Rawlins Prison Lynching Stuns Wyoming Readers
About sixty convicts overpowered a guard at the Rawlins state prison and dragged Frank Wigfall a Black inmate from his cell. They hanged him from a third tier rail in a summary lynching following his alleged assault on a white woman. An inquest found the killing unresolvable by the jury.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Frank Wigfall
Wigfall
Bether Higgins
Éirly
State
Alston
Campbell
Wiefall
Ife
Potter's Field
Higgins
Fort Steele
Lynching of Frank Wigfall by Wyoming prison inmates
Frank Wigfall, an African American assault suspect, was lynched by convicts at the Wyoming State Penitentiary while a jail mob demanded his surrender. After escaping custody, Wigfall was abused during the attack on his cell as guards were held off.
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Associated Press
Rawlins
Wyo
Frank Wigfall
Esther Higgins
State Penitentiary
Melancholy Days Bring Dour Weather Man Plight
The weather bureau chief R Q Grant laments the arrival of melancholy days as leaves begin to fall and Jack Frost is blamed for destructive early autumn. He predicts clear weather later in the week, despite the continuing nightly frost.
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R. Q. Grant
United States Weather Bureau
Jack Frost
Grant
J. Frost
Speeding Motorist Fined After Downtown Incident
Automobilists with speed mania alarm the city as Stutzman, arrested by Sergeant Talbott and Officer O'Brien, is fined $10 by Police Judge Wellnitz for driving at twenty five miles per hour near the station. Earlier reports connect him to a Denver crash that killed one woman and seriously injured another.
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Stutzgman
Talbott
O'Brien
Wellnitz
Stutzman
Denver
Weather Forecast for Wyoming Dims to Fair Friday
The Weather Bureau reports Wyoming will start with fair conditions Thursday followed by waning fair weather on Friday. Expect light winds and no significant precipitation.
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Washington, D. C
Wyoming
Standpat machine echoes pre election tactics in west
Dispatch reports Democratic leaders secret meeting in Cheyenne to block John B Kendrick as U S Senate candidate. Kendrick, a Montana resident in dispute, has funded papers in the state and opposed Warren. Governor Carey hints at backing his son Robert D Carey for Warren seat. son previously failed to win Republican nomination.
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Warren Press Bureau
Denve Republican
Tribune
John B. Kendrick
Montana
United States Senate
Warren
Kendrick
Imyenne Leader
Sheridan Enterprise
Carey
Robert D
Warren Machine
Price
Laramie
Platte
Goshen
Senator Warren
Parker Leads Democrats at New York Convention
Alton B Parker used the state Democratic convention to issue his first political remarks since the Bryan clash. He claims harmony guided the New York delegation in Baltimore and denies Ryan was his client. The platform backs Wilson and Marshall, endorses Dix, and calls for woman suffrage, initiative, referendums, and a short ballot. Sulzer won the gubernatorial nomination on the fourth ballot.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Alton B. Parker
Bryan
Parker
New York
Baltimore
Thomas J. Sryan
Ryan
Wim Tite
Repubican Party
Dix
Martin Glynn
Sulzer
Burd
Herman Mets
Insidious politicians to peddle slander in Wyoming campaign
A statewide push by the Warren machine to mobilize more than a hundred men in each legislative district to intimidate voters with deceitful tactics. The plan targets new and longtime residents alike, with rumors and fabrications to influence support for Warren and his allies.
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Wyoming
Judge Carey
Houx
Life conservation urged as vital national issue
National Conservat ion Congress speaker E Rittenhouse from New York argued that protecting human life must be America’s paramount goal. He warned that 659 000 lives are destroyed yearly by preventable causes and called for universal sanitation and preventive measures to curb race deterioration and wasted life.
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Indianapolis
Ind
EB. E. Rittenhouse
New York
National Conservattion Congress
Asaet
Rittenhouse
Nunabity
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