The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-04-26
Resume 81 the news.

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William M. Jones, who has been an
der arrest on suspicion Of having mur-
dered George Haywood at Detroit. was
formally charged by Detective Baker
with having premeditated the murder
and wilfully accomplishing Heywood's
death.
Henry Cross, negro. indicted and
Jailed at Washington Court House, o.
for beating an adopted child to death,
fatally stabbed his wife when she Wis
tied him in his cell, n h e attempted
suicide with a Barlow knife. He Wtll,
recover.
Anton Adler, thirty-six years of age.
shot and fatally wounded his wife, Liz
Zie. six a his senior, while in a
jealous frenzy, at St. Louis. Adler vas
taken to the police station, where he
said the shooting was due to his wifes
unfaithfulness.
e. Percival Baker, magazine writer
and stenographer, and his wife, at
tempted suicide by taking chloroform
in a hotel at Los Angeles. Baker Is
dead n his wife is very low. He was
to be tried for i~mparsonating a federal
officer, which ne did in lorder to secure
a photograph for a magazine article Of
a Chinese lady's foot.
A wholesale daylight jail delivery was
frustrated by scrubwomen at Kokomo.
Ind. In the absence Of the sheriff the
prisoners saved the bars and escaped
from t1pir ro11o VUhon tho r,ynrnao
opened the door to scrub the floors of
the corridor the prisoners made a dash
for liberty, but were dubbed back by
the women, who did good work with
their brooms and nlops Z
Unfortunate Happcntngs.
Fifteen miles Of country was flooded
by the breaking of a dam in the Wolf
river, Wisconsin.
BY a collision between the steamer
Lagonda and the barge George Wand,
in the St. Clair river, at Detroit, Mich,
the latter was sunk. The crew escaped.
The Protestant Episcopal Church of
the Savior at Philadelphia, burned at
midnight. Surrounding property was
in imminent danger. The loss is esti-
mated at $50, 900, covered by insurance.
The Protestant Episcopal Church of
the Savior in Philadelphia was de-
stroyed by fire. Surrounding property
was in imminent danger. The loss is
estimated at $150,00O; covered by In
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Four persons have been found dead
in the living apartments of Mrs. Esther
Kohen, a widow, in New York city.
vCLa,, oro Te%ho,o Hoton a God Affvs
Henry kohen, her son, twenty-three:
Lena Kohen, her. daughter, seventeen;
Edith Flow, a friend, sixteen. The
windows. doors and fanlights in the
apartments had been tightly closed and
two gas jets turned on full. q
People Talked About.
Miss Stone meets her neither, after q
separation of fou years.
Gen. Wade Hampton, former Confed-
crate general and United States SEN
ator, is dead. II
Congressman Sherman may quit con-
gress to accept a federal judgeship In
a New York district. 4
Gysbert Van Steenwyk, one of the
best known millionaire bankers In the
Northwest, died at La Crosse, Wis.,
aged lightweight years.
Horace Resley, the inventor of the
pilot in 1910 and other rail-
way appliances. died at Cumberland,
Md. He was eighty-seven years Of age.
The Rev. Thomas J.. Sheppard, for
many years president of the Kansas
State Conference of the Methodist
church, died at Kansas City,
aged %ffty-seven years
Georgius Lemay, a French Canadian
musician, for sixteen years organist of
the Roman Catholic church of st. Jean
de Baptiste in New York, is dead. He
was bern in st. Paul, Mimi, forty-fve
years ago. \
Mrs. Sarah L.. Williams, one of the
pioneers of Toledo, Ohio, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Rebecca
w. Cooper. Mrs. Williams a just
passed her eightieth birthday n for
over fifty years had been prominently
identified with that city.
Carl Moller, grand secretary for Mis-.
souri, Of the Royal Arcanum, died at
his home in ST. Louis. Mr.. Moller was
prominent in Grand Army circles. He
became Indian agent for h govern
ment after the war at Fort Sill, Ind. T.,
and later engaged in the banking bust
ness at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
- Otherwise.
; "A new terminal depot will be built at
St. Louis. n
osteopaths will be licensed to prac-.
tice in Ohio.
Heavy f1ehtlnp resulted in much loss
Of life in the Transvaal.
Sash and door men viii form a COM
involving 1921 900, 900.
Seven persons Of a Jewish family
were slain with axes in Russia. M