Free Bridge Proposal Stirring Opposition in Covington and Newport
Alderman Coyne seeks a joint committee by Covington and Newport mayors to make the Fourth Street bridge free to all traffic. Critics say bond debt and higher maintenance would prevent savings from eliminating collectors and directors, despite potential operation costs and a night watchman. The measure now goes to the law committee and city solicitor for thorough study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aldermark Coyne
Covington
Newport
Fourth Street
Alderman Coyne
Aries
Coyne
Committee On Law
Four Homes Hit in Early Morning Burglary Spree
An estimated professional thief broke into four nearby houses on West Eleventh Street and Madison Avenue within two hours. Targets included C. W. Rasch 13 West Eleventh, F. Rasch nearby, Richards 27 West Eleventh, Mrs. Howe and George Schasberger 33 Eleventh. Valuable items, watches, rings, jewelry and coins were stolen as police launch a citywide hunt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleventh Street
Madison Avenue
C. W. Rasch
West Eleventh Street
Rasch
F. Rasch
Richards
West Eleventh
Fire from gasoline lights home blaze in Heifel corner
Flaming gasoline escaping from a tank while saloonkeeper John Heifel lit a stove at his Twelfth and Banklick streets home caused a large fire last evening. Heifel summoned the fire department. flames were checked with only minor damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Heifel
Twelfth
Banklick Streets
Heidel
Covington News Notes: John T. Best Dies at 63
John T. Best, longtime railroad man in Covington and other cities, died yesterday at his residence 1717 Madison Avenue in his sixty fourth year. He suffered from dropsy and his passing ends a lengthy career in the rail industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Best
Madison Avenue
Melbourne residents raise reward for DeMoss capture
In Melbourne Kentucky residents add 750 dollars to an existing 250 from the governor raising the total reward to 1000 dollars for arrest and conviction of John H. DeMoss former Mentor postmaster and suspect in the killing of Louis Filhardt. DeMoss fled Melbourne after the Sunday night tragedy and no trace has been found though reports say he may be in Colorado.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. DeMoss
Mentor
Campbell County
Louis Filhardt
Melbourne
Willson
DeMoss
Colorado
Newport News Notes Baccalaureate and Commencement Events
Newport High School baccalaureate exercises drew a large crowd at Grace M. E. church. Next Thursday plans call for commencement at Park Avenue school auditorium with Rev. Joseph Chapman delivering the sermon. The Highlands high school class will hold its sixteenth annual commencement at the Highlands Methodist church with F A Cosgrove giving the principal address. The Newport Dramatic club hosted its annual outing at Phoenix Grove with about five thousand attendees. Patrolman Henry Venard faces surgery after illness.
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Grace M. E
Newport
Newport High School
Joseph Chapman
Park Avenue School
Eureka Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Gise Walton
We Gee Rau Golphasennerder
SV Ersal
Ey Caldwell
Phil Dickerman
M. Ote
Harrys
Cheri
Meecar Cramer
O. G
Herman Quehl
Newport Sunday School Association
United Brethren Church
J. H. Hagin
Miss Pearl Carpenter
Covington
Highlands
Highlands Methodist Episcopal Church
F. A. Cosgrove
L. H. Wilson
Board of Education
Lucy A. Brown
Marjorie H. Crooks
Elsie M. Meyers
Rose S. Spensel
Mary L. Strueve
Newport Dramatic Club
Phoenix Grove
Ohio River
Dayton
Henry Venard
Horse Breaks Bit and Leaps to Freedom in Ninth Street
A runaway horse frightens two women and a child on Ninth street last night after breaking its bit in Race street. It collided with a cab, then bolted down Ninth street, fell on wood blocks at Central avenue, but the buggy remained upright and occupants uninjured. Police arrived to aid, a woman fainted and was revived, and the party later continued on with the animal reins fixed.
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Ninth Street
Race Street
Central Avenue
First District
Bryan Makes an Offer at International Endeavor Convention
St Paul June 13 The convention committee announced that William Jennings Bryan traveling with the Nebraska delegation will deliver an address at the wedding of any couple who accepts Rev H S Sadsbury Omaha minister offer to marry them free on the train if they marry on the special train Bryan will speak and marry them free of charge
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul, Minn
International Christian Endeavor Convention
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
H. S. Sadsbury
Omaha
8000 At Orphans Feast At Campbell County Home
The annual orphans feast at Campbell County Protestant Orphans' home near Newport drew about 8000 attendees for services and festivities. Superintendent Karl Ehrenreich gave the welcome, with Rev. F Knapp and Rev. G Probst speaking. A 50 voice Kentucky Choral Society choir performed. Receipts totaled 2090 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell County Protestant Orphans’ Home
Newport
Karl Ehrenreich
F. Knapp
G. Probst
Despondent Watchmaker Tries Suicide in Ohio Street Home
C P Phillips a watchmaker residing at 12 West Third street took poison from hat cleaning preparation yesterday morning his wife found him and Dr Hembold treated him he showed some improvement last night Phillips a longtime despondent man formerly with Oskamp Nolting Cincinnati jewelry firm came from Connersville Indiana about three years ago and had stabbed himself previously over his heart last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. P. Phillips
West Third Street
Dr. Hembold
Philips
Phillips
Oskamp «& Nolting
Cincinnati
Connersville
Ind
Flag Pole Raised in Newport by Campbell County O U A M
Members of the Jr. O. U. A. M. in Campbell County raised a flag pole on Twin City council’s lawn in upper York Street Newport. A large silk flag unfurled as Rev. Duncan conducted the ceremony. Frank Herwee accepted the flag for Twin City council and Hon. John W. Lawrence delivered the memorial oration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell County
Twin City Council
Upper York Street
Newport
Duncan
Twin City
Frank Herwee
John W. Lawrence
Custer Council
Death of Farmer Hertel Found Drowned Near Maud's Station
Soldiers from Fort Thomas discovered 73 year old George Frederick Hertel dead in a roadside ditch near Maud's Station on June 13. He had been seen alive in the village the prior night. Coroner J A Burnett to investigate. widow and family left.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
George Frederick Hertel
Maud’s
Fort Thomas
Dayton
Hertel
J. A. Burnett
Toronto Jimmy and accomplice escape from Kentucky jail
Nathan Willard known as Toronto Jimmy escaped Williamstown jail Friday night with Eulace Jackson. A lantern man aided their exit through a cell window, they fled to Sherman and Erlanger before Jackson went to Ludlow and was recaptured south of Williamstown. Authorities found no trace of Jimmy in Cincinnati after the escape.
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Nathan Willard
Toronto
Jimmy
Williamstown
Cincinnati
Eulace Jackson
Ludlow
Bell
Schaefer
Arnold
Jackson
Sherman
Erlanger
Picnic planned for teachers at Denver convention
Cincinnati school teachers attending the National Education association convention in Denver on July 19 will join Ohio teachers in a large Colorado Ohio residents picnic. The Ohio Society of the State of Colorado plans a daylong outing with a mountain trip to gather snowballs and flowers, plus evening music and entertainment by the state and Boulder societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
National Educational Association
Denver
Ohio
Ohio Society
State of
Colorado
State Society
Boulder Society
Split in City Spiritualists Over Mesmerism and Magnetism
Dispute splits local spiritualist groups as Enos Kersey is deposed for reliance on magnetism and hypnosis. James McElroy arrives from Evansville to lead seances at Lincoln Inn court while Kersey’s followers relocate to the G A R hall at 37 West Sixth Street. Both sides report growing attendance and active services led by trance medium Mrs Susanna Harris and Kersey’s wife, the trumpet medium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Inn Court
Enos Kersey
James McElroy
Evansville
Ind
Lincoln Inn
Kersey
West Sixth Street
Old Temple
McElroy
Susanna Harris
Special Flag Day Services at House of Refuge
Large Summer congregation at Price Hill M. E. church heard the refuge choir in flag day observances. Children sang patriotic songs while Lt. Berniet Goosemen saluted the colors. Misses Marie Strikes and Emily Smith sang solos. Rev. C. C. Wilson urged higher ideals than wealth and praised character as the key to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price Hill M. E
Refuge
House of Refuge
Berniet Goosemen
Refuge Battalion
Emily Smith
C. C. Wilson
The
Christian Church
Y M C A Campers Prepare Their Summer Vacations
The Boat club of the Y M C A opened its season with a Saturday night dance at the Tower Hill clubhouse. Boys camp opens July 3 at Camp Hargitt on the Big Miami river near Trenton bridge for two weeks with 50 members. Visitors days July 4 7 and 14. Men's camp opens July 22 at East Tawas Beach Michigan to Aug 23 with about 50 60 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boat Club
Tower Hill
Hargitt
Big Miami River
Trenton Bridge
Hamilton
East Tawas Beach
Mich
Implied Denunciation of Carnegie by Rabbi Wise Sermon
BUFIYALO June 13 delegates to the thirty sixth annual conference of Charities and Corrections filled city pulpits. The conference sermon at Star theater was delivered by Rev Stephen S Wise who denounced Carnegie library charities without naming him. He said calling a man who crushes enemies a public benefactor is a lie and proclaimed a need for justice over libraries.
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Bufiyalo
N. Y
Conference of Charities and Corrections
Star Theater
Stephen S. Wise
D. D
Free Synagogue
New York City
Wise
Carnegie
Library Charities
Bandholtz to Lead American Forces in Philippines Mutiny Case
Brigadier General Harry H. Bandholtz will assume command of constabulary forces pursuing mutineers in Davao Mindanao Island after inspecting Jolo. Acting Governor Forbes and Major General Duval caution that details and causes of the June 6 mutiny must be clarified before judging the native constabulary’s loyalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Harry H. Bandholtz
Philippine Constabulary
Jolo
Davao
Mindanao
Forbes
Pampanga
William Duval
Division of the Philippines
Hospital Nurses Identify Babe Abandoned in Hallway
Nurses at the city hospital identified a one month old baby abandoned in the Washington flats hallway at Twelfth and Race streets by a stylishly dressed woman last Wednesday evening. Several adoption offers have been made but rejected. the child will be turned over to the juvenile court. The mother is believed to be from an Indiana town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hospital
Washington Flats
Twelfth
Race Streets
Indiana
Morphine User Arrested After Disorderly Conduct
Edward Morrissey of 328 West Sixth Street was arrested for disorderly conduct after police stopped him on Sixth and Walnut streets. Officers Bruesth and Less found a cocaine box morphine and a morphine injector on him. his arms and body bore injector puncture scars.
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Edward Morrissey
West Sixth Street
Sixth
Walnut Streets
Bruesth and
Less
Jack Ferris Dies in Madison Hotel St Louis
Chief of Police Millikin received a tele gram from the Madison hotel in St Louis reporting the death of Jack Ferris of Cincinnati there yesterday. Ferris has relatives at 945 Clinton Street and a sister works at Bradstreet mercantile agency per the dispatch.
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Millikin
Madison Hotel
St Louis
Jack Ferris
Cincinnati
Ferris
Clinton Street
Bradstreet Mercantile Agency
Lima Soldier Falls Ill During Homeward Journey
Walter Doll, recently discharged after three years in the Eighteenth United States Cavalry, on route to Lima Ohio from New Mexico, suffered a severe hemorrhage at the C H and D station. He was taken to Mercy hospital where his condition improved and he plans to proceed home soon.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Walter Doll
Eighteenth
United States ‘Cavalry Regiment
New Mexico
Lima
Mercy Hospital
Ginsberg Nominated for Fifteenth Ward Councilman
At a Manhattan park picnic for the Calmud Therath association Joseph Ginsberg 622 Richmond street was named as a candidate for Fifteenth ward councilman. Max Levy urged that Jewish residents deserve a representative in the ward and received strong pledges of support. Ginsberg had previously led the synagogue at Richmond and Mound streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Park
Calmud-Therath Association
Joseph Ginsberg
Queen City Republican League
Richmond Street
Fifteenth Ward
Max Levy
Ginsberg
Richmond
Mound Streets
Regent Praises America in Farewell Audience
W A Rockhill the retiring American minister to China was received by Regent Prince Chun in Peking on June 13. The regent expressed cordial feelings toward Mr Rockhill and the United States and the American legation staff attended the audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
W. W. Rockhill
China
Prince Chun
Barkeeper Arrested After Metropole Raid
Arthur Ingram, barkeeper at the Metropole hotel and cafe at 213 West Court Street, was arrested last night by Patrolmen Dieters and Kien on a charge of violating the Sunday closing law following a spectacular raid early Thursday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Ingram
Metropole
West Court Street
Dieters and
Kien
Watch Robberies Reported in Fountain Square Crowd
Fred Herbig of 1340 East Third Street was robbed of a $25 gold watch in Fountain Square yesterday but gave no thief description. Edward Hoffman of 122 Bremen Street fell asleep and woke to find his watch gone, valued at 80 dollars, and reported the theft to police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Herbig
East Third Street
Fountain Square
Edward Hoffman
Bremen Street
Rains Help Contain Aroostook Forest Fires
Rain showers on Friday night and Saturday aided fire crews in controlling wildfires that had charred over a hundred square miles in Aroostook County. The fires, near Houston, Maine, showed improvement by tonight with precipitation aiding efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Houston
Aroostook County
Accidents Mar Down in City Streets and Hotels
Jerome Gilbert, 60, burned his hand by turning hot water on instead of dishes in a hotel kitchen and received treatment at City Hospital. Two boys, Nathan Zeff and Andrew Blum, aged 1404 Central Avenue and 1416 Mansfield Avenue, suffered knee and arm injuries respectively in street trips while on Marathons and also were treated at City Hospital. James Dutz, 46, fell about twenty feet from a Longworth Street roof garden while taking the air, bruising his face after landing on another roof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome Gilbert
City Hospital
Nathan Zeff
Central Avenue
Andrew Blum
Mansfield Avenue
James Dutz
Longworth Street
Plum
Weekly Receipts and Shipments for Cattle Hog Sheep
Receipts and shipments for the past week show cattle totaling 3 733, with hogs at 18 144 and sheep and lambs at 13 732. Prices moved with mixed activity: cattle mostly steady to firm with some declines on grassy stock, hogs reaching a high but easing later, and sheep and lambs easing from prior highs due to heavy rains.
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Laura
Sayra
Gord
Chicago
Eatin
Lamba
Fleischmann Company Declares Dividend No. 17
The Fleischmann company board declares a ly per cent dividend on preferred stock payable July 1909 to holders of record June 15 188 Transfer books close June 15 until July 1909 for dividend payment by the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleischmann Company
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John Hefel
Covington News Notes
J. H. de Moss
Newport News Notes
Bryan
Campbell County Institution
Lodge
Council Lawn
Jimmy 5 Stile
Kathryne Mary Frick
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Institution For the Deaf and Dumb
Mount Airy
Julia A. Foley
Ohio State Association
General Bandholtz
Local Politics
Regent
America
United States
Columbia Gas and Electric Co
German National Bank
Covington, KY
Jas. C. Ernst
Pres
T. S. Hamilton
Geo
BE. Engel
T. HK. RP
Barkeeper
Celpta
Laturteady
Saad
Pring ‘Hoica
Baldwin
Paris
St. Lewis
the Baldwin Company
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