The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-07-29
PERSONAL.

Mullane, OF base ball 1ame, says MS
wife abused him. He wants alimony
with n divorce.
Mrs. Jessie Bartlett Davis leaves the
Bostonians and retires permanently
from the stage.
James McMullin. the oldest man in
Kentucky, died near Bradwell, aged
III years.
Charles Wadsworth, United States
vice consul at Santos, died of yellow
fever.
The announcement that Mrs. Barnum
has completed the late Mr.. Barnum's
autobiography seems to be somewhat
mixed.
Harry Furniss says he is at a loss
to determine which Is the more dis
agreeable to him-the man who
doesn't smoke or the man who does.
United States Consul Josiah E. Stone,
at Nogales, Mex, died yesterday. He
was appointed vice consul in 1872 and
promoted to consul last February.
Octavia Allen, aged fifty-three years,
at one time q well known actress, is
dead. She was at different times lead
ing lady for Booth, Barrett = and
keene.
DR.. C. F. Simmons, who sued the Til
den estate for $153,35O for medical
services to Mr.. Tilden, has accepted
$40. 900 in o compromise with the ex-
ecutors.
To the Ya.e graduates the Hon.
Thomas Waller remarked that the
pithiest sentiment he knew of was that
of Hon. E. J. Phelps-''They who never
make mistakes neve make anything.
Emma C%shillinger, forty-four years
old, has been awarded the gold medal
of the old settlers Of Chicago for 1.-The
girl working longest in the same fam
ily." She has been with the same fam
lily since 1859.
CASUALTY.
At Sulphur Springs, Tex, fire de-
stroyed twelve business places. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Clarence Dingman, anxious for fame,
jumped from a Buffalo elevator into
the harbor. He was killed.
Dry L. Ryan was hit by q pitched
ball at Canton, Ohio, and fatally in
jured.
Heavy rains washed away the dugout
of the Wadded family at the Cherokee
strip. Six were drowned.
The Junction house at Lafayette,
Ind, was destroyed. 1t was owned by
the Big -Four and Wabash.
Charles w. Mosher, the Lincoln
(Neb.) bank robber, gets five years in
the South Dakota penitentiary.
Officers and directors of the failed
ID -1,S-<1~ hn~ly NJ AfS1~,o,1xo1 n,.> sa
dicted.
South Dakota county commissioners
are accused of illegally loaning the per-
manent school fund on farm lands.
A colored boy confesses to have
caused the Observation-Disclosures fire in
Minneapolis.
Scott Fox was killed in q wreck at
Bagley, Mich, caused by cattle being
on the track.
William Schroeder Of Kalamazoo,
Mich, is dead as the result of being
hit in the stomach with a whitle-tree.
According to the laut report Of the
interstate commerce commission 2,26O
railway employees were killed during
the year. ..5.
Kane G. Reiney, a business man of
st. Clairsville, Ohio, fell from a train
near Union Center, Ind, and was
killed.
A fourteen-year-old boy, son Of En-
eineer West, was found dead under a
raised part of the sidewalk ut Center
vile, Iowa. He had crawled under the
walk for some purpose and was over
ON with gas, as his head was close
to a leaking gas pipe.
Southern Colorado was visited by
rains which did great damage. South
of Lamar a cloud burst in the Willow
creek, and m immense body OF water
rushed down the creek, carrying away
the Bed Rock ditch fume and striking
the Bent beach, which brought the tor
rent into Lamar, covering the streets
from one to five feet. Many families
had to move to places Of safety.
CRIMINAL.