Strikers Rout Railway Police in New Jersey Yard
Two hundred striking coal handlers mainly of Italian and Polish origin attacked railway detectives in the New York Susquehanna & Western yard at East Newark New Jersey. The assault killed two detectives Captain Craw and Clarence Mallory and wounded nine others. The strikers demanded 25 cents an hour vs 20 cents. Detectives and deputies fought back as a ferryboat sighted a crowd and the yard was flooded with buckshot and gunfire.
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New York
Etrentuer
N. J
New York, Susquehanna & Western
Palisades
Andrew J. Craw
Elmira
N. Y
Elo
Clarence Mallory
Binghamton
Marty
Farrington
Edgewater Police
Captain Craw
Surikers
Con
Sherif Conklin
Bergen County
Poultry and Sutter Parcels Said to Face Transport Rules
Philadelphia December 12 Postmaster Thomas B. Smith travels to Washington to determine if chickens, turkeys, butter and eggs may be moved under new parcel post regulations. The report notes a value of £668 in parcels and questions how shipments will be treated under the changes.
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Philadelphia
Post
Thomas B. Smith
Washington
Monopoly 15 Charged Against a Railroad
Washington reports that a house rules committee may urge an inquiry into the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad monopoly in New England. The O'Shaughnessy resolution seeks a special committee to probe transport conditions and alleged talks with Grand Trunk about a restraint of trade. A Dayton man, John Balake, 46, was crushed to death by a J K McIntyre Co auto truck after smoke from a locomotive obscured the driver’s vision.
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Washington
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
New England
House Committee On Rules
O’shaughnessy
House
New
England
New Haven
Grand Trunk
Dayton
John Balake
J. K. McIntyre Company
Infantile paralysis fading in Ohio as quarantines take hold
Columbus Ohio reports a sharp drop in infantile paralysis cases over the last 30 days with only three deaths amid 800 to 600 cases for the season. State health board quarantines faced opposition from country doctors who argued the disease was not contagious.
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Columbus
State Board of Health
Children and policy shop crackdown in boroughs
Miss Grace Strachan leads a patrol against policy shops as police round up shopkeepers who lure children to gamble with money meant for candy and toys. The report mentions John and his wife Lone held for examination and references a family tree boast.
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Grace Strachan
Interborough Teachers’ Association
John
Hin
Lone
Governors Action Aims at Test Suit on Appellate Court
Columbus December 1 Governor Harmon directs Secretary of State Graves to withhold commissions of circuit judges elect to determine if they may serve on the new appellate court. The move seeks to bring a test suit to settle whether no judges can serve on the court until legality is resolved.
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Columbus
Harmon
Graves
The Fatal Folding Bed
Four year old Frank Jones died by smothering in a folding bed in Cleveland. His parents left him asleep and later the mother discovered the tragedy after rising.
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Cleveland
Frank Jones
Local Notices and Health Ad for Bucklen Arnica Salve
Zion and Brandon visits noted with relatives and a child fracture in need of reduction. An advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve for eczema blotches pimples and skin ailments with a 25 cent price at G R Baker and Co.
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G. R. Baker and Co
Baptist Church Notes and Winter Entertainment
Brandon and Homer churches list Sunday services with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and sermons at 11 a.m. Salvation topics include Un nate Life-boats. A Bean bake and entertainment follows at Brandon P U on Friday December 13 at 4 p.m. Admission 10 cents lunch free. Mrs. Leslie Carter to tour small towns performing Zena Camille and The Seventh Mrs Tanqueray in repertory.
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Leslie Carter
Wmaller
Zena
Camille
Tanqueray
Train Crew Held Up Near Police Station
Bandits armed with withdrawn revolvers halted a switch crew by the police station. They forced the engineer to detach and move the locomotive to a distant yard area while five men looted freight cars stealing merchandise valued at $1,000.
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Toledo
Creare
Dynamite blast kills Alexander Paschal in Marion
Alexander Paschal, 22, died after a dynamite charge exploded prematurely while being prepared for a blast in Marion Ohio. The incident occurred on December 12 and Paschal died hours later at a focal hospital.
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Marion
Alexander Paschal
Focal
Burkholder Gallery Robbed of Kodaks and Supplies
The Burkholder photograph gallery on North Main Street was robbed Monday night of about 125 dollars worth of kodaks films and supplies. Money was not taken from the cash register. entry may have been through a back window while Burkholder was away.
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Mansfeld News
Burkholder
North Main Street
Fulton to Assume Judge Duties February Ninth
The 1907 report states Common Pleas Judge elect Thomas B. Fulton will take office February 9. Governor Harmon’s commissions set a twenty day window to qualify, and Fulton has done so. Local bar members noted differing retirements and served terms affecting the start date.
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Common Pleas
Thomas B. Fulton
Harmon
Felton
Patton
Seward
Protest on Race Death by Own Action in Pittsburg
A December gathering at St. Paul cathedral drew about 1,000 Dables with mothers to protest infant death by self-harm. Priests led prayers urging parents to fulfill duties toward God and proper upbringing of children.
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Pittsburg
St. Paul
Ohio Miners for White Lead Eastern Ohio Subdistrict Result
Incomplete returns from the United Mine Workers election show 17 000 miners in eastern Ohio subdistrict favoring Joseph P White for international president. William Green of Coshocton carries the subdistrict three to one for international secretary treasurer.
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Clairsville, O
Dee
United Mine Workers of America
Eastern Ohio
Joseph P. White
Lows
William Green
Coshocton
Ohio Senate
International
Bride Threatened as Burglars Force Husband to Yield Savings
In Cleveland on Dec 12 two masked gunmen entered Jacob Boncha’s home and, threatening his bride of one year, forced him to surrender $220 saved to pay an aunt in Denver who had arranged his business.
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Cleveland
Jacob Boncha
Boncha
Denver
Allen’s relative to serve lengthy prison terms in Virginia
Wytheville Virginia December 12 Thirty five years in the penitentiary is the March Allen's nephew Wesley Ed wards will spend 27 years in the penitentiary.
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Wytheville
Allen
Wesley Edwards
Governor appoints new board of woman visitors
Governor Harmon named new members to the state charitable and penal institutions board. New appointees include Mrs Maude Murray Miller of Columbus and Mrs Jeannette Opes of New Philadelphia, Mrs Fan Fonewater of Cleveland, Mrs Kite Pangle Strain of London, Miss Planehe Virnes of Canton, and Mrs Mary Proctor Wilson of Lebanon, with ten others reapplied.
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Columbus
Harmon
Board of Woman Visitors
Pensi
Mra Maude
Murray Miller
Jeannette Opes
New Philadelphia
An Fonewater
Cleveland
Kite Pangle Strain
London
Planehe Virnes
Canton
Mary Proctor Wilson
Lebanon
2Iller
Mra
Opce
Reap Tele
Farmers receive price bids from Pure Milk Co Columbus
Pure Milk Co Columbus offers two cents over Elgin for separator cream and five cents over Elgin for inspected sweet cream. For particulars write F. C. B. Columbus.
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Pure Milk Co
Columbus
Elgin
F. C. B. Columbus
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