The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-11-21

l All DttuulWS, Iowa. IcIDOElSC udH
been arrested for violating the revenue
| laws. The Offcnscs were committed
while lie was working up evidence
overcfargcs of fees.
Clifton Il. Mayne. who has been on
trial at Los Angeles. Cal, for the last
week for aSsaulting Elsie Shipton, his
ward, has been found guilty. Mayne
was formerly in the real estate bust
ness in Omaha and later in San Fran
| cisco.
| Warren Radcliffe McVeigl and Paul
Topper Wilkes. prominent New York
society men fought a duel with re-
volvers at short distance, ON the Pal
isadcs at Fort Lee. Both men We're
wounded. The trouble was about n
woman.
The dccOmpOscd bodies Of girl aged
fourteen and a boy aged sixteen We're
found in the woods near EldOradO.
Ark. They were identified as brother
and sister. named Perkins. The girls
| throat was cut and the boys skull
crushed.
Maj. James III. Laing, a capitalist
and coal operator at Leavenworth,
Kan. was shot and seriously wound
ed in the groin by Crawford Moore, a
travelling salesman. The shooting was
the result of Maj Laing's attentions
to Mrs Moore.
w. II. Carr, ex-deputy United States
marshal at oklahoma City, o. T., has
jumped his $4,000 bond and is now
said to he in Mexico or South America.
He was charged with murder in assist.
ing Bob and Bill Christian, the out
laws, to escape from Jail. Chief Of
Police Jones being killed ut the time.
"Kid" Gallagher and Alexander Cha
pin. sentenced to the Nebraska peni-
Tertiary for fifteen years each for muir
der, are also wanted ut Sioux City.
Iowa. for numbering Miss Ora Minter
and Max Noack. They have been in
dicted, in order to hold them when
their sentences expire.
Prisoners confined in the county jail
ut Helena, Mont, for murder have en-
tered into conspiracy to defeat the
One prisoner has already killed him
self by taking morphine, and some of
the drug has been found in another
murderer's cell.
The private desk Of the late Rev.
Ranger was broken open at Indianapo-
lis and papers distracted. 1t is sup
posed some one had written Rector
Ranger a letter of a confessional ma
| ture which he feared would fall into
other hands after the clergyman's
death and broke the desk locks to re-
cover it. The congregation is the fash
ionab bic Episcopal one of Indianapolis.
Her Majesty's theater in the Hay
market is to make way for big hotel.
At London, in Dr. Herring's suit for
insurance on the burned yacht Mohi-
can an expert testifies to finding evil.
dences of four distinct fires.
Mcssonier's statute has been dedi-
Gated at Paris. 1t stands in the In
fanta's garden of the Louvre, facing
| the Church Of st. Gern,ain fAuxefa
rois.
Baron Hirsch has sold his 10000
acre hunting estate at st. Johann, in
Bohemia. to Prince Frederick Charles
Of Hohenlohc, cousin Of the Reich
| skanZler.
A Check for $4,000 has been sent to
DR. w. G. Grace, representing the 1OO,-
600 shilling subscription to the testi-
monial started for him by the Daily
Telegraph.
At Birmingham. England, Chancel-
lor Cobbs decided in favor of the rein
statement of $1,5OO,O00 of bonds on the
properties of the Lady Ensley Coal,
Iron and Railway company.
His Exce!lency is the title by which
Ernst Curtius, the historian of Greece,
is now addressed. Emperor William
having appointed him an active privy
councillor. wirklicher Gehcimrath.
named Delago, recently scaled the
AIMED Delago, recently scaled the
westernmost and highest of the Rosen-
garten Dolomites in Tyrol and came
down safely. The peak is $50 feet
above sea level, rising almost perpen-
dicularly.
According to Commercial Agent
Moore at Weimar, Germany, there
were constructed in Europe during
1894, 4, 100 miles of new railways, Rus
STA showing the greatest gain, with
67S miles. In fast express trains Eng
land leads, With an average speed OF
51.75 miles per hour, with Germany a
close second, 51.25 miles. and Austria
lowest of the great nations, with 41.75
miles.
General.
Peter Maher knocked out Slim
O'Donuell in one round at New>YOrk.
The bodies of the anarchists who
were hanged in Chicago are to he ex-
humed and cremated.
At Wichita, Kan. an agent Of the
Mexican government bought 200
horses for the army. If they prove
satisfactory he will buy 5000 more.
1t is reported that Il great pool g be-
ing formed, to include not only all the
railroads cast of Chicago, but the lake
steamship lines.
At Anderson. Ind. three-year-old
son of John Bennett died from diph-
theria The parents refused to call q
physician, saying sin had caused the
child's illness.
1t is reported that twenty-five i'm
migrants on their way to California