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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
1
Chicago dispatch reports Republicans rallying to Taft after his nomination for president. Key topic at Cincinnati meeting is selecting a National Committee chairman with Meyer, Hitchcock, or Dawes among contenders. Taft plans to guide campaign strategy while Myron Herrick and others trade views on leadership and fundraising.
Secretary Taft departs Washington at 4 05 PM bound for Cincinnati to confer with Representative Sherman New York and a National Republican subcommittee on a party chairman. He travels by Baltimore and Ohio trains with the St. Louis express, arrives Cincinnati tomorrow morning, and visits his brother C P Taft while there.
Taft arrives at 8 a.m. and Sherman at 7 45 a.m. at Central Union Station. The nominees will confer with a National Committee subcommittee to pick a chairman. A parade and escorts will lead the candidates to the Taft home on Pike street amid civic and military honors.
The Interstate Commerce Commission orders sweeping lumber tariff reductions west of the Missouri River and about 5 percent cuts in eastern rates. The rulings affect shipments from the Willamette Valley to San Francisco and from Washington Oregon Idaho Montana and British Columbia to eastern and southern markets.
New Philadelphia Ohio June 19. The bodies of Miss Arline Knisely 15 and Charles Stach 50 were found shot in the back of the head in City Park. Stach ran a moving picture show in Akron and Knisely was his cashier. Police have not determined if it was a suicide pact or murder.
New York June 19 two more deaths in the Post Hospital at Ft Wadsworth raise mimic war casualties to three. The fallen are John Welsh George Harvey and James McDowell all from the Ninth Regiment New York National Guard. The battle game continued despite explosions and the loss of volunteer artillery crews. The war game ends tonight and militia men plan to return to the city tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports Joe West was arrested in Dayton Ohio on June 19 for the murder of Belle Clark whose body was found along the Miami River with a severed head and a five cent piece in her left hand.
Persian patriotic societies in Teheran, Tabriz, Kasvin and Ispahan unite to appeal for German protection. They urge Germany to send officers to reorganize the Persian army and government amid Turkish incursions on Armenia and Persian frontier.
At Chicago on June 19 James Schoolcraft Sherman of New York won the Republican nomination for Vice President amid tumultuous demonstrations. The crowd roared as Speaker Cannon seconded the nomination, with towns and states swiftly lining up behind Sherman and the party preparing to notify candidates for president and vice president.
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