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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1908
Page
1
The report notes Wall Street interests shaping the campaign and claims General Grant was too popular while the editor candidate suffered a mental breakdown amid the party’s fallout.
Bryan's West Virginia visit caps a busy Ohio to Wheeling swing as he defends the Democratic platform on labor and anti injunctions amid large crowds. He contrasts Taft's campaign with his own and asks voters to back direct senatorial elections and campaign contribution disclosures.
Paris Sept 11 A jury in the Assize Court acquits Louis Gregori who fired at Major Dreyfus during the Pantheon ceremony for Emile Zola. The case ends twelve years of national division with a muted government aim to avoid martyrs. Courtroom hosannas and boos follow the verdict. protests outside are blocked by police.
A jury was secured and the trial of Congressman J F Laning charged with embezzling stock of the defunct Norwalk Savings Bank began in Fremont Ohio. Judge B S Richards of Clyde presided. The first panel of twenty four was exhausted and a special venue ordered. Jurors were examined for prejudice. S H Burgoon was challenged for cause as a Republican Presidential elector candidate. Three witnesses were examined.
Taft signals a Tennessee push and two speeches in Nashville and Chattanooga as part of a broader tour through Kentucky Maryland and New York. Arthur S. Vorys travels to New York with a state coverage list and itineraries for three week and three short trips plans. Taft plans to address Methodist and A M E Church audiences and aims to win over Northern voters and the colored vote in Ohio and Tennessee.
In a historic first, rival presidential candidates William H. Taft Republican of Ohio and William J. Bryan Democrat of Nebraska will attend the Chicago Association of Commerce banquet at the Auditorium on October 7. Taft opens the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterways convention that week, with Bryan as a surprise dinner guest. both will speak after formal nonpartisan framing. The seating places Taft on the right of President Richard C. Hall, while Bryan sits to the left, amid plans for a thousand attendees and connected venues in the Fine Arts Building.
Cincinnati traffic reopened between Jacksonville Florida and Cincinnati after eighteen days of disruption caused by heavy rock damage along nearly forty miles of track due to the August flood and subsequent fire. The line restoration runs via Columbia Union and Asheville.
The Protestant Alliance urges Home Secretary to bar carrying the Host and vestments at the Eucharistic Congress procession set for Sunday in London. The appeal warns of public danger and possible riot if the law is disobeyed, with responsibility claimed by the Home Office. A threatening letter to alliance leaders adds tension, though regarded as a crank's actions.
Atlanta Sept 11 The Georgia Legislature remains deadlocked on the convict question with no early solution. A Senate filibuster resumed and a House recess adjournment plan set business to resume Monday. A ten minute limit on Senate speeches was adopted after a clash between Senator Felder and President Flint, stopping the filibuster.
Special dispatch from Princeton Kentucky reports night riders expanding from tobacco control in Caldwell County to threaten sorghum farmers. Harvey McDowell received a warning not to plant sorghum or risk a raid by the lawless group. Citizens fear increasing depredations and may soon press measures to stop the riders.
A fierce hurricane struck Turks Island and Grand Turk last night and at daybreak, causing extensive property damage and unknown casualties. Ships foundered, lighters vanished, and quick fears for Dr. T. R. Robertson grew as the storm raged with near 100 mph winds. Grand Turk, capital of the Caicos group, hosts 1,751 residents and relies on salt export amid a troubled poststorm scene.
Orville Wright, after a one hour ten minute flight, topped his prior records with a speed of 39.55 miles per hour during the Ft Myer demonstration. Wilbur Wright’s attempt was hindered by fog as Octave Chanute and spectators watched the display.
Professor F N Blackmar of the University of Kansas urged a marital prep course in state schools. He argued strict physical and mental screening for marriage licenses to curb insanity epilepsy and crime and improve national welfare.
Wilbur Wright, the American aeronaut, attempted three flights in foggy conditions at Le Mans. His first flight lasted two minutes thirteen seconds before the craft vanished in mist, a second was cut short by engine sparking problems, and a final evening flight reached four minutes thirty five seconds with a top height of forty feet at eighty kilometres per hour before cold fingers forced a descent.
New York police probe a homicide after the body of 22 year old Anna Mauri is found in her East Forty-fifth street apartment. She was beaten and strangled with a veil, hands tied, door secured with a padlock. Her husband was away for two days as the coroner investigates.
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