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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1908
Page
2
Information gathered from quarters of the civilized world and the busy scene reports varied happenings abroad. The item blends brief notes on politics commerce and culture from multiple nations with a continental snapshot of weekly developments.
Chairman Mack of the Democratic national committee accuses George R. Sheldon of ties to trusts and signals he will go after W. M. Cromwell on the same grounds. Eaward Townsend of Monslair is nominated for Congress in New Jersey's Seventh district. Taft spoke in Lincoln, Bryan wrapped up a three week tour with a large Creston meeting.
Thomas W Lawson was badly injured after being thrown from a carriage near North Scituate Massachusetts. W K Hicks a Minneapolis school secretary faces graft charges. Rev Michael Tierney bishop of Connecticut suffers apoplexy. Lt Frank T Evans son of Admiral Evans to be court martialed in Manila for absence and misconduct. James W Quillan Ipava Illinois indicted for insolvent bank deposits. Nat Goodwin divorces Maxine Ellett in Reno. Dr Alexander Mann elected bishop in Washington. W D Ryan resigns as UMWA official to join arbitration in the Southwest. Theodore Roosevelt Jr begins as office clerk at Hartford Carpet. later to Wool sorting. Yancey Carter Georgia gubernatorial candidate indicted for concealed weapons. Sir George Truscott elected lord mayor of London.
War in eastern Europe seemed certain as Bulgaria vowed independence from Turkey and Austria moved to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina. Philadelphia began Founders Week marking 225 years since William Penn founded the city. A Tarentum gas plant explosion caused $500000 in fire losses and 800 job layoffs. Automobile accidents claimed several lives including Dick Brink and Charles Weisbeck er. St Louis warehouse fire caused $150000 loss. A Hickman mob killed a man and two children and wounded three others. Mormon members in Salt Lake pledged support for prohibition.
A fire in a New York tenement killed eight. a bear killed a baby in Tucson, Arizona. Canadian machinists strike ends. Dr. Robert Koch questioned on tuberculosis origins. several deaths including Rev. Daniel Zanden and Col. J. C. Marcy. Manila river naval actions and cholera. fires destroying Crest hall and Oceanview in Massachusetts. immigration corruption in California. various crimes, robberies, and accidents across cities. political and civic events noted with dates and places.
London reports assert Bulgaria’s czar is acknowledged as ruler over all Bulgarians in the near east, triggering speculation of a new European congress to address the Berlin treaty. Austria-Hungary and Germany are seen backing shifts as Britain seeks to enforce treaty provisions while avoiding war.
Harvard students aboard the Mayflower search for a sunken Spanish galleon off Kingston Jamaica. Jamaican syndicate divers had an earlier expedition toward the wreck, which broke apart years ago, yielding some gold pieces but no great treasure.
A deadly blaze in a Mulberry Street rooker y tenement killed eleven people and left several fatally burned and six seriously injured. Inmates fled to the furnace like stairs as the sole exit burned, with six infants thrown to police and firefighters below.
Perry county voted to banish saloons by 1027 with 56 in New Lexington going dry. Brown county along the Ohio river followed, Georgetown going dry by 86. 23 saloons remain. Nineteen counties have now held elections under the Rose law, totaling 482 saloons affected.
Bandits blew a safe at Joseph Blee’s wholesale metal and rubber store at 2236 to 2242 Woodland Avenue early Friday. Entry was gained by forcing the back door, a hole drilled in the safe, and nitro glycerin poured inside. Amount secured was small.
A Cleveland home described as the worst in the city lacked chairs dishes or floor coverings. A sick mother seven children and a lazy father were noted. The father refused to work and received a one year workhouse sentence. The 12-year old daughter ran the household.
Cleveland Ohio reports that John J. Stanley as vice president of the Cleveland railway filed suit Friday against the Municipal Co for 220,134 dollars plus 8 percent interest from October 1, seeking recovery of quarterly rent. The traction lease imposes a penalty for late payment, with collection only through legal action.
Spanish Queen won Wednesday s Buckeye stake then Friday s Bankers and Brokers stake. Six horses shared the money with Spanish Queen receiving 4000 dollars Carlokin 2000 Aquin 1200 Dewitt 1100 Genteel H 900 and Nahma 800. Mary Laidley won the 2 15 pace and Harry L. the 2 07 pace.
Loren Green, charged with housebreaking, is bound over to the criminal court on a $1,000 bond by Judge McGannon Friday. He is held for the theft of 11 automobile tires valued at $850 from the Diamond Rubber Co. A watch chain found in the store was identified by a sister as owned by the prisoner.
Casualty list from Thursday night blaze at the R. H. Knox ten cent store includes Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Reilly and Fire Captain Charles Vaughan. Their bodies were recovered from the ruins Friday as the building collapsed entirely. The loss is pegged at about 150000 dollars.
Louis Neff begins a search on property owned by his mother in Rogersville to locate supposed hidden treasure buried by Christian Kessler, a former occupant and cooper, who reportedly left his entire savings there before his death.
Governor Harris accompanied by Hon. F. W. Treadway and Representative Kennedy led a Stark county Republican delegation from Canton on a 100 mile plus campaign itinerary. The strenuous day covered multiple stops as they urged support.
Cincinnati records a first day total of 35,884 registrations, over 5,000 fewer than the 1904 figure, signaling weaker turnout in this initial period.
Assistant Attorney General Miller rules there is no overall money limit for bank loans to firms or individuals. If the 20 percent cap is exceeded, security must be valued at 60 percent for an improved farm or public bonds. The opinion targets the State Bank Examiner B. B. Seymour and the commercial banking rule.
The Columbus dispatch reports that 2500 dollars appropriated by the legislature to the state livestock commission to fight bovine tuberculosis is unavailable. Resolution 100 outlined spending, but the money died with the legislature and remains unreleased.
A Dayton family suffered severe injuries after a gas leak ignited when a match was struck in the Wagner home on Monday. Ray Harshman, 3, died instantly. Eliza Wagner and daughter Viola, 12, were burned and are dying in hospital. Dalla Harshman, 21, and Ed Hilliard, 58, are seriously injured but expected to recover. The blast hurled Mrs. Wagner and Viola into the street.
Secretary Horix of the Personal Liberty League says 60 of Ohio's 88 counties will go dry under county option. He warns the Anti Saloon League will seek congressional district option to drive saloons from cities by rural votes and will press onward if unchecked.
Assistant Attorney General Miller in an opinion by Secretary of State Thompson holds that all election registrars in every registration city receive five dollars daily for services regardless of city population. An effort to limit pay in smaller cities failed and they win the higher pay like larger cities.
Columbus reports the wets won their first victory in Ohio county option contests, carrying Defiance County by 801 votes and saving 24 saloons. Temperance forces were defeated three to one in Defiance city and won townships by a slim margin.
In Steubenville Ohio Daniel Murphy aged 15 died after being accidentally shot in the chest by Will Otto aged 14 during a Sunday hunting trip. The second shooting death since the fall season opened is confirmed with Murphy dying on Monday.
Nellie Stanacune aged 8 months serves Monday the ninth day of imprisonment in Cleveland city workhouse. She is the youngest prisoner to serve so long there, sharing the facility with her 20 year old mother. They have several days remaining of their sentence.
The Republican national campaign opened September 6 in Youngstown and will close November 2 with a large rally where Taft will speak. The announcement that Taft would close the campus here came Sunday from Kansas City.
Thomas Morrison, a Cincinnati millionaire packer and trustee of the Cincinnati Southern railway, collapsed and died Monday as he attempted to call a meeting to elect new directors of the Sprig Grove Cemetery association, of which he was a principal.
L. S. Jacobson 24 begins from Tia Juana Mexico to Boston riding a bicycle. He covers more than 3000 miles in under five months and plans to reach Boston around October 15. He intends to write a book about his travels.
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