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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1908
Page
1
Panama Canal Zone reports reveal monthly payrolls of about eighteen tons of silver and fifteen hundred pounds of gold disbursed to laborers. Paydays span the 12th to the 15th with gold handled for Spaniards and Panamanian silver for others, amid strict checks by zone police and clerks.
Washington reports foretelling a navy aerostatic corps as balloons and airships lead future warfare. Ft Myer tests draw diplomatic observers, with Navy interest from Rear Admiral Chester and Secretary Newberry. St Paul balloon flight results note Chicago’s 73 mile win and ballast issues limiting range.
Central American leaders accuse each other of plotting invasions linked to Zelaya in Nicaragua. The U S cruiser Albany sails toward Amapala, and tensions cool as American involvement looms. A separate Ceiba incident sees Dr. Allen Jamel narrowly escaping Honduran gunfire after a nighttime searchlight cue.
Mexico City July 19 The antiforeign fight widens with a bitter clash between foreign and native press. La Patria calls for a policy “Mexico for the Mexicans” and denounces Yankees while supporting actions against foreign mining interests and new mining law restricting foreign participation nationwide.
Special dispatch from Hot Springs Virginia reports Judge Taft will be informed of his election as a member of the International Society of Steam Shovel Men linked to Panama work. He plans to attend Cincinnati for nomination events and may miss state fairs while campaigning quietly in fall.
The Little Miami River near Milford drowned 3 year old Sir David Love while his father Louis Love and neighbor John Beal discussed a summer shack. George Dillenberger 18 drowned while swimming near Trautman’s Station after his friends John Johnston and George Kessler tried to rescue him. Coroner notified in both cases.
L C Fury of Addyston and James Browning of Georgetown drown after their boat capsizes on Elkhorn near Bourbon Bridge. Miss Stella Emison of Cincinnati is rescued by Simon Tudor, a Georgetown College student, who also saves another time as Fury sinks. Browning cannot swim and reaches shore. Tudor dives repeatedly for Fury but cannot rescue him.
Horace Reddon 21 killed Herman Humphreys 28 at John Wilson's home near Cuba after a day with Dillard Luther. Reddon and Luther fled, Humphreys pursued them and was struck by a buggy whip and then shot six times. Reddon fled to Tennessee. suspect at large.
The Connellsville Pa Chamber asks President Roosevelt to let it manage 43 miles of the Youghiogheny River from Connellsville to the Monongahela for watershed preservation and to make the stream navigable for light draft steamboats. The plan envisions federal supervision.
In Hillisburg near Frankfort Indiana Clarence Jones 28 shot and killed Claude Pruitt 23 then killed himself with the same revolver. Both men had been drinking and an argument over a card game is alleged. Pruitt recently married. Jones leaves a wife and daughter.
Ad die Williams tripped on high heels while descending stairs at 418 South Sixth Street. She grasped a sharp projection and injured her palm severely. she is hospitalized.
Seven men from Newport O started in a small skiff on Middle Island Creek hoping to cross. The skiff sank under load and two men Stephen Martin 40 and William Goddard 21 drowned. Five others reached the shore safely and swam to safety.
Alexander Wells of Wellsville Ohio died at age 100 after celebrating his birthday on June 3. He was Eastern Ohio’s oldest man and had hoped to live to a hundred. Doctors attributed death to old age while noting his strong health otherwise. His father was the first Justice of the Peace named by Governor St Clair in 1798, and Wells served on the first board of directors of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company, later absorbed by the Pennsylvania system.
A sequence of heavy showers has halted the large fires that caused extensive damage in Maine woods over the past two weeks. Officials anticipate total losses to reach about half a million dollars though an exact figure has not yet been set.
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune Xenia Ohio July 19 Miss Sadie Roland 35 years old 35 inches tall 30 pounds died at home near Xenia brain fever She made her own clothes and her mother’s and did fine needlework despite tiny hands noted as large for her size
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