The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-01-02
NEWS.
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
ISOLATED Press.

years old yesterday.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has
been attacked with the grip.
Lem Jones danced o jig at the end of
a rope at Nashville yesterday.
General Miles is in Washington con-
sulting with Secretary Elkins.
A postofice has been established at
Boynton, Diokey County, N. d.
A brilliant reception will take place
at ting white house on New Years day.
Fire in Grand Forks destroyed An
dereon's saloon and an adjoining build
ing.
Frank Stangler, of Wheatland. N. D..
who was lost for several days, has been
found.
Charles Anderson was taken to Bis
marck from Grand Forks by Sheriff
Fadden.
Robert Lowe was found dead in his
shanty near Forest River, N. D., yes
terday morning.
The national conference for the pro-
motion of higher education will meet in
Philadelphia today.
The shah has issued q proclamation
ratifying the abolition of the tobacco
monopoly in Persia.
Russia has formally intimated her
readiness to negotiate q treaty of COM
merce with Germany.
It is stated that a scheme is on foot to
assassinate Assistant States Attorney
Elliott, Jr.. at Chicago.
Senator Washburn denies that he said
Blaine told him he would accept the
nc mination for the presidency.
Broker Titus, of New York, is re-
ported TO be Q defaulter for nearly
$3.50. 600. He has disappeared.
Charles Bradley, dry goods merchant
at Fsirbure, ILL.,. has failed. Liabili-
ties. $50, 600; stock worth 1875, 600.
Two Ohilian spies have been run
down in San francisco. They g
drawing plans Of the coast and harbor.
N. Pstenotre, French minister to the
United States g. has arrived at New York.
He will proceed to Washington in q few
days.
Miss Rachel Sherman, daughter of
the late General Sherman, will be mar
ried today to DR.. Paul 1borndyke, of
Boston,:
Goyernor-E Elect Mckinley has en-
gagged 9 suite of rooms in Columbus
which be will occupy during his tenn
of efice.
Catherine Burrell, youngest child of
Rev. D. j. Burrell. formerly of Min.
neopolis. died Of e~carletina in New
York Supdey. 49,.
Prince George of Wales wat allowed
to leave his bedroom yesterday for the
first time since he was taken ill with
typhoid fever.
The extensive brewery and malt honse
of William Sutcliffe, at Albany. N. T..
IVES closed by the sheriff on o confessed
judgement Of $12, 600.
The Wholesale tweed and wooden firm
of Mills & McDougall failed. The firms
liabilities amount to $25. 900; princi-
polly held in Capede.
John J. Lineeman. the man who went
to Cornelius Vandt rbilt's house Satur-
day night and wanted his brains, has
been adjudged insane.
Two men, Haw]ey and Cortie, are
locked up in Chicago for enticing young
girls to leave their homes to go to New
York and go on the stage.
A poker GENE. in which the entire
pot aggregated $18. 600, was won by Al
fert Dell, q we'll known sporting man
in Butte, Mont, Saturday night.
Three men were killed and several
others injured in collision between two
freight trains on the Hannibar & st. Joe
read near Chillicothe yesterday morn.
ing
Ed b. King of Milton. Ia, committed
suicide while in bed at his boarding
hous. at Pa1je, Tenn, by blowing bis
brains out. No cause is known for the
deed.
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Hol.
stein-Sonderburg was accidentally shot
in the face during q bunting trip on the
Js]e of Wight. Nothing serious will
result
A passenger train on the Wisconsin
Central road Jumped the track e
Saltwater. No one was killed, but the
engineer, Jay Leighton. had a leg
broken.
President Harrison has refused to
grant q pardon to Harper, the default
ing bank president who is serving q
term in the Ohio state prison. Harper's
health is failing.
Maj. Brackett and his colleague, Mr..
Jameson, are about to start on = tour of
the commercial centers of France, Spain
and Portugal to stimulate interest in
the Chicago fair.
Thomas 8. Apologize. proprietor of
The Adrian (Mich.) Times, died sud.
denly of heart disease. He was n of
the most prominent republican politi-
clans of the state.
While District Attorney Hawkins, of
Hudson. Wis, was trying q couple of
criminal cases at Baldwin the justice of
the peace, D. J. Foster, became uncon-
and suddenly died.
In st. Louis last night Isaac Valen.
tine, alias sheeny O'Brien, shot and
killed Abraham Brown, alias Reinhalt,
q low saloonkeeper. An old grudge
was the cause of the affair.
Representatives of Slavin and Snl1i-
van met at The New York Herald office
yesterday and tried to arrange . match,
but could come to no agreement. They
will meet again next Monday.
Col. W. b. Robinson, is in st. Paul
arranging for an excursion of members
of the Northwestern Lumbermen's ex-
oursion to Cloquet. Colonel Robinson
is president of the association. Y
It is thought that the court of arbi-
traitors in the Behring Sea case will be
announced soon. The United States
will select France and England will Sc