The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1906-08-17
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Henry w. Herring, cashier Of the
Milwaukee Avenue State bank of Chi
cago, which closed its doors some
days ago, has been arrested and will
be refused his release on bail unit!
his connection with the disappearance
of nearly S%1,0OO,O00 of the banks
funds is cleared up. Paul O. Stems
land, president of the defunct lnstitu.
ton, is still a fugitive.
Officials CT the First National bank
Of Birmingham, Ala, have announced
that Alex X. Chisolm, paying teller of
that bank, is 100000 short in his &C.
counts. Chisolm is under thirty years
of age and is a son Of Colonel Robert
Chisolm, special attorney for the Unit
ed States government. His family is
n of the most prominent in the
South.
| Frank Kowalskf, for five years pay
ing teller of the Milwaukee Avenue
State bank of Chicago, which failed
recently, shot and killed himself at
his holEe in that city. Criticism by
neighbors and lifelong friends, who
accused htm of a share In the GOVT
fall Of the bank, is believed to have
driven Kowaski to his death.
An indictment charging the Stand
ard Oil company with receiving re-
bates in the form of non-paylnent OF
storage charges to certain railroad
companies was returned by the fed
eral grand jury at Chicago. Tire in
dictment contains nineteen counts.
each count constituting a separate
charge
Conclusive evidence; has been Tz.'
earthed by State Bank Examiner
Jones ttlat Paul o. ~Stehsland, the fugN-
tive president of the Milwaukee Ave-
nue. State bank of Chicago, has been
guilty of highly criminal acts in con-
Quoting the business o. the. institu-
ton of WHICH he was the head
The federal grand Jury for the
Western district of New York has re-
turned indictments against theS Stand
ard Oil company of New" York;, the
Pennsylvania Railroad company and.
the Vacuum Oil company O. RccEfasteT
for violations of: the interstate eona-
merce law.
George Hail has been coUvicteK att
Charlotte, N. c., of conspiracy i'm ccn-
nection with the lynclling at Salisbury
that state, of the three negro MUIR
derers of the LyerEy family and a
sentenced to fifteen years in prison
Lewis Feltz of Milwaukee, became
demented on a. Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul train near Sparta, Wis,
and before he Eas subdued sesen men
were seriously injured, two probably
fatally.
The banks OF: the Chicago Clearing
house association have offered a re-
ward of $4,000 for the apprehension OF
Paul o. Stensland, fugitive president
of the Milwaukee. Avenue State; bank
Clinton Wrax,. secretary CT the Un-
ion Trust company of Pittssjurgr has
been arrested att Toronto, Ont.- ac=
cused of having stolen i've $l2S.D0N
of the companN.s.funds.
Mrs. Emma Lee Deux. has BEEN sem
fenced at Stockton. CAL to De- hanged.
Oct. 10 for tbs murder OF Albert H
McVicar, a malev with whom she! had
been living.
The grand jury at Boston has re
turned indictments against seventeen
ice dealers and six les companies
charging conspiracy to fix the price of
ice.
Mayor w. H. Denny of Williston.
one of the. most prominent men in
Western North Dakota, has been,
found guilty of receiving stolen horses.
John panahue, a wealthy farmer,
was shot and killed at his home near
Coyyille, Kan, by his wife, whom he
had attacked with a butcher knife.
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