The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-08-19

Blythe of Mason City.
Mrs. Lucy Holcombe Pickens, relict
Of the late +. w. Pickens, minister to
st. Petersburg under President Blu
chanan, and governor of South Caro-
lima, died at her home at EdgewooG,
s. c., aged sixty-five years.
Rev. George W. Pepper, D. D., died
at his home in Cleveland, Ohio. DR..
Pepper has been in Ill health for sew
eral months. He was ordained q Meth
odist minister in 1850 and has been
prominent in that church In Ohio.
Edward J.. Rowell, president Of the
Lowell Courier Citizen company, Low
ell, Mass, died while on a train from
Boston. He served several terms In
the house Of representatives and was
president Of the Lowell City bank.
Emperor William will visit Queen
Victoria at Windsor castle in Novem-
Der, remaining q week. a +
The car has conferred on NJ. Del
casse, the French minister Of foreign
affairs, the Alexander Newsky order
in diamonds.
An earthquake shock was felt last
night in the neighborhood of Cycloro,
Corsica. A house was cracked and
there was a %semi-panic in the. vicinity.
Consul Skinner, at Marseilles, re.
ports that a westward advance of the
plague is steady and constant, it's
latest point of attack being in Alex
andria, Egypt.
1t is announced that under the will
of BARONESS Nathaniel Rothschild the
Louvre will receive her splendid collec-
ton of pictures, including several
paintings by Greuze.
De Wolf Hopper has secured an ex-
tended lease Of the Lyric theater in
London, and a continuation of Ell
Captain will now depend upon a re-
lease of the comedian from his autumn
engagements in the United States.
This Is now being arranged.
Consul Grinnell reports from Man.
chester the export Of cotton yarn from
that district to the United States for
the six months ending with June, at
1,o333s, 3O4 pounds; Of cotton %velvets,
cord and %fustians, 6,67S, 1S1 yards.
In q communication to the secretary
Of state, Austrian Minister Mertens,
who is temporarily in charge of the
American consulate at Valencia,
Spain, reports a shortage of the wheat
crop, making it necessary to import
sarge quantities of the cerial for the
year.
Otherwise.
The brickmakers' strike at Chicago
is practically off.
Cyclone cellars are being dug under
schoolhouses in Oklahoma.
There is q large surplus Of money in
the financial centers of the West.
The report Of grasshopper ravages in
w. w. Astor, recently n~aturalized as
a British subject, was hung in efhgy
in New York.
The Society of the Army Of the Ten
nessee will hold its next annual meet
ing in Chicago, Oct. 8, 10 and IL.
Joseph H. Choate, United States am
bassador, says there is no danger Of a
war over the Alaskan boundary
trouble. ".
Maurice Flynn. a shoe manufacturer
of Lynn, Mass, has filed q petition In.
UGuhIuplCy Ills 1IdOlAASAC0 0AO wv
ia; assets, $23,440. s}
Moses A. Ludington, a solicitor,
filed q petition in bankruptcy at Chi
cago, scheduling liabilities Of $92,056
ard assets of 1901.
A correspondent of the London Times
says the report that Wellington island
has been sold to the United States is
without foundation.
In Indiana it has been held to be IL
legal for faith curists and Christian Sci
entists to assume the title of doctor
and attend sick persons.
The building trades lockout in Copen-
hagen, by which 10000 workmen were
kept in idleness two months, will be
settled by compromise.
1t is announced that A. J.. Drexel, a
low the example of Wv. Astor and
become q British subject
The Encouragement Of Illinois holds
that stocks and bonds of the Illinois
Central railroad held by individuals
are liable to taxation.
The Western General Passenger as
ISOLATION held a meeting in Chicago
to give each road represented q share
OF the returning soldier business.
The audience at a C%hautauqua meet
ing at st. Joseph, No., refused to listen
to an anti-expansion TRADE by Con-
gresham Cochran and left the l.All
in a body. sz, "a )
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Postmasters will
be held in Washington Nov. Z to 10, in
stead of the earlier date originally
fixed upon.
Buchanan & Lyall Of Brooklyn fled
articles Of Incorporation. This COM
pany will prove a rival to the tobacco
trust. The company has q capital
stock Of 81, c00, 600.
John B. Smith. formerly in the real
estate and building business, has filed
a petition IN bankruptcy ut New
York. Liabilities, $4,000. of which.
500, 70S is unsecured; available assets,
$2S,,307. 3e.
Pope Brown delivered an address on.
the negro question ut the meeting Of
the Georgia State Agricultural society
at .Quitman, Ca, saying the whites
should aid the negroes in their efforts
to leave the country. /
The transport Hancock is at tho
Union Iron works at San francisco
undergoing extensive repairs, toscost
about $4,000. The hospital ship Re-
lief is also to be repaired at an expense
Of $4,000. G
The Republican and Socialist parties,
have agreed to organize a campaign
demanding the expulsion from Spain.
OF all religious. orders. Senores Sal
,meron. Ingleses and other socialists