The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-08-29
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
sociated Press.

cotton.
A cold rain killed the Indiana grass
hoppers.
Cherokees are settling on the Chero-
kee outlet.
Russian relief measures are being
pushed.
A. 8. Campbell Won the tennis cham
pionship.
The reported successes of Emin Pasha
are denied.
The Omaha smelter strikers have re-
sumed work.
Balloon fatalities are becoming COM
mon in Europe.
Pan Handle wreck at Columbus, loss
ten thousand.
The Ontario crops are the best in
many years.
A national lead trust will be organ.
lied Thursday.
The Kansas Republican League meets
at Topeka today.
Joseph Bros. & Co., of Chicago,
failed for $75.0 600.
Wisconsin crops much improved by
recent rains.
Great damage done in Pennsylvania
by transforms.
Ex-senator Harlan is slightly i'll at
Burlington, la.
Saloons r being closed in the In.
dian Territory.
The Prince of Wales is aiding desti-
tute Russian Jews.
Heavy rains damaged Westmoreland
County, England.
Albert Hall. colored, stabs his wife to
death at Nashville.
Russia will furnish free wood to its
distressed provinces.
Eight stores and $40, 900 we're lost by
a fire at Lexington, Neb.
The knights of Reciprocity are in
convention at Topeka, Kan.
Over II, 600 barrels of oil burned at
Mcdonald, Pa, yesterday.
Serious trouble is threatened over the
railroad strike at Peoria, Ill.
The dry weather is damaging crops
around Belvidere, ills.
Hobart defeated Hovey in a tennis
match at Newport, r. ].
Statistics show $2S, 200 1863 invested
in Massachusetts in 1890.
Milwaukee takes Cincinnati's place
in the American Association.
Fred Douglas says the president
didn't ask him to resign.
Porter says America may replace the
Russian supply of grain.
Job Hass was murdered in Philadel-
phia by an unknown robber.
The Vermont legislature will convene
in extra session Aug. 25.
All Europe is excited at Russian pro.
hibition of the export of rye.
West Virginia's population is 1872, 1914.
an increase of %. "a per cent.
English papers believe Americans
will hold wheat for stiff prices.
London papers all lament Lowell's
death in complimentary terms.
President Harrison spent yesterday
fishing e Mt. McGregor, N. Y.
Russia is concentrating large bodies
of troops On the Austrian frontier.
The strike of Lake Western switch.
men at Lafayette, Ind, continues.
A cyclone sweeps over Bloomington,
Ind, doing much damage to crops.
The New York democratic convention
will be held at Saratoga,S Sept. 5.
A farmer kills his nephew in a quar-
rel ovez q nickel at jackson, Tenn.
Queen Victoria sent President Harri-
son condolences on Lowell's death.
DR.. Moffat, a young Clevele1d den
fist. was drowned at C~hautauqus.
The striking switchmen at Peoria, ILL.,,
have been replaced without trouble.
Austria will make a great display at
the Worlds Columbian Exposition.
The Reading coal company will work
short hours till the coal trade booms.
An italian steamer was wrecked and
eighteen persons drowned in Senegal.
The London Times argues against the
American Inter Continental Railroad.
4he Oklahoma alliance wants an inter.
state railroad from Duluth to Galveston.
Mrs. Mary Richardson and her two
children were killed near Nicholasville,
KY.
Christ Young was hung at Lexing-
ton, No., for the murder Of Hans Han
son.
The Pottsville, Pa, Steel and Iron
90. has resumed work with non union
men,,
The fight at Valparaiso still continues
and the insurgents are said to be victc-
rious.
It is reported that Ex-Governor Che
ney will be Secretary Proctor's sue.
cessor.
San Francisco employers organize to
resist the entertainments of the trades
unions.
Eight were drowned by the burning
of the Norwegian collier Frey, near
Bergen.
The National Worlds Fair commits.
sion must cut salaries or have a 500, QUO
deficit.
Turkish brigands captured an Italian
railroad contractor and demand $40, 600
ransom.
Rossi Savarini got six months for
robbing q dead body at the New York
disaster.
The Russian government denies that
it will place a prohibitive export duty
on wheat.
Wool warehouses of the Overland 90.
Ct esl Chicago bic burned, causing . loss Of