Insurance Urges Cyclone Weather Coverage
Warning of an approaching cyclone season urges residents to check storm risk and secure insurance. Advertises prompt policies and updated rates to protect homes and property.
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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1905
Page
1
Warning of an approaching cyclone season urges residents to check storm risk and secure insurance. Advertises prompt policies and updated rates to protect homes and property.
A round of scattered items covers accidents crimes and politics. The Puritan is aground at Point Lookout while fires destroy depots and a water plant in Moscow and McKeesport. Roosevelt forms a five member committee on public business methods. Tragic family deaths occur in Wisconsin and New Mexico. Executions mark violent crime in Alabama and Colorado. Tax, court, and railway developments shape public finance and transit. A.wreck near Wile P J and a 21 year old hanged in Peoria. Dramatic cross country train routes promise faster transits.
Secretary Loeb announced at the White House that Washington will host the Washington conference after nations failed to agree on Che Foo or Paris. A plan allows plenipotentiaries to adjourn to cooler northern sites if Washington weather proves uncomfortable. Meanwhile Russian and Japanese commanders will sign the armistice on Manchuria’s plains, paving the way for the talks.
The report lists varied events including three killed and 600 wounded after a clash in Derekigyhaz Hungary, trials for counterfeit silver dollars in Binghamton New York, a home telephone ban by Old German Baptist Brethren, a horse race winner at Sheepshead Bay, a former police captain convicted of extortion, drowning fatalities in the Ohio River near Credulus Kentucky, and memorials and deaths of notable figures. Other notes include strikes in Turkey, royal weddings in Windsor, a Brooklyn stroke death, a Chicago murder-suicide, river suicides, a Gibraltar shell explosion wounded, and local crime summaries plus a 75 pound ore discovery during water works excavation in Montana. The document also mentions legal indictments and coroner notes for a broad set of fatalities.
A lengthy chronicle of calamities and news items including a Khartsisk colliery explosion killing 500, a Cayuga Indiana skyrocket accident fatally injuring a child, Johnston City Illinois fire destroying 40 buildings, a fatal Dan River fishing party shooting, the death of Pascal Pratt in Buffalo, widespread caterpillar damage in Texas, John Paul Jones body voyage by Rear Admiral Sigsbee, Carnegie Steel's new Braddock mill plan, a New York subway boiler explosion injuring many, ice-house destruction at Hartford Wisconsin, wrecks on Western Maryland and Lake Huron, and various criminal, political, and industrial notes from the era.
The Philadelphia Republican City Campaign Committee met to consider a citizens demand to replace the November ticket. A three man sub committee was named to meet a 21 member “committee of twenty one” and urge withdrawal of candidates Sher iff Henry C. Ransley coroner John B Lukens and incumbents Hugh Black and Jacob Whitemore while reform groups plan independent action. Also state officials face calls for Israel W Durham’s removal as insurance commissioner.
Emperor Nicholas received the Moscow and St Petersburg zemstvo delegates at Peterhof. In a direct speech, Prince Troubetzkoy and M Fedoroff outlined Russia's dire state and naval disaster. The emperor expressed regret and pledged to summon a national assembly, urging delegates to assist in this new effort.
The New York Central Twentieth Century Limited completed its Chicago to New York run in 18 hours and 3 minutes on its first trip. The train reached Grand Central at 9:27 a.m. with 42 passengers aboard, many railroad men. In Albany to Hudson 31 miles was covered in 29 minutes at near 70 mph.
Residents report a stifling June day with temperatures rising and crowded streets as many children struggle in the heat. The article notes the strain on families and urban conditions, urging caution and relief measures.
In Cleveland ex banker George F Clewell cashier of the Federal Trust Co faces criminal court on charges tied to a bank embezzlement scheme. Defense argues he drew 10000 from Commercial National Bank and kept 8100 with no intent to defraud the bank. In a separate item Marion L Burlison is stabbed to death at 346 Taylor Street by an unknown assailant who fled after the murder and robbery. Police suspect a traveling criminal with no funds.
Dayton reports a near lynching of Michael Ryan who after a rejected plea to his wife shot her through the lung. Mansfield notes a Butler gas strike where a new Marlon McClellan well may yield 5,000,000 cubic feet daily. The Butler Oil and Gas Co has leased about 60 farms as drilling reached 2700 feet and gas fumes caused a blast.
The eighty first Miami University commencement featured Secretary of War William H Taft as speaker in the campus tent among trees. Hepburn hall was dedicated, Attorney General Ellis spoke, John W Herron portrait unveiled by Gov Herrick, and 24 graduates received degrees. Columbus reports note heavy rain in central Ohio with damage to crops and uprooted trees.
In Sandusky Ohio on Thursday Myrtle B. Goodsite a dressmaker won a breach of promise case against Frank Link with a verdict of 2000 dollars. The trial lasted five minutes for testimony and charge and thirty minutes for the jury to reach its decision. Link had married a Miss Welter.
Cincinnati June 16. Jonathan Dearne a longtime Cincinnati banker and prominent Methodist, died at his Covington home after a long illness. He led the Third National Bank for many years until retiring about a year ago.
In Springfield Ohio on June 20 Mennonites from New Carlisle and nearby areas oppose children’s day programs. A Mennonite Sunday school convention adopted resolutions against the event citing speaking singing and stage influence as undesirable for children.
Finnell Buehler, a prominent Newark businessman, was severely burned in a natural gas explosion that damaged his home yesterday, likely proving fatal. Fire and police investigated the blast and its cause.
W E Smith a Pennsylvania brakeman of Columbus was struck on the head by a passenger train at the station yesterday and killed instantly. The accident occurred during a busy period with officials investigating the scene.
Crowds gathered in Akron on Monday amid a continued run on the Second National Bank that began Saturday. A depositor reported a daughter of a bank official withdrawing funds, sparking rumors of trouble. Also reported, Homer Moody and Harold Camp, both three years old, drowned in a pond near Aque duct street-wide during a bath.
In Cleveland on Saturday the 13 plumbers indicted by the county grand jury for alleged Valentine anti trust violations appeared with attorney W M Boyd in common pleas court. Judge Stone was absent ill. arraignment and trial date could not be set. All defendants posted $500 bond for their appearance.
Orus M Burns a Montpelier banker facing three federal indictments with 21 counts pleaded guilty on one count. Judge Taylor sentenced Burns to seven years in the Ohio penitentiary amid embezzlement misapplication of funds and perjury charges.
Attorney General Ellis files an amended petition in Franklin county circuit court charging the Hocking Valley Railway Co. with controlling coal firms in the Hocking valley and favoring them over competitors in violation of the state anti trust law, seeking to remove the company from its charter.
In Cincinnati parents press for work certificates for children under 14 as school recess begins. State Shop Inspector Morgan faces censure as they cite laws meant to curb child labor and note difficulties obtaining permissible work during vacation.
A 35 000 barrel naphtha tank at Standard Oil refinery was struck by lightning Monday morning. About 33 600 barrels valued at 5 dollars each burned or were pumped out to prevent greater loss. Fire crews saved adjacent property as losses near 200 000 dollars.
Lima June 16 Hon J D Crites ex chair of the democratic state committee states Walter B Richie is not a candidate for any political office despite calls from northwestern Ohio and other regions.
The Western Reserve University held its annual commencement on Thursday in Cleveland. About 160 graduates received diplomas, with Rev Newell Dwight Hillis of New York delivering the address titled The New Scholar and the New Patriotism.
At a Cedar Point banquet in Sandusky Ohio on June 19 Gar. Herrick urged passage of a movement to eradicate professional lobbyists from Ohio's legislative halls. The Ohio Associated Leg plans to push the reform initiative and mobilize support locally.
Representatives from Columbus Lancaster Logan Marion Zanesville Canal Dover Portsmouth Marietta and Newark attended the Knights of St John 1st annual state convention in Newark on Monday. A large class of new lawyers in Columbus passed the summer bar examination, with 177 of 200 applicants successful, the largest percentage in any class. Norwalk 45 applications noted. Columbus appointed judge head.
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