The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-07-24
IN NORTH DAKOTA
Interesting Jews Items From ALI
Parts Of the State.

stroyed a number of shade trees.
The Great Northern will erect Il new
brick depot ut Mayville.
An insane girl in Pembina county Is
said to have been deserted by her
mother.
Miss Mary Tobert of Grand Forks
was overcome by heat and remained
unconscious for twenty-three hours.
The tax levy in Grand Forks county
has been increased $4,000 over last
year.
President Merrifield Of IF the State
university will pass the summer IN
Vermont.
The jewelry store of S. E. Pixley at
Churches Ferry was ~burglarized and
$t5c worth of jewelry taken.
John P. Bray has taken the oath OF
office as consul at Melbourne, and will
leave for his post Of duty mex week.
The old Merchants hotel at Michi-
gan City is being re%juvenated and re-
modelled.
Gertrude Mosher gets a verdict
agau st II. Goyet of jamestown Tor
$3.50 for defamation of character.
Grand Forks people want a. pardon
for Thomas Peterson, serving 4 SEN
tcnce in the pen for robbery.
Many farmers in the vicinity OF
Hamilton, Pcmbina county, have iost
their entire crop by hail.
John Abrahamson has been appoint
ed deputy oil inspector at Grand
Forks.
There will be a base ball tourna-
ment at Grand Forks at Darlington,
July 20, for a purse of 5000.
Orrin Denney played foot ball at
Bottineau, and both bones Of n leg
We're broken.
The state asylum has let contracts
for $4,000 pounds of butter for the en-
suing year ut 16 cents per pound.
Lars Lebo, a Ramsey county. we'll
digger. was struck on the head by q
flying windlass and will probably die.
Some one left a piece of punk in the
r,illinery store at Wahpetcn. and $50
worth of millinery went up in smoke.
The capture of August Normand Is
said to have cost Grand Forks county
$1,000.
Judge Cochrane of Grand Forks sues
Ashley Mears for $1,000, for legal SER
vices performed.
Land office officials at Grand Forks
are doing more business than has been
done for years.
A carload of Italians has been sent
to Dawson to take the place Of the
striking laborers.
Felix Ozowiski, a Polander, was at
tackled by a bull near Mimic last week,
and killed. His skull was crushed IN.
A little year-old girl in Fargo fell
into a kettle of boiling water and was
fearfully out not fatally scalded.
Footpads at H%ankinson held up a
preacher, and fn6ing nothing of value
about him but a sermon. took that.
Col. Robinson's friends in Mayville
have presented him with a $l25 silver
service as Il token of their esteem.
n. Peavey's elevator ut Lisbon has
burned. Twelve thousand bushels OF
wheat were destroyed.
Ed BarLes. who lives four miles east
of Grandm, lost his barn by fire. Loss,
about 5000; partly insured.
The Catholic church property in Lis
bon is to be sold o o by the sheriff,
to satisfy q judgment and decree In
foreclosure for $S0G.lS.
The recent hail storm in Pembina
county was the most severe ever ex-
perienced there. 1t was thirty miles
long and from n to two miles wide.
Billings county has settled its taxes
with the Northern Pacific, getting 40
per cent up to 1895, and IS per cent for
that year.
The Northern Pacific has brought
suit to set aside the taxes against their
lands in Ransom county. The amoun
involved is about $4,000.
Fargo will retrench, and the COM
n.ittee appointed for that purpose re-
commends 4 reduction Of $1,000 in the
salaries of various city officials.
The claims for damages to the
Methodist church at Cakes, which was
struck by lightning last week, were
adjusted for $147.
Live stock on the ranges out west is
in good shape, and the shipments will
begin actively about the last of the
month.
Thomas O'Neal IF Rottipeau secures
an original pension, and Mrs. Mary J.
Cronk of Lakota secures q widows
pension.
Hans Romer had his hand crushed
by the hoof of a falling horse which
he was riding in the recent races ut
Eldrige. He may survive, however.
Drayton claims the youngest high
school graduate in the state, in the
person Of Eddie Cochran, aged four
teen.
The Northern Pacific wants to move
their station from Eckelson to q point
half q mile west, and one of the resi-
dents of that place has gotten out an
injunction.
Col. Lounsberry, as special agent of
the land department, will settle the
dispute as to land in the Turtle Noun
tain country between the settlers and
the Indians.
William Kline of Spiritwood sue
DR.. Baldwin of Jamestown for $4,000,
alleging that the doctor prescribed n
dose of medicine for his child, the ad-
miristration Of which resulted In her
death.
The soldiers home board has at.
cepted plans for a new home at Lis
bon. of brick, 1OSx12O feet, one story
and basement, board piazza, to cost
$4,000.
President Salyards Of the defunct
bank at Minot will attempt to get
money enough to pay of the creditors
Eof the institution and start O new
bank.
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