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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
1
Chicago dispatch reports that at the Republican convention Taft is viewed as certain to win the presidential nomination on the first ballot by a margin of about 200 votes. Roosevelt faces speculation but loyalists expect no third term push. attention then shifts to the vice presidency between Dolliver and Fairbanks.
The Young Men's Blaine Club of Cincinnati arrived in Chicago and prepared to escort the Ohio delegation to the Republican Convention. Taft's nomination was anticipated on the first ballot or by acclamation as the club paraded in white hats and carried campaign canes with concealed flags.
Louisiana House of Representatives votes 58 to 47 to indefinitely postpone the Doussan bill that would have provided a referendum on statewide prohibition. The decision keeps the state out of prohibition during the current assembly.
The American Minister at Tangier reports the garrison at Alcazar fifty miles from Tangier killed their commander and declared for the pretender. The governor is said to have been sent to Fez as a prisoner.
Representative army officers and foreign balloonists gather at Friedrichshafen to observe Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's airship trials. The craft spans 443 feet with twin 140 hp motors, aims for speeds over 46 miles per hour, and a 1,430 mile range. One hundred hours aloft with crew sleeping accommodations, wireless gear, and 16 tons lift plus ballast.
The Montreal Quebec report recounts three hunters missing since December near Lake St. John. August Lemieux the guide was found mutilated. two others Gussett and Bernard remain unconfirmed as to their fate. Provisions and a toboggan note imply a desperate trek.
In Paris June 15 a man named Bollanger, claiming to petition the War Minister, drew a revolver and fired five shots inside the War Ministry. Two bullets lodged in an upholstered chair and another in his arm before police arrested him. He is believed insane.
A fire at the Latonia Brick Company plant on Walking Avenue near the Kentucky Central tracks destroyed six one story frame buildings. The loss is about 20000 dollars with no water within 900 feet hampering efforts. Watchman G A Wolking alerted Covington fire crews who found no insurance due to remoteness. books were saved by watchman Walking.
John Caldwell a river man and ship carpenter aboard the steamer Carrie Brown was struck by a Hocking Valley train at the station last night after surviving several near drownings. His head was severed in the fatal accident.
Chicago prepares for the 1908 Republican National Convention as Taft Knox and Roosevelt figures loom. Delegates arrive from the South while bands, glee clubs, and parades fill the streets. Julius Caesar Burrows joins, with Asher Hinds guiding parliamentary plans amid methodical preparations and potential last minute changes.
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