The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-09-13
NUBs OF NE VS..

OAAAosSS 0NS
Fire at Ottawa, Kan, caused $4,000 loss.
M. Alexander, the French novelist, is
dead.
Reciprocity is gaining ground in Mon
treal.
Sioux City has been made a port of de-
livery.
Chauncey M. Depew has returned to
New York.
A tornado damaged the country near
Goshen. Ind.
The five-minute debate on the tariff has
begun in the house.
of Omaha as 1885.
Fire underwriters of the northwest are
meeting at Chicago.
BY a vote of 80 to Is the senate set a
bounty on maple sugar.
The government purchased 10000
ounces of silver at $1.17L.
Massachusetts prohibitionists nominated
DR.. Blackman for governor.
Salonica fires have been extlnguished af-
ter destroying 1900 houses.
The trial of the New York Central train
wreckers begun at Troy, N. Y.
White Caps maltreated a man rear Reno
Kas., for proposing to a widow.
The Chicago carpenters promise to re-
new the strike within ten days.
Richard Geunther. consul. general to
Mexico, is sick at Oshkosh, Wis.
ingalls, won't speak on the tariff until
the conference committee reports.
The republicans of the Sixth Wisconsin
renominated Congressman Clark.
Lightning caused the destruction of the
railroad offices at Altoona, Pa, Sunday.
Sawyer, Wallace & Co.. New York. sus-
pended with liabilities of $1.OOO,0OO mil
lion.
The government purchased 255. 900 ounces
of silver, the prices ranging from $l.l72 to
SLIPS.
BY a vote of 1O5 to So the seat of Brecken-
ridge of Arkansas was declared vacant by
the house.
The senate by a vote OF 80 to IL decided
to allow all sugars under the Dutch stand
ard to enter free.
Ten persons were instantly killed and
many injured by a dynamite explosion at
La Rochelle, France.
Tom Harris, a Joliet convict, suicided,
leaving q written confession OF the murder
of the McCOmbs family.
The forces are being disbanded and
peace will be formally declared next week
in Guatemala and Salvador.
The Swedish evangelical mission church
es of the United States held its sixth an
nual session at Galesburg. Ill.
The senate started the final general de-
bate on the tariff bill yesterday noon, and
at $50 the bill passed, 40 to %. .
The Iowa railroad commissioners arc
preparing for another tussle with the rail-
roads and there is trouble ahead.
In the ocean race the I'eutonic beat the
CITY of New York, making the run across
in.5 days, 20 hours and 81 minutes.
The republicans of the Fifth congress
siOnal district of Minnesota to-day renOni-
mated S. G. C0mstOck by reclamation.
John Dillon, Thomas Sheehan and Us.
Fleming were suffocated by gas while
cleaning out a cess pool at Staten Island
yesterday.
James Starr and A. j. Keffen were killed
in a Delaware & Hudson collision at How
ards, n. Y.
Engineer Cordellia and an unknown
man were killed and sixteen cars piled on
top of each other by q freight wreck at
Warrington, w. Va.
The senate adopted the tariff amendment
reducing flax duty from 4 cents per pound
to $40 ton. Casey, Davis, Moody. Pierce
and Washburn voted against the amend
ment.
Near Lockport, N. Y, Sunday, two linn
tied trains on the Central collided, Bag
gagelnan Fields being killed and Engineer
Bailey and Fireman Houston badly IN
jured.
The Pennsylvania railroad machlnists
at Pittsburg wanted nine hours work and
ten hours pay. The company gave nine
hours with the same rate per hour and the
men agree.
Amid the clangor of church bells, artil-
Iery and strains of band music, the 1000
men Of the Salvadorian army made their
triumphal entry into La Libertad, the cap
ital, Friday morning.
The following nominations for postmas-
Frederick Reitz at Neillsville; South Dako-
ia, Frank M. Head, Miller; North Dakota,
Andrew E. ThOrnberg, Mandan.
Congressman Cummings in the house
yesterday protested :stsd, aga si ! 1 being included aed
Ill JIG OoI11AOll O1uSA AA0V -
proceeded to arraign the speaker in q Wig
orous and denunciatOry manner delightful
to the democrats. .l. 4
Senator Plumb was yesterday advised by
Gen. Greedy, chief of the signal service,
that the investigation into the causes
which produce winds would be made and
whether or not the disastrous effects of
their presence can be averted.
Washington Park will not he rendered
to the worlds fair directors. Such is the
unanimous decision of the South Park
commissioners. At a meeting Of the exec
utive board an informal report to the
worlds fair director respectfully declined
advances to that end and suggest that
Jackson park has already been accepted.
The Canadian View of II.
TORONTO, Sept. 8.-The Empire gov
eminent organ) commenting on Senator
Sherman's reciprocity resolution says:
"lf such q resolution passes we may,be
sure the dominion government will meet
congress half way. The dominion gov
eminent has always manifested q dispose