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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
1
King Edward Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria travel by yacht to Reval while Emperor Nicholas may choose rail due to weather. City prepares for royal welcome with hotels crowded and guards deployed. Torpedo destroyers anchor offshore as bunting blooms in the old town.
In St. Petersburg on June 7 the Emperor Abandoned a sea voyage due to rough Gulf weather and will travel by rail to Reval to meet King Edward. Imperial yachts proceed to Reval escorted by destroyers. an interview will occur in Reval roadstead. Premier Stolypin and officials express patriotic satisfaction at the English visit and potential Russo British rapprochement in trade and industry.
King Edward aboard the royal yacht Victoria and Albert with Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria in Kiel. German warships greeted with salutes as a guard of honor and bands played the British anthem. An impromptu review of about forty ships accompanied the royal cortege. Prince Henry of Prussia and family visited, before German escorts guided the yacht toward Reval.
A tornado hit Charles City Iowa around 5 pm causing major destruction. It killed W. B. Beck and a child, with three children reported missing as the storm tore through homes and barns along a ten mile path. A second tornado struck near Mauston Wisconsin at about 4 pm, destroying a farm, killing John Dalton and his twelve year old son.
Princeton New Jersey June 7 The university ushered in commencement with Woodrow Wilson delivering the baccalaureate sermon. He urges individuals to uphold conscience over mass opinion, warning that the era suffers from lack of personal courage and integrity and stressing that democratic vitality requires independent moral judgment.
Colonel Charles F. Hake reports only 72 soldiers on duty for 35 square miles in Brown County as rain delays planting. Farmers fear crop destruction by opponents and anticipate a potential climax once rain brings planting, with outposts and petitions for more troops.
Tokyo reports another Korea Japan crisis as Koreans of the ruling class grow more unfriendly. The Privy Council of princes and elder statesmen recently adopted a resolution prohibiting the employment of Japanese officials, though the body has no power to enforce it.
James Crawford alias R A Gaver, wanted in many states for burglary, was sentenced to ten to twenty years in Richmond Indiana after pleading guilty. Crawford specialized in robbing railroad depots and a standing reward of 1000 dollars had been offered for his capture.
George F. Payne of the George F. Payne Company, builder of the new State Capitol at Harrisburg, died at his Philadelphia home aged 55. He faced a Capitol conspiracy charge with partner Charles G. Wetter as part of a wider fraud case involving painting and decorating contracts. Fourteen defendants have been indicted. four convicted. five others on trial, with Payne’s case not due until fall.
Ceiba Honduras June 7 The steamship Atlantis formerly the Goldsboro under Honduras flag was seized at Ceiba. The Bailey brothers Meyers and the ship master are prisoners taken in the action.
Panama President Amador cables to deny rumors that Minister Squiers is persona non grata. Secretary Arias relays the denial as Squiers travels to Washington at Secretary Root’s request to assess the Panama presidential campaign. Herbert G Squiers arrives in New York en route to Washington for talks with President Roosevelt.
Governor Robert Glenn of North Carolina and Representative Thetas W. Sims spoke at Arlington National Cemetery praising Confederate dead and Grant while hoping North and South unite in honoring all. In Birmingham Alabama the Confederate veterans reunion attracts 30 000 visitors with elaborate decorations and a 2000 veteran hotel and social events.
Sarah Konet a Russian nurse waited nine hours in an apartment vestibule before shooting Dr. William Auspitz a physician and sanitarium operator. She surrendered claiming retaliation for wrongs. The doctor was struck in the neck and heart, witnesses said.
Six men have died and eight are in serious condition from inhaling foul air at the Gold King Mine near Gladstone, Sil verton. Thirty others are confined to their homes due to weakness from exposure to poisoned air.
The Florida, scarred by a prior shell hit, will be torpedoed on June 13 to test water-tight bulkheads and a new fighting mast design. Officials expect the ship to settle about a foot but not sink, with Taft and Metcalfe invited to witness the shallow-water trial at Jamestown Exposition site in Hampton Roads.
George F. Cattlin of New Haven a Yale senior drowned when a canoe overturned at Branford today. He was swept away in the water and lost his life in the incident.
In Chicago on June 7 representatives of the Allies recalled their vow to bolt the Republican National Committee over anti Taft delegations. The group urged continuing contest presentations to Credentials and, if needed, the convention, while signaling willingness to concede if required.
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