The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-08-16
WASHBURN LEADER.
BY r. H. COPELAND,
WASHBURN, : : NORTH DAKOTA
NUBs OF NE VS..

the men refusing offered terms.
The house anti-lottery bill has been
favorably reported to the senate.
Ten families were rendered homeless
by a $4,000 fire at Chicago yesterday.
The Missouri Farmers and Laborers'
union met in secret session Mt Salida yes
terday.
John J. Martin, a millionaire of Kan
sas City, died at him home yesterday,
aged IS.
OF the 1912 abandoned farms reported
in New Hampshire last year 3Ol are now
occupied.
One hundred and seventy-five deaths
from cholera we're reported in Mecca
yesterday.
Chatsworth. Ills, wreck survivors held
q reunion at Peoria Monday with a small
attendance.
The Topeka, Kas., original package
dealers are going out of business, it being
Improbable.
Murray Hall, a summer hotel at Pablo
Beach, Fla, burned yesterday. The
guests all escaped.
The South Wales coal employers de-
cided to united to resist the further de-
mands Of the miners.
- Riraud, the murderer of Notary Gouff,
made an unsuccessful attempt IN Paris
to kill himself to-day.
By q party vote the senate committee
on elections decided to report the cleo.
tions bill to the senate.
The New York Central was almost
completely tied up from Buffalo to New
York all day yesterday.
Peter Jackson and John l.. Sullivan
have been offered a purse OF $3O,OOO for
a fight at Ogden, Utah.
At an Italian dance at Rondout, n. T.,
one was killed, one fatally dubbed and
several severely injured.
The Michigan crop report shows an
improvement in wheat but corn and oats
have fallen off in condition.
The New York coffee men discredit the
story of the colonization of the negroes
in Mexico for coffee culture.
The Odd Fellows at Chicago are kick
ing over the railroad rates to the big
meeting now being held here.
The accounts of Girard Austin, de-
ceased treasurer of San Jose county,
Cal, has been found short $4,000.
Mrs. Boersa of Chicago tried to start a
fire with kerosene. She and her 5-year-
old daughter died a few hours later.
The senate postoffice committee or
dered a favorable report on the bill to
prohibit the carrying of lottery mail.
John W. Inglis, the Duluth crop OK
pert, estimates the wheat crop OF Min
nesota and the Dakotas at 81, 100000.
The senate has passed the resolution
providing for the removal of Gen.
Grants remains to Arlington cemetery.
Warren J. Harris and Frank Gates,
who left st. Paul last winter for mission.
airy work at Sierra Leon, Africa, died of
fever.
The New York cloak makers strike is
on again, all employers having decided
to employ both union and non-union
people.
DR.. G. Sawyer was probably fatally
shot by j.. Barton Fdncher at Chicago on
account of alleged intimacy with the lat
ter's wife.
The Illinois crop bulletin say the
drouth greatly hurt the crops, especially
corn. The wheat yield is estimated at
14,54O,OOO.
Edward Trensch, a Chicago street ped
der. dropped dead of heart disease and
$4,000 was found sewn in the lining of
his clothes.
Mason City, Ia, was the place for the
conference of the original package deal
ers of that state, who decided to go out
os business.
The explosion of q gas we'll probably
fatally injured Michael Keunsel, Joe Sc
bastian and Barney Preus at Redwood,
o., Thursday.
The New York Central strikers say
they have not yet lost, but will play an
other card which will place a different
look on affairs.
The Kansas crop report places it at 30
per cent. of the average. The corn crop
will not exceed 100000 0 and wheat will
be about 25,OOO,0O0.
Hume Clay of Paris, KY, a lumber
merchant, has disappeared and bis
friends are anxious. He was on route to
ST. Paul on July 30.
A resolution has been introduced in
the senate to Limit debate in that body.
It is the same resolution that had been
considered by the caucu
Yesterday Jack Finn, 9 cowboy, rode
into Fort Pierre, became intoxicated and
while running his broncho through the
streets, was thrown of and killed.
The New York Sun says the New York
Central strike is practically at an end,
and the Knights of Labor suffered the
most crushing defeat in their history.
Mrs. Mollie Storm and daughter, and
Mrs. j. r. johnson and son were drown
ed while bathing in st. Marys Co, Md.
Nine others were in the party, but were
saved.
During q heavy storm at Crefeld; Ger
many, Sunday q house with fifty. peo-
ple in il, fell to the ground and thirteen
were killed. Others are still buried IN
the ruins.
On the Kansas side Of the river at st.
Joseph, Mo-, the water is cutting 3 new