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After her arrest, Kate Howard, a leader in the Springfield race riots, commits suicide by swallowing acid.

Mrs. Laupaule Orber, accused of being a witch, is convicted with a disorderly conduct charge, and fined $5 along with ten days in jail.

A farmer who loses many animals due to their illness hires a “witch,” and his problems mysteriously go away.

The body of William Rice, “a highly respected” black man, is found in Lawrenceville, Virginia. Evidence points to a white mob who “engaged in an altercation of some kind” with Rice on the night he was murdered.

A new seminary opens, and urges black men to join and rally their churches to support the seminary.

A white man rapes a 10 year old girl, and is apprehended by police, while the black community refuses to lynch him.

A Presbytery in Delaware calls a minister to trial after his sermon may have instigated a lynching.

A reverend theorizes that recent increases to the army's presence in the Philippines will "likely prolong the struggle.”

The innocence of the women in the Lunenburg trials is reiterated in an opinion piece by the Planet.

J. Milton Waldron, the president of the National Negro League, congratulates William J. Bryan on his presidential nomination, and predicts his election with the support of the black population by “a handsome majority.”