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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1908
Page
3
The Green Township Republicans plan a Taft Club at Junior Hall in Cheviot with Nicholas Ruebel as President and Clifford Hay as Secretary. Local politics reflect cross party support and expanded efforts ahead of the upcoming elections.
Acting Secretary Pierce explains 1896 Osage reservation lease for 1.47 million acres to E. B. Foster at 10 percent royalty. Congress in 1905 authorized renewal for 690,000 acres with royalty set by the President. The 12 percent rate was approved June 1908, marking a 25 percent increase from prior levels. The department notes possible Standard Oil ties are unclear but treated equally if legal.
James S. Sherman led a large Republican parade in Westchester Pa in honor of his nomination. The event drew thousands amid colored lights with speakers Boise Penrose Murphy and Hampton L. Carron as Sherman urged electing a Republican Congress to enable tariff revisions aligned with the party's policy.
The fight over the Republican nomination ends as Dr. J B Bradley withdraws, leaving Governor Fred M Warner as the undisputed nominee for a third term. Bradley had accused fraudulent enrollment and voting and sought recounts in several counties following September primaries.
Governor Harris spoke to a large Putnam County Fair crowd in Ottawa Ohio addressing agricultural concerns and touching on politics only incidentally. He planned to address Xenia and continue critiques of Judge Harmon's temperance record.
Sam J Flickinger announced Governor Harris will not join Judge William H Taft on the Ohio tour. Harris will handle his own speaking dates, with only potential conflict on Thursday October 22 for welcoming Bible Society delegates in Columbus. The change follows arrangements last night by Vorys and Wood without Harris’s consultation.
From Malta reports say British warships have been ordered to the Aegean Sea to monitor events around the Dardanelles. Turkey is said to welcome a British fleet as a potential calming influence among the population near Lemnos in the Grecian archipelago.
The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways Association closed its fourth annual session in Chicago urging Congress to fund a lake to gulf navigation plan. The group backs a main trunk from Lake Michigan to the Gulf via Illinois and Mississippi rivers with parallel feeder routes and a national push for water transportation over rail. New Orleans will host the next convention in 1909.
New York Oct 9 a heated Panama Canal discrimination inquiry paused as William A Brothers accused Lidgerwood Company representative Spencer Miller of perjury. General Garlington struggled to restore order while Brothers left the room. Colonel Goethals defended the commission noting forthcoming testimony from Colonel Sieberts.
In Schwerin court a woman named Krakow was found to have exploited Frau Rollenhagen and her kin with superstitious cures. She sent hair samples to a Wismar wise woman and sold powders, then ordered exorcisms and a horse liver charm. Police uncovered the scheme after a son-in-law exposed the fraud. Krakow received one year in prison.
Night riders have posted the Cherokee Ginnery seven miles from Spartanburg and warned ginners not to gin or buy cotton until the market improves. Other ginneries in the county were posted. The fire at William Wood’s cotton house twenty miles away destroyed several bales, with unclear cause.
Boston October 9 Charles Eliot Norton a leading author and art literature expert and former Harvard history professor now professor emeritus is seriously ill at his Cambridge home at age eighty one.
The Pretoria reported a collision at night in dense fog off the Dutch coast with an ore steam ship owned by Hess W. Kuntzmann of Stettin. The ore ship sank quickly while the Pretoria was only slightly damaged. Ten crewmen were saved. others are believed drowned.
Light rain began last night just before midnight with a slight drizzle. Weather reports indicate rain in the South and Southeast and suggest the storm may move toward the area before morning.
In New Orleans on October 9 a praise service welcomed 1000 to 1500 delegates to the International Missionary Convention of the Church of Christ. A several hundred voice chorus, conducted by W. E. M. Hackleman of Indianapolis, was a featured element of the program.
In Belgrade Theater Square crowds demand government resignation while opposition to King Peter grows. Organizers press for war against Austria Hungary or abdication to Crown Prince George. National Assembly members arrive for an extraordinary session awaited with high interest as gendarmes guard the Austro-Hungarian Legation.
In Philippopolis Bulgaria Ferdinand the Czar of Bulgaria enters the city to an artillery salute and a cheering crowd. The mayor and officials greet him with bread and salt as schoolgirls shower flowers. The procession goes to the Cathedral amid troops and a mass. The crowd shows support for independence and sovereignty over Rumelia.
The Austrian Foreign Office said it is not alarmed by Serbia's stance. It will not challenge or bow to Serbia's protest. Officials stated Serbia is not a signatory to the Berlin treaty and cannot claim the right to intervene through diplomatic channels in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Official reports from Candia say Crete militia has taken an oath of fidelity to Greece. Authorities have halted the movement of villagers toward island towns, signaling tighter control during the period.
Geneva dispatches report Servian colony protesting Austria-Hungary actions. Residents urge proclamation of a holy war against the perceived aggression.
Reports from Budapest state Servian reservists are ordered to report for duty on October 11. Indications also suggest Servian bands are being formed and guards are assigned to patrol bridges on the Bosnian frontier.
Chicago October 9 Direct examination of Henry E Felton General Traffic Manager of Standard Oil Company closed with little defense in the Government suit to dissolve Standard Oil Company The hearing resumes Monday before Judge Franklin Ferries in St Louis with tariff details and cross examination to follow.
Elbridge Henry Goss author and banker died in Melrose Massachusetts yesterday of pneumonia at age 78. He wrote numerous historical works including a life of Paul Revere. IRA C Abbott formerly collector of internal revenue in Michigan and Pension Bureau clerk died in Washington DC yesterday after a long illness at age 84. He was a Civil War veteran from Burns New York and served as postmaster at Burr Oak Michigan.
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