The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-01-06
Accidental Happs.i.ss.

Inc Hale cOmp4ny9 paint SHOP u
East Arlington, VT, was burned. Loss,
$4,000.
The Jones scale works at Bingham
ton have been badly damaged by fire
and water.
Charles Bayliss Of Temple. Mich,
died in q dentists chair from the ef-
fects Of chloroform.
BY an explosion in the Snowshoe
mine. Mt Phoenix Camp, B. c., John
Nelson was killed and Stanley Mcleod
fatally injured.
A wreck on the New Jersey Central
railroad at Hight Bridge, N. j., resulted
in one death and the injury of five
persons.
While engaged in digging a cut for a
miners trench neal Chico, Cal, Frank
Gable and w. Conner were buried un-
der tons of rock and earth.
The sugar mill recently completed at
Sugar Lands, Cunningham's plantation,
Texas, vas burned recently, with all
machinery. Loss $S5,OOO, fully in
sured.
The extensive mills Of Joseph Filings
Sons, manufacturers of cotton and
merino. in Germantown. Pa, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss estimated at
100000, fully covered by insurance. :
A building on the terrace al Buffalo,
N. Y. occupied by several m~anufactur-
ing firms, was badly damaged by fire.
The principal sufferers are Montgom-
cry Door and Box company, 100000;
Duther Manufacturing company, $780,
600.
William I.anigan. an engineer Of the
Lackawanna road, was killed, and his
fireman, Herman Shuttle, probably IA
tally injured in a collision between a
passenger train on the Buffalo Il South
western road and an engine OF he
Lackawanna.
Criminal Record.
Elisha Robbins was arrested at
Scottsburg, Ind, on a charge of count
erfeitiDg.
Three shooting ARRAYS, with four
dead men, are reported from Virginia
and Tennessee, near the state line.
H. ]. Herman, arrested in San Fran
cisco, is wanted in Greensburg, Pa,
for the killing of his former partner,
John Craig.
John A. Hoover, an elevator n
ductor, shot his wife, fatally wounding
her, and then sent a bullet through his
own brain.
Five burglars entered the private
bank of William Sharp in New Paris,
Ind, and blew open the safe with
nitro-glycerine.
Franklin B. Livingstone, blind
man aged fifty-six years, choked his
wife to death at Baltimore and then
gave himself up to the police. He
pleaded self-defense.
J. H. Sanders, q resident of Chicago,
killed himself in a Memphis hotel re-
Gently. He was the father Of A. H.
Sanders, one Of the United States COM
missioners to the Paris exposition from
Illinois.
The. jury tho. casessKa;nstsGcoEge
\ Wright, tried in Muscatine, Iowa, for
shooting Mrs. Nellie S. Crippen last
July, has returned a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree, fixing
punishment at imprisonment for life.
Chinatown, in Maryville, Col. was
the scene of a lively battle recently be-
tween rival highlander societies, the
Suey Sing and Hop Sing. About 100
shots were fired. One Chinaman, a
member Of the Suey Sing faction, was
killed.
1t is said that Ivan Daniszewicz,
who committed suicide at San Francis
CO recently, was a nihilist. ard had
been selected by lot to go to st. Peters
burg and assassinate the czar. He
took his own life rather than obey the
mandate of his comrades.
7 w. n. Snedecker and Conductor
Chapel, Of the Lackawana-Buffalo ex-
press, which was run into Thanksgiv-
ing evening at Paterson, N. j., by the
Philipsburg local. killing several per-
sons, have surrendered themselves in
New York, each furnishing $4,000
bonds to await the action of the grand
jury.
The body of John Goodall, a puddler
at the steel mills in Alexandria. Ind,
was found in the shallow water Of
Pipe creek, under the Lake Erie L.
! Western railroad bridge. under circum-
stances pointing to robbery and muir
der.
Otherwise.
The Yale corporation has ordered the
| erection of three new buildings, to cost
$3,OOO,O0O.
The Eastern Furniture Manufacttlr-
ers' association has advanced prices
on certain lines Of furniture 10 per
cent.
Gov. Mount. in behalf Of the State Of
Indiana, will bring suit. against the
Standard Oil company in order to test
the constitutionality Of the antitrust
law of Indiana.
John w. Hayes and w. 4. Blount,
arbitrator of labor troubles in Pen
sucola, Fla, and Santa Rosa county,
have reached nm amlicable settlement
Of the recent lumbermen's strike.
Two-thirds of the worlds sugar Is
now produced from beets. The latest
estimate is that $4,000 tons have
been produced in the present crop
year. The cane sugar crop for the
present year is 1904, 600 tons.
At a special election held in San
/ Francisco it was decided to bond the
( city of San Francisco in. the sum Of
| $4,55O,O 900 for public park purposes.
| About 10000 votes were cast and the
proposition carried by a vote Of four
to one
Col. Cody is on his way to Washing
ton to urge the Indian commissioner
to rescind his recent order prohibiting
Indians from leaving the reservations
to travel with shows. Col. Cody says