The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-09-09

General.
Nebraska volunteers were warmly
welcomed home.
Iowa mid-road Populists were nomi-
mated a state ticket.
Retail butchers will reform an anti
combine company.
The Northwestern road is credited
with an intention to absorb the Omaha.
The Astors are said to be contem-
plating the purchase Of a railroad in
Maryland.
Treasury officials expect the receipts
to exceed expenditures at an early
date.
The permanent organization of the
Distilling Company of America has
been completed. =
Again it is said that the Illinois
Central seeks to gate control of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis railway.
1t is reported at Duluth, Mimi, that
prices of retail hard coal will be adj
vanced 80 cents a ton within q week.
The builders trial trip of the bat
tleship Alabama, resulted in the de-
velopment of a maximum speed Of
171-4 knots.
Frederick M. Sheldon, formerly in
the saddlery business in Elmira, M Y,
filed a petition in bankruptcy at New
York. Liabilities, $1S3, III; no assets.
Thirteen states are represented in
| the convention of the Blind Peoples
Higher Education and General I'M
provement association, which is in ses-
sion at Kansas City.
Work will be begun on Sept. 1 on a
branch Of the Duluth, South Shore &
Atlantic railway from Newtonville to
Rockland, Mich, at a cost of over
! $1,000, 600.
! An electric. storm ut Evansville, Ind,
lowered the temperature 25 degrees in
five minutes and was followed by a
hail storm which did considerable
damage.
Notice has been given that the option
on window glass plants, which eX-
that the combination which was to
Meyer and Bernard. Hecht, who
formerly composed the firm of Hecht
Bros, importers of fancy goods, filed
separate petitions in bankruptcy at
New York. The firms liabilities are
$129, 629..
The Employers Association of Spo-
kane, representing from $7,OOO,OOO to
| $4,000 600 of local capital, has been Or
ganizcd to resist any demand of or
ganized labor in the city which its
members may regard as unjust.
Henry Hofheimer, formerly q men,
Der Of the firm of Henry Hofheimer,
Son & Co., wholesale dealers in boots
and shoes at Norfolk, Va, has filed a
petition of bankruptcy. Liabilities,
4 ,S04; nominal assets, SOL O0.
The last contract is closed for the
machinery of the antitrust tobacco
factory which will be established in
st. Louis. A force Of workmen are
already ut work on a building making
the necessary changes in the structure.
The National Union Veterans union
adopted resolutions denouncing Gov.
Shaw for appointing j. Rush Lincoln,
an ex-Conferderate, as brigadier-gen-
eral of Iowa troops when they were
called into service at the opening OF
the Spanish a
The position Of director general Of
the Pan-American exposition at Buff
falo has been formally rendered to Will
liam I. Buchanan, United States mi
mister to the Argentine Republic. Mr.
BuchGLa is expected in Buffalo in q
few days to look over the situation.
Mrs. Eliza f. Smith Of Chicago is
said to be entitled to a S ,O0O,OO0 share
Of an estate in Germany and another
in Baltimore worth $12,OOO,OO0 to $13,.
100000, claimed by the heirs of Mathi'
MS Silerarst, a German baron who died
in 1916, and Of his sons, Matthias IL,
and Abraham.
It is understood that the United
States consul at Gilbartar will advance
the funds necessary to send to Cuba
the twenty Cubans who were released
by Spain from the penal colony ri
Ceuta and are now in a penniless con
dition at Gibraltar.
F. W.. Peck, commissioner general t.
the Paris exposition, suggests that the
output Of Cripple Greek or n Of the
other gold camps of the state for one
month be nodded into q solid mass
and, bearing the certificate Of the d.
rector Of the mint, be forwarded Al
the representative Of the centennial
J state. ).