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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1908
Page
2
The text explains adding wind speed to flyer speed when moving with the wind and subtracting when moving against it. It cites a gale of 39 mph yielding 1 mph against the wind for 5 miles, then 79 mph with the wind returning to cover 5 miles in ~4 minutes. The author mentions making new machines similar to one used at Huffman's Prairie and Kill Devil Hill.
State examiners report $16,604.64 illegally drawn from Butler County Treasury between Sept 1, 1903 and March 1, 1907. They cite $10,879.37 in excessive fees and $6,155.47 in unauthorized bills. Items involve current and former officials including Engle Hartkoff Jones Braun Brannon Bisdorf Larsh Huffman Schumacher Sharkey Dillon and others. Potential recovery action may follow, though the prosecutor's office has ignored earlier reports.
President Roosevelt hosts Taft campaign managers Arthur S. Vorys and Frank H. Hitchcock in Chicago. No decision on who will nominate Taft is reached, though Senators Dolliver Iowa and Representative Burton Ohio are among names under consideration. Vorys to travel to Columbus then Chicago. Taft presses on with the selection in question.
Chairman New of the Republican National Committee calls a Subcommittee on Convention Arrangements meeting for June 4. As of now 78 contests have been filed with the Secretary, spanning 8 states and Alaska, 70 districts and 174 delegates.
Corporal Bartlett and Officers Nagel and Schroeder pursued two burglars after a 2 AM break in. Dr. Charles E Windeler fired at the intruders from his window wounding one man, who fled toward Reed Street and Eastern Avenue before escaping.
Clinton Illinois May 29 early this morning the jury that was deliberating the Snell will case returned a verdict ending the case. The trial followed sensational charges against the aged and eccentric millionaire.
A six member House special committee released a majority report urging no new pulp and paper legislation until further study, while a minority backed the Stevens bill to free wood pulp and print paper. The panel notes possible price rises from Canadian imports and calls for swift passage of H. R. No. 18608.
Lexington May 28 A former president of the National Exchange Bank of Lexington, W. C. Smith 35 years old, shot himself behind the right ear at his home. Despondency was given as cause. Smith was wealthy and prominent in society. His body was found by a negro maid and his three year old son.
Mrs. Mary Hinton formerly of London and a frequent magazine contributor died at her Washington home today by asphyxiation. She was 53 years old.
A robber with a revolver held up Charles Mongar near Sycamore street and the canal in Cincinnati at about 12 am and stole $700. Mongar, proprietor of a restaurant at 406 Hunt street, had drawn the money from a bank yesterday and carried it in his hip pocket. Police and detectives were alerted to the bold daytime heist.
Grand Chief Warren Stone and Assistant Grand Chief A G Burgess along with EB Hurley of Cleveland were re elected by acclamation by the locomotive engineers. Ash Kennedy of Winnipeg was named Assistant Grand Chief to represent Canada as balloting resumes for the remaining offices.
The General Assembly voted to bar paid church board agents from the Executive Committee and curbed centralization. The move sparked debate on governance, with critics fearing loss of capable members and slower action on church issues.
Members of the assembly took an afternoon excursion to Ft Leavenworth and the National Soldiers Home at Leavenworth Kansas as part of their efforts to study temperance work among foreign speaking communities.
In Pittsburg on May 2 the United Presbyterian General Conference elected Rev. Dr. James G. Carson of Xenia Theological Seminary as moderator and announced free will offerings totaling 1 280 090 for the year. Address speakers covered church regions east and west of the Mississippi. Committee reports noted incomplete Psalmody revision and pending union talks with the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the South.
At Greensboro North Carolina May 28 the Southern Presbyterian Church assembly heard appeals from the Presbytery of Eastern Texas against the Synod of Texas. The case concerns Beaumont pastor Rev F E Robbins and his dissolved pastoral relation. The presbytery asks the assembly to sustain its petition and reverse the synod. The appeal was sustained.
In Boston on May 28 the seventh annual Unitarian Historical Society meeting was held with Massachusetts Congregational ministers, Postoffice mission workers, and Meadvilles Alumni Association events. President Henry H. Edes led the session which heard reports and elected officers, with remarks by Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale.
TinSHinonno reports Hankow disaster and freshet toll of over one thousand lives. Kan River boats shattered and river craft wrecked. Wu Saig driven ashore Kiang Foo damaged. Shanghai shores crowded with bodies. Also a coal mine disaster in Kwang claims one thousand lives.
A gunman known as Dutch rode into a blind pig and fired on buildings wounding men including editor A Lipphardt. He then shot at attorney L S Todd before being killed by a citizen’s bullet as a pitched battle erupted with 30 to 40 shots.
London May 28 Mrs Margaret Hamilton a principal witness in the Druce case was sentenced to eighteen months oral servitude for perjury her appeal being disallowed. Aged 70 she was arrested March 7 on willful perjury and conspiracy charges related to the Druce affair.
General James Parke Postles a morocco leather manufacturer died in Wilmington BCel Ky from injuries after a fall at the Masonic Temple. Moses Lycurgus Brooks former Beaumont resident died in San Antonio after a lingering illness. he served in Texas Legislature and one term in Congress from the Second District. Charles K. Ladd, a noted Illinois Democratic leader, died in Kewanee after months of illness. W Warren Spence, Springfield millionaire, died on a Chesapeake & Ohio train at Olive Hill after a coal land transaction. his body was taken to Lexington for an inquest. he was related to Senator Jay Strickland. Charles E. Day associated with Spence planned Eastbound travel before death.
Proceedings reveal a strong push for a universal divorce law aligned with Interchurch findings. The Rev. R. A. Chase proposes a new paragraph urging uniform statutes and residency stay. The conference dismisses Cooke Day charges as improperly presented. Delegates fund fire-damaged California churches and merge publishing houses.
The article recalls General Lee as Commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans and describes his Civil War service from Virginia to Vicksburg. It notes his later role in education and his death near Birmingham reunions, with burial likely in Columbia Mississippi.
Governor Noel suspended all public business after learning of Lee's death and ordered the rearrest of the dead batter’s family to bring the body to Jackson for lying in state in the Capitol rotunda tomorrow. The decision awaits General Lee's son arrival from Chicago before action.
Montgomery Alabama reports widespread mourning for General Lee after his death. Governor Comer was away from the city, yet public signs of respect appeared throughout the capital of the old Confederacy.
General G P Harrison of Opelika, commanding officer of the Alabama division, United Confederate Veterans, said there would be no need to postpone the Confederate reunion in Birmingham from June 9 to 11 due to General Lee's death.
A $10,000 fine, the maximum under law, will be imposed tomorrow on George Fred Terry of Waterville, found guilty in March of conspiracy to defraud the Government of postage. Judge Hale announced the sentence in U S District Court.
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