The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-11-11

were $500 cases of canned salmon in
the building and very little will be
saved.
Otherwise.
Wisconsin swamp lands may be re-
claimed by e of a drainage canal.
There is talk Of the Wisconsin Cen
trail losing it's Chicago terminal rights.
National and state officials are to
make an excursion over the Chicago
drainage canal.
An Iowa physician thinks insanity
can be cured in most cases by resetting
dislocated bones.
A Chicago man while hunting was
nearly killed and his dog entirely so
by an army Of muskrats.
Hong Chamberlain was the cry at
a Chicago Dutch meeting that passed
resolutions sympathiZing with the
Beers.
A steel shipbuilding plant is to be es-
tablished at Collingwood, Ont, with
the assistance of Capt. McDougall Of
Duluth.
Vigorous Eastern opposition is being
plarred at Marion, Ind, against the
wood pulp trust that is now being Or
gained in New York city.
The Illinois State Bar association has
asked for more dignity in state tri-
bunals and also has suggested that too
many are being admitted to practice
law.
Pittsburg men and Pittsburg capital
will soon control the ire-proof building
business of the entire country, that is,
the manufacture or fre-proof building
material.
The Cleveland & Eastern Railway
company, electrical, gave a mortgage
for $1,OOO,O 600 to the Cleveland Trust
company. The money will be used in
extensions.
Terrific gales, which blew at New
bern, N. c., drove the tide higher by
two feet than it ever has been. ME
city was flooded, and small boats were
used in the streets.
Owing to the present low price Of SUI
gar and the poor prospects, many Gu
ban planters have decided not to grind
their present crop, but to use it in re-
planting and in increasing their acre.
age.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety has declined to unite with the
Home Missionary Society Of the Meth
Odist church, the convention deciding
that both could do the most good work.
ing separately.
The Judiciary committee Of the
grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, has
decided that nearly every act Of the
grand lodge at it's last session is un-
constitutional and not according to
Pythian law.
At the national w. G. T. U. conven-
ton it was decided to maintain an &C.
tive lobby at Washington this winter
in order to prevent the seating. If pos
sible, Of Congressman-elect Roberts OF
Utah.
The exports of silver from New York
to all countries for the last week ag-
gregate $685., 1868 in silver bars and coin
and $50, 567 gold. The imports Of spe-
Gle for the week were $2S.954 gold and
$84,173 silver.
A party of about 100 Indians, most
ly from the North and South Dakota
reservations, are stranded at Omaha,
and Special Indian Agent jenkins has
been ordered from Pine Ridge to se-
cure their return to the agencies.
In the county court at Pittsburg, Pa,
Judge White held that an employer has
a right to operate his factory independ-
ent of q union, and that a union has
no right to persuade his apprentices to
become members of their organization.
The gold output for Cripple Greek
district for October was $2,OO1,6 600.
This is the first month that has ex-
ceeded $1,OOO.OOO. 1t is estimated
that the total of the year will not fall
short Of $1S,0OO,OoO.
At q meeting Of the hay press manu-
facturers held at Chicago it was de-
c.ded to advance the price Of baling
presses 10 per cent. The advance was
made because of increased cost of raw
material. and 1t is said another adj
varce will be made Don
Since Jan. i the Seattle assay office
has received treatment $11,611,214, aud
since the office began business July t6,
1898, $17,2SO,361. During the week the
Office made three shipments of assay
gold to the United States mint Of o
total value Of $1,5OO;OO0.
Two hundred employees of the Story
& Clark Piano company at Chicago
went on q strike, and 1t is probable
that their action will be followed by
the .vorkmen in several other Chicago
factories. They demand a higher scale
Of wages.
officials Of the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies at New
York, deny that those companies are
in any way interested in the telephone
and telegraph company which will
soon be launched with a capital Of
$25, 1000 to fight the Bell company.
About 500 girls are still out Of the
potteries at East Liverpool, Ohio, on q
strike for an advance of Is per cent.
Every factory in the city but n 10
affected. Mayor Bough has wired Sec.
rotary Joseph Bishop. Of the state
board OF arbitration, and the latter viii
20 there and attempt to settle the