News June 30, 1904

THE CINCINNATI TIMES-STAR
June 30, 1904

NEWS
cans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

transcribed by Dorothy Wiland, Liz Stratton, Linda Boorom

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CHANGE IN FIRM. Mr. Daniel Weinbeck, heretofore vice-president and general manage of the Cincinnati Millinery company, 32-34-36 West Fifth street, has disposed of his interests in the company and will take his former interests in New York. Mrd. R. E. Tyroler, formerly of Grand Rapids Mich., has purchased a controlling interest in the company and has been elected president and general manager.

Double Anniversary. Ambrose Flowers, depot watchman at the Grand Central station, will go to the home of his parents at Miamisburg, who are celebrating the fifty-second anniversary of their marriage. Friday, Flowers himself will be celebrating the nineteenth anniversary of his own wedding.

HONORED BY ENGINEERS. [picture] L. J. Ahlers, Who has been re-elected for the sixth time financial secretary of Branch No. 2 of the National Associated of Steam Engineers.

Roman Avenue to Be Widened. City Seeks to Appropriate Land For This Purpose City Solicitor Hunt filed suit Wednesday, praying Common Pleas court to impanel a jury and assess compensation t be paid for the city for property desired for the purpose of widening Union or Roman avenue from Reading Road to Borrman avenue. He names as defendants, whose property is involved, Almina B. Boman, Jennie Oberhen Lourie, Thomas J. Emery, Mary M. Emery, his wife, John J. Emery, Lola A. Emery, his wife, Joseph Niehaus and his wife, Christina Doll, Catharine Hoffman, heirs at law to George Doll, Sarah A. Fallon and John F. Fallon, Charles H. Wiltsle(?), The Mercantile Building and Loan company, John H. Gibson, treasurer, and Eugene Lewis. The petition recites that court is asked to assess valuation and then the city has paid the amount to the owner or deposited it, plaintiff be permitted to proceed with the projected improvement.

Soldier Would Rather Die Than Go to Alaska. Member of Third Infantry Cut His Throat With a Razor. The departure of the Third regiment of infantry form Ft. Thomas for Alaska was the cause of one of the Soldiers attempting to commit suicide. The regiment left Ft. Thomas on the 20th inst. For San Francisco, from which place they will sail July 2 for Alaska. Some of the soldiers of the regiment did not like to be stationed in the far North, but the most of them accepted the orders to leave in soldierly manner. John Woods of Company D of the Third infantry, however, brooded over the matter until he thought life would be unbearable in Alaska and that death here would be better, and not wishing to have the dishonor of being known as a deserter, attempted to commit suicide. His attempt at self-destruction occurred in the Grand Canon (sic) of the Colorado river in Arizona on the Santa Fe train, which was bearing the regiment to San Francisco. The train had stopped at a little station by the name of Canon Diable when, taking the razor, which is issued to all soldiers, he attempted to cut his throat. Comrades prevented him from succeeding in his attempt. It is thought that he will recover.

Southern Trustee E. A. Ferguson will leave this week for Michigan, where he will pass the remainder of the heated term.

SUCCEEDS DR. MAGNES. Dr. Jacob Schloessinger of New York was Tuesday appointed to succeed Dr. Leon Magnes, who resigned recently from the faculty of the Hebrew Union college. All the old members of the faculty were re-elected.

"Suicide Queen" Again Tried to End Her Life. 'Twas Etta Saulter's Twenty-Fourth Attempt. Etta Saulters, the "Suicide Queen," made, according to the police record, her twenty-fourth attempt at suicide Tuesday night. It was the fearfully desperate deed of a drink-crazed woman. She, after repeated attempts, drove a steel hatpin through her wrist from end to end. She drew the sharp weapon from the wound, then plunged it in again, and this time bent the steel around her wrist. Her moans of pain attracted Turnkey Hughes to her cell. She was buried to the city hospital where the instruments were required to remove the pin and the flesh was torn from the bone. In the receiving ward she made an attempt to jab the pin into her neck. The woman is a slave to liquor and drugs and has been arrested innumerable times and was released from the Police court Tuesday after a promise to remain out of police custody for thirty days. Despite her fearful dissipations, traces of beauty are still hers. She long ago gained the police sobriquet of the Suicide Queen, and accurate accounts have been kept of her suicidal attempts. She once leaped from the third story of Headley's lodging house on Sixth street and lived. She has taken carbolic acid half a dozen times. Morphine, paris green, rough on rats and other poisons she has survived. She once drained 14 grains of morphine in a glass of water. She has attempted repeatedly to hang herself while confined in cells. It is always while suffering remorse that she has made her suicide attempts.

TWO WOMEN HELD. Kate Sanders, who drowned her baby in a tub at the Zoo several weeks ago, and Lizzie Kroeger, who is accused of burning her child in the furnace at the home of Ben. Haas, for whom she worked, were both held to the grand jury without bond Wednesday in Police court.