03 Jan 1897
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1897
Page
1
Coverage notes a deadly tornado striking Arkansas with fatalities and widespread destruction. Other items tease Navy signals, tariffs debates, court news, and society notes across the issue. The page also lists obituaries, marriages, and regional notices.
A provocative claim accuses a Franco German sham of menacing the Kaiser’s throne. The piece frames revolutionary talk and implied action as a direct hazard to imperial authority.
This historical note traces life long perseverance and success in a chosen line of work amid struggles over Cuban rights and Spanish actions. It highlights determinations and notable battles in defense of Cuban livelihoods.
A long profile of Nat Paige of Washington, tracing his roots from Albany to Chicago and Washington. The piece covers his Civil War reporting, political ties with the Fish family, and battles over Cuba policy and cabinet influence, detailing alliances with Grant era figures and the Websters amid Cuban struggles.
The Hon. William McKinley President-elect appears alongside I Jaycome Wayback of Timpkinsville in a staged piece titled Persistence A Pantomime. An office boy figure features in the cast across five applications and one appointment.
Coroner's jury reports Joseph B. McCullagh died by falling from a window while trying to escape gas effects in an accident. St Louis editors hold services and condemn Dr. C H Hughes for first asserting suicide, calling him a public prosecutor in error.
Albert J. Frantz, convicted murderer of Bessie Little, was brought to Dayton court as lawyers seek a new trial. Judge Brown grants reasonable time to present witnesses. case may be disposed of if not ready soon. Frantz, appearing pale, is under heavy guard and a threatening letter to Police Chief Farrell and jury foreman Davis is noted.
The New Jersey Central opposes ex pressmen carrying bundles on trains, challenging United States Express exclusive rights. A depot confrontation prompted detectives and Police Justice Douglass to intervene, ordering arrests if needed, and the commuter boarded with his bundles as tensions rise and threats of impeachment loom.
A sanctification meeting at Tyrone Methodist Church three miles east of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, conducted by Rev. J. M. Wilson and his wife and three daughters. Two daughters are from Nashville Tennessee and the others from Wilmore Kentucky. The event is dated January 2.
A report notes seventeen persons missing in an incident, among them Captain Murphy and novelist Crane. Authorities search for clues and identify possible leads as rescue teams mobilize. The event draws national interest and raises questions about the cause and location of the disappearance.
Jacksonville Florida January 2 1900 news reports fear for Captain Murphy novelist Crane and fifteen missing crew members of the Commodore after the vessel struck St Johns bar while leaving, listing and sinking. A second mate and eleven men reached shore at Daytona while others are unaccounted.
Jacksonville reports Cuba n crews face loss after the Commodore sinks twenty miles southeast of Mosquito Light. Ten men reach safety in an open boat. the rest of the crew are en route, with Dauntless rescuing and delivering men and cargo to Key No Name. Contact and condition details remain unclear.
The report notes munitions storage in the area with over ten carloads awaiting transport. The warship Newarks sails beyond the bar to aid revenue cutters while the Dauntless prepares to return loaded for Cuba as Bisbee asserts.
Major Ricardo Delgado and eleven Cuban survivors arrived by train from New Smyrna telling of the wreck off Mosquito Inlet. The Commodore sank about twenty miles offshore after pumps failed and fires were extinguished. Two boats were found empty while a third carried twelve men. Stephen Crane and Captain Murphy were in another boat and have not been heard from.
Rev. Dr. A. J. Diaz publishes two letters from General Antonio Maceo and General J. M. Aguirre urging Cuban independence without Spanish subsidy. Maceo states no payment for independence and warns U S intervention may not aid Cuba, favoring united effort and blood if needed. Aguirre praises Diaz’s aid to Cuban rights in the United States.
A Warsaw dispatch reports the exhumation of Countess Helena Potocka, who died December 25 and was buried December 26. Rumors claimed she was buried alive or in catalepsy, and the family sought proof by exhuming the body yesterday.
Miss Opal E. Reynolds of 834 Cawthon Street was summoned for jury duty in Judge Toney's division next week in Louisville. Deputy Renfro found the summons surprising as Reynolds, a young woman, hesitated saying her mother might not permit it. The drawing of her name was described as a mistake.
Abstract of the condition of Cincinnati National banks shows a reserve of 37.69 percent, up from 33.10 percent. Loans and discounts rise from 22,030,065 to 27,136,300. deposits grow from 17,934,280 to 18,362,995. other totals increase across stock, gold, specie, and interbank items.
John J. Down of Graham's Station arrives in Parkersburg to search for Belle Windom daughter of a Racine Ohio blooded horse dealer. The missing young woman left home yesterday on an Ohio River Railroad train headed toward Marietta and appeared hatless and coatless seeking a telephone to the city. She had no money and no reason given for the departure.
The Ohio Attorney General says Western Union will likely take the 30 day period to pay the Nichols law taxes and then pay the principal. He expects the 18% penalty to be collected by suit if needed and sees no trouble obtaining the funds.
Lieutenant H. S. Whipple, who probed Christmas trouble involving the Bars pourville State Guards, advised the governor to disband the company. He reported the incident from Frankfort on January 2.
Southern Arkansas Northern Texas and Northwest Louisiana faced a severe wind and rain storm leaving many dead and much property destroyed. Morningsport Louisiana reportedly wiped out. Benton suffered twenty five homes blown down. Telegraph lines down hinder details. Goofsman family of five killed. Morgan family injured. train relief sent to affected towns.
Mrs. Emil Selig, a wedding guest staying at the Denison Hotel, asked police and hotel management to recover a bag of jewels left under her pillow. She arrived for a wedding and left for St. Louis yesterday. No trace of the valuables has been found despite the telegram received.
Mrs. Carrie Carr, confined in the city hospital insane ward, escaped by climbing from a window and hanging thirty to forty feet above brick pavement. Nurse Miss Sarah Cassell lowered herself out the window to steady the patient as two men with ladders brought her safely down after the perilous ascent.
The Owensboro Kentucky grand jury report states no evidence was received sufficient to issue indictments in the mob investigation. The December term of the Circuit Court adjourned this afternoon.
John Blondin, a Portsmouth carpenter and Civil War veteran, sues to recover a fortune left to charity by his late Baltimore merchant father. Westminster County Court awarded him 180000 dollars as trustees prepare an appeal.
In Jeffersonville Indiana on January 2 eleven year old Roy Friend died after a 22 caliber revolver given by his father Charles Friend a farmer discharged while the boy tried to remove the loads. The bullet entered his eye and he died shortly after.
Paris Walters, 17, visited Linsey Conley's home near Paintsville Kentucky and shot Linsey Conley to death. The killing follows an August school election row in which Walters shot George N. Walters, brother of Paris, and he remains at large.
Charles Schuherd of Piedmont shot himself in a Barton hotel this morning. He left a sealed note to his sweetheart Florence Andrews and an open message saying he died for love and requested attendees bring red flowers to his funeral.
Elwood Indiana January 2 The McKinley Lodge A A of L A and T W passes a resolution condemning the American Federation of Labor action at its Cincinnati annual meeting on the silver question. The lodge says that endorsing politics within labor organizations destroys their purpose and intent.
London dispatch notes 1897 opens with restraint despite rising armament costs and Franco German tensions. It argues the real danger lies in Western Europe as disputes over budgets and France's stimulus for war shape a volatile political climate.
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