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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
2
The Indianapolis Star condemns the night rider and black hand methods spreading in Indiana as cowardly crimes. It urges federal action, cites threats of arson and violence to extort money, and calls for swift, exemplary punishment. A reflective poem on universal brotherhood accompanies the piece.
A courtroom record reveals that Southern night riders, branded as regulators, often robbed women from their beds and whipped them. The gang, initially to curb the tobacco trade, broadened into domestic interference, including pressuring a divorce case. The murder of Capt Rankin spurred arrests, possibly halting harsher actions. Authorities hope to bring the gang to justice to deter further lawlessness.
A Prescott retailer Hesterly Drug Store certifies long selling Mall's Texas Wonder and endorses it as the best kidney bladder and rheumatic medicine they have ever sold, dated December 12.
Giulio Gatti-Cazazza the new impresario at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York pushes to support American music. He plans to offer a prize for the best American opera and to aid Western world composers, with Frederick Converse likely to be first considered.
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