Grand Jury Indicts Perkins and Fairchild in Insurance Scandals
New York December 28 George W Perkins former vice president of New York Life Insurance and J P Morgan & Co and Charles Fairchild former secretary of the treasury and NY Life trustee were indicted for forgery in the third degree over the Prussian bond transaction The grand jury found six indictments against each and said the actions benefited policyholders though the men did not profit personally Perkins posted bail and Fairchild is in Europe The inquiry will continue in January with additional witnesses including Edmund Randolph H Shipman and George Morrison among others.
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New York
George W. Perkins
New York Life Insurance Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Charles
Fairchild
the Treasury
Government of
Prussia
Goff
Grand Jury
Perkins
Court of General Sessions
J. P. Morgan, Jr
Madison Avenue
Cleveland H. Dodge
New York City
Chicago and
Northwestern Preferred
St. Paul
New York Security and Trust Company
Life Insurance Company
Europe
Jerome
Justice O'Sullivan
George W. Burnham, Jr
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Burnham
Mutual Reserve
New York Life
New York Life Insurance
Edmund D. Randolph
H. Shipman
Woodbury Langdon
George A. Morrison
Milton M. Mattison
Treasury Department
Alexander Webb, Jr
Grand
Northern Indiana Notes and Personal Mention
News briefs report C W Ormsby of Bluffton plans a commission house there. W B Sparks of Indianapolis buys the Commercial hotel in Peru. Squire S J Brandon of Auburn is a 66 year old great grandfather. Omar Moorman of Peru is shot in the thigh while hunting and may not recover. Mrs Elizabeth Ewing, pioneer of Wabash county, dies at her home north of Wabash. Rev Herbert A Whitlock, once Montpelier pastor, is now a college professor in India. David Sala near Goshen dies of apoplexy at supper. David Fisher, a Wells county pioneer, dies near Kingsland from blood poisoning after freezing his feet twenty years ago. The Angola bank reorganizes as Angola Bank Trust with $60,000 capital, George W Wickwire president. Wolf drive near Leesburg yields no wolves. locals believe wolves have fled. Thirty patrons of Collins post office seek rural route service from Columbia City. Kendallville druggist A John Rossbacher petitions for voluntary bankruptcy with $8,271.34 liabilities and $5,378.78 assets. about 75 creditors, largest John Eger of Rensselaer. Cass county prosecu tor George W Walters retires, 114 criminal cases stricken from the Logansport docket due to lack of state evidence or arrest.
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C. W. Ormsby
Bluffton
W. B. Sparks
Indianapolis
Peru
Squire S. J. Brandon
Auburn
Omar Moorman
Elizabeth Ewing
Wabash County
Wabash
Herbert A. Whitlock
Presbyterian Church
Montpelier
India
David Sala
Goshen
David Fisher
Wells County
Kingsland
Angola Bank
Angola Bank Trust Company
George W. Wickwire
Leesburg
Collins Postoffice
Postoffice Department
Washington
Columbia City
John Rossbacher
Kendallville
John Eger
Rensselaer
George W. Walters
Cass County
Cass
Logansport
School funds low because fines go unpaid
Indianapolis December 28. Lotus P D Coffman, superintendent of Connersville city schools, told the State Teachers association that fines and prosecutors fees divert funds from public schools. He urged action to stop leakage through remitting fines and urging clearer legislation to recover school revenues. The talk highlighted mishandling of fines and the need to bolster the common school fund.
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Indianapolis
Lotus PD
Caffman
Connersville
State Teachers’ Association
Henry Vandyke
Tom
Franklin College President Nominated for State Teachers Body
Dr. E B Bryan, president of Franklin College, is named by the nominating committee of the State Teachers association for president of the body. The committee will report this tomorrow.
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E. B. Bryan
Franklin College
State Teachers’ Association
Tomorow
Fort Wayne Commercial Club Launches Large Advertising Sign
The Fort Wayne Commercial Club to erect an 8 by 30 foot sign along the Pennsylvania railroad west of the city. The sign proclaims Fort Wayne with seven railroads five interurbans free factory sites and invites addresses to the Commercial Club.
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Fort Wayne
Pennsylvania Railroad
Commercial Club
Ely's Cream Balm Promises Quick Nasal Relief
A vintage ad promotes Ely's Cream Balm for nasal catarrh and hay fever with direct application to inflamed passages. It offers a solid form at 50 cents and a liquid spray version at 75 cents with a spraying tube, marketed as nonaddictive and mercury free. The distributor is Ely Brothers of New York.
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Ely
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Convicts Escape By Train Through Missouri
Three trusted convicts from the Jefferson City prison power house fled last night and rode sixty miles toward St. Louis on a Missouri Pacific train. Panic rose as the trio in prison garb boarded the baggage end repeatedly while passengers feared a robbery. The men, Henry Grimm Samuel Thompson and John Higginbotham, were removed at Kent after escaping from custody.
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St. Louis
Jefferson City
Missouri Pacific
Kent
Henry Grimm
Samuel Thompson
John Higginbothamh
Indiana counties entertain vagrants report says Tippecanoe Vigo lead
Indianapolis December 28 Tippecanoe and Vigo counties figure prominently in the state charities board annual report on vagrancy. The last year saw 3379 inmates in jails and Marion county workhouse, mostly men, with lodging and meals amid high costs. Tippecanoe averaged 705 and Vigo 364 tramps over five years. Vigo 469 this year, Tippecanoe 602, while 1071 total vagrants came from Vigo and Tippecanoe combined.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Tippecanoe
Vigo
Marion County
Board of State Charities
Vigo County
Tippecanoe County
Negro Soldier Attacks Woman Stirring Lynch Threats in El Reno
In El Reno Oklahoma today reports say a Negro soldier from the Twenty fifth infantry attacked Mrs T Clifford and her sister Mrs S H Clarke as they tried to pass him in the street threatening the sidewalk was his. Police and hundreds searched the town but the assailant fled before help arrived. Both women identify him and will visit Fort Reno to pick him from soldiers recently out of the post.
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el Reno
Okla
T. Clifford
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Fort Reno
President of the Pennsylvania Dies at Home
The long illness ends with the death of the Pennsylvania president at his Philadelphia residence. Details about the leadership legacy and funeral plans are expected as officials confirm the passing and public notices proceed.
Death of Pennsylvania Railroad President A J Cassatt
Philadelphia mourns as Alexander J Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, dies suddenly of heart disease at 1 p m in his West Rittenhouse square home. He had just returned from Bar Harbor and had been ill since autumn, with rumors surrounding his condition fading as news spread. His wife, son and daughter were at his side.
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Philadelphia
Alexander J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
A. J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mr. Cassat
Broad Street
Haverford
Cassatt
Broad Street Station
MR CASSATT ENTERS PA RAILWAY PRESIDENCY CAREER
New York December 28 Mr Cassatt born in Pittsburg in 1839 educated in Germany and at the Troy Polytechnic Institute enters the service of the Pennsylvania in 1861 as a red man. He rises through roles including superintendent of motive power and machinery general superintendent and first vice president before becoming president in 1889. He helped plan New York city tunnel system and lived in Philadelphia with a prominent social standing.
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New York
Cassatt
Pittsburg
Germany
Troy Polytechnic Institute
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania System
Mr. Cassatt
New York City
Philadelphia
Stock market steadies after Cassatt death news
In New York on December 28 the stock market showed little reaction to the death of President Cassatt. Pennsylvania opened at 138% and fluctuated to 1387144, a shade below morning highs, with prices elsewhere pausing briefly before resuming the prior hardening trend.
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New York
Cassatt
Pennsylvania
Ringing Bell in Room 23 Haunts Burt House Fire Tale
Special judge Judge Erwin recounts a Decatur fire at the Burt house where room 23 rang a bell during the blaze. Fire cut off the staircase, a rescue party crossed to room 23 only to find it empty, and the bell continued until wires were severed by an electrician.
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Erwin
Adams County
Burt
Decatur
Boy Cut Glass
Hightower Artis a fourteen year old boy faced city court charges for cutting several plate glass windows with a whetstone. He has prior trouble but has attended school for two years with good conduct. He says he found a piece of the stone sold by street vendors and did not intend to damage the glass.
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Hightower Artis
Patton
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Secretary of Treasury
Indiana
J. Pierpont Morgan
Coffman
Missouri
Indiana Counties
Mary Tramps
Tippecanoe and
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Associated Press
President Cassatt
Robert K. Cassatt
Mrs. Stewart
Judge Erwin
Bluffton Banner
Boy Cut
Great Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Alexander J. Cassatd
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