The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-01-09
CONDENSED NEWS.
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
ISOLATED Press.

A broom trust is being organized in
Chicago.
The miners of the HoIzoffel district,
Germany, have struck.
Two persons are killed aud several in.
jured in q Chicago fire.
Dol. @. T. Gilmer, recently appointed
governor of Ontario, is dead.
The state school for the blind has
been opened at Knoxville, Tenn.
John NJ. Derby, an attorney, was
found dead in his bed in Duluth.
M. Victor Sardou. the dramatist, is
suffering with al attack of the grip.
M. Henri Albert Guy de Maupassant.
the French author, attempted suicide.
Bulgaria will not recede from the po.
sition she has taken in regard to France.
It is now claimed that no decision has
been reached in the Boyd-Thayer case.
The Deadwood and Delaware smelters
at Deadwood, s. D., will start up to-
day.
President Harrison has appointed
David T. Hindman Indian agent at the
Sisseton agency.
The Duluth chamber of commerce has
adopted resolutions in favor of the
Niagara ship canal.
Mrs. Osborne, the woman charged
with stealing Mrs. Hargreavee' jewelry,
has become q mother.
Charles D. Hamill has been elected
president of the Chicago board of trade,
.Iprnno a. 2fovonn
Slavin and his hackers did not show
up yesterday to sign articles of agree
ment for a fight with Sullivan.
There is talk of recalling Minister
Egan and placing Hon. John Hicks,
minister to Peru, in the position.
The Grand Forks city council has en-
dorsed Senator Casey's bill providing
for locks and dams in the Red River.
The executive committee of the Ma
will meeting in Washington Jan. 20.
A young couple who registered as K.
G. Coventry and wife at q hotel in
Wheeling, w. Va, committed suicide.
Rev. Thomas D. Simmer, d. D.. pro.
lessor of divinity at the Mccormick
Theological Seminary, is dead in Chi
oago.
MI. Davidoff, of Odessa. is in Wash
ington. He states that the report of
the Russian famine are greatly over
drawn.
Two passenger trains on the Wabash
road collided yesterday morning. Two
persons were killed and q number
wounded.
Caehier Ohilderhose of the Farmers
State Bank of st. Thomae, N. d., was
presented with 300 by the directors OF
the bank.
Senator Hill has intimated that
Grover Cleveland. will not allow his
name to come before the democratic
convention.
Major Martin Maginnis. of Montana,
in a Washington interview says that the
democrats of his state are favorable to
Cleveland.
Henry Saxon, a once wealthy blanket
manufacturer in London, committed
suicide by blowing his head off with
gunpowder.
Joaquin Garcia, the noted general,
who was General J%uarepz's right hand
man, died at the City Of Mexico, in alb
ject poverty.
Cornelius Lorenson. of Aberdeen,
s. D has been fined $3.50 and sentenced
to sixty days in Jail for selling liquor
contrary to law.
Edwin Ball, 4 years old, died Of
hydrophobia at Newark. N. J. The
little fellow was badly bitten by q mas
tiff on Dec. IL.
The miners of the Holzappel district.
near Weisbaden, Germany, have struck.
Troops, Who have been ordered to the
scene, are keeping order.
Austin Gibbons, the light weight
pugilist of Paterson, N. j., has issued 9
challenge TO fight Champion Jack Nc.
Auliffe or Billy Myer.
General Nettleton, who has been sick
with the grip for q few days, is much
improved, and expects to be at his desk
in Washington during the week.
J. w. CLARK, ex.president of the Bos.
ton 4 Montana and of the Tamarack
Mining Cos, is dead at Boston, in a
$3.50, 600 residence lust completed.
In his annual message to the council
Mayor Grant, of New York, strongly
urges the citizens to inaugurate q move
ment for representation at the world'e
fair.
Neil Cummings, agent in East Grand
Forks of the Minneapolis and Northern
elevator. has been missing since Thurs
day last. No reason is known for his de-
parture.
A Pioneer Press correspondent has
interviewed Cara, the korder bandit.
The latter says he wants to be placed in
the right light before the American
people.
The report which was sent out from
Texarkana, Ark, that three operators
enroute to Arkansas Pass to take the
places of the strikers had been killed ie
wholly false.
George O. Hit, American deputy
consul general in Londoneh has resigned
bis positiod and will shortly resume the
business management Of The Indianap.
oils Journal.
A feeling Of decided hostility to Presi-
dent Gompers of the American Fedora.
ton of Labor showed itself at Sundays
meeting Of the Chicago Trade and
Labor Assembly.
Mounet Sully, in Paris, denies that
he is coming to America. He says that
perhaps he will come in q year or two
for q two months tour. playing Hamlet
and other leading parts.
Representative Mills has so far re-
covered his health as to be able to un.
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