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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10043, 11 January 1909, Page 3

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[bt etkcibio telegraph.—coptbioht. (Psb Pbiss Associatiox.) Beceivett January 11, at 8.30 a.m. New York, January 10.

Six American night-riders wer« sentenced to be hanged on February 19.- and two -were sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment!

[The Crime- for which ths were sentenced was for" the murdef of Captain Rankin, a prominent lawyef. The trouble is said to have originated some years a~o, when the murdered man and nk associate. Colonel Taylor,, organised and incorporated the Weft Tennessee LandCompany. They bought Reelfoot Lake from non-rceident pTOjerty owners and mado refutations concerning fishing privileges which interfered with what iho fishermen living .in that neighborhood claimed to be their rights* Desiring the protection of the "State, tne neW own?re of the lake obtained from the legislature l an Act regulating fishing, which made fishing without having paid a fee a misdemeanour. The fishermen . saw nothing but injustice in this Act, believutg {hat it interfered with their mariner of earning a livelihood. Captain Rankin was v <lh ' Colonel .Taylor, prilled from his bed in the hotel, in trie dead sf night. The f r mer was hanged to a tree, his body Deirg riddled with bullets. The latter took id vsntaje of the temporary preoccupation cf the night-riders and escaped.] Belgrade, Janaary 11. M. Miianovitch assured M. Torgachthat his speech had no ajgrt-Eclvs iondency, and he regretted that"it had been interpreted in a hostile sense. London, January 10. Mr S. T. Cody, aboard a British army aeroplane, fiew a hundred yards at a h?islit of ten feet, at Famborough. R»yeiv*d January 11. at 3.30 a.m. Tcherau, January 10. Sata Cli3n. leader of the revolutionary faction, has ordered the confiscation of all the Shah's property in the provinces of Uzerbaijau. Berlin, January 10. Sonio circles dfecribc the publication of the SchefiVm Incident as en ili-advised attempt of the Court .ind military parties to assert the Kaiser's authority against th'M of Count von Bulow.