The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-12-05
CONDENSED NEWS.

Interesting Happenings of the Past
Week Culled from the As
ISOLATED Press.
The loss at the Tracy fire will foot up
to 300. 600.
Cyrus w. Field is gaining strength
each day.
Another earthquake occurs in Wash.
ington.
A West Virginia man dies at the age
of 1859 years.
Lord Lytton was a firm believer in
spiritualism.
The Apaches in Arizona are reported
to be on the warpath.
Company K of Duluth will probably
be mustered out.
A leading firm of New York brokers
is compelled to assign.
Beals has concluded to prosecute the
kidnappers of his child.
A general massacre of foreign resi-
dents is apprehended in China.
The French are of the opinion that
the German emperor is insane.
The State University for colored
people at New Orleans was burned.
Two men in Waterford, Texas, fight a
duel over a dog. Both were killed.
Contracts are awarded for carrying
United States mail on ocean routes.
An officer Of the Foot guards of Eng.
land is hanged by infuriated soldiers.
Pennsylvania oil production for Nov.
ember SHOWS considerable falling off.
A ukase is Jude. consideration pro-
hibiting the export OF horses from Rus
sia.
M. Berg, leader of the radical party
in Denmark, is dead from heart dis
ase
Washington county's share Of the
Worlds fair fund is raised in Still.
water.
Twenty-Five of the Oldest conductors
on the Milwaukee system were dis
charged.
Ames Wolver. living in a cabin near
Wallace, Idaho, was murdered and
cremated.
An old time miner of Helena named
James Gillian was burned to death in
his cabin.
Rates from the Twin Cities to st.
Louis disturb the railroad men of the
Northwest.
The American Steel Barge 90. will
construct two w~halebacks for the Can
adian Pacific.
It is discovered that fifty saloonkeep-
ers in St. Paul are doing business with
ont q license.
Govenor Merriam states that Mime
sofa is for Blain first and for Harrison
second choice.
The president, secretary and eight
employees of the louisiana State Lottery
Co., all give bail.
Premier Salisbury, to his surprise,
discovers an emissary' of the Vatican in
his household.
James g. Wyman, mayor of Pitts
burg, has been arrested for imbezzling
the oity's funds.
It is rumored in Washington that
Commissioner Roosevelt may he re-
moved from Office.
Red Wing has a new daily paper
called The Independent. It is edited
by d. II. Tanby.
The interior decides q case
involving valuable mineral land in the
Duluth district.
Bissow, the rape fend, was sentenced
to the p~enitentiary at Indianapolis for a
term Of two years.
Strenuous efforts are being made BY
the railroads in South Dakota to raise
the wheat blockade.
A special meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Worlds Fair is now in
session in Chicago.
Ignatious Donnelly makes an alliance
speech at Hastings. thus firing the first
guno of the campaign.
Field, Lindley, Weichers & Co.,
bankers and brokers, of Broadway, New
York, have assigned.
Still another banking company at
Berlin goes to the wall, and the deposit
ors are in mourning.
Americans in Berlin and Vienna OBJ
serve Thanksgiving Day with appro-
priote ceremonies.
John Roe, a wiper for the Northwest
ern road at Winona, was crushed to
death under an engine.
A race war exists at Guerdon, Ark,
growing out of the arrest of Q negro
thief by q white officer.
The Business Mems Association, of
Minneapolis are hustling after more
manufacturing plants.
st. Louis wants the democratic ma.
tional convention and is making Q big
hustle towards that end.
The wives of Sitting Bull make an
sfidavit which presents the killing Of
that chief in o new light.
The grand jury in st. Paul makes q
report on illegal liquor selling, fifty
saloonkeepers being guilty.
George E. Barr. proprietor Of Hotel
| Warwick, Of Springfield, killed his wife
and then committed suicide.
At Concord. N. H., Isaac Sswtelle.
awaiting death for killing his brother.
Hiram, asked for q new trial.
An American bark in Japanese waters
has . novel adventure with an earth.
quake and Q submarine volcano.
The death Of Lord Lytton was caused
BY syncope of the heart, so say the ply.
siicians who made the autopsy.
AZ q dance in Cedar Rapids two