The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-03
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tity OF MexlcO-COllma VOlcanO
continues intermittently more active.
Monday there was a terrific report and
the people in Tuzpan rushed out of
doors in panic. Scientists believe
the mountain will change its present
shape radically.
Kansas City-Fearing a collision,
the passengers on crowded cable car
became panic stricken yesterday on
the Twelfth street viaduct that spans
the railway yards and several jumped
from the swiftly moving train. Three
We're seriously hurt.
Pueblo, Colo.-George Koggan, a
smelter company employe who has
shown signs of insanity, beat his wife
over the head with a revolver yes
terday and then cut his own throat.
He is at the point of death. The
woman may recover.
Ogden, Utah-A corps of Western
Pacific surveyors are at a point fifteen
miles north OF Promontory, sfifty-three
miles west of Ogden. One of their
party stated that this is the route by
which connection will be made with
the Rio Grande Western.
Columbus, O.-General George 3.
Wright, one of the best known men
in Ohio. died here yesterday of pneu-
nonia, aged 81 years. He was prom
inent in state and national affairs and
held office under both the state and
the United States governments.
Hamilton, Ohio-Judge BE den yes
terday refused a new trial for Alfred
Knapp, the self confessed murderer of
two of his wives and three other vic
tins. The court fixed December 18th
/ for the execution. Knapp took the
sentence with indifference and made
no statement He will be taken to
= Jlumbus for execution.
Be'grade-An unconfirmed report is
again published here that Adrianople
is in flames. The Porte here has no.
tilted Minister Leishman that five ar
rests have been made at Beyrut In
led to the report that William Magel-
lssen, the United States vice consul,
and deputy, had been assassinated.
! Otsego, Mich.-Duncan Swain acci-
dentally shot and killed his daughter
Mary yesterday. Swan had been
troubled with crows in his corn and
yesterday he saw the stalks moving
and thinking crows were in tie patch
again, discharged his shotgun at the
moving corn. To his horror his daugh-
ter screamed and he found that he
mad shot her in the breast.
Los Angeles-Charles Gilbert, night
turnkey at the county Jail, was MUIR
delously assaulted by two of the most
desperate prisoners In that institution
" ednesday night, in an effort to
OF B. Linares, "a trusty, would have
been killed or seriously injured. Even
had the prisoners succeeded in secur-
ing his keys they could not escape,
for having heard the noise Night Jail
er White stood at the outer door OF
the Jail with a sawed-off shotgun In
position to kill any man who ap-
preached the door.
| New Roads, La.-Further particu-
/ lars have been learned regarding the
assassination of l.. A. Planving, The
negro educator, near Oscar, La, Sun
day by unknown persons. Pianving
was principal of the Points Coupe
district college, an institution for the
education Of neg oes. While on his
way home Sunday night oa the main
road near False river he was fired
upon from cotton field. The first
shot struck the horse which the ne
gro was riding, and the second struck
Planving in the back of the head.
penetrating the brain and causing In
slant death. 1t is said that Planving
had been making incendiary speeches
to the negroes of the community,
advising them not to work for or have
anything to do with white people, and
it is believed that these alleged utter
ances had much to do with the assas-
sination.