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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
2
Investigators reveal widespread corruption in Pittsburg city politics as councilmen allegedly took payoffs to steer ordinances. Bankers and officials testify to a scheme involving tens of thousands of dollars funneled through council members and a private detective recording meetings to document the bribe process.
Columbus December 24 Independent glass manufacturers uphold September wage scale and refuse concessions. About 12,000 workers will stay idle until agreements are met while 7,500 skilled laborers demand 25 to 40 percent raises. 4,500 more depend on continued work. plants will close until return at old scale. Meanwhile Col Zimerman orders muster out of Company B, Lorain, Fifth Regiment C N G. Elyria to muster in a new company January 7.
In New York December 1944 Princeton beat the Mpa round and carried off honors in the seventeenth annual tournament where Columbia Yale and Harvard competed for top honors.
Demarest defeats Conklin in a handicap billiard match held on December 24, awarding a prize of $100 amid a series of games. Fred Conklin competed with Calvio Demarest in a brisk contest that highlighted skill and sportsmanship.
Columbus Ohio December 24 Congress man Burton proposed that he and other senatorial candidates appear before the legislature to state their attitude on public questions. The move aimed to counter Taft who urged Republicans to nominate within their caucus. Taft denied knowledge of any alliance with Senator Dick. Republican leader Brown met Burton to press caucus influence. Harry Daugherty said he would not run. Foraker and Taft returned to Cincinnati. Burton to Cleveland Thursday.
John A Heany of York Pa was acquitted on conspiracy charges in a patent office scandal case involving manipulation of patent specifications for an electric light invention. Attorney H B Boarding of Philadelphia Pa was convicted, with Everding recommended for mercy. Indictment covered six forgery counts and records destruction, potential 70 year sentence. Ned W assistants in the patent office faced three year term after confession.
A Toledo jury after 12 hours found 17 year old Harvey Hazel guilty of murder in the second degree for killing his mother. The verdict means life imprisonment with possible pardon or parole. trial began November 30 with defense claiming adolescent insanity and no clear premeditation.
A Chicago tragedy dated December 24 involves Pearl Locke, three years old, who found an old revolver and told his mother to shoot. The mother pulled the trigger, fatally wounding the child.
James J. Jeffries cabled Australia challenging the winner of the Burns Johnson bout for a fight in Los Angeles. The message states the prize is a world title and aims to secure a match with the victorious fighter from the Burns Johnson contest.
The state moves to adjourn after closing its case. Warren Morris testified he rode with Night Rider members and helped hold horses the night Captain Quentin Ranken was killed. Defense plans to prove alibis for eight defendants, with families claiming they were in bed October 19, while prosecutors focus on the murder narrative.
In a late December court session, prosecutors highlighted a June letter from Thornton Hains describing publisher William Annis as a rasen and scoundrel. The letter may open the door for evidence about Capt. Hains life with Mrs. Claudia Hains and the couple’s estrangement leading to Annis’s death. Police testimony included Hains’s remark about going to hell to get Annis. Separately, a health quarantine update notes modified federal limits on foot and mouth disease for Michigan and Maryland as infection remains localized.
In Columbus Ohio on December 24 the issue of timely state report printing is raised as a recurring problem. The state highway department’s 1908 report nears distribution while the 1907 report has only just arrived from the bindery, highlighting delays and the risk of outdated information. Peter Claudianes was sentenced to life imprisonment in Oakland California after a speedy eight minute jury verdict for dynamiting the home of a San Francisco bribery witness. He waived appeal.
Reports from Columbus outline schedules for state agriculture society gatherings in January and July, with major groups including the American Delaine Mervin Regard Association and Ohio Jersey Cattle Club among those attending the events at the state board of agriculture. The note also covers a liquor licensing amendment movement, a Supreme Court decision affirming a Cleveland courthouse bond issue, a tax on railroad purchases, and a damaging fire in Lima that destroyed a livery barn and several buildings with thirty horses killed.
State Examiner Mahaffey reported on December 24 to the state accounting bureau that Harrison county officials drew 2533 in legal fees. Sheriff Martin led the group with 557 mainly from unclaimed funds, while county commissioners and deputy election supervisors also faced charges. Commissioner H. TH. Finnieal took 4.
Ohio report notes Dr A J Crawford of Athens not in the contest for speaker. Granville W Mooney of Austabula and Noah J Dever of Seloto lead the field. A dynamite accident in Akron kills William McCloud, a Wayne County firmer, as Otterbein University and Lebanon Valley College figures move in news.
Bertha Leeder, 41, was burned to death in her Bogarts area residence on Wednesday night. The fire originated in an unknown manner, destroying the house where she lived alone.
Lima Ohio reports J Cary Winann chief of staff to the National G A R returns from Salt Lake City where a conference of the executive committee with Nevins Cole May L 8 and others suggests the next national encampment will be in Cincinnati or Pittsburgh instead of Salt Lake City. The change follows the Traffic association retreat from a one cent mile rate and the encampment dates are tentatively set for August 9 to 14.
An 1890s advertisement touts Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablet as a cure, claiming the stomach’s digestion affects the intestines and blood. samples offered by mail from F A Stuart Co. The text shifts to Wednesday’s trial of Beach Hargis for murder of his father, former Judge James Hargis, in Kentucky, with defense objections over drafting instructions and possible jury deliberation late Thursday.
On December 24 in Worchewater Massachusetts Frank de and Jonen aged 16, whose body was found on the lee on Lake Quin Hgamond Tuesday, was shot by Ralph Krantz. Krantz confessed to the murder in a signed statement. A separate report from Helena Montana notes a thief stole a tray of diamonds valued at $10,000 from Jacquemin's jewelry store Wednesday night. The robber fled toward the countryside after the robbery.
George T. Frank hauser alias Frank Hauser, believed to be the bandit who with a companion robbed the Oriental limited train on the Grant Phiall railroad near Rondo Iowa on September 19 1907 of about 1000 dollars. He is under arrest at Moorhour Minnesota. Rewards totaling 13000 dollars had been offered for his capture and conviction.
Herbert Ww. Tiers a real estate broker and former bank clerk was sentenced by US Judge Young to five years in the penitentiary. The decision came in Pittsburg on December 24. In Philadelphia on December 26 William Jennings Bryan spoke at a business school commencement on the theme Business Integrity.
Fragmentary report describes Jahots firing in the air and a state department action. The passage notes President Gomex atfll Umid and that soldiers were shut up with police instructions given. It mentions Castro and a risk to college boys, with a distant town departure and unspecified events.
Fragmentary notes recount a Venezuela incident where Roosevelt and Castro figure in a clash over Monroe doctrine claims. The piece describes Bowen at Caracas, Venezuelan monopolies, and foreign ships at the doorstep while Roosevelt seeks to curb Castro. It hints at elections, spankings, and disputed cash steadily tied to foreign powers.
An irregular poem fragment recalls a friend named Trouble and a better friend beyond kindness. The speaker reflects on communal solace fading and inner tenderness that outlasts crowding amends, suggesting deeper bonds amid memory and loss.
Fragmentary readable text mentions numbers and identifiers with unclear context. No clear event or entities identified.
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