Arnold Daly Explains Debts at Bankruptcy Hearing
Arnold Daly a well known actor and manager testified at a creditors hearing in New York before Judge Adams seeking discharge from bankruptcy. Daly described losses from stalled productions denied through the Knickerbocker bank’s failure and joked about past sums while claiming owed debts to Senator Reynolds and Frank Platzer.
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Arnold Dairy
William Lesser
Lesser Brothers
Broadway
Daly
Adams
United States
Lesser
Frank Platzer
Reynolds
Mr. Daly
Senator Reynolds
Chicago
Shuberts
State
Arnold Daly
Shuberto
Shubertet
George Ade
Henry Blossom
Blossom
Jesse James
Actor’s money mystery in Daly courtroom testimony
The exchange reveals the actor’s claimed finances during a trial. He says he supports his mother and family, with $30-$35 weekly to his mother, $100 to his wife, and about $100 a week on tour. He contends there was no spare cash and he often drew $5 to $50 weekly ahead.
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Chicago
Mr. Daly
Gompers Admits Publication to Circumvent Court Injunction
Washington September 17 Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor admitted hastening the January issue of The American Federationist to circulate before the Supreme Court District of Columbia injunction against Bucks Stove and Range Company took effect The admission came during the contempt hearing before Examiner Harper with questions aimed at proving the federation leaders violated the court order and that their statements showed contempt Morrison and Mitchell were also involved The examiner held three sittings with Gompers testifying throughout and Davenport representing Bucks company The testimony sought admissions to support the prosecution theory of cont emption
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Washington
American Federationist
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Bucks Stove and Range Company
St. Louis
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Harper
Mr. Gompers
Messrs. Morrison and Mitchell
Federation
Gompers
Bucks Company
Daniel Davenport
TWO MINTYRE POLICIES LAPSED IN BANKRUPTCY INQUIRY
The inquiry into T. A. McIntyre & Co. hearings revealed two lapsed life policies of $53,000 each due after the firm’s failure. Receivers say premiums were unpaid for lack of legal authority to pay. McIntyre’s death followed medical opinions he had no organic disease and could live to a normal expectancy.
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Thomas A. McIntyre
Peter B. Olney
T. A. McIntyre & Co
McIntyre
D. R. Cobb
I. L. Ernst
Government Receipts Increase In Early September
Government receipts entering the Treasury for the first seventeen days of September total $22,943,100. From customs come $14,724,260, internal revenue $11,258,818, and other sources $1,960,017. Disbursements over the same period amount to $28,730,000, compared with $25,710,000 in 1907.
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Washington
Treasury
Congressman Laning Acquitted in Ohio Case
Fremont Ohio Sept 17 The jury found Congressman Laning not guilty after less than an hour deliberation He cried upon hearing the verdict and thanked the jurors He plans to announce a statement soon and resume his bid for re election from the 14th District Laning owned Norwalk based businesses including the Ohio Trust Company and Laning Printing Company The printing plant burned recently The case also involved J C Gibbs manager of the Ohio Trust Company and accusations of misapplying funds and embezzling bank stock with loans to fictitious real estate firms Gibbs trial has not occurred.
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Fremont
Ohio
Laning
Congressman Laning
Congress
Norwalk
Ohio Trust Company
Laning Printing Company
J. C. Gibbs
Norwalk Savings Bank Company
Gibbs
Confetti Sellers Storm Lefayettte Trust Bank
A Mardi Gras scene at Coney Island saw about three hundred confetti pedlers storm the Lefayettte Trust Company building. They demanded the $5 license fees they paid for carnival confetti sales be refunded after discovering many sold without licenses.
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Coney Island
Lefayettte Trust Company
Curb Market Announces Register Deadline for Listings
Notice issued by E.S. Mendels declares all curb market traded stocks must obtain a register by October 1 to remain quoted on regular curb lists. Companies without a register, including Western stocks from California and Nevada, will be classified as unregistered.
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E.S. Mendels
New York
California
Nevada
Army and Navy News From The Tribune Bureau
Washington reports no plan for a regular New York Manila transport line beyond emergencies. The McClellan carried fifty passengers but received three hundred passage requests. Army orders list promotions and transfers, while Navy movements note arrivals of Yorktown at Valdez and Alabama and Maine at Naples with Prairie at Newport.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
New York-Manila
War Department
New York
Manila
Suez
McClellan
Suez Canal
Yorktown
Valdez
Alabama
Maine
Naples
Prairie
Newport
Officers to be Court Martialled at Leavenworth
Four army officers including Captain John W. Wilbreth Jr and Captain Winfred B. Carr of the 6th Artillery and Captain James B. Lindsay with First Lieutenant William J. Q. Loughlin of the 18th Infantry face general court martial on September 29 at Fort Leavenworth. Charges center on negligence of duty for failing to prepare descriptive lists and to follow orders. Lindsay is a West Point graduate and Loughlin previously served in a New York volunteer regiment during the Spanish American War.
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Leavenworth
Kan
John W. Wilbreth, Jr
Winfred B. Carr
6Th Artillery
James B. Lindsay
William J. Q.’Loughlin
18Th Infantry
O'Loughlin
Morton
Wilbreth
Carr
Fort Riley
Lindsay
Fort Leavenworth
West Point
New York
Government after Logue's Torpedo Affair
The Navy Department negotiates with Charles A Logue of Charlestown for use of his new dirigible torpedo. Logue, a Boston University junior, has worked on it since the Marconi wireless invention.
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the Tribune
Boston
Navy Department
Charles A. Logue
Charlestown
Logue
Boston University
Marconi
Ambrose Channel Night Navigation Awaited by War Dept
Washington reports Atlantic steamship lines pressed for night opening of New York Harbor Ambrose Channel. General Marshall cautions premature night use would raise accident risk and disrupt dredging plans. He notes a likely four month horizon to complete half the channel and seek Congress support to open a 1000 foot wide, 40 foot deep section for all deep draft vessels.
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Washington
War Department
Atlantic Steamship Lines
Ambrose Channel
New York Harbor
Marshall
Secretary of War
Congress
NO RAILROAD DISCRIMINATION Ruling on car distribution across lines
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Maryland court, saying railroads must provide equal transportation treatment to all shippers regardless of car ownership. The decision found discrimination favoring Fairmont coal interests and remanded the case, likely to be appealed to the U S Supreme Court, affecting nearly all U S railroads.
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Richmond
Ea Railroad
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Circuit Court of Maryland
Pitcairn Coal Company
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Fairmont Coal Company
Baltimore & Ohio
Pritchard
Fairmont
Cout
Maryland
Baltimore
Supreme Court of the United States
President Roosevelt Hosts German Saengerbund at Oyster Bay
The President and Mrs. Roosevelt welcomed the Saengerbund singers, shook hands with each member, and posed for photos. A broad reception followed, with addresses of admiration for American motherhood and a note that the event ended after a long, cheerful afternoon. Father York led a Huntington delegation and introduced Mrs. Charles G. Reynolds, praised as a fine mother of seven. The crowd declared the day perfect, though the President lamented not seeing more children.
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Roosevelt
Father York
Huntington
L. I
Charles G. Reynolds
Brooklyn
Oyster Bay
Fire injures library at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore
A Sept. 17 Baltimore fire on the top floor of McCoy Hall at Druid Hill avenue and Eutaw street damaged Johns Hopkins University library. Losses include 25,000 unbound periodicals, papyri, and archeological specimens from Thebes and Memphis. About 30,000 volumes were water and smoke damaged. defective wiring is blamed.
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McCoy Hall
Druid Hill Avenue
Eutaw Street
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins
Thebes
Memphis
Herculaneum
Mrs Harriet Monroe Indicted Over Boyertown Opera House Fire
Reading, Sept 17. Berks County Grand Jury indicted Mrs Harriet E Monroe of Washington for manslaughter in connection with the Boyertown Opera House fire last January. The blaze began when a defective gas tank for a calcium light exploded during her show The Reformation, causing panic and the loss of 170 lives.
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Penn
Berks County
Harriet E. Monroe
Washington
Boyertown Opera House
Monroe
Federal and county courts clash over Montgomery case
In Pittsburg on September 17, judges ruled that William Montgomery, former Allegheny National Bank cashier, cannot be tried in county court on forgery charges until the federal court issues a ruling. Bail set at 169,000. District Attorney Goehring urged immediate county trial, while US District Attorney Dunkle argued for priority federal action. Montgomery was retaken to his cell after a jail transfer attempt halted at the Bridge of Sighs.
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Marshall Brown
James R. McFarlane
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Montgomery
Brown
United States Supreme Court
Goehring
Allegheny County
United States
John W. Dunkle
United States Court
Bridge of Sighs
Lewis
Franciscan seminary dedicated at Catskill by Archbishop
In a large Catholic gathering at Catskill New York the Franciscan seminary was dedicated today on the feast of St. Francis stigmata. Archbishop Falconio Apostolic Delegate to the United States since 1902 presided.
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Catskill
N. Y
Francis
Falconio
United States
Business Troubles Involuntary and Voluntary Bankruptcies Listed
In a New York sector docket, petitions were filed in the United States District Court for multiple bankruptcy actions. Involuntary filings target Lindley Minard of Poughkeepsie with claims totaling over 3,000 from Weller & Co and Berg Brothers, plus a R. G. Co. claim, with temporary receiver John A. Candel appointed. Voluntary cases include Max Kaufman of Third Avenue in Brooklyn with liabilities around 52,061 and two suits of clothes as assets, the Finlay Raw Sugar Company debtor to M. Gelats Co. of Havana with a 4,629 claim, and John T. Hepworth of Wappinger Falls with modest assets. Also listed are Goodman Schwartzman trading as Regal Dress Co. with a 21,852 claim and other creditors.
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Petiions
United States District Court
Lindley Minard
Main Street
Poughkeepsie
Weller & Co
Leopold Hirsch
Berg Brothers
John W. Finucane
R. & G. Corset Company
John A. Candel
Max Kaufman
Third Avenue
Washington Street
Brooklyn
Finlay Raw Sugar Company
Wall Street
M. Gelats & Co
Havana
Cuba
Goodman Schwartzman
Regal Dress Company
Westith Street
Asiel Putzel & Co
Washington Pleating and Braiding Company
William Isaacs
Springfield Negro Convicted in Race Riot Murder
The jury in the James murder case found the defendant guilty and fixed the penalty at death. James showed no emotion as the verdict was announced amid the race riot tensions in Springfield Illinois arising from the murder of C. A. Ballard.
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Springfield
James
C. A. Ballard
Lemp files cross bill in divorce case
William J. Lemp Jr. charges Mrs. Lillian Lemp with repeated late nights away from home and unaccountable absences. He claims a letter to a man and her expressed affection for him show infidelity and accuses her of secretly baptizing their son Catholic. He says she attacked him when he protested her attire and public criticism.
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the Tribune
St. Louis
William J. Lemp, Jr
Lillian
William J. Lemp
Two Women Try to End Their Lives in Embezzlement Case
In Philadelphia on September 17 two dejected women attempted suicide linked to Otto Herbert's embezzlement case. Marie Desandt drank acid after learning Herbert had a wife. she survived. Christiana Wenkel, seeking news of Herbert, also tried to drink, but the magistrate stopped her and was burned attempting to intervene. she claimed Herbert had promised to marry her.
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Philadelphia
Gallagher
Otto Herbert
Herbert
Marie Desandt
Christiana Wenkel
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