Gas Trust corruption exposed in Chicago Senate bribery tale
The Eagle reports a Chicago senator’s drunken crash in Adams Street saloon run by ex-police, bribe payments to a rural outer circle, and ties to a gas trust plot. It urges investigations by the Baxter committee, names fears of monopolies, and calls for reform to curb bribery and protect hospitals, orphans, and the aged.
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Chicago
Adams Street
Eagle
Cook County
Sauganes Grand Jury
Worth-first General Assembly
Chicago Gas Trust
Senate
Baxter Committee
Hagie Exp
Baxter
Senatorial Syndicate
Gas Trust
Europe
City Council
The
New York City
Consolidated
New Amsterdam
New York
Alderman Rudolph Hurt Given Diamond Star at Ward Banquet
In the Ninth Ward at Bohemian Turner Hall 823 Ashland avenue Rudolph Hurt received a diamond star from admirers. Speeches were delivered by A. J. Sabath William Loefler C. R. Walleck James Kolacek and others. Bert Cassidy, noted newspaper man and dog fancier, is likely named superintendent of the dog pound.
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Rudolph Hurt
Ninth Ward
Bohemian Turner Hall
Ashland Avenue
A. J. Sabath
William Loeffler
C. R. Walleck
James Kolacek
Bert Cassidy
Humane Society to oversee city pound and shelters proposed
The city hands over the institution to the Humane Society as plans emerge for a downtown pound and shelters to house dogs. Mr Cassidy tours Brooklyn pound, while Mason resumes pure food inquiries at the Grand Pacific Hotel and city finances see Ernst Hummel released from obligations and returning funds. Major Harrison notes two Republican frontrunners for president next year.
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Humane Society
Cassidy
Brooklyn
Chicago
Wm. E. Mason
Grand Pacific Hotel
Mason
New York
Boston
Ernst Hummel
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Selon H. Case
Edward F. Kennedy
George W. Kroll
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Ogden Avenue
Lincoln Park
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Remember Gas Trust
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People’s Gas Company
Springfield
Arban
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Henry
Boutell
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I Imune
Harrison
George Dewey
United States
McKinley
Dorsey Patton
Louis Lukes
Stock Exchange
Washington and
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Coyne Down
B. C. Hamburgher
Supreme Court
Federal Building
Marshal Ames
Washington
C. A. Gordon
F. B. Coyne
John 8. Miller
T. B. Bryan
Melville Stone
B. A. Eckhart
Frank G. Logan
Laverne Noyes
A. H. Re
Vell
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W. P. Williams
Isaac H. Hamilton
Walter C. Hately
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