The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-28

Frank H. Jones. assistant cashier
Df the Charlotte National bank OF
Charlotte, N. c., is missing with $50,
300 Of the banks funds.
While in Jail at Charlton. Iowa. on
charge of vagrancy, August Johnson
claims to have been robbed of $1,056
Harry Timmons, a ''trusty," is sus'
pected.
Two brothers who loved the same
woman fought with knives and clubs
in an East side saloon in New York
until both were so badly injured that
they probably will die.
Two men held up a jewelry store
MI prominent street at Los Angeles
and escaped with booty valued at ST..
900. Hundreds of people We're pass
ing the store at the time.
Joshua Harrison. charged with the
kidnapping and murder of Kenneth
Beasley, the nine.year-old son of For
mer State Senator Beasley. was found
guilty at Elizabeth City, N. C.
Edward Howell. one of the most in
fluential negroes in Southern Missi.s.
sippi, was shot in the back and killed
while on his way home at Hattiesburg,
Miss. The shooting is a mystery
United States District Attorney Os-
ear Lawler filed complaints in the
district court at Los Angeles. charg-
ing the Santa Fe and Southern Pa
citic violations of the federal statutes
prohibiting cruelty to animals.
j. A. Erickson, banker of Mimic.
n. D., convicted of making false re-
ports to the bank examiner and sen.
fenced to five years Imprisonment,
tas heeE placed IN the United States
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan
Casualty.
Count Vladimir Nicolaivitch Lams.
dorf, the former Russian minister OF
foreign affairs, died at San Reno,
italy. I'll
Richard Croker. who returned from
Monte Carlo ten days ago. is lying Ill
at his residence near Dublin. For a
week he has been unable to leave his
bed.
So great has been the influx of Jap
anese at Ell Paso that hundreds have
stopped in that city, readily securing
employment as house servants, dis
placing Mexicans.
Nine persons, eight of them school
children, were instantly killed anu
many others injured at Durango, Mex.
leo, by the collapse of the roof OF the
public school building.
A French punitive expedition has ad-
ministered defeat to the revolted Dad.
dian tribesmen at the village of Tialo
Sixty-two of the tribesmen were killed,
while the French column lost four
men.
The Danish training ship Viking was
blown over during a storm in ship
building yard at Copenhagen. She had
400 workmen on board at the time.
Only ten w0rkmen were injured. There
was no loss of life.
A telegram from Trebizond, Asiatit
Turkey, says that Hamid Pasha, com.
handing the local troops, while leav.
ing the mosque, was assassinated by
a non-commissioned officer who had
been punished shortly before.
The appearance of few cases OF
smallpox in Paris has greatly alarmed
the people, Thousands of persons
have been vaccinated during the last
few days, and the hospitals and the
Academy of Medicine are besieged by
crowds Of people anxious to be revac'
cinated.
4 fight took place at HAMBURG
among the imported English long.
shoremen on board the steamer An.
choria, many of whom were London
roughs. Seventeen injured men were
taken to the hospital and 1877 refused
to work and insisted on being sent
back to England.
Notwithstanding the official denials
private inquiries confirm the report
that King Leopold, who is visiting the
Riviera, had a cerebral attack few
days ago. He was for some time I'm.
conscious. 1t is now announced that
he will go home much earlier than
was expected. King Leopold is nearly
seventy-two years old.
A duel with swords that went six
bouts was fought at Paris between
Emmanuel Arene. senator from Cor.
sica. and Adolphe Bison, a journalist.
Both contestants were wounded in the
arm, Bison slightly and Arene severe.
ly. The encounter arose from an nj.
legged insulting letter sent by Arene &c
BriSsOn.
General.
The Iowa legislature has passed the
mti-tipping bill.
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