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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1898
Page
6
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High pressure areas extend across Idaho Utah Wyoming and the North Atlantic coast. A low center lies near Springfield Illinois and Dubuque Iowa. Widespread rain and thunderstorms hit the lake region Mississippi Valley and Rocky Mountain slope with Marquette Michigan recording the heaviest rainfall at 1.01 inches. Temperatures mostly in the fifties with little change elsewhere.
Government forecast lists regional weather: Tennessee and Kentucky expect showers thunderstorms with southerly winds. West Virginia more cloudiness with showers and southerly winds. Ohio and Western Pennsylvania more clouds with showers and likely thunderstorms, warmer, light southerly winds. Indiana and Illinois threatening weather with showers and variable winds. Lower Michigan showers and thunderstorms with light variable winds.
The State Bureau reports Kan sas wheat at 103 on the season, the highest for a similar period, signaling an extraordinary crop. Corn lags, around 79, due to cool wet weather and replanting. New York stock buying stabilizes markets, aided by an easy money outlook. Wool and calicoes show firmer tones as demand resumes.
The Soldiers Pound Party event called by the Commercial Tribune convenes today at 3 PM at 215 West Fourth Street with Rev. Charles F. Goss chairing. Representatives from churches and city groups are invited to plan a relief effort supplying comforts, clothing, books, and papers to First Ohio Volunteers and other Ohio troops.
Two Manila dispatches report Aguinaldo's insurgents armed with knives rifles and Dewey supplied ammunition advancing toward Manila. The Swift notes suburbs four miles from the city rail lines cut and 1,800 Spanish soldiers captured with many killed. Foreign residents seek refuge aboard harbor ships as Dewey restrains a rush.
The commander warns against letting insurgents overrun Manila while awaiting American troops. Dewey aims to preserve order and avoid European marines landing, balancing Spanish defeat with restraint to prevent wider power interference and complications.
Victor Murdock spent four hours attempting to drive a fly into a bottle without success. He may gain points by engaging in confidential talks with Commodore Schley.
The piece links Spain’s perceived arrogance to a biblical warning that pride before destruction leads to a fall. It frames a doom-like outlook based on a prophecy and suggests an impending decline for the nation.
A jagged, fragmentary note from a newspaper page hints at a warship’s voyage described in song and history. The State it hails from has shifted politically to Republican by a wide margin, with public reaction captured in the piece.
The Weather Bureau notes Santiago de Cuba average temperature near 110 degrees before Sampson unveils thirteen inch caloric capsules.
Colonel Frank Satan of Tennessee sails toward Cuba with the presumption he is immune to the action of heat so far, signaling a possible test of conditions or mission.
An East St Louis man known as the husband of seven wives is enjoying a temporary respite from a prison term. The article notes the unusual family arrangement and the limited freedom granted during confinement.
A proposal suggests a darker shade of tan for United States soldiers' campaign uniforms in Cuba, aiming to blend with the landscape and improve concealment during operations.
The article notes U S Army growth from 26 500 on April 23 to over 150 000 men marching and encamped at Camp Alger and elsewhere. It highlights American volunteers praised by foreign observers and features tales of war-time duties from editors and reporters who join the ranks.
Detroit News notes that troops face trouble finding good cooks, illustrating that soldiers share civilian ills and challenges. The item reflects on morale and practical wartime conditions affecting the army.
The Washington Post notes Colonel William Jennings Bryan may need time to shed the habit of addressing his audience as my fellow citizens as he speaks in public. The remark highlights a ceremonial trait tied to his oratory.
The vine is said to reach a great age and remain fruitful for at least four centuries, believed to rival the oak in longevity and endurance.
A brief editorial note states that a pair of companies and a gunboat cannot land and seize a Cuba town, implying limitations on such tactics.
Prof. A J Gantvoort led sixty to sixty five students in Romberg Cantata The Lay of the Bell Die Glocke with the College String Orchestra and singers. Alfred Denghausen Agnes Cain Nelson Danziger praised. audience packed Odeon despite heat. next Lyceum organ recital planned.
A blaze at Chester Park heavily damaged the Chester Theater stage yesterday. The Hungarian Boys' Band must end its engagement, with several days of repairs needed before the Lyric Opera Company can open its season at the same venue.
Crowds enjoy the new switchback railway at Coney Island and praise the Lagoon Amphi theater opening on Sunday June 12. The Zoological Gardens relighting promises top resort status while Hghts debuts next Friday. Vaudeville at Coney is free with standout acts Stirk Anita and Bessie Lamb drawing praise from locals and visitors alike.
At the seventeenth annual Actors' Fund of America meeting in New York on June 7, leaders announced plans to form a plan for a sanitarium under the fund. The project would combine a hospital for the indigent sick and a home for the aged within theatrical circles. Louis Aldrich heads the group and a December 20 formulation meeting is slated. Officers elected: Louis Aldrich President Frank W. Sanger First Vice President John Drew Second Vice President Daniel Frohman Secretary Andrew A. McCormick Treasurer.
A Kansas City Star item notes anxiety over potential Spanish warships near Boston. The prospect unsettles residents, with humorous emphasis on whether beans could be nerve food amid the tension. The short column reflects home front unease and wartime mood.
The Pittsburg Post notes General Merritt’s reported capitulation to Miss Williams of Chicago should not raise false hopes among the Spaniards.
A Philadelphia North American item notes a single woman in the West shooting a man who persisted in pursuing her. The report states the man was seriously wounded by the shot.
The stockholders of the Pennsylvania Company met in Pittsburg to review the year ending December 31 1897. Direct mileage totaled 1075 miles with net profit for the proprietary department of 1009821 23 after expenses. Principal lines show mixed results including profits for Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago and losses for Erie and Pittsburg with several increases over 1896. Freight traffic rose 4348456 tons while passenger numbers fell by 644107. New members joined the voluntary relief department and the board of directors was reshuffled with Effingham B Morris replacing the late John E Davidson.
Representative Maguire introduces two House resolutions seeking information from the administration on bond aided Pacific railroads. They demand status of claims, possible actions, and reasons for delaying foreclosure on the Central Pacific and for redeeming prior liens. The Kansas Pacific item cites a $6,700,000 loss and requests sale facts.
In Minneapolis on June 7 the Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad held its eleventh annual meeting. The Board of Directors was re-elected, with Thomas Lowry John Martin W D Washburn J S Pillsbury C H Petit and FP Peavey from Minneapolis and W C Van Horne and Thos C Shaughnessy of Montreal joining officers William B Dean R B Angus and W H Bradley among the reappointed leaders of the railroad group.
At the annual meeting in Chicago on June 7 the railroad elected directors O. G. Lyford James Ramsay Jr Charles M. Hays W F Merrill E P Ripley and W H McDoel for the coming year. The old officers were re-elected and a regular quarterly dividend of 1 percent was declared.
The West Shore and Nickel Plate Railroads announce a through second class passenger rate of 25 from New York to Seattle, down from 69 75. This marks the Vanderbilt lines first participation in the Northwestern rate war sparked by the Canadian Pacific.
The General Passenger Agents of Southwestern lines, in St. Louis this week, adjourned tonight and will reconvene tomorrow morning at the Coates House in Kansas City. The day was spent revising the proposed articles of agreement and rules to govern passenger traffic.
Miss Jane Whipple Scandrett granddaughter of Bishop Whipple married Russell Ross Burt son of Union Pacific president in Faribault Minnesota. Bishop Whipple performed the ceremony.
R H Campbell of the C H D visits Dayton while Geo Ingalls and President Ingalls return from an eastern trip. C E Lindsay named road master at Manassas Va. B&O S W adds electric fans to sleeping cars for the 3 10 train to Louisville and St Louis. Big Four New York Boston morning special touted as fastest Cincinnati departures to Cleveland 2 55 arrival for 263 miles. Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co official notes strong lake resorts and Burlington Route promotes illustrated summer tours with Exposition stopovers.
The Milwaukee Sentinel notes patriots will not be fully satisfied until the Manila Post Office is reformed, signaling broader demands for improvements in Philippine administration.
A Hancock Indiana Democrat column mocks John Bull and questions allied power behavior, suggesting it could provoke the United States to respond and define its influence abroad.
The Buffalo News notes opposition to free trade in political discourse with emphasis on New England Democrats supporting stronger protection measures for the New England coast. The brief suggests bipartisan concern over economic and maritime security implications.
The city’s historic Kemper home on Grandview Avenue hosted the wedding of Miss Mary Kemper and Mr. John Henry McGowan with a 7 o’clock ceremony by Rev. J. H. McKibben and a large reception. Family and out of town guests from Dayton Xenia Orange gathered as decorations featured pink flowers and river views.
The annual fete of the orphan asylum and district women’s mission event unfold with many committees led by Mrs. John C. Sherlock arranging fishponds toy and candy tables and a Kinder Symphony. Miss Carolyne McLean returns to stage life with Columbia Stock Co. and Miss Ella Giesy sails home from the May Festival while Rev Francis Dunham visits Ashland and a wedding in Covington precedes a busy weekend of community events and fundraisers.
The visitors introduced yesterday were Co. L. Shaw from St. John's Ohio by 8. R. Voorhees & Co. c. F. Herrmann of Tell City Indiana by G. Co. Com. Louis Weil of San Francisco by Ig Kugel. George H. Dana of Washington DC by R. P. Gillham. John P. Boyle of Baltimore Maryland by J. W. Biles.
F S Stuart of Winchester urges Cincinnati to seize a coming era and predicts a South manufacturing boom after the war, highlighting the Nicaraguan Canal and Caribbean trade. E D Chadick foresees a postwar business boom, Europe trips, and record wheat crops across Oklahoma to Iowa. A Grand Hotel letter from A G Corre notes satisfaction with Glens Falls as a sanatorium stay. Burnet House bellboys plan a baseball championship game with waiters at Seventh Street Park Thursday.
F D Carney of Steelton and J W Ailes of Pittsburg stay at the St Nicholas and Burnet houses respectively. Ex Attorney General Hendrick of Franxfort Ky is at the Burnet House. Sig Rheinstrom and family plan Mackinac Island trip. Charles Niedringhaus of St. Louis with his wife at the St Nicholas. Culbertson now of Cocoanut Grove Fla registered there. George D Potts leaves for ten days at Old Point Comfort with Mrs Potts. Louis Weil of San Francisco California Wine Association on business hosted by Ig Kugel. J Henry Sharp and Mrs Sharp depart for Arizona New Mexico, with a stop at Omaha Exposition. J McN Parker of Chicago Beach Hotel attends Oscar Shanks and R Marie Brown wedding with Mrs Parker.
Lawrence Heddmyer of 1913 Ohio Avenue collapsed in the heat yesterday afternoon. He was helped home by Patrol No. 3 and his condition is not serious.
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