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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1906
Page
3
Covington and Newport reports say Mayor Beach names N. H. Gaunt Special Inspector of Brick Street Building. Councilman Vonderschmidt plans Friday night briefing with Niemeyer to address alleged lax inspections and possible contractor favoritism.
In Covington Police Court two wives saved their husbands from long jail terms for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. Frank McGivan, recently from St Louis, faced multiple offenses and resisting an officer. a sixty day sentence was suspended if he returns to St Louis. Joseph Lloyd agreed to a year pledge to abstain from liquor after his wife’s appeal. Webb Brownstone was fined $5 and costs for striking a co worker at the Acme box factory.
George Elliot and John Sullivan workers for a gas company were overcome by gas in a Sixth street trench near Madison avenue. Elliot went back into the trench to stop the leak and was fatally asphyxiated, rescued after two hours, while Sullivan recovered after exposure.
William Bankemper, veteran carrier for The Commercial Tribune in the Highlands, is improving after a runaway accident. He sustained back and leg injuries and sprained both ankles. He resides at Sixth and Brighton streets in Newport.
Son of Dr. F W Fischbach, a Newport physician, Howard Fischbach graduated yesterday from Kenyon College Delaware with high honors. The photo credit goes to Fischer and Graessle.
Mrs. Alice Meyers died at Cincinnati Branch Hospital and will be laid to rest at her parents’ home on West Sixteenth Street. A two year old, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Burns, died of spinal meningitis at East Bush Street. Senate confirmed Roosevelt reappointment of D W Reynolds as Covington Postmaster. Circuit Courts closed as judges attended State Bar Association meeting in Winchester. Attorney A F E Stricklett and Mrs Whitehead to wed in Portsmouth today. All fire alarm boxes tested by Chief Lytle with no outages. bells caused misbelief of multiple calls. Master Commissioner John L Rich sold two Covington parcels at courthouse door for 3400 and 2050. William Oberding bonds $1000 to face crack case in court. John Cummings died in Lakeland Ky and will be shipped to Donnelly Bros burial. Mrs Ledley Lemmers dies in Covington Latonia park with interment at Vine Street Hill Cemetery.
Yesterday in Newport Campbell Circuit Court Judge Berry heard ten divorce cases. Maud Theetze received four dollars weekly alimony after claiming abandonment. Nellie Eakins and Minnie Flutmus also sought relief for abandonment against Herbert Eakins and Herbert Flutmus.
Deputy U S Marshal Emmett Orr recalls a dog swap with a colored boy and a bulldog. The boy bought the dog for a penny price, later backed by a Washington bred pup dispute with ex Congressman D Linn Godold’s servants. Orr then pays the remaining twenty five cents after the boy reappears seeking the balance and is shown the door.
Three firm members deny reports that six hundred mill workers would strike over this year's wage scale in Newport. They say mills sought a tonnage basis but Amalgamated officers lacked time to present the issue to lodges. An equitable tonnage scale likely for the year starting July 1 1907. July 1 1906 scale to remain unchanged.
Clarence Carter, 24, of 7 South Elm Covington, was shot and fatally wounded on Washington street. Police seek his alleged assailant George Brandon of Cincinnati, a known figure around Fifth and Central Avenue. Carter fled from Eighth and Washington to Ninth and Banklick before collapse. Brandon reportedly boarded a car to Cincinnati.
Hundreds of Covington residents who attended Mother of God Church Parochial School gathered yesterday at the soon to be demolished Sixth Street schoolhouse. Refreshments were served by the ladies of the congregation and the choir performed songs. Rev. Father William Tappert delivered brief addresses at both sessions.
Thomas Diskin a clerk at the Ft. Thomas Post Office will depart July 10 for Panama to take a canal zone postal service position. He serves as President of the Newport Branch A O H State Organizer of the Kentucky State Division of the National Post Office Clerks Association and an officer in the Knights of the Maccabees.
Dominick Deitrich faced trial before Magistrate Quehl on a charge of maintaining a nuisance by keeping several dogs. The jury trial resulted in acquittal after defense attorneys Lawrence Diskin and Webster Helm argued the case, with County Attorney Heaver representing the county.
The Fourth Infantry Band under Prof Sauerwein will give a concert on the parade grounds this afternoon. These semiweekly concerts are held Mondays and Thursdays at 3 30 p m and have drawn unusually large crowds.
St Stephens Parochial School children enjoyed a Highlands outing on grounds of Thomas Church Ft Thomas Refreshments served. Part of the tennis court washed away by heavy rains and will take weeks to repair. Choir practice at Highland M E Church. Rev Wagner to conduct Sunday services at the post chapel. Baseball grounds being prepared behind the guardhouse for weekly soldier games. Highlands Volunteer Fire Department fought a small fire near Reservoir road and Mt Pleasant Avenue. vacant Weethi building damaged.
Final call details for Immortal J. N. arise as notices list free status and ongoing proceedings related to the entity. The item references a designation or claim tied to J. N. with emphasis on finality and release.
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports J N Free known nationwide as the Immortal J N died today at Toledo State Hospital for the Insane. He had traveled coast to coast paying no hotel or railroad fares and was harmlessly insane. He had been an inmate for several months.
There will be no special Judge named by Governor Beckham to try W. E. Monroe who swore he had been bribed in two Campbell Circuit Court cases to yield corrupt verdicts. Monroe was indicted by the June Grand Jury on false swearing. Circuit Judge Shaw of Kenton County was chosen to try Monroe after Judge Berry agreed to vacate the bench. Berry sought a special Judge, and Berry drew the jury, a point that may invalidate the proceedings under an act requiring open court jury selection.
Newport News brief reports expressman William Smith was struck by a York street car at York and Southgate streets yesterday afternoon. He was thrown but not seriously hurt. The day also notes the will of Charles Kupferle opened for probate leaving all estate to his widow. J M Ross returns from Phoenix with news of settlers aided by the government. The eight year old Frank Wehner is to be buried today at St Stephen’s Church and St Francis Cemetery Dayton. Arson case U S Dunn to stand trial in Campbell Circuit Court today. Falwell and Malone to be tried in fall term for murder of Lawrence Fortune Dayton Ky.
Members of Phil Sheridan Council Y M S plan a cuchre event at Day ton Beach Pavilion tomorrow evening with handsome prizes for winners. The St John Evangelical Protestant Church ladies host a coffee this afternoon at the church parlors. Funeral services for Miss Sallie Reilley are set for tomorrow morning at St Anthony's Church. Mrs Sarah Nixon memorial observed by W R C of Granville Moody Post tomorrow evening at Ideal Hall. J A Cunningham couple visiting relatives in Lexington return to Bellevue late next week. Trinity Lutheran Church ladies hold a lawn fete at Mrs Emig home on Van Voast avenue this evening. large crowd expected.
George Frey, Superintendent of Streets, works on weed removal in city lots. Jackson Club members met in regular session. Sacred Heart schools held their annual picnic at Clark's Grove. The Rev. W. F. Wray left for Richmond Kentucky to attend the State Baptist convention.
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports John Burke, his wife, and their baby were fatally injured when struck by an Ohio Central train west of Bellefontaine while traveling by wagon from Indiana to Bucyrus.
On the D. A. Nisbet excursion steamer Bishop Gill fired at Ruth Brown and four others. Ruth Brown faces possible paralysis from a spinal injury while the others are expected to recover. Gill was subdued with a spike pole and handed to police after the boat returned to Evansville.
Reports from the Louisiana State Board of Health say a revolution is threatened in Spanish Honduras and that American residents there are making plans to depart. Yellow fever quarantine off the Honduran coast is at risk of relaxation amid the anticipated political upheaval.
The Kentucky Board of Valuation and Assessment in Frankfort on June 27 set tentative franchise tax values for public service firms. Western Union Telegraph Co is valued at 900,000 dollars. Cumberland Pipe Line Co at 1,000,000. Cumberland Telephone and AT&T at 175,000. Postal Telegraph at 150,000. East Tennessee Telephone at 5,000,000. Pullman Co at 300,000. Southern Express at 200,000.
In Demshawai near Tantah the trial of natives involved in the June 13 attack on five British officers ends. Four natives receive death sentences, four get life penal servitude, three get fifteen years, six get seven years, one gets one year, and fifty lashes are imposed on five. Thirty-one are acquitted.
Senator Bailey of Texas delivers a Senate reply to a magazine series titled The Treason of the Senate. He denies magazine accusations about himself, blames William R Hearst for the attack, and rebuts antitrust claims as unjust. He criticizes Hearst owned media for slander and calls out Hearst’s magazine and newspaper actions.
Senator Dillingham called up a House bill establishing a uniform naturalization method. Senators Mallory Foraker and Sutherland offered amendments expanding to Porto Rico and the Philippines, allowing RC court naturalization, admitting Porto Ricans to U S, and replacing phrasing about polygamy beliefs. The bill passed.
Washington dispatch says the U S Morocco treaty from the Algeciras conference will be reported to the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee at its December meeting and voted on by December 28 Democrats opposed the pact while Republicans supported it.
Representative Goebel plans to go home as soon as duties permit. Senator Foraker will travel to Sea Bright New Jersey after adjournment to rest and enjoy the sea air following six months of hard work.
White House discussions centered on the final adjournment of the current Congress. Speaker Cannon, after meeting with the President, said leadership expects to close its labors by midnight Saturday unless some unforeseen event occurs.
Washington June 27 The San Domingo treaty will not be acted on this session as the Foreign Relations Committee adjourned until the next Congress and the treaty was left without action.
The House, without debate, approved a bill for constructing a lock type canal across the Isthmus of Panama. Representative Hepburn of Iowa moved to substitute the Senate bill for the House version.
Washington dispatch reports the immigration bill is likely to remain in conference until the next session of Congress unless adjournment is delayed until next week. The item notes the bill's status and timing in the legislative process.
The general deficiency bill, the last of the major money measures, passed the House at 6 o’clock today with few changes in the bill’s text.
The pure food bill, after a two day conference, was agreed upon at 1 30 o clock today in Washington.
In Zion City controversy testimony before Judge Landis Dr Archibald Church an alienist testified that John Alexander Dowie is insane though he possesses strong business capacity. He suggested Dowie could amass seven million dollars in seven years despite the monomania.
Washington reports the German tariff situation embarrasses the State Department and Congress may not pass relief legislation. Secretary Root faces pressure to meet German assurances that led to a temporary extension of Germany’s minimum tariff rates and a readjustment of U S customs rules.
In Comfort Texas last night at the home of the bride to be Joe Reinhart shot and killed Ernestine Kutzer and then shot himself. The groom-to-be was also wounded and the cause of the tragedy remains unclear. The couple’s relations had been described as typical lovers and the wedding was expected to proceed.
Violent earth shocks were felt across South Wales at 9 45 this morning in Cardiff and nearby towns. Houses rocked and many of the cheaper dwellings suffered damage as hundreds of chimneys fell and pictures were displaced, occupants thrown to the ground amid panic and memories of San Francisco.
Frankfort June 27 Kentucky Auditor W Hager of Boyd County announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. This special dispatch notes his bid as the current state auditor enters the race.
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