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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
1
Optimistic notes on this year’s cotton crop revive interest in cottonseed by products. The industry now yields about 150 million dollars annually, with Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi leading mills. Cottonseed oil, meal and hulls fuel beef, feed markets and economic growth across the South.
The Seventy-seventh General Assembly reunion opened with social events in Cedar Point Ohio on August 6. Senator Hafner and Representative Paxton spoke. notable figures including Governor Harris and Senator Dick were expected. Activities included boat rides, bathing, a grand ball, and a large illuminated Coliseum.
Taft declares injustice caused by law's delay and urges faster trials and arbitration to settle damage suits. He speaks before the Virginia State Bar Association in Hot Springs and discusses prosecutions, lynching, and the need for uniform criminal enforcement.
Members of the American National Association of Retail Jewelers elected officers in Cincinnati led by J. P. Archibald as president and Arthur E. Paegel as first vice president. They plan the next annual meeting in Omaha and discussed adopting a trademark and restricting mail order sales.
In Rushville Indiana on August 6 John Tribbey a well to do farmer was forced from his home by eighteen masked men who tarred and feathered him and bound him to a tree. They visited the home of Hessie Smith and left a warning note urging her and her father to flee the country.
James Loreymer a farmer near Zanesville attempted suicide by hanging himself but collapsed and died from apoplexy caused by the excitement, according to the coroner.
Cardinal Gibbons became seriously ill with intestinal trouble at Castel Gandolfo and was brought to Rome where he is confined to bed. He arrived from New York July 30 and met the Pope August 1 before going to the American College villa on August 3. Monsignor Farley visited him and found him much improved.
A letter to M. Gillette of San Carlos from A. D. McPhee reports Yaqui Indians killed thirteen people from three families near the Lampazas mine on July 24. Ranchers in the surrounding area have gathered at the Promontorio mine to resist the Indians.
The Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen correspondent reports that the French Government politely refused Emperor William's offer to meet President Fallieres in the Baltic Sea as the President returned from Revel where he met Emperor Nicholas.
Mrs. Jane G. Turnbull aged 52 dies of hydrophobia after arranging her affairs and instructing cremation. She plans to have ashes sent to Scotland for burial beside a Sunday school she attended as a child. The case recalls Dr. William H. Marsh who died of the disease last May.
Danish explorer Erichsen and two companions perished in a Greenland snowstorm after departing Copenhagen on June 24, 1906. The party drifted on an ice floe, weakened, and could not return to land. The expedition had mapped large tracts and charted Greenland’s northeastern coast.
The towboats Sprague and J. B. Williams from the coal fleet were stuck on a Kentucky side sandbar near Mt. Vernon, Indiana, for days but were freed today and moved to Dekoven, Kentucky.
In Elgin Illinois on August 6 Victor Swanson of St Charles scuffles over a shotgun with friend Regnow Nelson. Swanson shoots Nelson and then turns the gun on himself. Nelson is dying and Swanson is dead.
A blast shattered the Harrison Avenue Viaduct injuring several residents and uprooting a pier. Police say a nitroglycerin charge caused the explosion and a suspect was questioned then released. Names include John Ernst Amelia Herrmann Mary Heim, with 20 000 dollars property loss and no clear motive given.
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