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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1908
Page
1
The eighteenth biennial Season of Song Dawns With the May Festival opened last night in Music Hall Elm Street. Thousands gathered as the orchestra organ chorus and audience united to sing America and hear The Seasons. Cincinnati tests its cultural pride and confirms festival prophecy.
Cincinnati critics hailed Harmon’s festival last night at Music Hall, praising the grand oratorio The Seasons by Haydn and the festival’s overall success in social, musical, artistic, and financial terms.
In LaPorte Indiana sheriff and coroner pursue more victims of Bella Gunness after five corpses are unearthed. They believe she killed for property and hoarded money while living near the Gunness farm. A missing bachelor Andrew Heldgren is linked to the case through his intended marriage to Gunness.
John Norris of New York, representative of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, told a House committee the American paper makers have bought large tracts of woodland in Canada and inflated prices by market manipulation instead of cutting on their own land.
From United Mine Workers of America headquarters in Indianapolis it was announced that the two year wage contract for Tri State miners was approved. The Toledo agreement last month set terms for operators and miners in the region.
Governor Harris orders Adjutant General Critchfield to deploy troops to Aberdeen Higginsport and Brown County amid threats from tobacco war agitators. Troop B Columbus will move at 5 a.m. with Captain R W Knauss commanding about fifty cavalrymen. Cincinnati regiments and First Regiment units in Cincinnati and Batavia await orders. Major General Speaks directs Ohio National Guard troops. Sheriff Perry Randall sought the call. a Kentucky tobacco growers meeting is planned. Local families report night riders threatening crop destruction. multiple plant beds ordered torn up under pressure. Danville dispatch says Danville militia units depart under Captain Casey with secret orders to Harrodsburg.
Special Dispatch reports Bert Devaney a famed Grand Circuit horseman killed Lida Bird 22, a Washington Ohio resident, and fatally shot her mother after jealousy rumors. Devaney, a former town marshal, had prior kill count including Wash Darlington in 1890s. He was later captured near Silas Shackelford’s barn.
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