The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-10-17
General News Items.

General News Items.
Samuel Barb has been arrested at
Fort William, Ont, by Sergt. Watkin
on a charge of forgery. The alleged
crime was committed in Duluth.
Three prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Cincinnati They dug
their way through an inner wall with
pieces of iron broken from their beds.
The carpenters employed in the con-
struction of the Bell Telephone build
ing at Great Falls, Mont, have gone
on strike once more, and the work on
the building is stopped.
Frederick Boehmann, wealthy Ger
man, was sentenced to fourteen years
in the penitentiary for the murder
last Decoration day of Henry Matthias,
saloonkeeper at Chicago.
Oct. 20 has been set by the manage.
ment of the Fort Dodge, Des Moines
& Southern as the date on which reg
ular service will be started on the re-
Gently completed electric lines.
Levi Jones and William Carpenter
are dying in a hospital at Pittsburg
from injuries received in a duel with
knife and an ice pick as weapons.
The fight was prompted, it is said, by
jealousy.
The jury in the Rowland murder
trial at Raleigh, N. c., returned yer.
dict of acquittal. DR.. and Mrs. David
Rowland were charged with poisoning
the woman's former husband, Charles
r. Strange.
William Burns, negro desperate
who shot Policemen August Barter at
Cumberland, Md, inflicting wounds
from which the officer died, was taken
from Jail by mob at an early hour
and shot to death.
! With the assistance of seven power.
full tugs the battleship Kentucky,
which stranded off Lambert's Point.
| Va. while endeavoring to avoid a DOS.
sible collision with vessels living at
anchor in the stream, waiting to take
coal, has been floated.
Freight tonnage passing through
the 500 canals, according to the Sep
TENDER report, was over $500, 900, max.
ing the seasons tonnage to date over
100000. Less than 100000 more
Is needed to exceed the record of last
season. The year will break last years
record by several millions.
The output of automobiles for 1908
is expected to be $4,000 cars. as
against $4,000 made this year. These
figures, which are said to be a con.
sentative estimate, have been an.
nounced by the management of the
American Motor Car Manufacturers
association.
Judges Grosscup, Baker and Seaman
In the United States circuit court Of
appeals, In an opinion overruled the
petition of the Chicago & Alton Rail.
way company for a rehearing on its
appeal from the 100000 fine imposed
by Judge K. M. Lands a little more
than a year ago for rebating.
1t Is authoritatively stated at the
state department that there is no foun.
dation for the report that Robert Ba.
con, first assistant secretary of state,
is to succeed Ambassador Tower at
Berlin, and it is added that no word
has yet been received from Mr.. Tower
indicating his intention to retire from
the Office.
But for the investigation of the
child's father and the timely arrival of
officers, Henry johnson, negro. who
1t is alleged assaulted the three.year.
old daughter OF Leonard Broadway.
would probably have been lynched at
Memphis by posse of neighbors. who
captured him after two.mile chase
Grand Master John j. Hanrahan of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
men and Engineers has issued a cal,
for meeting of the general chairmen
OF the Joint protective boards of all
the railroads east of Chicago to meet
In Buffalo. The purpose of the meet.
ing Is to establish standard rate of
pay and uniform operating and work.
ing rules for the various railroads in
the territory embracing all the lines
east of Chicago.
Sir Thomas Upton has decided to-
build the new Fife-designed cutter tn
compete In the British regattas in
in 1908. 1t is intended that the cutter
shall eclipse the White Heather IT,,
the present champion of the British
yachts.
A gang of convicts who were beine
escorted to Tobolsk, Siberia, from
Tyumen. Eastern Siberia, attacked
thelr guards and wounded six of them.
The guards fired on the convicts.
twenty-five Of whom were killed
Eleven of the prisoners escaped with
rines which they had wrested fen
the members Of the escort