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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1908
Page
1
In Baltimore the General Conference audience witnessed Goodel l's flock receive notable esteem during a remarkable display. A strong contingent gathered, highlighting leadership and unity within the group as observers praised the collection of attendees and the overall atmosphere.
New York May 24 The Rev Dr Charles D Goodell pastor of Calvary Methodist Church received strong demonstrations of affection from over a thousand congregants after morning services and again after evening services amid divorce rumors affecting his Bishop candidacy at Baltimore General Conference A seven member commission was appointed to prepare the next steps.
Father Joseph F. Lubeley of St. Joseph's Catholic Church Salisbury was stabbed twice by Joseph Schuette a nearby farmer believed insane after a Mass 400 worshipers watched. Lubeley in critical condition as Mrs Barbara Ginter and John Gates aided and Schuette was overpowered and jailed.
Troop B under Captain Knauss chased night rider bands that attacked Walker Hook’s home. James Frost, a local farmer, is arrested on shooting with intent to wound with Tuesday set for examination. Reports say two raiders fired near Higgins Port. two pursuers lost them in a woods as bullets left large holes in Hook’s house front.
President Fallieres travels to London from Paris aboard the Leon Gambetta to begin a four day stay marked by naval salutes and royal receptions. King Edward VII and the diplomatic corps will attend a state banquet at Buckingham Palace and a gala Covent Garden performance featuring Melba and other leading artists.
The Austrian Deputies Kramarez Glebo vitsky and Markoff arrive in St Petersburg for a week of festivities linked to the Blaine Consol 1909. Prof Borzenko of Odessa has donated 50 000 dollars for the event. They plan to elect fifteen representatives from Russia Poland Austria and the Balkans to meet in Prague in August to draft a Russo-Polish reconciliation programme.
The House Railways and Canals committee reports a Chicago to Toledo canal via Fort Wayne would cut freight rates between Chicago and Buffalo, linking Ohio Indiana and Southern Michigan. It would spur factory growth, lift coal and cement shipments, and potentially cut lake transport costs, with construction estimated at 100 million dollars and long term revenue for the government.
In Guthrie Oklahoma ten feet of floodwaters surge through streets as the Cottonwood River expands to twenty five miles wide forcing trains to stop and triggering widespread crop and stock losses. Tulsa reports Arkansas River rising thirteen feet with parts of West Tulsa and Jenks inundated and telegraph services crippled.
Torrential rains across the state collapse bridges and flood towns. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas main line bridge at Eufala failed, halting service. Gas supply to Muskogee and surrounding cities cut as Clarksville bridge washed away. Officials warn repairs will take a week and businesses face shutdowns as water rises.
A train carrying reinforcements to General narski of the Russian punitive expedition in Persia derailed near Tiflis. Thirteen artillerymen sustained serious injuries in the accident.
Lipman Kessler returned to the Brooklyn neighborhood after fleeing Miss Nina B. Doane whom he had shot dead in her grandmother’s home. He shot himself in Fulton street early today after wounding her intended husband Thomas Faulkner. his body was found by police who had searched for hours.
A severe trolley collision in Germantown near Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, left three dead and numerous injured. Among the dead is Mrs. George D. Warner, 60, of Cornwall, Pa. Forty-five victims were taken to Chestnut Hill and Germantown Hospitals as families and private physicians treated the wounded.
Benjamin Brinkman 28, a Corryville machinist, died after a wild pitched ball struck him in the head during an eighth to ninth inning match between St John’s and St Rose’s churches in the local Catholic League. The coroner labeled the death an accident.
Officials of the Taft Association of New York state say they have gathered enough Taft support to deliver New York's 78 votes if needed after the first ballot. They report over 400 000 printed ballots sent and 7 000 returns weekly, with many endorsements from lawyers Wall Street bankers and farmers. Louis C Hay cites pledges and says the campaign will continue unless Taft is nominated, and notes Governor Hughes will retain his state's first ballot vote.
In Fairmont West Virginia on May 24 a wedding celebration in Thoburn foreign colony led to a riot. Mihal Ladar a miner was shot and died later. Police officers W C Shaver and William Finley and twelve foreigners were injured during a clash and a collapsing porch.
Ernst Terwilger, a self confessed wife killer, is jailed in Newark Ohio with guards after confessing to strangling his 18 year old wife in their room. The couple had a year long marriage, domestic discord, separation and reconciliation. The wife was about to become a mother.
A passenger train and a freight train collided near Coleraine Avenue Cumminsville late Saturday. The engineer and fireman jumped to safety as two whisky cars were destroyed and the front of the engine torn away. Traffic halted about two hours.
A Trailroad accident just north of the tunnel near McMillan on the C. L. & N. line caused a switch engine to derail into a cattle car. About forty cattle were buried under debris, with three calves reported dead.
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