The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-03

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Williamsport will have an appropri-
ate celebration Fourth of July.
Miss Maggie Dora1 has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Sheldon.
Work has commenced on the new
electric light plant at Langdon.'
George Kroeber of Logan county trad
ed a team Of horses with a traveller,
Nels Running, of Fessenden. had an
arm broken by a kick from a broncho.
The jamestown Fair association has
engaged D. X. Stacy Of Albert Lea as
starter for the horse races there this
fall.
The two prisoners who escaped from
the Grafton Jail have not been cap
tured.
The little Gibenny girl who was shot
by her brother at Devils Lake will re-
cover.
An intoxicated man fell in the river
at Fargo and was rescued before he
drowned.
The Cakes flour and feed mill was
burned to the ground, causing q loss
of $1,000.
Rev. Cook Of Fargo has accepted a
cali from the Calvary Baptist church
Of Chicago.
T. J. Woodmanson of Steele had to
reseed 100 acres Of fax that was nip
ped by the frost.
One McHenry county man made 500
off the wolf scalps that he brought into
the auditors office.
Judge Amidon has granted q new
trial in the case Of Dunstan IS. The
City of jamestown.
Milton boys stole the ice cream that
had been prepared by Methodist ladies
for a church social.
The Sons of the Revolutions held a
meeting at Fargo and elected officers
for the ensuing year.
The state university has elected
President Merrideld and the entire
faculty for the ensuing year.
Judge Lauder granted Mrs. Char
lotte Woodell of Minor q divorce on
the grounds of desertion.
Ira Young got a verdict against the
Great Northern road at Rugby for ST.
48O for damages for q prairie fire.
Lightning struck the steeple Of st.
Paurs and St. Peters church near
Devils Lake ard did 5000 damage.
Thomas Wells, a Towner county
horse thief, has been taken to the
penitentiary for a two year sentence.
Cass county has let contracts for the
building of sixteen bridges that were
taken out by the floods this spring.
A Hamilton servant girl suddenly
disappeared and was arrested at st.
Thomas. She had donned male garb.
Two men have been arrested in
Grand Forks OF suspicion Of being
implicated in the Northwood burglary.
wallhalla, Pembina county, is enjoy
ing a boom. Three hundred people
were there last week, with a view to
locating.
DIR. O'Keefe won his damage suit ut
Grafton, in which he was sued for
$25. 900 for false Imprisonment, by DR..
Goulding.
Thirty-three wolf pups have been
presented to the auditor of Barnes
County for bounty within the past
three weeks.
Harvey Blink fell from his loaded
wagon. at Harvey and both wheels
passed over his shoulders. He was
badly bruised.
A county seat fight is looming up in
Pembina county. An attempt will be
made to move the county seat in 1898
from Pembina to Hamilton.
Dresden will be the name Of the first
station on the Cavalier extension. Al
ready application has been made for
the establishment Of q postofice.
Howard Eaton lost two buffalo while
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made a break for the Bad Lands, where
they were captured after a long chase.
The little son Of Date Berlin was
badly mangled in a runaway at VIM
bledcm. He had his shoulder dislo-
Gated, arm broken and otherwise in
ju1ed.
Attorney jacobson Of Cooperstown,
has been taken to the %penitentiary to
selve a three year sentence. He failed
to turn over some money he had col
lected.
Roscoe Woods, a Great Northern sec
ton man at Bottineau, was struck in
the back with a pick by a fellow work
man. The wound Is not serious but
very painful -.
The Northern Pacific elevator Mt
Valley City burned this morning with
100000 bushels of wheat. The tiremen
prevented the fire from spreading to
other buildings.
Allie, the %14-vear-old son of Alex.
Burman, was drowned in Swan Creek,
near Casselton, while bathing. The
body was in the water twenty minutes
before being recovered.
Catherine Kemp, wife of a prominent
farmer near jamestown, was run over
by a loaded wagon and received injuries
from which she died an hour and a half
later. She was one Of the Oldest resi-
dents of the county.
A. laboring man named Sanders was
taken i'll at Lisbon and vas taken To
Fargo for medical treatment. He
drank considerable Ice water IN the
train md died before reaching his dcs-
tinatiop.