Hebron bill ends county convict leasing in Mississippi
In Jackson the Senate passed the Hebron bill by 25 to 13 on reconsideration, banning the leasing of county convicts to contractors. The session highlighted reform efforts, plus votes on railroad rates, elective judiciary defeat, tax laws, and appropriations. Governor Noel urged fixing the executive mansion and praised plans by Architect Hull.
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Hull
Policeman Convicted in Brooklyn Burglary Case
George Dawkins, a suspended New York policeman, was found guilty in the Brooklyn Supreme Court of burglary and grand larceny. He was remanded for sentence. Two confessed thieves testified Dawkins aided a store robbery on his post and that he also held up and robbed a man.
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George Dawkins
Supreme Court
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Explosion in Rosita mine No. 3 shaft at Musquiz
An explosion of fire damp occurred in the No. 3 shaft of the Rosita mine at Musquiz in Sabinas Coahuila Mexico. Relief parties were organized and all miners were brought to the surface before the fire gained headway. A number of men work to extinguish the blaze.
Railroads Seek Time Extensions for Nine Hour Law
Washington officials from railroads nationwide attended an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing on requests to extend the nine hour law. The commission received thirty seven applications, with two already denied.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Embezzlement Linked to Race Track Gambling Surge
Analyses of fidelity officers’ records from New York reveal race track gambling as the main driver of embezzlement. Over eight years about 35 percent of thefts are tied to book makers handling others’ funds. in 1907 alone 446,081 of 1,476,273 dollars stolen came from book makers' satchels, with many cases not fully documented.
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United States
New York State
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Besser
Use Electricity on Savages in Formosa
San Francisco reports Walter Clifton, manager of a Formosan mercantile company, claims the Japanese use electricity to exterminate savage head hunters on Formosa. He says about one hundred thousand head hunters infest the island’s eastern coast and recounts an ambush in which 297 were killed. Troops surround suspected locations with wire fences charged with electricity to trap and kill those within range.
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Formosa
Walter Clifton
Clifton
Toledo police judge benched self for humane workhouse essay
James Austin Jr a Toledo police judge sentenced himself to one day in the city workhouse to study confinement. He described the experience as enlightening noting the cell’s emptiness of comforts and the need for humane reform, including indeterminate sentences and gradual prisoner improvement through work and grading.
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Ohio
James Austin, Jr
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Austin
Market Square
Marines and Infantry Cover 25 Miles in Cuba
Five Marine companies and three of the Twenty-seventh Infantry marched to Guanajay for target practice. They covered twenty-five miles from 6 AM to 4 PM with ten-minute rests hourly and a one-hour dinner break. Their pace was a kilometer every ten and a half minutes, noted as exceptionally good for Americans in the tropics.
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Cuba
Havana
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Guanajay
Tropics
French Lecturer at Harvard Predicts War With Japan
Andre Tardieu editor of the Paris Temps lectures at Harvard warning war with Japan is imminent if immigration terms are not soon agreed. He says internal conditions may delay a rush to war in three months but asserts aggressive action could follow until an immigration pact is reached.
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Harvard
Boston
Andre Tardieu
Paris Temps
Mad Wolves Rampage Across Texas Ranches
Encinal correspondence reports increasing rabid wolf and coyote attacks in Texas. Ranchers hire hunts, many calves and lambs lost, and a prior scalp bounty law funded for wild predators. An English rancher’s belled coyotes failed, while mange afflicted most southwest Texas coyotes. A deer hunter party narrowly survived when a coyote charged camp, and cattle rabies threaten pastures with mangy predators. Two workers bitten sought help. one died after refusing treatment.
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Texas
Austin
Campbell
Clement Wad
Bonterant
San Antonio
Nueces
Tom Hubbard
Encinal
St. Louis
Army recruit kit items include housewife spark debate
An army order lists start up kit items for new recruits such as razor shoe brush hair brush and even a housewife described as essential. Recruits express varied preferences for wives hair color while requests to exchange arise. The Abbe Garret, an Italian Alps traveler, died at 79.
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