The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-11-20
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The Reading railroad shows net
earnings of $981,45 for September.
The Peerless Refining Company of
Findlay, Ohio, has assigned. The as
signee's bond was fixed at $4,000.
Canadian Pacific railroad earnings
for the week ending Oct. 81 are $685.
600; same period last year. $79O,OO0.
A Victoria, B. c., advice says: After
JAN. 1 miners will not be allowed eX-
emption from duty OF 100 pounds Of
baggage.
Oscar Hemmerstein, the theatrical
manager of New York, has assigned
for the benefit of creditors to Lewis ].
Phillips.
All the preliminary arrangements
for a meeting between Peter Maher
and Tut Ryan have been made. The
fight will take place within seven
weeks at some place e New York.
A fatal accident occurred on David
Dobie's logging railroad, ten miles
from the station of Scion Springs,
over and killed by the cars.
Henry Jefferson, charged with at
tempting to shoot Carrie Niebling, q
young girl who refused to marry him,
was on trial at Neenah, Wis. The jury
disagreed. He will be tried again.
w. o. Darnell was appointed receiv-
e. for the Chicago & Southeastern
(Midland) railroad. Petitioners for the
receiver were John Morrison, John
Dooley and others.
John Webster, Jr., a member of a
well known family, but not bright,
died in the city lookup at Oshkosh,
Wis, while sleeping off a drunken de-
bauch.
The w. C. 7. U. national convention
at Buffalo has adjourned. Miss Cor
nelia NJ. Dow is custodian of the fund
to be raised to retire the Temple trust
bonds.
The report of Gen. Graham, com
handing the department of Texas, has
been made. 1t shows that the troops
Of that department are in good cOndt-
ton and under good discipline.
The British flagship Imperieuse has
returned to Victoria, B. c., from
searching Cocos island for the $780,
100000 treasure. Officers say the story
is no dream, and their belief in it is
evidenced by the fact that a guard Of
bluejackets was left on the island.
The saw mill and other property Of
the late lumber firm of Cross, Badger
& Co., at Holmes, Wis.,, has been sold
by the sheriff under orders of the SUI
perior court. The Mills & LIE Clair
chased it for $1,000.
The statement prepared by the bu-
e of statistics shows that the num-
Der of Immigrants arrived in the
United States during the first three
months of the present fiscal year was
40, 8 which is a decrease Of nearly
1850 as compared with the same perl
cd last year.
The ordnance bureau has made q
test at Indian Head, firing a ten-fnch
armor piercing capped shell at a IA r.
inch plate. The latter was nickel steel
harveyized. The shell went through
the plate and exploded on the other
side. The test was considered most
satisfactory.
A regular monthly meeting Of the
New York chamber of commerce a res
olution was adopted suggesting to the
government the ACCESSIBILITY of increas-
ing the army by about 1000 artillery
men so that the modern seacoast de-
fences nov in construction, may be
properly manned.
at seems to me,' said eX-Secretary
]. Sterling Morton the other day, "that
we are soon to have an outflow from
the large cities to the Western country.
The condition of the farmers has i'm
proved steadily, until to-day it is far
better than that of the masses in the
cities"
The South Penn Oil company of
Bradford, Pa, has closed a deal for
the purchase of the oil property of the
Devonian, Emery and Matson oil COM
panies in the Bradford field. The deal
includes 10000 acres of land and $50
producing wells. The consideration is
$1,4OO,OOO in cash.
/. Jose Canalejas y Mendez, formerly
minister of finance in Spain, has ar
rived at New York. He intends to
visit all important places in the Unit
ed States and Canada and then 60 10
Cuba, where he will study the situa-
ton so as to be able to inform the
SPANISH government as to the best So
luton of the conflict.
The coroner, who has been invests
eating the falling of the ceiling Of the
Robinson Opera house, Cincinnati, has
announced that the accident was one
that could not have been foreseen or