The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-05-09
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Crimes and Criminals.

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Henry Meeks, the notorious Mont
pelier bank robber, has been eadjudged
insane at Boise. Idaho.
A negro named Hensley johnson.
charged with a~ssaultinE . hve-yearold
white girl. wal lynched 1t Carthage.
Texas.
]. J,;sAughe. the manager, has been
,9eeyHegt4gdsfUr 1stttinY' lre to the Co1um.
bia 'theater at Frankfort, Ind, . few
weeks ago.
Herman Webrle has been held. at
Toledo in $1,000 for embezzling that
amount while postmaster Ut Middle
Bass Island.
B. B. Spafford, deputy game warden.
shot and killed Christ McLain while
resisting arrest for spearing fish at
Frankfort, Mich.
Alpheus J. Loveland, q cabinetmak.
er, is under arrest 1T Rockford, Ill,
for creating the recent presidential
assassination scare.
John Dempsey was fined 5000 and
costs at Atlantic City, N. j., for fasten-
ing a frebrand to a cats tail. The an
imal took refuge in a barn, which was
burned.
After four trials at Detroit, Mich.
which cost Wayne county $148, 900,
Edward Asher was convicted Of the
murder of Valmore c. Nichols of Pitts.
burg, Mich, in 1898.
Mrs. M. Barber, cashier Of the Great
Northern hotel at Chicago, was over
powered by two masked men, choked
into insensibility and robbed of dia.
monds and jewelry worth $1,000.
The dead body of Mrs. Myrtle Tay.
lor of Kansas, aged twenty-three, was
found burned to a crisp and tied to a
tree near Joplin, Mo. Two men who
reported the discovery suddenly de.
camped.
George L. Mills, manager of the
Syndicate Loan company, missing
from Los Angeles for several days,
was found murdered in an empty
house. All valuables had been taken
from the clothing.
Witnesses have testified before the
grand jury at st. Louis that the rec
crds of the state senate were falsified
to make the journal show that the
alum bill had been reported by the
committee on judicial affairs.
Walter N. Dimmick, the former EN-.
ploye of the San Francisco branch of
the United States mint who was re-
Gently convicted of stealing $4,000
from the vault of the government
building, has been sentenced to five
years at hard labor in addition to his
former sentence of four years.
General.
Young Corbett failed to stop George
Mensic of Chicago in four rounds at
Portland, Ore.
Mrs. sully Fay, one Of the hes,
known woman suffragists of the oun
ty, died at Toledo, Ohio, from heart
disease.
The estimated output of the Klon.
dixie for the year is estimated at $15,.
900, 900, against $12, 0 900 last year.
Robert c. Ogden Of New York has
been elected president of the educa.
tional conference which has just closed
its session in Richmond, Va.
Louis Cameron's hound, missing
from Greenville, N. H., for six weeks,
was found IN the woods nursing q fox
terrier that had lost a leg.
The Transcontinental Passenger as
ISOLATION adopted a form of round.trip
Pacific coast ticket that is designed to
reduce the scalping Of such tickets to
a minimum. .
In an interview published in New
York the, Chinese minister stated his
intention to establish schools in the
United States for teaching the Eng
fish language to Cinnamon.
Col. Joseph Hickey, said to be the
originator of the famous drink known
as "gin rickey," died suddenly at New
York of heart disease. He was for.
merly a resident of st. Louis.
Citizens of Brackettsville, Texas.
Lave appealed tc the secretary Of war
to reprimand Gen. Fred Grant for his
charges against the saloons of the
town, which they maintain r libel
Ous &
Herman w. Hilprecht. the world.
famous ~archaeologist and professor of
Assyriology and Semetic philology, at
the University of Pennsylvania, has
just been secretly married at Phila'
delphia to Mrs. Sallie G. Robinson.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany has closed its Office at Butte.
Mont. because the men hired to take
the places Of the striking messenger
boys were attacked by strike sympa.
thizers and prevented from working.
Aaron Bark. a farmer who died sud
denly at his home in Muhlenburg coun.
ty, KY. was discovered to be a woman.
whose name is Mrs. Fred Green. She
came to Muhlenburg county about
thirteen years ago with q small child.
Copies Of the printed record In the
appeal of the Northern Securities
company from the decision In the
merger case were sent to twenty-five
of the interested parties. No date has
tEen agreed upon 9assyet. foE,the hear
Ing In the state case.
James Stanley. known az king Of