Hering and Stensland Sentenced in Bank Embezzlement Case
O Stensland former Milwaukee Avenue State Bank president and Henry W Hering cashier were sentenced by Judge Pinckney to indeterminate penitentiary terms for embezzlement and forgery. Sentences run one to ten years concurrent with earlier terms. Stensland testified to $400 000 real estate losses and $218 000 in a cooperative store, while admitting forgery under questioning. Hering then pleaded guilty as well.
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Stensland
Chicago
O. Stensland
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Tangier
Henry W. Hering
Pinckney
Criminal Court
Hering
Race riot in Wiggins leaves two white men dead
In Wiggins Mississippi a race riot after a deputy was fatally shot by a Black man, William Smith, leading to a jail siege and mob violence. A white man D. M. Clark was fatally wounded and numerous Black residents were believed shot as 200 armed whites patrolled the town.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Wiggins
William Smith
Marshal Mitchell
Smith
D. M. Clark
Judge Morgan J. O'Brien resigns from appellate post
Justice Morgan J. O'Brien, presiding judge of the appellate division, filed his resignation with the secretary of state and will return to private law practice in New York City. He is a trustee in the Thomas F. Ryan Hyde estate stock deal with former President Cleveland and George Westinghouse.
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New York
Morgan J. O’brien
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
O’brien
Cleveland
George Westinghouse
Thomas F. Ryan
Hyde
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Suit to Deprive Freedmen in Cherokee Nation of Allotment
Tulsa officials announce a federal suit to strip 5000 freedmen in the Cherokee nation of allotment rights. The action also targets many white land buyers in the intermarried white cases decided by the U S Supreme Court this week.
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Tulsa
I. T
United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Tragic Killings Near Seguin Burned Home
In Seguin Texas on Nash's creek Wash Anderson a young Black man was killed and his house burned to cover the crime. His body was described as horribly mutilated with his bowels found beside him. Authorities suspect the killers aimed to destroy evidence by fire.
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Wash Anderson
Seguin
Tex
Nash's Creek
Farmer Sells Bale of Cotton at Twenty Cents Per Pound
Annona Texas November 6 J D Givens a farmer six miles north of town sold a bale of cotton to F B Puckett for 20 cents per pound.
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Annona
Tex
J. D. Givens
Here
F. B. Puckett
The Battle of Redonda and Other Notable Tales
The report recalls the famed Battle of Redonda near St. Thomas where fog concealed a rock formation as Dutch fire pounded unseen targets revealing Redonda as the outcome of misdirected shots. It also recounts anecdotes about James Seymour, painter of horse portraits, and explains why sea otter fur makes premium coat collars due to non freezing breath.
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Redonda
St. Thomas
New York Press
Convicted Wife Killer Ends Life in Baltimore Lodging
In a cheap Baltimore lodging house, Dr. J. Baxter Matthews of Greensboro North Carolina, shot himself with a 32 caliber revolver. Matthews, convicted March 9 1906 at Greensboro for poisoning his wife, had been free on bail pending appeal when the new trial request was denied.
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Baltimore
J. Baxter Matthews
Greensboro
N. C
Matthews
Print shop theft scatters hundreds in Coalgate streets
The Coalgate Record office was entered Sunday night and several hundred dollars' worth of type and printing material lay scattered on the street. The Democrat is described as an aggressive paper. A reward of one hundred dollars is offered for the perpetrator.
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Coalgate
I. T
Democrat candidate collapses during campaign in Marinette
D Trot tier, the Democrat nominee for Marinette County treasurer, collapsed dead at his home on Monday. Republican rival R C Havling remains critically ill.
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Marinette
Wis
D. Trottier
R. C. Havling
Colorado river break into Salton sea dammed
A brief note reports that the breach from the Colorado River into the Salton Sea has been dammed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Salton Sea
Methodist General Missionary Committee
Seattle
United States
Conference of Oklahoma United Brethren
Shawnee
Found Guilty of Rioting in Atlanta Race Riots
Atlanta on November 6 I H Carr a white man was found guilty of rioting by a city court jury Judge Pendleton reserved sentence Carr faced charges tied to recent race riots in the city.
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Atlanta
I.H. Carr
Pendleton
Carr
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Stamos Yrlaphone
S. H. “Franklin
Bryan
J. H. Hartzog
James’ Drug Store
C. E. Bullock & CO
Gcolk Hardware Coo
O'Brien
James Seymour
London
Duke of Somerset
Seymour
Geat
Sussex
England
Print Shop “Pied
Jinks & Geisecke
Propr
Bear Hunter & Chatham
California
Tom Lee
Cole Hardware Co
J. E. Grice
Higgs & McCulloch
Haswenu’s Book Store
Smith Building
City National Bank
T. B. Hines
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Tal
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B. J. Jankins
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