Albany to Wall Street Trail Becomes a Highway Drama
New York report details a graft trail linking Albany to Wall Street with suspects including Louis Bedell and Louis Goodsell. Investigators probe transportation shares bought from key figures, implicating Ellingwood Cunnhingham and state Republican funds. Roosevelt could be summoned as a witness as the inquiry focuses on the transportation bill and related dealings.
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New York
Black Horse Cavalry
Albany
Wall Street
Albany-to-Wall-street
Louis Bedell
Orange County
Eringwaeod & Cuningham
Lke
Republican
New York State
Ellingwood & Cunnaingham
State
Orange County Committee
Assembly
Bedell
Treasury
New York State Republican Committee
Louis ¥. Goodsell
Fred Nixon
New York Assembly
James T. Rogers
Jotham P. Alids
Archie B. Baxter
Senate
Theodore Roosevelt
Legislative Investigating Committee
Col. Roosevelt
West
Skene Gains Acquittal After Long Jury Deliberation
Former State Engineer Frederick Skene of Queens was acquitted by an Albany jury after five ballots, facing sixteen other indictments for malfeasance in office. The case centered on alleged cheating of New York state out of eight thousand dollars by altering contractor bids.
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Albany
N. Y
Frederick Skene
Queensborough
New York State
Skene Convicted After Five Ballots In Nassau Road Bid Case
A Nassau county jury required five ballots to find that Skene did not raise the bid for the Russell contracting company road project. The trial also handed down sixteen other indictments accusing Skene of similar frauds related to the same bidding incident.
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Skene
Russell Contracting Company
Nassau County
Three Die in Dreadnought North Dakota Oil Test
At Fort Monroe Virginia nine crew members were hurt and three coal passers killed after an explosion during a fuel oil test aboard the Dreadnought North Dakota in Chesapeake Bay near Old Point Comfort. Names of the deceased and injured are listed. all injuries expected to recover as the ship sails to Newport News for damage assessment.
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FT. Monroe
Ora G. Murphy
Warant
North Dakota
Fower Chesapeake Bay
Old Point Comfort
Routo No. 3
J. W. Schmidt
Coalpasser
Brooklyn
Robert Gilmore
Hartford
Conn
Joseph Streist
Newark
Cal
Hampton Foods
Newport News
Mrs. Willis B. Troy In Brooklyn Widow Suicide Over Stepchildren
In New York on September 9, Mrs. Willis B. Troy killed herself in a Brooklyn boarding house room after a quarrel with her husband about bringing two stepchildren to live with them. He found her with a pistol in hand and a bullet through her breast, lying near a mirror.
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New York
Willis B. Troy
Brooklyn
Troy
Coal Rates Reduced by Kentucky Railroad Commission
The Kentucky railroad commission ordered coal rates cut from Beattyville and eastern Kentucky points to Versailles from 1.25 to 0 cents per ton. The reduction affects the L. and N. railroad.
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Frankfort
State Railroad Commission
Beattyville
Kentucky
Versailles
L. & N. Railroad
States Rights Loses In Fight In Minnesota
The National conservation congress adopted a platform for moral resource control. Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas were cited as central while Taft supporters clashed with Roosevelt loyalists over credit for the work. Indiana delegates voiced concern as they organized their state delegation at St Paul with Dye as chairman and Latshawe as treasurer.
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ST. Paul, Minn
National Conservation Congress
Theodore Roosevelt
Tutt
Henry W. Wallace
Des Moines, Inc
Austin Latshawe
Kansas City
Thais Shipp
Girard Pinelsot
Col
Roosevelt
Taft
Congress
Ballinger
Indiana
Rocks in His Pockets. Tragic Find in Brookline River
The body of Iver Hokanson was found in the Charles River near the Brookline Street bridge by boys. He had been missing from his boarding place, out of work, and troubled by nervous strain. Rocks in his pockets support the theory of suicide.
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Boston
Iver Hokanson
Charies River
Brookline Street
Hokanson
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