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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
4
County boards of control debate a new pool for tobacco and crop trust actions. Farmers fear delays and low returns while talks on independent and trust roles continue. Prices may rise in the next two years as bids and sales shape the 1909 crop market.
Union City Tenn Dec 3 Twenty three additional indictments were read by the grand jury in the Reelfoot Lake night rider raids raising total indictments to 133. The charges implicate captains and signal use of judge Matthews in releases and rearrests await trial as a special term of court opens Monday. W M Mayo former deputy sheriff and Charles Gray and O Dammels from the lake district were released today.
Dr Satpel H Halley of Meadow Farm Lexington purchased property from Mrs James F Pepper and hid guards to harvest and protect his tobacco crop. He posted a tower guard at night and used rockets to deter riders while courthouses and police coordinated rapid response to alarms. Despite threats, Halley’s crop was safely harvested and sold.
Washington announces the annual message to Congress will be read at the start of the second session. The Senate plans a brief adjournment for Senatorial memorials and new member swearing in. Speaker Cannon says the House will adjourn after new appointees are sworn in and a committee will notify the president.
Dispatch from UMBUSE Ohio reports the state board of pardons held its regular monthly meeting with surprisingly few cases acted upon in favor. Rejected cases included John Green Hamilton burglary ten years, George Herper shooting to wound ten years, Stanley Mayerfield Hamilton robbery twelve years, William Spencer Cuyahoga forgery one year. Marie Bernardo Cleveland girl serving life for murder last winter was not considered.
An Ohio wife reports her husband long troubled by stomach issues and post operative weakness. After six months in hospital and appendectomy, he lost weight until 108 pounds. a diet of Grape-Nuts with cream, eggs, malt, toast, milk, and baked potato restored strength.
Citizens' company directors weigh backing a salary loan enterprise to outpace payday sharks. City officials including Auditor Von Bargen and Assistant City Solicitor Morrill press the crackdown, while Tolman’s agreement forms surface amid condemnation talk.
Constantinople witnessed an unprecedented scene as municipal ballot boxes were carried through the streets in a two mile procession escorted by troops and bands. Delegates from religious bodies joined the event marking a historic civic display. A protocol between Turkey and Montenegro settling their boundary dispute was signed in the city with minor Munihor changes.
The International Live Stock exposition directors elected officers tonight in Chicago with Alvin H. Sanders re-elected president, A. T. Lovejoy as first vice president, Colonel W. E. Skinner as second vice president, and Mortimer Lovering as secretary and treasurer.
Do your Christmas shopping early in the season and at the start of the day, aiding the hard working women and staff who serve customers.
An article praises the Toledo hospital as a model of humane care for the insane. It notes use of gentle restraints, outdoor air, and sleep as therapies, and credits staff innovations like a safety bath and gas-escape device. It discusses heredity and environment as causes, the need for liquor reforms, and the broader social aim of uplifting care.
A note on how delivering small parcels affects scheduling. The phrase links home deliveries to reduced shift lengths for saleswomen drivers and delivery staff.
In Toledo on December 3 a jury remains incomplete after three days of effort in the murder case against Jyvey Hazel a 17 year old indicted for killing his mother on January 11. Of seventy nine men examined nearly half oppose capital punishment.
The United States circuit court in Richmond deliberated briefly before acquitting Alexander P. Gilbert assistant general freight agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway on charges of unlawful revating. The jury rendered its verdict after five minutes of deliberation.
Mrs Abbie B Rice continued her testimony in the murder trial of Charles E Davis for Sept 2 killing of Dr Austin. Court rulings limited and later permitted her narrative including alleged past to influence three lives. She cried when mentioning Rustin s mother as the testimony extended into the day.
Miss Estelle Stout was exonerated by a coroner's jury in Chicago after being found to have fired only as Hornberger felled her sister with a blow and endangered her sister's life. The commission concluded the shooting occurred while the sister was in imminent danger.
180 to 12 in the event log shows savings as orders can be packed during the day. The change reduces night work and speeds service.
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America opens with 400 delegates from 33 denominations, about 18 million members. Bishop E R Hendrix of Kansas City is elected president, with Rev Dr Rivington D Lord named permanent recording secretary and Alfred B Kimball as treasurer as debates include over denominational distinctions.
ST. PAUL Minn Dec 3 Timothy R Palmer a former president of a Minnesota insurance company committed suicide in his room after resigning earlier in the day Melancholia and illness are cited as possible motives Palmer had been ill but continued duties before his death in his residence today
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