The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-04-13
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Heavy frost at Sterling, Kan, form
ed ice and injured fruit considerably.
Chicago's Grand Pacific hotel is a
thing Of the past.
An unusual spring drouth has just
been broken in Indiana.
A large quantity of ~unaccounted for
wheat causes q sensation among st.
Louis elevator men.
A telephone company with $16O,O 00,-
600 capital is organized in New York
to fight the Bell company.
Rev. w. Cleveland. brother of the
president, is requested to resign by his
New York congregation.
The Republicans carried every ward
in Albuquerque, N. Mex, electing their
entire ticket by a large majority.
Gov. Holcomb will ask the Nebraska
legislature to add $4,000 to the appro-
priation for the drouth sufferers.
the legislative bill under which train
robbery is made a capital offense.
Havemeyer & Elders great sugar re-
fnery i'll Brooklyn, employing thous-
ands of men, closed because of over
production.
The John Rucker will cast at Deca-
tur, ILL.,, has been decided in favor OF
the grandson, Edwin Ewing. He will
get $4,000.
1t is reported from West Burlington,
Iowa, that q mad cat attacked n bit
Mrs. Matthew Mennin and w chill
dren. The wounds were cauteriZed.
The Columbian bell will be started
in q few days on a tour around the
world, being first rung at h Lincoln
monument at Springfield, Ill.
Thomas Dolan & Co. of Philadelphia
have granted a Is per cent increase in
the wages Of their employees In the
cloth weaving department.
A bill passed the Tennessee house
limiting the rent of telephones in that
state to not owe SD per month OIL
each instrument.
Capt. Howgate has been indicted
again for alleged frauds on the gov
eminent during the time he was dis
bursting officer of the signal service.
There was a break in the ranks of
the striking miners in the Pittsburs
district, about $50 men accepting a
compromise rate Of 60 cents.
The trial of Mitcheon. Mcintyre,
Gober and Gilbert, Georgia moonshin-
ers, charged with having killed Henry
Wolley for reporting their illicit dis
tilleries, will proceed.
An immense combination, the def
mite form of which has not yet been
determined, has been agreed upon by
the leading pulp manufacturers OF
New England.
DIR. Mary Walker, the eccentric wo-
man who persists in wearing male at
tire, was in court at Northampton,
Mass, to contest her aunt's will. She
lost.
At Nashy lille, Tenn, the Jury in the
case Of M. A. Spur was to-day dis
charged. He was tried on charge Of
certifying checks falsely as president
of the Commercial National bank.
The Pratt oil works at Greenpoint.
l.. l., will, it is said, shut down short
" because of the scarcity of crude oil.
1t will throw several hundred men out
of work.
The two weeks honeymoon Of Prof.
M. w. Harrison, superintendent of
schools at Wabash, Ind, has ended in
divorce, the professor being the plain
tiff.
Flora Hall, Mrs. Samuel Wollivel'
and Charles Wolliver, her son, were
arrested at Charlottesville. Nd, for
the murder Of the infant child of Miss
Hall.
The strike Of the flint glass workers
against the United States Glass COM
pany, which has been On nearly twen-
ty months, seems to be nearing the
end.
Great excitement prevails in Craw.
ford county, Mo-, yer the arrest Of
Alex M. Green and his five som on 0
charge of numbering David Hilder-
brand, a son-in-low of Green.
Ben G. Neal, deputy collector of in
ternal revenue, under, ex-collector A.
r. Barnum, was shot and killed at.
Irvine, KY. last night by Green Mil
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