District Attorney Probes Graft Link to Life Insurance Scandals
New York dispatch reports the district attorney hints at criminal suits arising from an ongoing life insurance inquiry. He seeks a copy of the legislative committee’s report as hearings proceed at City Hall. Key figures include W T Jerome, A Armstrong, Thomas F Ryan, Charles E Hughes, and Edward B Harper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
Dev
fife insurance
W. T. Jerome
Jerome
A Armstrong
Thomas F. Ryan
James H. Hyde
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Charles E. Hughes
Ryan
Hughes
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance company
Edward B. Harper
Harper
Frederick A. Burnham
George D. Eldredge
Albany
Muings company
Sif
Turner
ferree
Revolt Spreads as Mutinies Rise Across Russia
Dispatches from interior towns report mutinies seizing arsenals and distributing rifles. Revolt reaches Ekaterinodar Elizabethpol Novorossiysk and Kiev area amid mass arrests and rising lawlessness. Witte struggles to stem the crisis as martial law spreads in Livonia and Polish regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Eydtkubnen
council of workmen’s
Ekaterinadar
Neveros
Elizabethpel
Novorossiysk
Kieff
Witte
Loatait
Grenadier
Odessa
altic
Livonia
Why Samharoff Was Killed Czar's Former Minister Assassinated
Report from St Petersburg via exiled telegrams claims Lieutenant General Sakharoff, former minister of war, was shot in Saratoff while repressing agrarian unrest. The account describes brutal Cossack tactics, peasants beaten and terrified, and hints at ongoing torture and executions surrounding the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witte
London
Daily Mail
St. Petersburg
Rudiger
Durmover
uihers
Count Witte
Exydtkerbnen
East Prussia
Sakharoff
Saratoff
John Obolensky
ceneral aiandim
Kharkoff
seversi
Cassa
Sakhareff
Jared
Healthy Plants Requires Careful Attention at Welk
You must destroy the cause before you can remove the effect. Dandruff and baldness stem from a germ at the roots. Newbro s Herpicide destroys the germ and promotes healthy hair. Sold by leading druggists. Send stamps for a sample to The Herpicide Co Detroit Mich J A Willemsen Special Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newbro
Herpicide Co
Detroit
Mich
J. A. Willemsen
Senseless Run on Bank Sparks Depositor Panic
A false rumor that the First National Bank of York has failed caused hundreds of depositors to withdraw funds. The scare spread after a passerby overheard a remark about the bank’s failure, drawing a large crowd and prompting orderly withdrawals as clerks paid off customers. Nearby, a sheriff seized an art store across the street amid the commotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
1st National Bank
First National
Benneau
United States
John B Moran Declares Independent Bid for Boston D A
John B Moran, aged forty six, unmarried, of Irish parentage, ran for district attorney of Boston on an independent ticket and was elected he styled himself the mean who dares and advocated official freedom from politicians and grafters He has been called the Jerome and Folk of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Moran
Boston
Jerome and Folk
Kill Wild West Show Horses to Allay Glanders Fears
In France the Wild West Show of Colonel William Cody faced a glanders scare. Buffalo Bills were killed to quell farmer fears while government veterinarians confirmed reactivated glanders from the stud. Saddles harnesses and stable gear were burned and infected trains disinfected as Colonel Cody traveled to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glanders
Marc France
Rey uz
Wiliam F. Cody
Codger
James A. Haney
Cady
Mail Box Thieves Haul Sparks Atlantic City Loot
Atlantic City leaders report a $5000 seizure of securities tied to mail thefts. Detectives pursue two suspects tied to bank and insurance stocks looted near Pacific avenues. Authorities warn the case involves Philadelphia links and ongoing investigations to locate the stolen securities and financiers involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. Z
Dees
Daniel here
Philadelphia
Pacific avenues
epen
Shaw May Act to Relieve Agency Situation
Fragmented report from Richmond and Culpepper recounts indictments and trials. Mentions Treasury, a Philadelphia assault involving a son, a youth sentenced for murder in January, and a Culpepper double tragedy with a shooting.
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Searstory
Treasury
maragerezati SA
Culpepper
Richmond
Cor
Philips
John J. Vaughan
No More Free Passes By Major Railroads After Dec 23 1905
Reading Central of New Jersey and Lehigh Valley join Pennsylva nia Tollroad in ending free passes. Presidents of Baltimore & Ohio Wabash Norfolk & Western Delaware Lackawanna & Western announce abolition of passes or exchange of transport. Truesdale of DL&W issues similar notice locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Jersey Central
Lehigh Valley
Pennsy
Philadephia
Pennsylva
exchange of transportation
L. E. Johnson
Norfolk & Western Railroad company
Norfolk & Western company
Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad
General Porter seeks no reimbursement for John Paul Jones body
General Horace Porter writes Congressman Rainey to abandon a reimbursement plan for costs incurred in recovering John Paul Jones. Porter states the work was personal and offers any potential government payment to be added to funds for ornamenting Annapolis crypt.
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General Porter
Paul Jones
New York
Pec
Horace Porter
iview
Conian Henry T. Rainey
abandson
congress
John Paul Jones
Porter
nC WOK
Annapolis
Admiral Jones
Governor Winthrop in Washington on Porto Rico matters
Fragmentary notes show Governor Winthrop of Porto Rico meeting Washington officials to press needs in the territory. A suspect extortion case and dated bank records surface amid disorderly references to machinery, river mill interests, and a suicide at a private sanitarium in Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. Florence T. Sill, wife of Riversite Mill chief, features in the garbled report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop
Porto Rica
Ponta Rica
Washington
Wiliam Biesencnant
ito
American Institute of Bank Treks
Florence T. Sil
Riversite Mill & Coal company
Bogota
X. J
Stroudsburg
Canal Bill Passes With $11 Million Panama Work Allocation
Washington action sets aside about 11 million dollars to advance the Panama canal project with a compromise between higher and lower estimates. The measure directs annual construction reports, reins in expenditures to budget, and aligns canal bonds with national bonds. Campaign finance debates and multiple bills followed in Congress, including a joint statehood measure.
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Washington
Panama canal
Williams
Hepburn
Mann
finois
congress
Panama
ayr
fur national bank
senate
iman
anton
national bank
poditlo
South Carolinga
soma
sitent
Platts
New York investigating committee
secretary of the treasury
Tillman
Stole a Fishing Tug Alleged Erie Theft Case
A daring crime in Erie involves the alleged stealing of a large fishing tug from Erie Fish Company by the captain and four crew members who planned to sell the vessel to Buckeye Fish Company in Cleveland. An engineer who refused to join thwarted the sale and stopped any proceeds.
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Erie
Erie Fish company
bers
Ashtabula
Buckere Fish company
Cleveland
Charles
Abe
Thomas Evans
John vr. conld
John Ossnod
LL. B. Walker
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