The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-09-20
WASHBURN LEADER.
BY r.. H. COPELAND,
WASHBURN, : NORTH DAKOTA
Condensed rELEGRAMs.

The population of Daluth, Minn., is 49,
725, an increase of 10000.
The Brazilian elections are overwhelm-
ingly in favor of a republic.
Two more arrests have been , made for
train wrecking near Albany.
The Elmira, N. Y, flood is at a stand.
The damage has been great.
The house no%n-cOncurred in the senate
amendments to the tariff Gill.
w. w. Finley is the new chairman of
the Western Passenger association.
Vice-President Bryan of the Worlds
Fair. has %reconsidered his resignation.
Both the railroads and farmers lose
heavily in the Kanawha valley, w. Va.
Pearl producing clans have been found
in the ManitOwOc river near ChlllOn, Wis.
The senate Thursday took up a confer
ence report on the land grant forfeiture
bill.
The South Carolina democrats headed
their ticket with b. r. Tillman for gov
ernOr.
The senate passed the bill authorizing a
bridge across the Mississippi at Hastings,
MINI.
Secretary Window conferred with New
York bankers OF the money situation yes
terday.
A mine explosion occurred in a South
Wilkesbarre, Pa, shaft, five being reported
killed.
An epidemic is prevailing near CARROLL
ton, o., which is pronounced to be Aslatlc
cholera.
Floods around WatertOwn, N. Y, have
done great damage to railroad and other
property.
The senate passed the house bill for a
bridge across the Mississippi river at
WinOna.
The senate honored the memory of the
late Congressman Randall with speeches
Saturday.
A fire in the HolmesOil works, Buffalo,
caused an explosion. Monday, injuring
nine men.
Killing frOsts were reported Saturday
morning from the central and northwest
ern states.
An attempt is being made to organize
q cattlemen's trust to control the cattle
markets.
Langdon, who killed his wife's murderer
near Clinton, Iowa, has been exOnerated
by the jury.
Fire starting in a telegraph office at
Lynchburg, Va, destroyed half the block.
Loss $150,00O.
The senate has passed the house bill to
pension soldiers and sailors after thirty
years service.
Capt. Ralph Atwood at PrOvincetOWn,
Mass, Monday.
Laura Horn sulclded by hanging in New
York. whereupon her father. shot himsllf,
probably fatally.
d. M. Avery, a Lake Shore detective,
was murdered at Chicago yesterday by
Louis Dleckman.
The house Friday continued to lose q
quorum on approval of the journal and
finally adjourned. p
The net earnings of the Milwaukee rail-
road for the past year were $9,2S2,6lO an
increase of s$sS58,486.
The treasury department has purchased
$4,000 ounces of silver, prices ranging
from S1.156 to $1.157.
The senate, by a party vote of 80 to IS,
agreed to a conference report on the rail-
road land forfeiture bill.
MuCN udludkH has lCSu1VCu lAONA OAV
heavy rains and freshets in eastern Ohio
and western Pennsylvania.
The case of Hale, charged with shooting
Eugene COwles at Montreal, resulted In u
fine of $500 for the prisoner.
Petit, the worlds tennis champion, for
mally resigns the title as he has not time
to defend the championship.
The latest report from Guatemala is that
General Barrundia opened fire and was
killed by officers in self defense. Il,
The house ways and means committee
has recommended non-concurrence in the
senate amendments TO the tariff.
The strike of the firemen and seamen at
Southampton is ended, the advance asked
by the men having been conceded.
Another feud has broken ont in Breathitt
county, Ky.,. n being killed and two
wounded at the first fight on Sunday.
Miss Anna Adams and her : young
nephew, Charles Bird, were asphyxiated by
gas from a gas stove at Mansfield, q.
& Thirty-one coal barges were carried
away by the flood at Charleston, w. Va,
Thursday, and eleven, valued at $4,000,
were lost.
The house approved the journals of
y UO6U6ys w CULlCCu0y xAluASO6y @AH GAA-
day and then eulogizeds the late Senator
Beck.
James Beardsley of southern Minnesota,
q freight conductor, was killed In the yard
at Wells Saturday while making q coup
ling.
Anton Nicholson. of Crookston while
crossing the Great Northern tracks in a
buggy Saturday was struck by the
engine and instantly killed.
The Montana democratic state conven-
ton Monday nominated Judge w. w.
Dixon for congress-. There were no state
OficerS to be nominated.
The Massachusetts republican conven-
tionsn0minateda ticket by ballot, voting
for all ut once, hoping to, prevent log
rolling. Governor Bracket was renOmt-
mated.
Messrs. Potter q Lowell OF Boston, the
big failed firm, have been arrested on the
charge of embezzlement and larceny Of
$4,000 in bonds of the Edge Hill Furnace
company Of Philadelphia.
Pnrser Mllligan, of the steamer on5which
General BarrundiR was & shot, reached
New York and his story Is substantially
the same as that heretofore ~teleRraphed.
The general was killed by. G~uatemalfan
Officers on ansAmerican vessel while re.
sisting arrest, directed by i letter purpOrt-
Ing TO come the American minister.