The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1892-01-23
CONDENSED NEWS.
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
ISOLATED Press.
Fergus Falls has a SO. 900 fire.

Fergus Falls has q 5000 fire.
The noted stallion Badger Boy is dead.
Representative Mills has returned to
Washington.
The republicans in the Iowa house
favor prohibition.
Elijah Shaw, one of the Oldest settlers
in Chicago, is dead.
Becretsry Foster, who is at Fortress
Monroe. is improving.
The wal on the Guttenburg race track
in New York continues.
President Harrison gave a dinner to
his cabinet last evening.
The Press Club leagueY will hold its
next meeting in st. Paul.
Mrs. John Murray, an old resident OF
Sioux Falls. s. d., is dead.
Madame Patti was able to appear in
Philadelphia last evening.
Fire at Au Sable. Mich, destroys
property worth $50, 600.
Secretary Blaine, so it is said, thinks
there will be war with Chill.
Robert Mantell, the actor, has &C.
cured a divorce from his wife.
A bill to admit Utah as a state has
been introduced in the senate.
The Security Loan & Savings com.
pany at Chicago has assigned.
The international bicycle race started
in Chicago yesterday at noon.
Mormon elders are preaching their
doctrine neal Red Wing, MINI.
The Palmetto brewery at Charles.
town, s. O., is wiped out bytfre.
Servia is ravaged by diphtheria. All
the schools of Belgrade are closed.
Kimmick and McCann will fight be-
fore the California club Jan. 26.
Minister Lincoln, who has been quite
sick with influenza. has recovered.
The peoples party in Duluth has re-
nominated M. j. Davis for mayor.
Gold weather retards work on the
Worlds Fair buildings in Chicago.
The report that Queen Victoria was
Frustrated with influenza is denied.
s. J. Dunn has been appointed post
master at Farmer. Hanson county, s d..
Four prisoner who escaped.from the
Butte, Mont, Jail, have been captured.
81. P. Rucker of the North Dakota
Worlds fair commission is in Washing
ton.
The college building at Tarkio. Mo-,
was destroyed by fire yesterday morn
ing.
Mayor Smith of st. Paul says he will
not again be a candidate for the posi-
ton.
A bad blizzard prevails in Texas. 1t
is down to zero. Cattle are freezing to
death.
La Crosse, Wis, will celebrate the
fftieth anniversary of it's settlement on
Feb. 10.
The New York Herald asks why not
nominate Henri Watterson for the pres
idency.
Charles d'Autremont has been nomi-
mated by the democrats for mayor OF
Duluth.
A bad accident occurs on the Omaha
road in Wisconsin. Several people are
injured.
DIR. Slaughter of Bismarck has been
adjudged insane. He is an old army
physician.
The Firemen's Insurance company of
Dayton, Ohio, has decided to retire from
business.
Freddie Gebhardt will try the BIZ
chloride of gold treatment at White
Plains. N. Y.
At Mankato. MINI, a movement is
on foot to erect q soldiers monument in
Lincoln park.
Dan Sullivan, q miner in the High
land mine at DeadwoOd, s. D., is killed
by falling rock.
It is now known that there will be but
a few changes mao e in the rules of the
Fiftieth congress.
Frank Shields, who had been working
over q mechanical invention at Oska-
loosa. Ia, goes crazy.
Bulgaria has notified Servia to stop
her dangerous work on the frontier or
there will be trouble.
At Elk Point, s. d., two lawyers got
into o war of words and challenged each
other to fight q duel.
Grover Cleveland will spend a week
on the plantation owned by Joseph JEFF
ferson in Louisiana.
1t is given ont that the@president will
not appoint a democrat for the judgeship
of the Eighth district.
Judge Lindsey of Kansas will not &C.
cept the appointment on the interstate
commerce commission.
Despite John Burns protest the so
cialists in London will hold q monster
meeting on Sunday, Jan. 81.
The first open court divorce trial is
now on in Sioux Falls. s. D., it being
the case of Pollock vs.. Pollock.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, formerly
British minister to Persia, has been ap-
pointed ambassador to Madrid.
Sixty girl employees of Mekibbon &
Co., furriers, st. Paul, are on a strike
because of a reduction in wages.
It is said that England will endeavor
to bring about more friendly relations
between this country and Chill.
In Chicago Jennie Payne attempted
to shoot her lover and fatally wounded
q stranger named Isaac Anderson.
A census of Newfoundland and La
brador shows the population to be 2O2..
900, an increase of 4, 100 since 1884.
In a quarrel at Lima, o, Louis
Coakley was shot and killed by Thomas
Tignor, his prospective father-in. law
John Thompson, a colored barber at
Milwaukee. shot his wife and cut his
mother-in-law's throat from ear to ear.
Ike Smith. champion welter-weight
wrestler of England, was defeated last
night by Dennis Gallagher at Buffalo.
It is reported that q cave has been