The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1907-08-16

connection with a gang to threaten
wealthy Armenians and to kill them
should they fail to give up the sums
Of money demanded. The accused
priest was held in $4,000 bail for fur
Their examination.
San Francisco Supervisors Out.
The old board of supervisors for the
city of San Francisco who served I'M
der Mayor Schmitz have rendered their
designations, thus making way for the
new set appointed by Mayor Taylor.
At the same time former Mayor
Schmitz has appointed a new set OF
supervisors in order to set up the claim
in the courts A his right to contin'1e
as the duly authorized mayor Of the
city and with a view to contesting all
the acts of Mayor Taylor and the new
board.
New Works. Wave Of Crime.
Close in the wake of Il long series Of
vicious and murderous assaults upon
little girls in and near New York city
the police authorities of the metropolis
have been confronted with two cases
of murdered women, recalling the muir
dcrs of Jack the Ripper in the White
chapel section of London and tallying
in MAN. respects With the recent series
of ticndish attacks upon little girls in
Berlin by a unknown and unappre-
hended assailant. In Il rOominS house
where a number Of people were sleep
ing on the other side of q thin board
partition a woman was found stran-
glcd and the nan with whom she had
been %consorting was missing. The
murderer had mutilated the body by
biting into the flesh of the check and
arm. Within a few hours afterward
the body of a young woman was
found in IN areaway on the east side
with marks ON her neck showing that
mans hands aud with her BODY fright
fully mutilatcd. a Russian named
KuZmicho, who was arrested OIL sus-
picion, admitted that he had been in
company with the young woman found
in the area, but denied that he was re-
sponsible for her death. The city au-
thorities have called for an increased
number of policemen, and Commission
err Bingham has cautioned all parents
to guard their children and young wo-
men at all hours. The Berlin ripper
who chooses little girls as his victims
is believed to have been responsible
for the death of thirty children within
a year. The prevailing opinion is that
these crimes have been committed by
q maniac or moral pervert.
Gas Trust Not a Monopoly.
The effort OF Attorney General Jack
son of New York to annul the charter
and corporate existence of the Consoli-
dated Gas company of New York city.
known as the gas trust. has been balll-
ed by the decision of Justice Mccall.
which holds that the company is not q
monopoly in the eye of the law. He
regards the antitrust laws as being
little more than a codification Of the
common law upon the subject and that
there is nothing to prevent II cor
poration from acquiring the stock of
another.
To Bust the Powder Trust.
In the United States court at Will
mington. Del. the federal government
has begun suits against the companies
and individuals constituting what is
known as the Du Pont powder trust,
petitioning that these various interests
be restrained from operating and en-
gagiqg in Interstate commerce and that
receivers be appointed to take charge
of their business. The petition alleges
that in 1872 all except three Of the
powder companies in the United States
organized with the object Of regulating
prices and that this association was re-
ncwed in 1881 SO as to prevent the
entry of new competitors. Subse-
quently various Independent powder
makers were taken into the combina-
ton until 1902, when it controlled 95
per cent of the powder business. 1t is
further alleged that in 1903 the so
called powder trust was formed by the
organization of the e. 1. Du Pont de
Nemours Powder company. with a cap
ital stock of : O.OOO,O 1000. as a holding
- company for the