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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1908
Page
5
Prof. A. Covert lectures in the Cuvier Club Library Friday afternoon before Audubon Society members on Migration of Birds. The session outlines routes, timing, and patterns of bird movement.
The wife of Herman Moore a tailor at 3 581 West Sixth street asked police yesterday to locate her husband who has been missing since March 26.
Daily visits of a thief worry L. Weber of 3312 Perkins avenue as he reports losses to police. He says a $2 drawer theft occurred Monday and $22 disappeared yesterday morning.
The Fellowship Circle holds the first of ten meetings on the vital principle of Emerson's Self-Reliance tomorrow evening at 8 in the Vine Street Church lecture room.
Detectives Sweeney and Houillion arrested C. A. Roberts, 25, a waiter at 906 Race Street. He allegedly obtained $25 on a check given his landlady that was later returned with no funds.
Lieutenant S. V. Houston was yesterday designated to take charge of the U S Naval Recruiting Station in this city. Commander Anderson goes to Mare Island Navy Yard. Lieutenant Houston is from Illinois.
Jeff Johnson of Wolf County Kentucky claims to be a merchant. He was arrested Monday night for discharging a revolver during a Wing Street concert hall event and fined $50 plus costs in Police Court yesterday.
R E Washburn of Circleville Ohio telephoned police to report his son Roe eighteen and two fellow youths left home yesterday morning for this city and request that the boy be detained.
A pot boiling over at the John C. Bruckmann brewery on Dodsworth avenue Cumminsville sparked a small fire yesterday morning. An alarm from Box 857 summoned the fire department. Damage totals about $200.
Bessie Clark, 26, arrested for loitering, was placed in a Central Station cell when she suffered an epileptic seizure and fell, sustaining scalp wounds. A patrolman carried her to City Hospital for treatment.
Clifford Clark, 38, an attorney from Forestville, was seized with epilepsy yesterday at Pearl and Broadway. He fell on the sidewalk, cutting a deep gash on his head, and was taken to City Hospital for treatment.
D. C. Orr, a longtime teacher at the Second Intermediate School, died in Springfield Ohio on March 30. He was eighty six, his body buried in Troy Ohio last Thursday. A married daughter resides in Liberty Indiana.
George Warren a colored man wanted on a murder charge was held at Central Station at Deputy Wingate Woodford County request. Arrested in Dayton Ky he will be taken to Versailles today for proceedings.
The Cincinnati Orchestra Association postponed its meeting from yesterday to May 5, citing two March meetings as the reason. The change preserves the organization’s regular meeting cadence.
A well dressed man entered Walker and Bock haberdashery at 1207 Vine Street yesterday. He bought a necktie for twenty five cents and paid with a twenty dollar bill. Through a money manipulation he defrauded the clerk of ten dollars.
William Lawson and Co. report burglars entered the new Highland avenue and McMillan street building and took materials valued at 50 dollars. They also stole Jacob Smiths tools from 2346 Highland avenue.
Levitch of 711 Central Avenue was arrested on a warrant by Fire Captain William Thompson. He faced charges of blocking the entrance to the tenement house where his store is located and was ordered by Judge Lueberg in Police Court to clean up yesterday.
John Liddy of Oregon street was arraigned in Police Court on failing to provide for six children and resisting an officer. He received six months in the Workhouse and a $50 fine plus costs for resisting an officer.
Alexander Porter, 42, of 211 Weet Sixth street, tried to cut his throat with a dull knife yesterday. He was rushed to City Hospital where doctors dressed his wounds. Porter said he was despondent.
Preparatory exams for 110 candidates for the Sabbath school teachers graduation were held last night at the Chase Street School Cumminsville with Dr. Herbert S. Menninger as examiner. Earlier in the week 200 were examined Monday and 274 more on Thursday and Friday at the Ninth Street Baptist Church.
The City of Cincinnati yesterday paid $300 to each claimant Thomas Barr Alonzo C. Horton Thomas Bray and Charles Weber for services rendered. The men were chosen to appraise property the city wished to condemn during the Dempsey administration but received no pay.
Special musical services will be held at Mt Lookout Methodist Church on Grace and Observatory avenue Sunday evening under the Epworth League. A vocal quartet led by Grace Usher on organ includes Miss Mary Conrey Miss Elanor Bain Miss Leslie K Chilton and Howard 8S Barnett.
The Mathesis women teachers club held its annual officer election yesterday at the Woman's Club. Members selected new leaders to guide meetings and activities for the coming year.
Cincinnati bills itself as the leading city for buggies and light vehicles with 29 factories in town and suburbs. About 8,000 workers produce 190,000 vehicles annually valued over 12 million dollars, supporting a vast home and export trade of 4,250 carloads plus smaller shipments.
Benson Foraker of the Traction Company told Mayor Markbreit no free rides for fire department employees. He explained policemen ride free due to their frequent duty needs, and Fire Department members cannot be granted free access despite earlier deputations.
President Charles William Eliot of Harvard University will lecture on Municipal Government in Cincinnati at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on April 22. The City Club hosts the event as Eliot tours the Central West, described as one of America's leading educators and eloquent public figures.
At the Mercantile Library Building rooms the club announced officers led by President Bettie Wilson and Fourth Intermediate First Vice President Alice M. Kelley. Annie M. Muller serves as Twelfth District Second Vice President with Nellie L. McGuire as Recording Secretary and Bessie Sulli van as Corresponding Secretary.
The Chamber of Commerce board elected new directors and praised the United States role in international arbitration. They approved destroying cancelled bonds and supported an investigative commission on grain grade conditions. They opposed federal grain inspection and Schuler bill aims, and set moisture standards for corn while tightening hay inspection duties and penalties.
Detective deputies arrested Mrs Anna McInerney of 1121 Ochler street on a coroner issued warrant in Police Court over the death Monday of Mrs Ollie Scott wife of Herman Scott of 1009 Sargent street. Assistant County Prosecutor Froome Morris swore to the affidavit alleging Scott died from the operation performed by McInerney.
City Solicitor Ballard advised the Board of Public Service to reject Bell Telephone's $55.59 claim for damaged cables during water main repairs on West Eighth street. Walter Ellins reports about $6,000 extra cost to purify murky river water. Health data show 163 deaths in the week, 41 alcohol related?. main causes include kidney diseases with 15 and lobar pneumonia 14.
Health Officer Brown tabulates results from Flex ner's antimeningitis serum trials. Among inoculated patients eleven lives were saved. He notes earlier use of the serum yields better outcomes.
The Service Board and Mt. Crab village in Brown County formed a contract to house prisoners from the village at the Workhouse. On Chief Millikin’s recommendation the Board of Public Service revoked James Young’s permit to weigh and sell coal. He used the asphalt street to break coal blocks.
The Sedamsville Improvement Association asks the Board of Public Service to replace the washed away portion of the Bold Face Creek sewer from last year’s floods.
George G. Earl, Superintendent of the Sewer and Water Board of New Orleans, asked yesterday for information from Cincinnati Water Works about handling a planned 50 million gallons daily through city reservoirs basins and pumps. Superintendent Hiller will reply.
Joseph Albers was yesterday appointed machinist at City Hospital replacing Ed Crawford. His salary is $35 a month.
The board endorsed appointing a pathologist to lecture at Cincinnati Medical College while serving at City Hospital. They approved Prof Robert Brooks of Swarthmore College as economics and political science professor. Budget committees warned costs may exceed the proposed budget and a special session was scheduled to review finances.
Mrs. Virginia Smart, age 40, of Indianapolis, asks police for help getting home. Destitute and unemployed, she is taken to the Place of Detention for safekeeping and will go to the mayor's office. A police clerk notes her aged appearance compared to a photo from ten years earlier.
Harry Reeves known as Raymond, 21, of Pittsburg, held by detectives on suspicion after allegedly trying to cash forged telegram money orders. He boarded at 919 Main Street with landlady and was questioned as investigators pursue the case. His aunt by marriage, Margaret Lewis, says Reeves abandoned her after spending the money and plans to reconcile with her husband aboard a steam boat on the Ohio River.
Herbert Reynolds a colored man confessed to Judge Lueders he watched police beats for months for Red Light district patrons. He had about twenty watchers earning 25 cents nightly. Frank Smith, also colored, charged with loitering, was arrested. Both fined $50 and costs.
A fragment shows names in a marriage licenses list with residences and ages including John Be Walker and William A Juzzi Carolina Zoellner Abe Einstein Kingston North Carolina 21 Charles Kunstman 28 Mary E Scheer 28 William Barlay Anna Mertens with addresses 453 West McMicken Avenue and Trevaren Flats. The readability is limited but indicates a local civil records update.
Mayor Markbreit issued a permit for a parade linked to the Personal Liberty League and the German American Alliance to gather at Music Hall Saturday night. About 22 500 participants from northern, Cumminsville and Brighton districts join a mass meeting with unions backing the event. The Parade Committee plans multiple processions converging at a central point with extensive musical support sourced from nearby cities.
Police report two youths aged 14 and 9 living at 1054 Central avenue and Chestnut and John streets were taken into custody by Patrolman Matsch after fitting a car shop break in at 708 Mound street. They hid under boxes and are held for Juvenile Court. The pair allegedly stole cigars and whisky valued at $10 from Dr A Aratus’s home on West Ninth Street after forcing a rear window.
The Commercial Tribune will publish next Sunday pictures of Cincinnati's Free Setters' Union in its Illustrated Magazine. The issue is free with The Commercial Tribune and includes jokes stories anecdotes and incidents in a handsome colored bound edition.
The Crown Prince by Dr. H. A. Krieger will be read this evening before the German Literary Club by Otto Ernst Schmid. Tomorrow Krieger speaks at the University of Cincinnati on The Renaissance of the German Drama in the Eighties. Friday the club hosts a dinner in his honor at the Sinton.
I O O F officers and members are asked to meet today at 1 p.m. in the lodge room to attend the funeral of our deceased Patriarch Jacob H. Clemmer P G P T A Johnston C P co-signed by the encampment leadership.
Kilwinning Chapter No 97 R A announces a Wednesday April convocation for the Mark Master Degree Work. Visitors are invited. John C. Roberts H F L L Latta secretary.
Obituaries list several residents with ages and funeral plans. Jacob H. Clemmer aged 86 dies and funeral 2 p.m. at Walnut Hills M E Church. Elizabeth Colling widow of John T. Colling aged 73 funeral from 927 York Street. George J. Hillebrand 27, son of John F. and Carrie, funeral in Evanston. Marguerite O Malia 61 7 months dies with funeral April 10 at 3 15 a.m. High mass at St Peters Cathedral. Margaret A Swift widow aged 93 funeral at Carthage Christian Church with burial private and no flowers.
A garbled burial permits roster lists deceased individuals with ages and causes including tuberculosis heart disease gastro enteritis prematurity dermatitis bronchitis apoplexy paralysis and other ailments. Entries cover multiple street addresses across the city with several juveniles and elderly adults, some marked inquests or pending statuses.
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