Monument to honor Wooster heroes on Memorial Day 1895
In Wooster the Given Post Grand Army of the Republic will unveil a copper monument on the Wooster Cemetery lot owned by the post. James Mullins and Wa H Mullins of Alem provide the statue, a Corinthian column with an American soldier, atop a brown sandstone base and copper features. The base and shaft are to be completed by late May, with a wooden plinth if needed. The post approved presenting the memorial, with Maj Lemuel Jeffries drafting the resolution, and appointed a committee to confer with Mr Mullins about erection on the Given Post lot.
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Wooster
Given Post
Grand Army of the Republic
James Mullins
Haq
Wa. H. Mullins
Alem
W.H. Mullins
G. A. KR
E.q
Grand Army
Lemuel Jeffries
Samuel Metzler
J. Blake
Col. C. V. Hard
John &. McKinney
Jesse McClellan
West Point Cadet Candidate Examination Announced
Hon A. 8. McClure announces a competitive examination for a conditional West Point cadet appointment. The test will be June 12 1895 at Coshocton Ohio starting 1 pm with medical and mental exams, qualifications include district residency age 17 to 22 literacy and geographic knowledge, fee up to $1. The top candidate may gain conditional nomination with further Army officer exams by March 1896.
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United States Military Academy
West Point
Coshoeton
Ohio
United States
Coshocton
Selec
Board of Examiners
Board of Army Officers
Board of Physicians
Incendiary Fires Reported in South Buckeye Street Area
A Thursday afternoon fire alarm reported two incendiary incidents in the same alley. Sweeney barn on South Buckeye Street was set in a straw pile but detected and extinguished before damage. A second blaze behind Adam Foss’s house on South Ket Street also started in straw on a manure pile and was quickly put out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. J. Sweeney
South Buckeye Street
Sweeney
Adam Foss
Ket Street
Birthday Reception Funds for First Presbyterian Church Organ
A novelty Birthday Reception hosted by the Ladies Aid Society at the Beall home raised about 160 dollars toward the church organ debt. About 600 invited guests attended the afternoon and evening events with music, flowers, and refreshments.
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James Mulliinson Beall
Ladies Aid Society
1St Presbyterian Church
Lunds
The
First Presbyterian Church
James Martins
Wayne County Common Pleas batch lists numerous civil actions
The report catalogs new filings in Wayne County Court of Common Pleas with case numbers and parties, including cognovit actions, divorces, and civil suits. It also notes a 17 May story on local athletic club resignations, cosmetics adulteration probes, and a Cleveland railroad detective shot by his wife.
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Wayne County Court of Common Pleas
August Hartz
John
Susanna Marime
David Moweryva
Anna D Jones
Elizabeth Buckwalter
Louis C. Klein
Elizabeth Bckwalter
H. Plank
H. B. Wasson
W. Lewis
W. W. Garver
Rebecca Otto
Michael Otto
Cordelia van Nimmen
Jacob Huntsberger
Joan Spindler
Jacob E. Wenger
W.A Hoffman & Co
Ve. Belle D
A. B. Ackerman
Samuel Graber
Mellville Bechtel
John Sawers
Edward J. Barrett
The
Wooster Shale Brick Co
Cleveland
George Floyd
Valley Railroad Company
Floyd
Preps Beat High School Boys In Afternoon Tilt
At 4 pm yesterday the High School baseball team faced the Preparatory nine on University grounds. It was the first meeting since fall 1893 marred by charges of partiality and an umpire dispute. About 75 supporters watched as the High School climbed to meet the plucky Preps, with the scoreline ending in a decisive result.
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Ballpine
Are Department
College Hill
Hall
Barne
Gaston
Dortipan i
Kloster i
Wilhelm P
Fon
Stevene Z Lank
Tonings
Wille
Smith
Wilheim
Este
And
Brown
Gascede
H.3
Gant
Fonck
Property Deeds and Local Rail Sleeper Announced in Wooster News
Wayne County records list numerous warranty, administrator and quit claim deeds for properties across Orrville, Smithville, Plain, Greene, Congress, and other townships with prices and lot numbers. The Columbus to Cleveland sleeper schedule debut on May 19 announces a new nightly departure from Columbus Union Station and return from Cleveland each evening.
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Henry Hartman
Elizabeth Boydston
Eunice Iostetter
Orrville
Franklin Frantz
John Cramer
Paint Township
Eli Stevens
Mary A. Coffman
Smithvile
Clare C. Gill
Daniel J. Webster
Plain Township
A. D. Welday
Jacob C. Ue
Milton Township
Henry Myers
Michael Miller
W. F. Derr
Wooster Township
Geo. M. Michael
Charlotte France
John F Hartzell
John J. Rarick
Greene Township
Warrnty
Chas. G. Lutz
Barbara Becker
Marshallville
Aaron Wolf
Marshallvilles
Levi Seil
Warren Ramsey
Elmer Brown
Lydia B. McClarran
Shreve
Peter Fetzer
Laura Leiner
Wooster
Joseph Wein
John C. Rager
Doylestown
John C. Rasor
Catharies Wein
Whitehead
Edward Whitehead
Chippewas Township
John Meier
John Johnston
C. H. McDowell
K. M. McDowall
Josiah Repp
Etta Haker
Congress Township
Joseph C. Shelly
John Sneff
Apple Creek
John McSween
Wm. H. Albright
Rosa Keifer
Chippewa Township
Andrew Donaldson
Otis Youngker
Columbus
Union Station
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Wooster notes and college events in May reports
Wooster University updates include faculty actions, lectures by Judge Martin Welker, promotions in mathematics, and campus events. Highlights cover endowment hopes, grand stand work, Field Day plans for May 24, and a favorable move in the medical and musical departments with a 44-student rise in collegiate attendance to 839 in the collegiate and preparatory sections.
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A. O. Baird
Hamilton
Martin Welker
James A. Boyd
University of Ohi
Matter
G. N. Mateer
Bowman Street
Sigma V1
Ferdinand Schwill
Woostar
University of Chicago
Mateer
O. W. Fritz
Creston
Europe
Abbie Lyon
National Y. M.C. A
Wooster
C. K. Hoyt
Presbyterian Church
Brookfield,mo
Wall's College For Young Ladies
A. C. Myers
General Assembly
Pittsburg
Clease 96
Mildred Packer
R A. Jamieson
EK. A. Beck
Frank March
W. G. Chancelor
Leo Brilles
Nellie Brown
East
Roy B. Hale
Delaware
Jesse McClellan
Scovel
Dayton
Wooster University
Cloitonard
R. M. Donaldson
Toledo
Dora Anderson
Loudonville
Birdie Wallace
Maud Curry
Millersburg
W J. Seelye
Amherst
Mass
J. H. Cooke
M. D
Carlisle
Ohio
Horace
A. L. Mackey
Allegheny United Presbyterian Theological Seminary
C. H. McCastin
Bucyrus
D. J.stewart
Mexico
Presbyterian General Assembly
Westminster Missionary Home
Presbyter
Wooster Univesity
College
Alma
College Class of 95 Faces Growing Missionary Call
The record notes 723 graduates with 605 men and 118 women, ministers and theological students on the path to the shine. Exactly 40 percent of the men graduated, with 26 men and 4 women in foreign missionary work, and 48 professors and instructors in colleges. The class of 95 will sustain the ministerial line and boost missionary effort.
Additional farm test stations for Union Experiment Station
The Union Experiment Station adds three sub stations to study soil types in Ohio. Central Station operates at Ohio State University in Columbus, run by the university’s cultural department. Northwestern at Neapolia in Fulton County covers oak openings soils on 40 acres under a 20 year lease. Northeast at Strongville, Cuyahoga County, on 100 acres with a ten year lease, plans drainage after earlier methods. Each site duplicates main station fertilizer work and conducts some variety testing with two staff per farm. The main station also researches insect and fungus diseases with fruit growers, building on prior work by Wm Miller and others in Gypsum, Ohio.
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Wayne County
Unio Experiment Station
Central
State University At
Columbus
Cultural Department
Theniversity
Tion
Neapolia
Fulton County
Fulton
Henry
Lucas Counties
Western Reserve
Strongville
Cuyahoga County
Wooster
Wm. Miller
Gypsum
Ohio
Marblehead Peninsula
New Men to Be Put to Work in Pittsburgh Mines
Report says 69-cent scale was rescinded, signaling end of the strike. Pittsburgh miners adopt plan to resume at 60 cents a ton, with camps at pits, while operators threaten to bring in new men. Ohio strike may continue briefly as districts set a 9-cent differential fate.
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Prttsburg
Pittsburg
CuLtupis
Natonal
United Mine Workers of America
John O'Connor
Illinois
Ohio
Miners’ Strike Rumors Denied by Railway Officials
Reports of miners’ clashes between Laurelton and Dillonvale led to train stoppages on the Wheeling and Lake Erie line, but Superintendent Stout and other WL&E officials deny the incident, saying discharged workers spread the tale for malicious ends. The account notes official rebuttal and the origin of the rumors.
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Massi Zton, Q
Laurelton
Dillonvale
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
Stout
Wheeling and Lake Erie
State Hears Testimony in Case Against Mrs. Sarah Snell
The State presents its case against Mrs. Sarah Snell as testimony unfolds. The defense may argue she was controlled by Wiggins, suggesting a lack of independent intent or agency in the alleged actions.
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Sarah Snell
Wiggins
Stark County balks at paying Snell case witnesses
At a Tuesday meeting the County Commissioners said they lack authority to advance funds to Canton for witness costs in the Sarah Snell murder case. Stark County officials refuse to issue orders, forcing a question mark on the trial. Many Indiana witnesses are present, and the plan to bring them to Wooster for pay would be burdensome. The Stark case proceeds in Stark Common Pleas with opening for the state and defense, numerous witnesses, and contested evidence. Prosecutors seek to secure funds and continue testimony from Wooster and Canton sources amid reporting from the Canton Repository.
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Stark County
Sarah Snell
Canton
Indiana
Wooster
Stark Common Pleas
Barry W. Harter
New York
Col. A. Wiley
Snell
James A. Mackey
Mackeys
State
Daniel Funek
Mackey
C.C. Adams
Wiggins
the Repository
Ross W. Funck
Marchand
L. R. Critchfeld
Jacop Frick
C. KE. Luce
Associated Press
Wayne County
Brown
Warsaw
Ind
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Anna Hunt
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C. A. McDonald
University
Paul Hickok
U. of W.’vi
Annie P. Shepherd
Annie
Shepherd
Martha McClure
Isaac Johnson
John West
Clara Elizabeth West
Joe Toda
Common Pleas
Dangerous Cosmetics
Columbes
Dairy and Food Commissioner
McNeal
PREPS
Wayne County Records
Florian Schaffter
Alpha Tays
Fresno
Laguna de Tache Ranch
Roy
Willian Crom
Barberton
Crum
Pennsylvania
Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias
Ohio Sunday School Association
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