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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

The Paris Figaro Gays that in the
letter Of Emperor Nicholas, inviting
President Faure to visit him at st.
Petersburg, he refers significantly to
.bonds that are hencef0rth to unite
France and Russia"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Old Settler, Reunion.

Algona, Iowa, July Tone of the
tiers reunion and celebration gotten
up by the people Of Atwater and vi
cinity and held at Diamond Lake was
one of the largest gatherings ever had
in Central Minnesota, and was a COM
plete success despite the very heavy
rails of yesterday, which made the
roads In some cases almost impossible.
Between 1000 and 5000 people were
present. .
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Getting Back at Thorn.

Miss Beans-Well, there is one thing
we can reply to those fellows who are
always making fun Of the GOODNESS Of
Boston girls. Miss Pork-What Is
dear? Miss Beans-That we can In
c~inerate Just as much Of their circulate
ing medium.-New York Tribune.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Hone to win Glory.

Pierre, s. D., July 7.-Forty members
Of Company A, s. D. N. G., left for a
week at the state encampment ut Bry-
ant. AS they passed the best inspec-
ton of any company in the state, they
are going after any honors which are
in sight.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

During the last twenty years Canada
has granted only lis divorces. Canada
may be a desirable place for runaway
cashiers, but for couples to whom the
matrimonial yoke has become irksome it
affords little hope Of relief.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Russians GET Into Trouble.

Russians Get Into Trouble. "
Athens, July IA violent ARRAY has
taken place at the Piraeus between a
number Of drunken Russian sailors
and the Inhabitants. A Russian officer
who interviewed was seriously injured.
He was a son of the Russian diplomat
Nelidof.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

A snail ranch has been started by a
farmer Of Anet, France. He has already
10000 of the interesting creatures, and
they eat as much green fodder as two
COWS.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

In the Belgium parliament, when :
member is making q long speech, brandy.
and-water is supplied him at the expense
Of the government. 9T'
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

Foar Persons Drowned.
Little Rock, Ark, July by the up
setting Of q skin on the river four per
sons were drowned.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

In the forty years between 1892 ana 1882
there were outstanding, supposed to have
been lost or destroyed, Bank of England
notes to the value of FL, 32O, 200. This sum
was clear profit to the bank.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Killed by

Chicago, July 7.-Patrick Grace, a sa-
loonkeeper ut 1901 West ~Forty-seventh
street,and his wife We're shot and NOR
tally wounded by three masked men
who attempted to rob the saloon.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Killed In Chicago.

NiIEe0 III Onhc"9O'
Chicago, July 7.-Patriotism claimed
five lives and there was an unusually
long list of MANNED and injured people
as a result of the Fourth Of July cele-
britiOn.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
A Yor. Lndy proxxned.

A Yor- Indy Drowned.
Royalton, L., July Miss Kate
Kubat, aged liz, was drowned in Little
Rock creek. Her horse backed>of the
bridge into nine feet Of water. Her
cries were hear. but she and the horse
were dead before, help could reach
them.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

The farmers of Gloucester. N. J.. killed
crows by %stringing corn on horsehairs. The
crews swallow the corn and the hair n
soon fall into a fatal AT.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

Why suffer when strong's Headache
Killer will relieve you? Send Is cents to
Goodrich & Jennings, Anoka, Mimi. for
sample box.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

A portrait Of Charles I. in an art GAL
lery at Oxford is composed entirely OF
small letters. The head and ruff contain
the Lord prayer, h apostles creed and
the Book Of Psalms.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

Piso's Cure 70: Consumption is the only
cough medicine used in my house.-D. G,
Albright, Mifhtnburg, Pa, Dec. II, '95.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

To Cure Coustipation Forever.
Take cascarets Candy Cathartic. 1Oc or $50.
II c. G. c. fail to cure. drug gists refund money.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

An emetic given to a Scotch terrier be-
longing to Col. T. c. Wildman of Airing
ton, N. j., caused tho dog to throw up q
live frog, which at once hoped away.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

Sand do you think you can make my
daughter, a happy woman?" asked the
father.
~ guess So" replied the young man.
"What make of wheel does she pre-
fer!'-Yonkers Statesman.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
For children teething ,~softens the gums. reduces infam-
nation, allays pain, cures wind collie. IS cents Q bottle
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

> A thief in Topeka broke into the rtr.,
Baptist church and stole the baptismal
boots.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Eight People Drowned.

Chicago, July flight people We're
drowned in Lake Michigan while bath
ing at various points along the beach.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

All the railway stations in Sweden at
which meals are served are known by
a sign bearing the suggestive emblem OF
crossed knife and fork.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10

6rst days usa of DR.. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer.
Send for FREE $500 trial bottle and ~trestiss
OR N d. KLINE. Ltd, 8l Arch St.. Philadelphia, "a
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
Willing to

Educate Your Bowels with Cnscarets.
Candy Cathartic. cure constipation forever.
10c. II c. C. C fail druggists refund money.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-10
strange Food of the Chine.e.

Goes Cough Balsam
IL the oldest and best. 1t will break up . cold quickes
than anything else. It is always reliable. Try 1t.
The times., 1897-05-09
RESCUED FROM The FLAMES
Peter LOrnie, an Invalid, Saved by
a Gallant Firemen.
Was Asleep When the Fire Broke
Out and Nearly Overcome When
Rescued by Foreman Wagner.

Smoke and flames had nearly over
come Peter LOrnie when Foreman F. L.
Wagner. of Engine Company. No. Z,
stretched q ladder TO the third floor of
the burning house, at No. 1852 Eighth
street northwest, and rescued the man
by carrying him down in his arms. Mr..
Lornie has been i'll for nearly a year,
and 1t is feared that the shock may re-
suit disastrouay to MIN. though he WAS
not injured by the flames
The house is owned by Charles Stott,
and occupied by Mr. s. E. Trott and
family Mr.. Lornie occupied room ON
the third floor of the house, and was
asleep in bed when the fire broke out
A little daughter OF Mr.. Trott was alone
in one of the rear rooms on the second
floor, and, in endeavoring to light the
gas, she accidentally dropped the match
and set fire to some fringe on the couch,
directly under the gas Jet. Instead OF beng
frightened and crying for help, the child
brave,y attempted to smother the flames
and to quench theui with pitcher of
water.
The substance, however, was quite COM
bustible and burned rapidly, so that the
fire had secured considerable headway be-
fore the elder members of the household
were ware of the danger. An alarm was
quickly sent in by Policeman Copeland
from tie box at the corner of Seventh and
NJ streets. Engine No Z and Truck re-
sponded. The confusion had awakened Mr-
Lornie, but owing to bis feeble condition
he was unable to fight his way through
the smoke and flames down two flights
of stairs, which was his only way OF { s.
cape.
Opening the front window OF his room
he cried loudly for help, which the crowd
of people which had gathered by that
time were powerless 10 render him.
All this time the smoke from the blaze
below was filling his room nearly to suf-
location, and in his bewilderment Mr..
Lornie climbed part+yout of his window w and
was making preparations TO leap thirty or
thirty-five feet to the ground, when
ladder from truck was stretched to the
window and the firemen shouted to the
man to remain quiet. Foreman Wagner
ran up the ladder and secured him in his
arms and brought him safely to the ground
He was then Immediately removed in No
patrol wagon to the Emergency H 1spital,
where Dr.. Turner found that the man was
suffering only from shock, and had not
been injured by the flames
He was placed in ward, and late last
night was resting comfortably
The loss to the house and its contents
is estimated to be about $500, the amount
on the dwelling being fully covered with
insurance.
The times., 1897-05-09

OF the twoducts, which involves saving OF
$4,000. four times as much as was in
volved in the permi ssion for the Potomac
Company to come east of Rock Greek 10
break up a monopoly.
The point before the COInTni ssioners ap-
pears to be whether they can permit the
use OF these ducts for the purposes de-
sired by the United States Electric Light
Company.
In the explanation to the Commissioners
it will be shown that atthe hearings before
committee of the House on this matter
the Potomac Companys agents did not
exclude electric lighting as one of the
purposes of these two reserved ducts On
the contrary it is stated that the records
will prove, and specifically on page 1S5
OF the report, that one of the directors Of
the Potomac Company said in so many
words that these reserved ducts could be-
used ''even for electric lighting" II is
now contended that the quoted language
referred to use under municipal owner
ship. As is well known now the Potomac
Company has come east of Rock Creek
on permit granted by the Commissioners
The right of that company to exist in the
territory east of that limit is now involved
in suit in equity. Should the decision
be adverse to the construction OF law as
suIned by the Commissioners, the Potomac
Company will be again reiagated to opera
tions west of Rock Greek
The times., 1897-05-09
The NobIemen of Old Japan,

The changes or the present meijiera have
placed the mobiles of Japan In a peculiar
position. The days of feudal sway, when
each daiInio was absolute sovereign of his
own domain, with his scores of retainyrs
and his princely mansion, kept up with al
most royal ceremony and display-those
days OF ponp and grandeur have all passed
away. Now the noblest among them,
always excepting the imperial family, pass
unnotiCed and 1ostle among those who
used In past times TO bow down to ths
earth at their approach, thinking it saeri-
legious to raise their eyes to them or 10
sit In the same room with them. The
nobleman of more than fifty or sixty years
of age who can recall the old days before
the revolution, with their ceremony and
poalp, must, indeed, find it strange TO have
life so much chan ged, his estates and rev.
enues given over TO the central government,
and he himself with empty title and q
reduced income, left to make a place for
himself in the world side by side with his
former retainers, or else to enjoy an hon.
orable but most quiet retirement, almost
outside of the busy life which makes up
the new Japan of progress and activity
The feudal days OF old Japan are now
gone forever, leaving only few remnants
behind, and republican Japan makes but
Observation-Disclosures between lord and commoper.
Many of the households OF the noble men
have given up much OF their useless display
and luxury and have cut off their numerous
retinue, keeping up only few OF the old
time customs and ceremonies. In this they
are guided by motives OF economy and tho
changed ideas ofthe heads ofth households,
who, In turn,sa lead by the advice of
their old retainers. These retainers still
keep up in way their loyalty and interest
| in their former feudaI lords, and are often
| men fdistinction and rank: fer the greas
Iuen of distinction and rank; foF the great
| have come from the sam urat the class
which is and was the meStlg power IN
| Japan Chicago Record.
The times., 1897-05-09
LOOKED upon LENIEN1LY
Executive Clemeney Will Be Ex-
tended to Broker Chapman.
He May Be Requested To Apologize
Promise Not TO Offend Again.

Mr.. ElgertOn r. Chapman, the broker who
thirty days i'll the District Jail, may, 1t
is autboritatively stated, within few days
receive notice OF executive clemency.
Mr.. Chapman, whose attorney, Mr.. VIII
sou, has made application for pardon, as
has been stated heretofore. Powerful New
York friends nave also called On the Presi-
dent in Ids interest. Every Senator On the
famous Investigating committee with
single exception. has signlfied his willing
ness that MI Chapman be pardoned- tits
said that the ma jority OF the community
is even desirous that the President shall
take this action.
The Senators are said not TO wish to
punish Chapman more than he deserves.
They base their seemingly vacillating
course on the general opinion that he has
already received considerable punishment
and on the fact that the Judgment in the
courts fully upholds their power in Sena-
torial Investigations. Mr.. Chapman has
been guilty OF no moral lapse, and their
precedent has been established.
President Mckinley has advised these
various friends of Mr.. Chapman as to what
he considers the broker should do in tn e
matter, though this can be but matter
of surndse, it is thought probable, of course,
that Mr.. Chapman is asked to apologize
TO the committee. It is also thought pOssi-
bic that Mr.. Mckinley may have suggested
that he promise never to DO it again. This
action on the part OF the President also
is thought by the friends of Mr.. Chapman
to leave no doubt that the President Looks
with leniency on his offense and believes
that this imprisonment should not be in
flicted. tits probable that Mr.. Chapman s
fine will not be renitted
1t was reported yesterday afternoon that
information had been conveyed from the
White II ouse to District Attorney DAVIS that
any un due activity on his part in the Chap
man case would be regarded unfavorahly
and as pernicious, and possibly might mill
tate against his retention in office.
Mr. Davis said to a Times representative
that every word of the report was untrue.
He claimed that it was founded on an ar
ticle in a New York paper, which he warmly
denounced as untruthful and without the
slightest foundation.
"You may say he added, THAT
have received no information from any
source and will proceed vigorously with the
trial of the other cases. / will continue &C
do my duty, and the law will be enforced
as far as 1 am concerned, unless 1 am
really stopped by some higher authority ,
The times., 1897-05-09
Hopper and "casey at the Bat"

AFTER / had recited Casey at the Bat
for the thousandth time" said De Wolf
Hopper at the Press Club the other even
ing, "I met the man who wrote the piece.
/ first saw Thayer, / think, at the Play
ers' Club, New York. / pictured him in my
mind as big, stong, manipulating fell
low of decidedly athletic build.
"Imagine my surprise, upon introduc-
ton, to find him a small. pale-faced man,
almost effeminste In appearance. j asked
him for his version of Casey curious to
know Just what the author 6 Interpretation
would be.
81 was disappointed. he ran through
the several verses in the most ordinary tone
OF voice with an absence of gesture, and
with scarcely rising or falling of infection
to relieve the monotony of his expression.
But for the words, you might have fansed
he was reading a spring poem.
ssThe worst of all came when he reached
the Kill him; kill the umpire,' part. You
know how the cranks say it-iust roar
ft out savagely, as though they meant it
But Thayer put no particular emphasis on
The lines; he spoke them just as he had the
rest of it, in sad, fireman, save m Y child
style, conveying absolutely no idea OF the
sninosity OF the Mudville rooters toward
Akhe umpire who dared to call strikes On
their champion.
81 was heartbroken when he concluded;
someway his rendition didn't seem right; it
wasn't the real thing. 1 flattered myself
that had the correct idea
"My reflections were rudely disturbed A
drunken actor friend of mine, then travelling
;fot n. a. xaco
many times and in whose judgment re-
posed the greatest confidence, had listened
to Thayer with the most rapt attention
Turning to me he said, In dead earnest:
Il think you could make it go better that
way
perhaps You understand why hayen't
fecdted the thing In year. Minneapolis
Tribune
The times., 1897-05-09
A sIde-I.lght ON Milton.

or Milton three wives and his relations
with them enough has been written. 1t was
a hard thing to be Milton IS wife or Milton's
daughter He was stern, he was austeTe,
he was self-centeTed his impeccable
strength was purchased by sublime and
monotonous egoisIn-which is the name tn, y
give to selfishness in poets. Very chill must
have been the life OF his girls in that Gr;tan
house, reading to the inwrapped Puritan
father from languages they did not under
stand, and taking down from his lips poetry
they understood less. Milton found them
ndutiable. Poor little 'undutiabief daugh-
ters Fathers had terrible conceptions Of
duty in those days. Did anyone ever want
to know Milton? Did anyone ever not
want to know Shakespeare? Doubtless
there are readers of the Exeter Hall class
who would have yearned for the godly
company of the great Christian poet"
But, On the whole, how than kful one should
be that Shakespeare was not Christian
poet Lies yrais artists sont toujours
un peu patens," said poor Stephen Heller
to Sir Charles Halle, in no invidious sense,
for was he not d Catholic writing TO a
Catholic?-Academy.
The times., 1897-05-09

During his stay in Washington Bronislaw
Hubernian has endeared himself TO WASH
ington society, not only as a genius, but
as genuine whole-souled boy. Almost every
afternoon he has been seen riding his new
bicycle about the neighborhood Of Lafay cite
Square, with all the enthusiasm OF any
lad OF fourteen years. He has been the
recipient OF much attention from the
diplomatic circle, especially from the ladies
OF the British embassy, and from the Austro-
Hungarian Minister and Baroness Hengel-
muller.
The Misses Pauncefote are expert wheel
woir en-, as are Baroness HengelmuIler, and
the gentlemen OF the legations, Several
very jolly cycling excursions into the
surrounding country have been made up Of
these well-known people who, with Count
Zautoiski and Boy HuberInan have seen all
the points OF interest about Washington
in his manner during the lasufortnight.
Bubernan gives final concert tonight
at the Columbia, and it is safe to predict
that a great ovation VIII be rendered this
prince of violinists.
The times., 1897-05-09
PUBLIC LIGHT QUESTIONS
Contentious of Companies Before
the Commissioners.
Rights of the City to Ducts Laid
Down by the Potomac Company
in Certain Streets.

The Commissioners havenow before than
very interesting question, growing out
of the reservation to them by the Potomac
Electric Light Company OF two ducts in
the conduits laid down by that company
in certain streets Of the city. The public
has also a large share OF inter-
est In The problem by reason
Of the fact that the United States
Electric Light Company offers by the use
of these two ducts to save to the city 81 f.
600 annually In the cost of lighting. They
claim that the $14, 900 thus saved would
be enough to furnish from 100 to 175 arc
lights, in addition to those now used to
light streets and reservations.
The proposition has gone to the Commis-
sioners in the bid of the United States
Electric Light Company for the public light
| ing One OF the propositions Is to furnish
| lights at $40 lamp less than the same
| light ca be furnished by the Potomac Com
pany In the bid was the proviso that the
| Commissioners permit the United States
Company to max use OF the ducts reserved
| to their use by the Potomac Company. The
president of the United States Company
received letter from the Commissioners
| Yesterday asking him for further informa-
| ton on this proposition.
| 1t is claimed for the Commissioners by
] the United States Company that the per
| lnits to the Potomac Company, and their
| terms generally, secured to the city the
| absolute right to two of the ducts, and it
| is this property of the city that the United
| States Company now desiI es to utilize
with tile result of saving $4,000 an
1 nually. 1t is maintained that although
| these ducts were nominally for police
alarms, telephone service, etc, the city
can use them for any purpose that Will
not be detrimental to the wires or service
| OF the Potomac Company in the same con-
duits.
| one Of the directors of the United States
| Company said yesterday that the Po-
| tomac Company came into the city Is np-
posing and attacking monopoly and that
| il would furnish electric light service al
| a low cost to the city When it has ac-
tually come to the test of bidding, how
ever. the bids OF the Potomac Company
| were up to the maximum limit.
/ It was held, it was further argued, By
1 Commissioners Powell and Truesdell thai
| q saving to the city OF only $4,000 was
| a sufficient reason for permitting the Po
tomac Company to come east of Rock
Greek to break up the United States Elcc-
| tric Light Company monopoly" as they
called it. It was necessary to do this, ts
construe q provision OF Congress in suel
a way as to convey exactly the reverse Of
it's terms. The United States Company'
officers are now anxious to see what con
struction the Commissioners will put OIL
the terms on which they were given contro
The times., 1897-05-09
FINAL HUBERMAN RECITAL
Signorina BeIinfante the Sensation
Of the Week.
senator Sherman's Birthday Recep.
tion-A Brilliant Dinner at
the Mexican Legation.

signorina Estreta Belinfante, the wonder
American debut at the Executive Mansion
on Monday evening last, is just now The
talk Of the town, owing to the sensation
created on that occasion 10y her glorious
voice and charming personality. Every
where one goes, and dparticularlya among tie
members of the Cabinet circle, who were
SO fortunate as to hear her at the White
House, one is greeted with Have you heard
Signorina Belinfante?" or You must let
me tell you about the treat we had on
Monday evening""
The times., 1897-05-09
Mrs Mcmillan, wife Of Senator Mcmillan
is spending fortnight in Detroit.

The Minister Of Mexico and Nine. Ro-
nero entertained at very brilliant din
ner last evening in honor of delegates to
the postal congress.
The guests included the Secretary to
the President and Mrs Addison j. Porter,
Mrs. Call, wife OF Senator Call; Repre-
sentative and Mrs Sayers, Of Texas; Mr..
and Mrs Garfias, Mr.. Chavez, Mr.. and
Mrs Zapata Vera, Miss Vera, Mrs Kill
patrick, the delegates from Chill, Mr.. and
Mrs. william s. Walker, Mr.. Navella, the
delegates from Guatemala, and Mrs. Ma
vella, and Mr. and Mrs. Mujica Sayaga.
The table was most beautifully deco
rated with La France and Jacqueminot
roses and Easter lilies. The wine glasses
of Bohemian ware, which stood beside
each cover, were Of the tintso Of the flowers,