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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1903
Page
1
A mixed digest reports injuries and deaths, job changes, court actions, school openings, and local events. Names include Henry A. Galler, Conrad Heinz, G. A. Schanweker, Elizabeth Allen, Lauzer, Tillie Bowman, Frank Taylor, Ulrich Lauser, and others with incidents such as sprains, fines, deaths, fires, and public notices.
In Orrville a deadly saloon affray Tuesday night left Harry Laubach dead and Max Lees wounded. Eyewitness accounts vary whether Laubach died by own action or foul play. Laubach, 19, from Wooster, had come to Orrville for work with his father James Laubach, a Wooster painter. Lees, 36, a local hotel keeper, faces multiple accusations tied to gambling and alcohol sales. he is hospitalized after being shot in the saloon incident near the Wheeling rail yards. The case shocks the community as investigators seek clarity on motive and sequence of events.
The text recalls a quip about Secretary Joseph Chamberlain and a British officer at Nelson’s death, noting the mate’s joke about whether the admiral is bound for heaven. It reflects wartime sarcasm on leadership and fate.
A Boston Transcript item recounts a little girl with an angelic disposition who fell on a brick walk and bumped her chin. When asked if she was badly hurt, she quivered and replied she ought to be crying in the house, turning misfortune into a child’s playful melodrama.
Coroner's inquest reveals the man found in Warwick reservoir last week is Fred Glassburner about 46. Letters and papers among his effects establish the identity and connect him to Philadelphia relatives including a Miss Lacy Jeemer of 2014 Page, Philadelphia.
A long list of probate filings and hearings in Wayne County details guardianships executors and administrators including Ross W Funck as guardian of Susan Nolin and as administrator of Charles A Rockey estate, inventories appraisements final accounts and sales of real estate, with hearings set for October 2 and 8 and notices like advertised letter list No 35 for Wooster.
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