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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgenwebarchives.org ************************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 98 Today's Topics: #1 [OH-FOOT] news: Groesbeck - Hamilt [Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030622200938.017f79bc@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] news: Groesbeck - Hamilton co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Transcribed by Dorothy Wiland. *********************************************************************** The Cincinnati-Times Star May 11, 1904 Groesbeck Aligned Himself With Opposition. "Hope Has Never Seemed So Bright for Recognition of the Party," He Says in Open Letter. __________ Dr. Herman J. Groesbeck, who has been mentioned as the Bernard candidate for National delegate in the First Congressional district, is out in an open letter, in which he declines to be a candidate and in which he aligns himself with the opposition. The letter has caused the anti-Bernard faction to be very jubilant, as it has been thought that Dr. Groesbeck was one of the strongest supporters of Bernard. The letter is as follows: "I notice that in an informal way my name has been mentioned for national delegate for both the parties which are to measure strength at the Democratic primary election next Saturday. It is not right that any should be in doubt as to my sympathies in the present contest. I believe there is a sincere effort being made to put the local Democratic organization in the hands of competent and honest men. While I should appreciate the honor of being chosen to represent my district at St. Louis I beg to announce that I will not be a candidate. When such men as Wallace Burch, in the First ward; Fenton Lawson, in the Second; Stanley Matthews in the Ninth and D. S. Oliver in the Thirteenth, and many other such men are willing to accept the position of ward executive in order that they may help to save the party from an incompetent machine, they deserve the support of their fellow Democrats. The Honor to be counted with them in this effort is greater to me than the honor of being a national delegate. The hope has never before seemed so bright for a regeneration of the party, and I trust the members will not prove indifferent to this opportunity. We have been trifled with long enough. Our self-respect is at stake. Let us have a new order of things." ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:10:44 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030622201044.018038f0@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] news: Davis - ham. co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Transcribed by Dorothy Wiland. *********************************************************************** The Cincinnati-Times Star May 11, 1904 Insubordination in a Department. Example Supposedly Made for Health Office by the Discharge of Officer Carrell. "There seems to be considerable insubordination in the Health department, I go up into the office and no one seems to know anything. Someone should be left in charge in the absence of the health officer that the others will pay attention to." These words were spoken by Member McGuire at the meeting of the Board of Health Tuesday morning after Health Officer Davis had recommended the dismissal of Sanitary Officer R. R. Carrell for insubordination. Dr. Davis said that in his absence the superintendent was in charge. Mr. McGuire insisted, however, that there seemed to be a confusion that was not well for the department. Regarding the Carrell case Dr. Davis said that the officer took off his uniform soon after leaving the office and only donned it again when he returned to the office. Some of the members were in favor of suspending the man and giving him a hearing, but after it was explained that insubordination was quite general in the department, and that an example should be made a motion to dismiss Carrell was carried, with Mr. McGuire alone voting "no." Mr. McGuire then said he had not been consulted about the matter in advance, and that if he, as the committeeman of the department, was to be held responsible for it, he should be informed about the department. He said Dr. Davis constantly ignored him, but the latter was quick to say that no slight was ever intended. A motion to appoint John Linehan in place of Carrell was referred to Mr. McGuire. Dr. W. R. Brown, an examining physician, who was suspended several weeks ago for 60 days, was reinstated. James Bush, a night watchman at the Sixth Street Market house, has been suspended by Market Master Brown, pending a hearing to be had Thursday by the Board of Public Service. On the night of May 6 the market house was entered and a number of butchers' stalls and the room of the market master robbed. Bush claims he was absent for but a short time that night, and the reason he had not entered the office was because he could not find the keys. The market master is convinced however that Bush was not at the market house at all that night, and he will be given an opportunity to be heard. Bush was once at the Court Street market, but on a complaint was transferred to the Sixth Street market. In a communication to the Board of Public Service Tuesday A. Jacob and Nathan Berwanger made charges against Market Policeman Honeyman and his "partner" whom, they say, they do not know. The complaints allege that a revolver was placed with a man with instructions to use it in a certain contingency. Market Master Brown to a Times-Star reporter said: "I deny that any of my men have ever given favors to anyone for any consideration. The Berwangers' case is this: a stand was assigned to them near John street. They took a position that belonged to another party. They were ejected." ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:14:08 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030622201408.017f3fb4@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] death: Gwynne, Edward - Ham. Co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Transcribed by Liz Stratton. *********************************************************************** The Cincinnati-Times Star May 11, 1904 JUDGE GWYNNE'S GRANDSON DIES SUDDENLY IN EAST. --------------- The news of the death of Edward Erskine Gwynne, a nephew of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and a grandson of Judge Abraham E. Gwynne, one of the prominent attorneys of Cincinnati years ago, reached this city Tuesday. Mr. Gwynne, who was married in 1896 to Miss Helen Steele in Washington, had a rather strenuous career, having been at one time separated from his wife and passing through bankruptcy proceedings, in which he alleged that his liabilities amounted to $56,403, while his only asset was a loan of $57 to Perry Tiffany. His grandfather, Judge Abraham Gwynne, was one of the prominent lawyers of the West at one time and lived on Pike street in this city. He was the author of a work reference, "Gwynne on Sheriffs," which was for years a standard. Mr. Gwynne was about 35 years of age. He had a small reversionary interest in property at Fourth and Main streets in this city and other property in Missouri, along with other heirs. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 15:19:26 -0500 From: Tina Hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.20030622201926.01804e4c@clubnet.isl.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] news: Hall & Miller - ham. co. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Transcribed by Dorothy Wiland. *********************************************************************** The Cincinnati-Times Star May 11, 1904 Last Letter of Missing Woman. __________ Robert Hall Receives a Letter From Rose Miller, the Supposed Suicide, in Which He is Told She Has Left her Sister's Home. ___________ Dear Rob "I have left my sister's. Don't write. You will hear from me later." Rose By the disclosure of the foregoing note, a further element of mystery has been added to the prolonged absence from her home of Rose Miller, the supposed suicide, of 301 West McMicken avenue, whose hat, neck ribbon and hat-pin, found in the Suspension bridge last Thursday, have been positively identified by her sisters, Mrs. Lena Richter and Mrs. August Schaefer. When a Times-Star reporter called at the home of Mrs. Richter Monday morning, the heart=broken sisters told the reporter they were certain that the girl had sought death in the Ohio because of a love affair. The two sisters said a man named Robert Hall had steadily called on Miss Miller since last September "Rose mailed a letter," said her sister, Mrs. Richter, "just before she walked onto the bridge from the Covington side. She walked from the Cincinnati side to the Covington side, there mailed a letter, then walked back on the bridge and we are very certain that, after taking off her hate, tie and hat pin, she jumped into the river. Now, that letter she mailed on Thursday night was not received by any member of the family. It was written, we believe, to Robert Hall, whose failure to visit her for the last two weeks made her down hearted." Mrs. Richter told the reporter than every effort of the family to locate Hall was futile. Late Monday a Times-Star reporter located him, and he was asked to go to 301 West McMicken avenue Monday night, and explain the contents of a letter he had received from Rose Miller Friday morning. On Tuesday morning Hall was interviewed by a Times-Star reporter and said he had explained all to the sisters of the girl. Hall is a painter. "I know nothing of the whereabouts of Rose Miller," he said to a Times-Star reporter. "I liked the young woman. I got my last letter from her Friday night at 1524 Vine street, where I get mail. The letter simply said: "I have left my sisters. Don't write. You will hear from me lager." I thought it was a peculiar letter, as it told me not to write, and didn't mention any address where I could write, if I wanted to. I thought it such a strange letter that I spoke of its conents(sic) to William Kunkel, a friend of mine in the shop." "Were you a friend of Rose Miller's?" "I was a friend of Rose Millers," said Hall. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V03 Issue #98 ******************************************