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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16
Accidental Happenings.

Peter Flabby was arrested at Crystal
Falls, Mich, as the murderer Of his
wife.
Ernest Pierson. Il telegraph linenE"n.
was killed by Il fall from a pole AZ
Champaign, Ill.
Robert Henry. a negro. WAS picked
ND half-froZen at st. Joseph, Mich.
and sent to friends in Kalamazoo.
Mrs. Rose Baker of De Witt. Neb.,
died from the effects of cllloroforM adj
ministered for the purpose OF having 9
tooth pulled.
An open switch on the Milwaukee
road, near Beloit, Wis. wrecked Il
passenger train without loss OF life.
but with serious damage to the cars.
A Wabash railroad passenger .rain
struck a Thirty-first street electric car
at Chicago, injurins eleven persons
and demolishing the car. None OF the
injured will die.
The family of Willis Fox. living at
Mitchell. Ind. were poisoned by eating
bologna sausage. One child died With
in an hour. and the other members OF
the family are in a critical condition.
The nude body Of Il headless male
corpse was taken out of the Milwau-
kee river at Milwaukee, recently by a
bridge tender. near Grand avenue
bridge. and later conveyed to the
morgue. The cause Of death is a mys-
terry.
Mrs. Charles c. Goodman. wife of a
we'll known hotel proprietor at Read
ing, Pa. died suddenly Of Eydrophobia.
Nine weeks ago she was bitten on the
left hand, by a small fox terrier. The
wound was cauterized and there were
no unfavoratle symptoms until She
was seized with convulsiohs.
William Haherson. aged sixty-seven
years. formerly a well-to-do-contlactol'
at Philadelphia, while walking to his
home, became benumbed with cold and
fell down a railroad embankment into
a small stream which was frozen over.
Haherson's head went through the ice,
which formed a crust about his neck
and strangled him to death.
During a recent fire in Chicago,
which burned two Of the buildings &C.
cupied by John A. Gauger & Co. and
Hardy Brothers & Foley, moulding
manufacturers. John Bohannon, q fire.
man. was killed, and Jas. E. Donnelly,
another fireman, was seriously Injured
by the falling Of a wall. Twelve horses
! were burned to deaf. Gauger & Co.'s
loss is $4,000, and Hardy Bros. 4 70
ley, $25,NM.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

Tie omnipresent microbe is making
its disturbing influence felt in strange
and unexpected quarters. Boards and
mustaches are placed under ban as be-
ing nesting-places of Grant %intruders,
some of them. pathogenic, or, in every
day parlance, having the power to- pro-
duce disease. Because of this, the
London Globe states, on the authority
OF a French scientific journal, that on
motion of the celebrated DR.. Hubenck,
Of Breslau, the leading surgeons of
Austria and Germany are considering
the adopting of a rule requiring sur
geons to be clean-shaved, or to, at
least, as a preventive of danger, dis
infect the hair of the face before oper-
ating. Nothing is said as to the haif
of the head, but if this, too, is includ-
ed in the interdict, .bald-headed sur
geons will enjoy a gratifying advan-
tage.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16
Foreign.

Germany is elated over the success
in Asia Minor.
The total British casualties to date
are about $500.
England and Italy are delimitinR
their boundaries in Africa.
A German naval expert says sub
marine boats are worthless.
A section of Northern Cape Colony
has declared Tor the burghers.
Gen. MERCER will be a candidate FOR
membership in the French senate.
Menelek wants France and Russia
to pay the cost Of his European tour.
Dreyfus has protested against am
nesty as preventing reopening Of his
case.
The duchess of Parma has just given
birth to her eighteenth child. All are
living.
Count Goluchowski denies that ex-
King Milan CT Servia is under Austrian
protection.
The French press is delighted that
America disapproves Chamberlain's
alliance speech.
Emperor William expresses gratiica-
ton with President McKinley's atti-
tude toward Germany.
A Hamburg paper says the Franco
American reciprocity treaty will u
a tariff war unless other nations get
the anne concessions.
The Prussian law forbidding the
utilization and coalition Of political
clubs and societies has been repealed.
with the consent of Emperor William.
The Russian Imperial bank will buy
stocks when necessary to maintain a
steady market. The bank will help
small dealers. merchants and lesser
banks.
A committee of the German reichs-
tag. at the instance Of the foreign
Office. indefinitely postponed the meat
inspection bill, the discussion of which
threatens to test the new friendship
between the United States and Ger
many.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

Prof. G. H. Pepper, an archaeologist
If renown, who has been excavating in
southern Colorado has discovered an
lncient Indian city with an area of 400
square miles and evidences that it
vas once inhabited by about 10000 900
people. The professors announcement
will probably bring tears to numerous
aldermen of our larger cities as they
realize what a field for franchises they
would have had if they could have but
lived in that prehistoric town.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16
Otherwise.

The South Carolina Industrial HON
for negro boys and girls vas dedicated
at Columbia.
A syndicate of Eastern mills has
consummated a deal in st. Louis for
100000 pounds of wool.
. No official c%ognizance will be taken
Of the party recruited by Gustav
Theilkuhl for South Africa.
John Mckay of Titusville, Pa, an oil
we'll supply md iron pipe dealer, has
filed n petition in bankruptcy. His liza
bilities are $l7S,SS3, and his assets
1926.
Sir Henry Ttate, formerly head OF
the firm of Henry Tate & Sons, sugar
refners, and donor Of the Tate collec-
ton and picture gallery, Westminster.
is dead. He was born in 1918.
Delegates from beet sugar factories
in California, Oregon, Washington, Ne.
braska, Colorado. Iowa. Minnesota,
Wisconsin. Michigan, Illinois, Ohio and
New York attended the annual meet
ing at Omaha.
The adoption of a new system of
work by the American Car and Foun-
dry company of Berwick, Pa, by
which the mems earnings are cut one
half, has resulted in a strike involving
$50 car builders.
Investigation of the books of the in
solvent Combination Investment COM
pany at Chicago, by Receiver John F..
O'Donnell, indicated that there is about
$4,000 in. cash and securities with
which to pay unsettled claims.
M. j. O'Brien, who defaulted about
nine years ago as supreme treasurer Of
the Catholic Knights of America, has
filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy
at Chattanooga, Tenn. with liabilities
Of $75,O39. His assets are a suit Of
clothes.
A new serum. which,. it is claimed,
will show the presence Of tuberculosis
long before 1t would be possible by the
microscope. the X-ray or other methods
now in use, has been invented by DIR.
A. r. jenkins Of Chicago.
The citizens committee appointed by
Mayor Harrison of Chicago to make ar
rangements for the reception Of Ad-
miral Dewey, when he visits Chicago,
May /, has commenced work. The
plan Of entertainment already laid out
BY the committee will occupy two days,
the first having a monster parade and
the second q grand ball and reception.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

peFHOM0l.
Francis C. Cantine has been appoint.
ed receiver for Harper 4 Bros.
Fl. C. Frick may desert Carnegie and
organize an Independent concern
Col. Henry A. Thomas, postmaster
Of Boston, has resigned because OF
ill-health.
Joseph Fl. Swan. one of Iowa'S best
known lawyers. died recently Of hear
failure. He had practiced in Sioux City
since 1871.
Joseph II. Swan, II OF Iowa's best
known lawyers. died at Sioux City OF
heart failure. He had G&icticed there
since 1871.
Bishop Seymour celebrated the open
ing Of the annual synod Of the Spring
field diocese of the Episcopal chu,ci,
at Springfield, Ill.
Ex-State Senator Samuel H. Martin
of Carmi, Ill, is dead at the age OF
se~venty-eight years. He was a captain
in the Mexican wal.
The pope is suffering from a sudde',
cold, and DR.. Lapponi, Ills physician.
has ordered him to keep his bed. and
the usual audiences have been suspend.
ed.
James Mcconnell. editor and Il Of
the proprietors of the Philadelphia
Evening Star, died suddenly. at the age
of ffty-five years. Deat!i was due to
paralysis.
J. G. Leftwick, a negro federal etn.
ploye. has gone to Hawaii to study he
prospects there for his race. Flo GI:s
as agent for a negro association l.:
Alabama.
Rev. DR.. Benjamin L. De Costa, who.
in September, resigned the rectorship
Of the Protestant Episcopal church OF
st. John the Evangelist. was. at New
York, received into the Roman Catho-
lie church. Dr.. De Costa will return
to literature and devote himself to Writ
ing and lecturing.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

Huntsmen in Essex Union county,
England, have seen a snow white fox.
Probably, like most of the other foxes
hunted by these same sportsmen, it
will die a natural death.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

France has a new submarine boat
and will soon subject the invention to
a series of trial tests to prove it's SUI
periority to recently constructed
American vessels. The chief trouble
with the submarine boats built up to
late has been their tendency to be en-
tirely too submarine-to stay down
and refuse to come up again. If the
French have really made a boat which
will dive, swim under the surface and
arise when due the art of naval wal
fare may be materially revolutionized.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16
From Warrington.

The senate finance measure was in
PRODUCED in the senate.
Brig. Gen. Wood was nominated as
major general of volunteers.
The first measu introduced in the
house was the financial bill.
Congressman w. A. Smith wants .
reciprocity commission appointed.
Attorney General Griggs' report de-
fines the status Of trusts under the
law.
Mr.. Tawney of Minnesota has been
chosen party whip by u Republican
caucus.
Congressman Corliss introduced q
bill to give representatives a four
years term.
A. F. Hay, son Of the secretary Of
| state, succeeds Mr.. Macrum as consul
at the Transvaal capital.
Natives and Spaniards in Cuba have
united in an address expressing conf
dence in the United States.
Protests against the seating of Clark
of Montana and Quay of Pennsylvania
have been filed in the senate.
The estimates of the secretary of the
treasury of appropriations for the next
fiscal year aggregate $631,0S1,99
The treaty for III partition of Samoa
among the United States, Great Brit.
| ain and Germany has been signed.
President Mckinley, Postmaster Cen
eral Charles Emory Smith and Laga
Arraiga. the Guatemalan minister.
signed a parcels post treaty between
the United States and Guatemala, CT
| fective Jan. 1.
Commissioner General Peck has de-
cided to set aside a fund Of $4,000 for
a corn kitchen at the Paris exposition.
MI. Peck believes the corn kitchen will
result in largely increasing the export
| demand for corn.
Capt. Blockinger, commander Of the
naval recruiting station at Chicago,
has been instructed to enlist thirty
landsmen for the cruiser Hartfard,
which will leave San Francisco Dec.
20. for q cruise around the world.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

There are times when this world
seems very small-one of the times Is
when you are trying to dodge your
creditors.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16
THE NEWS RESUME
EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK IN A
CONDENSED FORM. .

A General Resume of the Most M
portant News of the Week From
All Parts Of the Globe, Boiled
Down and Arranged in Con-
ventent Form for Rapid Perusal
by Busy People.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

President Mckinley has received .
picture of the peace conference valued
1t $40, 900. 1t is supposed to be done
n "protocolors."
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

There should be no objection to a
.ady lifting her skirts a little over TWO
feet on a rainy day.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

Even the engagement ring is the out
come of a trust, and the wedding ring
s the natural result of a combination.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

The unexpected happens occasional
~, but not so often as the expected
..ails to happen.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

There is probably no truth in the
report that Ambassador Choate in eff
feet sighted ex-President Harrison on
the occasion Ct the latter's visit in
London by turning him owe to the
secretary of the embassy for the lat
ter to arrange for Mr.. Harrison's calls
upon the prince of Wales and others.
An ambassador, however, who disre-
CARDS the plain instructions of his SUI
periors in Office as to speech-making is
not likely to be over-punctilious in
matters of courtesy, eve to an express
ident of the country he was so anxious
to represent.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

You are good, your acquaintance
BAD, and the rest of the world indiher-
mt.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

A curious point of copyright law has
been decided in England by the High
Court of Justice. 1t appears that a
volume of Lord Rosebery's speeches
was prepared, in which were addresses,
or portions of addresses, that had been
reported from his lips for the London
Times. AS they were first put in liter
airy or written form at the cost of that
journal, the court decided that they
were the property of the Times, and
therefore granted an injunction to re-
strain his lordsaip from appropriating
the report of his own words.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16
wAsHBURN, : NORTH DAKOTA

Usually there is more rattle than
anything else in a rafting speech.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-12-16

The prizes men pursue are often but
the bubbles blown by their own breath.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
A Lady Badly Frightened

Tuesday night al $50 o'clock there
was considerable excitement on Sixth
street between Dock and Orange
streets, caused by the screams of a
lady. It seems that while h was un-
dressing to retire, a negro appeared at
a window and tried to get into the
house. When he turned the blinds she
screamed, and several of her neighbors
ran over, but the miscreant had dis
appeared, or he would not have Jared
we'll at their hands.
The lady was Mrs. W. A. Sanders, a
niece of Governor Russell, and she rec
ognized the negro as a young man VINO
had been doing some draying in the
n~eighborhood from time to time. n
would know him again if she saw him.
Mr.. Sanders was away from nome at
the time, and the scamp seems to have
been aware of his absence.
After he decamped it was discovered
hat he had placed something at the
window on which to stand to open the
blinds.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
The Freight Discrimination Case.

An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington asst night says:
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sior began q hearing today in which
the Hilton Lumber Company, OF VIII
mingtcn, y. c., appeared a. the COM
plainant. involving the Southern rail-
road the Seaboard Air Line, Pennsyl-
vania ard other lines entering New
England.
The complaint is alleged discrimina-
tiCn in lumber retes from Wilmington
to Boston and other northern points
where the preference is said 10 be given
Norfolk as a shipping point. The hear
ing was continued n will last sew
eral days.
The commission yesterday conclud-
ed the hearing in the case of the Will
mington, n. c., Tariff Association
against various western roads.
The complaint is of discriminating
freight rates from Chicago and other
western points in favor OF Norfolk. The
commission has set July 10th for oral
arguments"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
STRIKE Blocks Cuban Trade

Havana, May 24.-The continuance Of
the stevedores' strike here is causing
serious inconvenience to shipping.
The great thrush of vessels, unable
to unload, finally led Collector Bliss to
cable SUPERINTENDENT Wyman, asking
permission to have the vessels tie UP
at the wharves. The sugeon general re-
piled that this might be lone between
La Machina and Caballeria, but only
between those wharves. Outside these
limits the American sanitary regula-
tions prohibit the landing of vessels,
owing to the filth which the ewers de-
posit along the harbor shores.
Nine hundred lightermen are involv-
ed in the strike. They admit that they
have been earning $50 a month, and the
difference between them and their en-
ployerS is small.
Commodore B.. j. Cromwell, captain
of the port, has ordered marines to
hold themselves ready. He will thus
prepare for possible trouble on steam
ers that are loading. The shipping
clerks have one IN strike, their COM
plant being hat the custom house
rules regarding the signature Of each
document involve a great deal of I'm
necessary work.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
s. s. s. 81 THE O
the Reina Mercedes Being
Repaired at the Navy Ward There.

Norfolk, May 25.-While all prepara-
tions are being made for a maritime
demonstration in honor Of the ex-
Spaniard Reina Mercedes in honor OF
her arrival at the Norfolk navy yard,
the board of health of the city adopted
resolutions today protesting against
her being dismantled here. This pro-
test was formally filed with DR.. F. S.
Rpe, state quarantine officer, who
has called a public meeting of all Off
Gals Of Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Berkeley today to hear the matter dis
cussed. DR.. Hope says the Mercedes
has been under water eight months,
never infected as far as known, has
been thoroughly fumigated n washed
out, was eight days in transit, and five
days in quarantine here, and he be-
lieves with Surgeon General Wyman
and DR.. Pettus that there is no dam
ger.
The board of health does not serious
ly object to the Mercedes being brought
to this yard, but protests against her
being repaired here until after the
first frost. Notwithstanding their OBJ
jections, the cruiser will come up Sat
urday morning escorted by hundreds
of tugs and other small crafts.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
Census Supervisors

The supervisors for the census to be
next year are now being appoint
ed. We learn hat D. J.. Lewis. ESQ,
of Whiteville, has been appointed su-
pervisor in this district.
The Raleigh News and Observer of
yesterday says.
In regard to North Carolina su-
pCrvisors of census, it is stated now
that the democrats Will be allowed
thre2, and that Senator Butler, pcpu-
list, will be allowed one appointment.
Senator Pritchard is to be given two
appointments, and Representative Lin
ney and White, ard ex-Representative
Pearson, one each. Many republicans
here, however, object to the appoint
ment of democrats at all, and say thai
If any are selected the appointees must
be men who have not been prominent
in democratic circles of the state, blu,
those who are the least obnoxious &c
the republican leaders,"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
COULDN'T FLOAT THE PARIS
Her Own Engines and Those of Tugs
Strained in Vain to Move the Wreck
cd shin.

GU snip
Falmouth, England, May 24.-The
scene in the vicinity of the wrecked
steamer Paris was interesting and ami
mated when an hour before high water
today, the ship and her attendant tugs
put on a full head of steam and exert
ed their utmost power at relocating her.
The efforts continued fruitless for
two hours, and it was finally decided to
defer the attempt until a later tide prob
ably on Friday or Saturday. The
American Line officials are sill hopeful,
but the experts are divided in opinion.
Vice-Admiral Sir Compton E. DOM
vile, superintendent of the British ma
val reserves, arrived en- the scene on
the coast guard tender Hawk. He WIS.,
tied the Paris and remained on board
of her throughout the efforts made to
float her.
Southampton, May 24.-The North
German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse, which left here for New
York today, carries forty-nine of the
Paris saloon passengers. The Duke
Of ARGOS, Spanish minister to the Unit
ed States, and Duchess of ARGOS, are
among those on the Kaiser Wilhelm.
Other passengers are MI. and Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer, of Chicago; Miss Julia Dent
Grant. daughter Of Gen. Fred Grant,
who is betrothed to Prince Cantacu-
zene, of Russia, and Mr.. and Mrs. J. K
Drexcl. OF PHILADELPHIA.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
The Bright side of the Picture

While the strawberry people, both
the growers and some Of the buyers
have had a disastrous season, it is re-
freshing to report that others in the
trucking region of North Carolina are
in luck.
Mr.. Oliver Stevens, the clever repre-
sentative of E. B.. Redfeld & Co., who
sustained a personal loss Of some $1,000
in his strawberry deals, returned to the
city yesterday after an absence of about
three weeks at Newbern and in the
trucking region of Eastern North Caro-
lima. Much of his time has been spent
about Newbern and he tells US that the
truckers there have the biggest acre
age in Irish potatoes that has been
known in the past ten years. The po-
tatoes are in full bloom and the pros
poets are the best known for years. The
truckers expect to commence shipping
, next week. The shippers are freely Of
fering their crop at $3.50 per barrel
and Mr.. Stevens scoOped up 5000 bar
rels. If good luck is with him he ex-
| pets to get even on potatoes and other
truck.
Mr.. Stevens informs us that from
| Conway, S. c., to Elizabeth City, N. c.,
| there is a solid bean patch and the
truckers are marketing their crop at
! from 80 cents to $1.25 per bushel crate
Mr.. Stevens informs us that the acre
| age in potatoes in Pamlico, CurIituck,
| and Pitt counties is double that of any
| other previous year, and the truckers
expect to make a good thing of it. AS
| Mt. Olive, one of the smallest potato
crop in Eastern North Carolina will be
| this season, Mr.. Stevens tells us that
| Mt. Olive, one Of the smallest potato
| shipping points in the trucking region
| will ship from II 5000 to $4,000 barrels
of potatoes this season.
Speaking Of the Newbern section, Mr.
Stevens says the cabbage crop has beer
. the largest and most remunerative II
the history of trucking in thai regior
for years. The average net price real
lied per barrel crate has been 81. Mr.
Stevens is much impressed with tht
general outlook, and he says the condi
! tons show what North Carolina can az
under favorable circumstances.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-05-30
Would Not Suffer So Again for Fifty
Times It's Price.

I awoke last night with severe pains
in my stomach. l eve felt so badly
in all my life. When / came down 10
work this morning / felt so weak l
could hardly work. / went 10 Miller
& McCurdy's drug store and they re-
commended Chamberlain's Collie. Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy. Il worked
like magic and one dose fixed me all
right 1t certainly is the finest thing
/ ever used for stomach trouble. / shall
not be without it in my home here
after, for l should o care to endure
the sufferings Of last night again for
fifty times its price,. H. Wilson. Liv-
eryman. Burgettstown. Washington
Co, Pa This remedy Is for sale by r.
R BelIamy. Druggist.