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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
1
A Fayette County incident reports arsenic in Paris Green fed to cattle on R. M. Squires near Christiana Chilesburg. Three cows died and six more are in danger. The loss prompted a $500 reward, with Squires seeking state aid and county help to find the guilty party amid rising tensions in the independent tobacco dispute.
Nebraska Republicans endorsed William H. Taft for President at the state convention with a solid delegation to Chicago. The platform aligned with Roosevelt policies and urged tariff revision along lines of Ohio Republicans, amid harmony and isolated protests.
A White House conference on Sherman antitrust revisions discussed sweeping changes to empower regulations on railroads and corporations. Delegates including Robert Root Bonaparte labor leaders weighed exemptions and constitutional issues while aiming to draft a measure within a week for Congress.
In Washington on March 12 Senator McCreary of Kentucky rebutted Senator Depew of New York on night riders and tobacco barn burnings. He defended Kentucky lawlessness actions, criticized New York trusts and urged repeal of the 6 percent tobacco tax to benefit Kentucky farmers and curb the tobacco trust led by Duke.
In Indianapolis the United Mine Workers hold a session at Tomlinson Hall to set a course after operators and miners fail to agree on a joint wage conference. John Mitchell plans to retire with T. L. Lewis to become president. Scale Committee to study future policy.
Hobson states a submarine agent approached him and reports a committee assignment related to the incident. The remarks suggest political maneuvering tied to a committee post and inquiry into the agent's contact.
New Orleans reports the schooner Leah Whiddon from Barbados, with three masts broken and the captain’s wife steering, sighted February 18 in the Atlantic several hundred miles west of Florida by the British steam Matador. The vessel, under jury rigging, had 48 days at sea from Bahia en route to St Johns before the Matador diverted.
In Denver on March 12 Giuseppe Alia was found guilty of first degree murder for shooting and killing Father Leo at St Elizabeth's Church on February 23. The jury fixed hanging as the penalty.
George O. Eldridge 53, vice president of EB H Eldridge Lumber Co, Indianapolis, died by self inflicted revolver shot in barn behind his home. Officials cite worry as probable cause for suicide.
Helen Von Hagen, 16, testifies in New York court about meeting Raymond Hitchcock and his invitation of rides in his car. She recounts visits to his Great Neck home, dinners, and trips with friends, while Hitchcock showed nervousness on her testimony day.
Dr. E J Ackerman arrived in Douglas Arizona and reported Yaqui Indians killed two Mexicans near Oputo Sonora in a region with many Americans and previously undisturbed by Indians The Prefect of Montezuma has taken the field against the Indians with 126 Mexican troops.
Casablanca March 12 General D Amade commander of the French forces in Morocco has received letters from Alai Hafid the so called Sultan of the South and the leaders of his army asking that hostilities be suspended Time is requested to make arrangements for peace.
Morganfield Union County grand jury returns an indictment against International Harvester Company for violating trust laws in Kentucky. Henderson dispatch reports March 12.
John G. Jenkins the Brooklyn banker who, with his three sons, was indicted after the banking investigation following the financial panic, died at Sea Cliff New York. Death was due to paralysis. He was a prominent figure in Brooklyn finance and civic life and had retired from active business several years earlier.
Special Dispatch to the Commercial Tribune reports six Chinese dead, two injured, and one building partly destroyed in a Chinatown fire in Marysville California on March 12. Authorities believe the blaze was incendiary.
The American battleship fleet under Admiral Robley D. Evans completes a 13 000 mile voyage from Hampton Roads to Magdalena Bay with target practice ahead. After drills at Magdalena Bay the fleet will move to San Francisco then stop for honors in California cities. Awards and trophies mark spring and fall gunnery contests with the Illinois Maryland Albany Princeton and Preble among winners.
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