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LEASED WIRE The Daily Times receives complete United Press leased wire news service every day. THE WEATHER For Ohio: Rain tonight and Tuesday; cooler Tuesday. Volume XVII. Number 178. Paaes.

New Philadelphia, Ohio, Monday, October 2.7. 11)20. 8 Pages. Two Cents. WIFE IS FATALLY Mrs.

Edward C. Seikel, Dover, Dios in Arms 5 Minutes After Accident Leading Lobbyist of Party MR. SEIKEL AND CHILDREN UNINJURED Accident Occurs Near Drcsden--Macbine and Occupants Land in Shallow Creek On the 11th birthday of her (laugh-' face of the water. Mr Seikel saved ter, Angeline, Mrs. Anna C.

Seikel, 47, him-ielf and wife from drowning, wife of Ed. C. Seikel, Dover attorney, Children Escape. was fatally injured when their auto- Angeline, 11, Joann, 0 and liftm.in 16, their children, and Mro. Tillie mob.le, a Cole, left the road a mile west of Dresden, Sunday at 4.30 p.

m. thrown clear of the car at the Mrs. Seikel died in her edge of the creek. The car turned arnus five minutes after the accident, over twice before dropping into the She wais conscious and stood on her creek. l'eet after her husband rescued her Mr.

Seikel who was driving, said lie from the edge of the creek, eight feet could not account for the accident, uit- from the road. Mrs. Seikel was lying a wheel had struck a stone. The across her husband and above the sur- road is narrow at the scene, where it curves around a high bank on one side and a creek on the other side. LAST LAP OF CAMPAIGN The Foad at this point is always moist fiffp Harding 4- iSvu tu rd a due to the seepage from a concealed spring.

Seikel was passing another car when the accident occurred. The curve lias been the scene of five automobile fatalities during the last two years. A woman was killed there a month ago. Body Not Marked. Returns Will Be Slower Than Ever This Year (Bulletin) Columbus.

Oct. 3.7 -Complete reports from the 88 cotuiti of the state allow a total of 7.265) voting precincts, secretary of state Smith aim unced this morning. recent estimate by Smith placed the number at 7200. In the presidential election four years ago there were .7,7.76 voting precincts in the state. In 15)18 th were .7882.

The increase is due to the creation of new precincts necessitated hv the gr ally incress vote which will be case this war. His Evidence Led to Booze Exposure Famous Irish Patriot Succumbs in Brixton Prison at 5:40 A. M. Today Miss Maud Younger. Miss Maud Younger is the school master qf the Congressional Union for suffrage, for sho teaches that branch of political 'science known as lobbying.

She is the chief lobbyist of the Mr. Seikel believes that his She is still more tmusual in death was due to heart collapse. Only Ithe fact that she is a member of two bruises are on her body, one on the union and was MonMtomery. the on chMt. ton and Huntington, v.

W. Ash- land, Portsmouth, O. and president of the rmfcm in San Frarv- She is called the 1 aire Cincinnati. Wednesday Dayton. i COMPLICATIONS ARE FATAL TO P.

A. after the accident declared she was 7, injured interally. Then she died. TraVTdens who were passing surroun ded the deatli scene. Mrs.

Oliver II. Weaver, West 4th street, Dover, a sister-in-law arrived at the scene 1.7 4 A minutes after the accident. She was driving a Marmon aedan home from the' factory In Indianapolis, and had partUft from the Seikels in Columbus. Mrs. Weaver brought the survivors to Dover in her car.

She wan accompanied from Indianapolis by Misis Grace Rice, Canton, a cousin. Both Candidates on (he Buckeye State Vote Imporlant Is P. Staff Cor Hinton. M. Cox to By Herbert.

W. Walker. 1J. Enroute with Gov. Cox Va.t Oct.

Jumi1 day was moving westward to wagi his final fight for the Presidency in Ohio. Indiana, Illinois and West Vir ginia. With only seva working days maining, the Democratic strategy ap parentl.v was to center main stump efforts of tlie candidate in Ohio and Indiana. It is generally admitted in Democratic circles that failure to carry these two states would mean defeat for Cox. The hottest fight of the campaign is looked for this week in Ohio as both candidates will spend most of 11 1 time speaking in their home state.

LEAGUE HERE In an impassioned address that grip ped the attention of his hearens whj The other occupants of the car es- thronged the court house stepe late caped serious injury, all of them re- Saturday afternoon, Fred Dale Wood, I ceiving minor hruisee and are suffering from shock. Mr. head and Chicago, former law partner of for- Peter A. McElee, 69, died at .7 a. I chest were bruised.

nier Senator J. Hamilton Lewie, and Sunday at hia residence on Wen The body was prepared for burial a noted udvocat pleaded for the as- Front street, after being ill for two by a Dresden undertaker, and was sent of the voters to the league of years with a complication of maladies, brought Sunday night to the Sefkel Nations, as a moral end to he achiev- Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Cath- West Third street, Dover. ed for the last peace of the world, erine MeElwee and nine children, Mrs. Mr.

and Mrs. Seikel wire returning is the same moral light which J. I). Fleming, Butler, John F. Me home from Columbus where they had caused our fath and grandfathers Elwee, Cumberland, Mrs.

A. I1, spent Sunday with their two to shoulder muskets during the Civil Gorman, Steubenville; Mrs. J. II. Van J-Louis, and George, a sophomore, declared Wood.

Meter, Canton; Mrs. L. 1). Barclay, at Ohio State University. Wood who is the eon of a Confeder- Steubenville; Mrs.

F. M. Craig and; Another daughter, Miss Pauline, is a ate veteran, paid a tribute to the Mrs. W. H.

Kerr, New Philadelphia; freshman at Seton Hill college, Sharps flag, and to the Republican party in Mrs. J. It. Weaver, Detroit, ami Joeii)urg, pa. its genesis and to its traditions.

He M. MeElwee, Rittman. said tluit its high calling was to take J. C. MeElwee, Butler, itf a City Mourns.

a nace from bondage. brother, and Mrs. F. M. Griggs and Mrs.

Seikels death touched a whole cause no-w is a moral one, and Mrs. S. P. Gallagher, also of Butler, with sorrow. She was horn and should enlist the same support as was and Mrs.

P. Ryan, North Oakland, Hve(I her entire life In Dover township, given, irrespective of politics, to the are sisters. was a daughter of the late declared Woid. was born in North Oakland, George Weaver. Her parents both of f0r Tip ha(i livf fl horp for ninp vfMirs Ho av I vjhi Iivod thG lattor purt of tlipir re Catt i lives in Dover are dead.

support olic church. Surviving in addition to the imme- League. He said that Northern- Funeral services will be held at 9 diate family are Two1 sisters, Sister ers for a great moral policy a. m. Tuesday from Sacred Heart Rosalia, St.

Convent. Sharps- and 11 support another church. Rev. Fathering Wendling burg, and Miss Mary Weaver, Do- fell from Green officiating Burial will be mad" our brothers, William, O. (laiation Green officiating.

Eugene. Victor and Raymond Weaver, speaker's llpa that It United ill of Dover does not go in the League, elie by the She belonged to the St. treuty of hundred and sev- church, the Christian So- enty and by another trea- ciety. and to the K. of C.

Lv negotiated with Germany in 1828, Uiyl, will forfeit every ship and every gun Funeral eervices will he hold at 9 Dom Goimany dining the last war. Wood stressed -the word mentioned in Article 10, a prerogative of the Council of Nine, in of nnRffrnYO Iiniir threat or danger of external aggres- rAKiyitn Wm a. m. Wednesday, church. at St.

in the Catholic cemetery. MRS. HERSHEY, 80, SUGARCREEK TOWNSHIP, US Mrs. Mary Hershey, 80, well known Sugarcreek townehip woman, died Sal- urday night at the home of her son. not having of John Hershey on the Shanesville road QTRflYFIl Cancer, with which she had been ail- 10 ULO I HU I LU or not as it deems ing for many months, caused death.

nw rmP ie survived by two sons. John RY FIRF SUNDAY and Fred, the latter residing in Do- 5 I which prohibits al trade or relation- vver township, and one daughter, Strashurg, Oct. 2.7 Fire. Sunday between members ot the League Mary, of Canton. morning, totally deetroyed the reel- 1 and any nioniber that resorts to wor Funeral servfce6 were held Monday, donee of Frank Kohr, farmer, resid- in t0 is Interment being made in ing between this village and Dundee, d0In by Republicans.

with a loss of $3,000. Denounces Rep Trio. The origin of the blaze is unknown. He scored Taft, Hughes and Root Fire hrok out while the fam- for not supporting what he declares ily w.aa attending church. A neighbor were they proposed to discovered the blaze and summoned Wilson, and which were embodied in mro OllliniV family.

When the League. SI IIMIIA reached the scene of the blaze, it have fouled th Hr de U1LU UUliUrl I impossible to save only a few dared Wjood. IThrichsviile, Oct. of household furniture. He termed this trio as foolieh men 89, colored, died Sunday at 11:30 a.

The building was a remodeled log who have wandered away from their m. at her home in West Eleventh structure. own convictions and declared Ropub- By Raymond Clapper, U. P. Staff Cor Marion, Oct.

25. The final week of the 1920 presidential campaign op ens today with the opposing lines drawn for a finish fight in Ohio. Sen ator Warren G. Harding makes a final whirlwind tour of the state ibis week winding up at Columbus Saturday night. Governor Cox will he hack in the state also to lead his forces against the Harding drive.

Backing Harding in this last battle of the campaign on Ohi soil will he an array of nationally prominent Republican speakers who will cover every locality of importance in the state. The list includes Senator Hiram Johnson, California; Senator McCormick Illinois; Governor Ixrwden, Illinois; Senator Townsend, Michigan; or W. L. Harding. Iowa; Ex-Senator Theodore Dm ton, Ohio; Congressman Fess, Ohio; Raymond Robins, Chicago; Frank H.

Willis, Ohio, Republican senatorial candidate and Harry L. Da vis. Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio. Numerous women speak ers have also been scheduled. Columbus.

Oct. 25 -To offset the Republican ha11 ry of orators to turned loo6e this week in Ohio, Demodrat- ic headquarters here announced to day that prominent Democratic spellbinders will stump state during the entire week. Secretary of th Navy Dan'iek; head the list which includes among other Senator Trammell, of Florida, Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Senator Hitcii (Continued on page 5) Lord Mayor of Cork Hunger Strike Victim RELATIVES NOT SUMMONED AT DEATH Makes Last Visit Saturday--Last Days of Fasting Are Painful (By Lloyd Allen, IT. P.

Staff Cor.) London, Oct. 25 Terence MacSwin- died in Brixton prison at 5:40 this morning. The Lord Mayor of Cork died without regaining consciousness at the dawn of the 74ih day of his hunger strike. With MacSvviney when It 1 were Father Dominick, hio religious advloor and hio brother John. John remained in the prison during the night and was not permitted to leave Brixton prison until 6:15.

In that time he wos not permitted to communlcut with oilier relatives. Mac.Swlney began oinking at midnight last night. Officials refused to permit the priest to notify relatives, according to a Sinn Fein announcement. The Lady Mayoress and MacSwln- di-stern, Annie and Miry, vi sited prison at 9 p. m.

They stayed 15 minutes and left quietly. The wife made her last visit to the bedside Saturday afternoon hut the two sisters had not been allow id to see their brother since Friday. They wer denied admHaion Sal urday and remained in the pria.m wait ing room all day without food. They finally were ejected late at night by conntablea. Delirious Thursday.

death wan believed near Thursday when he bacame delirious. His body was racked with tremors which contained even after he, regained consciousness. Phyeiclann gave him his first food no he lost control of himself, They gave him beet' extract and brandy. The prisoner raged when he and knew from odors that he had taken food. Thereafter he was ot the buggy, and John whenever lie lost consciousness.

Altho the food was retained, physician:) iiad little hope that lie would recover Hie lie wore himself out raging against being bed. It was at tliiii stage that relatives were deprlvd of their usual freedom in visiting the prisoner. Physicians u. H. A.

Sadiei is New York; who, it is gave tho grand it Chicago formation which laying bare of a mill t( oooze is believed wni have been; for thie high gov-, positio uel to hisj testimony. 11.01 CAR HITS 1 OBI with only slight changes in his condition. He lived to see one of the other hunger strikers, Michael Fitzgerald, (1 after 68 days of fasting. Elected Mayor Last Spring. 'MacSwiney who waa 41 years old, wan elected Lord Mayor of by unanimous vote last spring after the murder of Mayor McGurtain witii whom he was associated for many years in the promotion of the Irish Republican cause.

die was arrested during a session of a Republican court at which he was preaiding. MacSwineyYi frlemto charged that the government wished to put him out of the way because of his retraining influence on people of Fork which prevented them from committing to Justify British soldiers and police In shooting the Inhabitants. Sinn Fein leaders thruout tho fast maintained that the British government wolud he guilty of deliberate murder if the Lord Mayor permitted to die. officials responsible for the death would tried by Siiin Fein courts, they said, and sentenced to death. The sentence would carri out they said.

A notable ex ample of a Sinn Fein death sentence was passed on police inspector Swanzy, found guilty of "Instigating tha murder of Loyd Mayor MacGurtaln. Front under John Haney, 62, West street, wan found uticonaci the wreckag Medley, 42, farmer, his son-in-law, liv ing on the Ridge road, suffered two broken ribs, when buggy accidentally was struck by a Hunton true tion car on Tuscarawao avenue, at Shafer avenue interaect ion, Dover, Sunday evening at o'clock. The occupant's of the buggy re driving toward Philadelphia. street car which was going northward, was 50 feet from them when the horse was driven ucrons the car tracka toward Shafer avenue. The driver mistook the speed of the car.

Haney, unconscious when rescued, was bruiaed and cut about the face and head. Medley waa thrown Into a man hole. The horse was not Injured. COUNTY GETS AID Hugh Gordon Miller, assistant attor- mental attitude waa ugilnat it an I under Rreaidents McKinley. Roosevelt and Taft, will speak Wedntsday a) Dover, and Judge David Hunter New York City, confidential advisor of President Wilson protested that the process of feeding iHt Dariri during the Peace conference him made it advisable to bar them.

The last outsider to see him wus Art of the Self Determination League. Umied a (statement eaying the feeding of MacSwln- ey wus unnecessary violence. Last Days Painful. at Versailles, will address a Democratic rally at Hlirichsville, Judge reputation a public speaker is second only to that of Governor Fax. himsdf.

The position li occupied at Paris, was one that placed in his hands the real, first hand BIKE HV AUTO Union hill cemetery. YVILLE NEGRESS street. Hardening of the arteries Insurance, carried by Mr. Kohr, will caused death. not cover the loss.

licans who oppose the League support (Continued on page 3) FhaHen Hcnsel, 60. South Ninth afreet, miraculously eacuped fatal injuries. Sunday morning, when ho was nocked from his bicycle on the Stone- rek road, west of this city, by automobile driven by a Mr. Jones, Cuyahoga Falls, falling neath machine. The automobile had to be reversed before Mr.

Hensel could he from his perilous position. Mr. liadly kmlHMl and his right arm was sprained. He was not injured Internally. The bicycle was reduced to wreckage.

The automobile owner brought to Ills home. After lying in comparative comfort mat ion about the making of the for almost seventy days of ills strike, His address is advertised as laist days were painful, (d campaign. Previously MaoSwIney had lain on his bed, packed In hot water bottles, confendedly receiving vinltora and peacefully contemplating the effect of iiis act on the cause of Ireland. Then came his delirum and his first feeding. Th were several delirious spells during which MacSwinoy raved and talked of the Irish Republican army, imaginary troops, and presided over imaginary Irish courts.

He swung Ilia arms in exportation and lnnskily called orders. Opening eyes, lie would aHk his relatives If the Republic hud been (irmly established and if Ireland was functioning as nation. The Lady Mayoress apparently knew death war; coming when she saw her Mr. too terrible, I talk about it any more," she said when she left the prison late in the afternoon. She wa ill Sunday us a result of the long and trying experience.

CANCER CAUSES DEATH SUNDAY OE MRS. KEENER Mrs. Amanda Keener, 53, who has he mi a local resident since she wa-J tour years old, died at 2:30 p. Sunil ay at their home on Tuscarawas avenue, after being ill for several years from cancer. She is survived by the husband, George Keener.

She was a member of the Reformed church. The funeral will ho held at 2 p. Tuesday from the sideline at 550 Tiisoarawas avenue. Rev. W.

Foust will officiate. Burial will be made in East Fair street cemetery. A Mayor of Cork. said to he suffering from lung troubles when arrested An gust 12. went on a hunger strike Immediately.

He was convicted August 16 by a military court on chargeri of preparing and having in his possession seditious literature. Eleven other Irish Republicans arrested at about the same time went in a hunger strike two days earlier in the Fork jail. MacSwiney was departed to at a Sunday, when a light rain fell England to be placed In Brixton jail not even enough to lay the dust. shortly after sentence, he wan so weak It was a forerunner, however, of that he had to be carried aboard the the typical fall drizzle which slowly i.steamer on a stretcher. It was believ- soaked the county, Mond morning, ed then that he would die within a Sunday morning, river wae at few days, tha zerc mark on the flood guugo.

The Lord Mayor lived, however, OCTOBER DRY SPELL BROKEN SUNDAY NOON dr jht, which ml ted mb Tuacuruwas river failing to its lcweR in ten years, was broken WILL REPRESENT U. S. CONCERN IN Joe Townsend, former local young man and a graduate from the New Philadelphia high school, sailed for London, England. Saturday, where he will he in charge of the foreign office of The Fuller Engineering of Allentown. N.

V. He was accompanied by his wife, formerly Miss Della Mathias, this city. During his two connection with the Allentown concern, he has traveled all over the United States. 18844115.

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