The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-01-10
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Jan. 3-Negro hanged at MayerSVlilt,
Miss, three minutes before nouce tha.
his sentence had been committed was ?
| received.
4-Negro Iynched at Midway, Ala, for at
tempted assault.
| 5-ROlo Steele being refused loan OF 20.
600 by Fourth Street National BANK OF
Philadelphia, threw BONO that Killed
himself and cashier. injured six others
and wrecked bank,
| 9-James Cullen, murderer of wife and
step-SOn, taken from jail at CharleS
City, la. and hanged by mob.
2S-Trial of Harry X. ThaW, for murder
of Stanford White, begun in New York:
Feb 2s-Thos. Baldwin: rich tarrner OF
lColfaX, H., shot and killed Chas Ken,
nedy and wife, and Mrs. Eisman and
Mar ruS 1 i(lei p Miller of Beaver Dam,
Wis. killed wife. step-mother and self
15-Mob of so men at Monroe, La
hanged two negroes accused of robbery.
2O-TwO colored women accused of muir
derous attack on white woman killed
by mob near Stamp, Ark.
29-Safe blowers robbed Farmers q
Mich. getting $1,000. Colored man
charged with attacking white girl near
Colbert l. T., lynched at Durant.
Apr. S-Death sentence of Mrs, ASgle
: Myers. of Kansas City, and Frank Holt
t man for murder of wOman's husband,
/ committed to life Imprisonment.
5 11-Grand jury refused to indtct Con
gresham c. X. Favrot, Of Louisiana,
. who killed Dr. R. II. Aldrich, and he
: was set free.
y 12~Thaw jury discharged. being unable
to agree on verdict; Thaw remanded
8 to jail, to await second trial
- 1S-Dr. O. G. Haugh OF Dayton, o., con-
l. vcted Of murd'r Of father. mother and
brother, electrocuted at penitentiary ct
II Columbus.
If 2l-Negro and mother lynched and three
other persons killed and seven injured
/ in fight in Georgia on account of at
a. tempt of negro, who escaped, to assault
TX white woman.
Nav 23-Ex-Judge Hargis acquitted o
r Cockril murder in famous feud case a
Id Lexington, Ky.
n Jun S--Trial of VIM D. Haywood, secre
n. tary-treasures Western Federation o
or Miners. fo, murder of eX-Gov. Steunen
berg, begun at Boise, Idaho;
y, 30-Judge Loving found not guilty OF muir
al der Of Theodore Estes, charged wit
mistreating formers daughter, at Hous
er Jul. 2O-Ias Hargs, acquitted Of charg
of completely in murder Of DR.. B. I
OF Cox Of Kentucky. =. Henry Scutcheo.T,
49, insane, murdered wife, son and father
'g' in-law with an AK; then attempted SUI
~ eide, but was shot dead:
IN 22-Karl Hau, young Washington pro
: fesSor condemned to death at haf!E
ruhe, Germany. for murder of mother
a 27-Wm D. Haywood found not guilty
murder Of ex-Gov Steunenberg.
Aug. 16-Win Clifford negro, lynched
Maple, KY, for assaulting and killr
two white women.
Sep. 2i-Frank J. Constantine sentence
to life Imprisonment for murder OF MI
Gentry, at Chicago.
94-Mrs Bertha Mund OF Buffalo; VIII
m. insane. strangled her three children
Oct, 1-Ex- Sheriff II. K. Brown, OF Bak
nv. CITY Ore, killed by bomb. :,
,ra 5-Wm. Burns, colored, who shot polio
Of man at Cumberland. Nd, taken fro
jail by mob, and shot and kicked
ON death. c.,, 49,, -,
Sa. 1SNEx- Banker Frederick McGill and VI
SoI- acquitted Of charge Of murdGrlng III
Ita, wife of McGill, at Decatur, Ill,
av. oG-Negro at Byron, Ga, iynched
rom stealing Is cents. u,ss,
Jew Nov. Erred Singleton. negro; rlddl
rom with bullets by posse for murder OF
sistant chief of police at TaUadega,
,on- seven bandits held UP town OF Cano
s D., blew open bank vault, ana
of capped with $500.
cted 4-jury in Steve, Adams murder ira trlai
rted Rathdrum Idaho, failed to agree
verdict and were discharged.
rom Dec. 3-~Mrs Annie NJ. Bradley acqult
on charge of murder Of eX-Sen'
ton Brown at Washington