The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-05-13

mOutUS, Wnen tue excise INV SOeo AASV
effect. Licenses will then have to be
reissued.
The coroner's jury at Milwaukee. after
examining thirty-6ve witnesses, returned
q verdict generating the contractors,
the city and every n who had any
thing to do with the intake tunnel from
blame for the disaster which caused the
death of fourteen men two weeks ago.
North Dakota.
The different G. A. r. posts through
out the state will observe Memoris y.
w. e. Patterson of Forman hasvEeen
appointed deputy state bank inspector.
The salary is $500 a year and expnsees.
The retail clerks of Valley City are
talking of forming a union for the pur-
pose of securing shorter hours of labor.
Miss Alice Young of Larimore has been
Jamestown.
Gov. Shortridge has appointed E. NJ.
Upson of Cummings to be director OF
Grand Forks university, vice H. L..
Holmes, resigned.
A. F. M%arquette's blind pig in Bis
marck has been taken possession OF by
Sheriff Donnelly upon, complaint of At
torney General Standish.
A laborer named Tom Higgins OF Val
ley City is the victim of a mental hal
%lucination that a gang of men were about
to do him up" He will be taken be-
fore the board of insanity.
A number Of the ~saloonkeepers of East
Grand Forks have concluded to comply
with the demand of the powers that Or
dain and will take up their residence
on the East side.
The board in charge of the purchase or
erection of q house for theg governor mas
decided to purchase the residence of Asa
Fisher, one of the largest and hand
soonest homes in the city of Bismarck.
/ The state supreme court is in session
at Bismarck. The most important cases
are those involving the control of the
state penitentiary, testing the prohlbl-
ton law and the Nelson bond case.
Manager Turner, of the State Millers'
association, has received an order by ca
BILE from Bristol, England, for 6,OOO
sacks of flour. North Dakota has a
worldwide reputation for its best No. 1
hard.
The Northern Pacific barn at Dickin-
son burned this morning. Eight horses
and cattle were consumed. Loss, ~
500; insured. Rain saved the business
portion of the town.
Max Krautheim of Valley City, while
handling a shotgun, dropped the piece
which exploded and shot him in the an
kle. All the bones were shattered. Am
putation was found necessary, and the
leg was taken off between the KNEE n
ankle.
One Ole Salveson was drowned in the
Red river, six miles north of Reynolds,
while crossing the river in a boat IN
company with two boys. 1t seemed that
thew had crossed the river and were on
their return journey, when q CAKE OF ice
came quickly down the current, struck
the boat and upset it. One of the boys
caught onto another passing cake of ice
and the other managed to keep his head
above water and foated down stream
and finally caught himself on a tree.
Iowa.
The Standard Oil company is putting
in a 100000 plant at Sioux City.
Monroe Lodge, I. O. o. f., of Abba,
will erect a temple this season costing
$4,000. It will be brick with stone trim
mings.
The building owned by Mrs. Anna
Hayes, near the Chicago, Burlington q
Quincy depot, at Fairfield, was totally
destroyed by fire recently.
Keokuk has a balance remaining in the
Ga A. r. encampment fund. According
to reports from different committees the
finances of the encampment stand as FOL
lows: Total amount received, $22,374.63;
total expended, $2,O38.25.
Thomas Costigan, a %switchman, was
terribly injured by being caught between
two cars at Davenport, where he was
held until released. The flesh between
his thigh and abdomen were terribly lac
Grated, laying the muscles bare.
A sad tragedy occurred neal South
English. Schuyler Richards was acci-
dentally shot by John Falling, a bosom
friend, while out hunting, and died three
hours later. Falling is nearly crazy over
the matter.
There is much mystery about the disap-
pearance of George Haywood. Jr., of
Merrill, Wis, who came to Clinton some
time ago to visit his father, a prominent
banker. He was much interested in In
vestments in Milwaukee and Minneapolis
and is supposed to be very rich. Shortly
after his arrival here he disappeared and
no trace Of hin'ha las been found.
The Fleck house, one of the old land
marks of Brighton, was entirely con-
sumed by fire. 1t was valued at $1,000;
insured for $1,000; no insurance on con-
tents. Most of the furniture was. saved.
The house was full Of guests:at the time,
but all escaped. The cause OF the fire 10.
unknown.
In compliance with orders all brigade
and regimental commanders of the state
guard met at Des Moines to discuss the
question of camps for this summer.
Officers, present were: Gen. Wright, Cen
terville; Gen. Davis, Cedar Rapids; Coils.
McManus; Mount, Mahin and Foster.
f, Maj. G. L. Davidson has proposed to
the trustees of the academy at Hull that
if they would raise $4,000 between this
date and January 1 next. he would add
$1,000 to the sum to, erect q new build
ing. Also, If they would raise $4,000.
he would add 5000. to endow the chair
Of the principal. An agent will be put
into the field at. once. The school h
eight years old,
News from Onawa, has been received;
to the effect that Leon Lozier has been
bound over to the trand jury on q charge
Of obtaining money under false pretenses
and released on furnishing bonds in the
sum Of $500. His friends say he will
in ali probability succeed IN raising the
necessary funds to nay back to the vic