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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1908
Page
1
National Health Bureau calls for new federal department with bipartisan support. Aimed at preventing up to two million American deaths annually, the proposal argues for sweeping disease control powers and standardized national health policies.
Count Zeppelin's massive airship crashes after a landing attempt near Echterdingen. A gust capsizes the craft and a motor explodes, leaving the airship in a field with debris and several injured soldiers. Zeppelin departs for Friedrichshafen as rescuers tend the wounded.
Fairview Nebraska August 5 The appeal for campaign contributions comes from Mr. Bryan who urges funding from citizens who support Democratic planks. Key points include public funding transparency, popular vote for senators, bank deposit guarantees, anti monopoly measures, and an income tax. He outlines future speeches on tariffs trusts banking labor imperialism and the question Shall the people rule.
George Vail Jr 20 was bound over to the Clermont Grand Jury on a murder charge after a search found human bones near the Vail farm in Withamsville. The hearing in the old schoolhouse drew a large crowd as witnesses described finding bones and clothing in a field.
Geneva dispatch reports the Sultan of Turkey stabbed in the breast by a minor palace official. The attacker was arrested. bribery suspected as gold was found on him. The coat of mail allegedly blocked the blow.
At Tangier the ban dit Raisuli rode with fifty horsemen to the British Legation and demanded reparation for a village pillage by Imperial troops, threatening to renounce British protection and resume his old life.
Camp Emmett Crawford Wyoming August 6 A report says the Fifth Cavalry troops expected yesterday are lost in the mountains. The claim cannot be verified but if they do not arrive today scouts may be sent to their rescue.
National Progressive Woman Suffrage Union members led by Mrs Borrman Wells visited Oyster Bay. A rainstorm delayed plans, but after clearing they toured town and urged votes for women. President Roosevelt declined a meeting. No local turnout for the 7:30 pm gathering. the group left for New York planning a return visit.
In Cleveland on Euclid avenue a man believed to be John D. Rockefeller acted to move a stalled auto as gates fell and a train neared. He ordered the chauffeur to speed across, narrowly avoiding a collision seconds before the east gate rose. Identity of the party could not be confirmed at the Rockefeller home.
J M Haralson a former second class midshipman at Annapolis who was dismissed for using improper language to a navy enlisted man arrives at Oyster Bay hoping to see the President. He wears midshipman blue and asks Acting Secretary Forster to grant clemency noting reports of West Point cadets awaiting action. Haralson was appointed to the Naval Academy from Alabama.
An Atlantic fleet wireless dispatch reports Albert E. Heisel ordinary seaman on the Wisconsin missing from July 31 and presumed drowned after mail caused melancholia. Heisel, 20, from Cincinnati, enlisted March 20 1907. His father in Hyde Park doubts the drowning.
A major blaze in Midway Woodford County rages through a S. J. Greenbaum distillery warehouse starting at 10 o clock. The fire spreads to the northern section as Lexington Frankfort and Louisville seek aid with no lives reported lost yet.
Charles P Taft brother of the Republican nominee visits the Republican National headquarters in New York and reports Ohio will give a large plurality. Maryland and Virginia views favor Taft with local party leaders predicting electoral gains. Taft attends the Virginia Bar Association session while Governor candidates and state delegates are discussed by Frank H Hitchcock and George Cortelyou.
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