The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01
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St Paul, Minn.-At White Bear lake
tonight, by the overturning of a row.
beat, Wilbur Carbon and wife and
Seth John, were drowned They were
attempting to knock off each others
hats.
CadiZ, Spain-The Austrian gunboat
Siberia has foundered off this port.
Eleven CT her crew were saved by a
French transatlantic steamer. The
Siberia was one of the coast defense
vessels of the Hungary navy.
Georgetown. Ky.-The jury in the
case of exSecretary Of State Caleb
Powers, charged with completely in
conspiracy to murder Governor VIII
liam Goebel, in January, 1900, today
found the defendant guilty and impos-
ed the death sentence.
St. Louis-After struggle with two
alleged bank robbers, now behind the
bars at East St Louis, ILL.,. Chief of
Police Purdy and his men nipped in
the bud what is believed to have been
an attempt to blow the safe of the
East st. Louis Trust and Savings
bank Sunday night A third man es-
capped
Saeramento-Jacob Gruhler of the
Sacramento Helvetia Shooting club
broke the worlds record at 200 yards
German twenty-five ring target, by
making 463 out of a possible 500. TIE
record. hetofore held by DIR. Rogers of
San Francisco, was for 461 out of 500
Mr.. Gruhler used a Winchester 32-4O
and shot "off-hand."
st. Petersburg-A special commits
sion has been formed at the prefecture,
composed of factory inspectors and
various functionaries of the secret
police, with orders from Minister
Plehwe to prevent strikes at all haz-
ards. Tho commission is arresting
and banishing workmen by hundreds
and has been authorized to employ
both preventive and repressive meas
ures
Portland, Ore.-John Leland Hen
derson of Hood river, f1fty-two years
old. swan eighteen miles in the chill
ing water of the Columbia Monday
morning in five hours and twenty-five
minutes. He dived from the steamer
dock at The Dalles two minutes be-
fore o'clock and left the water at
the landing on the Washington shore
below Mosier station at 1902 chilled
to the marrow and so benumbed that
he could hardly stand erect. IF II
had not been so cussed cold | could
have made it all right to Hood river,
five miles further" he said
st. Paul-Authentic reports from
: Oningum, the headquarters OF the
Leech Indian agency and of the Chip
pewa reservation in northern Mime
sofa confirm the reports received yes
tcrday through different sources, that
an outbreak is pending The crisis
has been narrowly averted once, and
white residents at the agency are ex-
pressing their confidence that it will
come again, by packing their goods
and moving to healthier climes. The
Indians, it is reported today are tur-
bulent. The latest report says there
was a demonstration at the agency
Saturday serious enough to prompt
Chief Clerk Morgan OF the agency
who was in charge in the absence Of
Major Scott. the agent, to warn en-
ployees to be ready to flee for their
lives.
New Orleans. La-Rev. Mr.. LaF'or-
rest A. Planving, colored, the prin-
eipal of the Point Coupee Industrial
and High School at Oscar, La. has
been murdered. There is no tele-
graph station in the neighborhood and
no particulars of the murder have
been learned. He graduated from
Straight university in this city as a
bachelor of science two years ago and
going to Point Coupee raised among
the white and colored people OF that
parish enough money to inaugurate an
Industrial school, modelled on Tusko-
gee, in the management of which he
mad four assistants, and $50 negro
pupils in attendance. The best of re-
iations have always existed between
the races in Point Coupee and Planv-