The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-12-19
CONDENSED NEWS.
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the AS
ISOLATED Press.

Interesting uappeH1uSS VI JIG ust
Week Culled from the AS
ISOLATED Press.
Peter Sundquist hung himself in Has
tings.
Major Mckinley is down with Ia
grippe.
Rain fell throughout Minnesota on
Monday.
Mrs. J. W. Mackey will quit Paris
and go to London.
Huron. 8: D. experienced quite q
rainfall on Sunday.
Small pox has broken out in eight
provinces of Russia.
Senator Quay has entirely recovered
from his recent illness.
The story that Governor Hill has a
body guard is denied.
Five prisoners are killed in the Iowa
State prison by a falling log.
Willie German Wills. the well.known
dramatist, is dead in London.
The duke of Devonehire is growing
weaker and may die at any moment.
John A. Logan, Jr., has rallied, and
there is now a chance Of his recovery.
E. Colby has been appointed post
master at Ypsilanti. Stutsman county.
The pianist, Won Oulow. is q victim
of influenza and is in q critical condi-
ton.
La grippe is epidemic in New York,
Chicago, San Francisco and other large
cities.
United States district court was
opened at Grand Forks yesterday morn.
ing.
r. p. Olarkson, editor of The Des
Moines Register, has been sued for
Islander.
A bag containing $5. 600 in gold dust
was found among q heap of clnders at
st. Louis -.
It is said that Senator Oullom of
Illinois has a presidential bee in his
headgear.
Jay Gould has concluded to leave his
business affairs in other hands and 70
into society.
Hon. Josiah Minot, once the law part.
ner Of President Franklin Pierce. is
dead, aged 70.
DR.. Henry s. Douglass, house sur
geon of the Kansas City hospital, com
mitted suicide.
Chief Hayes, of the Cherokee nation,
is dead. The assistant chief is said to
be dangerously i'll.
The south Carolina house has passed
8 bill prohibiting public officers from
accepting free passes.
Secretary Foster continues to improve
slowly. but will hardly be able to leave
his house this month.
Prof. George @. Smith, for twenty-five
years president of the Drew Seminary,
died at Carmel, N. Y.
Thomas Vance, of Killarney, Mani
toba. is dead from the effects of expos.
ure in the late blizzard.
Matt Quay says he is out of politics,
and is not q candidate for reelection to
the United States senate.
Six divorces are on the docket al
Chamberlain, q. d, Five of these are
brought by eastern people.
The wheat exports from San Fran.
cisco last week we're four hundred and
forty-fve thousand oentals.
The trial of M. B. Curtis, the actor,
who killed q policeman in San Fran
cisco, is set for Jan. II next.
Lemuel Richards, q we'll known citi.
zen of Milwaukee, committed suicide.
He had q bad attack of lagrippe.
John Prichards, of East Carroll
Parish, La, the largest individual cot
ton planter in the world, is dead.
It is reported that ex-Speaker Reed il
about to retire from public life and es'
tablish himself as q lawyer in New
York.
Senator Kyle has written to parties in
Pierre to the effect that free delivery
will not be established in that CITY until
next July.
Mrs. James g. Blaine. jr., has been
granted $500 slimony and $500 solici-
tors fees, to be paid within the next
thirty days.
Henderson N. Nelson. 9 private, sol
dier, and q descendant Of John Rolfe
and Pocahontas, is on trial in Brooklyn
for murder.
Trouble is brewing in the northern
part of the Flathead reservation be.
tween some claim jumpers and several
Indian families.
Harry Hall, Of the senior class in the
Kansas State University, ia dead from
the effects of too much exertion during
a game of foot ball.
Rev. Father Schwelbach, of Prairie
du Chen, has been appointed bishop Of
the La Crosse diocese, vice Bishop
Flasch, deceased.
The Port Sea Island Building society,
which is among the largest and oldest
institutions Of the kind in Great
Britain, suspended.
Last Friday afternoon NJ. O. Hol,
comb threshed $40 bushels of wheat
from the shock on the farm of A. N.
Campbell, Of Rose Hill, N. D.
Emperor William has gone to Neck.
lenburg to attend the wedding of Prince
Albert Of Ssxe.Altenburg and Duchess
Helene Of Mecklenburg-Strelita
It is now claimed that Dr.. Nelson,
who was burned to death at Cakes, com.
mitted suicide by pouring kerosene
over himself and setting fire to it.
The President of Brazil rendered q
burial place for Dom Pedro within the
territory Of Brazil, but the offer was re-
fused by the dead mans daughter.
Tim Byrnes, Of Minneapolis, has
been arrested on the charge Of forgery
in the first degree. His bail is fixed al
%, 600, and the trial set for Feb. Is.
Miss MITCHELL, daughter Of Senate,
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