Lobbyist Named in Columbus Corruption Probe
Indictment of a Toledo based lobbyist linked to railroads closes a two year probe by Attorney General Hogan and the Frank Pinckney grand jury. Dr George B Nye testified as chief witness describing bribes paid for rotten railroad ties to influence House votes. Twenty one indictments against eighteen persons were returned while the lobbyist remains at large.
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Tribune Burepay
Harrison
Columbus
Hogan
Turner
Frank Minn County Grand Jury
Sartain
Toledo
George B. Nye
Nye
Pike
di Nye
Lobbieg
State House
William C. Culkins
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Three First Ladies to Dine at White House
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison arrives from Indianapolis to dine at the White House the next evening with Mrs. Parker and Mrs. Grover Cleveland. President Taft hosts the dinner with Mrs. Taft. Mrs. Cleveland dines tonight with Mrs. MacVeagh and is guest of Mr. and Mrs. Hammond at a reception.
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White House
Washington
Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Parker
Grover Cleveland
Thomas J. Preston
Wells College
Taft
Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh
Nine “People’s” Bills Ready for Action in Ohio House
In Columbus on January 10 the first five initia tive and referendum measures are with House Clerk Cassidy and will be presented by Speaker Swain Tuesday. Four more bills, plus those from Governor-elect Cox, cover education land purchase for recreation, stricter vehicle lighting, auto theft penalties, and extended livestock confinement in cars before exercise.
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Columbus
House
Cassidy
Charles L. Swain
Cox
Martin Quinlist
Shelby County
Boards of Education
Fellinger
Cuyahoga County
Ominous Address to Striking Hotel Workers
Joseph Ettor urged hotel strikers in New York to stay united and refuse mediation. He warned against accepting arbitration and called for closing hotel front doors, insisting workers must resist unsatisfactory conditions and the capitalist use of union food.
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Joseph Ettor
Lawrence
Mass
Ettor
Balkans Peace Efforts Fractured Over Adrianople
In London on January 10, powers press for a settlement over Adrianople as Turkey resists ceding the city to Bulgaria. Bulgarian delegates dub Adrianople the Alsace Lorraine of the war, while Roumania backed by Austria stiffens regional pressure. Ambassadors in Constantinople await notes from their capitals with no decisive move, and amid tensions Turkey hints at leaving the conference if demands harden.
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London
Balkans
Adrianople
Europe
Turkey
Bulgaria
Alsace-Lorraine
Roumania
Austria
Constantinople
Porte
Foreign Office
French column routs Moors near Mogador with heavy losses
A French force led by Colonel Amedee Gueydon De Dives engaged Moors twenty miles east of Mogador in Southern Morocco. The clash ended with a French victory and about 500 Moors killed, while French casualties were twelve dead and sixty wounded.
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Mogador
Morocco
Amedee Gueydon de Dives
Fireman Finds Lost Diamond in Chicken Gizzard
Bayonne New Jersey January special report: George Crawford of the Bayonne fire department recovered his lost diamond ring after buying a chicken from a local butcher. While cleaning the bird, the ring dropped from the entrails, matching the one lost on a Lake Hopalong farm last summer. The chicken had come from Lake Hopalong via crate. The butcher surrendered both the chicken and ring to the fireman.
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Bayonne
N. J
George Crawford
Lake Hop
Crawford
Lake Hopalong
Four Aces and Fours in Arkansas Gambling Scandal
Special Dispatch reports in Hot Springs that Lewis Friedman from St Paul sues for a $500 certificate of deposit amid a Texas club poker game seen as crooked. Four aces beat four tens in a fixed hand. Friedman refused payment. Frank P Fox from Terre Haute identifies Charles Wood Wilkes as a swindler tied to a $20,000 loss. Wood is jailed with bail denied. a Saturday hearing is set for others implicated in the Indiana club swindle.
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St. Paul
Hot Springs
Friedman
Charles Wood
Aling Wilkes
Little Rock
Frank P. Fox
Terre Haute
R. L. Williams
Fox
John Hickey
Martin & Wooten
Hig
Wood
Indiana Club
Arson Trust Confines Trade in 10 Apartments
New York officials announced a confessional arrest and a jail sentence in a widening arson trust case. Sam Gold admitted involvement with George Grutz an insurance broker and adjuster linked to Isador Stein Itay the Painter a famed arsonist now in Sing Sing. Grutz posted 15000 bail and investigators tied him to multiple incendiary fires and inflated total losses for German American and other insurers.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Wéller
Prial
Sam Gold
East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street
George Grutz
East One Hundred and Second Street
John Hamcock Mutual Life Insurance Company
Gold
Grutz
Isador Stein
Gratz
Istri
Weller
Stein
Chicago Society Hosts Arabian Nights Ball At First Regiment Armory
Chicago society women staged an Aladdin like Arabian Nights ball raising funds for Passavant and Chicago Lying-in hospital and dispensary. More than 3,500 attended as officers and guests wore elaborate Orient attire with royal jewels and pearls. Detectors guarded guests amid reports of precious gems valued in the millions.
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Tschaikowsky
Chicago Society
Passavant
Chicago
Desert
Moffett
Symphony
Europe
Marie Rozet
India
Hindustan
Arabia
Egypt
Asia
Two New York Girls Charged With Shoplifting Coats
Anita Martish and Kate Cullen, once department store workers, were arrested after stealing two fur coats worth 150 and 140 dollars from Sixth Avenue stores. They confessed to pawnbroker had offered 15 dollars for the first coat and 12 for the second. They later attempted another theft on West Fourteenth Street but were stopped.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Anita Martish
Kate Cullen
Anita
Kate
Fifth Avenue
Sixth Avenue
West Fourteenth Street
Colonel Van Horn Stricken in Kansas City
Colonel Robert T. Van Horn founder of The Kansas City Journal was reported in dangerous condition from apoplexy. He was stricken last week at age 88 and had represented the district in Congress for many years.
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Kansas City
Robert T. van Horn
The
Kansas City Journal
van Horn
Congress
Big Tim Sullivan Adjudged Insane in New York
In a special term petition by relatives a justice ordered Representative Timothy D Sullivan to a Yonkers sanitarium. He suffers marked hallucinations and faces restraint. after a committee is named to handle his affairs he may be moved to Styville where Barrymore and McCulloch died.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Thirteenth
Timothy D. Sullivan
Congress
Big Tim
Bowery
Senate
Assembly
Albany
Supreme Court
Sullivan
G. F. Bond
Yonkers
Styville
Maurice Barrymore
John McCulloch
Widow Elizabeth Reid Inherits Vast Wharton Estate
The will of White Law Reid, late ambassador to Great Britain, leaves almost the entire estate to his widow Elizabeth Mills Reid while his children Ogden Mills Reid and Jean Templeton Reid receive no outright share. The Tribune stock and control pass to Mrs Reid, with potential eventual transfer to Ogden based on aptitude, and specific bequests total 110000. The will, dated November 3, 188, names executrix without bond and confirms probate in White Plains New York.
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New York
Whhite
Law Reid
Great Britain
Ogden Mills Reid
Jean Templeton Reid
Joan Hubert Ward
Reid
The
Tribune Association
New York Tribune
Ogden Reid
Henry W. Sackett
Ogden Mills ‘Reid
the Tribune
Knickerbockers
Ohio
Jean Temi Reid
St. Regis Lake
Adirondacks
Hould
Tribune
Ogden
Jean
Elizabeth Mills Reid
Ella Spencer Reid Har Tygon
Trib- Fa Fresh Air Fund Association
Ro Everett Smith
Indivi
Pomerene Seeks Democrat for Dayton Customs Post
Senator Pomerene of Ohio urges President Taft to appoint Clarence Grier a Democrat as surveyor of customs at Dayton. With Republican E L McConaghy having resigned, Pomerene aims to secure a Democrat before other Ohio patronage matters arise. He notes the president would not object if Senator Burton agrees to the arrangement.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Pomerene
Ohio
Taft
Clarence Grier
Dayton
E. L. McConaghy
Burton
Ohio GOP Focused on Filling Vacancies
The piece notes Harry Daugherty Ohio Republican state chairman aims to fill every vacancy with a Republican and plans to object to a merene plea. Senator Pomerene met with Senator Burton but made little headway. It is stated that no successor will be chosen until Dayton’s office status is decided, likely delaying action by a month.
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Burton
Harry Daugherty
Ohio
Pomerene
Naghy
Dayton
Cincinnati
Malone's Fine In Sufferagette Case Delays Appeal
Miss Maude Malone militant suffragette was fined by the New York court after a conviction for attempting to heckle Gov. Wilson during the campaign. The judge suspended sentence to allow a possible appeal, and the case raises questions about whether a speaker at a public meeting must be recognized by the chair.
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Commercial Tribune
York
Banker Baker Defends Money Trust Probing Hearing
George F. Baker told the House money trust committee that money and credit concentration has gone far enough and warned that bad hands could harm the nation. He denied belief in an active money trust and defended his role with J. P. Morgan Co. and the First National of New York as Untermyer pressed for definitions and scope.
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Washington
George F. Baker
House Money Trust Committee
Witncss
Mr Untermyer
Mr. Baker
Mr. Untermyer
Baker
Untermyer
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