The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-05-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires I'm . Con.
densed Form.

Overflow From the Wires In . Con.
densed Form.
John Stockton Scloonmaker died at
his home in Plainfield, N. j., Of apo
plexy, aged ffty-four years.
A report from Zanzibar says a dhOw
with fifty slaves on board has been
wrecked off Waszim. Thirty were
drowned.
The large Touring mills of p. Stryk-
er's Sons at Lebanon, Pa, were total
ly DESTROYED by fire. The loss is esti-
rated at $4,000.
A. fire damaged the six-story fulni-
ture factory of Levi Abrahams, 1853
and 800 Broom street, New York, to
the extent Of 100000.
Lieut.. Gen. Polavieja, minister of
war. has cabled to Gen. Rios in the
Philippines, authorization to return to
Spain whenever it is convenient.
The British cruiser Galatea has been
ordered to Iceland owing to recent
seizures Of English fishing boats in
contrayention of the Danish regula-
lions.
The Alabama state senate. by a vote
Of IS to 13,, decided to repeal the call
for q constitutional convention made
in December last. The house had al
ready voted the same way.
The Sewing Machine Attachment
Company of New York. capital, $780,
900, was incorporated at Dover, Del.
The company will manufacture I'M
proved sewing machinery and the at
tachments thereon.
The mounted broadsword contest be-
tween Duncan G. Ross Of New York
and Capt. w. S. .Bice Of Columbus,
Ohio, at the fair grounds at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, for the, championship of the
world, was awarded to Bice.
Work was resumed in full at Alex
andria, Ind, at the American Plate
Glass works. Neither side will state
the conditions on which over 600 men
resumed work, but it is understood
that the men abandoned the union.
The state department has been in
formed that the duke Of ARGOS will
present his credentials to the president
as minister of Spain early in June, and
that Hon. Bellamy Storer will be re-
caived by the queen regent OF Spain at
the same time.
The molders at the Lima Locomotive
and Machine works, Lima. Ohio, struck
because five Of their number were laid
of. The company conceded to their
demands for an increase Saturday, but
Monday morning laid off five men and
the others struck.
A report has reached West Point,
Ga. of the death of several negroes in
a storm which swept owe Chambers
county. All wires are down. The
storm unroofed the car shops OF the
Atlanta & West Point railroad, and
created a panic in a negro church.
William r. Kerr. formerly commits
sioner Of the city department Of Chi
cago, has filed a petition in bankruptcy
with liabilities placed ut $4,000 and
assets $1,000. Mr.. Kerr was connected
with the Grand Pacific hotel as asso-
ciate manager until last October.
President Edwin Could. of the Con-
tinertal Match company, said that it
was not true that the Union Match
company, recently Incorporated, was to
he the nucleus of q consolidation be-
tween the Diamond and Continental
Match companies. He said there was
NO agreement between the companies.
A deal was consummated in Pitts
burg whereby the National Steel COM
pany secures al acres of coking coal
property in the Uniontown district.
This tract is said to be the best unde-
velored field in the district. The con-
s.de1atioD was $S00.OOO. Six hundred
coke ovens will be erected on the
tract nt onco