Covington Officials Dismissed as Board Quickly Replaces Them
Covington police and fire officials lose their jobs after a board meeting led by Mayor John J. Craig. Night Lieutenant Joseph Mossbacher and several officers are removed, replaced by promoted patrolmen and substitute officers amid political rumors. Firemen J Rathman Koenig are dropped. others are promoted. Police Chief Schuler reports 1907 arrests and outlines proposals for a workhouse and juvenile detention, with bids sought for a new firehouse. Harbick announces imminent retirement from the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington
Board of Police and Fire Commissioners
John J. Craig
Joseph Mossbacher
Charles Rothenhoefer
Ed Dressman
Peter Smith
Phil Gerrein
Dan Crout
Dennis Fahey
William Langley
George Steventon
al Beach
Homer Webb
Sid Fox
L. R. Smith
Steventon
Rothenhoefer
J. Rathman
Heftman Koenig
Richard Dwyer
Schuler
Old Town Hall
John P. Harbick
Newport Unemployed Ask Aid From City
Henry Viehman was sworn in as Sergeant at arms after a council vote. Mayor Krieger pardoned Brooks Frazier on condition he stay out of Newport for a year. Court Baker was confirmed as City Attorney. An unemployed group led by Walter Landfersiek urged immediate city action to create work for 200 to 800 residents, proposing a petition to Mayor Krieger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Viehman
Newport
Court Baker
Krebs
Henry Neu
Walter Landfersiek
Newport Board of Aldermen
Council Chamber
Landfersick
Socialist Party
Meeschell
Reusch
Krieger
General Council
Chicago
Grand Jury
President Moffett
Landis
Moffett
Interstate Commerce Commission
Lignite Coal Mining Company Formed by Covington Men
Articles filed with County Clerk John C. B. Yates reveal the Lignite Coal Mining Company formed by Covington businessmen to engage in coal mining timber land coke ovens gas oil lines and railroad operations. Capital stock is 100000 with multiple named incorporators and officers all residents of Covington. mines and land at Middlesboro Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lignite Coal Mining Company
Covington
John C. B. Yates
George T. Beach
J. A. Downard
E. L. Pieck
John Hoffman
O. H. Roetken
H. B. Schuler
Sidney Arthur
William F. Githam
C. A. Meyerratken
A. G. Methven
A. J. Craig
Lee Strouse
W. E. Gunn
J. I. Fitzpatrick
E. S. Helburn
J. F. Bosworth
C. W. Metcalfe
A. H. Bennebaum
Pia Meyerrathen
BE. L. Pieck
A. J.craig
W. FE. Gunn
Middlesboro
Machine Hand Severely Injured at City Plant
Joseph Tabeling, 17, of 94 East Twentieth street Covington, was badly hurt at the J Ray Egan Co. plant Front and John streets Cincinnati when a lathe broke and a fragment struck his head. He has a deep scalp wound and facial bruises and may lose sight in one eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Tabeling
East Twentieth Stret
Covington
J. Ray & Egan Company
Front
John Streets
Cincinnati
Covington Notes See Mayors Meeting Plan and Local Events
Mayor John J. Craig will call a January 28 meeting in Frankfort for mayors and city solicitors of second class cities. Newport Mayor Edward Krieger approved the plan. Women’s clubs in Vineton plan a mass meeting to form an Educational Association League. Miss Luella Boyd hosts. Mrs. Fannie Latham died in Erlanger, and a two horse survey rig from Joseph Myers & Sons Covington was stolen by a man named Hill from Cincinnati, who hired it Tuesday morning and has not returned it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Craig
Frankfort
Craig
Edward Krieger
Newport
Vineton
Luella Boyd
Educational Association League
Kate Udder
Fannie Latham
Erlanger
Joseph Myers & Sons
Covington
Hill, Ofincinnati
Land transfers and subdivisions in Milldale area noted
Master Commissioner transfers list several deeds involving Walker Minnie Hall James M Tisdale Latonia and Milldale Land Company's subdivisions including lots 236 237 28 238 and others with Cincinnati Southern Railway station proximity in Kenton County hints of parcel reshuffling and trustee actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walker
Minnie Hall
Jasper
Anna Karlage
Milldale
Cota
James M. Tisdate
Milldale Land Company
Latonia
Cies Aiker
James M. Tisdale
Govington Marriage License Notice
A marriage license record lists applicants Brown and Hopkinsville with residence Wilmington Delaware and age details. The notice records the filing location and parties involved in the Govington area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Wilmington
Odis
Hopkinsville
Kys
Newport Spotlights Sixteen Wagon Loads of Tobacco
Sixteen wagon loads of good grade leaf tobacco lined Monmouth street in Newport, stored at W. E. Petty’s Fifth street warehouse. The crop, raised in upper Campbell County, totals over 500000 pounds for the season. Farmers bring tobacco to Newport fearing raiders, and Petty reports purchases of about 20000 pounds with police guarding the warehouse nightly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monmouth Street
Fifth
Sixth
Newport
Campbell County
W. E. Petty
Mr. Petty
James Alley
Petty
Aho
Fifth Street
American Tobacco Company
Covington Aldermen Pass Bids and Improvements Resolutions
City actions direct the Clerk to advertise for bids to sell gravel screenings sand and cement and for cleaning City and Police Courtrooms. A separate measure to bid for horses carts and a stable for Public Works was referred to committee. Also approved fifty two arc lamps for Central Covington. Library Trustees receive free water. Beitzer estate salary approved and Linneman paid for tax collection help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covington
Board of Library Trustees
John L. Beitzer
Linneman
Dward Linneman
Beitzer
Woman Trapped in City Court Vault for Half Hour
Deputy Julia Bodkin was locked inside the airtight fireproof court records vault for about thirty minutes. Her fellow workers failed to hear her cries until another deputy, discovering her absence, opened the vault. She suffered severe nervous shock but was rescued unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Bodkin
Frank Droege
Old Method in Divorce Trials May Return in Newport Circuit
The Newport Circuit Court under Judge C W Yungblut may revive the old method where testimony in divorce cases is heard on depositions rather than in open court. The court bulletin notes motions to note filing of depositions and to submit for judgment on such testimony, suggesting a shift from the late Judge Berry’s oral-trial practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport Circuit Court
C. W. Yungblut
Berry
Circuit Court
Yungblutt
Chicago
Dalton
Chicago and
Eastern Illinois
Illinois
Custody Given Cousin Over Boy’s Salary
Judge Moore in Newport Juvenile Court placed William Atwood a minor under the custody of his cousin Harry Kirk to prevent his weekly salary from going to his father. The 16 year old had been living with Kirk since arriving from Peru Indiana and worked at Donaldson Lithographing Company sending earnings to his destitute mother. Testimony showed the father failed to support the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Atwood
Judge Moore
Newport
Harry Kirk
Peru
Ind
Donaldson Lithographing Company
Newport groom outwits mother and clerk for marriage
Archie Bowen 21, of Newport, secured a license to wed Miss Fannie O Connell when his mother protested. Deputy Clerk John Mospens swapped the license for $2, claimed an age issue, and Bowen hurried to Covington to obtain a second license before marrying at the Immaculate Conception Church parsonage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Mospens
Fannie O’connell
Archie Bowen
Newport
Bowen
Clerk Mospens
Miss O'Connell
Father McNerney
Immaculate Conception Church
O'Connell
Mospens
Covington
Kenton Court Notes Tangle with Rail Tracks and Trial Dockets
The Kenton Circuit Court heard a case by Francis M. Marshall of Covington claiming mental agony after wandering on L and N Railroad tracks at Ryland Station. Other actions included B F Graziani suing Helen McLean for $250 in services, estate settlement appeals, a murder case appeal, a street railway dispute settled, and a robbery indictment dropped. Also listed were a Chinaman Hop Lung judgment, fines for slot machine break in Pike Street, and a bankruptcy petition against J B Oakley with listed claims from several creditors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville & Nashville
Ryland Station
Francis M. Marshall
Covington
Kenton
Marshall
Roland
B. F. Graziani
Helen McLean
H. P. Stephens
R. L. Crigler
W. McD. Shaw
John Johnson
Annie Tribbles
J. A. Davis
South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Harry Donovan
Commonwealth
Donovan
Charles Wagner
A. Wintermeyer
Hop Lung
Reay
George Phillips
Harrison Hall
Pike Street
United States
J. B. Oakley
London
Cincinnati Glass and China Company
A. G. Schwab
G. Schwab
Kruse Hardware Company
Standard of! Company
Residents and Ages in West Manchester Notice
Names and ages listed for residents in West Manchester Ohio. Harry Brown aged 21 and Ethel Ruff aged 2 are shown with their residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Brown
West Manchester
Commissioner Smith and the Standard Oil Case Reopened
The piece revisits President Moffett’s Standard Oil defense and Commissioner Smith’s rebuttal. It argues Smith’s assertions misstate tariff origins and concealment, contending the six cent rate was not properly filed and that the 18 cent rate harmed no independent shippers. It criticizes political aims and cites Roosevelt era judicial views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Knox Smith
Moffett
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Standard Oil Company
Whiting
East St. Louis
Alton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Illinois
Smith
Dalton
Commissioner of Corporations
Grand Jury
Standard Oil
Landis
Ane
East Stars
Osal
Belle Vue Council Abolishes Office and Rebukes Inspector
A Belle Vue council meeting approved drawing $1,000 on the city treasury to pay a note to Campbell County Bank. An ordinance repealing the 1906 Sewer Tapping Inspector office was passed. Ex inspector Kuhlenberg is discharged and accused of inspecting without authority. Chief Seither will assume sewer tapping duties. The chief may hire workers and wagons to haul dirt from Fairfield avenue. Bids for 300 yards of broken stone will be sought. The bond of City Engineer Hornung was accepted and claims totaling $795.94 were allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bellevue Council
Campbell County Bank
Kuhlenberg
Seither
Fairfield Avenue
Hornung
Shotgun defense in Bromley burglary attempt
Roy Edward of Elm Street Bromley said he woke to find three men near Mrs Carr’s house and fired a shotgun from the yard after arming himself. He chased them toward the river as another assailant struck him with a rifle butt, prompting several shots at him that missed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Edward
Elm Street
Bromley
Carr
Edward
Tobacco Growers to Meet in Independence Ky Rally
A roaster mass meeting of tobacco growers in Independence will rally Sixth District growers with the American Society of Equity. Senator R H Elliston of Williamstown will speak as Boone Pendleton and Grant Counties attend to pledge support and urge unity with the Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
American Society of Equity
Boone
Pendleton
Grant
R. H. Elliston
Williamstown
Society of Equty
Death of R. E. Childs reported from El Paso
Word reached Newport yesterday of the death in El Paso Texas of R. E. Childs a former well known resident. The body will be returned to Newport for burial. The typhoid epidemic in Newport is reducing school attendance reports Superintendent Regenstein. A horse owned by Dairyman Henkler on the Alexandria Pike was paralyzed while being driven on Eleventh Street and was shot by Patrolman Tocher to end its suffering.
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Newport
R. E. Childs
el Paso
Tex
Regenstein
Eleventh Street
Henkler
Alexandria Pike
Tocher
Unemployed Men Fed by Socialist Party in Cincinnati
About 2,000 homeless and unemployed men were fed at Central Turner Hall on Walnut Street by the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of Cincinnati. They were served thick vegetable soup bread coffee potatoes beef and ham sandwiches in squads of twenty five. Distribution started at 10 pm and ended after midnight with no food left.
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Socialist Party of Cincinnati
Turner Hall
Walnut Street
Social and Personal Notes Highlight Madelin Visit and Local Weddings
French historian M Louis Madelin visited Cincinnati under Alliance Francaise and University auspices delivering lectures on Napoleon with stereopticon views. The social round included a Queen City Club dinner and planned tributes, plus multiple marriages and society greetings across Cincinnati and nearby communities with many residents traveling to Florida and other cities for holidays.
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M. Louis Madelin
Alliance Francaise
University of Cincinnati
Napoleon
M. Madelin
Italy
Germany
French Academy
Alliance
Queen City Club
Council of Administration of the Alliance
Charles A. L. Reed
Woman's Club
Les Femmes de la Revolution
Mme. Necker
Mme
De _ Stael
Roland and
Robespierre
Mrs Murphy and Mrs Jordan Leave Minneapolis for Daytona Visit
Mrs Murphy and Mrs Jordan of Minneapolis, guests of Mrs Theodore Dohrmann for several days, departed last evening for Daytona, Iowa, where they will stay through the cold weather. Mrs Mayerstein of Lafayette Indiana accompanies them.
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Murphy
Jordan
Minneapolis
Theodore Dohrmann
Daytona
Mayerstein
Lafayette
Ind
Social Club Hosts Euchre and Card Gatherings in Covington
Covington social notices report Edith Brennen and Mrs. Theodore Kirk hosting euchre with prizes won by Harriet Collins Frances Simrall C W Simrall Anna Holmes and Laidley Janice Conner of Jackson Mich has left after a two week visit with Helen Morris of Newport. Mrs Theodore Kirk assisted by Mrs Harry Brown hosted the Matrons Card Club. Chevalier Card Club planned a leap year dance at the Masonic Temple Covington. Chris Kruse and Mrs Kruse of Ft Thomas to entertain a cotillion for daughter Ethel with partner Albert Wiebe fifty guests expected. Joseph Rennie of Norfolk VA visiting Covington. Richard Kincheloe to spend February in Covington. Mrs J R Savage entertaining Eveline Price and F McLong. Edith McVeigh to host informal gathering Friday. Dr Fischback of Newport hosted a dance for guest Hazel Smith Pittsburg with decor and refreshments. Guests included Janice Conner Louise Kohler Elsie Leinninger Thyrza etc.
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Edith Brennen
Theodore Kirk
Covington
Kirk
Harriet Collins
Frances Simrall
C. W. Simrall
Anna Holmes
Laidley
Janice Conner
Jackson
Mich
Helen Morris
Newport
Harry Brown
Card Club
Chevalier Card Club
Masonic
J. R.savage
Eveline Price
Winchester
F. McLong
Kentucky
Edith McVeigh
Garrard Street
Dr. Fischback
Washington
Trimble Declared Republican Hope for Seattle Mayor
William P. Trimble’s candidacy for Seattle mayor was formally endorsed by a prominent citizens meeting. The resolution praises his legal training business experience honesty and city interests as reasons for support. Trimble son of Mrs. W. W. Trimble of Covington born February 2 1865 studied law in Cincinnati and holds major Seattle properties and club memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Trimble
Seattle
Wash
Trimble
W. W. Trimble
Madison Avenue
Covington
Cynthiana
Hotel Clerks Meet Plans Local Association
Twenty two hotel clerks attended a Gibson House meeting to form a local association. A committee led by Mark Harding and A C H Johnstone was formed to draft a constitution and by laws. The group will meet at the Palace Hotel to continue and election of officers is set for January 30 at the Munro Hotel. The organization aims for at least fifty members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibson House
C.H. Miller
State Hotel Clerks’ Association
Mark Harding
A. C. H. Johnstone
H. H. Fisher
Arthur’ Kirker
Marion Tyson
Palace Hotel
Munro Hotel
Women appeal to mayor over sidewalk litter law
Mrs. George B. Kerper and Mrs. Miller spoke for a civic department of the Women's Club asking the mayor the chief of police and the Board of Public Services to enforce the spitting and littering ordinances. They urged department workers to enforce the law despite children learning to keep streets clean for Ohio’s honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George B. Kerper
Miller
Women’s Club
Board of Public Services
Kerper
Board of Public Service
Ohio
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Covington and
Force
Board of Aldermen
Incorporate New Mining Company
Covington Notes
Covington R&al Estate
Govington Marriage
Society of Equity
Guy Improvement Bis
Zed
Friend
Kenton Court Notes
Commissioner Smith
The
Standard Oil Co
Railway World
Marietta
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Miss Tarbell
Bar of Justice
Theodore Roosevelt
Kenesaw Landis
Newport News
Social and Personal
Joseph Surdo
William Cooder
Mabel H. Fishwick
George T. Fishwick
Hyde Park
Clarence H. Hinsdale
Los Angeles
Cal
Dudley W. Rhodes
Mt. Auburn
and I. Fishwick
Albert Fishwick
Mr. Hi
Eleanore Peltier
Marie Louise
Louis Gustav Grandt
John Hoff
Holland House
New York
Frank Loveland
Bridge
East Walnut Hills
Paul Richardson
Angela Bering
Wold Avenue
Wilhelmina Schurmeier
Sohn
Clifton
Schurmeier
William Weichel
Evansville
Paula Brunswick
Linton Hotel
Rabbi Philipson
Eichel
Hast
Jacob Eichel
M. A. Strase
Charles J. Eichel
Samuel Hichel
Leslie P. Hichel
Moses Schwab
Hutchins Avenue
Avondale
Maurice Joseph
Rosedale Place
Bozheimer
Cleveland
California
Howard Spear, Jr
Roanoke
Joseph W. Ricker
Abraham Freiberg
Greenwood Avenue
Milwaukee
O. F. McCarty
Mitchell
Hudson
N. C
Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Mme. de la Marque
John Ledyard Lincoln
Grandin Road
Natalie Lincoln
Ormond
Fla
T. F. McClure
E. E. McClure
Regent Avenue
Norwood
Harry Banning
Ella Banning
Northside
Florida
Blanche Corinne Klein
Ben, Elias
Atlanta
Minnie Kelly
Harrison Avenue
Memphis
Tenn
Joseph N. Olivers My
William Davies
Park Avenue
M Florida
Kentucky Society
Boom Kentuckian
Republican Club
Northwestern
Metropolis
Indorses
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