The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-08-07
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form.
CRIMINAL NEWS.

with Judge Taft and the notification
committee and guests aboard and Mrs.
EE. B. Russell Of Cincinnati, standing
Sn the hurricane deck directly under
the seat occupied by the presidential
candidate, was struck in the face and
breast by q number of small shot. She
twas not seriously injured. The shot
was fred from a shanty boat moored
to the Ohio side Of the river.
". F. Walker, who looted the Saw
Elngs bank Of New Britain, Conn, of
more than $500, 1000 worth Of securi-
tiles, pleaded guilty on four counts OF
'khe indictment in the superior court.
He was sentenced TO not less than
ione year nor than four years on
the first count and not more than five
years each on the other. t~hree.counts.
Two men dead and nine wound
cd, some probably fatally, is the rec
ord Of an attempt by a mob to storm
the county Jail at Pensacola, Fla, and
take out the negro, Leander Shaw,
Mho assaulted Mrs. Lillian Davis near
there. The casualties occurred in a
AUuIClO OJWOC LAC olSIlll dllu u pOSo0
and the attacking mob.
Two prominent Brooklynites, Colo.
mel Edward F. Britton, presideng of
The Eagle Savings and Loan company,
and Quarantine Commissioner Fred,
erick Fl. Schroeder, second vice pres
ident of the same institution, were
arrested after being indicted on a
charge of grand larceny.
T%hirty-six men were indicted by the
Kings county grand jury at Brooklyn,
IN. " on charges Of violating the
lanti-gambling laws at the r~acetracks.
Those indicted include some of the
most prominent men who formerly
occupied stools in the betting rings.
Charles Savage, a negro. was ar
rested at Kansas City by p%ostofice
authorities charged with stealing a
mail. pouch in the Kansas City Union
station on June 6 last containing $780,
900, being sent from Los Angeles to
. New York city bank.
Coroner Mack Of Laporte, Ind, has
announced that DR.. Walter Haines of
Rush Medical college, Chicago, has
found in the stomachs of Mrs. Gun
ness and two of the children arsenic
and strychnine in quantities sufficient
to have caused death.
A nervy robber tried to hold up the
Ashland-St. Paul northbound train on
the Chicago and Northwestern road
near Appleton Junction, Wis, but was
knocked from the engine by the fire.
man as he held a revolver to the head
Of the engineer.
There was a sensation in financial
circles at Racine, Wis, when 1t be-
came known that John Schultz. pay
ing teller of the First National bank,
was short SIS, 900 in his accounts and
had disappeared.
r. F. Parkhurst, assistant cashier
of the First National bank of Seattle,
was arrested and when confronted.
with al apparent discrepancy in his
accounts confessed to a shortage of
348,330.,
Returning to his wife's home at To-
ledo, o., after a absence Of sixteen
years Louis Armour, aged fifty, muir
dered the woman, fired 9 bullet at his
daughter and tried to commit suicide.
Wealthy and influential citizens of
Chicago, who own property devoted
to vice, will be prosecuted. This is
the edict issued by the Chicago Law
and Order league.
"Tad" Smith, a negro boy eighteen
years old, charged with assault on
Miss Viola Delancey at Clinton, Tex,
was taken from officers by a mob and
burned to death at the stake.