveler from Dallas to New York. It cites rail steel price hikes, Berlin’s benevolence fund, and a vast 1903 transit tunnel forecast while highlighting demographics, commerce, and culture across nations.
Three masked robbers seized the Baltimore and Ohio passenger train near Edgemore and Calumet Heights, dynamited a mail car, and escaped empty handed except for the engineer’s gold watch. The express car held about 50 thousand dollars. no passengers were robbed. Police pursued with dynamite cached by the robbers found along the track.
London August 3 Cape Town correspondent reports Boer strength in Cape Colony at ten to nine thousand rebels, conflicting with official counts of four thousand. Claims plan to hold out six to twelve months south of the Orange River. Kruger interview denounces concentration camp cruelties and predicts British grant of rights with divine support.
New York August reports show favorable weather saving late planted corn and ideal spring wheat harvest in the northwest. Pig iron production reaches a first-half record of 7 674 713 tons, up 32 044 from last year. Corn prices remain volatile with traders covering at a loss. Footwear orders decline in drought regions, yet overall industry remains healthy amid steel strike tensions.
Sharon Pennsylvania August 3. The machinists strike at the National steel works and the Sharon steel plant was settled Friday by William A Shaw Pittsburg business agent for the International Association of Machinists for this district. The terms include a 50 cent daily wage advance and full half pay for evenings, with hours to equal a full week. The company has refused to discharge all non union men currently on layoff.
Springfield Ohio August 3 A Day ton Springfield and Urbana trolley car crashed into a coal car blocked by an open switch near Donnellsville. Fourteen people were seriously injured and one believed dying at Mitchell-Thomas Hospital. Others went home with minor injuries.
Chicago reports a Friday blaze in Hammond Indiana that damaged three plants. The Simplex Railway Appliance Co, the Western Rawhair Manufacturing Co, and the Thane Mounty… were affected with losses around 100000 dollars.
In Juincoin Nebraska on August 3 one produced result ends in a ruin as heavy bombardment stops temporarily. Mr. Wright believes the mortars used were too small to achieve the desired effect.
In Creek, Michigan, a woman found a paper bag with two peaches and a note reading Expressly for Clara. She ate them and suffered spasms. police arrested Farward De Forest on suspicion after he had prior attention to the woman and a quarrel with her.
Descriptions from St. Petersburg through Elizabethgrade detail famine in Russia with widespread destitution. Reports cite starvation, hunger typhus, and families surviving on inadequate rations as government aid and seed distribution reach only distant districts. Elizabethgrade, in the black earth zone, shows soil exhaustion and depopulated rural villages.
Aug 5 Pekin report notes rising unfriendly mood toward foreigners as allied troops depart. Legation defenses near completion include brick walls 15 to 20 feet high, 3 to 4 feet thick with rifle loops. Ministers avoid uniform fortifications. engineers urge stronger works. Maj. Robertson protests defenseless position to Rockhill. response stresses no fortress intention.
Cltago notes that options on dredging properties in the great lokus were moved to January 1 to form a $10,000,000 trust to control business and prices in the territory. Previous options expired August 1 amid questions about consummation. James A. Smith of Cleveland represents the promoters who aim to align principal firms under one head before year’s end.
In Lexington Kentucky the Lexing ton Street Railway Co refused to recommence work last night triggering a walkout. One union faction demanded a specific wage rate of one cent per hour but the company rejected the demand and announced workers who agreed to return by Howarddock p.m. would be kept from resuming at the old scale. The union refused to sign the agreement.
Three young women and one man drowned while bathing at Quepones Pond near Salisbury on a late Sunday afternoon. The group separated from companions, entered deep holes, and despite grabbing Ratcliffe a capable swimmer, all four were pulled under and drowned before help could reach them. Ethel Phillips of Baltonere Jennie White of Vermontburg and GG Ratcliffe of Salisbury identified among victims.
A wagon carrying 800 quarts of explosive near the Timber & Dayton railroad tracks exploded as a wagon driver urged his horses across ahead of a passenger train. Debris struck the train. one passenger died and Mrs Teal was seriously injured as a nearby house was wrecked.
Early Friday morning a duel occurred at Crosby's home in Addyston between Orville Rudisell and Edward Crosby. Crosby was injured from gunfire while Rudisell lay dying, after both men exchanged shots in near total darkness.
Canton Aug 3 Senator Hanna visiting President McKinley says he takes no part in steel strike negotiations. He aims for a settlement supported by the vast majority and describes his visit as social with an accidental meeting with Senator Cullom of Winovis.
Marry Wasson of Cleveland reports the death of Harry C. Mason a notable young attorney who died Thursday in Prescott Arizona from consumption. Mason once served as speaker of the lower house in the general assembly and later acted as attorney for the state fund commission in the Cleveland district. He was an active Republican politician.
Newark August 3 Lines of the Newark Street railway and the Newark and Granville road operated by the same company were halted Friday by a strike. Strikers demand 17 cents per hour for a ten hour day and 25 cents for overtime along with minor demands.
Tiffin on August 3 saw the consolidation of the Tiffin Light and Fuel Co with the Tiffin Electric Light Co and the Tiffin Gas Light Co. The new firm is backed by Toledo and Detroit capitalists who control plants at Delphos New Bremen and Minster.
Spanish War veterans from the Fourth Ohio Regiment met in Columbus on the anniversary of the Battle of Guayama Porto Rico forming a permanent organization. About 450 attended and placed the regimental flags in the governor’s care.
A nitro glycerine fuel used at the Rhody Bros carriage factory in Lima exploded after saturating with chemical fumes. The blast caused severe injuries to several employees and damaged the workshop, with extensive wreckage reported.
David E. Hill, 76, a leading sewer pipe maker, died Monday in Akron. His business interests were absorbed by the American Sewer Pipe Co, of which his son George E. Hill is vice president.
Circleville branch of the American Strawboard Co faced a strike by finishers and backtenders yesterday. Plant officials fear the ongoing walkout may lead to the plant's closure.
Columbus reports that Cresseus and Thebbot will race over the Brighton Beach track on August 13. PhiganneLne cement was produced here after W L Marks, manager of The Abbot, observed The Abbot work mile in 2011.
The employer of the Warren boiler works has agreed to a straight nine hour day with ten hours' pay. Workers have been on ten hour days except Saturdays when they worked four hours. The demand will be met.
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