State officer collier charged with embezzlement
Assistant Attorney General Jones swore out a warrant charging George M. Collier chief state examiner of stationary engineers with embezzlement. Collier deserted his wife and family and fled with Hattie Hendricks, a restaurant waitress, on September 14 and is believed to have gone to Canada. Attorney General Sheets says the state will pursue him with bond company detectives.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Atttorney
Jones
Justice of the Peace
Andrews
George M. Collier
Cleveland
Collier
Hattie Hendricks
Canada
Sheets
Collier's Bond
Hattie
Charles F. Manney
Canton
Youngstown
Manney
Clinton Hayden Bank
Guilbert
State Examiner Collier Defaulter Found Missing Funds
Governor Nash suspends State Examiner Collier amid a $2,700 shortage plus $6,682.50 in unremitted license fees. Kennedy appointed to fill the office during suspension as investigation continues. Collier’s dissociated wife files for divorce. details reveal a $2,990 bank balance offset by a missing sum.
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Nash
State Examiner of Engineers
Collier
Kennedy
Hunt Street
Cincinnati Water Works Department
Hea
Fth
Clinton-Hayden National Bank
Collins
Sheets
Manchester’s Purchase for American Duchess Kylemore Castle
The Duke of Manchester bought Kylemore Castle and 13 000 acres in Connemara from builder Mitchell Henry. Built 1864 at half a million pounds, the granite pile features Connemara marble and expansive gardens. Dr J L F MacNamara once sought to gift Kylemore to the Queen.
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Kylemore
Connemara
Duke of Manchester
Commercial Tribune
Mitchell Henry
J. L. F. MacNamara
Helena Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Land League
Ireland
West Port
Galway
Bryan to concede as Ruth Bryan Leavitt to marry
Miss Ruth Bryan, age 19, will wed William Homer Leavitt, 22, despite Bryan’s protests. The couple began with a chance meeting at a portrait session. Bryan sought delay, but Ruth remained firm, and the wedding date was set for October 3 in Lincoln. Leavitt, from Newport, has a late wife and a son who died last January.
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Commercial Tribune
Lincoln
Neb
William Jennings Bryan
Miss Ruth
Miss
Me Leavitt
Mr. Bryan
William Homer Leavitt
W. J. Bryan
Newport
R.T
Alpena
Mich
Courts Not Clergy Must Clear Up Church Scandal at Testimony
In Zanesville Ohio on September 25 the Episcopal Church committee heard no witnesses in the case against Rector Frank W. Bope of St. James Church. Bope's lawyers announced a libel suit against General Manager W A Gibbs of the street railway, with civil action to be filed soon. The civil case likely won’t be heard until February or later, and Bope will remain rector while Gibbs avoided the ecclesiastical panel’s questions.
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Frank Bope
Commercial Tribune
Zanesville
Episcopal Church
Frank W. Bope
St. James Church
Bope
W. A. Gibbs
Common Pleas Court
Granger & Granger
Gibbs
Sherman Granger
Notorious Feud Leader Branham Hanged in Wise County
Clifton Branham, famed Kentucky Virginia feud figure and wife killer, was hanged at Wise C H Virginia before about 6000 mountaineers. He refused to admit guilt, appeared for a photo from the jail window, spoke briefly, and walked to the scaffold at 1 30. A guard was accidentally shot during a panic, life ended fifteen minutes later, and Salvation Army Cavalry held a street meeting afterwards.
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Commercial Tribune
Mayking
Clifton Branham
Kentucky
Virginia
Wise C. H
Sarah Branham
Branham
Sheriff Killins
Mr. Straley
Emory Bruce
Killins
Salvation Army Cavalry
Balfour Sets Macedonian Peace on Concert of Europe
Premier Balfour writes to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the Macedonian crisis. He warns the issue blends race and religion amid Turkish misrule and calls for Russia and Austria to lead reforms with concerted European support. He notes revolts fuel Turk excesses and urges coordinated diplomacy under the Berlin Treaty signatories.
Macedonian Reform Commission Named in Monastir
The mixed commission to implement reforms in Macedonia is officially announced and will sit temporarily at Monastir. An irade orders civil and military authorities to follow the commission's regulations. In Constantinople, the Porte orders mobilization of two additional divisions of Asiatic troops.
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Constantinople
Macedonia
Monastir
Porte
Playing Rabbit Not A Good Game
Frank Steltenkamp age 6 and Adolph Kester age 8 invented a game in which a pistol was used to shoot a circle run by Frankie. A gunshot wounded his cheek. neighbors transported him to Dr Alberts. The injury was not serious.
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Frank Steltenkamp
Adolph Kester
Kester
Hunt Street
Frankie
Alberts
Aristocratic Minister Wanted in This Church
The Columbus Grove Methodist Episcopal Church protests Rev. M. C. Howey as presiding elder Dr. E. D. Whitlock. The board objects to Howey not being aristocratic enough, noting his plain tastes and strong Christian character. Salary concerns and moving arrangements follow the dispute.
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Columbus Grove
Commercial Tribune
Methodist Episcopal Conference
Findlay
M. C. Howey
E. D. Whitlock
Defiance
Whitlock
Howey
Rev John OGorman Named Bishop of Sierra Leone
Rev John O Gorman C S S F of Cornwall Pa is appointed Titular Bishop and Prefect Apostolic of Sierra Leone West Africa. Papal bulls are en route and his consecration will follow. Sierra Leone mission began in 1864 and now includes about fifteen priests and sisters with one parish serving 2600 souls.
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Commercial Tribune
Philadelphia
John O'Gorman
C.S
College of the’ Holy Ghost Fathers
Cornwell
Sierra Leone
West Africa
O’gorman
Mgr. Barrear
St. Joseph of
Civil War Feud Breaks Out At Reunion Fight
At Ravenswood West Virginia a Blue and Gray reunion turned violent as ex Confederate James Sargent and John Noll clash over a remark. Noll was stabbed and in serious condition while Sargent was knocked unconscious and feared dead. The melee disrupted the annual gathering ending a long tradition of harmonious veterans.
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Commercial Tribune
Parkersburg
W. Va
Ravenswood
James Sargent
Morgan
John Noll
Sherman
Noll
Sargent
Johnny Rebs
Ignominious Fate of Shamrock I Sold for Scrap Trade Use
Shamrock I, the Lipton challenger, has been sold to a Brooklyn scrap firm. After remodeling, the racer will become a schooner to carry scrap metal between New York and South American ports, instead of cruising.
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First Challenger
New York
South America
Shamrock I
Thomas Lipton
Brooklyn
South American
Polar voyage reports eerie Arctic ice and lifeless seas
A letter from Anthony Fiala aboard the steamer America describes July in Barents Sea with immense ice, no animal life, and many dead birds on floes. Fiala notes a suspected unusual natural disturbance as the Ziegler polar expedition travels northward.
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New York
America
Ziegler Polar
William Ziegler
Anthony Fiala
Barentz Sea
Railroad Wins Eminent Domain Case in Cincinnati
Judge McNeill of the Insolvency Court ruled the Cincinnati Interterminal Railroad Company properly organized under Section 3270 and vested with eminent domain power. Backed by the L and N Railroad, it seeks to condemn rights of way for a double track through the city from McLean avenue and Hopkins street to Third street and Eggleston avenue, with suits over property along Third street from Mill to Baymiller streets.
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Cincinnati Interterminal Railroad Company
McNeill
Michael Murray
L. & N. Railroad
McLean Avenue
Hopkins Street
Third Street
Eggleston Avenue
Mill
Baymiller
Fifth Street
Murray
Two Men Die Hidden in Lumber Car in Pennsylvania
In Brownsville Pennsylvania J C Higinbotham opened a Monongahela Railroad car loaded with lumber from Michigan and found two men dead one on the lumber and one in a knitting posture both appeared to have died days earlier. Authorities suspect the men crawled in seeking a ride and perished after being locked in.
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Brownsville
J. C. Higinbotham
Monongahela
Michigan
Attorneys Denied Appeal in Chase Case in Indiana
Judge Rabb of the Lafayette Circuit Court declined to file the bill of exceptions or records for Moses Fowler Chase. The ruling bars a direct appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court, prompting a potential mandamus action to compel signing papers for a Supreme Court appeal.
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Lafayette
Ind
Rabb
Circuit Court
Moses Fowler Chase
Supreme Court of Indiana
Supreme Court
Wreckage of Beatrice Steamer Tells of Lost Lives
The Beatrice, a New York fishing steamer carrying 35 crew and 400000 fish, is found wrecked bottom up near Caffey's Inlet Lifesaving Station. Captain J W Leland of Baltimore is reported among the missing after the September 16 hurricane off Delaware Breakwater.
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Norfolk
Beatrice
New York
Caffey
Bankers Said to Have Acted on New Suggestion in Market
Wall Street reports that bankers led by J. Pierpont Morgan organized an emergency fund to steady markets and limit drastic moves. Steel shares remained weak despite large daily volume, with gains and losses alternating and bonds trading heavily as sentiment improved late in the session.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Wall Street
J. Pierpont Morgan
J. P. Morgan
United States
Favoring a General Superintendent of Canals
Chief Engineer Perkins announced a plan to seek Legislature action creating a General Superintendent of Canals who would control the canal system, with the State Board of Public Works reduced to an advisory role. The Canal Association backs a five foot canal from Cleveland to Dresden enabling 100 ton barges from Lake Erie to Dresden and onward to the Gulf.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Perkins
State Board of Public Works
Canal Association
Zanesville
Cleveland
Dresden
Lake Erie
Muskingum River
Marietta
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf
Suit Seeks Halt to American Can Dividend
A bill filed before Vice Chancellor Grey in Camden by F. Schoenfield, a stockholder of the American Can Company, seeks an injunction to stop the payment of a 2% dividend. The petition alleges fraud in organization and overcapitalization, claiming tangible assets are under 10 million dollars while the company is capitalized at 82.5 million.
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Philadelphia
Grey
Camden
F. Schoenfield
American Can Company
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Ziegler
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