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Multistate Crime and Political News Highlights
A jumble of dispatches from Amite City to Winnipeg details mob violence in Louisiana and Canada, a bank theft revival in Winnipeg, a fatal shooting in Texas, and political shifts in San Francisco. Reports note Mills selling oil land to Standard Oil, a blind man’s suicide attempt, a French vessel shooting incident, and various local crimes and accidents across Aug. 9.
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Amite City
Adolphus
Echo Brown
Edgar
Edward Barr
Louis Brown
Edgar Barr
Echo
Liberty
Brown
Winnipeg
Man
Nelsons Bank
John W. Anderson
Anderson
Mills
Oil Trust
Austin
United States
Roger Q. Mills
Corsicana
Standard Oil Company
Senator Mills