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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
3
A compact digest of world, domestic and foreign items of broad interest. The column surveys latest happenings across regions, flagging notable items from politics, economy and society for quick reading by busy readers.
The American battleship fleet received hospitality in Trinidad with garden parties and races while Rear Admiral Brownson resigns and Commander Winslow is named successor. The president adds 78000 acres to the San Gabriel forest. A Pacific coast defense warning cites risk of landings by foreign forces. A Terre Haute manslaughter case returns a not guilty verdict. Medals planned for Isthmus Panama service members. Senator Newlands protests Taft over mine protection arrangements.
A Grand Trunk passenger train collided with freight trains in fog near Lenox Mehs, killing five crew and five others perished in a house fire in Watertown near Boston. In Smithboro Ill a pistol battle after a depot robbery left one robber shot and Lorento Ill marshal Emory Brown wounded. Camden Point Mo bank robbers pursued and captured. Gypsy king Gus Stanley and eight men jailed in New York over grand larceny allegations amid feuding tribes. Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy to fund a million dollar charitable training center for indigent healers. Maxwell Spencer 26 died on a Burlington train entering Lincoln Neb. Maj William A Mercer resigns as Carlisle Indian Industrial School superintendent. Maj D H Boughton plans a joint maneuver field in Platte county Mo for regional National Guard use. John Chandler Bancroft Davis, longtime U S Supreme Court reporter and former U S minister to Germany, dies in Washington.
Three killed and 17 injured in a collision on the Pennsylvania elevated tracks near Camden. A teen, Mason Burnett, aged 15, dies in a separate incident linked to a science lab at a Greenville high school. A Brooklyn socialite Henry Terry dies by suicide. Fire in Muskogee destroys Whitlow Williams Wholesale Drug stock and building.
A sprawling roundup notes promoters and mining figures jailed for stock fraud in Lost Spanish Bullion Mines case, a St Louis U football loss, a Norfolk riot, a fatal Rail accident near Franklin Pa, a Dutch cabinet resignation, and various other incidents from Florida to Portugal plus a Christmas scene showing resilience amid financial strain. Names include Roosevelt, Mallory, Pike, Hitchcock, and Lopez among others.
Autopsy confirms a brutal killing of Agnes O Keefe in Harrison New Jersey. She was struck twice on the head while unconscious and then shoved headfirst into a shallow Hackensack meadow pool. Clothes were stripped, shoes removed, and the body placed upright in the water as investigators pursue the killer.
Boston reports formal notices served on Trustees McLellan Fernald and Baker controlling Mrs Eddy's estate to block a $1 000 000 gift pending litigation. Ex Senator Chandler says the move, tied to a 1907 deed of trust, violates Eddy's arrangements and may lead to a new suit involving next friends and family.
The battleship fleet led by Connecticut sails from Port of Spain, accompanied by Culgoa and Glacier, in four columns for a 14,000 mile journey to Rio Janeiro. Admiral Evans announced a 12 day trip, aiming to reach Rio on January 10. Local residents and newspapers praise the sailors.
In Bugeeeyedom a broad chronicle moves through many towns detailing notable events and local developments. The collection sketches diverse happenings across the nation with brief notes on people places and happenings of interest.
Columbus December 27. The Jackson township board of education is hard-hearted. They require teachers to work at institutes without pay and prohibit asking for janitor pay. They demand teachers perform duties themselves and force female teachers to marry during term or resign. The action is invalid.
Chardon Ohio December 27 A fourth dividend as a Christmas present was declared to creditors of the defunct Boughton Ford Co bank holding company. The 1 percent payout brings total dividends to 7 percent since the failure. There are 2030 creditors with total liabilities of 1 136 243 dollars. Claims allowed sum to 799 097 dollars and total realized is 63 925 dollars. George H Ford's trial will be taken up next February in the circuit court alongside his brother R N Ford.
Dr Moninger, state smallpox inspector, returned from Akron with news of a Stow township school teacher ill with smallpox yet teaching. The board kept schools open after holidays to catch up, all pupils had been vaccinated and the teacher placed in quarantine.
Columbus Ohio December 28 Three suicides marked Friday's record in the city Samuel Williams 74 despondent over ill health cut his throat with a razor David Roach 50 yard engineer on the Toledo division of the Pennsylvania lines shot himself after an arrest warrant for assault and battery sworn by Curtis Lutman Charles Poland 33 a printer drank carbolic acid in the same period.
Springfield Ohio December 27 pressmen at the Winters Art Lithographing Co were called out in a strike for an eight hour day. Other city printers agreed a month ago to a new day starting April 11. union officials say a tentative agreement was reached with Winters Co. Strikers few in number but highly skilled.
Officials of the Fifth Ohio sub district of United Mine Workers report returns from most districts nationwide with the exception of a few districts and anthracite regions in Pennsylvania. Vice President T L Lewis, a Bridgeport Ohio resident, has a majority of votes for national president to succeed John Mitchell.
Gibsonburg Ohio December 28 George Hinkley former postmaster of Rollersville was ousted from office and J C Fisher appointed following an investigation by Postoffice Inspector Spear of Mansfield. Spear said Hinkley was short nearly $500 in his accounts and bondsmen reportedly covered the deficit.
In Dayton Ohio on December 27 the third blast in as many weeks fatally injured two workers. Alonzo Young was shaking primers when the caps exploded, tearing off his left arm and destroying the battery shop. Andrew Sears suffered severe burns nearby.
Cleveland dispatch reports a five year vendetta ending near Bedford when Radivoje Rakich a 23 year old Tas family member was shot in a gully three miles south of Bedford He was dying at a hospital as a posse searches for four men seen following Rakich from Bedford.
Dayton health officer issues notice making vaccination compulsory for schoolchildren. The move precedes the opening of the next term and aims to curb smallpox in the community.
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