Sensations Promised In Cooke Embezzlement Trial
In Cincinnati, Edger S. Cooke stands trial for embezzling from the Big Four Railroad while clerk to Charles L. Warriner. Prosecutors trace funds through a web of deposits, safes, and a New York connection, while defense argues higher powers concealed the scheme. Witnesses include bank officials and ledgers showing stock purchases and transfers connected to Cooke and his wife Anna Arnett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Baker
Edger S. Cooke
Big Four Railroad Company
Charles L. Warriner
Charles J. Hunt
Baker
Warriner
Big Four Company
New York Central
United States
Comstock
Frank D. Comstock
Cincinnati
Cleveland
New York
Vanderbilt
Cooke
Jeanette Ford
Attentio
Cash Speaks
Cash
Big Four
Union Trust and Safe Deposit Bank
Brooklyn
John A. Simmons
Bankers’ Safe Deposit Company
Jennie S. Timmonds
Edgar S. Cooke
Jeanette Stewart Ford
Tiamonds
Charles Hamburger
First National Bank
Brook
H E
Ites
Schiebel
Frank and
J. Jenkins, Jr
New
Anna Arnett
Ney Baker
Schiebe
Friedbaum
Optimism Drives Cincinnati Business Rally At Luncheon
Enthusiastic crowd of about 200 Commercial association members gathered at the Linton hotel for a noon rally and luncheon. Luke W. Smith announced progress toward 1,000 members and Mayor Schwab spoke, praising local business spirit and urging further civic effort. Trefz praised Cincinnati’s growth, urged continued membership drive, and highlighted the city’s future regional influence from the Ohio River to the Atlantic.
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Commercial Association
Linton Hotel
Luke W. Smith
Schwab
Treft
Chicago A E Commerce
Cincinnati
Chicago
Detroit
Trefz
Convention Bureau
Cleveland
Portsmouth
Princeton
New York
Boston
Ohio
Middle West
New South
Ohio River
Gulf
Texas
Atlantic Coast
Greenland
Harmon vetoes barge canal survey bill in Ohio
Governor Harmon vetoes Huffman bill granting $30,000 for a state survey of a barge canal from the Ohio River to the Great Lakes. He cites prior surveys and pending constitutional and federal studies, urging preservation of current property and delaying a heavy state-funded undertaking. He also vetoes the Kennedy and Whitemore measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmon
Cincinnati
Ohio
Secretary of State
Prosecution of Tobacco Men Ordered
Washington dispatch reports Representative Byrnes of Tennessee pressing Attorney General Wickersham to prosecute Ameri can Tobacco officials under antitrust laws. The House committee later questioning American Sugar Refining Co officials and Havemeyer era policy, with details on stock ownership and production shares in 1910.
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Washington
Wickersham
House
American Tobacco Company
Representative Byrnes
Tennessee
Byrnes
American Sugar Refining Company
Charles R. Heikes
House Committee
Edwin F. Atkins
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Philadelphia
James M. Beck
Pennsylvania
Hardwick
Atkins
Henry A. Havemeyer
Havemeyer
Sugar Trust
United States
New Head of Liquor Wholesalers Assn Elected
Thomas C. Dennehy of Chicago is named president of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association after the recent Chicago convention. He succeeds Morris F. Westheimer of Cincinnati.
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Thomas C. Dennehy
Chicago
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association
Morris F. Westheimer
Cincinnati
Virginia Coast Struck by Cyclone Wrecks Havoc
A cyclone swept the lower Virginia peninsula with wind rain hail and thunderous damage. Dozens of small craft disappeared along the James River and Hampton Roads with conservative death estimates at up to fifteen. Newport News suffered unroofed houses broken trees downed wires and damaged shipyard facilities and vessels with losses exceeding a hundred thousand dollars.
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Newport News
Virginia Peninsula
James River
Hampton Roads
James
Newport News Shipbuilding Company
Seal
Old Dominion
Jamestown
Chesapeake & Ohio Elevator B
Delaware Woman Held on Poisoning Charge
Mrs J D Henkle wife of a traveling man was arrested on a charge of administering arsenic with intent to kill her stepdaughter Merle Henkle a society figure now critically ill in a Delaware hospital.
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Commercial Tribune
Delaware
J. D. Henkle
Merle Henkle
Injunction Keeps United Fruit From Voting In Competing Firm
In New Orleans on June 12 Judge Foster in the US circuit court upheld an injunction preventing United Fruit from voting stock it owns in the Bluefields Steamship company. The ruling avoids a legal ruling on stock voting in competing firms due to lack of a positive statute. The receivership of the Bluefields company remains in effect, with Frederik M. Steele of Chicago holding a large stake.
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New Orleans
United Fruit Company
Uefields Steamship Company
Foster
United States
Bluefields “Company
Frederik M. Steele
Chicago
Motions to Quash Overruled in State Senate Bribery Case
The Columbus dispatch reports Judge Edgar B. Kinkead overruled motions to quash indictments against Senators Isaac N. Huffman George K. Catone L R Andrews and Sergeant at Arms Rodney J Diegle. Andrews and Diegle to be tried next Monday for soliciting bribes from detectives posing as lobbyists against the Green bill. Separate defendant J Charles Maeder pleaded not guilty on bribery charges tied to the Hass loan shark bill with bond set at 1000 dollars.
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Harrison
Berry
Burns
Kinkead
Charles E. Belcher
John A. Connor
Don J. Mattern
Allen Andrews
J. Charles Maeder
Cleveland
L. C. Miller
Akron
Qwen J. Evans
Stark County
Hass
W. K. Stanley
Maeder
Euclid Avenue
Continental and Commercial Bank Becomes Largest U.S. Bank
Chicago announces Continental and Commercial Bank now the nation’s largest after absorbing the Hibernian Banking association. Total assets rise to 265 million with deposits estimated at 22.27 million. The consolidation follows years of absorbing International Globe National National of North America American Trust and Savings and Commercial National. Stock activity sets at 28 for Hibernian and 29.2 for Continental and Commercial.
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Chicago
United States
Continental and Commercial Bank
Hibernian Banking Association
George M. Reynolds
Consolidated Bank
Continental and Commercial Concern
International
Globe National
National of North America
American Trust and Savings
Commercial National Bank
Hibernian Association
Veterans of the Civil War Hold Reunion at Linton Hotel
Eight veterans, last survivors of Woodward guards Company D, Second Kentucky infantry, gathered in Cincinnati for the fiftieth anniversary muster. They toured Woodward High School, viewed the flag, and heard tributes from Mayor Schwab Captain Baird and others.
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Veterans OF the
Linton
Shiloh
Chickamauga
Woodward Guards
Second Kentucky Infantry
Cincinnati
Boy&s
Old Woodward High School
Camp Clay
Eastern Avenue
Army of the Cumberland
Woodward High
Sam I. Osmond
Linton Hotel
Woodward High School
Gertrude Beerman
Latonia
Osmond
Memorial Hall
Schwab
J. M.’ Baird
Woodward Alumni Association
John H. Miller
The
Tribune
Dixie
Jacob H. Smith
Philippines
Jake
Thomas
George L. Thomas
Chicago
Milwaukee
R. J. Tarbin
Frank M. Ward
Hailton
Taylor
Finch
Senate Adopts Direct Vote Resolution for U S Senators
The Senate approved by 64 to 24 a plan to elect U S senators by direct popular vote. The Bristow amendment giving federal supervision of elections failed 44 to 44 with the vice president casting the deciding vote before final adoption 64 to 24. The measure moves to conference with the House as debates over state versus federal control continue.
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Washington
Senate
Bristow
House
Reed
Missouri
Bacon
Congress
State Legislaure
Clar
Arknasays
Messrs
Borah
Grenna
la Ollstre Poindexter and Works
Brannegeg
Burnham
Crane
Dillingham
Gallinger
Heyburn
Lippitt
Lodge
Lorimer
Oliver
Page
Penrose
Richardson
Smoot
Wetmore
Bankhead
Fletcher
Foster
Johnston
Percy
Terrell
Williams
United States
Senate of the
Kansas
Sutherland
Utah
Davis
Arkansas
Cummins
Clapp
la Follette
Works
Guggenheim
Harrodsburg Man Charged With Stepfather Murder
Harry Cunningham was jailed in Harrodsburg Kentucky on June 12 charged with murdering his stepfather William Noel. Noel was found dead in his home three miles from town and shot through a window as he descended stairs.
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Commercial Tribune
Harrodsburg
Harry Cunningham
William Noel
Noel
Ohio Lincoln Memorial Association to Erect $500000 Monument
Special Dispatch reports that the Ohio Lincoln Memorial association has decided on a $500000 monument to be erected at the state capital in Columbus June 12.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus, CO
Ohio Lincoln Memorial Association
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Second
Kentucky Regiment
Big Four Railroad
Jeanette S. Ford
E. F. Trefz
Chicago Association of Commerce
Probasco
Huffman
Kennedy
Whittemore
Hudson
Denton
Commissioner of Insurance
Scott
McGuire
Mulbach
Irvin
Israel Township
Preble County
Battefeld
Walsh
Canfield
United States Supreme Court
Virginia
Baltimore
Quaker City
Sam I .Osmond
Frank M
E R. J. Tarvin
Jacob L. Smith
M. Blair
John F. W. Thomas
Bank OF World
Woodward
Lincoln
Democrat
House of Representatives
Redfield
New Democratic
Mr. Redfield
Lincoln Memorial
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