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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
5
Miss Grace A. Storey leads her piano pupils in a musicale this evening at the Junior Order United American Mechanics Hall in Cheviot. The event showcases student performances and local cultural activity.
Charlies H. Keith Sr will deliver a stereopticon lecture this evening to the Young People's Society of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant located at Eighth and Elm streets.
Ed Brenner of Colerain avenue was arrested by Constable Tebbe on a warrant alleging he threatened to kill in Newman of George street. Justice Muller placed him on thirty days probation under bond.
The university will hold Arbor Day on April 4 as Governor Harris set a later date, with most students away for Easter holidays. The event aims to celebrate trees and the campus environment.
Fire damaged a C. C. & L. Railroad trestle at Lick Run but was extinguished by Ernest Naegle and other local boys. Damage described as small.
Detective Kincaid pursued John Elberts, formerly a shipping clerk for the George W. McAlpin Company, from Fourth Street to Indianapolis. He is sought on an embezzlement charge claiming he failed to account for 132 dollars.
Donato Mariaus, lying near Coney Island, was shot while gathering dandelions on the Wiener farm. Farmer Jack Wiener faces trial today on the charge of shooting to kill.
The anniversary of Rabbi Isaac M. Wise's death was observed yesterday at Avondale Temple. Rabbi David Phillipson will address the gathering this evening on Isaac M. Wise's Service to American Judaism.
In Ludlow Kentucky Mrs Roxey Dance disappeared with $20 after her husband currently in Cincinnati Workhouse claimed a stranger could secure her release for twenty dollars. The man vanished while Dance remains jailed.
A shirt found on the Eden Park Reservoir bank bears a note reading you will find my body in the reservoir the cause is my sweet heart jilted me signed William Dermody police uncover a possible hoax or warning tied to a local incident at Eden Park Reservoir.
A park employee reported a voice yesterday and turned it over to police. Officers found William Dermody at his home 1104 Gilbert Avenue. He told officers, Somebody is trying to kid me.
Matt McDonough a 35 year old carriage painter of 1201 Sycamore street tried to hang a door at his home yesterday. He mounted a ladder and fell ten feet sustaining bad bruises and cuts. He was taken to City Hospital.
Police tracked Frank Hill 55 of Roleda Tennessee after he escaped from the Cincinnati Sanitarium in College Hill. He had been under treatment for a mental breakdown and was found near the institution last night and returned.
A rubbish fire flared in a cellar of an old Union street building last night, caused by unknown means. The Bishop Wrecking Co. occupies the premises and no damage was reported.
Susan Kenrick lectured at Richmond Street Church on The Picturesque Rhine to aid the First Intermediate School decoration fund. She plans three more lectures and proposes using proceeds to buy statuary and other decorations.
Patrolmen Currin and Knight arrested 32 year old Jacob Lifsty after locating him wandering near Longworth and Plum streets. He appeared intoxicated and a loaded revolver was found in his pocket during the search.
Walter Hutson, 24, of 324 East Front Street, was rushed to City Hospital from Fourth and Broadway after cutting his wrist while playing with tin. He said he and another man had handled the strip when he lost his grip and nearly bled to death.
Benjamin Fay Mills lectured at Vine Street Church presenting an optimistic view of human fellowship. He closed with a prophecy of a world built on spiritual brotherhood and announced a final 4 PM talk this afternoon on the Bhagavata.
Fletcher Richardson a Montgomery County lumber owner and Susan Hackney obtained a marriage license at daybreak and were married at the courthouse. Richardson's father is the county clerk. The bride's parents reportedly objected to the match.
Hannah Sinton age 18 arrested on a warrant by Albert Keppler of 2227 Symmes street faced Police Court arraignment for disorderly conduct. She allegedly refused to leave and pelted Keppler’s house with stones. Judge Lueders dismissed the case after Sinton promised to behave.
Paul Kolbe, 22, of Cleveland, formerly an elevator operator at the Linton Hotel, was arrested yesterday by Detectives Keating and Calnan on a DS Maertz warrant. He is accused of defrauding an automobile dealer by hiring a car, incurring a $22 bill paid with a check later returned marked no funds.
Sparks from a passing engine yesterday afternoon set the Norfolk & Western Railroad trestle on fire over Carthage pike in St Bernard and Elmwood Place. Fire departments joined to stop the blaze before it reached main supports and traffic was halted for some time.
A list of civil actions filed in Common Pleas No. 139 493 to 139 501 including divorces, damages claims, mortgage foreclosures, notes on various sums, and equitable relief. Parties include Clara Esslair F. Bsslair Lena Sunderhaus Charles Yeager and others with law firms listed. The Superior Court case 58 873 involves The Post Publishing Co. vs Al Gaines et al for 600 on a note and 63 814 The Sherwood Distilling Co. vs Co operative Wine and Distilling Co for injunction and 5000 damages.
Distinguished lawyers and statesmen will attend the seventy fifth anniversary celebration on June 5 in the Scottish Rite Cathedral. The event marks the law school’s seventy five years since its 1833 beginnings, with committees from the university, alumni, bar association, and faculty organizing arrangements and speakers including Ames, Kirchwey, Dickinson, Sanford, Rogers, and Dabney.
Daily notices list river departures from Pomeroy Greenwood Maysville and Louisville with times in the five oclock range and an Ohio River gauge reading at Cincinnati of 44 feet and falling as of yesterday evening.
Several packets departed Cincinnati yesterday including The Greenland to Charleston and The Courier to Maysville. Today arrivals include The Greenwood from Pomeroy and The City of Louisville. Forecaster notes the Ohio River continues falling with heavy wind causing towboats to tie up yesterday.
Pittsburg Davis Island Dam reads 10.2 feet and stationary while Wheeling shows 12.5 feet and falling. Madison 38.4 feet and falling with cloudy warm weather. Evansville river 37 feet rising. Cairo 414 feet falling. The Shuzasta upper Ohio arrives at 10 am and St Louis notes 15.5 fanning and mild with City of Galtilie arrival.
The Oakley Park Company awarded contracts totaling $10,000 for grading sewers and cement sidewalks. A second $10,000 apartment project is planned on Kinney avenue by Louis Boeh with architect Fatse & Reed drafting two Be lydon district residences. Summersfield buys Rose Hill lot. White Automobile Co. to build a new garage on Gilbert avenue. Fraenzel farm sold at public auction to Ben Beermann.
The Federal Court in Indiana enters the judgment of the Central Trust Company of New York versus the Ohio and Indiana Gas Company and related firms, foreclosing the mortgage and guiding the sale of the Ohio properties with bids not less than 374000 dollars. Receivers seek a mechanic lien on the Hotel Linton for 6930 dollars. The case involves Vermont marble quarrying contracts for interior hotel work and unpaid balances to H Harig & Co. Court actions also cover bankruptcy petitions and local criminal indictments and juror findings.
Real estate items show multiple transfers of leaseholds and parcels in Walnut Hills and nearby tracts with dozens of Lot numbers and street names. Mortgage filings list sums from 500 to 5,500 dollars with several lenders and borrowers in the same period.
A list of building permits shows multiple dwelling projects including three story frame houses on Fourth Avenue, brick apartments on Gilbert and Dixmount, and several frame homes on Channing Street, Chicasaw Avenue, Colerain Avenue, Queen City Avenue, Eastern Avenue, Seton and Vincent avenues. Owners include Mrs H Wedig, Charles Mayer, Newbold L Pier BON, Live Oak Realty Co, Armin Tenner, Robert Hocksetter, Christian Leser, George Howat, Elizabeth Deckerhoof, with costs ranging in the low thousands and a few entries noting alterations and overall expenditures.
Pennsylvania announces a March 29 change to its train schedule. Train 6 departs Pennsylvania Station at 8 40 a.m. daily, No 32 becomes No 30 at 6 a.m. on weekdays and 7 15 a.m. Sundays, with local stops between Cincinnati and Columbus. Zanesville via Morrow and C M Y trains run at 7 30 p.m. and 3 0 p.m. on weekdays.
Long probate docket covers Betts estate valued around 300000 and multiple other estates. Judge Malsbury hears exceptions to T B Stone’s administration as life tenants challenge trust termination. The piece finishes by reporting Vincent Fazio, a young Italian who entered seventy eight in prayer night, insane and sent to Longview Hospital.
The closing term grand jury reported insufficient time for indictments but returned six new cases. Robert Ward Gott faces second degree murder charges in the Dr. Leo Danziger killing with attorney Thomas Darby to defend him. Charles C. Breuer, Clifton capitalist, is indicted for arson for an incident on January 16.
Lena Sunderhaus sues Charles Yeager in Common Pleas Court for 1050 dollars alleging 175 weeks of unpaid service from May 16, 1903, to October 1, 1906 including milking, feeding livestock, garden work, and chores plus board. Damages of 10000 dollars sought by others for factory and transit injuries. Obituaries and funeral notices follow for multiple individuals with service details and times.
In Superior Court Mrs. Katherine Helwig wins 550 against the estate of William Helwig for care from 1905 to 1907. Sherwood Distilling seeks 5000 damages and a temporary injunction to bar use of the Sherwood name on non whisky packages. Also: Frank Sauders awarded 500 for wrongful arrest in Findlay case. Ruehlman 18 wins 750 against Dayton Folding Box for foot injury.
Bankruptcy referee Whittaker appoints W. E. Delaney trustee to wind up Schantz Lumber Company with bond set at 10000. The Customs House dispute Mihal ovitch Fletcher Co over cherry and alcohol imports from France Germany ruled by U S Court at 175 per gallon, reversing Board of General Appraisers.
Clara Esslair seeks a divorce from Frederick Esslair and custody of four children, alleging lack of support with F M Conant as attorney. Louis E Heckert assigns a 40 by 210 foot Hyde Park Observatory Ave mortgage to Clifford B Reeves to indemnify him for signing a bond for Clifford J Heckert’s embezzlement indictment at Peebles Grocery Company.
Reports from presiding elders of five Lexington districts show an increase in church membership at the Lexington M. B. Colored Ministers Conference held at Park Street M E Church. Elders E. A. White H. W. Tate G. W. Ziegler D. B. Skelton and L. M. Harwood presented figures while Rev J Courtney of Flemingsburg Ky led evangelistic services. Bishop Moore lectures today as laymen debate structure and a quadrennial delegate vote is set for this afternoon at St Paul’s Church with Melrose and Crosley to speak.
Scottish Rite brothers are requested to attend the funeral of our late brother Alfred Cuales Ifel aged 32 at his residence 701 Glenne this Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock By order of the T P Master James A Collins 33 Secretary
Knights Templars in Cincinnati will assemble at 2 p.m. Friday March 27 to pay last tribute to Sir Alfred C. Stifel of 201 Glenwood Avenue Avondale. Eminent Commander John Dolph announces. Also Excelsior Lodge 369 F and A M holds stated meeting this evening at 7:30 with W M Severin Ebel presiding.
A past obituary list shows numerous individuals with ages and causes of death, including Elizabeth Eb ding 74 apoplexy of 2011 Ohio Ave, Mary 40 Woodward St from disease, Charles 45 West Court St bronchitis, Georgia 39 Kenyon Ave heart disease, George 85 Mound St typhoid fever, and others such as bronchitis cancer pneumonia and paralysis among residents and hospital patients. The entries include addresses on Woodward, Kenyon, Mound, Fairfax, Wilstach, Colerain, and West Seventh, with several inquests noted for Schumacher and Wern ing.
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