Supreme Court Finds Cetone Guilty of Bribery
The Supreme Court today upheld former State Senator George K. Cetone of Dayton as guilty of legislative bribery. He must serve a three year sentence from the lower courts. Cetone will join former Senator Isaac Huffman and others convicted in the dictograph entrapment case led by Burns' detectives.
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Supreme Court
Cetone
United Press Special
Columbus
George K. Cetone
Dayton
Isaac Huffman
Interest Due the State at Columbus Savings and Trust
Claims for a large sum of interest due the state are to be proven by evidence in inquiries into banks where state treasurers deposited funds. Hearings began at the Columbus Savings and Trust company directors' room before Special Commissioner George T. Okey, conducted by Attorneys H. J. Booth and Robert W.
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Columbus
Columbus Savings and Trust Company
George T. Okey
H. J. Booth
Robert W
Crawford Trial Ends Abruptly In Ohio Bribery Case
United Press Special from Columbus Ohio reports the second trial of former state senator E F Crawford of Carroll County ended when the court ruled the state's evidence did not prove bribery. The indictment alleged he solicited a $200 bribe related to a trading stamp bill. he had been tried before and the indictment quashed before a new indictment was issued.
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United Press Special
Columbus
EF. T. Crawford
Carroll County
Crawford
Cetone Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
United Press Special from Dayton reports George K. Cetone refused to comment on the Supreme Court decision sending him to prison for three years. He returned from Iowa where his wife’s father had died and illness in the family was ongoing. Cetone’s mother reportedly lay dying in a local hospital.
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United Press Special
Dayton
George K. Cetone
Supreme Court
Pen
Iowa
Cetone
Peace Disturber: Cologne Gazette on German France tensions
Berlin reports the Cologne Gazette labels France the peace disturber and accuses Paris of rekindling Alsace Lorraine tensions through a French Russia alliance and English goodwill. The article argues Germany could justify military increases if danger from France were clearly identified.
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Berlin
Cologne Gazette
Germany
France
Russia
England
Alsace-Lorraine
Appeals Pour Into Washington on Minimum Wage
From coast to coast messages flood Washington urging action on a minimum wage for women and girls. The Chicago probe has sparked a nationwide response, with many communities considering bills and fearing conflicts over state rights as Congress prepares to convene next December.
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United Press Special
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Congress
Mark Twain Opposed Woman Suffrage Letter Found
An 1867 Mark Twain letter opposing women's suffrage is reprinted from the Mexico Ledger. The epistle argues women would pursue vanity and private morals over public duties, contending a canvass would provoke scandal and torchlit demonstrations.
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Mark Twain
Mexico
George Robertson
Audrain County
Fifty Years Ago Today March 11 Hero Outram Dies
Lieutenant General Sir James Outram, famed in India campaigns, dies at sixty one after marching to Lucknow during the mutiny as a volunteer under Havelock. The United States proposes a fleet of sea going ironclads with ten guns each. Robert T. Lincoln declines Republican presidential candidacy.
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James Outram
India
Outram
Lucknow
Havelock
United States
Gerrymander Bill Moves Through Ohio House
Columbus Ohio March 11 The Fulton congressional gerrymander bill was introduced in the house. It creates 11 Democratic and 11 Republican districts and abolishes the at large seat held by Robert Crosser of Cleveland. The apportionment adds one congressman for Cuyahoga with Geauga and Lake split into three districts two Democrats and one Republican. Hamilton County stays divided into two districts. The Second District favors Democrats while the First would usually be Republican. The Twelfth District Franklin County remains unchanged.
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Columbus
Fulton
Robert Crosser
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Geauga and Lake
Hamilton County
Franklin County
Weather Forecast Indications for Ohio and Ohio Valley
Weather observations indicate generally fair conditions for tomorrow in Ohio with light variable winds as reported by the United States Weather Bureau from Washington at 7 p.m. Monday March 11.
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United States Weather Bureau
Washington
Ohio
Minimum wage bill proposes 20c first eight hours
United Press reports Senator L. P. Cook of Hamilton county introduced a bill in Columbus to fix the minimum wage at 20 cents an hour for the first eight hours and 40 cents for each additional hour, excluding farm laborers.
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United Press
Columbus
L. P. Cook
Hamilton County
Postmaster Burleson Move To Enforce Newspaper Publicity Law
Announcement by Postmaster General Burleson to enforce the newspaper publicity law prompts a Supreme Court bid to block enforcement until its validity is decided. Attorney Morris for the American Publishers Association seeks an injunction. Solicitor General Bullet indicated no opposition. Burleson plans to send registered notices to thousands of noncompliant newspapers.
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United Press Special
Washington, D. C
Burleson
United States Supreme Court
Morris
American Publisher's Association
Reynolds
Bullet
Forty Men to Be Indicted in Chicago Arson Case
Assistant States Attorney Johnson predicted indictments against at least 40 men, some prominent in business and insurance, after reviewing the confession of Benjamin Fink of South Bend. The grand jury will show the arson operation as nationwide, with John Danies returned to Chicago from New York as alleged ring leader.
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United Press Special
Chicago
Cook County Grand Jury
Johnson
Benjamin Fink
South Bend
Ind
Arson Trust
John Danies
New York
Danies
Fink
Utica Man Shoots Self Amid Ill Health
Newark Ohio March 11 S C Elberts of Utica Ohio shot himself twice in the head today. Both bullets took effect and death is expected. Ill health is given as the cause for the act.
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United Press Special
Newark
S. C. Elberts
Utica
Ohio
Gahanna Votes in Local Option Dry Election
In Columbus Ohio on March 11 the village of Gahanna in Franklin county votes in a local option election after 20 years of wet regime. Three saloons operate in the town as John Martin a blacksmith is jailed on a charge of attempting to buy the vote of laborer Jesse Lantz who is also under arrest.
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United Press Special
Columbus
Gahanna
Franklin County
John Martin
Jesse Lantz
Aviator Perryon Breaks World Altitude Record
In Paris on March 11, aviator Perryon soared to 19,800 feet in a monoplane, setting a new world altitude record.
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United Press Special
Paris
France
Perryon
Bryan and Others Are Vaccinated
Ten surgeons from the public health service vaccinated three thousand employees in the great Washington building housing the offices of Secretary of State Bryan Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Secretary of War Garrison to guard against smallpox. Two cases have appeared with a third under observation and fumigation of the quartermaster's department is complete.
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United Press Special
Washington, D. C
Public Health Service
Navy
War
Quartermaster’s Department
Bryan
Daniels
Secretary of War
Garrison
Tests Begin For Tuberculosis Cure By Dr Buket In Chicago
Chicago March 11 tests of Dr P P Buket s claimed tuberculosis cure started in Bennett Medical College lab. Buket inoculates patients daily under supervision of Dr Herzog former government pathologist in the Philippines Father Green Augustinian head sponsors the treatment and cites twelve cures witnessed.
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United Press Special
Chicago
Ill
P. P. Buket
Bennett Medical College Laboratory
Buket
Herzog
Philippines
Father Green
Boat Capsizes in Lake Scutari Drowns 68 Women
United Press reports 68 women drowned when a boat capsized on Lake Scutari while fleeing the besieged city. Dispatch from Vienna notes the tragedy occurred as evacuees attempted escape.
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Lake
Scutari
United Press Special
London
Lake Scutari
Vienna
Cambridge Declared Free of Smallpox
The city announces no more smallpox in Cambridge as the Health Officer Ramsey discharges the family of John T. Moore on Spring Street from quarantine on Tuesday. The first city case appeared on December 20.
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Cambridge
John T. Moore
Spring Street
Ramsey
Family mourns as M Stewart attends funeral procession
M Stewart of New Concord traveled through Cambridge Tuesday while returning from Salesville after attending the funeral of Robert McCormick.
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M. Stewart
New Concord
Cambridge
Salesville
Robert McCormick
Heart Touches By Little Girl in Tuberculosis Cure Trial
Marie Rancour a sixteen year old from northern Canada whose parents died of tuberculosis was among the first patients to receive Dr Friedmann's alleged cure at the Royal Institute in Montreal. She traveled 200 miles and waited at the hospital gates for hours before the German physician arrived from New York and ordered her treatment.
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United Press Special
Montreal
Anada
Friedmann
Royal Institute
Marie Rancour
Canada
New York
Fridemann
Musical treatment for tuberculosis gains at Bowne hospital
In Poughkeepsie New York March 11 music therapy supported tuberculosis care at the Samuel W Bowne Memorial hospital showing a 50 percent improvement after its first year. Dr James E McCambridge said music relieved mental strain and aided recovery nearly as much as fresh air cures.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Samuel W. Bowne Memorial Hospital
James E. McCambridge
Dr. McCambridge
Columbus To Be Probed For Wage Differences
Columbus Ohio March 11 Attorney Louis Alcott council member and author of the vice probe resolution says shop girls here receive lower wages than in Chicago and that similar conditions exist in Columbus He expects a legislative investigation as a 17 member commission from religious civic philanthropic and labor groups will conduct the probe.
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United Press
Columbus
Chicago
Louis Alcott
Alcott
Tragedies Rock Ohio Localities and a Veteran Newsboy Retires
George Brown of Brownsville Ohio died after entering an open cistern in Licking County. Miss Alice Hunt, a Cleveland humane society charity worker, fell 60 feet from a cliff into Euclid creek and may have been fatally injured. George Clark, 71, longtime newsboy for the Ohio Soldiers home at Sandusky, retires after 15 years supplying papers.
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George Brown
Brownsville
Licking County
Nio Health
Alice M. Hunt
Humane Society of Cleveland
Euclid Creek
George Clark
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors
Sandusky
Huerta Deploys Large Force to Quell Sonora Revolt
President Huerta says Sonora unrest requires immediate pacification and dispatches about 4,000 more troops, with forces from Coahuila to follow. He notes peace talks with Zapata near completion and aims to pacify the country by May 1 for his successor.
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Huerta
Sonora
Erta
Nora
Coahuila
Zapata
Morelos
Retired Cop Says He Collected Protection Money
James Wreen a former Harlem plain clothes officer testifies before the district attorney and grand jury that he collected protection money for Inspectors James Thompson James Hussey and Acting Inspector J J Murtha. He says the four year period yielded about 2500 dollars a month with a 20 percent commission.
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New York
James Wreen
Harlem
Whitman
Supreme Court
James Thompson
James £. Hussey
J. J. Murtha
Wrenn
Tables Turned on Suffragists in London Protest
London readers report that anti suffragists bombarded suffragist headquarters with delivery wagons loaded with coal furniture baby carriages ginger ale and more to disrupt their operations. The tables were turned as the wagons unloaded on the attackers when the women refused acceptance and investigation revealed the merchandise had been ordered as a joke by opponents.
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United Press
London
House takes up 90 years franchise bill in Columbus
In Columbus on March 11 the house considered Rep Bigelow's bill to revoke Cincinnati Traction Company's 50 year franchise granted under the 1896 Rogers law. After a morning of failed recommitment efforts by 98 to 9, Bigelow predicted the measure would pass.
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United Press Special
Columbus
House Today
Bigelow
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Traction Company
Explosion at Ardeer Works Kills Seven in Scotland
A dynamite blast at No Bel's explosive works in Ardeer near Irvine kills seven and injures ten seriously. The explosion, the largest in Britain’s explosive industry, shook Irvine and alarmed people up to 40 miles away, causing widespread panic and property damage.
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Glasgow
Nobel
Ardeer
Irvine
Great Britain
Mrs Appler Loses Suit Over Husband’s Death After Six Trials
Three trials and six reviews failed to overturn the ruling as Mrs. John D. Appler lost in the supreme court in Columbus Ohio. The suit sought $10 000 damages for the death of her husband who was struck by a car six years earlier attributed to the Portsmouth Street Railway Light Company.
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Columbus
Portsmouth Street Railway & Light Company
John D. Appler
Supreme Court
Wilson to map plan for special session reforms
President Wilson is contacting Democratic leaders to outline a legislative program for the special session. He signals a cautious approach to tariff reform banking and currency laws, aiming to reassure business interests.
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Wilson
Washington
Congress
Dewey Young Shot During Family Feud
Newark report says 14 year old Dewey Young was shot by 76 year old neighbor Griffith Jones during a long running family feud. The boy, playing with a dog, was hit in the face neck and shoulder and taken to hospital with doubtful recovery. Jones is held in jail claiming he aimed at the dog but fired too high.
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United Press
Specia Newark
Dewey Young
Josephine Young
Griffith Jones
Jones
Believes His Designer Can Build Boat to Lift the Cup
A hopeful figure trusts a designer to construct a boat that could lift the coveted trophy. The plan hinges on engineering innovation and resource backing, aiming to secure victory in a high-stakes competition.
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