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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1908
Page
1
The Ohio House advances an anti distillery bill amid heated debate. Lawmakers press to curb production and distribution while critics warn of overreach and potential economic impact.
Katherine Ray Cantor daughter of Julius Cantor and Morris J Fast were married in Chicago rather than wait for a June wedding. Cantor is general manager of American Smelting and Refining Company Cincinnati. Groom serves in the government in Chicago. The couple had been engaged since last November and news surprised Cincinnati society friends.
The Paine measure to appoint a Director of the Public Service and Safety by mayors of Ohio cities failed 18 to 18 after a 17 to 17 tie on an election amendment. Democrats Carter Denman Harper and Lamb voted against. Republicans Arbenz Brandt Duvail Hathburn West for. Adjournment was moved to May 9 to fit Governor Harris’s Washington schedule.
A Special Dispatch reports bubonic plague is raging in La Guayra Venezuela with rail traffic halted and port quarantine in effect for fifteen days or more. Puerto Cabello will handle ships for La Guayra until the quarantine lifts. U S Minister Russell faces possible departure as tensions with Castro influence timing.
In Caracas on April 21 General Castro mounts a horse again after a long illness and stay at Los Teques. Return coincides with Washington dispatches on the Calhoun report and El Constitucional denounces the American Commissioner while defending Venezuela against adverse conclusions.
Six of eight New Hampshire delegates to the Republican National Convention were chosen at state and second district meetings. The platform urged omitting instructions and backed early tariff revision and Roosevelt. Taft supporters predicted five of six delegates would back Taft on the first ballot.
An uninstructed Republican delegation to the Chicago convention was elected in the Thirteenth Massachusetts District. Resolutions to endorse Taft for President and Governor Guild Jr. for Vice President were voted down. Delegates named are William M. Butler of Edgartown and John Crowther of Fall River.
In Pensacola Florida the Third Congressional District Republicans held two conventions. One faction favored Foraker and admitted only sympathetic delegates while selecting a slate urging Foraker. The regular administration faction met later, secured a second hall and chose delegates pledged to Taft. PMID: none.
Secretary Taft arrived in Washington this afternoon following a trip to New York. He plans to review public business and resume official duties promptly.
A street car strike outside the city limits turned violent as rioters attacked a car and fired rifles. The conductor was seriously wounded by three bullets while the motorman was unharmed. Stenographer W. S. Wittich Jr was fired upon as he tried to board the car.
The House adopted Speaker Cannon's resolution 184 to 110 authorizing a six member select committee to investigate the paper trust and printing paper fabrication amid rising prices. Members named include Mann Miller Stafford Bannon Simms and Ryan with explanations noting public concern over paper price increases and questioning tariff effects.
In Pittsburg on April 21, Livingstone Roe Jr son of a Standard Oil official Morristown N J is jailed on a vagrancy charge. Police say he attempted to extort money from his mother and his father's lawyers through misleading telegrams and a plan involving a Pittsburg woman and a relative in the East. He attempted suicide with bichloride tablets while clutching a photo of his New York wife.
Prince Helle de Sagan, arriving in Genoa, complained that he was hunted like a fox as reporters pushed to speak with him at dinner. He ordered the conductor to keep him undisturbed.
Illinois towns voting on local option largely kept saloons. Not more than about a hundred saloons were driven out. Cairo gave saloons a 3362 vote majority while Effingham Thebes Pinckneyville Naperville bucked the trend with losses in about 35 saloons. Cook County villages mostly unchanged as Barrington stayed dry by a small margin and ten towns kept their saloons.
Washington April 21 President will sign the employers liability bill after an opinion from Attorney General Bona Parte at a Cabinet meeting. The President accepts the AG view of constitutionality and believes the measure will pass court tests.
A train carrying Prince de Sagan was near Pisa at midnight en route to Naples but he did not appear. The conductor sent a telegraph dispatch to Annette Chopin aboard the Friedrich Der Grosse, to be forwarded by wireless. Mme Anna Gould is aboard that steamer bound for Naples.
The Canadian Pacific Railway posted an open shop notice in all shops from Ft. William to Vancouver affecting four thousand mechanics. At Ft. William to Montreal shops, mechanics abrogated an agreement to join the federation of all unions to oppose the open shop rule.
Mansfield Ohio April 21 Despondent over locomotor ataxia Peter G Bissman 41 shot himself in the left temple at his sister Mrs John Miller home He died instantly A second man John Pershing 65 well known farmer four miles south of the city in ill health and despondent over his wife s death hanged himself in his barn
President Roosevelt fronts a Senate revolt over the two battleship programme with many Republican Senators backing opposition. The battle to force four battleships could shift Senate leadership and affect naval policy, while a second report quotes Sir William Henry White praising the American navy as equal to any in the world.
In Maysville Kentucky on April 21 high school students rebelled over Prof Coryell's dismissal and refused to accept his proposed successor A Bowden. They demanded reinstatement and faced missiles thrown by striking students as Superintendent Clinger spoke this morning.
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