The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-04-03

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CRIMINAL NEWS.

CklMINAL NEWo.
Former Adjutant General Buckley
Wells of Colorado narrowly escaped
death or serious injury at his home at
Telluride from a well planned eHort
to assassinate him with dynamite.
General Wells was sleeping, as was
his habit, on an outer porch OF the
house and he was hurled with the
debris many feet from the wrecked
house. The side of the house was
torn completely out, hardly a stick OF
the bed remained and fragments OF
wood were scattered over the neigh
borhood. Though badly shaken up
and bruised to some extent n
Wells escaped without serious injury.
The circuit court at Toledo, O., has
affirmed the decision of the lower
court in the cases of the twenty prom
inent lumbermen of Toledo who last
July were sentenced to the workhouse
for six months under the Valentine
antitrust law. The supreme cour
having decided in the ice trust cases
that Imprisonment must be in the
county Jail instead Of the workhouse
the lumbermen were sent to the Owe
court for r%esentence.
An attempt on the part of Congress
man Hefin of Alabama to compel a
negro passenger on a Washington
street car to stop drinking from a
bottle of whisky resulted in the shoot
ing by Hefin of the negro and a white
man. Thomas Lumby, the negro, was
shot in the head and is in a critical
condition and Thomas McCreary, a
New York horse trainer, is suffering
from a wound in the leg. The shoot
ing of McCreary was accidental.
The premature explosion of a bomb
intended to wipe out a group of fifty
patrolmen turned a meeting Of 10000
unemployed men and women and spec
tators into a riot at Union square,
New York city. The anarchist who
exploded the bomb is dying and a
second victim named Hildebrand of
Brooklyn was killed. Several persons
were injured, but chance foiled a plot
to annihilate the squad of police.
Frank Froer, president of a Lincoln
GILL; bank and owner of the Lincoln
Mining company, was held up by high
waymen and robbed of $5,000-the
monthly payroll of the company.
Three men did the work and two of
them YER caught, but the third es-
capped with the money after a running
fight with the police.
D. w. Stevens, American member
of the Japanese council at Seoul, was
shot and perhaps fatally wounded at
the San Francisco ferry depot as he
was about to leave for Washington.
The deed was done by Koreans, who
objected to an interview given out by
Stevens in which he praised the work
Of Japan in Korea.
General Richard G. Horne was &C.
quilted at Kansas City of the charge
of numbering H. ]. Groves, managing
editor of the Kansas City Post, by a
jury in the criminal court. The yer.
dict stated that General Horne was
insane when he shot Groves and has
not fully recovered and commits him
to an asylum.
Henry Reiber, paying teller, and
John Young, auditor of the Farmers
Deposit National bank of Pittsburg,
have been arrested for alleged defal-
cations of $1,1O5,O00 The accused
waived hearing and the bond of each
was fixed at $250,00O, in default of
which they were sent to Jail.
William c. Bickford, who shot and
killed Sheriff James T. Webb of Vel.
lowstone county, Mont, after being
placed under arrest by that officer,
committed suicide to evade capture
when surrounded by a posse.
D. A. Bailey of Kansas City, ex.
press messenger on the Santa Fee
road, was killed by robbers and his
a looted of at least $1,000 in money
and some jewelry.
Sam johnson, m of the four John.
son brothers, outlaws and alleged cat
tie thieves, was shot and killed by
members of a sherif's posse a Tall.
hiua, Okla.
William D. Trainer, an actor, shot
and killed Mrs. w. ]. Pryor, with
whom he was travelling, and then
killed himself at the Clarendon hotel.
st. Paul.
Sheriff James Webb Of Yellowstone
county, Mont, was shot and killed by
William Byckfeund, wanted in wy.
oming on charges Of being a horse
thief.
Durham w. Stevens. foreign adviser
to the Korean council of state, who
was shot at San Francisco by a Ko-
resident Of that city, is dead.