The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1898-01-29

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the community, and stood high in ma
sorry. He was tifty-eight years Of
age, and had held numerous civil and
government offices. He was also a
lumberman and as such was widely
known.
otherwise.
A tin can combination Is being
formed in Chicago.
The A. P. A. is fighting McKenna's
confirmation as justice Of the supreme
court.
Gen. Merriam, Of the department of
the Columbia, reports no klondike re-
lief needed.
The Inland Iron and Forge Company
of Chicago has started up, giving enl-
ployment to 500 men.
Counterfeit 500 silver certificates
and $40 gold pieces are in circulation
in Philadelphia.
The Omaha city hall is i'll II state Of
siege al the result of a row over the
legality of the police board.
hid Partland and Kid Lavigne may
meet at New Orleans some time next
month in a limited round bout.
Plans are being laid for Il $G,OOO,OW
bicycle and railroad bridge between
the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhat-
tan, near the present bridge.
A strong movement is on foot at
Washburn, Wis.,, to secure a pardon
for A. C. Probert, the ex-banker of
that city.
\ large expedition of Laplanders is
about to start for New York from
Copenhagen, Christiana and Tromsoe
to go to the Klondike.
"I.ombardy." the home of John I.
Brush, the base ball magnate, three
miles east OF indianapolis, was Quilted
by fire.
1t is definitely announced at Tacoma
by A. G. Bratnober that the Roth,
schilds would build q railroad into the
Yukon country over the Dalton trail.
The steam pilot beat Smith has been
libellcd in the United States circuit
court ut Mobile. Ala. for conveying
men. arms and ammunition to Cuba.
The intervention of the unsecured
creditors in the insolvent Union Pa
ciic railway at the last moment has
prevented the sale of $1G,O0O,OOO Of Sc
curities.
Women crusaders petitioned the
Spokane, Wash. council to prohibit
screens or blinds in front of saloon
windows or doors. A majority of the
council seem to favor the idea.
]. Clark, Yale basket ball player,
broke his collar bone in a recent game.
He is one Of the four speakers that
scored a victory over Harvard in the
intercollegiate debate.
1t is said that Jim Garland will sue
coed Frank Taylor as %trainerH for
Lucky Baldwin. Garland has trained
for Haggin and S%preckles, and once
had charge of the Undine stables.
United States Minister Powell, at
Seoul, Corea, has reported to the state
department by cable that the mother
of the emperor of Corea died at the
capital.
The orange crop of Southesn Cali
fornia is nov being harvested, and is
was an unexpected fall of snow, the
fruit was not damaged.
The International B~ricklayers and
Masons' union held a meeting in Pc
oria, ILL.,, and will be in session ten
days or two weeks. There are POO del
egates in attendance.
The Tennessee Lumber Company of
Cincinnati, Ohio, has made an as
signment. Dull trade caused tine as
signment. Assets and liabilities, $780,
600.
The first action in Iowa under the
amended mulct law IA taken at Du-
buuue, Iowa., where the supervisors
granted the petition for consent filed
by the brewers and wholesale liquor
dealers, who have heretofore been eX-
posed to prosecutions under the pro-
hibitory law.
There has been a great row over the
postoffice at Menominee, Mich. where
the present congressman. G. d. ShLl-
don. has forced the president to ac-
cede to his request to name Michael
H. Kern for postmaster, against the
determined request of s.. N. Stephen
son, former Republican congressman
from that district.
Mrs. Amelia Miller, nearly seventy
years of age, living at Spokane. claims
to be one Of the heirs of Robert Morris
of Revolut. onary days, and has en-
gagged attorneys to look after her in
terest in the estate, situated in West
ern New York. and said to embrace
upward of 4 million acres of valuable
land.
\ special dispatch from Bangor, Me-,
to the New York Commerce. Adver-
tiser says: The tru:tees of tA Orono
Savings bank have decided to wind up
it's affairs. Many of the securities
which the bank holds have depreci-
ated in value through losses in the
West.
Cripple Greek reports a sensational
strike in the Delmonico, a property be-
longing to the Union Gold Mining COM
pany of Blue Hill. IL a forty-fO,t
drift at the seventy-fivc-foot level, an
e~ightcen-inch vein literally covered
with s%ylvlnitc was broken into An
assay was taken, and the rock went
better than $500 to the ton.
The report that w. A. Clark has sold
his Butte properties to the Colusa Par
rot Mining and Smelling company of
Spokane is incorrect. Il e Clark prop
critics. mines aud snelters have sim
ply been consolidated into II compa-
ny, known as the Colusa Parrot Min
ing and Smelling company. 1t is a
Butte corporation. and MI. Clark holds
his original interest.
Two dividends have recently been
declared by SLOGAN m.4.es, one by the
Reco of 100000, payable Jan. 1, and
one by the Idaho of $4,000, payable
at n 1t is the RecO's second divi-
dend of 100000 within a year, and
makes a total Of $2S7,500 up to date.
Rodcrick F.. Rombaud. ex-judge of
the court of appeals Of st. Louis, has
forwarded to Attorney General Crow