The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-12-26
CONDENSED NEWS.

CONDENSED NEWS.
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
ISOLATED Press.
The duke of Devonshire is dead.
Three ''bootleggers" are in trouble in
Hillsboro, N. D.
An epidemic of whooping cough pre-.
walls ct Mandan.
A board of trade has been organized
at Waubay, 8. D.
Fifteen buildings were destroyed by
fire at Oroton, N. 7.
Secretary Foster and Mr.. Mills are
both reported better.
The state farmers alliance will hold q
meeting in Larimore today.
The senate has confirmed the nomina.
ton of Stephen b. Elkins.
The first carload OF American tin has
been received at San Diego.
Friends of Fred Douglass are alarmed
at the condition Of his health.
One thousand native Christians have
been murdered in Northern China.
John Davis, one of the best known
mining experts in the west, is dead.
Hon. John Miller says he is not . san
didate for governor of North Dakota.
James Gordon Bennett is the guest of
Prince Bismarck at Friedersohsruhe.
Murat Halstead, after remaing a few
days in Rome. has gone to Florence.
j. E. Britton has his outfit on the
groand for a new paper at Edgley, ND.
The firms who suffered from fire at
Cakes are already housed in new quar-
ters.
Stephen B. Elkins, the new secretary
Of wal, if so years old. He was born in
Ohio.
It is said TRAIT Hon. Robert T. Lincoln
intends to resign as minister to Eng
land.
Mail service has been established from
Arlington to Laketon, 8. D., twice q
week.
A carload of flour is ready at Water.
town to be shipped to the starving in
Russia.
Out ola population of 4 1000 persons
at Wilkesbarre. Pa, fully $4,000 have
La grippe.
Col. John L. Hathaway, governor of
the National Soldiers Home at Milwau.
kee, is dead.
Maj. Gen. P. Conner, the first Gen.
tile in Utah, was buried at Salt Lake
City On Sunday.
There has been more wheat shipped
already this fall from Ooopertown than
in any previous year.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hatton, of Clinton,
Iowa, celebrated the fftieth anniversary
of their wedding.
The Pacific extension of the Great
Northern road has been pushed beyond
the Rocky Mountains.
A new lodge of Knights of Pythias
has been organized at Devils Lake. with
twenty charter members.
Mason City, Iowa, feels confident of
securing q branch of the Des Moines
and Northwestern Railway.
Resolutions of regret at the death of
Senator Plumb we're adopted in the
United States senate yesterday.
An English syndicate has purchased
the Spratt Sapphire ground. twelve
miles from Helena, for 90. coo. 600.
Edward Russell. aged SO years, editor
of the Davenport Gazette until 1877,
died in Minneapolis yesterday morning.
A collision at Eureka. Mo-. yesterday
morning on the Missouri Pacific, demol.
ished twenty cars and injured three
trainmen.
Charles Uncles, the first colored man
yer raised to the Catholic priesthood,
"a ordained by Cardinal Gibbons in
Baltimore.
Several of the county officials of Trail
County, n. D., have announced that
they will resign rather than return to
Caledonia.
Judge W. Tourgee. who has been ill
at Denver for some time, is considerably
better, and it is believed he will recover
in q short time.
Judge Blodgett, of the federal district
court for Northern Illinois, will resign
to accept the presidency of the Illinois
Insurance 90.
Anton Rubinstein, the Russian plan
list, has accepted an offer of 1926, 600 for
a series of fifty concerts to be given in
the United States.
Mrs. Charles F. Brown, of Blooming
ton, ILL.,. claims she is the widow of
Charles F. Brown, the humorist known
as Artemus Ward.
Rev. George s. Pierce, of Worcester,
Mass, has begun action for divorce at
Sioux Falls. s. D., against his wife.
He alleges desertion.
Freeport, ILL.,, authorities have for
hidden the killing of sparrows within
the city limits. Over 5000 birds have
thus far been killed.
Rear Admiral Thomas Patterson, u.
s. NJ, died suddenly at New Brighton,
s. l., Thursday night. His death was
entirely unexpected.
The grand jury at Grand Forks has <
oner4ted r. n. Sprague, who was
charged with swindling the First Ma
tional Bank of Larimore.
The republican state central commit.
tee of Minnesota held q meeting in st.
Paul yesterday. Not any business of
importance was accomplished.
Dr. E. B. Plumb. Of Ames, L.,
jumped out of q third story window at
the cottage hospital in Des Moines and
received injuries from which he died.
At Grandin Monday night two freight
trains oollided, completely demoIishing
two freight cars and badly wrecking an
and caboose. No one was hurt.
Minnie O. Hanson, of Goshen, Ind,
secured q divorce from her husband in