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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
6
A long parsable digest reports deaths from boiler explosions in Cherbourg and a Brooklyn shooting, battleships and trains fatalities, ship purchases for Peru, aeroplane records, political nominations, a Peruvian presidency, auto wrecks, weather damage, legal indictments, and high profile crimes. It notes a windstorm, pipeline fire, a streetcar accident, and various resignations and recoveries.
Eugene Jepson a 50 year old vaudeville lead from New York collapsed and died of heart disease in his dressing room as a fire alarm sounded at Keith's theater in Cleveland. No audience injuries reported as they exited while the show continued after a $5,000 fire damage. Jepson reportedly had a long history of heart trouble.
Columbus Ohio June 2 plans for a speedy settlement of doubts about a projected probe of Cincinnati were blocked as the supreme court refused to consider a mandamus suit against State Auditor Guilbert while an injunction case in Hamilton County Circuit Court awaits final disposition. The petition in mandamus filed by the State on the relation of Benjamin F Gayman against Walter D Guilbert auditor of state was presented for leave to file but the motion was not allowed.
Washington D. H. O. reports Crosby Porter, 35, killed his wife with 18 wounds and then slashed his own throat. He survived several hours, died later, leaving a note to his father explaining the double tragedy. The note's contents remain unpublished. Porter was described as well to do.
United States District Judge John E. Sater is reappointed after a telegram from Attorney General Bonaparte to qualify at once. Senators Foraker and Dick opposed his confirmation, blocking it at the late Congress session. A recess appointment allowed him to preside at the June term of the U S court.
In Dayton Ohio on June 2 Colonel Herbert G Catrow defeated Congressman J Eugene Harding in a board of elections hearing. The ruling determined which Republican candidate, Catrow or Harding, would be the official Third district nominee for Congress. Charles Bieser was also noted as achieving an overwhelming victory in the hearing outcome.
Nelson Cannon, key witness in the East Broad Street paying contract bribery cases, was brought back from Canada after fighting extradition. He claims the Canadian government will demand his return, while he remains under indictment on bribery charges.
John Le Sullivan of St Marys was named state printer by Governor Harris Sullivan to succeed J. W Johnson. He has long been active in Ohio journalism and editing the St Marys Tribune and is a prominent Odd Fellow with high offices in the order across the state.
Thomas Blakely a 51 year old farmer near Groveport killed himself by carbolic acid amid declining health. He was found by farm hands and Coroner Murphy was notified.
Ottawa Ohio June 2 August Fisher a farmer six miles north of Ottawa hanged himself to a tree behind his home after taking two ounces of carbolic acid. Worry over insanity in the family was the motive for the self inflicted death according to authorities.
Cincinnati baseball tragedy as 19 year old clerk John Wallicotte died after being struck in the head by a foul tip while catching at Cordes' field Hyde Park. The incident occurred during a game in Cincinnati on June 2.
In Paris a famed painter Adolphe Steinheil and his mother in law were found strangled in his Rue de Vaugirard home. The house was looted of valuables while the wife, gagged and bound, said two men and a woman committed the crime. An Italian suspect was reported. Police see robbery as motive. investigators are at a loss to explain the brutality.
In Dixon Kentucky on June 2 a masked lynch mob of ten men overpowered the jailer at the Dixon jail and hanged Jake McDowell, a Negro who had confessed to taking part in a March 14 village killing near Providence. The mob then fled, and McDowell was found dead along a country road after two gunshots were heard.
The Methodist Episcopal general conference concluded without debating the amusement issue or a time limit on pastorates. Paragraph 248 remains unchanged, allowing pastors to be reassigned year after year as in recent practice, and dancing remains unaltered in the episcopal address.
Indianapolis June 2 Senator Hemenway issued an official statement denying false rumors about Vice President Fairbanks candidacy. The statement says Fairbanks will be presented for the presidential nomination at the Chicago convention and any reported variation is untrue.
Several hundred medical men from across the country registered at Chicago hotels as the first wave of about 10 000 delegates and alternates for the fifty sixth annual American Medical Society convention. Only three general meetings planned with daily division meetings covering nearly every disease and lectures by world renowned specialists.
Baltimore June 2 Emmanuel Cedrino a noted Italian automobile driver was killed instantly when his car skidded at Pimlico racetrack. The vehicle overturned smashing three wheels and both Cedrino and his brother were thrown against a fence. Cedrino died of a broken neck while his brother, the mechanic, was only slightly hurt.
The Austrian guardship Taurus has arrived at Samos following a protest by an Austrian subject. Residents report Turkish flags atop the governor’s palace and conflict around Vathy where Turkish warships bombarded the heights and expelled inhabitants.
Mt. Vernon Ohio June 2 Edward Grant a prosperous farmer living north of Mt. Vernon was in his barn when lightning struck the structure He was instantly killed and his body burned inside the burning barn rescuers reached the scene too late to save him his charred remains were found after the fire was extinguished
James K Jones former United States Senator from Arkansas died in Washington after a brief illness aged 69. He returned from a visit to daughter Le onora Carrigan in Arkansas on Friday and fell ill Monday evening with heart failure the immediate cause of death. He served in the Senate 1885 to 1903 and led the Democratic National Committee campaigns of 1896 and 1900.
The Montana Supreme Court dissolved an injunction filed by Yellow Stone County district court restraining the Montana Federation of Labor and others from interfering with Lindsey & Company, a Helena wholesale fruit firm with a Billings branch. Labor leaders call the ruling a notable victory, with the opinion stating unions may not be enjoined from boycotting so long as the methods used are not themselves illegal.
In Ghent on June 2 Henry Farman and M Archdeacon flew 1241 meters in a calm wind aboard Farman’s aeroplane, winning a $1200 bet with M Charron that two persons would be carried a thousand meters within a year prior to the wager.
An early June tremor hit Allentown Pennsylvania rocking buildings and rattling windows. Witnesses heard a muffled boom in the western city area sparking rumors of a distant powder mill explosion, later deemed false.
Report from Teheran says 700 well armed Afghans crossed into Persia and occupied Regan, a town about 180 miles southeast of Kerman. Military observers note the action could widen border clashes between Afghanistan and Persia.
A vivid poem and market roundup mix moving day troubles with lively scenes of a homely family packing vans and a chaotic first of May. It blends social commentary with wholesale cattle, hogs, and produce price listings across multiple cities, including Buffalo, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago, and Boston markets.
Former President Grover Cleveland, who had been ill at a Lakewood hotel, departed by automobile for his home in Princeton on June 2.
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