Night Riders Tension Rises as Governor Moves to Disperse
Reporting from Camp Nero Tennessee crowds react to the killing of Capt. Quentin Rankin. Gov Patterson orders swift action with militia under Col. Tatum as extra guards shield prisoners and arrests mount including hotel proprietor P. C. Ward linked to the night riders.
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New York Times
Camp Nero
Tenn
Quentin Rankin
Col. Tatum
Rankin
Memphis
Union City
Dyersburg
Tiptonville
Gov. Patterson
Ney Caldwell
Supreme Court
Tennessee
Caldwell
Gov
Patterson
P. C. Ward
Walnut Log
Col. Taylor
Ward
Guy Ward
Indianapolis
Col
Taylor
Reelfoot Lake
Tatum
Nemo
Col. R. Z. Taylor Stricken After Mob Incident
In Trenton Tennessee on October 23 Col. R. Z. Taylor a veteran lawyer who escaped a night rider mob that murdered Capt. Rankin collapsed from illness tied to swamp exposure near Reelfoot Lake. Doctors fear pneumonia and complications from days of strain.
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New York Times
Trenton
Tenn
Reelfoot Lake
R. Z. Taylor
Rankin
Col. Taylor
Militia Mobilized Near Reelfoot Lake After Night Riders
Two companies of the Tennessee State militia from the Memphis guard are ordered to Reelfoot Lake in response to the Night Riders murder of Capt. Rankin. About a hundred men will depart tomorrow morning. the region lies within a five hour ride from Memphis.
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New York Times
Memphis
Tenn
Reelfoot Lake
Rankin
Ready for a Conference Says Wilson Attends If Called
Kentucky Governor A E Wilson expresses readiness for a conference with Dr Patterson and state governors to discuss measures to suppress lawless activity. Missouri Governor Joseph Folk replies no night riders are known in his state and vows enforcement if such incidents occur.
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Brankfort
Tur
New York Times
Jefferson City
Joseph W. Folk
Book Concern in Trouble Faces Bankruptcy Petition
A bankruptcy petition was filed yesterday against Globe Publishing Company at 44 East Twenty-third Street. Judge Holt appointed Augustus H. Skillin receiver. Assets valued around 1,000,000 with creditors' claims likely reducing this. National City Bank of Washington leads petitioning creditors, with others including William J. Fallon and Clarke & Baker Company. (Totals, contracts, real estate, copyrights, and plates cited.) The firm, once led by James A. Hill, shows a large decline due to the depression and slow collections.
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Globe Publishing Company
East Twenty-third Street
Holt
United States
Augustus H. Skillin
National City Bank of
Washington, D. C
William J. Fallon
Clarke & Baker Company
James Talcott
State Bank of
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New Jersey
James A. Hill
Hill
New York
Bradstreets
John E. Rouse
Alfred E. A. de Vestelle
Mr. Hill
Benefit Fund Held Up For Selleck Family Aid
Edward W. Cox starts a drive to obtain consent from the Astor and New Amsterdam Theatres and the Montauk Theatre managers to turn over to Policeman Alfred A. Selleck's aged aunt and uncle their share of the $24 000 benefit fund. Selleck and fellow officer George M. Sechler were killed on April 14 1907 during an attempt to arrest Salvatore Governale at 232 Thompson Street Manhattan. Sechler's widow and child have received half of the proceeds. Selleck's relatives have received nothing to date.
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Edward W. Cox
Maspeth
L. I
Astor
New Amsterdam
Manhattan
Montauk Theatre
Brooklyn
Alfred A. Selleck
Selleck
George M. Sechler
Deesee
Salvatore Governale
Thompson Street
Sechler
Montauk
Rev Dr S E Young Takes Charge at Bedford Church
The Rev Dr S Edward Young of Pittsburg arrives in Brooklyn to lead Bedford Presbyterian Church at Nostrand Avenue and Dean Street. He plans to study his congregation before outlining steps, notes he may adapt park and public place evangelism to Brooklyn, and preaches first at 10 45 AM on Wanted People Taught on the Mountains of God to Toil in the Lowlands of Sin.
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S. Edward Young
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Bedford Presbyterian Church
Nostrand Avenue
Dean Street
St. Mark’s Hotel
Young
Ohio
Women helped taxicab desperado in jewel heist
Police chase details describe two well dressed women who examined jewelry at Maurice Tannenholz before a bold robbery on Lexington Avenue. A driver identified as William McLaughlin followed, the robber wounded a pursuer and Tannenholz, later hospitalized with a kidney injury, remains in guarded condition. Detectives from multiple units pursue leads as theories implicate strikebreakers and nonlocal suspects.
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Maurice Tannenholz
Lexington Avenue
Tannenholz
William McLaughlin
Edward S. Murphy
Capt. Carey
P. J. Conway
East Sixtieth Street
Mr. Murphy
Second Avenue
Fifty-ninth
McLaughlin
Sixtieth Street
Presbyterian Hospital
Hannah Tannenholz
Mahon
Wadell and Mahon
New York
Arthur Wood
Bingham
Cadillac
Carey
Comany
Richard Le Gallienne Ill at Private Sanitarium
Richard Le Gallienne the writer lies seriously ill in Dr. William T. Bull's private sanitarium at 33 East Thirty-fifth Street with double pneumonia and jaundice. Dr. N B Potter reports the condition critical. Le Gallienne had returned from a walking trip and is listed as not yet out of danger. His New York address is Hotel Westminster on Fifteenth Street and Irving Place.
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Richard le Gallienne
William T. Bull
East Thirty-fifth Street
N. B. Potter
Potter
New York
Hotel Westminster
Fifteenth Street
Irving Place
Appointment of Dr. Robert McKenzie as Seminary President
Pasadena California October 23 report that Rev Dr Robert McKenzie formerly of First Presbyterian San Francisco and now pastor of Rutgers Riverside Church New York was named president of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at San Anselmo announced at the California Synod session
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New York Times
Pasadena
Cal
Robert McKenzie
First Presbyterian Church of
San Francisco
Rutgers Riverside Church
New York
Presbyterian Theological Seminary At
San Anselmo
California Synod
Rare Books at Low Prices at Fifth Avenue Gallery Sale
Private library sale at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries offered rare volumes and fine editions at low prices. Highlights included an Amsterdam 1640 Breeches Bible for 650, a Dordrecht 1714 Bible with maps, a 1742 Dutch New Testament, a 1573 Giunta Decameron, and La Fontaine Contes sold for modest sums. Shakespeare plates fetched 40 in a signed, ornate set.
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Dordrecht
Amsterdam
Florence
la Fontaine
Levant
Shakespeare
Darley
Mitchells Candidates endorsed by former UMWA leader
Joh Mitchell former President of the United Mine Workers of America endorses several Pennsylvania congressional candidates in a district 1 communication. Endorsed are W B Wilson T D Nicholls W D Mahon James P Maher John G McHenry and Robert E Lee with various labor or democratic labor alignments noted.
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New York Times
Scranton
Penn
Joh Mitchell
Unite Mine Workers’ of America
Pennsylvania
Dempsey
District No. 1
W. B. Wilson
United Mine Workers of America
T. D. Nicholls
Lackawanna
John G. McHenry
Columbia-Northumberland
Robert E. Lee
Congress
Schuylkill
Westminster College to Strike Over Hazing Punishments
A campus strike plan at Westminster College in Fulton signals the entire student body of about 250 leaving tonight unless eight punished hazing students are reinstated. Freshmen R Dooley and Arnold Dooley from Paris sparked the dispute after drawing pistols Tuesday and clashing with upperclassmen, while a Synodical College reception was barred. President Kerr of Westminster witnessed the assault and publicly rebuked his own son, one of the aggressors.
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New York Times
Mexico
Fulton
Westminster College
R. Dooley
Arnold Dooley
Paris
Synodical College
Kerr
Westminster
Wife files divorce suit after husband jailed for desertion
In Trenton on October 23, Frank R. Gowie Jr. of Camden, serving nine months in state prison for wife desertion, received a summons showing his wife has begun divorce proceedings. Gowie, who has prior non support arrests, questioned why she had him jailed if she sought separation.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Frank R. Gowie, Jr
Camden
Wilbur
Gowie
Liquor License Question Must Appear on Ballots
Rhode Island voters must see the liquor license question on every ballot at town and city elections. The Rhode Island Supreme Court issued the decision after the Providence Liquor Dealers' Association sought to remove the license issue from ballot citing defective petition signatures.
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Rhode Island
Providence
R. I
Supreme Court
Providence Liquor Dealers’ Association
Ruttenau Divorce Over Adultery Case in Seaside
Maximilian Ruttenau an importer living at 525 Lenox Avenue obtained a divorce yesterday from his wife Elizabeth on grounds of misconduct with John L Lyons at Seaside Rockaway between June 1 and Sept 1 1907. The case before Supreme Court Justice O Gorman and a jury. Mrs Ruttenau had begun a suit for separation but failed to appear. They married in 1902 with Ruttenau then 48 and Elizabeth 17.
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Maximilian Ruttenau
Stone ‘Street
Elizabeth
John L. Lyons
Seaside
Rockaway
Supreme Court
O’gorman
Lenox Avenue
Morristown burglars steal $2000 in jewelry from Perkins sisters
In Morristown New Jersey three masked burglars ransacked the home of Misses Maud M Grace W and Mary E Perkins at 276 South Street taking jewelry including a cluster diamond pin four gold watches and much other personal loot worth about $2000 and $80 in cash. They spared the servant’s rings after learning of her poverty. Police Chief Holloway and Sergeant Morrison pursue leads and expect a rapid arrest.
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New York Times
Morristown
N. J
Maud M
Grace W
Mary E. Perkins
South Street
Orange
J. Frank Holloway
Morrison
Mnight
Misses Perkins
H.M. Miller
New Brighton
Grace Perkins
Mary Tighe
Miss Perkins
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