Chadwick gets ten-year sentence in federal case
Cleveland Ohio March 27 Mrs Casele L Chadwick a woman financier was sentenced to ten years in the Ohio State penitentiary on seven counts two years on four counts and one year on two counts totaling ten years for conspiracy to certify checks with bank officials while she had no money on deposit. The defense will seek a stay and appeal to the United States Circuit Court while other indictments are held in abeyance.
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Oberlin
Cleveland
Ohio
Casele L. Chadwick
Ohio State Penitentiary
Robert W. Taylor
United States District Court, At & Oelock
Chadwick
J. P. Dawley
Defens
United States Circuit Coat of Appeals
United States
Chandler
United States Attomps
Sullivan
Bullivan
Bederil
Sullisle
Candwick
Taylor
Citizens’ National Bank of
C. T. Beckwith
A. B. Spear
Beckwith
Spear
Wife of Chadwick Sentenced After Trial Ends
The government prohibition on the bank transaction aimed at protecting depositors and stockholders. Mrs. Chadwick’s eight year four month term reflects a verdict of guilty reached after a March trial that began on March 6 and ended with the jury’s March 1 decision. Her career’s first disclosure followed a suit by Herbert D. Newton to recover 7190,000 loaned to her. She was arrested December 15 in New York and later held in Cleveland jail. Her lawyer Dawley declined to comment on the sentence.
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Newton
Chadwick
New York
Cleveland
J. P. Dawley
Breadth To His Platform Candidate Hamm Enters Mississippi Race
J S Hamm a Mississippi legislator from Coahoma County announces for Congress in the Third district proposing reform of civil service equal taxation limited protection for industry international control of corporations old age government insurance international divorce laws equal rights for men and women rural mail delivery parcels post child labor laws education for youth recall of bad officeholders and strict criminal law enforcement with aims to regulate railroads and telegraphs while opposing polygamy and limiting courtroom speeches.
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Washington Post
New Orleans
Mississippi
United States
J. S. Hamm
Coahama County
Congress
Midippi
Railroad Commission
Philippine Islands
Utah
Tabard Inn Concerns Put In Receivership
Five concerns linked to the Booklovers Library and Tabard Inn, led by Seymour Eaton, are placed in receivership by the U S Circuit Court. Affected entities include the Philadelphia Book Store Company and Tabard Inn Press, with assets over 1 million and facilities under 160 thousand. Receivers John H. Simon, Charles Megargee Levis, and R. Thornton Eaton named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comeranies
H Igh
Philadelphia
Booklovers
Tabard Inn Libraries
Seymour Eaton
United States Circuit Court
Philadelphia Book Store Company
Tabard Inn Press Company
Tabard Inn Shops and Studios
Tabard Inn Druggist Specialty Company
Tabard Inn Food Company
Eaton
R. Thornton Eaton
J. B. Lipphicott Company
MacMillan Company
D. Appleton & Co
Curtis & Co
Javenson & Sons
Midland Metal Company
Helpless in a Hurricane Aboard Pretoria Liner
Special to The Washington Post New York March 27 reports that the Hamburg American liner Pretoria in a four day overdue voyage battled a record cyclonic gale. Captain Schrotter said winds reached ten miles an hour for five hours, tearing a lifeboat free and washing a fifteen year old cabin boy overboard while injuring crew and passengers. The steerage with 2 725 aboard nearly panicked as a Hungarian woman gave birth and two more children were born during the voyage.
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Washington
New York
Pretoria
Schrotter
Leviathan
Sellom
Poisoned Children Shock Paducah Mother Confesses
Paducah Kentucky March 27 Mrs Mary Brackwell confessed she gave her three children morphine and coal oil leading to their deaths on Saturday. She said her husband was in an asylum and she could not support them. She claimed George Alberton promised marriage if she got rid of the children and Alberton was arrested as an accessory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paducah
Mary. Brackwell
George Alberton
Alberton
Twenty-Eight Convicts Escape From Texas Plantation
Twenty-eight Texas convicts on J. B. S. House’s plantation in Fort Bend County, Houston, escaped by sawing through the stockade floor with casé knives. Forty-five convicts stayed behind. Posses scour river bottoms to apprehend the runaways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
J. B. S. House
Fort Bend County
Iver
New Move In War May Attack Vladivostok
Military dispatches report Linevitch preparing scouting parties and possible turning movement toward Vladivostok while government pursues war preparations. Chinese bandits disrupt Siberian Railroad. rumors of leadership changes in the Russian war office. evacuations due to transport strain and debate over peace versus continued mobilization.
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Russia
Sakharoff
Ridiger
Gunshu Pass
Linevitch
Vladivostok
St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Tie Pass
Court Circle for War in Peace Talk Sparks Debate
A St Petersburg dispatch says peace seems impossible and continuing the war benefits the czar’s circle and army prestige. London editors discuss a tri‑partite alliance among Britain, Japan, and the United States, noting Monroe doctrine limits and China open door aims. The Telegraph argues a peace‑era pact could ensure lasting stability in the Far East with American backing. California mail fare noted in transit.
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Washington Post
Paris
St. Petersburg
Echo de Paris
London
Morning Post
Associated Press
The
Daily Telegraph
Great Britain
Japan
United States
Far East
America
Britain
India
China
Orient
Russia
Rosseau Convicted In Explosive Plot Debacle
New York report states dynamiter Gesnaer Russel alias Gessler Rosseau was found guilty of sending a 100 pound dynamite device to the Cunard pier and plotting to blow up property. He testified claiming the nitroglycerin was extracted to render the mechanism harmless and said his motive was an object lesson against England amid tensions.
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England
New York
Gessler Rossean
Gesnaer Russel
Chicago
Nard Etegraeh
Rossean
Rosseau
Goff
New Orleans
Umbria
Cunard
Frederick
Frederick the Great
Washington
Climax Company
Park Row
Wild cars wreck in Clarksville kills four men
Four men died in Clarksville Tenn when a string of freight cars ran wild and crashed into a freight train. The engineer John Murray of Bowling Green Ky and fireman Patrick Fox of Nashville Tenn were killed along with two unknown negroes who were riding the train. A wooden stake pierced Fox. The locomotive and ten loaded cars were wrecked and railroad men suspect the switch was set to wreck a fast passenger train.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Louisville and Nashville
John Murray
Bowling Green
Patrick Fox
Nashyville
Fox
Frank Rogers story explains boy and aunt disappearance
Chicago reports the father, James C. Rogers, offers what he calls the first adequate explanation for the four year mystery of Frank Ely Rogers and his aunt Miss Florence Ely. They vanished from Chicago to Evanston then drifted to Buffalo before Frank later returned home.
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Chicago
Frank Ely Rogers
Florence Ely
Evanston
James C. Rogers
Trogers
Charlie Ross
Philadelphia
Rogers
Frank
Buffalo
Beef Trust Inquiry Opens as Shields Testifies
Chicago March 27 J I Shields former Armour & Co employee from New York City dominated today’s Federal grand jury probing the beef trust. He faced a severe cross examination by District Attorney Morrison and was closely guarded by Secret Service. A man in brown watched Shields and J Schafer of Cudahy Packing Company as testimony promises to push the investigation into earnest unfoldings.
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Chicago
J. I. Shields
New York City
Armour & Co
Federal Grand Jury
Beef Trust
Shields
Secret Service
New York
C. B. Morrison
J. Schaeffer
Cudahy Packing Company
Omaha
Tornado Ravages Louisburg and Eldorado Towns
Reports from St Paul say Louisburg Kansas in Lac qui Parle County was nearly wiped out by a tornado with seven feared dead and seven seriously injured. In Wichita Eldorado saw a tornado strike the business district unroofing shops wrecking a hotel and a schoolhouse. Mrs Ida Madison was seriously injured. Loss estimated at thirty thousand dollars.
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St. Paul
Minn
Louisburg
Lac-qui-parle
Wichita
Kans
Eldorado
Ida Madison
Young Schurman Wields Sledge at Groton Bridge Co
Special to The Washington Post Ithaca N Y March 27 Robert Schurman son of Cornell University president learns a life changing lesson. He takes a sledge in Groton Bridge Company shops earning 75 cents a day after being expelled from exams. His father sends him to work like other students and he starts at bottom, drifting from campus to factory life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Pom
Ithaca
N. Y
Robert Schurman
J. G. Schurman
Cornell University
Groton Bridge Company
Groton
Schurman
President in Error Opinion Upon Cuban Treaty
A New York dispatch reports a board of the United States general appraisers holding Roosevelt had no legal authority to delay the Cuban reciprocity treaty’s operation by ten days after ratification. The decision centers on treaty implementation language, with the Dalton Company challenging duties on cigars imported December 18, 1983. The board affirms the later entry while overruling the earlier.
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Somerville
New York
United States General Appraisers
Roosevelt
Dalton Company
Board of Appraisers
United States Senate
Congress
Republic of Cuba
United States
Senate
Philadelphia
Attempted murder of priest shocks Winnipeg church
In Winnipeg on March 27 a shot through a lower room window narrowly missed Rev. W. Blozowiski of an Independent Polish church. The blast caused an oil lamp to explode, burning the room and destroying valuable oil paintings. Blozowiski’s active role in Polish religious controversies has earned him adversaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father Blozowiski
Winnipeg
Manitoba
W. Blozowiski
Blozowiski
Index to Today's Issue and Featured Items
The page lists prominent items including Chadwick's sentencing and a new Japanese Army move. Other notes cover Rosseau's dynamite conviction, riverbed explosion impacts, land office probes, and presidential actions. Sections preview editorials police and social notes, racing results, local sports, theater attractions, and Wall Street day summaries.
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Chadwick
Dynamiter Rosseau
Land Office
Taft Praternity
Santo Domingo
Russia
Champ Clark
Army
Navy
News of
Virginia
Maryland
Man
Siam
Alexandria Ferry
Wall Street
Carnegie Praises Small Colleges At Stevens Institute Banquet
Special to The Washington Post New York March 27 Andrew Carnegie praised small colleges at Stevens Institute of Technology alumni banquet. President Humphreys announced Carnegie would add 60000 dollars to his previous 190000 gift to the institute’s chemistry school. Carnegie urged prioritizing education over money, favoring professional careers and smaller colleges for better student development.
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Washington
Department of Business
Thi
Hargis and others held without bail in Cockrill feud case
Judge James Hargis nephew Elbert Harris and Sheriff Edward Callahan of Breathitt County were held without bail on charges of complicity in the feud that ended with James Cockrill’s murder in Jackson Kentucky three years ago. State Senator Alexander Harris was released on fifteen thousand dollars bail. trial to be held this term. Curtis Jett granted a new trial. Thomas White given life sentence. Judge Parker announced the decisions. Breck Combes to preside county court next week.
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Lexington
Ity
James Hargis
Elbert Harris
Edward Callahan
Breathitt County
James Cockril
Jackson
Alexander Hargis
Parker
Fayette
Cockrill
Curtis Jett
Thomas White
Iife
Kentucky
Breathitt
Ball
Breck” Combes
Hargis
Brokers Close Doors in Philadelphia Financial Turmoil
Philadelphia reports three broker firms Lestie Morris, F Norton Phillips, and Ormison Sent Co closed doors voluntarily. Officers unavailable for comment on permanence. Provident Investment Bureau books show about 1,000 investors with an average stake around $500. Storey Cotton Company victims extend to Harrisburg and Sparrows Point with substantial losses. Highlandtown agent John Kelley covers losses of about $5,000.
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Philadelphia
Lestie, Morris & Son F. Norton Phillips
Ormison
Sent.& Co
Provident Investment Bureau
Harrisburg
Storay Cotton Company
Baltimore
Storey Cotton Company
Sparrows Point
Highlandtown
John Kelley
Btorey Company
Remarkable East River tunnel accident shocks Brooklyn workers
Richard Creegan a twenty four year old tunneler in the East River tunnel was blown from a watertight compartment through thirty feet of air and river bed by compressed air. He rose trapped in foam then fought free and was hauled to safety by fellow workmen and later recovered at home after whisky and a trolley ride.
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Richard Creegan
East River
Brooklyn
Manhattan
John Egan
John Pridey
John Hayes
Creegan
Hayes
Hagan
Pridey
Status of Japanese Citizenship Appeals in Texas
Special to The Washington Pest from New Orleans reports Consul General Uchida pushing to appeal a federal immigration ruling denying Japanese eligibility for American citizenship. The issue arises in Harris County where a Japanese colony cannot own land since only U S citizens may own land in Texas and Japanese cannot naturalize. Local Texas officials favored naturalization, but federal authorities overruled. State district attorney McDaniel plans to contest the ruling in court.
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Washington
New Orleans
Uchida
Japan
Immigration Department
Harris County
Tex
Ctizens
United States
Texas
McDaniel
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Frank Rogers
Beef Trust Inquiry
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Butcide
Clara Hulbert
Eric B. Hulbert
University of ‘Chicago
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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
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