15 Jul 1905
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1905
Page
1
Employees recount a colossal speculation with a cotton ledger torn from a cotton ledger pages. The report notes liabilities surpassing assets at 736 378 dollars and reveals how large sums were handled.
Federal filing reveals Holzman brokerage schedule shows assets of 985,586 against debts of 947,103 with stocks and bonds valued at 736,378.22. Depositions in Covington expose extensive margin trading in wheat and cotton under multiple names, including Alfred and Wallace Holzman. several pages torn from cotton ledger.
In Columbus Ohio the Democratic campaign structure is handed to broker Harvey C Garber by candidate Pattison Though fourteen of twenty one committee members opposed his nomination Pattison stood firm and Garber was elected to manage the state effort Garber has long been a prominent lobbyist for the party and faces strong anti saloon forces as he takes the helm
Rufus B Hall Jr son of Dr Rufus B Hall 623 Crown street Walnut Hills after high honors at Andover College returns home for vacation and faces kidney stone surgery at Dr Hall s private hospital. despite optimism a night fall and death looms. 18 year old honor student at Andover and son of a Cincinnati physician.
A BRt report records a Sunday incident on Grand Street line car 3198 at 12:40 p m. Conductor Burke and Motorman Sattell note a woman taken ill on board and removed to E D Hospital. The crew were not at fault.
Major General Leonard Wood has undergone trepanning to remove a bony head growth at Pocasset Cape Cod. The operation is reported successful and Wood shows rapid recovery progress after a prior head injury from years ago. Washington inquiries have been answered with assurances of progress.
A head on collision between two freight trains on the Big Four between Lockland and Sharon caused major damage but left the crew unhurt. Passenger train No 3 from Detroit arrived an hour late and 100 passengers escaped injury as authorities cleared debris and rerouted traffic.
Mobile Alabama reports Captain Doe of the steamer Condor arriving with details that the negro McGill, who killed eight passengers and the crew of the cattle steamer Olympia, was lynched by island natives after capture at El Province. He had been sent to Atilla Island aboard the Ta Tumbler, but locals desecrated due process and executed him. Authorities note island laws forbid capital punishment.
Reports from St Petersburgh detail internal splits over M Witte's role as peace plenipotentiary. The Emperor reportedly favored Baron Rosen and discussions show Witte may refuse Washington assignment. Witte later meets the Emperor at Peterhof and prepares to leave for Paris.
Walter Scott arrives in New York after a record breaking train run from the Pacific coast to Chicago. He boasts of the 45 hour time and contemplates a possible 43 hour return trip. He describes the journey as punishing with shattered windows and a wife who is black and blue from the wear of the trip.
Mrs Annie Mogridge owner of a South Memphis grocery store resisted a railroad eminent domain eviction for two hours with a revolver in each hand and two others nearby. Deputy Miller captured her after a scuffle in which a shot was fired as a switch engine dragged the condemned building from the lot.
Charles W. Lute, 31, died aboard a self built gasoline launch on the Ohio River near Worth street while en route from McDermott Town to a hoped for life in Arkansas. His wife and two young children survive, with relatives in Newport, Arkansas and McDermott Town to be advised for aid. The wrecked venture left the family penniless and the body taken to the county morgue.
The Navy Department announced the battleship Oregon won the trophy for highest scores by battleship class vessels at the last annual target practice, repeating the feat from the previous year. Raleigh won the cruiser trophy on the North Atlantic station, Frolic took the gunboat trophy, and Paul Jones again led torpedo boats. The Asiatic fleet posted the highest average overall among fleets.
A mob of about 1000 blacks and whites fought police across San Juan Hill in Manhattan. Shelled roofs and windows with missiles as 250 officers and reserves tried to quell the violence. Several injured, multiple arrests, and orderly patrols restored after extensive fighting.
Mrs Frank Nei pa us, wife of a leading businessman and social figure, died after taking a potassium cyanide dose prepared by her husband during a quarrel. He says she drank it intending suicide, dying almost instantly before he could intervene.
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