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...sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court on the same day, a bellboy had pleaded guilty to manslaughter, had been fined $400 and freed...
Negroes may be freed from civil slavery, but segregation of them in colored churches is just as bad, declared Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C., before the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in convention at Rochester, N. Y. The Council, completing its quadrennial meeting, adopted resolutions to give special attention to the griefs of Negro brethren...
...Significance. Warden Lawes does not believe in capital punishment. He would substitute life imprisonment for the electric chair. He has great faith in the well-run prison, for long terms or short. To the freed convict, he would have society give a more gentlemanly chance than it now does...
Last week, however, this failure was at least freed from any suspicion of fraud. Forrest Adair Sr., Forrest Adair Jr., Frank Adair and E. A. Erwin, officials of the bankrupt firm, were acquitted of using the mails to defraud in connection with the building of three southern hotels which never were completed. Stockholders in these projects lost nearly $3,000,000. After a month's trial, a jury decided that the Adair failure was legitimate...
...James Barrie in his "Peter Pan" has turned the trick, and the Vagabond takes this opportunity of announcing that it has recently appeared for the first time in book form (Charles Scribner's Sons; $1.251. After spending a little time in a perusal of this famous work freed from the vagaries of stock companies and the limitations of the mechanical stage the reader should find himself much more tolerant towards the six year old cousin who confidently sent him a Santa Claus letter three pages long...