The Washburn leader., 1891-04-25
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Spotted fever prevails at Mesquite,
Texas.
The Kentucky peaches are damaged
by frost.
A storm demoralized wires in New
England.
The New York total grip death is 1869
up to date.
The English parliament will be pro-
rogued in July.
Jay Gould and his son George have
started west.
Terrible destitution is reported at
Tickle Isle, N. B.
Buffalo Bill and his Indians arrived at
Antwerp Tuesday.
DIR. Arthur Noke, prominent Chica-
goan, has suicided.
Congressman Ford of Grand Rapids,
Mich, died Monday.
The st. Clair river is blocked with Ice
for it's entire length.
Blaney, Baltimore's escaped murderer,
has been re-arrested.
Carnegie's steel works will resume
after ten weeks idleness.
The Indians at North Yakima, WASH,
are dying from grippe.
A Chicago horse was frightened to
death by an explosion.
Five hundred Chicago lathers have
struck for an advance.
Shrocton, Wis.,, had thirty thousand
dollar fire Friday night.
Stanley has not peen appointed gov
ernor of the Congo state.
A Utica, ILL.,, grain elevator burned
Thursday. Loss 100000.
j. M. Shaw & Co., New York and Chi
cago brokers, failed Friday.
The work on the Worlds Fair site is
entirely suspended by strike.
Six hundred worlds fair laborers
struck for an advance Monday.
The wife of Private Secretary Halford
died at Washington Wednesday.
The whiskey trust has elected officers
but Secretary Gibson is left out.
The Great Northern has declared a
IL per cent. quarterly dividend.
Charles w. White, Burlington hotel
proprietor, suicided Wednesday.
The gubernatorial muddle in Connecti-
cut has been brought into court.
The Manitoba railway has declared a
quarterly dividend of ~ per cent.
One hundred deaths from grippe in
Candelaria Mines, Holmes, Nevada.
Prince Bismarck's apathy caused the
result that occurred in the election.
Terre Haute takes Toledo's place in
the Northwestern Base Ball league.
Indiana midland trainmen are all out
on account of non-payment of wages. i.
Benedict & Gaffney, New York tea
dealers. lost $4,000 by fire Wednesday
Leith's wholesale drug house at Ev-
ansville, Ind, lost $155, 600 by fire Thurs
day.
A national farmers congress will be
held at sedalia, Mo-, November 10th
next.
Settlers in Rolette county, N. D., Pc
tition for q fort as protection against ln-
dians.
Mayor Cregier asked that Hampstead
Washburne be declared elected mayor
of Chicago.
Herman Nelson killed John Vancon
and fatally wounded Walter Woodland at
.Bakertown,
The Canadian finance and justice
ministers will visit Blaine to discuss the
trade relations.
At Chicago Thomas Casey fatally
stabbed Morris Kennedy fer saying Mrs.
Casey had red hair.
Captain Cattley, recently acquitted OF
the charge of cowardice at Wounded
Knee, has resigned.
It is reported that Iowa coal miners
will strike during the summer, 5000
miners being involved.
The first white republican convention
has been held in South Carolina and it
is considered significant.
Mrs. George Murphy, the crazy wife
of Fort Wayne, Ind, farmer, killed her
five year old daughter. .'.
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make Hampstead Washburne mayor of
! Chicago by 296 plurality.
The California attorney general says
the San Francisco stock exchange is
illegal and wants it enjoined.s
David W. Campbell was killed and
William Stewart horribly mangled by
an explosion at Lebanon, Indiana, Fri
day.
The Fulton street M. E. church, New
ark, N. j., can't get w. E. Simpson for
preacher and the congregation won't at
tend.
The Chicago federal grand jury in
dicted Secretary Gibson of the whiskey
trust, on charge of attempting to bribe
an officer, E@E
Toledo's newly elected mayor, Vincent
j. Emmick, took hold Wednesday and
started in on his career by arresting all
! the gamblers in the city.
Page Mcpherson of the firm of Nc
{ Pherson, Switzer & Co., general brokers,
!. st. Louis, Mo-, has disappeared, leaving
"a large amount of debts.