The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-02-03
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The Oregon Democratic state COLL
mittee. has decided to- hold the state
convention in Portland April II.
A new government prison is to be
erected Immediately on Alcatraz is
land, in the harbor Of San Francisco.
Rod mil: workers at the plant Of the
American Steel and Wire company at
Rankin, Pa, are on q strike, throwing
idle about 1000 men.
Fifty thousand dollars has been sub.
scribed by the Pennsylvania railroad
company toward the $5,00O,OOO needed
for the 1908 Centennial at st. Louis.
The royal commission appointed to
inquire into cause of railway acct
dents in England, recommends the
compulsory use of automatic coup
lings.
A general consolidation Of oil gas,
| electric light and traction systems OF
New York city under the supreme con
! troll of the Rockefellers is said to be
impending.
Mrs. Frank Carpenter died suddenly
from excitement at Battle Creek,
| Mich. after her husband had been
rescued alive from the debris of a
business building which had fallen.
The Slack Barrel Coopers' Associa-
ton of the United States was organ
lied at Chicago by fourteen manufac-
turers of slack barrels. Sixty manu-
facturers were represented by letter.
Commissioner Hermann has recon-
mended that two land offices in Alask;.
be abolished and established. The
effect of this will be to place Western
! Alaska in two districts instead of
three.
The stage property of, the late Alex
ander Salvani, originally worth over
$50 1000. was sold at Columbus, Ohio,
by the administrator for $1,795, to
George Wahlemir, connected with q
local studio.
r. H. Southgate, manager Of the
Auditorium hotel, Chicago, has fled q
voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The
bankruptcy proceedings have no con-
nection with the Auditorium hote!
business.
Watterson Stealey, a newspaper man
and a son Of o. o. Stealey, Of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, has been
appointed by Commissioner Peck to an
important position in the press bureau
of the Paris exposition.
DIR. Oscar Gade. a graduate OF the
Cincinnati University, asked Judge
McCully Of the Ashland (Wis.) circuit
court 10 send him to the insane asy'
lum. as he had lost his mind from sun
stroke.
"Senor Sagasta," the pig that was or
the Olympia during the battle OF Maa
Mia, is in trouble. He has been loaned
to a Boston museum for $25 per week
and now two men have gone to law tt
determine his ownership.
At a meeting called by Presiden,
Wheeler, Of the University Of Cali
fornia, and attended by about fifty
prominent citizens, steps were taken
toward establishing in San francisco
q permanent commercial museum.
Two hundred, blaeksmiths' her ers,o
the Brooks locomotive works went OF
q strike. They are members OF tn
American Federation Of Labor. TIT
strikers now receive minimum wages O.
$1.4O. per day. They demand SIG
with extra time.
In a letter to A. j. Tullock, Andrew
Carnegie offers to give $25,OOO to thu
Leavenworth (Kas.) public library OF
condition that the city furnish a sit
for the building and agree to pay from
$1,000 to 5000 a year for its main
tenance.
The Spanish minister Of finance ha
introduced in the chamber Of deputies
a bill authorizing the conversion Int.
per centsperpetual stock Of the GU
ban e ner cent mortgage issue OF 9
the Cuban 5 per cent bonds OF =
and the Philippines 4 per cent exterlo
debt.