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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1908
Page
1
A brief labor notice reports the Glassworkers Union 15 scoring for a labor trust, noting employment and union activity within the trade. The item frames the action as a union aligned effort affecting workers and employer relations.
Judge George L. Phillips dissolves the Amalgamated Window Glass Workers of America as a labor trust and orders the funds held in trust while a new National Window Glass Workers association forms. The decision ends the union’s by laws restraining machinery use and its contracts, with notice of appeal filed by defendants.
Leo Bockemohle, cashier of Ellinwood Bank, shot himself at his home after bondsmen surrendered him and he faced a court date. The Bank of Ellinwood, founded 23 years ago by his father, had recently been in scrutiny for a false statement of its condition.
Six railway companies were convicted in U.S. District Court of violating the federal safety appliance law. Elgin Joliet & Western fined 3800 plus costs. Grand Trunk Western 300. Belt Railway 200. Atchison Topeka Santa Fe 100. Chicago Northwestern punishment suspended. Michigan Central punishment suspended. Rulings held interstate commerce status made lines liable.
San Francisco January 24 The Central Bank of Oakland records a mortgage on Jack London's home after officers found no trace of the author since he set out in the frail Snark to circle the world. The loan was for outfitting the craft and was held unrecorded as long as London’s safety seemed assured.
President Samuel Gompers in The American Federationist denounces Judge Goulds injunction against AFL Buck Stove dispute as an invasion of press liberty. He vows to defend constitutional rights and protest enforcement while clarifying no intent to disobey law.
Mrs. Emily Yznaga, mother of the dowager Duchess of Manchester and Lady Sister Key, died in Natchez while en route to her Lake St. Johns estate in Louisiana. Widow of Fernando Yznaga, she was 75 and formerly Miss Clements of Louisiana. mother of Fernando Yznaga Jr. who married a Vanderbilt.
Franklin County Grand Jury charges the International Harvester Company of Milwaukee with conspiring with McCormick Champion Deering and Osborne to regulate prices on mowers reapers binders and other harvesting machinery. Penalty under Kentucky antitrust law ranges from 1000 to 5000 dollars per offense.
In Columbus Ohio on January 24 the Senate met briefly and took up multiple items. Senator Vanover introduced a bill to create an additional election precinct in Canaan Township Wayne County. The Senate discussed the Rose local option bill with Senator Drake denying a change of mind and planning to join on a favorable report with Senators Atwell and Sites. The session also considered the Crist library bill and other measures, while hospital and constitutional amendment debates continued.
In Hamilton Ohio the Christian and Missionary Alliance faced scrutiny over nightly services in a North B street room. Investigations focus on alleged hypnotic influence by leader Osceola Clinton while doctrine touts Holy Ghost power, healing by laying on of hands, and an impending second coming.
Port de Paix, thirty five miles west of Cape Haitien, is in rebel hands as of January 24. An English and a French cruiser are awaited to protect British and French interests. American Consular agent Charles Miot, a Haitian, has been dismissed by the American Legation for collusion with the rebels.
Samuel R. Hamill of Terre Haute Ind a counsel for John R Walsh in the banker s recent trial died in the Auditorium Hotel from pneumonia. He had been ill several days with his condition once thought not hopeless.
A major winter storm paralyses New York City and surrounding area causing four deaths from exposure including Captain William H. Kincaid. Traffic, rail, and ferry services halt. coal prices rise and ships face heavy seas with several vessels driven aground or rerouted.
Storm damaged property along the Jersey coast with seas breaking over bulkheads and flooding Sea Bright streets between the ocean and the Shrewsbury River. Cottages piers pavilions and roads suffered general damage as Mayor Packer of Seabright directed efforts.
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