Record of 1909 Lynching Toll in United States
Washington reports 70 lynchings in 1909 across 12 states and New Mexico, including 11 whites and 59 blacks. The list details names, locations, and alleged crimes from January to December, noting attacks on white women and murders as dominant motivations. A Cairo Illinois case led to temporary military control. Oklahoma saw a quadruple lynching. The tally excludes the Ray Holston case from Cleburne County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
New Mexico
Cairo
Til
Ohio River
Oklahoma
Lexington
Marthaville
Jim Gilbert
Poplarville
Miss
Pink Willis
Hope
Ark
Hilliard
Ada
Okla
J. B. Miller
B. B. Burrell
Jesse West
Joe Allen
Bessemer
Ala
John Thomas
Bartow
Fla
Charles Scarbrough
Marshall
Texas
Creole Mose
Pie Hill
Mat Chase
Tyler
Jim Hodges
Amden
Fila
Lincolnton
Albert Aiken
Pine Bluff
Livett Davis
Abilene
Tom Parnett
Portland
Joseph Blakeley
Frankfort
John Maxey
Tallahassee
Mark Morris
Smoaks
8. C
Quillie Simmons
Frank Samuels
Arcadia
Talbotton
William Daneker
Joe Hardy
Cuthbert
Albert Reese
Wilburton
Sylvester Stennien
Barwick
Henry C Frick at 60 Still Active in Finance
Henry C. Frick returns to celebrate his sixtieth birthday and remains deeply involved in finance. Once linked to Carnegie Steel, he shaped Reading Railroad maneuvers during a market slump and built a large Reading stock stake. He is also noted as a major holder of Pennsylvania Railroad shares and a key driver of related dividends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry C. Frick
Carnegie Steel Company
Frick
Finance
Mr. Frick
Wall Street
Reading Railroad Company
Reading
Pittsburg
Reading Company Common
Reading Common
Pennsylvania
Ivory sources and elephant types across continents
The piece contrasts Africa as the main ivory producer with its mammoth tusked elephants and compares them to the Indian elephant. It notes the African type is ancestrally preserved in Arctic ice and contrasts the Indian animal as a less impressive, more burdensome beast whose tusks are not worthy of the name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
India
Leopold II Life of crime and sham ends with death
Special Correspondence from Brussels reports the death of King Leopold II of Belgium marking the end of a controversial reign noted for sensational amours and harsh Congo Free State rule. The piece recounts his marriages, daugh ters troubles, and his favored mistress Caroline Lacroix and Villa Flora. It portrays his extravagance and political maneuvering, as well as family upheavals and public scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Leopold II
Belgium
Rome
Europe
Congo Free State
Leopold
Leopold I
Louise
Louis Phillippe
Duke of
Brabant
Maria Henrietta
Austria
Joseph
Stephanie
Clementine
Count Longay
Crown Prince
Rudolph of
Prince Philip of
Saxe-Coburg
Paris
Queen Maris
Baroness de Vaughan
Royal Palace
Spa
Philip
Flanders
Charlotte
Mexico
Maximilian
London
Caroline Lacroix
Baroness Vaughan
Villa Flora
Lasker’s
Count of
Leopold II and Congo atrocities summarized in a royal chronicle
The article recounts Leopold II of Belgium and his Congo Free State reign. It details his schemes to create empire via the concession system and brutal rubber and ivory quotas, mass killings, and dismemberment as punishment. It notes international backlash, Congo reform efforts, and his later decline and family neglect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congo
Fiim
Anid
Leopold
Congo Free State
Central Africa
Berlin
Horseflesh and beef confusion in Kimberley camp diary
Diary entries recount a mix up of beef and horseflesh served to officers at a mounted camp. The incident ends with revelation that horseflesh was tasted as beef. The piece blends wartime dining mishap with a Christmas verse and a Knoxville bequest for an aged women's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimberley
Ness
Weakman
Ray
Oliver Ashe
Mary 32. Jones
Knoxville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lynch
Georgia
Alabama
Albert Lawson
Guam Branch
Opelousas
Onesime Thomas
Emile Antoine
Wellston
Sim Anderson
Platte City
George Johnson
Cadiz
Joe Miller
Greenville
Will Robinson
Tarrytown
John Sweeny
Jackson
Josh and
Lewis Balaam
Clarksdale
Herman MacDaniels
Will James
Delhi
James Estes
Ray Holston
Cleburne County
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
Kentucky
South Carolina
Arkansas
Illinois
Missouri
West Virginia
Leonard A. Wood
East
Wood
Leo
Clara Ward
Princess Chimay
Marie
Cleo de Merode
France
Nero
Congress of the
United States
Wash
Ington
Congo Reform Association
Leeopold
Bressels
Laeken
Villefranche
Ile
Edward Caesar
Astor
Bourne
Cienfuegos
Caesar
Roberts
Bing
Christ
Elbert Sherman
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