The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-10-11
WASHBURN LEADER.
By r. b. COPELAND.
WASHBURN, : NORTH DAKOTA
CONDENSED zELEaRAMs.

Five vessels Our1n& B 6tOfn
in the North sea
Prairie fires are raging in the country
around Dickinson, N. D.
Fair weather has set in and saved the
California grapes and raisins.
Fire in Sidney, N. 8. W., caused q loss
of q million and q half pounds.
The president and party left Washing
ton Monday on q western tour.
It is said Russia and Turkey have
agreed on the Armenian question.
Fifteen hundred Liverpool cartmen
struck for less work and more pay.
Schweinfurth will probably be indicted
by the grand jury at Rockford, Ills.
The decision in the Slavin-M cAulife
case has been reserved for one week.
The Count of Paris and the Duke Of
Orleans arrived at New York Friday.
The count Of Paris left New York for
Philadelphia and Gettysburg Monday.
The dairymen supplying Chicago are
organizing to do away with middlemen.
Ernest Humphreys, a negro murderer
at Princeton, Ky, vas lynched Thurs
day.
The shortage of ex-City Treasurer
Fitzpatrick Of Terre Haute, Ind, is &c.,
622.
Rube Burrows, the notorious Alabama
outlaw, has been killed by Deputy Sheriff
Carter.
Six thousand Scottish miners will
strike If q Is per cent advance is not
granted.
Three counterfeiters were caught in
the act at st. Johns, Mich, Wednes-
day night.
Two hundred and two Mormon con
verts arrived at New York Thursday,
en- route west.
A passenger wreck neal Celtic, Ore,
fatally injured Fireman Howard and hurt
several others.
A Louisville mail transfer wagon
was robbed of 1876 registered packages
Monday morning.
Fleming Bros. a Pittsburg patent
medicine firm, assigned for $25O,OOO;
assets, one million.
Baron Naldi is on trial at st. Peters.
burg charged with the embezzlement of
two million roubles.
Engineer Ed. Wells was crushed to
death in q freight wreck at Collinsville,
Ill, Thursday evening.
The British steel men are at Pittsburg
and say they want to see the American
iron and coal mountains.
Twenty-Five thousand veterans with
their friends greeted President Harrison
at Galesburg, ILL.,. yesterday.
Recent developments indicate that
wholesale cattle stealing has been car
ried on on the Cherokee strip.
Alfred Palmer, aboy arrested for horse
stealing at Frankfort, Ind, fatally shot
Marshal Bird who had him in charge.
President Harrison leaves Washington
Monday for Galesburg, I'LL, Ottumwa,
Ia, Topeka, Kansas City and st. Louis.
James Reed and wife, heal Guthrie
Centre, Iowa, were struck by q train, the
latter being killed and the former fatally
hurt.
Poisoned lemonade at the Portland.
Ind, county fair put thirty persons under
medical care, but no deaths are yet re-
ported.
England has demanded of Portugal an
immediate settlement of the indemnity
claim for the seizure of the steamer James
Stevenson.
William Il. Schreiber, who robbed q
Columbus, Ind, bank Of 100000, has
restored the money and will ask mercy
of the court.
The Idaho republican state ticket re-
ceived 1900 majority and the republicans
have forty-four out Of ffty-four members
of the legislature.
President Harrison's trip across Ohio
and Indiana was q series of orations,
crowds greeting him at every station and
cheering the brief speeches he made.
An explosion in Ross grocery, st.
Louis, injured six fremen, and John
Brady, Rose Pulaski and Jennie Herrick,
spectators, were probably fatally in
jured.
-Four boilers exploded at the Ducey
lumber oompanyis mill at Muskegon,
Mich, injuring six men. Fireman Yer
ger cannot live.
William Sprague, Jr., grandson Of
Chief Justice Chase and son OF ex-Gov-
ernor Sprague of Rhode Island suicided
at Seattle Wednesday.
The president appointed Miss Helen
p. Clark of Montana special agent to
make allotments Of lands in severalty to
Indians under an act Of congress ap-
proved February 8, 1881.
The Chicago Times says the Mount
Carmel Aeronautic Manufacturing com-
pany will be chartered with twenty
millions capital, for building air ships
which will 60 around the globe in five
days.
Five hundred Illinois Central freight
conductors and brakemen, between Chi
cago and Champaign, struck Tor the re-
instatement Of twenty discharged men,
but the engineers refused to support
them and they decided to return to work.
Hesthen Rsformers.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. 8-The first
open meeting Of thenorthwestsrn branch
Of the Women's Foreign Missionary so
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