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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1899
Page
1
Cincinnati dispatch reports intensifying feud tensions in Kentucky towns with the Baker family at center. Jim Baker denounces enemies, troops patrol Manchester and Barboursville, and possible retaliation looms as new killings fuel factional anger among Garrards and Howard supporters.
In Manchester area Kentucky feud tensions rise after Tom Baker’s death. The state militia recaptured ground and prepared to try charges against Sheriff Beverly White and 10 of his men for Baker’s murder. Investigations point to a shot fired from Sheriff White’s home.
June 12 Springdale Arkansas report on George Maledon once famed as the King of Hangmen. He hanged 88 men at Fort Smith Federal Court under Judge Parker and later exhibited himself as a spectacle. Now impoverished on a rural farm he endures nightly hauntings by imagined specters of the executed.
In Sardis on a Saturday night a mob of about 500 colored men seized Simon Brooks from jail and lynched him after he allegedly assaulted Armistead, a white woman. The attack left her throat cut and severely beaten, with valuables found later in Brooks’s trunk.
On a Wichita porch near Watoga Oklahoma Territory two hours after the wedding, a serenading party of about 20 men refused to leave and fired shotguns. Harry Randall fired at the couple, wounding the bride fatally with buckshot. the groom was shot in the face but survived.
After the failed arrest of three robbers in Chicago, Policeman Victor Stromberg fatally wounded Mrs. Nellie Leeman during the struggle as he fired at the fleeing suspects. A bystander’s fatal injury followed from a stray shot. No arrests reported yet.
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