Parker outlines insurance probe developments and calls for crime offense
Former Chief Justice Alton B. Parker says corporate policy holder funds were used for political purposes. He asserts life insurers like New York Life Equitable and Mutual contributed to campaigns and urges laws making such contributions a criminal offense.
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Commercial Tribune
Esopus
N. Y
Alton B. Parker
United States
Rosemont
John A. McCall
Republican National Campaign Fund
Parker
The
New York Life
Life Insurance
Equitable
the Mutual
Perkins
Democratic Party
Investigation of commissions paid to high insurance officials
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune reports a forthcoming phase of the legislative inquiry will investigate alleged percentages received by high insurance officials. Continued on second page.
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Commercial Tribune
York
Legislative Insurance Inquiry
Washington
Baron Rosen
Magnolia
Mass
Loomis
State Department
Tragedy at Lovers' Lane End Ends With Fatal Double Shot
At Cedar Lake Indiana Harry Hohman son of a Hammond brewer shot and killed Ida Taylor wife of Charles Jeannette. After the murder he killed himself with the second pistol chambered by his side. The couple had become engaged last summer and a wedding was planned for October.
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Harry Hohman
Hammond
Charles Jeannette
Hohman
Ida Taylor
Oklahoma
Illinois
Prominent Kentucky Woman Dies by Poison After Son Refusal
Mrs. Laura Walker Chenault, a leading Richmond society figure, killed herself with carbolic acid after her six year old son refused to visit. Her estranged husband, banker Mr Chenault, had brought the boy to the house where she was stopping. Her death marked a tragic event in the Blue Grass State.
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Commercial Tribune
Richmond
Laura Walker Chenault
Deportation Ordered for French Ex-Convict Romaine Daurignac
Romaine Daurignac brother of Mme Therese Humbert, an ex convict in French swindling cases tied to the Crawford estate, was ordered deported by the Immigration Department after a hearing at Ellis Island. He arrived on the La Touraine and will return on the same ship after the ruling.
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Commercial Libune
New York
Romaine Daurignac
Mme
Therese Humbert
France
Crawford
Board of Inquiry
Immigration Department
Ellis Island
Daurignac
United States
la Touraine
Norway and Sweden discuss fortifications talks
Norwegian and Swedish delegates met in Karlstad on September 17 for two sessions and again in the evening to discuss fortifications. They adjourned until Monday as unforeseen difficulties arose. A final decision is expected Wednesday with preliminary results sent to the Swedish Riksdag and Norwegian Storthing. Approval by the Riksdag is seen as likely, while Storthing approval is uncertain if forts are surrendered.
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Karlstad
Riksdag
Storthing
Taft Ails For San Francisco
Secretary of War Taft sails for San Francisco aboard the Korea amid Japanese enthusiasm. He says reports of anti foreign or anti American demonstrations are exaggerated and finds no general antiforeign feeling in Japan. He notes a Tokyo mob involved a prominent American party and discusses the Chinese boycott. Miss Alice Roosevelt will return aboard the Siberia.
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Yokohama
Taft
San Francisco
Korea
America
Japan
Tokyo
Alice Roosevelt
Siberia
Outlaws Leader Felizardo Leaps to Death Near Cavite
Felizardo, head of Cavite province outlaws, was surrounded near the Batangas border and jumped from a cliff, dying. The incident is believed to end Cavite disturbances after prior attacks by 300 ladrones led by Felizardo and Montaleon on January 24 in San Francisco de Matabon, looting the treasury and abducting the governor’s family.
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Manila
Felizardo
Cavite
Batangas
Montaleon
San Francisco de Matabon
J. A. O'Neill
Trias
Looted Oil Fields Suffer Heavy Damage in Baku Disturbance
Telegrams report that twenty one oil firm plants and thirteen private owners’ works were completely destroyed in Baku. Derricks lost include a third at Baku Company, 40 percent at Nobel, and 50 percent at Born. Only one Rothschild property remains intact.
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ST. Petersburg
Baku
Nobel Company
Born
Rothschild
Madden Promises Equal Evidence in Divorce Case
Intense interest centers on Judge Swing's ruling on Mrs. John E. Madden's injunction to bar Circuit Judge Parker from participating in Madden's Cincinnati divorce trial. Madden plans to testify, expecting evidence as startling as his wife's.
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Commercial
Irebune
Lexington
Swing
John E. Madden
Cincinnati
Parker
Madden
St. Paul’s
Flood in Missouri worst since 1868
Western Missouri endures sustained heavy rains triggering rising streams and railroad damage. Carrollton endures its worst flood since 1888 with seven inches in 24 hours and eleven since Thursday. Wakanda Creek drives isolation. bridges fail and rail lines wash away. City services and utilities face shutdown risk.
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Missouri
Commercial Tribune
Kansas City
Carrollton
Wakenda Creek
Wabash
Standard Oil Works
Wakenda
Turkey Creek
Marshall
Salt Fork
Missouri Pacific
Lynch Fears After Race Track Clash In Germantown
A posse surrounds Abe and John Bynum in a canal near Germantown after a confrontation at Wolf River race track that left one negro dead and several whites wounded. The Bynums are hidden in a canebrake as white forces mass for daylight action and a lynching is anticipated if they are captured alive.
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Commercial Tribune
Germantown
Tenn
Scott
Wolf River
Abe Bynum
John
Bynum Brothers
British Prisoner Released From Shanghai Prison
British Vice Consul returned from Quinsan with a British subject held by Chinese authorities. The man, a Shanghai Nankin Railway employee of Chinese descent, was alleged to have been tortured by a Chinese Magistrate at Quinsan, who was later imprisoned for the act.
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Shanghai
Quinsan
Shanghai-Nankin
Canadian Cruiser Fires On Tug In Erie Midlake
The Canadian cruiser Vigilant shelled the steam tug Harry G. Barnhurst near the Erie boundary, with more than thirty shots striking the vessel. Captain Fasel said the Vigilant could have sunk the tug. they escaped after an eight mile chase. Fireman Magnus Johnson fainted then revived. two fishermen were cut by splinters.
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Harry G. Barnhurst
Nick Fasel
Dunn
Magnus Johnson
Barnhurst
Fasel
Erie
Alma
Valiant
Boyd
SCHOONER BURNS TWO DROWNED IN LAKE SUPERIOR FIRE
The schooner W H Ketchum bound from Duluth to Cleveland burned off Parisian Island Lake Superior. Two crew members drowned as they tried to abandon the ship in a lifeboat. The vessel was beached in twenty three feet of water and burned to the water’s edge. The Leither Transportation Company of Cleveland owned the craft valued at twelve thousand dollars.
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Commercial Tribune
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
W. H. Ketchum
Duluth
Cleveland
Parisian Island
Lake Superior
Mrs. B. Ames
Nottingham
Andrew Anderson
Mrs. Ames
Anderson
Leither Transportation Company
AUUIA WILL CUT DUTIES AT ONCE
Baron Rosen informs the U S Government that the imperial decree of the 10th will repeal the increased duties on certain American goods and remove the origin certificate requirement. Customs Houses will be instructed to conform without delay.
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United States
United States Urges Argentina to Adjust Tariff on Repair Parts
The State Department reported the American Minister to Argentina and the Argentine Minister of Finance discussed changes to the proposed high duty on agricultural machinery repair parts. The Finance Minister signaled support for a modification to satisfy Argentine importers, with a Senate committee meeting next week to review the tariff bill. Importing interests plan to voice their position at the session.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
State Department
Senate Committee
Imperial decree opens Manchuria ports to all powers
London dispatch reports an imperial decree ordering many Manchuria ports opened to all treaty powers. The Shanghai correspondent of The Morning Post notes the move aims to liberalize access across the region.
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London
Shanghai
Morning Post
Manchuria
Man Dies After Shot Wounds Heart Lacerated
Peter Sullivan died minutes after being shot by Guy Hook who claims Sullivan insulted his wife. A post-mortem showed the bullet entered left chest and tore part of the heart on the right side. Hook is held on murder charge at Central Police Station. witnesses describe a fatal grappling incident at Sullivan’s death.
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Peter Sullivan
Guy Hook
Coe
Sullivan
James McGinty
West Fifteenth Street
Race
Hook
Central Police
Standard Theater
West Court Street
Car Collision Kills Man On Clifton Vine Grade
A rain driven crash at Clifton avenue and Vine Street killed Charles Hamilton, 40, of 1931 Vine Street. A College Hill and Main Street car smashed into a Vine Norwood car at the junction, sending Hamilton to a nearby pole with a fatal skull fracture. Motorman Henry Peters was arrested for manslaughter but released on bail.
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Missouri Pacific
Otterville
Kansas City
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Clifton
Missouri
Clifton Avenue
Vine Street
College Hill
Main Street
Charles Hamilton
Hamilton
Joe
Henry Peters
Richmond Street
Fromma
Vine-Norwood
Newport
William H. Fox
York Street
Krippendorf-Dittmann Company
Vine- Norwood
F. C. Theiss
Findlay
Bremen Streets
Harry Hillebrand
Dead Man Found in Berry Weeds Near Covington Station
The L N Railroad reports a dead man found in tall weeds near Berry Station in Covington on the Kentucky Central Division. The man likely died ten days earlier, dressed in a blue suit with green necktie, brown hair, sandy mustache, about 165 pounds. Found with a Frank Best saloon card and four morphine bottles. body buried beside the railroad track.
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L. & N. Railroad Company
Covington
Berry Station
Kentucky Central
Frank Best
Men Abandon Rig After Car Collision at Eleventh and Brighton
Three youths in a buggy ran their rig into a car at Eleventh and Brighton streets. In Newport at midnight Sunday they disappeared after the wreck, with no trace of the boys. The horse and wrecked rig were taken to the police station where a claimant awaits.
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Eleventh
Brighton
Newport
Komura Condition Report Improves in New York
A late evening bulletin on Baron Komura the Japanese envoy notes his condition at 6 p.m. as satisfactory in every respect. Dr Delafield will see him once tomorrow, as physicians in attendance follow his case.
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New York
Baron Komura
Hall Caine Aims Next Book At US Millionaires
London September 17 Hall Caine the novelist and playwright says he has studied the millionaire and his problems for a long time and that his next book may deal with the great commercial rulers of the United States before sailing for New York Saturday.
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London
New York
Hall Caine
United States
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Maden
CASE
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POSSE
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Mate
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