The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-04-28
RESumEG {1s NEWS
Fron, the Capital.

From the Capital.
lieutenencies.
The navy department has contracted
for submarine boats.
Plans for the coming Pan-American
congress are being perfected:
Army officers in Porto Rico will re-
| tain civil positions until Aug. 1.
Secretary Gage recommends placing
more l%ightships on the Great Lakes.
Elaborate ceremonies will mark the
Inauguration Of Allen as governor Of
Porto Rico.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty and the
canal bill will probably go over until
the next session.
MI. Cortelyon has been appointed PR.
| vate secretary to the president, to sue
| coed Mr.. Porter.
The war department is taking steps
to aid the families Of officers and men
who fail to support them.
March exports broke the record. The
increase in imports during the last nine
months was mostly in. manufactures.
The supreme court has decided that
congress cannot forbid express comDa'
MES collecting war tax from shippers.
Representative Grifiths Of Indiana
introduced a bill repeating the stamp
tax on checks. drafts, ETC.. and on
proprietary medicines.
The postofice department has issued
q fraud order against a Boston firm
which advertised the %three-star ring
and a lucky box for 81 each.
Phya Prasiddhi. envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary of Siam,
laid his credentials before President
Mckinley at the White House.
Rural free delivery has been estab.
lished by the postofice department, to
commence May L, at Hubbard, Iowa,
Boscobel, Wis, and Lancaster, Wis.
The president has announced the res.
ervation of about %, 1900 acres of public
land located at the mouth of the Mis-
sion Greek, at Eagle City, Alaska, for
military purposes.
Lieut.. Com. William Winder has been
ordered to take immediate command of
the Michigan. on the Great Lakes, i'll
place of Commander p. Garst, whose
orders to hal duty have been revoked:
United States Minister Irwin. at Lis
bon. has reported that the Portuguese
government has made all necessary A.
engagements for the payment of the
Judgment, amounting to nearly $780,
600. On account Of the award of the De-
lagoa bay arbitration.
The president SEN a message to the
senate asking that $4,000 be placed at
the disposal of the secretary Of state
for the payment of the expenses of q
conference of the republics constituting
the Union OF American Republics,
which he recommended in his last an
nual message.
Unfortunate Happenings.
A storm did $4,000 damage at Mo-
line. Ill.
Rain has done much damage to prop
erty in the Gulf states.
! A tornado overturned houses near
Winfield. Kas., killing two persons.
Fire destroyed Morris, Diskin & Co.'s
box factory, in Jersey City. Loss, $780,
600.
One man was killed and two others
seriously injured in a 100000 fire in
Brooklyn.
w. H. Gum Of Peru, Ind, was shot
by>a companion, who mistook him for
q panther.
A Norwegian bark was shipwrecked
of Warsaw. but the captain andecrew
were saved.
a tornado in Lafayette county. Mo-,
injured dve persons and destroyed on
siderable property.
Fire caused a loss of about $75,OO
in the mattress and iron bed factory
Of Charles III. Rogers & Co. at New
York.
William aud James Powell, IONS Of
Former Mayor John F. Powell Of Wau-
kegan. ILL.,. were drowned at Mel
bourne. Fla.
personal Mention.
Senator Wolcott has been mentioned
rs q vice presidential possibility.
James futile. a pioneer, died near
Atlonta. ILL.,, aged ninety-three years.
The University of Edinburgh has con.
ferred the degree of Ill. d. upon Am
bassador Choate.
Murat Halstead has accepted the
presidency of a new college Of journal
Ism in Cincinnati.
Rev. ". ]. Rut1edge, who is said to
nave been first to suggest the G. A. R.,
died at Jacksonville, I'll.
Commodore Richard Peck, secretary
Of the New Haven Steamboat com.
pany, and one Of the oldest and best
known steamboat men Of the United
States. died at New Haven. Conn, in
his eighty-ifth year.
Frank II. Hooker. treasurer of the
| Henry Hooker Carriage company, New
| Haven. Conn.,. and former secretary
and treasurer of the United States Car.
rage Manufacturer association, died
Mt his home in Orange.
Foreign G0ssip.
A rich gold discovery has been re-
ported in Luzon.
British Columbia is being overrun
with japanese labor.
Two French merchant vessels are to
be built in Germany.
Carousek. the well known chess
player, is dead at Budapest.
Citizens of st. Malo, France, hung
Joseph Chamberlain in efigy.
War between Japan and Russia is
considered inevitable in Japan.
st. Petersburg doubts that Ferdinand
.r,ill nrnc1aim Rulparia. a kingdom: