The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-06
People Talked About.

ASOPAC Huouts
DR.. Joseph Rhodes Buchanan, a well
known writer upon medical and &C.
cult sciences. is dead at San Jose. Cal,
aged cighty-fve.
William H. Penn OF Des .Moines,
Iowa, has been appointed assistant
superintendent of the railway mail
service. He is now chief clerk ut Des
Moines.
d.. Henry J.. Van Dyke has resigned
the %pastorate Of the historic Brick
Presbyterian church in New York to
take the chair of literature in Prince
ton university.
While eating oysters III a restaurant
at New York Joseph Wittgenstein,
sixty years old, died suddenly of heart
failure. He was born in Louisiana,
and for many years was "A planter.
Nine. Razine is seriously i'll at a hos
pital in the suburbs CT the City of
Mexico. She was the wife OF the
famous Marshal Bazine of France,
and is the daughter Of one of the
most aristocratic Mexican families,
and renowned for her beauty.
A fast Of forty-five days is said to
have cured a lady student ut DreXel i'll
stitute at Philadelphia of suicidal
mania induced by m~elancholia. She
drank hot water daily until her fast
was broken by eating Il poached egg
and two slices of buttered wheat
bread.
Dr.. ]. w. O'Fallaghan, a well known
physician Of Jersey City, died sudden
ly while making a professional call.
a Q%,,, %1n lco%oo, nrfnrsn1 fhn Si.1- room
he asked for a spoon. An attendant
went for II and when he returned
the doctor was lying OF the floor un-
summoned.
Austria will abolish the stamp tax
on newspapers.
Canadian officials laugh at the re-
port of a projected Fenian raid.
The French parliament is likely to
ratify the Franco-Alnerican trade
treaty.
The Bagdad railway deal has been
completed. The sultan is 10 receive
S 100000 in advance.
Austria's new coinage consists Of
kronen and hellers, equal in value to
francs and confines.
Publishers in Finland lose from
$4,000 to $4,000 per year, due to the
suppression of books by the car.
Mahmud Pasha says he left Turkey
because his conscience would not al
low him to live under the sultan.
Prince Victor Napoleon has issued a
asking France to return to
u Napoleonic system Of government.
Partisan authorities r trying to de-
wise regulations for automobile traffic
which will be fair to all parties con-
The German government has bought
Settlements palace in Athens, for
$4,000, for the use Of the German
Archaeological society.
China has just received a cargo Of
machines from America, and
Chinese women are said to be taking
to the innovation.
Jean Lameaux. the celebrated must
cal composer, died at Paris after ten
days illness. He introduced Handel,
Wagner and Back to French audi
ences.
According to London papers, it is ru-
mored in England that Winston
is to be recommended for a
Victoria Cross for his valor in South
Africa.
The Russian government will 5000
create q new ministry OF commerce
aud industry, which is significant as
upon the phenomenal rise OF
Russian industry.
Official figures show that the Christ.
fare at Paris consisted of 100000
oysters, 10000 kilos of buildings and
sausages, 10000 fowls, turkeys and
ducks, $4,000 dozens of eggs, $1,000
kilos of beef and perfect lakes Of wine
and beer.
The sultan has requested NJ. Con-.
STAINS, French. ambassador, to obtain
the .extradition Of Mahmud Pasha, or
at least Of the fugitive's son. Con-
STAINS has refused, as there was no
provision for a parallel case in the
treaty. However, NAH
mud will be warned OF French terri
tory