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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
1
Sheriff Crawley led a large posse scouring the mountains as a possible attack loomed over the town. Captain Waddell and soldiers visited mines in the afternoon to secure land claiming a stake against an anticipated assault.
The report describes the death of Richard Ross in Stearns Kentucky after the miner case at theerran hotel and the funeral of United States Marshal John Mullins in Mullins Station Rockcastle county. Mullins, a famed moonshiner raider, was about 40 and had destroyed many stills. Federal forces planned to raid Simpson and his associates, with militia to stay until calm returns.
United States Marshal Sharp, flying to Covington, says seven men faced action at Stearns Kentucky with four jailed and three believed to hide in Tennessee. State troops now oversee order while Stearns Coal and Lumber contends the company is in the right and awaits court action.
In Nyack New York on December 27 local prophet Lee J Spangler who predicted the world would end did not materialize. A crowd of his female followers in white visited Oak Hill cemetery then went to Booth Mountain to witness the supposed event. As hours passed Spangler did not appear and followers dispersed in disappointment.
Fragmentary report indicates a Greek Synod ousted Patriarch Damianos of Jerusalem amid unspecified reforms. The text is garbled but suggests church leadership upheaval and internal conflict within the Greek Orthodox hierarchy. Further details are unreadable.
A bribery probe surrounds national bank officers accused of diverting funds to municipal depositories. Rumors mention Francis and a possible special examiner to pursue federal ties. Preliminary hearings reveal about $176000 spent, with ministers devoting sermons to municipal corruption.
The article discusses inaugural arrangements with BLAINE CLUB invitations to civic groups in Ohio and Indiana. It notes cavalry regiments and Wes Point cadets will march in full dress, and debate over the inaugural ball location. It mentions pension office building concerns and a lavish souvenir with engravings, biographical notes by Roosevelt and Cannon, and a projected 200000 visitors to Washington for inaugural week.
Analysis notes electricity as a superior power for rail tunnels, citing Long Island experiments, third rail systems in New York, and widening interest from the Lackawanna and Jersey lines. It discusses Washington’s smoke issues, rail credit limits, and cases like Grand Trunk and Hoosac tunnel modernization, with projected future electrification across major lines.
A wave of prohibition reshapes the South with many areas becoming dry by year’s start. States limit liquor sales to cities, while Georgia experiments with near prohibition and others push for statewide laws amid enforcement and revenue concerns.
The Northern Pacific considers new power sources to haul trains through its western mountain section near Livingston Montana. The note appears in a 1908 compilation highlighting the American Fur Industry.
Cleveland dispatch reports plans to honor Commodore Perry and commemorate the 1813 Lake Erie victory. Ohio to invite Britain to join a peace carnival and joint industrial exhibition on Put-in-Bay in 1918. A governor appointed commission will draft a program and seek legislative funding this winter.
Jewelry worth 6000 dollars was stolen from Mrs Patterson, formerly Miss Schimtold of St Louis. Police report one arrest in connection with the case.
Fire at an unidentified town in Pennsylvania destroyed the opera house and adjacent business property, causing extensive damage estimated at $78,000. The blaze, reported December 31, left the structure in ruins as investigators began assessing the scene in REWISBURG.
President Theodore Roosevelt invites Canada to designate representatives to join US and Mexico in Washington for February 18 1909 conference on conservation of natural resources. Conference aims to draft a general plan promoting continental welfare and mutual protection, advisory in nature.
William J. Calhoun, once Roosevelt’s special investigator, led a mass meeting in Chicago to support Russian refugee Rudowicz facing extradition for arson robbery and murder in Courland, Russia. Calhoun argues the evidence is flimsy and warns against sending him back, risking American liberty.
John Stormer, a Johnstown blacksmith, shot his wife and her brother William Kurtz and Kurtz's wife in McKeesport and then killed himself. Domestic trouble is blamed. Mrs Stormer survived with injuries. Imér Kurtz died at the scene.
Williams Jefferson Powell, heir to a half million dollars and Baltimore society, was sentenced to 130 days in the city workhouse on a variant charge. He plans to claim his fortune at age 25, three months after his release. Powell, educated and refined, ran away from his guardian in 1903, joined the Nineteenth Battery Field Artillery, and served in the Philippines before being sent to Vancouver Barracks.
Virginia City Mont December 27. At 430 pm this section was struck by the severest of a week long series of earthquakes. The electric power plant was put out of commission and the city is in darkness. Over the past week there were more than thirty shocks with pronounced movement. Today's tremor cracked buildings threw down plaster and disturbed dishes.
Idan Methanga reports in New York that a demonstration of two hundred thousand labor men is planned for next Sunday to protest jail sentences handed to Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison. The Central Federated union formed a committee of thirty to arrange, adopted resolutions, and sent a copy to President Roosevelt. The federation urged unions not to seek pardon, maintaining no crime was committed and pardons would be improper.
Charles Callahan a watchman aged 45 died after his feet soaked in kerosene while trying to start a smoldering coal fire near a watchbox. His charred body was found by police.
Dr Morris May Jr, 87, former district physician with a large practice, died after an illness lasting the week. He formerly operated a practice at the corner of Third Street and Sycamore Street, near 239 Mac.
Special dispatch from Glasgow Kentucky reports Miss Mahas Carver, a well known singer, wed today before a large crowd of about 600 people including many of her friends and children in attendance at the ceremony.
Stanford University professor George Hempl announces a decipherment key for Etruscan tomb inscriptions. He says the translations suggest Etruscans and Romans shared roots, refuting the view of completely distinct peoples and implying revisions to Italian history and Latin etymology.
Union City Tenn December 27 With three witnesses remaining the state will probably close its case against the alleged night riders on trials here The hearing of evidence will be continued tomorrow and the defense will probably have its inning with the beginning of the afternoon session or court The jury escorted by deputy sheriffs attended a church today.
Thomas Foster, an early Cincinnati pioneer and former grocery store owner at 2212 Broadway, died at his son in law Elmer Butterfield's home at 4407 Columbia Avenue Madisonville. Foster, nicknamed a Scotchman with Carnegie like appearance, retired after adopting daughter Butterworth and his death followed a short illness from pneumonia.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention Daly One product and bromoquinine.
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