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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
2
Roosevelt seeks farm reform guidance for Congress
President Roosevelt plans to send a message to Congress next year on rural reform after asking five experts to study sanitary economic and social farm conditions in America. The vice news lists other diverse items including Thaw bankruptcy Taft horse show and Brownsville remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
America
Congress
Country Life
Harry _K. Thaw
Pittsburg
Thaw
Taft
Greenbriar County
White Sulphur Spring
Ted
Green
Brownsville
Persia
William F. Vilas
Wisconsin
Moses C. Wetmore
St. Louis
Finance Paign
San Francisco
Frederick Dorr
Count Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Mayence
Robert Eastman
New York
Chicago
Fallieres
Paris
Amanda Murphy
Lima
Notable Tragedies and Crimes Across the Nation
Reports from Ohio Illinois Alabama Massachusetts New York Georgia Kentucky describe fatal car crashes police killings and assaults. Incidents include a pastor and merchant killed in Ohio an embankment plunge. miners firing on a train in Alabama. officers beaten to death in Massachusetts. a Brooklyn shooting killing a woman and injuring a baby. a lynching in Georgia. and a fire in New York City killing several children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Vahey
St. Columbkill’s Church
Cleveland
Charles W. Pohlmann
Sylvania
Blocton
Ala
Birmingham
Kentucky
Bracken—county
Bertha Hood
Brooklyn
Ernest Seitz
Maggie
May
Geman
Freya
Halifax Harbor
Erick, McCartheran
New York
Charlie Lokle
Tifton
Pillsbury-Washburn Flour Mills Company
Minneapolis
Cleveland Brown
Oseane, Ky
Fiona Belvying
Deportation of Mrs Wardwell questioned by federal review
Washington alerted Arizona officials that no law permits deporting Mrs Wardwell the leper to Molokai and she may be isolated near Tombstone with her husband an action likely to be pursued under quarantine powers.
Explosion at York rolling mill kills eight workers
Eight men died and nearly twenty injured as a boiler exploded at the York rolling mill late Monday afternoon. The blast wrecked the plant and damaged nearby railroad property while rescue teams and ambulances rushed to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
John Clancy
Benjamin Bremer
Harry Seachrist
Paoli Puel
Alfred Struck
Stossman
Harry Feger
Columbia
Edward Fitler
Marietta
York Hospital
Broomal, Schmidt & Steacy Co
Five Die In Western Ohio Collision Near Sidney
A head on crash between two Western Ohio limited cars between Sidney and Piqua at 6 30 PM killed five people and injured 23. Victims include motorman William Baley and passengers William McClelland George Robinson and an unidentified Detroit man. Relatives and officials rushed to the Shelby county infirmary as doctors treated the wounded from the wreck site viewed as the worst in years. a misread orders caused the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Ohio
Sidney
Piqua
William Baley
William McClelland
Lockington
James Kohl
Detroit
Mich George Robinson
O. Co
W. Hummelhouse
Shelby County Infirmary
Bailey
Hughes Targets Saratoga Sheriff Over Gambling Allegations
Copies of charges of alleged neglect of duty for failure to suppress gambling at Saratoga Springs were served on Sheriff John Bradley of Saratoga County. The charges, filed Monday night with Gov. Hughes by Dr. Walter Laidlaw, chairman of the anti race track gambling campaign, naming offices in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
Saratoga
N. Y
Saratoga Springs
John Bradley
Saratoga County
Ber Smith
Interurban road plan connects major Ohio cities
Readers in many towns learn of a proposed eight month completion of interurban roads tying Columbus Cleveland and Cincinnati with Pittsburgh and linking the Ohio valley to Pomeroy. Northern Ohio capital plans a Bellaire to Zanesville line to complete Pittsburg to Ohio city linkage. A D Demaio of New York aims to close gaps along the valley soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsville
Columbus
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Ohio Valley
Pomeroy
Ohio
Bellaire
Zanesville
Ohio Cities
A. D. Demaio
New York
Great Military Shooting Match Opens at Camp Perry
The so called greatest military shooting tournament began Monday at Camp Perry on the Ohio range near Port Clinton. contestants from all states Hawaii and the Philippines joined hundreds on the grounds. Ohio teams from Troop A Cleveland Troop B Columbus and from the Second Third Seventh and Eighth regiments took up firing as Ohio national guard lined the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky
Ohio
Camp—Perry
Port_Clinton
Union
Hawaii
Philippines
Cleveland
Columbus
Ohio National Guard
Auto Explodes Near Painesville Killing Two Women
Two miles south of Painesville Ohio an automobile explosion killed Mrs Mary Raddon 65 and Mrs Rose Beckwith 43 of Windsor Ohio. Husband Fred Beckwith 48 was fatally injured and Bessie Beckwith 16 badly bruised. Beckwith a Windsor sawmill proprietor was driving an old steam machine downhill at Stickney Hill when the crash occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painesville
Here
Mary Rawdon
Rose Beckwith
Windsor
Fred Beckwith
Rose—Beckwith
Bessie Beckwith
Beckwith
Stickney Hill
Switzer seeks writ to force Gallia ballot certification
On Monday R M Switzer of Gallipolis filed in the Ohio supreme court a petition for a mandamus to compel the Gallia county board of elections to certify the Republican ticket put forward by the Switzer chaired county committee. The board meanwhile recognizes a rival committee led by Sherman Eagle and declined to accept the Switzer ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
R. M. Switzer
Gallipolis
Supreme Court
Gallia County
Brokers Face Grand Jury Jurisdiction Ruling
Federal grand jury in Chicago lacked jurisdiction to indict George H. Stapely and John A. Payne over misuse of mails tied to the commission brokerage business of insolvent firm. Judge Thompson denied the motion to transfer the case to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Chicago
George H. Stapely
John A. Payne
Thompson
Gayman v Ohio on error to circuit court filed in Supreme Court
The case questions the validity of the Cincinnati legislative investigating committee. Filed in the Ohio Supreme Court Monday on error to Hamilton County Circuit Court. Senator B. S. Gayman of Franklin County sues the state with H. S. Rulison as prosecutor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Cincinnati Legislative Investigating Committee
Supreme Court
Hamilton County
B. S. Gayman
Franklin County
State of Ohio
H. S. Rulison
Distillers Seek Injunction Over Imitation Whisky Branding
Six Cincinnati distillers filed a federal suit Monday seeking a temporary injunction against Internal Revenue Collector Bettman and agents to halt enforcement of an order branding whisky made from distilled spirits as imitation whisky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Internal Revenue
Bettman
Few Candidates for Ministry Said at Steubenville Sermon
Rev. Jesse Johnston of Xenia seminary warned that Allegheny and Xenia seminaries will not supply enough candidates for the United Presbyterian church this year to match expected losses by death. The remark was made during his sermon at the local United Presbyterian church in Steubenville, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steubenville
Allegheny
Xenia
United Presbyterian Church
Jesse Johnston
Xenia Seminary
Editors to Confer on Ohio Campaign Plans
Chairman Finley of the Democratic state executive committee calls a meeting of Democratic editors of Ohio next Monday to consult on campaign plans. The state committee meets Thursday to decide on a date and place for the campaign opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galis
Columbus
Finley
Democratic
Ohio
Animals Used to Test Drugs Revealed in Los Angeles Times Account
A Los Angeles Times excerpt describes a chemical plantyard where animals are used for drug testing. Chickens test Hrgotine by color change, dogs test Hasheesh for effects, and frogs help study Digitalis heart impact. Some chemists admit self experimentation risks and fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles Times
Fire-grampus and the Tongue of a Whale
The captain praises the grampus as a formidable sea predator. A crewman describes how grampus pods hunt bowhead whales, overpowering them and biting into the whales tongues through the lower lip as the whale dies slowly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grampus
Iron dollars dazzle at Denver Democratic event
For eastern visitors at the Denver Democratic convention silver coins dominated commerce. A Tammany man paid with a $1,000 bill and received 999 silver dollars and a 20 cent piece as change, after a porter retrieved the coins from the stockroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Tom
Market snapshot with mixed price fixes and notes
New York markets report steady government hands and varied grain and livestock prices. Money on call at 1 percent. sterling at 34.84.90 for demand. Wheat No 2 red at 1.00. corn No 2 at 87. oats 56c. hay steady. Hog and lamb figures appear incomplete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sterling Exchange
Grain and livestock prices from multiple markets dated Aug 11
Market summaries list prices for wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes and hay across Cleveland Chicago Toledo Buffalo and Pittsburgh. Includes cattle hogs sheep and lambs with ranges for best steers heifers calves and total hog values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Minnesota
York State
Chicago
East Buffalo
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