Burning at stake in Alabama after brutal assault
A mob of about 500 in Coffee County Alabama burned John Wesley Pennington a black man at the stake after he confessed to assaulting Mrs. J Davis wife of a prominent farmer. The crowd included whites and blacks and pursued the plan despite pleas for mercy. The attack occurred as Mrs Davis gathered vegetables in her garden.
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Birmingham
John Wesley Pennington
Enterprise
Ala
Coffee County
Pennington
Davis
Suspect Arrested in Selby Smelting Gold Theft
San Francisco August 8. Police hold former employee known as Back Taylor in connection with the Selby Smelting works robbery. He quit six weeks ago and lived near the plant. Guards patrol nightly as the company boosts its reward from 5000 to 25000 for arrest conviction and return of the 283000 plus loss.
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San Francisco
Taylor
Selby
Selby Smelting Company
Need More Homes Lawton Iowa Aug Homeseekers Push Land Opening
A group of over 100 homeseekers in Lawton I T mobilizes to urge the Interior Department to open 532 500 acres of reserved Kiowa Comanche country land to settlement. They contend cattlemen may relocate cattle to other ranges this fall and seek pastures elsewhere next spring. The seeks would buy the land outright from the government.
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Lawton, I. T
Lawton
Interior Department
Texas
Claims selection and oil claims rise near Lawton
Lawton reports home steaders mostly pick claims near town despite land quality, with hundreds expected. Texans drawing are skilled. 125 filed Wednesday, one absent. Auctioning town lots slow. buyers include speculators and builders, while oil claims surge in the Wichita mountains as about 2000 seek claims on a government reserve. In Boulder a painter and Chautauqua teacher Charles H. Cox, aged 75, died suddenly after heart trouble while visiting the State University library. he had lived in Waco, Texas.
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Lawton
C. T
Wichita Mountains
Boulder, Col
Charles H. Cox
Chautauqua
State University
Prominent Real Estate Man August Schwab Commits Suicide
New York reports August Schwab a leading real estate figure shot himself through the heart and died on the grave of his two sons whose deaths earlier unsettled him. A dispatch from London notes General Kitchener saying 25 men from Steinacker's Horse on the Sabi River were surprised and captured by the Boers.
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New York
Schwab
London
Kitchener
Pretoria
Steinacker
Sabi
Local Tragic Deaths and Arrests Across States
Miss Emma Tizzard, daughter of a Eaton newspaper man, commits suicide by leaping into a well. Richard and Sarah Hall are forced from Greenup after tar and feathering. Walter Carper of Rolla injures himself while attempting to shoot a rabbit with a 32 caliber revolver near St. James. Ed Corley, a recent Philippines veteran, arrested near South McAlester for horse stealing and faces five years in prison. Mount Vernon officials start crackdown on illegal liquor dens with several arrests. E. H. Moore of Noble lies near death from a pistol wound. Fred Mewes of Michigan City dies by hanging. Willis Bush near Monroe City attempts suicide by throat slash with a pocketknife.
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Emma Tizzard
Eaton
Richard
Sarah Hall
Greenup
Walter Carper
Rolla
St. James
Ed Corley
Philippines
South McAlester
I. I
Labor Troubles Push Tin Plate Prices Higher
Labor trouble in the steel industry lifts tin plate prices with premiums up to $1.50 per box above the $4.30 base. Orders flow to Great Britain as the Exeter City arrives from Swansea with 27,000 bales, a major import likely for the American Tin Plate company. The London market for tin plates remains significant.
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New York
American Tin Plate Company
Great Britain
Exeter City
Swansea
Conto
London
Train collision injures passengers near Confluence
Pittsburg reports two Atlantic City excursion train sections collided near Confluence 84 miles east of the city. A number of passengers are injured. Brig Gen Negley dies suddenly at Plainfield New Jersey. Negley was a veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars and noted in military circles. A Seminole IndianCoweeske is arrested near Holdenville Tex on charge of killing another Seminole named Fexico.
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Pittsburg
Atlantic City
Confluence
New York
Negley
Plainfield, N. J
Denison, Tex
Coweeske
Holdenville
Fexico
Walter Brice Run Over and Killed in Le High Tex
Denison Texas August 8 Walter Brice 14 son of George Brice died when struck by a wagon at Le high Lehigh Texas the accident was fatal and details are limited.
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Brazos
J. A. Myers
Bryan
Texas
Mrs Renosland dies in Leavenworth runaway crash
News in brief reports Mrs John Renosland fatally injured in a runaway accident at Leavenworth Kansas. The item mentions R N Ashmore, 82, Civil War veteran, being married at Dubuque Louisiana to Mrs Elizabeth Daring.
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John Renosland
Leavenworth
Kan
R. N. Ashmore
Duabaque
Elizabeth Daring
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Richelieu
Batavia
Blanke
Tyler Haswell
Uneeda
Worley
Smith&adams
W. Buchanan
Proprietors
Jett Franklin
Kide
Potts Baking Powder Co
Alabama
Majestic
New, York
White Star Line
New York Harbor
Selby Smelter
THE
Bryan Grocery CO
Jowneys
Emmel’s Drug Store
Lehigh
Ponder
E. A. Berry
Bryat
Battle Ax H
Dee Mike, JR
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