Indict Bank Head Bail Fixed At Twenty-Five Thousand
Grand jury indicts Joseph G. Robin for larceny of eighty thousand dollars from the Northern bank of New York. Bail set at 25000 as Robin’s mental and physical condition is questioned and physicians are to examine him. Washington Savings Bank placed under temporary state control due to its relation to the Northern bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Savings Institution
New York
Joseph G. Robin
Northern Bank of New York
Robin
Northern Bank
Crain
Court of General Sessions
William T. Jerome
Whitman
Jerome
Second Robin Bank
State Banking Department
Washington Savings Bank
Savings Institution
Cheney
Banking Department
Hamilton Bank
Riverside Bank
Consolidated Institution
Aetna Indemnity Company
Rochester Title and Guarantee Company
Heinze
Copper Pool
Gary Officials Are Held On Indictment
Gary Indiana December 28 mayor Thomas B Knotts chief Joseph D Martin and eight others were indicted by the Lake county grand jury. Charges include conspiracy to commit a felony rioting assault and illegally attempting to enter a polling place. All released on bonds. trial set February 7 at Crown Point. Other defendants include Captains Newman Mulcahy Lieutenant Jenkins Sergeant Miller Police Commissioner White and Street Commissioner Finerty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gary
Ind
Lake County
Grand Jury
Thomas B. Knotts
Joseph D. Martin
Crown Point
Newman and Mulcahy
Lieut Jenkins
Miller
BE. N. White
Big Oil Battle Waged Between Standard Oil and Rising Sun
New York reports a millionaire clash as Standard Oil of New Jersey faces Rising Sun Oil of England in a $1 billion struggle. Rising Sun, backed by the Rothschilds, targets Standard Oil’s far east operations and appears to be gaining ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rising Sun Company of
England
Standard of New Jersey
Far East
New York
Standard Oil Company
Rising Sun Oil Company of
Rising Sun Company
Rothschilds
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Baltimore Ohio Southwestern strike ends in victory
Washington Indiana December 30 The machinists strike on the Baltimore Ohio Southwestern affecting 1200 men is settled with a complete victory for the strikers. The agreement takes effect January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ind
Baltimore
Ohio
Southwestern
Heart Sewed Up Worka New York Dec 29
A brief item from New York reports a medical or surgical event described as heart sewed up, mentioning the date December 29 and the short phrase with a knife. The fragment suggests an emergency procedure with notable detail but lacks full context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worka, New York
Plea Guilty In West Union Vote Selling Scandal
Judge A Blair reports 969 true bills for voting bribery in the county. Two hundred twenty six men pleaded guilty in West Union. Fines equal to their bribe, five year disfranchisement, and six months suspended jail. Judge Blair vows a second grand jury sweep. more indictments expected. Frank Salisbury fined for threats against the judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union
A. Blair
Common Pleas Court
Blair
Frank Salisbury
Franklin Township
Portsmouth
Salisbury
Kidnappers Get Long Terms In Black Hand Case
Judge Fawcett in Brooklyn imposes a sentence of not less than twenty five nor more than forty nine years ten months in Auburn prison on Maria Rappa and Stanislao Pattenza for kidnapping Michael Rizzo and Guiseppe Longo. He denounces Black Hand criminals and laments the lack of death penalty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fawcett
Brooklyn
Maria Rappa
Stanislao Pattenza
Michael Rizzo
Guiseppe Longo
Auburn
Ice Plant Boiler Blast Kills Fifteen in Pittsfield
Fifteen men killed and twenty injured as a boiler explodes at the Morewood Lake Ice Company plant near Pittsfield Massachusetts. Victims include many Italian workers. nine identified by name. Debris sent bodies across the site. boiler cylinder found in a tree. Property loss estimated under five hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Mass
Morewood Lake Ice Company
Morewood Lake
William Dunn
Edgar Allen
John Raymond
Leo Fernandez
Martin Smith
Wyatt Moore
George Ward
William Peppon
Elmer Eldredge
House of Mercy
Butler House
Government Seizes Nine Tons of Rotten Canned Eggs
United States deputy marshal Beekman and food inspector Lind seized nine tons of rotten eggs at the Merchants' Refrigerating plant in Jersey City. The operation targets distribution to bakers and confectioners for food products. Authorities traced 659 liquid egg cans, each 30 pounds, from Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Louis G. Beekman
United States
Herman Lind
Merchants’ Refrigerating Company
Jersey City
Beekman
Lind
Chicago
Meat Trust suit ends as government drops dissolution bid
District Attorney Sims asked Judge Kohlsaat to dismiss the government’s dissolution suit against the National Packing Company. The court entered the order as the government said it would stand on the criminal prosecutions and drop the dissolution action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
Chicago
Sims
Kohlsaat
United States District Court
National Packing Company
Wilkerson
United States
Treasury pays Parr $100000 for sugar fraud evidence
The treasury sent an $80000 warrant to Collector Loeb in New York to be deposited in the subtreasury and a check to Richard Parr, inspector of customs, completing a $100000 award from Secretary Mackeagh. Parr previously received $20000, using the first funds to buy a monument for his mother's grave, with the remainder to be invested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Loeb
New York
Richard Parr
MackVeagh
Parr
Three Killed as Red Hummer Collides with Freight
The Red Hummer, on the Chicago and Alton line from Chicago to Kansas City, collided with a freight near Farber Missouri. Passenger engineer B Davis, passenger fireman M J Crabtree, and freight brakeman H M Flora were killed. No passengers were injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farber
Kansas City
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Chicago
B. Davis
M. J. Crabtree
H. M. Flora
Woman Escapes Jail Term in Manslaughter Plea
Fort Wayne Indiana December 28 Mrs Rose Seidel Tresselt wife of a noted businessman pleaded guilty to manslaughter for running down and killing Irene Cox aged nine in August 20 last She was sentenced to two to 21 years but sentence suspended She paid John A Cox the girl s father six thousand three hundred dollars
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Ind
Rose Seidel Tresselt
Irene Cox
John A. Cox
Japs Attack U. S. Consul at Manchuria Market
A Tokyo dispatch reports Adolph A. Williamson American vice consul at Dalny Manchuria was assaulted at a Dalny fish market by several Japanese and Chinese. The incident will be reported to the state department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
New York
Tokyo
Japan
Adolph A. Williamson
Dalny
Manchuria
State Department
Thaw Freed From Bankruptcy in Pittsburgh Case
Harry K. Thaw, who killed Stanford White, was discharged from bankruptcy by Judge Orr in the U S district court in Pittsburgh. The order releases him from all debts and claims against his estate up to August 7, 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaw
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Orr
United States District Court
Rebel gunboat Hornet arrives as 3000 march on Tegucigalpa
In Tegucigalpa Dec 30 the rebel gunboat Hornet neared the Atlantic coast as over 3000 revolutionists began marching on the Honduran capital. Leaders Lee Christmas and ex President Bonilla are expected to reach the city with limited resistance, while Nicaraguans Americans and Hondurans form the rebel force. In Puerto Cortez a New York man cites brutal Cavilla officers beating three Americans and forcing them to bury a pauper before harsh imprisonment and a later transfer to the gunboat Tulumba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Hornet
Lee Christmas
Bonilla
Cape Gracias
Cavilla
Puerto Cortez
William Barber
New York
Barber
Tatulmba
Guatemala
San Pedro
Taft and Harmon Attend Perry Monument Banquet
President Taft and Ohio Governor Harmon joined a Chicago Hamilton Club banquet to advance plans for a Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry monument. The 60 member Perry centennial commission spans ten states and envisions a lakeside building serving as a monument, lighthouse, meteorological station, and wireless telegraph base at Lake Er ie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Taft
Harmon
Ohio
Hamilton Club
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Perry Centennial Commission
Lake Erie
Perry
United States Meteorological
So Cialism Among Students Attracts Attention In New York
The Intercollegiate Socialist society convention opened in New York with J. G. Phelps Stokes Lincoln Steffens and John Spargo scheduled to speak. The event highlights growing interest in socialism among college students in literary circles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Intercollegiate Socialist Society
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Lincoln Steffens
John Spargo
Nagel for Reform Cabinet Action on Federal Agency Reporting
Secretary Nagel urges a single federal agency to collect essential corporate facts from interstate businesses to ensure reliable public information and uniform accounting. He also calls for expanded Ellis Island facilities, better family-immigrant inquiries, and tougher enforcement of white slave laws to curb trafficking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Nagel Reeves
Ellis Island
Hoxsey Circles Mount Wilson In High Altitude Flight
Arch Hoxsey flew from Dominguez field circling Mount Wilson 4000 feet above the crest then returned to Aviation field after about two and a half hours. Officials report a 100 mile trip and a barograph altitude of 10005 feet near the peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Chavez
Arch Hoxsey
Dominguez Field
Mount Wilson
Carnegie Observatory
Aviation Field
Lincoln's Friend Is Dead
A Homer Byington, longtime Lincoln ally and former New York Sun partner, died at his son's home in Flushing. A Civil War field correspondent, he relayed Gettysburg news to Lincoln and the public, and as Naples consul he uncovered a plot against President Roosevelt prompting arrests of two Italians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
A. Homer Byington
Abraham Lincoln
Charles A. Dana
New York Sun
Flushing
Byington
Gettysburg
Lincoln
Naples
Roosevelt
Engineer Dies in Cab of Pittsburg Express Near Bird-in-Hand
At nearly 60 miles an hour the Pittsburg Express engineer H C Beck was found dead in the locomotive cab by the fireman as the train neared Bird-in-Hand Pennsylvania sixty miles west of Philadelphia. Green McCurtain principal chief of the Choctaw nation dies at his home in Oklahoma on December 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Nec
H.C. Beck
Pittsburg
Bird
Ter
Okla
Green McCurtain
Buckeye Notes and incidents from Ohio towns
Reports from Buckeye notes cover shootings, murders, accidents, and notable events across Ohio. Incidents include a burglarized home killing in Youngstown, a death in Sandusky, famed Benn Pitman’s obituary in Cincinnati, a suspected double murder in Portsmouth area, neglect case in Kirtland, a collapsed tabernacle roof in Barberton, and building stats for Steubenville. Other items mention a breakup of a shooting incident in Wellston, eye injury medical claims in Canal Dover, and an armed man targeting John D. Rockefeller at Forest Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Albert Moulton
Joseph Rosensteel
Sandusky
Joseph M. Osborne
Cameron
Ohio
Cincinnati
Benn Pitman
Sir Isaac Pitman
America
Portsmouth
Miner
Oliver Platt
Adams
Scioto
Painesville
Theodore Redler
Kirtland
E. E. Graves
Barberton
Steubenville
W. C. Maloney
Frank McCullough
Bellefontaine
Guy Strickland
Harper
Peoria
Ill
George Iw. Hank
Crystal Avenue
Frank Buckley
Lewis RB. Boggs
Buckley
Boggs
Stanley Slagel
Slagel
Canal Dover
Bert
Raymond Rittenhouse
Denison
Cleveland
Varney A. Barnes
D. H. Siegler
G. D. Lovett
John D. Rockefeller
Forest Hill
Bert Knapp
Marshal Stamberger
East Cleveland
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Indict Bank
Northern
Lake Morewood
Park
MacVeagh
Little Hornet
Governor Harmon
Intercollegiate Society
U. 8
Hoxsey
MT. Wilson
Swiss Alps
A. H. Byington
Buckeye
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