The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-11-24
NEWS IN DnIEF.
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Postmaster General Smith con-
cluded q parcels post conveptionSwit
| Vene8uela.
POSTING ster General Smith gave an
unqualified denial to q public report
The United Mineworkers have prac-
tically decided to bring into their or
~ganization all workers in and about
mines.
The strike Of the employees OF the
& Southwestern Telephone company has
now spread to all the principal cities
Of Texas.
Gov. Allan D. Chandler Of Georgia
has issued q call for q national MARI
time congress at Brunswick, Ga, Jan.
80 next.
Contracts for over 100000 tons Of
steel and iron have been taken during
the past week by Pittsburg manufac-
turing concerns.
The Russian troops are encountering
a robber republic lying south Of Kirfn,
Manchuria, in the mountainous basin
OF the upper Sungari.
- = AAAAARPAs w dsp d i OIOhC Ouk
in the Valley hotel and destroyed a
large portion of the business area Of
the city. The loss will approximate
$780, 200.
The medical Office at Bremen has is
sued q notice that since the death OF
Sailor Kunde from bubonic plague on
Nov. 5 there have been no further
cases of the disease.
The United States machinery exhibit
at the Paris exhibition has been
bought insits entirety by a Lancashire
(Eng.) engineering firm and will be re-
erected IN Lancashire.
Maj. William G. Taylor, Sixth imam
try, appeared before the retiring board
in Washington. He had been under
orders for Manila, but that assignment
has been revoked nc he will go upon
the retired list.
Two hundred and fifty miners re-
turned IN the steamer Nome City,
which has just arrived at Seattle,
WASH, from the gold fields. The yes
sells cargo consisted of about 800, 000,
principally in possession Of individuals.
August Gerlach, on behalf Of Rud-
yard Kipling, the author, brought
suit in the United States court in New
York against r. w. Fenno & Co. for
infringement of copyright in publish
ing editions of Kipling's works.
B. B. OGel, Jr., go%vernor-elect Of
New York, has resigned the chairman
ship of the Republican state commit
tee n George w. Dunn of Bingham
ton vas elected in his stead. Mr.. Dunn
is a state railroad commissioner, his
term expiring in April next.
Indiana grand lodge Of Odd Fellows
has made arrangements for the meet
ing of the sovereign grand lodge in
Indianapolis Sept. 16 to 81 Of next
year.. It was agreed to offer prizes s
gregatirg $1,000 for drills and consid-
cradle sums for prizes for degree work.
A bag belonging to Duchess Cane
n containing jewels valued at 1,00O,-
600 francs is missing. The duchess
and her husband, who was the Pc
ruvian minister to France, We're pas
sengers on the Paris-Madrid express
which was wrecked at OAK recently.
Both were killed.
On the Lehigh Valley railroad near
Pittston, Pa, one freight train collided
with the rear of another and an en-
CINE and several cars were thrown
over an embankment, One of the9cars
contained explosives, resulting in a
fire which consumed the derailed cars.
Tho loss is estimated at 800, 900.
While sinking a well on a farm near
Montesano, Mo-, C.. H. Behler found
the fossil remains of three human be-.
ings at a depth of forty feet. The i'm.
mense skulls and bones Of the legs
and arms indicated that the people.
We're of prehistoric ages and were at
least ten or twelve fee in height.