Conference of Governors on Night Rider Evil
A post-election conference of governors from tobacco and cotton states is planned to coordinate measures against night riding violence spreading from Kentucky and Tennessee. Tennessee Governor Patterson and others urged the meeting after Reel Foot Lake outrages, with a date to be set in November. State leaders from Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois are likely invitees.
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Frankfort
Kentucky
Tennessee
Patterson
Reel Foot Lake
Tenn
Batterson
Wilson
New York
Missouri
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Threats Against Tennessee Governor Prompt Increased Guard
Hamburg Tenn Oct 23 threats against Governor M R Patterson directing night rider depredation probes led to doubled guard lines and reinforcements reporting to Col Tatum. The military detachment heightened precautions to avert an attack.
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Hamburg
Tenn
M. R. Patterson
Col. Tatum
San Francisco Treasury Shortage Under Review
Experts appointed by the attorney general to investigate the shortage of forty five thousand dollars in the city treasury found today that the total amount of the shortage was not yet determined and the inquiry continued.
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San Francisco
Shortage Cited During Bantels City Treasurer Term
A $60,000 shortage, with $14,000 attributed to the state, occurred during the tenure of city treasurer Bantels covering the period around the 1906 disaster.
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Bantels
Col Watterson on Cleveland letter dispute in Louisville
Col Watterson denied knowledge of a so called Cleveland letter before its publication and labeled the document fraudulent. He told an Associated Press representative that Cleveland had no official dealings with Taft beyond a single disagreement and could not have authored such a letter near the alleged date.
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Louisville
Dayton
Ohio
Broughton Brandenberg
Col. Watterson
Cleveland
Col
Watterson
Toni
Associated Press
New York Times
Mr. Taft
Mr. Cleveland
Black man charged in Georgia shooting case ends in death
In Lithonia Georgia on October 23 Charlie Mitchell, a Black man accused of attempted assault, was shot by Dock Rogers near a cabin after a confrontation following a Saturday dispute with George W Brooke. Bailiff Peek and Deputy G Argo were killed, Deputy Ellicott injured. Mitchell was killed. Community members condemned the tragedy.
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Lithonia
Charlie” Mitchell
Dock” Rogers
Mitchell
George W. Brooke
Peek
G. Argo
Ellicott
Death toll rises from storm in Cagayan Valley
Manila reports 500 drownings as houses collapse and tobacco crop damage runs to millions of pesos. The storm's impact dominates the latest casualty and disaster figures from the region.
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Cagayan Valley
Manila
Farmer Mortgage the Farm Neeedless Pain Cure
W A Floyd of Rural Route 2 Em pire Ga praises D Basklen Arnica Salve for curing two severe sores on hand and leg. He says he would mortgage the farm to obtain it. Price listed as 126c at all drug stores.
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Empire
Grace Carroll Forbes Dies After Illness While Touring
Actress Grace Carroll Forbes, a member of the Hutton Bailey Stock Company, died in Cincinnati after illness described as quick consumption. Her husband, torn between duty to perform and attending her, sent her to Cincinnati as she lay dying while he continued his theatre duties.
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Grace Carroll Forbes
Cincinnati
Forbes
Hutton-Bailey Stock Company
Daily Telegraph
New York
Mr. Forbes
Homemade Barometer Practiced in France
A simple DIY barometer uses camphor nitrate of potassium and ammonia in alcohol inside a slender bottle with a pinhole cap. Rain signals crystals rising in the liquid while wind makes it thick or a surface film forms. Clear weather leaves the liquid clear and crystals settled.
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France
Rival Dignities
An Englishman boasts of ancestry by pointing to a coin and claiming his great-great-grandfather was not made a lord by the king pictured. A New World friend counters with a coin showing his own ancestor made an angel by the Indian pictured on the cent.
No Witnesses in Chicken Stealing Case
A Justice questions a defendant about stealing nine of Colonel Henry's hens. The reply is a blunt admission with a humorous, rural dialect, insisting he has no witnesses and that witnessing is not his custom in chicken stealing.
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Henry
Brother Jones
Elevation extremes noted by government survey
The government geological survey cites Denver as the state capital with the highest elevation at 5 175 feet and Annapolis Maryland as the lowest at four feet above sea level. Mention of Kinzer Your Jeweler and a prompt to make your X mark under the Eagle appear as brief ad snippets.
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Government Geological Survey
Denver
Annapolis
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