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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1908
Page
1
Cleveland dispatch reports Representative James Schoolcraft Sherman, Republican vice presidential nominee, improving after hospital transfer for gallstones. Bullets note high temperature and restlessness but no immediate operation planned. Taft telegrams express support as wife and son travel to the hospital.
Sentinel reports Brown County troops to withdraw this week. A tobacco bed burned near Georgetown amid drought concerns. County Commissioner Davis horse shot near Red Oak. Davis injured, horse killed. Pooled tobacco sales rise as Equity and De Ridder Griffith bid aggressively to secure supply for 1909 crop.
Cholera breaks out at Camp Gregg in Manila with three scouts and one civilian dead. Lt Jones and Lt Muldoon fall ill. Pangasinan outbreaks worsen with 93 cases and 60 deaths in a day. The collier Caesar arrives with submarines for station.
Mrs William Howard Taft wife of the Republican candidate denounces lax divorce laws as a peril to national moral fiber. She calls for a uniform nationwide law and vows to influence legislators to tighten statutes. She argues divorce is too easily granted and remarriage is too readily accepted in high social circles.
Teheran faces heavy fighting as Cossacks and troops bombard the Parliament and mosque. Nationalists clash with security forces, many killed or wounded. Parliament buildings damaged and leaders arrested. Reports from Teheran, London, and Paris detail.
Augusta Ky June 23 Company K of Covington and Newport with Lieutenant Simionite and thirty-two infantrymen finish ten days of duty and head home. Captain James with Company C from Lexington now patrols the county while officials probe an alleged kidnaping attempt of Lewis Kinney by night.
Sixteen men of the Beattyville State Guard unit pass through Lexington for Brookville to relieve soldiers in Bracken County tobacco district. Kentucky has spent over 50 thousand dollars on militia patrols as retirement from active service is ordered for one third of the force.
Confidential Navy reports warn the United States that Brazil plans to secretly build several battleships for Japan. Commander W S Sims, U S naval attaché in Paris, was asked to monitor Brazilian naval plans and any links to foreign powers. Berlin dispatches and London sources suggest orders to ship Brazilian warships from Tokyo to Japan.
Boston June 23 The Harvard Law Association annual meeting in the Federal Building elected Melvin W. Fuller 55 Chief Justice of the United States as president. Vice presidents include William J Spear 59 of Ohio and Governor Augustus E Willison 70 of Kentucky.
Tokyo states after extended talks that Japan will not obstruct Chinese development in Manchuria and is willing to assist. It supports the Haimaintan Fukumen railroad project by offering a connection point south of Manchuria.
Berlin reports that Shah of Persia forces have stormed and seized Tehran's Parliament buildings and the city is under artillery bombardment.
Lisbon reports widespread native uprisings across Portuguese Guiana with Timor posts attacked, villages burned, and Europeans killed or captured. Portuguese troops shelter in Bissau as a French warship arrives for protection. The revolt spikes after harsh hut tax levies and violent reprisals. A Courage tribe chief decapitated seven Portuguese troopers, triggering fear of cannibalism among captors.
In London on June 23 Prince Helie de Sagan visited registry offices to secure a fast track marriage to Mme Anna Gould. Officials say only a special license from the Archbishop of Canterbury can avoid a fortnight’s residence, and such a license seems unlikely due to Mme Gould’s divorce. The couple may wed this week if a license is obtained and plan to retire to the Prince’s German estates afterward.
New Haven June 23 Secretary William Howard Taft beloved by Yale men led a campus parade and attended events from Woodbridge Hall to Yale field. The afternoon featured a Yale class baseball game interrupted by Taft’s march with classmates and a dinner at the Edwards House. He expressed concern for Representative Sherman’s illness and planned visits to Watertown and New York.
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