The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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densed Form.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey WIZ w
quests Of Savannah, Ca, March ~
NJ. Eugene Bertrand, director OF t9e
paris opera, died at Paris OF pneu-
monia. -
A. vo,no man named Will Morgan
fo,,nd near St!llman, Ga, frozen
to death.
A snectator in the gallery fell deaa
,,,h;,e attending the senate conspiracy
trials at Paris.
Word has been received 1iiae 1In
Andrade, late president OF sene
is quietly living in Porto RICO.
Edward Todd. a well known manu-
focturer of gold pens and pencli cases'
is dead at his home in New 1orA.
A,onzo Hempke, aged forty-elght,
uos fo1,nd frozen to death in the street
W. m"1 notroit. He had been drinking
heavily.
Hi,lvard r. johnson, reporter on !ne
son francisco Chronicle, while taking
q hath tainted and was III
the tub.
u,be two leading collieries at Elk
horn, w. Va, have aaVanceu o onnoo
miners wages 10 per cen over A'oo'
men are affected.
Tho Tashmoo, claimed to be the FAST
est excursion steamer in eithef tne
lakes or sea coast. was successlunJ
launched at Detroit.
Admiral Dewey has subscribed Sou
tn the fund being raised 10 erect
monument to his flag lieutenant
Thomas NJ. Brumby.
Senator Vest has written a frlehd IN
St. Louis that his present term IN tne
senate will close his puhhc careef'
His term expires in l9O3.
A court-martial of inquiry will be
hold at Manila regarding the poisoning
If mon of the Thirty-ffth infantry IN
consequence of eating bad beef.
All the factories at Pittsburg con-
trolled by the American Glass conl-
nany have been started up. me CON-
pany will operate at present l'ozo po's'
Charles NJ. Dorr. national bank eX-.
omine,. for New Hampshire under
President Harrison, died ut
worth of pneumonia, aged nfty-slA
years.
A stiff campaign against the Franco
American commercial treaty is ABOUT
to be opcned at Paris by the parla-
mentary opposition to the government
and by the agriculturists.
King !!u.nbert has proclaimed am
nesty for all persons convicted or or
charged with crimes against the puDhc
security and the freedom of as
.,o1l oe ,n1;t;oo1 DrpSS OffelSeS.
Prof. Henry Crosby Emery, PHI. D.,
of Bowdoin college. has been oheieu
the place at Yale university made va
cant by Prof. Hadley,s advancement
to the presidency and has accepted.
Percival Powell of Boston and Prof.
David P. Todd. Of Amherst college,
will start for England early next
month to observe the total eclipse OF
the sun May % in Northern Africa.
The seizure by the English of the
German II all steamer Bundesrath IS
strongly condemned by the press at
Berlin. and the matter is regarded as
seriously Involving the rights Of neu-
trails.
The total number of vessels built
and officially numbered by the bureau
of navigation during the year is 914
of 267,G 4 gross tons. compared with
955 of 237 1000 gross tons for the year
1893.
Fire totally destroyed the Casino at
Elizabeth, n. j.. causing a loss of $40
600. The lower floor Of the building
was occupied by five stores n the
upper floors were used rs Offices and a
lodge ROOM.
Mrs. Frederick G. Penfeld Of
Geneva, n. Y, has a claim Of S1.5OO,-
600 against the Delagoa railway.
which was built by her first husband
and confiscated by Portugal. A Swiss
tribunal will decide the case.
Under the new currency laws OF
Austria the form and Kroner dtsap-
pear. The new unit is the krone,
eoualling half a kreuZer. After the in
PRODUCTION Of the gold standard the
krone will be worth 1 franc 5 centimes.
Seniors Araluce and Larrzabel, of the
large hardware firm of Araluce, Larrz-
abel & Co. of Havana, have been ar
rested on the charge of being imphr
Gated with the custom house inspect
ors and brokers in recent frauds. Both
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