Word: prisoning
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...said to be the worst fate possible in store for the sleepers. It was recalled, however, that a marine of the White Court detail was court-martialed in June for refusing to bathe in the untepid bay near White Court, that his ablutions are now performed in the Navy Prison at Charleston, Mass...
Four Chinese dockyard workmen assaulted a coolie as a conclusion to interchange of insults such as "A plague upon your grandmother." The four assaulters, taken to prison, were followed by a dockyard mob. Police fired, killed two, wounded several...
...Santa Fe, the Chicago & Western Indiana-and for the International Harvester Co. He had come into prominence in 1894 when he procured an injunction against the railway strikers who had tied up almost all the railways entering Chicago, and afterwards helped to send Eugene V. Debs, strike leader, to prison for six months. A few years ago he was appointed Chairman of the Chicago Race Commission following the race riots in Chicago-a work which he performed with outstanding ability...
Without further ceremony, the strange figure was whisked off to Ludlow Street Prison to serve a 30-day sentence...
...Abdul Kadir, was also brilliant, and his radiance attracted more ladies than even a self-respecting Turk allowed in his harem. After his father was banished to a luxurious prison in what is now Greece, Abdul Kadir migrated to Budapest where women, wine and Tsigane music swelled his collection of unpaid bills. He married the Hungarian equivalent of a Ziegfeld Follies beauty, but eventually abandoned her and the small, red heir to which she had just given birth. A few days later the Prince walked into a Budapest court in answer to a summons. The police were amazed. Further investigations...