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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
AM Embexzler Arrested

TACOMA, Wash, March 19.-Gustave
Kuentzel was arrested here on the
charge of embezzling the money order
funds while acting as postmaster at
Marion, Waupaca county, Wis 1t was
alleged that he appropriated funds to
the amount of $1,425.75 in December
last. The money was demanded by the
postoffce inspector, who told him that
would end it. Judge Hanford may
place him under bonds to appear in the
United States court in Wisconsin to
answer, and failing to give bonds, the
marshal may take him back.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
1t is Now Ascertained that 562 Per.
sons Persisted OH the
Steamer UtODia.
Divers Report the Victims Wedged
Into the Hatchways in a .
Solid Mass.
FELTON, Elected United States Senator
From CalifOrnia-Charges
of Bribery Made.
The Number Drowned.

GIBRALTAR, March 19.-The revised
official count of the lost and saved pas
e and crew of the Inflated Utopia
shows that there we're $50 souls on board
the steamer when she ran on the Arson.
OF these the saved number 1913, and the
lost 562.
GIBRALTAR, March 19.-Captain Nc
Keague of the Utopia has been arrested
for wrongful acts, improper conduct,
negligence and Encouragement. He was
released on bail. Accounts given by the
divers who are engaged in work in the
wrecked steamer, of the terrible sights
which they have witnessed on the vessel,
still further increase the appalling char
acter of the catastrophe. These men, in
describing the horrible scenes, say they
found the matches and chart room of the
Utopia closely packed with the bod
les of the unfortunate passengers who
had become wedged into an almost solid
mass in their frantic rush to reach the
deck of the steamer after she had crashed
into the sharp ram of the ironclad. The
position in which the bodies we're found
show that the poor people made a terri
BILE struggle for life and that
desperate attempts were made
to escape from the doomed vessel
as the sea came rushing in through the
rent in her side. Owing to lack of &C.
co~mmodations in the naval hospital here,
many of the crew and emigrants who
were rescued have been compelled to en-
camp on the glacis. The military are
closely prtrolling the shore for
the purpose of resculng any
more of the bodies that
may be washed in by the waves. The
inhabitants of this place who from
shore witnessed the horrifying scene of
hundreds of persons being swallowed up
in the raging waters of the bay, are I'M
stinted in their praise of the great gal
lantry displayed by the men of the Brit
ish squadron anchored here, who boldly
hurried to the rescue of the endangered
passengers without stopping to consider
the risk they ran in launching their
small boats on the agry sea and in teeth
of the heavy gale. Much praise is also
bestowed on the men Of the yacht
Resolute, who also manned a boat and
succeeded in saving sixteen persons, who
for this brave and timely assistance
would soon have given up the struggle
and sank to the bottom. Two blue
jackets of the British ironclad immortal
tie, twhc, while engaged in the work of
rescue, where drowed by their boat,
a steam pinaace, drifting on rocks, were
buried here to-day with full naval
honors. The collins we're covered with
a wreath of flowers, which bore tribute
to the self-sacrifcing heroism of the two
sailors.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Death of Gen, Joseph johnston.

WASHINGTON, March 21.-General Jo-
seph E. Johnston died shortly after II
o'clock tonight, at his residence on Con-
necticut avenue. The General has been
suffering for the passt three weeks with
an affection of the heart, aggravated by
a cold he caught soon after General
Sherman's funeral in New York. His
physician has been trying to keep his
strength up for some days, but his adj
vanced age has given little hope for his
recovery from the beginning of his illness.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
A creditable Undertaking.

YANKToN, 8. d., March 19.-The COM
mercial club of Yankton has decided to
make an effort to unite all the principal
cities Of South Dakota in a project to
have South Dakota represented at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1898. The
last legislature voted to make no appro-
priation to provide for a state exhibit
ton at the fair.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
In Santa Domingo.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-It is a curl
GUS fact that the first action taken by any
foreign nation in connection with the cell
ebration OF the 4OOth anniversary of the
discovery of America should be by the
Republic of Santo Domingo on which
was located the first settlement of the
Spaniards in the new world. An exhibit
of relics will be sent.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Boone, Iowa. March 2O.-One of the
Butte Mines Closed.

BUTTE, Mont, March 20.-The Ana
conda company has shut down again.
This time the whole outfit is stopped.
The mines in Butte and the smelter at
Anaconda and 1900 employees are laid
off. The cause is the refusal of the
company to pay the advance in charges
on freight to Montana. An attempt to
settle the dispute will be made in New
York.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Prizes for Lady Architects.

CHICAGO, March 25.-Miss Sophia G.
Hayden, of Boston, wins the $1,000
prize offered for the best design for the
woman's building of the Worlds Fair.
Miss Lois L. Howe, also of Boston,
takes the second prize of $500 and Miss
Laura Hayes, Of Chicago, gets $3.50
offered for the third best design.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
It's Not Tascott.

ABERDEEN, S. D., March 19.-Barnes,
the alleged Tascott, was confronted this
morning by Clark, a Chicago witness,
who said the resemblance was remark
able, but that Barnes was too old for
Tascott. His face was too long and his
moustache unlike. He was positive that
Barnes was not Tascott and %thereupon
Barnes was discharged.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Regarding Dakota Coal.

WASHINGTON, March 24.-Census bull
letin No. 43, issued to-day, contains sta
tistics of the coal products west of the
Mississippi. Concerning North and
South Dakota the report says: "As as
certained, the coal areas of these states
lie in the western counties between a line
drawn from the Turtle mountains in the
north. through Burleigh county, to the
southern borders of the Black Hills, and
the western boundary line. The princi-
pal developments have been made along
the line of the Northern Pacific railway
at Bismarck and westward at points
along the Missouri river as far north as
Fort Stevenson and also in the vicinity
of Hay creek in the Black Hills. The
product is a fair grade of Ignite, or
brown coal, suitable for heating and
steam, and in some localities it is found
to e be adapted for the production Of gas
The seams vary in thickness from a few
inches to twelve feet. The absence of
transportation facilities has hitherto
retarded the development of the
coal mining industry, but, un.
statehood, the increasing demands will
encourage railroad construction and
stimulate the more intelligent prosecu-
ton of the mining operations. The best
authorities upon the subject look for.
ward to the neal future when the de-.
mands for fuel in these new and rapidly
developing states will be readily supplied
within their own borders. No coal min.
ing operations were reported by the
tenth census for Dakota. The reports
of the production, as published by the
United States geological surveys in
years past, have been mainly estimated
The output of all the mine in North
and South Dakota during the calendar
year of 1889 was 28,9O7 short tons, OF
which 1892 tons were from ranchmens'
diggings and local mines. The total
product was valued at $41,4
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Steamer Ashore.

NORFOLK, Va, March 25.-A steamer
went ashore on the North Carolina coast
yesterday morning. She is the British
steamship Sraithairly, bound from San
tiago de Cuba to Baltimore. Out of a
crew of twenty.slx, nineteen were lost,
including all the officers except the
second mate. The steamer will be a
total loss.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Investigating saltwater Penitenti.ry.

ST. PAUL, March 25.-The house COM
mittee investigating the state prison
management made a very voluminous
report to-day. 1t is in three parts, the
first giving the history of the contract
convict-labor system, the second de.
failing the purchase of the binding ,
Irvine machinery for the prison use,
and the third discussing the alleged
compulsory resignation of Warden j. J.
Randall, who died this morning in this
city. The history of the contract system
goes back ten years, describes the
various contracts, explains the workings
Of the system, and gives some of the
inside workings of the companies secur-
ing the contracts. It states that, by
letting u the convict labor at a low
figure, and then paying out big prices
for the work to, the companies
employing the said convicts, the state
was caused a big expense where
little or none should have been incurred.
The committee finds that in this way the
state paid in ten years 100000 more
than it received from contractors who
had secured convict labor. The report
gives copies Of letters of companies en-
ploying convict labor, in which they
speak Of getting such labor for 'merely
nominal price," and describe how they
have arranged matters to prevent the
possibility Of any others securing convict
labor. In the discussion of the binding
Irvine matter crooked methods are al
legged against those securing machinery
for the penitentiary. AZ to the removal
of warden Randall the committee be-
lieves it was brought about at the in
s%tance.of the convict employing manufac.
turers who wanted to make the appoint
ments instead Of the warden.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Hundly's Trial Closed.

HURON, 8. d., March d. The trial Of
Fred Hundly for the murder of his faith
er, Hon. Tack T. Hundly, formerly editor
Of the Huron, Herald, democrat, and
chairman of the democratic state Genital
committee, closed tonight, and the case
was given to the jury.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Captain MoKeague Released.

GIBRALTAR, March 25--The Marine
court, which has been inquiring into the
loss of the steamer Utopia, which sank
in Gibraltar bay during the night of
Monday, March 16, decided to-day
that Captain McKeague. commander
of the Utopia, was guilty Of q grave error
of judgment in attempting to enter the
anchorage behind the new mole without
knowing what vessels were there at
anchor, and in attempting:to turn the
Utopia out Of the anchorage across the
Anson's bow. The. captain has been dis
charged from custody. y
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28

a girl, who is known by several names,
wa arrested in Harrisburg with a sus.
picious lot of jewelry on her person.
and by .judicious pumping. she
instructions tonight, Chief Detective
Gilkinson, Of the Pittsburg agency, with
Detective Pat. Murphy and two McKees.
river to Peters Run, reaching the house
Of the leader in the robbery, A. g. Budd,
alias Fitzsimmons, at about 7 o'clock.
Meanwhile, it is thought the girl, Hill,
warned Budd, for, when Gilklnson threw
open the door, Budd stood in the lower
room, apparently changing his clothes.
The moment that Budd saw Gilkin-
son he
THREW UP A REVOLVER
and fred, the ball entering Gilkinson's
forehead killing him instantly. Detec-
tive Murphy leaped over the Frustrated
form in the doorway and facing Budd a
terrible duel at a short range in the
smoke-darkened room followed. Budd
emptied revolver and his wife, who
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another. Murphy, though badly wound
ed, had also emptied his pistol, and
stopping to the dead body of his chief,
drew his revolver and renewed the firing.
He was firing blindly into the smoke,
however, while the burglar centered all
Of his shots toward the door. Suddenly
a woman screamed and with a curse
Budd
PLANTED A BULLET
into Murphy's breast, who fell back I've
Gilkinson's body. During the panic
that sliced the two policemen at this sec
ond loss to their ranks, Budd threw some
clothes over his arm and escaped. A re-
view of the room showed the place to be
a pepper box of holes. The bullets had
struck in every conceivable place; Gill
kinson was dead; Pat Murphy wa shot
in the forehead, chin and breast,
though not fatally, while the oma re-
ceived a shot in her arm, and two police
men were slightly wounded by flying
bullets. The woman was taken to Jail,
whils kilograms were sent all Q three
states to intercept Budd, who is described
as five foot five inches in height, dark
complexion and eyes and weighing only
100 pounds. He is u noted crook and at
the time was wanted for a previous bur-
glary.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Healy Ill Treated,

Cork, March 23.--Timothy D. Healy,
M. p, had a very rough experience in
this city to-day, he being assaulted and
seriously injured. He had attended the
a%ssizes, being interested in the case in
which his brother, Maurice Healy,towhom
Parnell recently sent his famous resig-
nation challenge, has obtained damages
for libel against a local member Iof the
Parnellite party. Upon leaving the court
room at the conclusion of the trial
Timothy Healy was soon surrounded
by a bowling mob, who followed him
along the street and made a number of
attempts to assault him. The crowd
finally became so violent that Healy,
to escape his tormentors, was compelled
to beat a retreat and take refuge in the
dressing-room of the Victoria hotel.
But this proved to be only a temporary
place of safety, for, before Healy could
recover from the effects of the mob's
rough usage, a man suddenly
rushed into the room, turned
out the light, and then struck
Healy powerful blow in the
face, smashing his eye glasses into
pieces. When assistance arrived and the
room was again lighted, Healy was
found to have been badly injured, as he
received numerous cuts from broken
pieces of his eye glasses, and blood was
pouring down his face in streams. He
was removed to a room and. as he ap-
peared to be suffering intense agony, a
number of physicians were summoned.
Three doctors are now in attendance on
the injured man. They have made ar
examination of the wounds in his eyes
and express the fear that Healy'sinjuries
may result in the loss of his sight.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Mrs. wigginton Hung.

MT. STERLING, KY, March 21.-A mob
went to the house of Mrs. Wigginton,
whose husband and sons are charged
with poisoning Ferguson and Watts, and
hanged her, and now searching for Wig
CLINTON, who has fed. Two of the Wig
CLINTON boys are in jail, which is strongly
guarded.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
A Fatal Knockout.

SAVANNAH, Ga, March 21.-Robert
Wlmick was knocked down last night by
Byron NJ. Murphy in an ameteur prize
fi9ht at the Athletic clubs tournament
here, and died early this morning from
conclusion Of the brain.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Snow storm in Iowa.

MARsHALLrowN, Iowa, March 90
The heaviest snow storm of the season
has prevailed here this afternoon and
evening, though the snow melted rapid
ly. Telegraph business was nearly par
alyzed.
BOONE, Iowa, March 20.-One of the
severest storms of the winter set in this
afternoon. Snow is falling fast and
drifting badly.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Meeting of Italians in New York.

New YORK, March 2O.-The great hall
of Cooper Union was packed with 5000
Italians of New York and vicinity to-
night, called together to denounce last
Saturdays tragedy in New Orleans, not
w~ithstanding a drizzling rain. More than
as many more we're unable to gain en-
trance to the hell. The hot blood of It.
ally, fred by the memory of the New Or
leans affair, could not be restrained out
side the building and shortly before 8
o'clock a crush outside the doors broke
them down and a number Of people were
injured in the rush. One hundred and
fifty policemen were kept busy for a
quarter of an hour to drive the new ar
rivals out of the hall. The speeches
we're nearly all in italian and the denun-
ciatians of the New Orleans tragedy were
almost terrifying in their vehemence.
There. was hardly a sentence but that was
applauded to the echo and especially
when the speakers spoke of the necessity
for satisfaction for the killing. The
meeting was an orderly n barring the
great excitement shown. To Pacify the
crowd without twas addressed from the
balcony by a number of speakers. The
hall was draped with American and Ital-
ian flags and festoons of black crepe.
There was much excitement.
ALMOST A RIOT.
New YORK, March 2O.-That there
was danger was evident. just q the
meeting was about to close. resolutions
were being read when several persons
IN different parts Of the hall arose and
asked to be allowed to speak. These
requests were: refused by the chairman.
The men who wanted to speak then ap-
pealed to their fellows, asking if they
meant to sit there inactive, and urging
to act and avenge the wrongs done
in New Orleans. The instant they be-
gan, to talk in this way, the prominent
men: on the platform sprang into the
alsles and urged the audience to he
quiet and orderly. Meanwhile the police
had taken the riot incitors in hand and
hustled. them OUT of the hall. It was
q most critical moment, and the
leading mon of the meeting acted
none, too soon. They admitted
after the meeting. that, had they allowed
any one Of those. in the audience to have
spoken for five minutes, bloodshed would
have followed, as the men present would
have been. so wrought uprthat they would
have started a riot almost without know
ing why. As soon as the resolutions
were adopted, the meeting was dismissed
and all present were urged to leave the
place quietly and they obeyed. Resolu-
tons deploring and denouncing the trag-
edy. and demanding repsration were
passed3and ordered sent to President
Harrison and the italian premier.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
The Corer-Dam Safe.

SAuLr STE. MARIE, Mich.-The break
in the co%ffer-dam is now under control.
The washout in the cribbing is about 100
feet.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
The Celebrated Actor, Lawrence
Barrett, Dies of Heart Failure
in New York.
Five Thousand Excited Italians AS
semble in Cooper Institute,
New York City.
HOt-Headed Italians in the Audience
Almost Precipitate a
Bloody Riot.
Lawrence Barrett Dead.

NEW YORK, March 2O.-Lawrence Bar
rett, the tragedian, died this evening at
1O:45 o'clock, at the Windsor hotel. His
demise was due to heart failure. The
actor was unconscious but a short time
before he died.
ONLY ILL W. DAYS.
New York. March 20.-His wife and
DR.. Chambers of this city we're with
Barrett when he breathed his last. His
last sickness dated from Wednesday
night when he wa obliged to leave the
theatre. where he was engaged. 1t was
said at that time that he a merely
suffering from a severe cold and would
be out in a few days and the same report
was made the following day. Even
yesterday the reports from the. sick
chamber were very favorable. This even
ing DR.. Chambers called at the Windsor
hotel at 9 O'clock to see his patient and
shortly thereafter announced that he
would remain all night in the sick
room. Heart. failure the physician
declared, was the cause of his death.
Barrett has. two daughters, now in Eu-
rope, one being the wife of Mary Ander-
sons brother. The funeral will take
place probably in Boston and the man.
ager of Booth and Barrett will have full
charge of all arrangements. At the time
of his partners and friends de1h, Ed
win Booth was at the Players club in
bed asleep. He did not rrceive the news
of his death until midnight. and wal very
deeply affected at the news of his, de-
mise. He did not, however, go up to the
Windsor hotel tonight.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-28
Newspaper office Burned.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., March 21.-The
Jersey City Argus newspaper Office, q five
story brick building, burned tonight.
Loss 100000.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-11-28
The State Line Question.
Morristown Gazette,

MorrstOwn Gazette.
A number Of prominent lawyers Of
Virginia and Tennessee, who for
some time have been at Bristol TAX
ing dispositions of old citizens as to
the boundary line between Virginia
and Tennessee, to be used in the
suit of Virginia versus Tennes.
see, row pending in the Su-
preme Court Of the United
States, have gone to Cumberland
Gap, where they will continue their
work. The Virginia and Tennessee
boundary line has been in dispute for
several years, though it is substan-
TALLY the same agreed to and estab-
lished by the commissioners in 1902.
Within a few years Virginia has set
up a claim for slice of territory
along the border line from Kentucky
to North Carolina, and is suing to re-
cover it. The territory in dispute
amounts to between 800 and 1000
square miles, being about miles
deep and some $50 miles long. If
Virginia should win she will get
nearly one half Of six counties, in
Guiding the towns of Bristol and
Cumberland Gap, the big Louisville
and Nashville railroad tunnel at the
Gap, several miles Of the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap and Louisville rail-
road and the East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroad. The
country involved is rich in
minerals, timber and coal. No
wonder that Virginia is fighting
hard to get it, or that Tennessee is
active in her efforts to prevent it. 1t
is thought the case will be heard
next March or April. Tennessee
resists largely on the ground that a
line which has stood undisturbed
since 1902 should not be disturbed
now. Virginia claims that she has
never acquiesced in the line, and that
the matter has always been in dis
pute. On the territory in dispute il
is estimated there are about $4,000 in.
habitants. If taken from Tennessee
it would not affect the State politi'
cally, nor would it affect Virginia
materially, as the votes are about
equally divided between the demo
Gratis and the republicans.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-11-28

OF the 46O convicts released by the
miners in East Tennessee, $50 have
been recaptured, leaving 90 still at
large.
Andrew Johnson, the contractor
who built the Maxwell House at
Nashville, died at Kaufman, Texas,
a short while ago.
A German peddler named Bedow
suicided by shooting himself at the
corner of Vine and Crawford streets,
in Nashville, last Tuesday evening.
1t is rumored that the Staunton
House at Chattanooga is to be con-
verted into general offices for several
lines Of railroad running into that
city.
A storm of unusual severity swept
northward up the Atlantic coast from
Florida last Monday, doing great
damage in many towns and cities
Telephone and telegraph wires were
demoralized throughout the entire
track sof the storm. The White
House in Washington city was con.
Q Siderably injured and four person:
were killed in that city.