The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-09-25
General.

All the New England cotton mills
are starting up.
One thousand miners are at work on
the trail at Skaguay, Alaska.
The Henry Gugler company, litho'
graphers Of Milwaukee, has made an
assignment.
The police have discovered q num-
Der of dynamite bombs at Gracia,
north Of Barcelona.
The M. E. Page Confectionery com
pany, n Of the largest candy-makins
concerns in Chicago, has made an as.
Segment.
The general strike Of the cloakmak-
ers of New York and vicinity which
has been threatened for a long time
has been ordered.
On her last trip the American liner
| st. Paul made the run from the Nee:
dies to Sandy Hook lightship in six
days and ten hours.
Fire completely destroyed Beggs &
Co.'s monument and hardwood mantel
establishment and the VOgle Preserv-
ing omcpany's plant at Pittsburg.
One hundred delegates attended the
opening sessions Of the Sigma Chi fra
ternity convention at Nashville, Tenn.
Two business sessions were held.
The county recorder Of Great Bend,
Kan, has reported the release Of over
$4,000 chattel and real estate mort
cages since Aug. 1, and half the crop
has not been threshed.
A large part Of the plant Of the Kan
sas City Car and Foundry company In
Armourdale was destroyed by fire, re-
sulting from the bursting Of a furnace
in the foundry building.
The North American Transportation
and Trading company will have at
least seven more steamers on the Yu-
kon than it has at present by next
June.
Judge Willis, of the circuit court of
Elgin, ILL.,, has refused to issue an in
junction to restrain the removal of
the head offices of the Modern Wood
men from Fulton, Ill. 81
The Kansas City pool rooms have re-
| opened in consequence Of q decision
by Justice Kruger that so long as the
| city licensed pool rooms they could not
be classed as %unisances.
The continued rains of the past few
| days have caused serious loss to the
coal dealers. who have boats mOored
near Baton Rouge, Iowa. The feet Of
w. G. Coyle & Co., about fifteen boats,
filed with water and sunk.
The cranberry crop around Black
River Falls, Wis, while not up to what
it was a few years ago, will be, very
fair this fall. 1t is estimated that
there will be not far from $4,000 bar
rels in the state.
Raids by white caps;have been fire.
quent within the ,lastFfew days in Fair
field and Kershaw counties, in South
Carolina. These raids have been alto
gether against the Mormon elders and
their sympathizers, who have been
whipped.
The Topeka Kan.) Capital publishes
a report from every county of the
state giving, the condition and prob
able yield of corn These returns show
that the state yield will not fall short
of 15O,OOO,OOO bushels, and may be
near 2OO,OOO,O0O.
Princess Kalulani, who has just at
tanned her majority, will return to Ha-
wall in October, after an absence Of
| ten years in England and on the CONT
nent. She has hopes Of being made
queen Of the present island republic IL
annexation fails.
All the union machine operators In
the American Wire Hoop c0mpany's
barrel factory at. Superior struck be-
cause the management refused to ac-
cede to demands to discharge three
non-union men. Wages + not In.
volved in the controversy.