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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
7
Police report details threats directed at a White suspect raising concerns over safety. The incident prompted court involvement and debates on community response as authorities urged calm and vigilance.
W H Mooney seeks divorce from Rose A Mooney alleging threats with a knife and poisoning plans after she left with $666 and clothing in January. Other petitions cite witnesses of desertion and neglect by Nettle A Nehus and Mary Pope as grounds for divorce.
Elizabeth Rastert, widow of Henry Rastert, sues Rudolph Kleybolte Co and Rudolph Kleybolte Leopold Kleybolte to rescind a 1914 bond purchase costing 9739 dollars. Probate Court blocked the purchase. she offers to return bonds, defendants refuse. She seeks nullification of the contract or refund of 4745 dollars for St Andrews Day Development bonds. Dolle Taylor ODonnell Geisler represent her.
In Isaac Winkler's will the United Jewish Charities Jewish Hospital and Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum each receive 500 dollars. Real estate at 38 and 40 Main street goes to daughter Prorence Winkler. Son Walter Winkler gets 5000 dollars with rest to widow Bertha for life and then split among seven beneficiaries including Eli Florence and others. Walter's share held in trust as trustees decide. Executives named are widow and Eli. Estate valued at 250000 in personal and 25000 in real estate. Pogue Hoffheimer and Pogue represent executors.
Judge Gusweiler's jury yesterday awarded Mack Shearer a verdict of 2388 dollars against the Ohio Traction Company for injuries from a fall from a car that began before he could safely alight. The fall crippled one wrist, ending his hodcarrier work. Attorneys were Fulford Shock Wilby Fricke for Shearer and Kinkead Rogers for the company.
Judge Werner's jury awarded Ed ward M Riley 750 damages for injuries from a fall from a street car. He sued for 10 250. Clare Dickerson Clay ton were Riley's attorneys with Albert H Mor rill representing the company.
Chris Snider, 27, was awarded $5,000 in a verdict against the Cincinnati Car Company for injuries received while employed in March 1912. The trial extended ten days and involved an appeal to the Supreme Court over the right to amend the petition. Attorneys included Littleford, James, Ballard & Frost for the plaintiff and Robert S. Marx for the company.
Judge Fred L. Hoffman's jury sustained the will of Adam Schwarber. The estate was valued at about $20,000. Bernard Schwarber and others, his children by a prior wife, contested the will. Attorneys S. S. Klein and F. J. Dormer represented the plaintiffs and defendants.
The grand jury delivered a partial report to Judge Caldwell noting six open indictments and one sealed in a minor crime. Named defendants include Frank Bakomino cutting to kill Henry Asbre two charges Charles Williams alias John Huff malicious destruction of property burglary George Moore shooting to kill George Burke cutting to kill The sealed indictment remains secret as the accused is not yet in custody.
Perry Bryant files a $10,000 personal injuries suit through attorney M C Lykins against the Cincinnati Grain and Hay Company. He alleges a hay truck handle struck him in a dark Ivorydale warehouse passageway on April 11, causing a broken rib and internal injuries that kept him bedridden for weeks.
John Billk filed suit at 2126 Central Avenue seeking release of his wife Mary Bilk from Longview Hospital. Judge Geoghegan set the hearing for Thursday morning. Bilk claims his wife is no longer insane. Attorney G. H. Hermerding represents the case.
The Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that Memphis Street Railway Company must pay about 30000 in three cases arising from a September 1914 collision where a street car was struck by an Illinois Central train at a crossing. The court affirmed other appeals and reversed some, with judges Knappen, Denison and Cochran presiding and attorneys Mills and Canale of Memphis admitted to practice.
Report says preliminary moves were begun yesterday toward reorganizing the Superior Port Land Cement Company which has been under receivership for two years under its manager.
Witnesses and attorneys met as the Sturtevant Company seeks to void a $525,000 Superior Company bond issue. The plan to resolve debts was postponed to June with negotiators asked to arrange a settlement. Sturtevant claims bonds paid for lands were a device to favor stockholders. Justin Collins holds $250,000 with other major holders including Zimmerman and Sternberger estates and several banks. Receiver Malion reports the business under its management remains profitable and potential for adjustment and restart.
Special Master Nathaniel Wright finds Charles C. Houser did not perjure or disobey court orders in the transfer of Dayton real estate or in failing to produce books of account. The action was brought against Houser and the Historical Publishing Company by Ferdinand Starr.
Judge Sater grants decision for Brighton German Bank in the suit brought by the trustee of Bernard Menke's bankrupt estate. The ruling finds there can be no ferety against the bank or Mrs Enke, ending claims against them.
Pure food agents seized a consignment of yellow rape seed found in Big Four Railroad cars labeled as golden mustard seed. Alleged adulteration with brown seeds and dirt noted. Chief Deputy Counts led the seizure. A cotton seed meal shipment was condemned as forfeited to the government, reclaimed by Buckeye Cotton Oil Company with bond to ensure legal compliance before sale.
A $10 000 suit was filed yesterday against William H. McRoberts for the death of 15 year old Widbert Lambert of Covington. Lambert was struck by McRoberts’ automobile on Madison Pike last summer and died from his injuries. The action is brought by W A Price as the boy’s administrator.
Creditors of Larkin E. Covert, bankrupt, have filed motions asking the court to confirm the referee's report denying a discharge.
A list of new cases filed in the Common Pleas Court includes divorce actions for Francis B. Nehus and Mary Bilk habeas corpus application. Damages claims involve Perry Bryant against The Cincinnati Grain and Hay Co. and The Hocking Valley Railway against The & G. Blake Co. Other cases cover liens, rescission, trustee appointment, and appeals from probate. The Court of Insolvency and Superior Court also appear with enjoinment of assessments and damages claims.
The Lebanon College student body plans a welcome parade for alumnus Judge David Davies when his party arrives by the Trade Expansion Club special train. Hamilton plans a demonstration as the train reaches the city, and members will be escorted by decorated autos to the Butler County courthouse for an official welcome by the local Chamber of Commerce president.
Covington city commissioners took two ballots to elect two collectors. Albert Schuler and William Kranz each received two votes while John Owens and George Schild had two and Frank Philipps one. Three votes needed. It was expected Schuler and Kranz would be chosen next.
Judge Tracy impaneled the June grand jury in Kenton Circuit Court with J. B. Heiser named foreman. He warned that the professional gambler is a menace to society and urges the panel to curb those who seek to profit from it.
Nearly one hundred couples attended a surprise party for Exalted Ruler Ernst Von Bargen at the Ohio River Launch Club. The event featured a banquet and dancing with a committee including J. C. Kelly Charles Leverone Ben Levy and Mel Wuest organizing the affair.
The Sells Floto Circus brings a major canvas show to Newport Kentucky today with Miss Lucia Zora billed as champion woman elephant trainer and fearless star. Also featured are Rosa Rosalind the bareback rider and famed wrestlers Frank Gotch and Jess Willard among others. The caravan moves to Norwood for a one day stop Thursday after today’s Newport performance.
Tom Breen and his family, touring in B F Keith's Theater, faced theft of costumes in Warsaw before WWI. An attempted theft of his identity led to arrest by the American Consul who believed him an anarchist from Lawrence, Massachusetts. He proved his identity after a three hour delay, missed the matinee, and his costumes remained stolen.
Lagoon nightclub shows pleasing cabaret acts with Mel Metcalfe and Miss Lora Patterson as stars. Starting Sunday the Walker Musical Comedy Company brings nightly performances with Saturday Sunday matinees and weekly bill changes. Sunday features a ladies minstrels and uniformed band. Lagoon Ball Park hosts Emanuels German Reform Clubs Ludlow White Sox and Branch Hill Clubs games Saturday and Sunday with a famed Chicago Cub pitcher appearing for Branch Hill.
Ed Busse undertaker plans a two week from Monday outing for Cincinnati sightless residents at Coney Island with Frank Maciewski as master of ceremonies. Escorts will describe Ohio and Kentucky shores as the Island Queen and Princess shuttle to and from Coney. A grand island program is planned with many volunteers.
Poor weather spoiled the St Matthew's Church outing from South Norwood to Coney Island yesterday. About 2,000 parishioners from Norwood Walnut Hills and Pleasant Ridge are expected to attend next Tuesday.
The Sells Floto Circus engagement in Newport begins today with a parade to inaugurate the event.
A free street pageant will depart the circus grounds at 10 30 in the morning and proceed along the usual downtown route. The event promises a picturesque procession of unusual novelty.
Thomas Dixon's patriotic film The Fall of a Nation debuted at the Liberty Theater in New York before Mayor Mitchel and notable figures. The $1,000,000 production portrays America's ruin without preparedness and its rescue by the Daughters of Joel with a sixty-piece orchestra led by Victor Herbert. Dixon plans Chicago Boston Philadelphia and other cities in September with touring companies nationwide.
New Haven June 6 Wagner's Die Walkure was produced before a large audience in the Yale Bowl by the Metropolitan Opera Company New York under Yale School of Music auspices. Specially arranged sounding boards carried the voices to all parts of the amphitheater with brilliant lighting effects.
Hartwell High School hosted Patron Day with an afternoon and evening display of domestic science manual training and art. Despite bad weather residents toured four exhibit rooms to view bakery goods sewing needlework millinery and machine sewn garments plus a vast manual training setup including furniture like tables desks rocking chairs and more. Principal Powell praised students while crediting Miss Rose Taylor manual training R E Abercrombie and Miss Weinstein for leading the showcased work.
Five New York players three Boston players five Philadelphians and one each from Newport and Baltimore reach day two in the championship singles at Philadelphia Cricket Club. Mrs Edward Raymond heads the New York group after a straight set win.
The Cuban Stars and A B C teams clash at Redland Field Wednesday through Friday drawing strong interest. Tensions rise as A B C pitchers hit hard against Cuba’s Pedrosa and Junco. Abel Linares leads the Cubans with Promoter roots, while Steel Arm Taylor and C I Taylor head the A B Cs with pitching slated from Steel Arm or Dick Johnson and Pedrosa or Junco for the Cubans.
Jack Swim, a young local golfer trained by Phil Honeyman and Prof. Boggs, signed a one year contract to become pro at Butler County Country Club in Hamilton Ohio. He replaces George and will assume duties Monday at the Hamilton club.
Jack Curley arrives to promote the Willard Gotch circus act opening tonight over the river. He says the headline stars will draw big crowds and that Willard longs to return to the ring.
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music holds graduation exercises Friday at 8 pm officiated by Rev. W. H. Poole. Delegates include Verena Althaus Florence Barbour Anna Bayer Elizabeth Blakely Sara Blood Eliza Blue Estelle Brandewie Marguerite Burroughs Mattie Burwell Celia Butler Jeannette Butler Cahill Stella Coffin Martha Craver Beulah Davis Catherine Dougherty Philip Dreifus Dora Gill Bristow Hardin Mabelle Heger Gertrude Isenberg Oliver Kilb Elfrida Kreiter Bessie Larkin Adele Lewis Beatrice Lind say Francis MacVeigh Mary O'Hara Annetta Otting Gladys Payne Marguerite Poindexter Alma Putman Myra Reed Ruth Ritchey Lucile Roberts Eva Rosser Catherine Russell Eleanore Schwenker Florence Spangenberg Marguerite Stegemiller Mattie Tarry Alfred Watkins Sara Weaver Sara White Mary White Anna Whitwell Claire Yarwood.
Colonel Robert Kirkup, president of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry Association, will rally the regiment at Memorial Hall Saturday. The reunion starts at 1 p.m. with luncheon at 2 p.m. served by Cincinnati Woman's Relief Corps No.
Dorcas Eastern Star Dramatic Club held a banquet and entertainment at the Zoo. Miss Eva Sauer presided and gave a brief address. Officers Miss Anna Meier Miss Flora Esberger and Miss Alice Meier spoke. About seventy members attended.
One hundred twenty members of the University of Cincinnati senior class gathered last evening at the Business Men's Club for the annual graduation banquet and farewell meeting. Speeches by class officers and several members reflected on college life and future promises. An alumni meeting and luncheon events were announced for the Zoo, campus, and commencement week.
Seventy five local Y M C A students who passed international examinations were awarded certificates. Names include Lester Alexander, Harry Braukmann, Howard Groshell, John Dale, Umberto Gasperini, John Sayers, Alfred Wahl and many others. The list was announced yesterday.
A. Hinnerkamp J. H. Weber and M. A. Mallender form a committee to organize the Milk Exchange Chamber of Commerce picnic at Price Hill on June 14.
Harry Pric hd of I. N. Price & Co. displayed yesterday the first arrival of a full carload of water melons, signaling the start of the season for the store and local shoppers.
Gustav E. Gebhart, president of the Night High School Alumni, issued notice that the annual meeting will be held Saturday evening June 10 at Woodward High School. The gathering will include election of officers and admission of new graduates.
Ed Fitzgerald president of the Grain and Hay Exchange of the Chamber of Commerce said a meeting was held at the Linton Hotel to discuss adopting a new constitution and executive. Secretary William C. Culkins announced the change to hold the meeting on the evening of June 20.
G C Curran, back from Porto Rico, says grape fruit prospects are bright. Pineapple season is strong with good quality fruit and very low prices driving demand for canning.
Joseph H. Aptmoor spent a short time at the Exchange of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday in company with William Elsley, his guest from Oxford, Ohio.
Horace F. Smith and Addison R. Smith, once based in Cincinnati, visited the city. Horace F. Smith, former General Freight Agent of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, is now Vice President of the Nashville Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, while his son Addison holds a similar post with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
CAPTAIN JOHN J. HENRY in charge of the government Secret Service Bureau at New York visited the local headquarters of Colonel Bolan yesterday. He is on his way Westward on department business.
The Wesley Chapel hosted the annual commencement of the Cincinnati Missionary Training School with diplomas awarded to ten regular mission students and five in the kindergarten course. Dr. Alice Grace Wardle presented the diplomas as bishops Quayle and Anderson spoke, followed by prayers from Rev. Dr. G. A. Scott.
The St Bernard High School graduating class includes Gladys L Messismith Hazel Iris Straub Estelle E Zinsmeister Alethea E Hoff man Charles F Kayser Raymond H Hucke Edwin L Dover Loraine E Caine Raymond H Richards Russell Dickman and Alice G Kelsch. Commencement exercises take place in the school auditorium this evening.
They began their journey by car with an aim to reach Chicago today for the Republican convention.
Edward Busse invites Cincinnati blind residents to a June 26 visit at Coney Island and receives voluntary help from local firms. H J Robbins of the National Hardware Company seeks gifts for event winners. Charles Keith of the stockyards will donate a goat for a juvenile sports winner. A committee to assist Mr Busse includes H J Robben O A Trounstine F L Hoffman H S Cox Royal Mattice James A Reilly W A Geoghegan L J Rebhun and James P Orr.
The Norwood High School Alumnus Association hosted an evening of entertainment at the high school. The program opened with an overture by the High School Orchestras under Bundy Thomas, followed by Poppy Dance by the University Sextet and Carolyn's Christmas by the Girls Dramatic Class. Alumni minstrels led by George Cist featured Ead men George Cist and Albert Wirthlin, soloists John Peebles and Evans Rogers, interlocutor Willard Thayer, and a chorus of twenty five alumni. Officers elected: President George Beaxell, Vice President Mary Cellarius, Secretary Charles Mayer, Treasurer Willard Thayer, Executive Committee William Cornell, George Small, George Beaxell, Ruth Draper, Charles Mauer, J Ames, Mary Cellarius, Willard Thayer, Robert Thompson.
The Board of Education announced the sale of the Central School J. J. Rowe of the First National property at auction. Bank and Mrs. Rowe began proceedings at noon on Monday, June 19.
Political gossip in Cincinnati reports Harry R. Probasco urging four rivals to back J B Foraker for Senate and withdraw. The Roosevelt club backs Roosevelt at the Ohio delegation, while other names surface for county offices including auditor coroner and clerk.
The Cincinnati and Hamilton County Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage sent hundreds of telegrams to delegates at the Republican Convention in Chicago urging the Rules Committee to block any suffrage plank from entering the party platform.
A meeting of the Twenty fifth Ward Democratic Club will be held tonight at Buehler's Hall 4137 Mad Anthony Street. A Ward Executive will be nominated.
The friends of Thomas O Neil endorsed by the Democratic Executives for State Senator nomination held a meeting at Doves Hall yesterday afternoon. They organized the Thomas O Neil Booster Club and elected President Frank Bloom Secretary Thomas Hester Treasurer A A Busher and Sergeant at Arms Joseph P Fitzpatrick.
Joseph Humphries fields a contest against incumbent John J. Wenner in the First Ward for the Republican Central Committeeman seat. Humphries filed yesterday with a petition listing supporters including Walter Tasker Walter Millar Dr A M Countryman Thomas Dressel and W H Depp. Humphries campaigns as an organization man backed by local backers.
Thirty members of the Savoy Birthday Club honored Colonel Robert O'Brien and William A. Hopkins on their birthdays yesterday. Weather forced a rare auto excursion to Leisman's Camp below Sedamsville where gifts were exchanged a life size oil painting for O'Brien and a silk umbrella with fruit basket for Hopkins.
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