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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1908
Page
3
Readings show Wheat July 91 September 913 Corn July 78% September 74 Oats July 614 September 483¢. Prices given for per pound choice lard potatoes and other produce with varied cents per unit and barrel pricing. Multiple garbled figures indicate mixed notation and OCR errors in the historical market listing.
Live stock and grain prices from Buffalo show cattle exports and shipments including various cattle categories such as cows, bulls, heifers, and calves with values noted. The record lists hogs and sheep prices, lambs and feeders, along with grain and packing figures, and mentions station and shipping entries with scattered OCR errors.
The Wayne Township Sunday School convention will meet Sunday afternoon and evening July 19 at 2 o'clock in the Madisonburg U B church. All township schools are invited to send delegates. Principal afternoon speakers include Stella Welty on the Apportionment G Gill on the Graded School Rev W A Hevlow will conduct the neution box. Evening speakers include Thel Love on the Primary Class Prof Black on the Adair Class and Prof Ludd on Temperance Lesson. An offering will be taken each session.
Columbus July 14 with the national Prohibition party convention near. Leaders arrive as candidates argue for president including Charles S Scanlon Daniel R Sheen F F Wheeler Alfred Mannierre Joseph P Tracey and others. Vice presidential candidate A Watkins of ado leads a brief field. Strong sentiment favors a concise national platform focused on prohibition.
Report states men engaged in sweeping arrests early Tuesday killed a muskrat on the public square. It is believed the rat came up through a sewer, prompting speculation about the cause and location of the incident.
July 15 notes show Mr and Mrs Hutcison and family and Mrs Remlinger and family from Fittsburg Pa arriving for the summer in Porter's area. Alpha Speck and family from Wooster visited. Misses Gertrude and Ethel Snyder of Wooster visited James touch family. Others traveled to Cleveland Akron Poland and Wooster for visits.
A Vorys, back from Lancaster, returns to Columbus office and says the Republican subcommittee chose Taft for the nomination. He pledges to back both national and state tickets and expects a suitable role in the national campaign. He notes uncertainty about specifics but expects an agreeable arrangement.
July 11 Robber suspects Cleber Leatherman 25 and an accomplice returned to Wadsworth Ohio home to find mother Mrs Levi Leatherman 46 bound gagged and unconscious on the bed The woman revived and said two men entered during the absence of her husband and son overpowered assaulted her They ransacked the house and escaped with about 15 dollars in cash Two suspects are under arrest at Barberton.
A dapper young foreigner using the name Otto Rineker claimed to be an Austrian court. He lodged at a fashionable boarding house and cut a wide swath in Marion society. Funds missing include 55 dollars in currency and three gold watches reported to police by F. O. Tuttle. Wright Declines Politician Absent Prohibition Nomination at Columbus Convention.
Miss Anne Morgan daughter of J Pierpont Morgan has been in Berlin observing German working conditions. She met with Berlin city council representatives to tour municipal laborers' dwellings and will stay in Berlin until Wednesday.
The Glidden tourists started for Philadelphia at 7 o'clock this morning. Seven cars withdrew and one is not yet reported. It is believed to be stalled in the mountains and out of the contest.
Cleveland July 14 city council delayed a special election on the validity of the Cleveland Electric Railway to a municipal transfer to aemca Traction pending state supreme court rulings in two suits by a stockholder seeking to null the lease. In Hamilton a birthday melee left Caspar Mahoski with stab wounds and several men under arrest after a card game escalated into a brutal brawl.
The badly decomposed body of J. A. Mirnaciz, once a schoolteacher in Noble and Monroe counties, was found under bushes near a driving park in Columbus. A torn pocket note suggested he sought aid at the infirmary. He had gone on foot, likely weakness from starvation led to his death while waiting near the park.
Cincinnati Ohio July 14 Governor Harris will address the chamber of commerce on The Revival of Prosperity at an event in the Hotel Linton. Lucien Willain and B W Campbell will meet him at the depot at 11:10 and escort to the luncheon. A 12 member committee will also accompany him. Cleveland Barn Celebrations ordinance bans private Fourth of July displays with firearms or fireworks.
London Ontario July 14 John McKenzie a farmer living one mile west of Summerford was killed by a traction car after returning from London. He allegedly was asleep on the track a short distance from his home.
Edward Schwab a 40 year old shoe merchant in Uhrichsville Ohio died after being overcome by heat and struck by a train on the Panhandle track. His body was cut to pieces and appeared dead when the collision occurred.
Walter Collison of Cambridge fired two shots into his sister-in-law Mrs Bertha Franey claiming she meddled in his family affairs. The incident occurred July 14 and leaves details pending.
Thomas R. Martin once a prominent Washington real estate dealer pleaded guilty to embezzlement and forgery and was sentenced to two years in a state penitentiary in Moundlyville West Virginia. He forged $1500 in promissory notes in a client’s name for his own use or investment.
Dispatches from Panama dated July 14 report Honduran revolutionists abandoning Gracias and Holatuca after hard fighting. The word circulating here says President Zelaya of Nicaragua has joined support for President Devila and the Honduran government against Salvador, with Guatemala described as aiding the revolution.
James Weddell Simpson a New York dentist was mortally wounded near his home in Northport by Mrs Bartley T Horner his mother in law the motive tied to an earlier shooting in which Simpson killed his father in law two years prior He crawled to a house 200 feet away for help as police arrested Horner on $5000 bail and doctors warned he faces slim chances of recovery The sequence includes statements from both sides about unwelcome visits alleged justification and a lingering pattern of domestic turmoil centered on the Horner household and Simpson family involvement
In Smithville on Sunday August 2 the United Brethren Metodist and Lutheran churches sponsor a series of chautauqua services with Dr Lewis Backwalter and Dr M J Keyes among speakers. Abraham Brenneman, former mayor, dies after a fall near his home. funeral Wednesday. Golden wedding postponed due to illness of daughter. Various local residents visit or host relatives. community notices and social events listed.
Mr Brenneman a veteran hardware merchant in the village for many years died suddenly of apoplexy. He was seen to fall near his home and died before help could be summoned. Funeral arrangements will be announced after word from his daughter in Oklahoma.
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