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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1908
Page
1
The article reports a World’s Congress on tuberculosis in Washington aiming to end the white plague. It notes declines in deaths in England and the United States, outlines Koch’s discovery, and calls for global action to stamp out the disease with medical and economic stakes highlighted.
In Newport Kentucky two Hungarian men, Joseph Zeigler and Dominick Brockhartzer, were killed after a four handed fight at a saloon near the Licking Pike. Steve Benjarik, held on murder charges, and John Mellen are sought by authorities as locals describe the early morning incident.
President Roosevelt urges disinterested citizens to back Taft and a Republican Congress to continue seven years of reform. He cites laws on irrigation meat inspection commerce and labor, urging unity between executive and legislative branches for the 1908 election.
A dispute over a nickel during a dice game near Maysville Kentucky led to Brack Johnson shooting and killing Claire Payne. Johnson escaped. It marks the third fatal shooting in the county in as many weeks.
Paris dispatch says Prince Miguel of Braganza the eldest son of Dom Miguel the claimant to the throne of Part 1 secretly wed Mrs Samuel Sloan Chauncey a wealthy American widow.
John Roberts and his wife resisted a Baxter County Arkansas posse near Prestonia Missouri after Roberts killed neighbor Obe Kessinger. Sheriff Mooney died, the wife mortally wounded, and Roberts with two posse members badly wounded as a prolonged gunfight left the compound in ruins and the couple mortally wounded.
Cholera worsens in St Petersburg with 349 cases and 128 deaths in 24 hours. Authorities vote 250000 to expand hospitals, distribute disinfectants, and speed burials. Liquor sales curtailed to curb disease and schools repurposed as wards as the crisis expands across Russia and neighboring states.
Washington reports Orville Wright, badly injured in Thursdays aeroplane crash at Ft Myer that killed Lieutenant Selfridge, is improving and appears more cheerful. In Berlin the Emperor expressed deep regret at Selfridge’s death and noted risks in aerial navigation.
Paris on September 21 witnessed a blaze at the Central Telephone Building that spread rapidly forcing workers to flee. The Post Office nearby was also destroyed, totaling about 5 million dollars in loss with far wider disruption of telecommunication across Paris and beyond.
Fifty eight new cholera cases and nineteen deaths are reported for the 24 hours ending at 8 this morning. Governor General Smith has called a special Philippine Commission meeting to plan further actions. Federal troops guard the city water sources. The Sheridan has been fumigated and cleared and will sail to Nagasaki then San Francisco.
The American fleet of battleships passed Perth on the way to Manila. Led by the Connecticut and Louisiana, the ships formed two columns and turned west at 1 p.m. A large crowd followed in pleasure craft for about twenty miles. White ships were greeted by a noisy reaction from shore and smaller craft. The Australian steamer Kanawha relayed news of the Aeon wreck off Ch Island to the fleet.
The Silver Link Rebekah Lodge No. 508 I O O F marked its 37th anniversary at Odd Fellows Temple in Hamilton Ohio with a large turnout and a suitable program today.
Senate figure W Murray Crane travels to Chicago to outline a broader GOP drive alongside Frank Hitchcock as national campaign head. The pair plan to meet in New York with Brooker Ward Vorys and Governor Herrick to sharpen the push, signaling a more vigorous effort before the campaign’s close.
Senator Joseph B. Foraker says he will campaign for a United States Senate seat in Ohio. He disassociates from state and national Republican organizations yet intends to address the electorate, arranging speeches himself and answering charges from William Randolph Hearst in forthcoming appearances.
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