Loot of Pittsburg Bank Tops $1.25 Million
William Montgomery, former cashier of the Allegheny National Bank, confessed to defalcations totaling about 1.25 million dollars, vastly higher than earlier estimates. Bondsman George Tener and Richard R. Quay secured Montgomery with a 100000-dollar bond, and a guard will watch him day and night as investigators probe forged notes and other irregularities.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Montgomery
George E. Tener
United States Court
Montgomery Had Made His First Statement In the Presence of Witnesses, Mr. Tener
Richard R. Quay
United States
M. S. Quay
Folds
Tener
McBirney
C. C. Dickey
Lindsay
Financier Montgomer y Offloads Tonopah Shares and Bank Stock
The article notes Montgomery selling the remaining Tonopah Extension shares purchased with Charles M. Schwab from Robert Hall at six dollars a share. Market activity pushed Tonopah Extension down to one cent, with 1,490 shares offered. Montgomery also turned over 120 shares of Allegheny National Bank stock, valued at $120 per share, totaling about $144,000.
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Tonopah Extension
Charles M. Schwab
Robert Hall
Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Woman Screams Save Her From Cab Attack
A woman forced into a taxi by three men on Central Park West attracted Policeman William Henne. One man surrendered after the driver fired shots. The woman, identified as Mrs Bella McManus of Providence, Rhode Island, was injured and treated as a material witness. Frank McManus of Providence believed the woman was his wife and suspected robbery as the motive.
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Central Park West
William Henne
Park Wall
Fienne
John McDermot
West
Thirtyseventh Street
Bienne
West Sixty-eighth Street
Bella McManus
Providence
R. I
Thirty-fourth Street
Eighth Avenue
McDermot
McManus
Walsh
West Side Court
Tdetention
R. L
Frank McManus
Westminster Street
New York City
Belle
Edith Wood
Fifty-second Street
Manhattan
Bridge deemed safe after weight increase denial
Austin Lord Bowman of the Department of Bridges and John P D Wilkins in charge of Blackwell's Island Bridge construction denied a newspaper claim that added weight made the structure dangerous. They said dead weight rose above original specs but stress on the bridge remained unchanged.
To Stop Evils of Rushing at Cornell Fraternity Conference
Representatives from every fraternity and secret society at Cornell met in Ithaca on May 12 to hear a report by two senior honorary societies approved by President Schurman. The work aims to eliminate the evils of the rushing system.
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Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell
Schurman
Cleveland Trust Not Affected By Euclid Avenue Failure
News from Cleveland on May 12 reports the Euclid Avenue Trust Company failed last week causing confusion over names with the Cleveland Trust Company named as assignee. The Cleveland Trust Company states it was not involved or affected by the Euclid Avenue failure.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Euclid Avenue Trust Company
Cleveland Trust Company
Euclid Avenue Company
Meeting of Governors to form a House of Governors
William G. Jordan advocates a semi legislative body of all state governors to meet annually in state capitals to discuss uniform laws on issues like marriage, divorce, taxation, and labor. He argues it would limit federal power while preserving state sovereignty and suggests a first session be organized between June and October 1909.
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William George Jordan
Saturday Evening Post
Washington
Jordan
Roosevelt
Times
House of Governors
Union
Root
House
Congress
Conference of Governors
Mr. Jordan
President hosts large dinner before governors conference
President attends one of the year's largest dinners ahead of the governors conference on conservation. Thirty six states plus Alaska Hawaii and Porto Rico are represented by chief executives and notable officials.
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Washington
Conference of Governors
Alaska
Hawaii
Porto Rico
House of Representatives
Justice Harlan
Justice Brewer
Justice White
Justice McKenna
Justice Holmes
Justice Day
Justice Moody
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Senator Newlands
Senator Bankhead
Delaware
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
Maryland
South Carolina
New Hampshire
Virginia
Rhode Island
Vermont
Kentucky
Ohio
Louisiana
Indiana
Mississippi
Ilinois
Alabama
Missouri
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Kansas
West Virginia
Colorado
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Arkansas
New Mexico
Arizona
William Jennings Bryan
Theodore E. Burton
Alexander Mackenzie
Andrew Carnegie
James J. Hill
George C. Pardee
John F. Hill
John Mitchell
Herbert Knox Smith
Gifford Pinchet
W. J. McGee
F.H. Newell
Charles S. Bramwel
Frank R. McCoy
Archibald Butt
Prosperity Luncheon Links St Louis Committee to New York Leaders
E. C. Simmons of St Louis and National Prosperity Association members met with President Roosevelt, hosted by the Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee led by A. Barton Hepburn. They aim to enlist U S business support, stressing crops and markets as the path to renewed confidence and prosperity. Hepburn signals optimism about favorable conditions and a coming period of stability.
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E. C. Simmons
St. Louis
National Prosperity Association
Roosevelt
Chamber of Commerce
A. Barton Hepburn
Chase National Bank
Liberty Street
Simmons
New York
Hepburn
Stolypin Fights Reaction in Octobrist Campaign
In St Petersburg on May 12 a campaign to curb provincial governors and centralize power in Premier Stolypin began. Vassili Maklakoff attacked the Ministry of the Interior for absolute administration, with Stolypin's approval. Neither Stolypin nor the interior minister attended the Duma session. The premier plans to let Duma deliberations run their course without a strong counter move.
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T. Petersburg
Stolypin
Ministry of the Interior
von Plehve
Sipiaguin
Vassili A. Maklakoff
Duma
M. Stolypin
M. Maklakoff
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