The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-08-04
killed himself. No cause for the act is

killed himself. No cause for the act is
known.
At Mount Vernon, Ind, George Pow
ell made a murderous attack on his
wife. The woman seized q club and
dashed his brains ut.
While quarreling with a man whom
he supposed was too intimate with his
wife, Charles Williams Of jefferson
vile, Ind, was killed.
Banks Of Delaware and Lorain, Ohio,
have lost hundreds Of dollars through
the crooked work of q man calling him.
self +. W. Cellar.
I%ncendiaries saturated thirty resi-
denccs in Jacksonville, Ind, with oil
and set fire to one Of them in an at
tempt to burn the city.
The strikers charged with obstruct-
ing the United States mail at Little
Rock, Ark, were discharged because
of insufficient evidence.
Twenty convic,s took part in a riot
in the ~penitentiary at Jeffersonville,
Int. and Robert Buckner was fatally
injured.
Wl,itvcaps near Columbus, Ohio,
burnett the barn ct D. I. Spangler and
warned him to leave the state. He had
quarre;cd with his wife.
Aaron Harmon, colored, head man
of Il barn burners club" was shot and
killed by Chief of Police Davis at
Huntsville. Ala, while resisting arrest.
Mrs. Sarah Postles has filed a d.
vorce libel y: Wilmington, Del, against
! Gen. J.. rarkc Postles. She charges
him with u,iiue intimacy with other
| women.
Charles I. Martha of Menominee,
Mich, is missing. He was last seen
at Sturgis Bay with a stranger. AS
Martha had a large sum Of money it Is
believed he has been foully dealt with.
G.: A. Calgrove, a saloonkeeper of
violation 0f the state liquor law, was
arrested hy government officers for
selling lnlucr without a license.
Lev; Wrinkle, a roll hand IN the Wa
bash rolling mill. Terre Haute, Ind,
shot and killed Charles Williams, who
charged him with alternating his wife's
affections.
Oliver NJ. Dix, who was in Jail at
Detroit, Mich, for brutally whipping q
son. committed suicide by taking poi
son. He was a prominent citizen In the
suburb of 'G1eenville.
In Newton township, Pa, Edgar, the
fiftcen-yearold son of Farmer James
Heyworth, shot and killed Mary Cuth-
bert, his pretty little cousin from Loop
ard, Chester county. Then he said he
did not know the gun was loaded.
The jury in the case of Louis ]. Silva,
charged with embezzling $4,000 from
the Rain water Bradford Hat company
of st. Louis. found him guilty and fixed
the punishment at three years impris-
onnlent in the state penitentiary.
A. NJ. Livingstone, ticket agent at
Gillette, Colo, on the Hidland Termin-
al road, was found dead in his Office
with q bullet hole in his head and a
revolver with n barrel empty ut his
side. He has a mother living at Ham
mersville, Ohio. He was unmarried.
Foreign Gossip.
War between japan and China is de-
clarcd.
The anti-anarchist bill was adopted
by the French chamber of deputies.
The government was sustained by O
vote Of 1877 to 80.
The khedive Of Egypt, Abbas H., is
engaged to Erlnine, youngest daughter
of the late Sultan Abdul Aziz, who
was murdered in 1881. Ermine is six
twenty years old.
The Constantinople correspondent CT
the Standard telegraphs that, notwith-
standing the attempts at concealment,
it is clearly established that over 1000
persons lost their lives during the re-
cent earthquakes.
The Corean government has consent
ed to the reforms proposed by Japan.
British and United States marines
have been landed at Seoul, the capital
of Corea. in order to protect the Brit
ish and United States legations respect
lively.
Nine. De Sartorius has been elected
at Paris mother-gcncral of the Nuns of
the Sacred Heart, the place left vacant
by the death of Nine. Lehon. Mime.
De Sartorius is the last connecting link
between the present members and
Nine. Borat, the foundress, from
whom she was the last to receive the
ring and cross Of the protested nun.
1t is now certain that 40 persons
went down with the italian steamer
Columbia, which collided with the
Russian steamer Vladimir liz the Black
sea a few days ago. All the evidence
badly inculrates the Russian seamen,
who deliberately alNardoned the Cclum-
bia and her crew and passengers to
their fate.
Otherwise.
A statue Of Gen. John A. Logan was
unveiled at Hot Springs, 3. D.
The strike on the Southern Pacific
is declared of Internationally.
Rainmakers are b%ombarding the sky
at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
Maj. w. II. Upham is nominated for
governor by Wisconsin Republicans.
Col. Breckenridge, it transpires, has
been expelled from the Lexington Ma
sonic lodge.
The Southern Pacific railroad shops
at Sacramento have resumed opera
tons.
The employees of the Montana A. r.
u. at Butte have declared the strike on
and applied for their old positions.
Sevcnteen-year locusts have appeared
at Kalamazoo, Mich. but thus far have
done no damage to crops.