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Sickness spreading through stray dogs in Pittsburg kills a man and his wife, leaving their child orphaned

It is thought that the reason for poverty in New York is the great spending on liquor, which is “more than the entire amount received for tariff.”

An unexplained church fire in Philadelphia causes several people to suffer injuries or die.

A reporter writes about how the rapidly growing cities grow too fast for schools to be built and the poorest class suffer as schools are too expensive to build.

After testifying as a victim against a black man, a white woman’s guilt forces her to confess her perjury.

White brick-layers go on strike when contractors hire blacks over them. The Planet suggests that African American bricklayers form their own unions, since they are excluded from whites’.

Thirty-two white soldiers are charged with assaulting a woman in Denver, and President Roosevelt declares there must be a trial before “dismissing them without honor” like he did in the Brownsville affair.

Mitchell cites an article from the Richmond Daily Dispatch to show the universal opposition to the lynching of a black robber.

Two white men are sentenced to die for the rape of a woman, and Mitchell is uplifted that "the law has had its course."

A group of white men voice their opinions regarding the lynchings in Virginia.