The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-08-29

tion of the wal.
In a private letter to st. Louisfriends
Secretary Noble indicates no intention
of resigning.
The Barcelona chamber of commerce
formally protests against the Spanish
American treaty.
The San Francisco Argus formally
announces Senator Stanford asa candi-
date for president.
A night express train was held up in
| Georgia by three masked men and
robbed of $3.50. 900.
Strike on the Lake Erie & Western
Railroad extending. General blockade
of traffic threatened.
Gladstone writes a letter condemning
interference by the house of lords in the
home rule question.
The United States government is ex-
ercised over the legality of selling lager
beer in Indian Territory.
The mayor and city council of Al
toona, Pa, were arrested for refusing
to abate q sewage nuisance.
A scheme is reported on foot to place
the militia OF all the states under ma
| U1OAdl COA4uQuAu 0Au R0ys
W. A. Clemets has been appointed
government sugar inspector under the
new sugar bounty law.
Mexican farmers don't want Ameri-
can reapers because the directions for
their use are in English.
An attempt is Being made to raise the
blockade on the Lake Erie & Western
caused by the strike.
Attorney Catlin of Terre Haute was
arrested at Chicago for purloining
papers valued at $50, 900.
1t is reported that sixty sailors we're
massacred by natives at the mouth of
Mackenzie River, Alaska.
The issue of fraudulent residence GER
t~iicates to Cinnamon has been un-
earthed in San Francisco.
A collision between two Northern
Pacific freight trains at Palmer caused
the death OF two trainmen.
A schooner wreck on the Island of
A~nticosta, Gulf of st. Lawrence, will
probably cost seventy lives.
Two convicts were killed while trying
to escape from the penitentiary at
Walia Walla, Wash, yesterday.
Maurice Call was fatally burned and
seven others seriously by a gas explc.
sion in a tunnel at Chicago, LII.
Blaine repudiates his alleged inter-
view with Alger, touching the presi-
dency. Alger also denies it.
The New York hot wave has gone,
but the effects are still apparent; six
heat deaths reported yesterday.
Seventeen thousand dollars were
found in the destitute home OF Edward
Baker, who recently died in st. Louis.
On Sept. Is the boat entrance to
Green Bay, Wis, will be changed from
a flash white light to a fixed red light.
Sixty.one bodies had been recovered
at New York when work was stopped
and twenty. one bodies were uniden.
titled.
Conductor William Mathews was
killed and three others perhaps fatally
injured by the Rock Island accident at
Chicago.
Two hundred and eighteen people
were killed in coast towns alone during
the recent hurricane in the Island Of
Martinique.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Manning, an
old wealthy couple. have been arrested
at Council Bluffs for issuing 500 spuri.
GUS $40 notes.
The new desert sea at Salton covers
1855 square miles, and is receding. It is
fed by two channels, but at q greatly
diminished rate.
Mckinley opened the campaign in
Ohio with a speech at Niles on laviews
of the republican policy on the tariff
and silver issues.
Robert Sims, arrested in Alabama for
elicit distilling, escaped from the
sheriHs posse. Two men were killed
in the melee which followed.
Hardin, who was to have been hanged
at Poplar Bluff, No., yesterday, has
been respited six weeks, another man
having confessed to the crime.
Scientific examination is being made
of the holy coat at Treves and results in
favor of h e,theory it's being indentic8l
rs the garment worn by Christ.
Won Moltke's history of the Franco.
German war causes disappointment to
German officers. owing to lack OF ref
erence to certain matters of domestic
policy.
a Ao8IO UoOduo ouGduRl0Q Id INC
ropes Of q balloon near Wilmington, N.
O.. and was carried up 5000 feet. He
was afterwards deposited on the ground
unhurt.
The Federation of Labor elected
Charles A. Miller, Harrisburg, Pa,
president. It was decided not to recop.
nize the socialist party or farmers
alliance.
The Bank of France is trying to keep
gold to meet purchases of American
wheat. The governor of the bank est.
mates the sum required for payment for
wheat at EGO, 600, 600.
The London Times, discussing Amer
lean politics, says the democrats are
more likely to defeat Blaine and Mo.
Kinley by propounding a sober pro.
gramrne with a sober representation
than by any %pyrotechnic display.
boundary Survey Contract Approved.
WASHINGTON Aug. 20. -Commissioner
Carter Of the general land Office has ap.
proved tho contract with Sam Burdick
of Livingstone, Mont, for a survey of
the western boundary of Flathead In
dian reservation. Liability, $1,7OO.