The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1899-10-21
Foreign.

shortly go to Egypt for the winter.
1t is reported that the postmaster
general Of England is considering the
feasibility Of introducing the PENNY
kilograms.
Lord Charles Stewart Reginald, Sec
ond son Of the Marquis of L~ondonder-
~, is dead Of consumption, aged tWen-
ty yenrs.
The Spanish government has sold
the floating dock at Havana for $780,
600 to a syndicate of Vera Cruz mer-
chants.
1t is announced at Madrid that the
Filipino government has given full
power to AgoncillO to treat for the re-
lease Of the Spanish prisoners now
held by the insurgents.
Count Egloffstcin, a prominent men,
Der of the Club der Hamlerhosen. the
trial of certain members Of which for
gambling at the club began Oct. 8,
was sentenced to nine months imprls-
onment for cheating at cards.
George e. Fitzgerald of Ell Paso has
received an offer from an English syn
dictate Of f150.O00 for a vast tract Of
land owned by him and two brothers
within the present boundary limits of
Venezuela.
Lord Curzon Of Keddlestone, viceroy
Of India, telegraphs that no further
rains have fallen in India and that the
weather is %prejudicial to the standing
crops and the cold season softening.
The agricultural outlook shows no i'm
provement.
A musical festival in honor of Queen
Wilhelmina Of the Netherlands and
her mother, the queen dowager. was
given in the new palace. Sir Frank Q.
Lascelles, the British ambassador, and
Gen. Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Har-
rison were present.
A German cotton spinners' trust has
been formed by Rhenish, Westphalian,
Saxon and Silesian firms. comprising
IS per cent of the cotton spinning es-
adjustments of the empire. The Asso-
citation of Cotton Yarns Consumers
has issued a circular stating that the
trusts terms are such that henceforth
'orc go spio lers wilt be able to g."
German yarns 10 per cent cheaper than
they can be gotten by Germans.
General.
A knit underwear trust is in process
Of formation at Albany.
The Kansas volunteers were given
an ovation by the people Of San Fran
cisco.
The street railway men at San An
tonic, Tex, have struck for shorter
hours.
A movement has been started In
vryz~lsn.kox IN HWY n homo for A RI m ira
Schley.
A Madison wis. boy enlists, learns
for the first time who his real mother
is, and will not go to war.
The National Salt company, by alb
sorbing the United company, now con-
trolls the salt industry Of the country.
The Chicago will start on her cruise
| on the 25th inst. Meanwhile Admiral
| Schley will visit with friends in Geor-
gia.
The International Commercial con-
gress, which, will open in Philadelphia
this week, promises to yield important
results.
The trustees of the University Of
| Vermont have voted to confer the de-
gree of doctor of laws on Admiral
Dewey.
/ The Peoria Packing and Provision
company, idle for two years, will soon
be running full capacity and giving
| employment to 1875 men.
The committee for reproducing the
| Dewey victory arch in marble have re-
ceived pledges Of 100000 toward car
rying out the purpose.
Considerable anxiety is felt at Glou-
| cester, Mass, over the report that an
American schooner has been seized at
| Skibboreen, Ireland, for fishing within
the three-mile limit.
The United States transport Newport
arrived at San Francisco, thirty-three
| days from Manila, with 464 members
of the volunteer signal corps aboard
and thirteen civilians.
The executive committee of the strik-
ers at Cramps shipyard, at Philadel-
| phia, have decided to bring charges
against the officials Of the company for
violation Of the contract labor law.
Four hundred Wayne county farmers
have brought suit at Omaha against
| the Grain Growers Mutual Association
of Nebraska. alleging gross misman-
agement- in the conduct of it's affairs.
Thousands of Tennesseeans attended
the presentation of a handsome sword
to Lieut.. Valentine Sewer Nelson Of
Knoxville, Tenn, who was with Dew
ey on the Olympia at the battle of Ma
Mia bay.
The Illinois Central Railroad com.
pany has subscribed $4,000 toward
the $5,OOO,OOO stock fund Of the st.
Louis worlds fair, the celebration Of
the Louisiana purchase, to be held in
1903. ~" s..
One of the most serious car famines
ever recorded exists among the big
railroads terminal in Chicago. Several
of the roads report that the congestion
of business has assumed the proper
lions of q blockade.
The Midland Terminal and Cripple
| Creek & Florence railroads will con
solidate about Nov. 1 and form a new
railroad which will bear the lame Of
the Denver & Southwestern. The CON-
pany is capitalized at $4,923,0O0.
A report from Jefferson. Ohio says
Andrew Carnegie has made public his
plans to give the citizens of Conneaut
and the dock laborers at the harbor q
6ne library bunlding. The drawings
have been approved by him.
At a public meeting at Worcester to