Walsh Found Guilty of Misappropriation in Bank Case
John R Walsh, former president of the defunct Chicago National Bank, is convicted on 54 counts of misappropriating funds. Juror Elbert Palmer of Harvard, Ill, wept during the verdict as the panel confirmed the finding after hours of deliberation. A new-trial motion was set for Jan 28. Walsh remains free on $50,000 bond.
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Chicago
John R Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Walsh
Elbert Palmer
Harvard
Palmer
Miller
Anderson
Argumens
Liberty
Federal Grand Jury
Miraculous Escape From Seven Mile Mine Flight
Forty miners at Cadburg Catsburg mine in Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and Coke faced a deadly blast and fire. They crawled through darkness for seven miles, fighting panic and gas as lights failed, and reached the surface after five harrowing hours.
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Monongahela, Pa
Cadburg Catsburg
Monongahela River
PTAOI
Pennsylvania
Monongahela
Charleroi
Health Officials Aim to Tie Local Boards to State
Austin January 18 The state health officer announces plans to make county and city health boards auxiliaries to the state health department to gather vital statistics. He reports 198 counties and 150 cities cooperating and presents reporting rules for diseases. The notice lists quarantinable and dangerous diseases and names notifiable illnesses. Aetna Life Insurance files with the insurance commissioner confirming compliance with the Robertson law as the first company to do so.
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Austin
State Health Department
Wrk
Aetna Life Insurance Company of
Hartford
Conn
Conn., Filed A Statement With the Insurance Commisioner
Editor Frosts To Death After Stripping In Snow
George Satterwaite former managing editor of The Wichita Eagle was found dead nude two miles from a railroad near Syracuse Kansas. Investigators say he walked in cold snow after leaving his clothes two miles away. His father owns the Douglas Tribune in Kansas.
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Syracuse
Kan
George Satterwaite
The
Wichita (Kan
Here
Satterwaite
Douglas
Girl in Slave Case Kidnapped by Chinese In Cincinnati
Florence Livingston, sixteen, is in police custody after a raid on a house run by Lee Ping in Pittsburgh's Chinese quarter. She claims she was kidnapped from Cincinnati by Chinese captors and held as a slave, passed among several men in different states. She now speaks Chinese fluently and cannot recall her parents or street name.
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Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Florence Livinggton
Lee Ping
London MP Sir John Walton Dies in City
London reports Sir John Lawson Walton MP for the southern division of seeds and attorney general died here. In Tulsa Oklahoma a free mall delivery is planned to start May 1.
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London
John Lawson Walton
Seeds
Tulsa, Okio
New York Clearing House Loans Certificates Total 97 Million
New York Clearing House issued loan certificates totaling 97 million during the recent financial stringency, with 74 million actually used. Most certificates have since been retired as banks regained cash and deposits rose, reducing reliance on certificate financing since the crisis.
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New York Clearing House
New York
Alexander Gilbert
Clearing House Association
Gilbert
Clearing House
Woman Found Dead on Back Porch in Frankfort
The body of Mrs. Samuel Dukes, forty five, lay on a tenement back porch with shoes off and three handkerchiefs over her eyes. A revolver lay beside her, a bullethole over the heart, and the dress was unbuttoned after the shot. She was a widow who lived five blocks away.
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Frankfort
Ind
Samuel Dukes
George Benge
Benge
Texas cattle raisers head to Denver for grazing public domain action
A sixteen member Texas Cattle Raisers association delegation led by President Ike T. Pryor leaves Fort Worth for Denver to attend the National Livestock association convention. Included are Secretary H. E. Crowley attorney Sam Cowan Pat Paffrath J. R. Dendinger and J. H. Wilson. They seek action to expand public domain grazing rights.
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Fort Worth
Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association
Denver
National Livestock Association
Ike T. Pryor
San Antonio
H. E. Crowley
Sam Cowan
Pat Paffrath
J. R. Dendinger
Dallas
J. H. Wilson
Quanah
Shipwrecked crew rescued from San Jose bound for Barcelona
The Spanish bark San Jose bound from Apalachicola to Barcelona was abandoned with eleven rescued by the Morgan steamer Elvaile after two sailors perished. The dead are Jose Marimon the steward and Jose Grau, fourteen years old. The lumber laden bark was left to her fate in the wreck.
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Galveston
San Jose
Apalachicola
Fla
Barcelona
Spain
Elvaile
New York
Jose Marimon
Jose Grau
Northern Texas Traction resumes Handley power plant work
From Boston headquarters of Northern Texas Traction company came orders to resume improvement work on the Handley power plant supplying power for the city and interurban lines. About $150,000 will be spent as better financial conditions prompt the move.
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Fort Worth
Boston
Northern Texas Traction Company
Handley
Fort Worth Pitcher Shot in City District
Fort Worth on January 18 reports Dan Gallegos, the Fort Worth baseball team pitcher, was shot but not fatally. Palmer Maddox, nephew of the chief of police, was arrested as Gallegos took two bullets.
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Fort Worth
Dan Gallegos
Palmer Maddox
Gallegos
Grand jury returns forty two true bills in county week
Fort Worth reports that a grand jury returned forty two true bills for Tareant county during the week, indicating indictments issued across multiple cases.
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Fort Worth
Tareant County
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