The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-05-23

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clothes similar to the ones stolen.
The state encampment of the G. A.
X. meets ut Hillsboro June 3, 4 and 5.
Hillsboro citizens are making great
preparations to give the old vets a
royal good time.
G. NJ. Fisher of Casselton discovered
his safe open and the inside chest gone,
together with several thousand dollars
worth of papers. There yer several
certificates of deposit, over $1,000 Of
school district orders of Cass county,
No. II school, Cass county deeds, notes
and other papers.
The directors of the North Dakota
Business Mems association met at
Grand Forks for the purpose of dis
cussing the ACCESSIBILITY Of arranging
for the maintenance of a commission
house in some of the Eastern cities to
handle all produce shipped by members
of the association. A resolution was
passed designating a Minneapolis COM
mission house as the North Dakota
agent at a fixed commission, the agent
to furnish suitable bonds for the faith
full fulfillment of the contract. The
name will be announced later.
4u0EO dIc Sdlu W Dc SCNCliA
fever S in Valley City.
William Appenzeller of Wibaux COM
mitted suicide while derangcd.
Towner is still quarantined on ac-
count of %diphtheria.
The Park river has overlooked and
is running all over the country.a
III. S. Moen's granary at Meckinock
was struck by lightning.
Teachers institute meets at L4angdon
June l.
A. B. Mcdonald will build a three
story mill at Cando.
w. L. Montgomery's house at Hick-
son is burned.
Work on the new school house at
Buxton will begin Immediately.
Oscar Barnes of Bismarck gets an
original pension.
The Grafton burglars are reported
captured ut Sheldon.
jamestown will have a running team
at the 1iremen's tournament.
Roads and bridges around Milton
were badly damaged by the floods.
Two convicts Of Cavalier county,
Riley and Moore, sent up for burglary,
have beer pardoned by the governor.
There have been four deaths from
| diplltheria in one family near James
town.
William Cook of Glendale attempted
| to shuttle off the coil by cutting his
throat, but made a fizzle of it.
Eddie Olson plead guilty to burglary
at Dickinson and was sent to the re-
form school.
A: flock of cOrmOrants, rare birds so
far inland, have settled at the Mayville
Park lake.
Brickmaking experiments at Milton
were q success, and now for a brick
yard.
The Hillsboro city council appropri-
ated 5000 to aid the g. A. R. encamp-
ment. =
A man near Pembina located a wolf
| den and dug out a mother and eight
little ones.
st. Thomas small boys and sling
shots and air guns will be suppressed,
as to the business thOroughfares.
Senator Frank White had a stone
boat pass over his foot the other day
and is laid up.
A Nelson county woman sues her
| father-in-law for $15 5000 for alternating
her husbands affections.
The home of Christ Hintz, v
miles from Fess6nden, was demolished
by wind.
The right of way for a telephone
line from Fargo to Wahpeton has been
secured.
Herbert Morris, arrested in Fargo for
stealing q watch at Neche got thirty
seven days in quod.
Principal Smith, of the Gretna
| schools, broke his arm while wrestling
with a bucking bicycle.
The total expenses of the asylum for
April were $1,380.29 less than for April,
1895.
Horace f. Merrill, charged with un-
lawfully killing cattle, was acquitted
at Dickinson after a trial Of eight days.
Isaac Stiles, who came to Grand
Forks nineteen years ago, died, aged
e%ighty-one years. He leaves a family
in Nova Scotia.
One of Kennedy & Porritt's men got
caught in a cave-in while working on
the Lisbon ditch and was rescued with
difficulty.
The man Hunter, arrested for at
tempted rape at Fertile, worked secret
society men at Grand Forks under the
name of Duncan.
Milton Clhughton. twelve years old,
was knocked down by a boar at Can
ton, and might have been killed ii his
dog had not Clipped in.
Jonas Saunders, who came to Brock
enridge twentyfour years ago, died last
week. He built the old Merchants
hotel at WahpetOn.
John H. Monard, an agent Of the
United States government, has been
sent to North Dakota to Investigate the
dairying business of the state.
The NJ. and N. elevator at Oshabrock
collapsed, dumping 10000 bushels Of
wheat. The rain washed out the foun.
dation.
Grand Forks butchers were arrested
and fined for using the rear of their
shops as slaughtering houses. Fargo
houses should take warning.