The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-12-27

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Seven thousand men are now out in
the Scotch railroad strike.
The house transacted no business of
importance and adjourned.
The president approved the Sheboygan
and Racine public building bill.
The senate adjourned till Saturday,
when it will adjourn to Monday.
Abill has been introduced in the house
against the Sunday Worlds Fair.
Mrs. Mcclure and grandchild burned
to death at Newark, N. j., Friday.
Chas. Lobetz of New York shot his
wife and two children and himself.
The senate adopted the conference
report on the Sioux reservation bill.
General Miles thinks all of Sitting
Bulls followers have been captured.
It is said the secretary of state is pre-
pairing the Worlds Fair proclamation.
The Pennsylvania anti oleomargerine
law has been declared unconstitutional.
The Iowa Business Mems association
organizing a mutual insurance company.
The British government is sending
supplies to furnishing Irish on the west
coast.
The Wells Fargo express company de-
clared a 4 per cent, %semi.annual
dividend.
Three tramps were lynched by railroad
men neal Huntington, Oregon, for injur-
ing q brakeman.
10 Doneghue won the international
'r skating championship at Cam
England.
ave been brought agains
"'icago, and the as
ernor, Wiley has been
nor of Idaho, Shoup having
,cted senator.
% schooner Mary Ellen, from Sails
Try, Nd, for Baltimore, is reported
lost, together with her crew of five men.
Attorney-G General Leese of Nebraska,
vocates governmental control of rail-
roads.
The United States supreme court holds
that the wife is not q competent witness
against her husband where polygamy is
charged.
Banker Prettyman of Chicago and his
cashier, G. S. johnson, have been in
dicted for embezzlement in receiving
deposits when they knew the bank to be
%insolvent.
After being out twenty-five hours the
jury in the celebrated Horton murder
case at st. Paul brought in a verdict Of
not guilty. The case has been a hard
fought one.
A c~ollapsing wall at the Chicago stock
yards killed Mike Barry and an unknown
and fatally injured VIM. Devine and
John McInerney.
There has been great damage from
snow storms throughout the state of
Maine. Vessels are ashore, wires down
and railroad traffic hindered.
Sheriff Webb, of Sherbroke, Ont, died
suddenly of heart disease Friday just
before time for the hanging of Montague
But the man was hung just the same.
Martin Schearney, killed, Frank Gein-
OF, fatally scalded, and one man thought
to have been blown into Lake Erie, is
the result of a boiler explosion in Cleve-
land.
The Indianapolis News of Tuesday
says the new reaper and binder trust
will, on January LIST, discharge several
thousand men from the factories and
Offices throughout the country.
The passenger train on the Wheeling
& Lake Erie road broke through q tres
tie nea Bolivar yesterday and killed
Mrs. Ada Hall Of Sharodaville, Ohio;
Henry Hill, Mrs. Carrie Hill, Illinois,
and M unknown woman, and wounded
nine-two fatally.
The plant of the Gull River Lumber
company, near Brainard, was damaged
by fire Tuesday. The loss is $4,000 ex-
which also burned. The company is
composed of the Pillsburys of Minneap-
oils and the plant is insured.
Agent McLsuahlin's official report of
Sitting Bulls death has reached Wash
ington. The details are as heretofore
given. He says Catch-the-B Bear, hostile,
fired the first shot. The agent asks for
substantial government recognition Of
the work of the police and pensions for
the widows Of the slain.
A passenger train on the Western New
York Pennsylvania railroad jumped
the track at Watsonville, Pa, Tuesday,
and twenty-one Of the thirty-eight pas
sengers on board were more or less in
iured. The wreck was caused by the
spreading of the rails. Two passenger
cars and one baggage car toppled over
an eight-foot trestle. There were no
fatalities.