New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1921-11-04
GENERAL

GENERAL
John Christmas, negro, of Cham
paign, was hanged ut Urbana, III. Ii
was the first hanging in this county
for more than forty years. Chrlstman
killed his wife with u razor last sum
mer.
A negro was killed In a battle with
Baltimore police at Humphrey station,
a suburb of Baltimore, following a
threatened rae riot, The riot was
white girl by a negro.
Citations directing James A. Still
man, divorce suit PLAINTIFF, to show
cause why Mrs. Stillman should not be
appointed general guardian Of their
sons, james and Alexander, We're is
sued by Surrogate Cohalan. They
were procured by Mrs. Stillman's cOun.
sci.
Sam Gordon, IS, a negro, was
hanged by n mob near Winnsboro, La,
following the shooting of Joe Kim.
ball, a white farmer. The shooting
followed n quarrel owe a bag Of pc.
cans, 1t was said. 1t was reported the
negro's father was taken into II woods
and whipped.
Twenty sticks Of dynamite wrapped
IN brown paper OF which had Deen
drawn n diagram Of the Atlanta, Bir.
mlngham & Atlantic aud Southern
railway lines were found by school
children In an abandoned sewer at At
lanta, according to reports to the po-
lice. Since the inception Of the gen.
eral strike on the Atlanta, Birming.
ham & Atlantic railroad last March,
wrecks have occurred, appar.
the result of dynamite explo.
Federal prohibition agents raided an
attic above a Greenwich village res
In New York. Their haul In.
fifty casks, 1000 bottles and
100 jugs OF wine valued at $4,000
The smell of n nearby barrel of mash
mingled with odors from stored cheese,
he officers said, but the attic was
used as sleeping quarters for three
persons.
Police have discovered a "well' OF
In n residential section OF
Tenn. A small copper pipe
rom a copper tank sunk ten. feet IN.
Ter the ground enabled the owner to
leep a supply OF moonshine whisky on
ap at all hours. The whisky was
'orced through a faucet by n hand
Jump. The outfit was confiscated and
he owner arraigned in Police Court.
Mrs. II. @. Rocker, arrested at Mem.
his, Tenn, several days ago on a fu.
from Justice warrant issued In
Texas. where 1t is alleged by
ederal officials she is under indict.
nent in connection with the embezzle.
nent OF $4,000 from the Southwest.
National Bank, was released when
he gave bond for $1,000 for her ap-
In the Federal Court In Dial.
rs. /,
George ii. Miller, 10 years old, was
.nvicted on a charge of violating the J
act and was fined $500 and costs {
v Judge Jacob Trieber in United
District Court at Little Rock,
.rk. II was alleged that Miller, whose ,
ONE IL In Dallas. Texas, took a wom- :
n 30 years old from Dallas to Hot !.
last summer. ,
Emma Richardson Burkett. Hills !,
ale, Ind, was sentenced TO from siI ,
10 three yenrs In the penlten- |,
airy by Judge Alfred ]. Talley for .
the name Of the late Col. Theo- I.
ore Roosevelt to a fake note. !.
Zeke Anderson, a mountaineer of
Ear Elkhorn City, In Pike county, KY,
no escaped from the Rock Castle
,nvict road camp last spring. went
,me and made a crop so his family q
ould have food next winter. He gave :
mself up at the state reformatory. :
1derson was received at the reforma- J.
~ In the spring Of 1918 to serve If '
en- years for murder. .
The Supreme Court ordered the re- :
gument Of the Wisconsin rate case !,
&c. 5. This case involves conetitu- !,
Of the transportation &C Of
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