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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1906
Page
9
Fire Marshal Davis led a years long pursuit uncovering a major arson and fraud ring operating across Williams Fulton and Lucas counties in Ohio with ties to Michigan and Indiana. Deputy Hollenbeck details a scheme that destroyed property worth about 1.5 million dollars and ended with thirty gang members in prison and five fugitives captured.
Six men pictured were named as leaders of a firebug gang that terrorized the region for decades. John Taylor was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary at Williams County after conviction at the February term. Baven and Page testified for the State, tied to a burning of an Alvordton building to defraud insurers. Omey had occupied the burned property and secured excess insurance on its contents.
In Columbus two party conventions vie for West and Northeast Ohio seats. The Republican Fourteenth District will nominate to succeed Amos R. Webber amid his prior anti Herrick stalemate, while the Democratic Seventeenth District will name a candidate to challenge M L Smyser, with keen battles across Lorain Ashland Knox and Wayne Holmes Tuscarawas Coshocton Licking counties.
Berlin June 2 authorities report German butchers urge Chancellor and Agriculture Minister to reject any treaty that would ease sanitary meat imports. They cite higher U S inspection failures and quote Upton Sinclair's The Jungle while warning of a powerful Meat Ring and political pressures in Washington.
Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont was taken ill in Troy New York on the trip from Washington to Proctor’s home. He rests comfortably with a sciatic rheumatism attack and will be confined to his room for a few days.
John P. Bailey of Ottawa will be the Democratic Judicial Convention nominee for Common Pleas Judge in Henry and Putnam Counties. Bailey, a criminal lawyer, is a party leader in Putnam County. the subdivision is normally Democratic.
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