Peoria Indictments Return Forgery and Embezzlement Bills
Grand jury in Peoria returns five true bills totaling 646 counts against Newton Dougherty, former educator and ex head of Peoria schools. Bond set at 12000 dollars. Miss Lillian Adams, private secretary to the State's Attorney, Dreamed indictments were faulty and prompted a full rewrite revealing script from 1888 and 1889 in school records. Indictments stem from actions tied to lands in trust and a large school board defalcation previously uncovered.
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Ten Clubmen Ride Hearse to New York Outing
Ten members of the United Democratic Club of North Bergen Hudson county went to a College Point club outing aboard the steamboat Nassau. They missed the 10 o'clock Hoboken departure and borrowed an undertaker auto ambulance to reach the boat in time with police aid granting right of way.
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School board approves $1500 pay raises for six assistant superintendents
The school board voted last evening to raise salaries by $1500 each for six assistant superintendents and $1220 each for the secretary and business agent without consulting the Mayor. The increases begin Sept. 1 and total $11,440 for the year, restoring the six assistants to the level once held by former superintendent Stratton D. Brooks.
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School Salary Increases and Consolidation Approved
The board raised salaries for the superintendent and teachers, with assistant superintendents gaining from 4500 to 6000 and the business agent and secretary to 5000 each. They consolidated substitute and practice supervision, appointing Mary C Mellyn as director of practice and training with assistants and raises for several staff. In a separate note, Jordan's family visited the condemned man on death row before his execution.
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Jeremiah E. Burke
Walter S. Parker
Augustine L. Rafter
Eliot C. Ripley
Frank V. Thompson
Maurice P. White
William T. Keough
Thornton D. Apollonio
Mary C. Mellyn
Gertrude E. Bigelow
Hancock School
Mellyn
Towne
Miss King
Jordan's Last Day on Earth Ends Quietly in Somerville
Fairbairn of Middlesex county, Rev. H. W. Stebbins, prison chaplain, and John H. Coyne representing the press witnessed Jordan's final day. C. A. Aldrich of Somerville, to have testified, did not appear. Jordan spent the forenoon bidding farewell to relatives, including his father Phineas Jordan and mother, and his sisters Mrs. Fred C. Kendall and Mrs. Jesse I. Livermore.
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Jesse C. Livermore
Fred Cc. Kendall
J. Leonard McNeil
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Christian Science Church
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