Mamie Decris on Whipping at Milledgeville Prison
Special interview details Mamie Decris recounts being whipped at Milledgeville State Prison. Dr. Adams confirms the whipping and notes it involved twenty eight lashes given while clothed. Governor Terrell promises a full investigation and public report by prison officials. Captain Foster’s tenure at the farm is defended by Union Recorder editorial statements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milledgeville
Mias DeCris
Allagoods
Allagood
Misa DeCris
Vevel
DeCria
Adams
Misu DeCrin
Terrell
Misa Mamie DeCris
Captain Foster
Emmorrow
Union and Recorder
Union Recorder
State Farm
Foster
Christian Gantiehan
Mamie DeCris
Denris
J. Turner
Commission
Warren Jake Bloom
Penitentiary Department
Moore
Crawford
Rome
Wil ¢Ha
Mamie DeCrie
Governor Durbin Praises Roosevelt on Lynching Letter
Indiana Governor Durbin replies to President Roosevelt praising the national appeal against mob violence. He emphasizes the need to free law from delay and to unite public figures in denouncing crimes. Governor Heard in Baton Rouge also supports swift trials and law obedience, but disputes Roosevelt on color bias in punishment. The Evansville mob and broader lynching issue are discussed across reports from New York, Texas, and Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapalis Ind
Durban
Roosevelt
Evansville
Durbin
Heard
Baton Rouge
Indiana
India
N. Y
Autauqua
America
W. G. Frost
Herea College
Mountain of Kentucky
Breathill
Hamilton
Knott
Marcum
Kentucky
Frost
South
John Temple Graves
Atlanta
Bayern
Aussip
Tex
Sayers
Frazier
Nashville
Tenn
Buckros Beach
Montgomery
Ala
W.W. D. Jerks
Destin
Legislature Probes Prison Whipping Case At Milledgeville
The governor orders a prison commission inquiry into the alleged cruel whipping of Mamie DeCr Cris at the state prison farm. Senate and House resolutions authorize investigations, naming committees to report findings and act on any proven mistreatment of the white inmate at Milledgeville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
House
Capt. Allagood
McMichael
Milledgeville
Hudson
Mamie DeCris
and Stovall
Chatham
Menora
Felker
Bibb
Bell
Emanuel
Kelly
Glascock
Felder
Messrs. Harden and Stovall
Prison Commission
General Assembly
Marie Gordon Aims Life After Debauch and Shooting
Marie Gordon of Montgomery Alabama, believed to be Maria Gordon, shot herself after a nocturnal assault incident linked to WR Lytle. Lytle, brother of Mamie Lytle, was arrested in Montgomery, with a Chicago warrant for aiding Gordon’s alleged crime. Gordon, in critical condition in Chicago, later identified herself in ante mortem notes as Marie Gordon of Montgomery.
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Montgomery
Chicago
Montgomery, Ale
O'Neal
Chcago
William Lytle
Mamie Lytle
Maria Gorden
Lytle
Maria Gordon
Gordon
Murfreesboro
Tenn
William Iiathe
Willam Rn
Jacob Smith
South Side
Henry Ginver
Montgomery Ale
Marie Gordon
Payne
Mrs. Vance
Durbin
Roosevelt
Feeny
Icago
Ala
W. R. Lytle
Tillman arrives in Wisconsin for homestead visit
Milwaukee August 10 Senator Tillman arrived this morning as the guest of Rubles A Cols a Milwaukee lawyer and went to the Pike and Round Jakes homestead in Price county where he and Miss Hill of Georgia her niece have been guests of Mrs Cols for the past two weeks
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Milwaukee
Wis
Senator Tillman
Fifield
Rubles A. Cols
Pike and
Round Jakes
Price County
Tilman
Hii
Georgia
Cols
President Follis Pardons Texas Man
Washington August 10 The president grants a pardon to William Follis of Texas whose testimony is said to be essential in a Dallas Texas murder trial involving the death of a farmer and ferry tender McDonel. Follis previously served in the Detroit detention facility after a federal counterfeiting conviction and his competency is noted in the pardon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Whiam Follis
Texas
James Follis
Wiliam Follis
Henderson
Tex
McDonel
Detroit House
Wreck of Southern Fast Train Killed Switch Suspects Wreckers
The No 35 southbound Southern Railway train derailed near Gastonia after hitting an open or sabotaged switch. Engineer Zeb Black and fireman Ed Farle were severely burned, postal clerks D H Burchfield and W A Sharpe seriously injured, with much mail lost. Authorities say a deliberate wreck is possible as a boiler burst and cars tumbled down the embankment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Southern Railway
Gastonia
Black
Birchfield
Sharpe
Pasgen
Carnas
Associated Press
Locle
Quark
Zeb Black
Spartanburg
Ife
Ed Farle
Blacksburg
D. H. Burchfield
Atlanta
W A. Sharpe
Burchfield
No. 35
Southern
Terrell County
Charles Johnson
Americus
Alabama
Booker
Lea County
Gastanla
Greenville County
South Carolina
Board of Arbitration
Birmingham
Katy Flyer In The Ditch Near Bell City
A dispatch from Sedalia Mo reports the Katy flyer No 6 is ditched near Bell City Mo the wreck is described as bad and the incident occurred early in the morning dated August 11 according to the Associated Press dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanass City
Associated Press
Sddalia
Bhell City
Aged Lubbock to Wed in Dallas This Week
Dallas August 10. Former Governor F B Lubbock will marry Misma Sue Scott of Abilene next Wednesday. He is in his nineties and this will be his first remarriage after the death of his previous wife a year ago. Lubbock, a Confederate veteran, served as Texas treasurer for twenty years and held varied public offices.
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Dallas
Tex
F. B. Lubbock
Misma Sue Scott
Abilene
Lubbock
Subbock
Texas
Jefferson Davin
John H. Reagan
Break in Textile Strike Ends as 12,000 Return to Work
Philadelphia reports twelve thousand textile operatives answering the call to duty at mills today with another similar number expected tomorrow. The pause in the strike that began June 10 marks a major shift as workers resume duties across the trade in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Weather and local news from Floyd county district
Georgia forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions on Tuesday with southern showers and Wednesday rain and fresh southerly winds. Local reports note fiscal and legislative items plus incidents including a fatal river drowning in Abbeville, train wrecks near Gastonia, and a pension racket case in Americus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
American Farmers Seek Help to Raise Wheat Prices
A Warsaw dispatch via the Daily Mail reports that an American association of about 38 000 farmers has written to the Russian ministers of finance and agriculture. The letter requests assistance in boosting agricultural prices, especially for wheat, and envisions a large alliance among wheat producing countries.
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Farmers of America
London
Mai
Warsaw
Inez
Feud Ends in Two Deaths Near Oleta Oklahoma
Kentucky resident Hatfielde and Oklahoma residents Cooper and Barrett were involved in a long running feud near Oleta Woodward County. At a public wall William Cooper and his son James confronted Sam Barrett who shot Barrett in the face, Barrett then killed the two Coopers with a shotgun. Barrett is jailed in Woodward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hatfielde
Kentucky
Coopers
Oklahoma
Guthrie
Okla
William Cooper
James Cooper
Sam Barrett
Oleta
Woodward County
Young Cooper
Barrett
Woodward
Birmingham to expand city limits and fund new high school
Birmingham Alabama expects a large expansion of its corporate limits by the next legislature and assembly. Mayor Drennen has asked the city attorney to draft a resolution for council vote on a future election to decide issuing city bonds up to 000,000 for school facilities and growth.
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Mosta
Birmingham
Ale
Drennen
Trains Catch Fire in Paris Metro Disaster
A major Paris Metropolitan electric railway disaster last evening left many dead or missing. By 3 am 82 bodies were recovered and the toll was estimated around one hundred as two trains stalled and caught fire in the Menil Montant to Lat Charonnes tunnel, with passengers suffocated amid dense smoke. Firefighters finally entered the tunnel after hours of effort.
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Paris
Metropolitan Electric Railway
Menil- Montant
Lat Charonnes
Belleville
Asi the Poe
Printers Begin International Typographical Union Session
The forty ninth session of the International Typographical Union opened in Washington with 31 delegates. President James M Lynch reported a notable year for the union and labor overall, noting progress with the Newspaper Publishers' Association arbitration and urging tolerance toward employers to foster friendly relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Union
Washington
International Tyrpographical Union
Whitehead
Secreta Cartelyou
Department of Command
Mparland
Willis Moore
Wele
James Lynch
James M Lynch
International Typographical Union
Organized Labor
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Corn deal costs him dear in St Louis deposition
August 10 deposition in St Louis shows Thomas Clearge manager of Clearge Commission Company cannot state within 100000 dollars his payments to brokers or within 500000 dollars his corn losses from last December. He testifies about three speculative plans including regular pools and a special fund, with hundreds of contacts nationwide and smooth operations until California investors faced difficulties.
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St. Louis
Commisaion
Thomas Clearge
Clearge Commission Company
Busimeng
Clearge
California
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Dr. Dams
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Miss da Cris
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Auditorium Hotel
Misa Marie Lytle
Mr. Gordon
Tillman
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Fabdons Follis
Carolina Wreckers
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Katy” Flyer
Canyit Tis
Jack Statding
C C Houston
Rehool
Collier Will
Georg
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Central Railroad
Jack Tuseer
W J. Hunton
Abbeville
Macon
Wooten
Dougherty County
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Porto Rica
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Humbert
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