The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-08-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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II is reported in Des Moines that the
preliminary negotiations for the sale
Of the Central Iowa road to the Chi
cago. Milwaukee & st. Paul road are
completed.
company has been organized in Des
Moines and intends building q plant
to land the crop from 5000 acres.
John Smith, aged IA, Harry Heinly,
aged - and Roy Henley, aged 8, We're
drowned while at a picnic near Byron,
Ill.
Ole Anderson, section hand on the
Chicago Great Western railway, was
instantly killed at Stillman Valley by
the slipping Of a crowbar holding q
load of rails. g
TWO children Of Norman Pickrell Of
| Syracuse. Neb., bitten by q mad dog,
have been sent to Chicago for treat,
ment.
Lewis II. McCune and William T.
Swardner Of Marshfield, Ohio. were
drowned while fishing at Iaakeville.
Miss bessie Garrett Of Columbus.
Ohio. was struck by q street car and
injured so that she died within an
hour. She was riding a bicycle when
the accident happened.
Carl Jackson Of Escapaba, Mich.
while riding from Green Bay on his.
bicycle, was bitten by a dog at Oconto
and compelled to abandon his trip.
Menominee, Mich, contractors who
have secured government contracts
for harbor work at Kenosha, Sturgeon
Bay and Racine, 7 busy in the
pineries getting out timber.
The Oriental electric works at
Youngstown, Ohio, has been absorbed
by a new company of local business:
men. with a capital Of 100000.
q. E. Widup Of Richmond, Ind, has
been appointed internal revenue stamp
agent at Indianapolis.
Fred Smith Of Grend Rapids, Mich,
will lose both legs as the result Of q
railway accident at Emporia, Kan.
Two. children of William Hambright
at Mishawauka. Ind, mistaking rat
poison for sugar, consumed q box full.
One child is dead, the other will re.
cover.
Bishop Blenk Of Porto Rico has is
sued and appeal to all Catholic bish-
ops in the United States asking for
aid. He asks that communications be
addressed to him ut Washington,
d. C. j..
The mayor of Portsmouth, Eng, has
received a letter from Joseph II.
Choate, the United States ambassa-
dor, saying that an American squad
ron will visit Portsmouth next year.
It is announced that the bubonic
plague was brought to Oporto, Portu-
gal, by a steamer loaded with rice
from India, and that forty-six cases
altogether have been reported. Span
ish doctors now at OportO, however,
notify Madrid that the outbreak is di-
minishing.
The British government has agreed
to the withdrawal of the eXtradition
proceedings in the case Of Mrs. Will
lam Y. Perot, charged with the alb
duction of her daughter, Gladys, from
Baltimore. who by mutual agreement
of the interested parties, was turned
over to the custody Of her grandfather,
William III. Perot.
George Saunders or Stevenson, and
Alice e.. Jones of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
were arrested on board the Cunard
line steamer Campania. on her arrival
at Liverpool, charged with an alleged
forgery in the United States. Later
the prisoners We're arraigned before q
magistrate, when it was said that the
woman's husband was connected with
a mining business. She asserts her
innocence.