The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-10-14
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The Dewey home fund, to date, ag'
gregates $49,3S1.
Peoria has a beer war. A Chicago
concern offers it's product at So per bar.
rel.
Wabash, Ind, has a curfew ordin.
ance. and boys must be kept off the
streets after dark.
S. B. Remsen, county : surveyor.
claims to have witnessed the outbreak
of a volcano some twenty miles from
Creole, Col.
Sixteen missionaries sent by thei Bap.
fist Missionary union sailed on the Vic
torian from Boston for posts in Asia.
Many farewell receptions were given.
The Indian Ridge Coal and Coke com
| pany Of Bluefield, w. Va, advanced the
wages Of their 800 employees 10 per
| cent. A similar advance was made on
July 1.
1t is estimated that the Indian gov
eminent must spend 100000 rupees to
relieve famine in the central provinces,
and that the local chiefs must expend
at least One-third of this amount in
| addition.
The gold output for the Cripple Greek
district for September amounted to ST.
731.OOO, surprising all records. The
production of gold in this district FROM
the time of it's discovery, in 1891, to
date, is S62,O57,2O2.
Three thousand miners. who have
been out two weeks at Danville, ILL.,,
have returned to work, their demands
having been conceded by the operators.
Their contention was for IN eight-hOur
day and SITE per day. The agreement
stands until April 1.
The consolidation of all the street
railway lines Of Columbus has been
completed. The property Of the Column
bus Street Railway company, the Gross
Town Street Railway company and the
Columbus Central has been transferred
to the Columbus Railway company.
The United States court Of appeals
rendered its decision at Chicago in the
case on appeal of the United States
Rubber company and others against
the American Oak Leather company
and others, in favor of the American
| Oak Leather company.
After two months Of idleness. the
American Strawboard company of Tif-
q full force of men. The factory was
| closed by the state board Of health be-
| cause the refuse from the mills was
killing the fish in the Sandusky river,
causing unhealthy conditions.
Joseph Wiingaard, chief engineer of
the department of railways, posts and
| telegraphs Of the Belgium State Rail-
way company, with headquarters at
shall, Pa, in charge Of the officials of
| thu 1np,o r%rnnnf NJ nhO r3f3nc on o1nnnSf
hopeless maniac.
Rear Admiral ]. G. Walker, Alfred
| Noble, Col. Peter G. Haines and w. Fl.
Burr, members Of the committee Of the
Isthmian Canal commission, who went
to Paris to study the work of the Pan
ANA Canal company, returned to New
| York on the American liner New York.
| Col. D. II. Ernest remained in Paris.
The anti oebel Democrats filed a pc
| titioli Mt Frankfort, Ky, for a place on
the official ballot. 1t styles itself the
| Honest Election Democratic party. It's
device contains pictures Of John Young
Brown and B. p. Johnston, the two
heads of the ticket. The petition COR
tains 300 names, though only 1000
were required.
A special to the Denver News from
Ell Paso, Texas, says: Fred H. Petiz,
a civil engineer, has just returned from
the immense soda. beds of Dona Ana
county, New Mexico. where he sur
| veyed and staked out $4,000 acres of
soda lands for a Pittsburg syndicate.
The soda is almost pure, and the beds
are thirty-fve miles long, twelve miles
wide and sixty feet deep.
Among the crew of the steam whaler
| Mary D.. Hume, just arrived at San
Francisco, are eight disappointed COLO
seekers, who went into the arctic re-
gion over the Edmonton trail. Their
names are b. F. Lares, st. Paul; J.
Martin, +. T. Thompson, F. Adelman,
w. Mason and f. Sink, all Of Chicago,
Thomas Upton, Edmonton. N. w. T.;
W. McGinn. s%heboygan, Mich.