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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1908
Page
60
Bargains on children’s wash dresses offered at half price at a shop located at the corner of West Fourth Street, near Vine and Race. Shoppers find affordable summer styles for youngsters with limited-time sale pricing.
Hyde Park Knox Presbyterian church ends internal conflict by keeping life tenure for elders and adding six more to create a six plus six system. The congregation also named Rev Donald M Grant as moderator after opposing nomination. City service notices include street repaving contracts awarded to McCarthy Brothers and John Rubel Bros with sums of 25984.60 and 10618.70.
Police search for G Greenlaw Gibson the Havlin hotel guest linked to multiple stays with a woman and a male companion. He allegedly paid with checks, hosted lavish rooms, then left with a trunkful of furniture after a suspicious exit. Manager John O Dowd filed a warrant.
Mayor Markbreit spoke from City Hall about daily duty as illness weakens him yet spirits stay high. Eliza Relf asked for drainage improvements fearing a pond near 2596 Madison endangers her children. issue referred to the engineer. Street and sewer crew added laborers Adam Hess James Casey Philip Schwoerer Minnie Vatontide.
Frederick H. Hartke, manager of J. M. Woodcock & Co in Chicago, will marry Miss Loretto Beoring, daughter of P. T. Morley of 2110 Gilbert avenue, Walnut Hills, in the Church of the Assumption on Gilbert avenue. A wedding breakfast will follow at the bride’s home, and the couple will depart for Northern Michigan resorts for a several week honeymoon.
Health authorities confiscated 400 gallons of warm milk at the Big Four depot after inspectors found cans at 75 degrees. Milk from Indiana Kentucky and Ohio was seized and dumped, with plans to monitor trains for noncompliant shipments.
Mrs John Hess of 121 Elder Street told detectives of a Wednesday morning spat with her husband Hess owner of a saloon below their home. She fears he has cast himself into the carffal. A caller claiming to speak for Mrs Hess said she had received a letter from him but gave no return date.
A seven year old, Lewis Schmidt of 8100 Mathers Street Walnut Hills, is reported injured after an apparent fall from a Bloody Run trestle after a possible collision with a Norfolk and Western train from Cincinnati to Columbus. Witnesses are absent and hospital staff fear fatal internal injuries as the boy’s mother, a widow, awaits word and investigators seek exact circumstances.
Helen M McGinnis age 5 fell from a second story veranda at 2164 Central Avenue and fractured an arm with contusions. Raymond Meyers age 7 at 124 West Front Street was shot in the palm and arm by a neighbor boy shooting at birds. both were taken to the city hospital for treatment.
William Norris alias Humpty Homer swam Bilder Street canal, then fled a few steps before capture by nearby teams. He allegedly fired at Patrolman Bowman, who returned fire, with no injuries. Suspect was said to be planning a robbery at Race and Elder streets and is wanted in the Fifth district for larceny.
Service Director Harry L. Manss denounced the Pardoning Board after it granted parole to Elmer Penwell, who was convicted April 22 for an attack on Otis Hughes. Manss, absent during the decision, claimed the move was political and done without his knowledge amid weeks of tension. A committee led by Member Weil now investigates Penwell’s case.
Thrice defeated presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan travels from Cincinnati to Epworth Heights where he speaks on The Prince of Peace. He dodges political questions, debates the meaning of revise during tariff talks, and appears in good health. Political maneuvers in Cincinnati include Ira D. Washburn seeking mayoral nomination with Frank Oakley and others backing him, while Dennis Fitzpatrick and Henry Hauck mount campaigns in the same race. The old Cincinnati Democratic club weighs its mayoral pick, eyeing Prescott Smith with support planned to be offered.
A runaway automobile crashed into the garage at 717 Main Street, Olds Motor Company, wrecking several machines and shoving three through plate glass. George Leming, a machinist, connected the batteries, triggering the incident. Damages are about $200.
Robert Ralston Jones, assistant engineer and historian of the Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, is tracing graves of soldiers buried in Hamilton County. Descendants or relatives of William Kelley, John Kitley, Pelatiah Morgan, Samuel Pearson, Justus Reynolds, William Tucker, William Davis, William Campbell, Mosly Childers, Philip Connor, Abner Gage, William Cannon, James Gray II, and Edward Harvey are asked to contact him.
Thomas M. Dugan Henry Feldman Jr B A Brinker and Charles W Coffin were elected to the Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The Change directors received word from the National Hay Association planning its Cedar Point convention July 27 to 29. President Charles E Roth named delegates and Edward F Dennis will attend to present hay samples. Membership in the National Rivers and Harbors congress was renewed. The article notes a rejected weighing bureau turnover and rule changes at Change.
After two years in Cincinnati Captain Edward Trumble and his wife depart for New Orleans to lead the industrial branch of the Salvation Army. Major J Ty Sprake of Pittsburgh will replace them, and a farewell service is set for tomorrow.
A Union depot deaconess intervened on a train after a 16 year old girl from San Francisco traveling to North Carolina faced unwanted attention from several male passengers. The girl, who assumed the name Lucille, accepted protection until her connecting train, while the men remained on the train at Cincinnati.
Coroner Coe yesterday returned his verdict on the death of William W. Rice a janitor of 2619 Reading road. He finds Rice died from a pistol wound to the abdomen. The verdict notes a gun in the car and that Rice and his wife were at their home when the incident occurred.
The Hirsch Hoffert lodge No 367 plans a Cincinnati anniversary night with music speeches and a banquet. Max Levy will address the gathering as officers Morris Lowenstein and Max Hofer lead the lodge. The B’rith Abraham order, founded to aid Jewish immigrants, has grown nationwide with numerous lodges and substantial relief funds. Grand Master Samuel Dorf discusses life’s uncertainties and past exemptions for Spanish American War servicemen.
The Cincinnati Hungarian Turners filed a civil suit for 150 damages against Balokh a saloon keeper at 1545 Central Avenue accusing him of destroying their equipment during a dispute over use of the club hall. The case is set for July 15 before Justice Smedes with attorney J W Wolfe leading the plaintiff.
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