Grand Jury Indicts Metropolitan Life President in Fraud Case
A New York grand jury returned ten indictments against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company president Join R. Heegan for forgery and perjury tied to year end accounting and loan transfers. Indictments allege the company altered books to conceal loans and false statements to the insurance department. Heegan did not appear in court as indictments were handed down. The investigation also touched Brown Bros and Vermilye & Co amid the Metropolitan case.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
R. Heethan
Hegeman
Grand Jury
Arranie
Metro Policen
Erand
Moercantile Trust Company
Central Trust Company
Brown Bros
Ingurancé
Vermilye & Co
Tranenetiona
Fornery
Metropolitan
Insurance Department
Joane
Lake Vessel Burns At Night Five Die In Fire On Naomi
Five lives lost and about seventy five endangered as the passenger and freight steamer Naomi burned in Lake Michigan on a May voyage from Grand Haven to Milwaukee. Four coal passers trapped in the forecastle perished, while passenger J M Rhodes died after hospital treatment. Crew led by Steward Rossbach and Purser Hanrahan evacuated passengers as Kerr Kansas and Saxonian aided.
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Grand Haven
Mich
Naomi
Crosby Transportation Company
Lake Michigan
Milwaukee
Kerr
Kansas
J. M. Rhoades
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Phillip Rossbach
William Hanrahan
Traill
Steward Rosebach
Purser
Hanrahan
Rhodes
Electric Train and Trolley Car Collision At Bath Beach
A three car electric train from Coney Island collided with a Thirty Ninth Street trolley at Bay Nineteenth and Eighty sixth streets Bath Beach. Thirty people were injured, many seriously, with thirty among the severely hurt taken to hospitals. No fatalities expected. Conductors motormen and flagman at the crossing were arrested.
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New York
Coney Island
Thirty Ninth Street
Bay Nineteenth
Eighty-sixth Streets
Bath Beach
Revolt in Salvador Led by Prudencio Alfaro
Cable from President Zelaya of Nicaragua reports a revolution breaking out in Salvador led by Prudencio Alfaro. No further details available.
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New Orleans
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Salvador
Prudencio Alfaro
New Venice of Talesmen From Which Schmitz Jury Will Be Chosen
San Francisco May 22 Judge Dunne discharged all talesmen from the Ruef case and ordered a new venire of fifty for the Schmitz jury. The prosecution may seek custody of Mayor Schmitz pending trial, while the defense failed to obtain a substitute trial judge. Davenport Iowa May 22 Billy Papke drew with Tony Caponi in fifteen rounds at the Davenport Athletic Club after Caponi outslugged him steadily.
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Venice of Talesmen
Schmitz
San Francisco
Eugene EB. Schmitz
Abraham Ruef
Dunne
Ruef
O'Neil
Davenport
Billy Papke
Spring Valley
Ill
Tony Caponi
Milwaukee
Davenport Athletic Club
Caponi
Renewed Attacks by Black Hundreds in Odessa
Odessan Jews face terror as Black Hundreds resume assaults after the police officer killings. Stores close, streets empty, and Jewish houses are set afire. Governor Kaulbars assumes patrols to curb violence after a funeral shooting triggered the riot. Thirty were arrested, including the shooter from the Union of True Russians. The Jewish community remains fearful and confined indoors.
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Odessa
Central Police Bureau
Bialystok
Kaulbars
St. Petersburg
Union of True Russians
Home Rule or Nothing at Dublin Convention
Dublin reports the May 22 convention rejecting the Liberal plan for a limited Irish council. Three thousand delegates denounced the bill, asserting home rule or nothing. The event split government forces and signaled potential long-term consequences for Irish policy. London pundits deem Birrell’s Irish bill dead, linking it to broader government missteps.
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Dublin
Ireland
John &E. Redmond
Mansion House
Davitt
Dillon
Healy
London
Birrell
Browns attack sparks: Foraker likely to win again
In Sandusky and various cities on May 22 reports reflect sharp rebuke of Chairman Brown of the state central committee by publisher I F Mack who predicts Senator Foraker’s easy reelection and defends past criticism as unfair. The item also notes unrelated civil and logistical news from Austin Mexico City and Minneapolis events.
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Sandusky
Brown
State Central Committee
I.F. Mack
Mack
Foraker
Austin
Tex
Waters-Pierce Oil Company
City of Mexico
Oe Department
Gamboa
Guatemala City
Tampico
Jose de Guatemala
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Kurt Blefelt
Cornelius N. Carpenter
Wisconsin
Broadhead
Wis
Elihu Root
Dodge
Yale University
Henry Sutphin
Red Wing
M. L. Murphy
Stillwater
R. R. Murphy
Twin Cities
Leader 98 Co
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Leland
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R.R. Murphy
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Bill
Ohio
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Minneapolis
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