The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-01-01
Otherwise.

n thousand Italians have gone nome
to spend Christmas.
The T.. 4. w. will try to suppress
siN-day bicycle killings.
Counterfaiters arc at work in Den
yer. \ dangerous counterfeit $40 sill
yer certificate is in circulation.
BY Il vote of 5 to 4 a committee of
the Virginia senate ordered Il favOra-
BILE report on an anti-foot ball bill.
Prominent women want the school
children of America to give Il cent
apiece to the government university.
John Jenkins of Springfield. Ohio,
knocked out Barney Smith of Cincin-
natl in a glove fight i'll the sixth round.
The directors of the Southern rail
read have declared a dividend of l per
cent on the preferred stock, payable
Jan. 30.
Gov. O'Ferrall of Virginia has ap-
pointed eX-Postmaster General Will
son Il member of the board of educa-
tion but the senate turned him down.
At the Grcenpoint Sporting club at
New York Bobby Dod,!s, colored. OF
Minneapolis. defeated Sam Tonkins Of
Astoria, in ten rounds.
OSCnE SIII(lllCI, lllc OIlldllSL 4AIN, dAu
Eugene BeZnah of Cincinnati fought a
fifteen-round draw at the Peoples
Athletic club at Cincinnati.
The United States supreme court
will take a recess next Monday for the
Christmas holidays. resuming it's sit
tings again on Monday, Jan. ].
John Sherman. nephew of the secre-
tary of state, has announced himself
as Il candidate for the Republican
nomination for mayor of Des Moines.
The damage resulting from fire at
John and James Dobson's wholesale
ard retail carpet salesrooms at Phila-
delphia will reach over 100000 in
building and stock.
Matty Matthews CT New York and
Charles MvKeever of Philadelphia
fought fifteen rounds at the Olympic
club at Athens, Pa. Mckeever had
the best Of the encounter throughout.
Tie retirement of Justice Field from
the United states supreme court cas-
made necessary the new assignments
of Justice Brewer to the Ninth circuit
in addition to his duties in the Eighth
circuit.
the Stock Exchange Bank of FL
Reno. Okla, has closed it's doors aud
J. NJ. Cannon has been appointed re-
cciver. The liabilities arc stated tn De
$4,000 and the assets are claimed tC
be worth $4,000.
An arrangement has been reached
by the principal roads Of Michigan
whereby interchangeable 1.OOO-inile
tickets will be honored on trains in
Michigan without requiring the holder
to exchange tickets as at present.
The act of the Ohio legislature Civ
ing damages to persons assaulted or
killed by mobs was declared u%nconsti.
tutional in the case Of j. w. Caldwell,
who claimed 81 1000 because he was in
jurcd by a mob during the Brown
strike.
A circular saw in operation in the
wood yard of Tice & Dilliger at Fond
du Lac, Wis, burst. Nelson Tice, the
senior member of the firm, was struck
by a flying fragment and seriously, If
not fatally. injured. His right arm
was severed.
Mrs. Jennie June CrOly has been ap-
pointed an inspector of public schools
by Mayor Strong of New York for the
term of five years. Mrs. Croly, who
succeeds Mrs. Harriet NJ. Kemp, is
known all over the United States as a
writer and worker in wOmen's clubs.
\. E. East, a wealthy farmer living
about twelve miles northeast Of Cald-
well. in Norris township, Kan, has
deposited $500 as a reward to the per-
SON who will effect the capture of Lou
Wilkinson and the safe return of Eva,
the sixtcen-year-old daughter of Mr.
East.
The shareholders of the National
Bank of Ashcville, N. c., which failed
in October, having borrowed money
on their Individual guarantees suf-
fcient to pay all demand obligations,
the contrallc: has permitted the bank
to close up it's affairs by voluntary
liquidation instead of through 81 re-
ceiyQr.