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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
2
A concise digest highlights assorted happenings from multiple regions. It notes cultural shifts, political tensions, and economic signals shaping distant societies while emphasizing broad trends over specific incidents.
Rev Cyrus Townsend Brady announced at Toledo his resignation from Trinity Episcopal Church to accept a post in Kansas City noting the parish incorporation under state law. Rev Dr Charles H Parkhurst resigns as president of the Prevention of Crime after 17 years. Neeloo Garner won 900 in a breach of promise case against Arthur B Buzzell of Dixon Illinois. Mrs Nancy Murrill acquitted in Jackson Kentucky of murder in a case linked to unwritten law. Richard La Gallienne is hospitalized in New York with double pneumonia and jaundice. Seth T Weld earns second lieutenant rank with Philippine Scouts for bravery in rescuing wounded comrades at Camp Atascadero. Broughton Brandenburg arrested in Dayton Ohio for forgery and grand larceny related to the Cleveland letter.
The Y M C A building in South Bend Indiana, funded by Studebaker Brothers and costing 250000, was dedicated and handed to the association with Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks delivering the principal address. The report bundles multiple global and local incidents from the era including military moves, crime, and sports.
Reported fires span Sugar Island Michigan to Detour area and Gowrie Iowa, with losses including grain elevators in Vincennes Indiana and a gasoline trailway accident injuring several. Prosecutions advance in Louisiana and Texas while international events mark a royal wedding and battleship visit.
In New York City court Morse and Curtis face questions about overdrafts at the National Bank of North America. Witnesses, including ex-directors Gates Morgan O'Brien Schwab Flagier and Havemeyer, deny authorizing the overdraft. W. W. Lee testifies Morse warned him the bank was busted as Curtis spoke with him behind bank doors. Morse overdrawn $211,000. collateral pledged to cover the loan was rejected next day. Nash testified Curtis was told the clearing house would inspect the bank and that Morse’s influence dictated the bank’s fate.
Oscar W. Reid a Black soldier discharged over Brownsville incident sought US Supreme Court advancement arguing the president can discharge a soldier without trial during peacetime before his enlistment ends. The circuit court ruling favored the government. Attorney General Bonaparte did not oppose the request.
R. H. Burchell, 19, of Brooklyn, claims two men kidnapped him in daylight in Brooklyn, took him to Richmond, Virginia and threatened death if he failed to steal. He walked into Washington police headquarters claiming the trip and danger. He says he is the son of a prominent Brooklyn merchant and arrived in the city on foot from Richmond.
Washington D C Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of Franklin D Roosevelts birth. He will not take a day off and remains at his office as on any day. No family celebration is planned though Mrs Roosevelt may host a dinner party as a surprise nonetheless.
Former congressman Allan Langdon McDermott died at his Jersey City home from heart trouble. Born in Boston, he was a prominent Democrat and long associated with New Jersey politics.
The balloon All American landed on Charles Hartman’s Huntsburg township farm after a Canton to Huntsburg flight. Pilot Leo Stevens and two Canton Aero Club members survived the descent. A family reunion followed when Brewe and Mrs Clifford, sisters of the pilot, arrived at the scene.
In Lima Ohio foul play is suspected in the Monday night death of 76 year old O Warren Smith a Prohibition candidate for Allen county judge. He collapsed under the C H D bridge on HLm street after cries for help. He died within minutes and had spent his life aiding temperance and practicing law since 1867.
Max Rivitz of Cleveland was discharged by Judge McGannon after two false pretenses cases. One case came from the state. the other was tried and Rivitz was discharged. Police alleged he collected funds claiming he would confer degrees in a secret society. Rivitz testified the lodge was organized and the money went to the lodge.
John Backich of Youngstown was shot while acting as godfather at his sister Mrs. John Balischi’s baby's christening in Cleveland. The ceremony ended as he collapsed with a bullet wound in his right shoulder. police could not uncover a motive or suspect.
Gov Harris declared at a Warren county rally that failing to carry the county would force him to leave his Preble county farm and duck his head in a rain barrel. Williams H. Miller and Jesse Taylor, congress candidate from the sixth district, spoke to the large audience at the opera house.
Brandenburg Burg appeared in police court on Monday charged as a fugitive from justice. The case was continued by mutual consent and transferred to today. Detective Fitzsimmons of New York attended. Brandenburg plans to return to New York after his dismissal in the local police court.
Columbus scene as C E Davidson of the Star hotel buckles under a pistol threat in the hotel office Monday morning. The robber demanded the safe contents, Davidson yielded forty dollars and the assailant fled into the street, vanishing from sight.
A sudden rise in the New River district due to heavy rainfall allows the movement of over 1,600,000 bushels of Ednawaha coal to Cincinnati. The coal fleet will leave Point Pleasant, with Gallipolis and Louisville resuming their river trips to Cincinnati.
Akron telegram from Los Angeles reports A W Clapper a prominent local businessman died Monday after an accidental shooting. Clapper formerly served as an officer of the National Loan Co. in Akron.
Dr A M Steinfeld, student of J Lorenz, told the Ohio congress of mothers that pacifier use harms breathing and jaw development. He warned that pacifier quieting leads to narrow nasal passages and high arched palates, causing facial deformities and misaligned eyes in many cases.
In Columbus Ohio Nora Humphrey of Bel mott county was to wed Walter Woodward. Weeks before the wedding she eloped with Charles Llewellyn, the best man, abandoning the Woodward match. Mothers heard the tale as the bride’s change of heart unfolded.
Akron O Henry Ortlieb, former catcher for the Akron O and Pleague team, is believed demented and held in Pittsburgh custody after arrest on drunkenness charges. Officials link his condition to an injury from a riot ten years ago when an umbrella rod jabbed his ear.
Ashland county grand jury ended its deliberations without issuing indictments in the Stein murder case. Fourteen witnesses testified in the settings of Mrs. Mary Bayard and Mrs. M. B. Stein of Des Moines charging them with the murder of Miss Hester and M. B. Stein at Loudonville on August 14. The case likely will be dropped.
Plymouth O A bold attempt to burn the home of Marshal John Brockhurst was frustrated by the discovery of blazing kindling at the rear of the house before flames took hold. The fire is believed to have been started by town toughs with a grudge against the officer. An investigation is underway.
In Cleveland Ohio a street scene ended with Dr Maes Di tf Mettrath’s head going through a window. An artery was cut in his neck and he acted quickly placing a hand over the wound until arriving at a hospital where surgeons dressed the cut. The doctor’s cool action saved his life.
Grief over a quarrel with his bride, which erupted the night of their marriage two weeks earlier in Detroit, is believed to have driven S. C. Mayer, traveling man, to kill himself in the Gillsy hotel early Friday morning.
James F. Goodlove, proprietor of a hotel in Upper Sandusky Ohio, indicted for first degree murder in the shooting of Frank McCormick, was arraigned Friday morning and pleaded not guilty. He was too ill to attend without being carried into the courtroom.
Heavy rain on Friday, the first in seven weeks, reduced fire damage in the dry marsh country and marmine region along the Sandusky Bay coast between Sandusky and Fremont. Guards have left their posts.
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