The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-23

gress. The first coin will he Struci
at the Philadelphia mini Oh the ann:
versary of WdshingtOn's death.
Accidental Happenings.
At least 5000 people persisted in al
earthquake ,n Ccram. one of the Ma
lay islands.
Fire in A. Il. Letherbcc L Co.'S luc!
Der yard. on Albany street, Boston
caused a loss of probably 100000:
Fire at Gloucester, Pa. destroyed the
Green Tree hotel and stables and 1hr
Clifton house. killing David Young,
laborcr, and his wife.
At Cambridge, Ohio. in the Kink;'
coal mine. four kegs of powder eX-
plodcd. and the motOrman and thre,
] miners were fatally injured.
The Canadian steamer Niagara Capt
McGlory, foundered about eight miles
east Of Long Point. Lake Erie, with all
hands, numbering sixteen persons.
Col. James Graham and William p.
CuEEeen. two politicians OF st. Mary's,
Kas.. drank from Il bottle containing a
| disinfectant. believing it to Ut whisky,
and both may die.
The wcst-bound Unio~ Pacific pas
| senger train known as the Colorado
| Special, was wrecked ut Grand Island,
Ncb., and Engineer Myers and Fire
man Murphy seriously injured.
Albert, the seventeen-year-old son of
John Gardner of Atlantic City, N. j.,
representative from the Second New
Jersey district in congress, vas run
| down and instantly killed at Egg Har-
Dor city by the through New York
express for Atlantic City, known as
the nelly Bly," He was riding a
tracks ahead of the approaching train.
The Union Pacific ma have an ORR
entail line.
Robert Cosman. Jr.. pastor of st.
Johns church, Boston, was chosen
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal do
| cese of Maine.
The two great whisky interests OF
the country, the trust and the indie
pendent association, arc a5out to unite,
| it is said. to gain a reduction Of taxes
on whisky.
A distinct earthquake shock passed
down the valley along the Wasatch
range in Utah. 1t was quite severe IN
| Weber and Davis counties, and way
%perceptibly felt in Salt Lake.
The big miners strike at Nantichoke,
Pa, is ended. At a meeting of strikers
they resolved to waive the demands OF
the pump inner and accept the Sus-
quehanna Coal company's terms.
Another contribution to the naval lit
erature Of the Spanish war has been
published. 1t is Il history by Admiral
Ceryera of the fleet under his com
mand. which was destroyed by the
American squadron.
The transport City Of Para has al
| rived at San Francisco from Manila
| via Nagasaki. She came in ballast and
had but one passenger. After inspec.
ton she will probably be discharged
from the transport service.
The Chicago Record says that the
| Democratic national committee is or
| ganizing travelling men into antitrust
clubs. These clubs will be centralized
into an organization called the Demo
cratic Travelling Mems Antitrust
League.
A special to the New York Evening
| Post from Boston says: 1.-The rumOr is
current in business circles that the i'm
meuse pork packing business of John
| Squire s. Co. of East Cambridge will
! soon be in control of Swift Bros, the
Chicago packers.
It is announced from the Catholic
legation that the midnight mass of
Dec. 81 of this year does not signify
that Jan. 1. 1900. is the beginning of
the twentieth century, but that it is
the beginning of the Catholic Jubilee
I year of 1900.
At Crown Point, Ind, Judge Gillette
decided that n non-union workman.
| discharged at the behest of the union
had no redress in law. The judge holds
that the union has a legal right to de-
mand the dismissal of any mar not Il
II ember of the union.
G. A. Whyland, senior partner in the
firm of G. A. Whyland & Co., promi-
nent in the board of trade and the
stock exchange at Chicago, has been
expelled from the latter institution. He
Is charged with violating the bylaws
in regard to ''bucket shopping"
MISS Sjl;tru Barton VI tuc Iteu NiOss
society has received the following ca
blegram: "The assembly profoundly
recognizes with infinite thanks your
work and that of the generous Ameri-
can government in the liberation of the
Spanish prisoners. Marquis Villabos."
The opposition to Gen. Wheeler
taking his seat as a member of the
house of representatives from Alabama
is. to be renewed by Representative
Bailey of Texas. Gen. Wheeler is now
in the Philippines, but it has been I'M
derstood that he would return to take
! his seat. 49, .-.I