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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1925
Page
2
Harold Terhune, 40, claiming to be the son of a Western railroad treasurer, was arrested in New York on a complaint from a restaurant proprietor who said he passed worthless checks totaling 160 dollars. He said he had been a psychiatric patient after a nervous collapse about the time the checks were issued.
The 50 year old waiter was discovered in a bathroom adjoining his room in the Honing Hotel on Vine Street last night by hotel employee W M Duble. Officials at the morgue believe death from acute alcoholism.
Baltimore report says chemists linked poison in coffee of Arthur Ballach, Fidelity Building night watchman, to his death on March 6. Widow Josephine Ballach claims the couple held a $50,000 jointly invested estate and that no motive or beneficiary is evident.
The Peruvian Government sent a protest to Washington against President Coolidge's arbitral award in the Tacna Arica dispute. Peru demands immediate Chilean evacuation, a Plebiscite Commission, and safeguards for voting, with Pershing named American member and chairman of the commission.
The forthcoming Peruvian communication could go beyond arguing the point and aim to secure guarantees related to the plebiscite award. The exact nature of the request awaits the text, and if conditions are attached to accepting the award the protocol may be at risk.
A verdict of voluntary manslaughter was returned for Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bennett in Chattanooga on Miss Augusta Hoffman’s murder case. Each defendant faces ten years in prison. Judge Estill held midnight court to receive the verdict as Tennessee law restricted Sunday sessions.
Schuyler Colfax junior, son of Vice President Schuyler Colfax, Sr., and former Mayor of South Bend, died at his Rochester New York home. The obituary notes his lineage to U S Grant era VP and places the event in Rochester with word reaching South Bend.
The Ohio River at Cincinnati stood at 20.3 feet at 6 pm and was falling. The Kentucky arrives from Louisville at 10 am and departs at 5 pm. The Tom Greene to Charleston arrives 6 pm and leaves at 4 pm tomorrow. Betsy Ann from Pittsburgh arrives 9 pm and returns at 4 pm tomorrow. Towboat Robert P Gillham arrived from Huntington with coal for Campbell's Creek Coal Co. River readings also note 11.6 and 11.2 feet with snow and a stationary stage.
Peruvian officials faced embarrassment over a translated treaty phrase used in their case to the United States. critics say the word after is pivotal to the claim that Tacna and Arica should revert to Peru. Peru’s press censorship and protests, including an embassy attack, signal tension amid arbitration.
A 23 year old man, Joseph Cobentas, was severely scalded in a boiling vat at Jung Brewing Co after slipping while pulling ice. Earl K. Wibbard, 34, was jailed in Lima on a worthless check charge, with detectives Gernhardt McDermott and Preston involved. A woman known as Mabel Barnett, 22, sought by police for robbery at Mansfield Reformatory after assaulting a matron. Flora Morrison disclosed the identity of two youths suspected in a diamond theft from her bedroom valued at $160. Robert S. Marx of Superior Court will speak on The World Court at the Hamilton County Womans Democratic Club meeting.
Incoming steamers list ships and dates from Rio de Janeiro Gothenburg Hamilton Port Simon St Johns Progreso San Juan Hamburg with March dates. Outgoing steamers show New Colombia to Canary Islands and Stuttgart to Bremen at 11 a.m. Arrived column notes Resolute from Rio de Janeiro and Caracas from San Juan with March 11 and 24.
A terrified 22 year old woman fled from 2525 Columbia Avenue at 1 39 AM as her estranged husband half carried her away. Neighbors heard screams and police recovered a car abandoned nearby with a hat and coat left behind. The woman was later escorted to a streetcar and taken downtown. the man fled after the assault.
In Rouen on March 29 the Archbishop of Rouen chaired a Catholic meeting where General de Castelnan and Marquis de la Ferronaye spoke. Police were on standby as Communists called for a counterdemonstration outside the Circus. the session condemned the French Government's religious policy.
Three thousand radicals gathered in Verdun's covered market after a Catholic demonstration last Sunday. A resolution was adopted praising Premier Herriox for defending democratic doctrine against clerical reactionary forces.
In Vannes France on March 29 a silent procession of about 25 000 Catholics led by Cardinal Charest and other prelates marched to the fair grounds. There the Cardinal spoke as officials listened and a resolution protested the French Embassy to the Vatican suppression and secularization laws in Alsace. The group pledged to organize to defend religious liberty.
Paul Painlev presided over a League of Blues of the West gathering in Lemans to counter Catholic and Nationalist demonstrations. About four thousand attendees heard Leon Blum and a resolution praised Premier Herriot for his pacific, non denominational and democratic leadership.
High winds and heavy rain drove a fifty foot motor launch into the side of the U S S Maryland at San Pedro injuring and killing seaman Benjamin Biake of the Maryland. Next of kin is Mrs. Sadie Finke of New York City.
Death notices list multiple obituaries with names like Stella Hunt Hanauer Ardella Herrman Martha Hoffner Martha Langerman Levi P Thompson Barbara Theiring and David Finley Wright. Funeral arrangements note dates times and locations across Newport Bellevue and Cincinnati area churches cemeteries and homes.
W Madison Puckett longtime head of Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company died at his Charleston home aged 56 after a short illness. He directed about seventeen Kanawha district mines and became president in 1913. The company absorbed Kanawha Fuel in 1906 with a West outlet in Charleston. Colonel Moriarity, in charge here, left for Charleston after the news. Puckett often visited Cincinnati due to close trade ties through his office.
Levi P. Thompson 88 a Civil War veteran died at the National Soldiers' Home in Dayton He had lived with his daughter Mrs H G Miller and later received hospital care He worked for the Dayton Journal and did metal trades research Funeral services set for Wednesday at Woodland Cemetery chapel Dayton
Mrs Barbara Theiring 86 of 2459 Fairview avenue died at her home yesterday widow of Anthony Theiring active in G R rs work. She belonged to William H Lytle Post Ladies Relief Corps and Queen City Circle G A R. Survived by sons William B and John and daughter Louise Bernhard. Body at Busse Bergman 1517 Freeman avenue until 8 am Tuesday funeral at St Augustine's Church burial St Mary's Cemetery.
Miss Martha Hoffner aged 90 died at the home of her grand niece Mrs N E Becker 3645 Bell Crest Ave yesterday. She lived with Mrs Becker twenty five years and was the last of a fifteen child family. Funeral services are set for Spring Grove Cemetery chapel Tuesday at 2 PM.
The bulletin reports fair weather for Ohio and West Virginia with a move to increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions. Indiana and Kentucky see fair to partly overcast skies with little temperature change, while a table lists current highs lows and rainfall across multiple cities including Chicago Boston Omaha and San Francisco.
William L. Allendorf of Sandusky died at his home. He led the Commercial Banking and Trust Company and served as president of the Ohio Bankers' Association in 1923 and 1924. He entered banking 25 years ago and remained active until a week before his illness in Detroit.
Walter O. Sexton, a soldier assigned to Ft. Thomas, surrendered to Lt. O'Brian at Latonia Police Station last night. He faces charges of overstaying a leave and is held in Covington jail for military authorities.
Eight people were injured in a series of automobile accidents yesterday with one fatality. John Harpe, 79, of Seventh and Sycamore streets, died after being struck crossing Sycamore Street. driver Fred Merkel rushed him to General Hospital where he died.
John Sleet a 40 year old pneumonia fever patient on Staten Island rose from bed with hat and coat and walked out. After eight hours of searching by police he returned at 6:30 pm and said he had just gone out for a little walk. His physician Dr Walrath termed his condition no worse.
Atlantic City reports Calvin Coolidge has mastered the presidential handshake with a philosophy to grasp first and speak little. Ed ward T. Clark notes the President shakes quickly, leads conversations with aides, stays at work from 9 to 6, and signs about 100 documents daily.
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