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Riots and rewards noted in Bibb County murder case
The Augusta Chronicle recounts the Macon riot and the 1889 lynching of James Moore linked to a rape accusation.Governor Gordon restores a $150 bounty per suspect while revoking prior November proclamations, with indictments against Lee James Fred Perkins A Parker W G Ford and W A Johnson. The report also mentions Chicago housing efforts, Augusta Building Associations and local debt based home ownership schemes, plus a notice on four crop farming claims and extraordinary yields in Adams town.
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Macon
James Moore
Bibb County
Moore
Bibb
Lee James
Fred Perkins
A. Parker
W. G. Ford
W. A. Johnson
Gordon
Sherl
Austa Chronicle
Union League Club of
Chicago
Municipal
Augusta
Mie Chronicle
Chronicle
J. R Randall
Anniston
J. H. Alexander
Adams