Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1917 — SAYS OLIVER OWES $160,000 [ARTICLE]

SAYS OLIVER OWES $160,000

WITNESS IN BANKRUPTCY CASE SAYS ED OLIVER OWES THAT SUM. Chicago, Sept. 20.—Edward Oliver, Indiana “onion king,” and husband of Mrs. Margaret Springer Oliver, “onion queen,” owes the Greenebaum & Sons Bank of Chicago, $160,000, testified Assistant Cashier Joseph G. Straus in the Mrs. Oliver bankruptcy proceedings before Federal Judge Carpenter today. ’ The statement tends to confirm the claim of the Central Truct Company, receivers for Mrs. Oliver, that the profit from the onion crop on her husband’s farm would serve only to clear his own indebtedness. David Stansbury, her attorney, had asked for a continuance on the ground that the profit would enable her to pay her debts. The “onion king” himself will be present at a hearing Friday.