Night Rider secrets and brutal whipings emerge in Rankin case
In Union City Tenn on December 21 the state nears conviction of eight alleged Night Riders for Captain Quentin Rankin's murder. Franks Fehringer testified in detail the Rankin affair and other outrages, while Mrs. Ams Thurman Johnson described the riders brutal beating and threats over a divorce suit. Guards and soldiers surrounded the witness stand as the case intensified.
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Union City
Tenn
Quentin Rankin
Frank ¥Enhringer
Rankin
Ams Thurman Johnson
Fehringer
Eiven
Zohneon
Johnson
Frank Fehringer
Captain Rankin
Mays
Gince
Garrett Johnson
Heny
John Shaw
Sleepy Hollow
Bogus
Figere
Night Riders Case Details the Rankin Slaying Trial
Testimony describes the Night Riders passwords and a planned raid on Tiptonville as jurors hear about Captain Rankin's murder. Warnings and rope scenes unfold with Garrett Johnson guiding the march, while Fehringer admits past crimes and answers cross examination with stinging wit.
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Rankin
Tiptonville
Harris
Taylor
Walnut Log Hotel
Tid Burton
Fehringer
Garrett Johnson
Johnson
Ed” Powell
Tannor
Slough
Bob” Hoffman
Sam” Applewhite
Jess” Carter
Colonel Taylor
Naquor
Tennessee
Kentucky
Roosevelt urges retention of Northrop at Minnesota University
President Roosevelt reportedly urged Judge Torrance that President Northrop should not resign and that his services are essential to the university and education generally. Roosevelt is quoted saying Northrop must remain as head, noting twenty five years of progress at Minnesota.
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the Tribune
Minneapolis
Roosevelt
Northrop
University of Minnesota
Torrance
White House
Mrs. Chadbourne Reclaims Art Goods From Seizure
Chicago December 21 Mrs Emily Crane Chadbourne secured possession of art treasures seized by the government by paying 824,411 into court in addition to 70,409 previously paid for duties and penalties on the property The items including oil paintings ironwork and tapestries valued at 241 000 were originally Mrs Gardner s property and brought into the country by Mrs Chadbourne as household goods The goods will be shipped to Boston under the name of Mrs Jack Gardner after an order of condemnation by Judge Landis and the record of release.
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Chicago
Emily Crane Chadbourne
Jack” Gardner
Boston
Gardner
Chadbourne
Hadbourne
Landis
Paint Burns Prove Fatal in Creedmoor Fire
Mrs. Mary Franklin died yesterday after sustaining burns from an explosion of a varnish pot warmed on a kitchen stove at Creedmoor Long Island. Her husband Charles W Franklin their two children and Miss Agnes McDonald sister were in the kitchen when the accident occurred.
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Mary Franklin
Creedmoor
Long Island
Charles W. Franklin
Agnes McDonald
City finance warning from Mr Ivins discussed at City Club
City Club held a special meeting on municipal finances chaired by William M Ivins with Edward J Levey and Lawson Purdy as speakers. The discussion urged voter education on the dangers of current taxation, proposed a permanent land court for condemnation and assessment review, and warned that the city neared the end of its financial rope while stressing the need for economy and reform.
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William M. Ivins
Charter Revision Commission
Edward J. Levey
Lawson Purdy
Tax Board
Mets
McCarren
EB. R L. Gould
Frederick A. Cleveland
Bureau of Municipal Research
Horace White
Ivins
McAneny
Club
Greater New York
F. W. Hinrichs
Mr. Ivins
Mr. Hinrichs
Paris
Mr. Purdy
Purdy
Delancey
Ackard Proposes Subway Cost Probe at City Meeting
Controller Metz challenged outsider led critiques during a city hearing on rapid transit. He dismissed low cost subway claims and warned of inflated prices. The discussion cited a five mile Fourth Avenue line at 15 million dollars plus equipment, and a 19 million dollar bridge loop project amid city spends.
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Metz
Purdy
Fourth Avenue
City Club
Rapid Transit Commission
Hargis Jury Complete For Irvine Murder Trial
The Lexington jury for Beach Hargis's murder trial of his father Judge James Hargis was completed. all jurors are farmers. Defense plans to reveal Judge Hargis’s life in Breathitt County feuds to argue he caused his own death. Testimony opened with clerk James P. Brophy stating five shots were fired as father and son battled on the floor. Alexander Hargis, former Senator, joined the prosecution table to seek information during the trial.
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Lexington
Beach Hargis
Irvine
James Hargis
Breathitt
Hargis
James P. Brophy
Judge Hargis
Alexander Hargis
Two Fortune Tellers Arrested in Harlem Convenience Case
Two wandering fortune tellers a Russian gypsy Lena Olney eighteen held on $1000 bail and Rose Elijah Brazilian were charged with petty larceny in Harlem. Edwin T Ogle plumber testified she offered palm reading and grabbed cash. Joseph Leitner said $10 vanished from a roll of $44 after receiving fortune telling.
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Lena Olney
Magistrate House
Harlem Court
Edwin T. Ogle
Park Avenue
Joseph Leitner
Dawson Street
Rose Elijah
Hamilton Building
Third Avenue
125Th Street
Leitner
Escape by Rope From Brooklyn Hotel Doe Despite Escape
Gustave Mayer, a Christian Scientist from Montgomery Alabama, leaped from a fifth floor window of the Commercial Hotel in Brooklyn using a rope. He spoke of evil strangers waiting outside and was found with reddened, injured parts of his body. A policeman observed the scene and Mayer was brought before Magistrate Voorhees at Adams Street Police Court, where his address was recorded. He was allowed to leave.
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Commercial Hotel
Fulton
Clinton Streets
Brooklyn
Gustave Mayer
Commerce Street
Montgomery
Ala
Voorhees
Adams Street
Bloomingdale Barn Destroyed by Blaze at Asylum
A large three story barn at Bloomingdale Asylum burned last night amid high winds. A nearby private patients and nurses building faced danger but was saved. White Palms volunteer fire department and Harrison, Westchester County firefighters responded and extinguished the fire.
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Bloomingdale Asylum
Asylum
White Palms
Harrison
Westchester County
Health Official Says Oysters Not Dangerous After Tests
Dr Thomas Darlington head of the Health Department announced after inspections at Sayville Long Island Lynnhaven Virginia and Cape Cod Massachusetts that oyster beds are well kept and pollution is unlikely He investigated the hotel typhoid cases linked to oysters and found fears groundless noting some patients had no oysters or had left town weeks earlier and typhoid may have been contracted elsewhere
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Thomas Darlington
Health Department
Sayville
Long Island
Lynnhaven
Cape Cod
Mass
PreachersApprove German Emperor Liquor Abstinence Plan
A resolution adopted at a Methodist meeting in Book Rooms praises the German Emperor for intending to abstain from intoxicating liquors and expresses hope for future cooperation against the liquor traffic. The resolution ends with prayers for the Emperor and the German people and will be sent to the German Ambassador in Washington for transmission to the Emperor.
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Methodist Preachers
Methodist Book Rooms
Fifth Avenue
Washington
Body Found In Delaware River Near Lambertville
A burlap bag containing a leather coat and a badly decomposed body was found today in the Delaware River near Lambertville New Jersey. The sex could not be determined and the body was weighted with about forty pounds of railroad spikes.
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Lambertville
N. J
Delaware River
Two Children Burned to Death in Ogdensburg Fire
Two children of William Johnston aged two and four were burned to death in their beds when the Plum Brook home burned early today. Great-grandmother Mrs Rowson and an aunt were rescued unconscious from downstairs as the parents were away at the time.
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Ogdensburg
N. Y
William Johnston
Plum Brook
Notice of a Piano Sale at the New Building
After months of saving for new pianos, a sale of 301 used pianos begins Tuesday on the 12th floor of the New Building. About 153 or 154 sold so far. remaining instruments are marked to clear space for upcoming stock. Elevators on Ninth Street and Eighth Street will guide buyers to the sale area with special cards.
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Ninth Street
Eighth Street
Fourth Avenue
Campbell Upright Pianos
Campbell Wee Twee
Schomacker
Angelus Piano Players
Haines Bros Ween Wees
Lockart Ee
Angelus
Ee Ee Behring
Gilbert & Co
Playano Miller & Co
New England
Engiland
Ea Cable We
McPhil Shoninger Aeolian
Buttikoffer
Merrill Te
Raven & Bacon
Glenwood
Guild & Church
Anderson Ee
Hallet & Davis
Brumuler
Mason & Hamlin
Wagner
Chickering Parlor
Fischer «+t eter
Weber
J. & C. Fischer Oeeres
Sebastian Sommer
Steinway
Jones
Mason Amlin
Krueger
Chickering Baby
Lindermann
Peek & Sons
Knabe
James & Holstrom
Sae Lindermann
Sts
Henry F. Miller
SSS Square
Manhattan
Lynch & Gorman
Juelg
Arion
Schultz & Bauer
Lynch
Eee Wee Decker Bros
Weser ‘Bros
Gordon
Hms
Wm. Brown & Sons
Empire
Crown
Groden
Bradbury
Behr Bros
Haines
Kroeger
Brainerd
Schumacher Ban Packard
Hardman
Brantigam
Decker Bros
Wing Sons
cOhn Mahon
Ernest Gabler
Biddle
Everett
Mahon Bros
Gabler Bross
Sats
Chickering
Mathushek Weeweee Ae Weber
Krakauer
Chick
Kelliher Hearing Distrurbed by Interruption at Cambridge
Boston dispatch reports Catherine Kelliher, daughter of Mrs Mary Kelliher, under arson suspicion, had body parts sent to Harvard Medical School for examination amid probes into six family deaths. District Court heard turbulent testimony as she denied statements, with bail set at 1,000 and held for the grand jury. Also, Republican Club endorses Secretary Root for US Senator after debate.
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Boston
Harvard Medical School
Catherine Kelliher
Mary Kelliher
Kelliher
Lfe
Middlesex County
East Cambridge
Dinner for Samuel Koenig Tonight at Reisenweber’s
Friends of Samuel S. Koenig, Secretary of State elect, host a testimonial dinner at Reisenweber’s on Eighth Avenue and Columbus tonight. Speakers include State Chairman Woodruff, Representative Parsons, Senator Depew, Job E. Hedges, Judge Rosalsky, Justice Foster, and ex-Assemblyman Hartman will preside. about three hundred guests expected.
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Koenig
Samuel S. Koenig
Reisenweber's
Eighth Avenue
Columbus
Woodruff
Parsons
Depew
Job E. Hedges
Rosalsky
Justice Foster
Hartman
Dismiss 20 Telegraph Operators Seattle
Officials of Western Union report raids on rail routes from the Pacific Coast to Minneapolis led to the arrest of a Ritzville agent, discharge of twenty operators, and the uncovering of a suspected scheme to steal telegraph tolls. Superintendent Reed said up to 45 percent of messages were unreported in monthly statements, and the arrested man reportedly confessed.
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Seattle
Western Union Telegraph Company
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
Pacific Coast
Minneapolis
Riteville
Wash
Western Union Company
Reed
Telegraph Company
Ritzville
Mm Reed
Harriman not seriously ill as rumors swirl
Reported health scare at Fifth Avenue home sparks market gossip. Harriman's office and family deny serious illness, saying he suffered only a indisposition and will rest a few days. Market slump linked to Carnegie testimony on steel industry, with illness rumors seen as a contributing factor.
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E. H. Harriman
Fifth Avenue
Financial District
Arden
Man
Andrew Carnegie
Wave and Means
Fires destroy multiple Laurens County cotton gins and stores
Destructive fires sweep Laurens County with several ginneries and stores burned over a few days. Waterloo ginnery and two stores suffered early Saturday damage, followed by blazes at Rudum Croes Hill and Gray Court, all during the night, causing heavy losses amid rumors of Night Riders' involvement.
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Laurens
Laurens County
Waterloo
Rudum
Croes Hill
Gray Court
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Whip Woman
God
Night Riders
Pinion
Caldwell
Wisconsin University
Mrs. Chadbourne
Tholda Medavce
Ieun Cross
Menartio
Crosby
MR. Mvins
Edgar J. Levey
Ackard
Bloomingdale Barn Burns
Kaiser
Spies
Holmstrom Bros
John Wanamaker
Eighth
Tenth
Mrs. Kelliher
Republican Club
Root
United States
Roberts
Kenyon
Charles H. Treat
Western Union
Washington State
E H. Harriman
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