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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1908
Page
7
Chicago markets close heavy with prices unchanged to fractionally lower as lower cables and a large new crop movement dampen wheat. Corn and oats slip on favorable weather while provisions end firmer on packer demand. Receipts rise in Minneapolis, Duluth, Chicago and Kansas City amid quiet trading.
New York price activity showed weaker early wheat with large receipts and liquidation, later aided by big clearances. Corn and oats offered mixed results, rye and barley steady to lower, while livestock and oil markets remained subdued amid quiet trading across major exchanges from Buffalo to Duluth and Minneapolis.
Market notes show flour prices for patent and clear grades, Timothy seed, corn meal, bran, and hay ranges. Also listed are whisky, cotton ties, hemp twine, pork and lard quotes, dry salted meats, bacon, and receipt and shipment totals for flour wheat corn and oats.
Cincinnati reports a week-over-week rise in cattle receipts with Chicago showing a 30,000 Monday inflow. Prices eased 10 to 15 cents, with milk cows steady and steers and cows in varied ranges. hogs sold lower on open, pigs weak, while sheep and lambs remained slow but steady in places like East Buffalo and Pittsburgh.
Articles of association filed in Columbus list multiple Ohio companies with cities and capitalization including Boat Boat Handler Company Cincinnati 10000, L H Goodwin Company Cincinnati 100000, Fremont Lumber and Supply Company Fremont 25000, and others. Changes include name updates for Cleveland Gas and Electric Fixture Company to Conneaut Company, Fox Stove Company to Fox Stove and Furniture Company with capital increase from 12000 to 20000, among entries for Toledo Newark Dayton and more.
Paris reports Miss Winfred Parsons, whose body with a bullet to the head was found in her apartments, left a letter to Daniel, the valet of her deceased fiancé, saying she could not bear to live.
Final week of the Metropolitan Opera Company at Chester Park draws big crowds for Rigoletto with top principals including Mr Sheehan Miss Hemmi Mr Richards Mr Metcalfe Miss Crawford and others. A free vaudeville bill features Winderman’s bears and a large lineup including George M Cohan’s ensemble and a new act The Belle of the Barbers Ball. Tickets go on sale Thursday.
Beginning the coming Sunday after noon the Barlow Minstrels, a leading burnt cork troupe, start a week long engagement at Chester Park in the free vaudeville pavilion. The program includes Labor Day shows with afternoon and evening performances.
The Free Setters Quartet, based in Cincinnati, headlines next week's Columbia bill. Members Frank Pickett Rickett Joe Murray Edward Drury and Johnnie Jones perform a full staged act with piano ballads coon songs and dances. They head to Indianapolis after Columbia then a week at the Mary Anderson Theater in Louisville.
B E Forrester presents the musical comedy Playing the Ponies at the Walnut next week featuring Yorke and Adams. The show promises a defined plot, elaborate scenery, 300 electric lights, and stage pictures of Sheepshead Bay and Luna Park with a company of fifty.
Ideal picnic weather fuels a lively close to the season at Coney Island with Labor Day marking the near departure. In thirteen days the boys and girls lose access to the seaside fun, yet bargains beckon next Friday with a better programme and free school supplies for scholars.
Holcombe and his band presented A Country Circus at the Zoo last night. The show featured spielers Indians a trained elephant a slide for life and side show tents recreating a bygone era. Miss Woodward the soprano joined in the fun as the act proved a novelty and will be repeated tonight after the regular program.
A performer rides a 26 inch inside globe rolling down an iron rail incline, leaping a 30 foot gap and rebounding into a rope net after 126 revolutions in 30 seconds. A shapely woman exits the globe unscathed as the act ends and the crowd cheers. Eto Baker and Helen Walters were also encored after a viewer cried Soap Bubbles.
Promoters rush to open next Sunday evening at the Grand featuring the famous minstrels of George M. Cohan and Sam Harris. The act includes star performer George Evans known as the Honey Boy.
Chester Park will close on Labor Day but will host amateur vaudeville contests in the big pavilion. Prizes will be offered for the best acts by nonprofessionals. The first exhibition is set for Sunday September 13 in the afternoon and evening. Amateur performers of any act may enter by contacting the Amateur Manager at Chester Park city.
Dr. T Dent Cotton of Mt. Vernon Ohio meets with Al G Field and local minstrel men in Columbus to raise a fund for a monument to Dan Emmett author of Dixie. Emmett is buried in a nearby cemetery without a marker.
Friday marks the last masque carnival at Chester Park roof garden ballroom. Lyman Howe’s moving pictures start a two week Lyric Theater preview next Sunday afternoon. The Outlaw's Christmas opens at Heuck's. The Rocky Mountain Express earns Lyceum praise. Next Sunday The Indian's Secret opens at the Lyceum. The Follies of the Day is a People's hit with burlesque and a Salome dance finale drawing applause.
A 45 year old unidentified woman was attacked by two men on Amsterdam avenue at Ninetyeth street. They grabbed her bag and strangled her as a trolley neared. She was flung under a moving car and killed. the assailants fled toward the Hudson River. The motorman Thomas Murphy described a desperate struggle before the fatal impact.
John Ringgold of Cincinnati Grand Chancellor of the Ohio Knights of Pythias was announced as the chief speaker at the semi annual Butler County Pythian reunion to be held at Okeana on September 12. Walter B. Harlan will also speak.
William Weighe longtime immigration bureau board member died at home in Pittsburgh after a short illness following indigestion in New York. Former president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers. Reverend Thomas N Arnold prominent Southern Christian Church minister died en route to Versailles Ky aged 84. Jules Simbau Monterey Cal restaurant keeper longtime friend of Robert Louis Stevenson died at home aged 89. Colonel T D G Evans Canadian military officer died in Battle Creek Michigan of apoplexy after August illness.
Beach Hargis murder trial delayed as court handles Ed Mullins case. Commonwealth seeks change of venue amid claims of county sentiment and Hargis fortune involvement. Judge J P Adams declines to preside until new judge appointed. trial jury likely a week. Bradley Day and Evelyn Hogg assist defense. Mrs Hargis seeks to influence proceedings.
William Jennings Bryan and party arrived in Indianapolis from Chicago to attend a major gathering where John Worth Kern would be formally named as the Vice Presidential nominee. Bryan spoke at multiple stations, received numerous flowers and fruit gifts, and drew large crowds in Hammond Cedar Lake Rensselaer Monon Monticello Delphi Rossville Frankfort Kirklin Sheridan Westfield and Carmel praising Democracy and the Denver platform.
A deaf mute picnic at Riverside Park in Wichita ends with Prof. Sparks stranded in a sycamore after his parachute catches. a bystander cuts loose the parachute and throws the rope up. Sparks climbs down, quipping he jumped from 2000 feet and preferred not to descend by rope.
At Fort Gibson Arkansas on August 24 about 50 percent of the local potato crop was ruined by continuous rain. The past week brought favorable digging weather and about 100 cars have been shipped.
In London a New Orleans mining engineer, Harold Titcomb, marries Miss Ethel Brignall, sister-in-law of artist Ralph Peacock. The couple met via a painting titled The Two Sisters and plan a honeymoon in Candida and Maine. Titcomb will live in England with his bride.
Dr La Franco of Philadelphia touts a compound regulator described as safe and speedy and priced at 25 cents. Drugists or mall distribution points offer a free booklet explaining the product's claims.
Notice offers translations of English advertisements into Hindustani Bengali Tamil Telugu Burmese Gujarati and other Indian dialects at moderate terms Cor respondence invited A WANTED stocks of clothing and dry goods from Ezekiel and Bernheim Co Cincinnati pricing details likely sought
The Martha Washington Hotel, built for women, opens its doors to men without prior passes. A roof garden addition prompts a new policy allowing unescorted gentlemen to access the roof. Waitresses are instructed to be courteous. Cocktails offered feature fruit, mint, and rice lemonade.
In Cleveland on August 24 a street car fire followed a fuse blow causing smoke to rise through the floor. The motorman was ejected through a vestibule window as the car ran a block before stopping. Dozens, including women and children, leaped to the pavement and suffered severe bruises and burns.
A collision between Wentworth avenue and Twenty sixth street street cars caused a stampede injuring seven people, with two possibly fatally hurt. Misunderstanding between motormen led to a middle impact that derailed the Twenty sixth street car and trapped passengers who broke windows and fought to escape. Edward King, conductor, and Frank Wilke, motorman, were among the most seriously hurt.
On August 19 1908 Edward Schumann and others filed in Hamilton County Ohio Probate Court a petition to form a new special school district in Delhi Township with boundaries matching the existing district. A hearing is set for October 1 1908 at 9 30 a.m. in the Probate Court. Legal counsel IRETON COLLINS SCHOENLE & POOR represent petitioners.
Engineers in Wheeling West Virginia seek seal bids for building a power house at Ohio River Dams 18 19 and 26. Proposals must be received by 11 a.m. Eastern time on August 26 1908 and will be publicly opened. Information from Captain F W Altstaetter Engineers Office.
London August 24 reports a new book by a Lord Chamberlain’s aide detailing exact dress for court and civilian wear. It covers waistcoats materials, embroidery widths, shirt fronts, stockings, and accessories while noting American fashion in London.
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