Night riders raid Birmingham Marshall county
One hundred masked night riders entered Birmingham Marshall county late Monday night firing on every negro cabin. Six black residents were wounded and five were whipped. John Scruggs and his family were hit by bullets and Scruggs likely fatally wounded. The attackers forced twenty five others to depart.
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Paducah
Birmingham
Marshall County
John Scruggs
Scruggs
Tennessee River
Dying Man Found After Night Rider Attack Near Woodford
Brown Bennett, son of a tobacco raiser, was found dying with a bullet hole on a public road near Woodford, Tennessee, with two dead horses and empty shotguns nearby. Police pursue a night rider mystery as an investigation unfolds. In Henderson, Kentucky, W Bradshaw found a warning note signed The Thirty Five with switches, a match, and cartridges at his door warning against employing negroes.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Woodford
Brown Bennett
Bennett
Henderson, Ky
W. Bradshaw
Alfonso at Barcelona Arrives Amid Welcoming Crowds
King Alfonso arrived in Barcelona on Tuesday and was greeted by cheers as he proceeded to General Linares residence. He attended a Te Deum at La Merced Church and received a warm reception with troops and civil guards lining the square outside the station. A formal reception followed at General Linares home with notables present. Barcelona wore festive decorations for the royal visit.
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Barcelona
Alfonso
Linaraes
Catalonia
la Merceders
General Linares
Missionary Movement Opens International Conference in Pittsburg
The first international convention under the Young People's Missionary Movement opened at 11 o'clock in the Pittsburg exposition music hall. About 1,600 delegates from around the world and 2,000 local Pittsburgers are registered to participate. Overflow evening meetings were arranged due to the large attendance.
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Pittsburg
Young People’s Missionary Movement
Pittsburg Exposition
Play Declared Immoral in Newark Theater Arrests
Police arrested theater manager George W. Jacobs and three company members, including Harold Vosbueg, Guy Miller, and Louis Miller, after a Monday night performance of A Millionaire's Revenge at the Columbia theater. They face charges of producing an immoral play based on the Thaw tragedy.
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Newark
N. J
Columbia Theater
George W. Jacobs
John T. Pearsall
Mittenthal Bros’. Amusement Company
Harold Vosbueg
Guy
Louis C. Miller
Labor Notes From The National And International Scene
A survey of labor moves: Montana 16 hour law upheld, Uruguay rail workers on strike, British capital controls 1 200 miles of mud, Buffalo campaign for organ izing workers, Amalgamated Association to convene in Youngstown, subsidies for unions in Norway and Denmark, Japan restricts foreign labor, cement workers seek unification, 1906 child labor laws spreading, London motor omnibus strike collapse, U S Labor reports 38 303 disturbances 1881 1905, mine accidents in 15 states with thousands killed or injured, National Railway Trackmen plan a 500 acre home near Fort Scott Kansas.
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London
Democratic City Primary Call for Bryan Texas 1908
The Democratic Executive Committee of Bryan Texas calls a March 17 1908 city primary to nominate a mayor four aldermen and a democratic executive committee for two year terms. One alderman elected for one year or to fill the J B Priddy vacancy. Signed by Moore Lawrence Oliver Saunders Smith and others March 7 1908 Adv.
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Democratic Party
Bryan
Texas
J. B. Priddy
Signed
A. Moore
T. K. Lawrence
F. C. Oliver, Co
E. Saunders
Geo. W. Smith
Bryan to Hold City Officers Election in April
Bryan Texas city officials announce an April election for mayor and city council seats. Officers to serve two year terms with one council seat for an unexpired one year. Election to be held at City Hall in Aryan on the first Tuesday in April 1908.
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City of
Bryan
Aryan
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J. W. Payne Optometrist
Caldwell’s Jewelry Store
Haswell’s Book Store
John Wittman
Merchant Tait
Fernando
G. D. Tucker
M. H. James
Holmes & Parker
John Winter
Son of
Association Tobacco Raiser
Spain
Missionary Movement
Montana
State Supreme Court
Uruguay
Volen Aakers and Iron Shipbuilders At
Buffalo, N. x
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
America
Youngstown
Ohio
Norway
Denmark
Japan
The
American Brotherhood of Cement Workers
Department of Labor
Washington
United States
National Railway
Fort Scott
Kansas
James & Nunn
Is. Seon
E. Rohde
Higgs Market
Frank Clarke
J. E. Butler
Cavitt’s Drug Store
A. B. Carson
T. R. Batte
OR. J. F. Eaves
RB. R
Houston
Galveston
Dallas
Denison Austin
Waco & Ft. Worth
C.K Dunlap
M.l.robbins
Gen. Pass
Shoop
S. H. Franklin
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