The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-11-23
Warrington Notes.

Warrington Notes.
Secretary Long intends to serd Rear
Admiral Robley ID. Evans out to the
Asiatic station, to be second officer IN
command.
The appointment Of Henry Clay Nc
Dowcll to be United States district
Judge of the Western district Of Virgin
ia, has been announced formally.
Andrew D. White, the American am
bassador, who sailed from New York
on the Deutschland, Oct. 81. stopping IN
France, has arrived in Berlin n re-
sumed his diplomatic duties.
Gen. Greedy has received a cablegram
from Manila announcing that the
islands of Masbate and Panay have
been connected by cable. 1t is expected
that this cable will materially assist In
the army operations now in progress.
Quartermaster General Ludington is
| Informed that the transport Buford,
which is bringing two battalions of the
Twenty-third infantry home from the
Philippines, has arrived at Gibraltar,
and is due at New York on the 9th
inst. e
The president has signed an execut-
i've order creating a naval reservation
of a large tract Of land just acquired
by the navy department at Onlongapo,
on Subig bay, Luzon. The department
now will proceed with all dispatch to
construct at this point a navy yard and
station. a
In his annual report, which will be
completed soon, Postmaster General
Smith will ask for an increase of the
appropriation for the rural free deltv-
cry service from the present sum OF
5 $500, 900 to Sc, 1000. 900, and will advocate
the extension of the service as far as
practicable.
Secretary Root has issued an order
changing the regulations relative to ad-
missions to West Point, SO that the
academic board may accept candidates
who are graduates of high schools or
students Of universities without re-
quiring them to pass the mental exam
nation prescribed by the department.
Representative Jones of Washington
saw the president in behalf Of Lieut..
Oliver p. Hazard and his brother, both
Of whom were with Gen. Funston when
he captured Aguinaldo. Mr.. Jones be-
lieves the two young officers are de-
serving Of some special recognition for
their services. Both are from his state.
The president recently declared to
Senator Cullom of Illinois that in MAX
ing promotions to the brigadier gener-
alships soon to become vacant he would
be governed entirely by h record;
that it was his intention to promote
those whose records showed them to be
most deserving of promotion, and that
neither personal considerations or in
duence would count.
. Criminal.
Max Ozark, editor Of the Volks Stinl-
me of Frankfort, was sentenced to
three years imprisonment for libeling
the German troops which we're in Chi
ma, ;by the publication by him of a let
ter headed German Beasts"
AT MCGEE, twenty miles east Of Paule
Valley, Ind. T., DR.. Tyre. a physician
Of that place, shot and fatally wound
ed Thomas Moag, a drug clerk, in a
quarrel over a prescription. Moag, in
turn, shot Tyre, causing a slight
wound:
The Citizens Bank of Munster CO.,
was robbed recently. In a fight with
residents, one Of the burglars was shot.
The bank building was wrecked by a
charge of dynamite placed. under the
vault: There were twelve men in the
gang of burglars.
It is now believed hat Charles B.
Thompson, the Port Huron (Mich.) de-
faulting supreme financekeeper Of the
supreme tent, knights of the Macca-
bees, will effect a settlement Of his $780,
600 shortage. He already has 100000 in
sight, it is said.
; The Bristol Ind.) postof11ce was rob-
bed Of $500 in stamps and $1,000 in mon
ey. The robbers put UP a fight when
the postotfice safe vas blown, in which
Mrs. C. E. Bickel was shot in the arm
and Ray Shanner shot in the nose.
Neither wound is fatal.
Warren Melindy, night telegraph OPP
orator at the Vandalia station, at Van
Vert, Ohio, has been arrested charged
with pilfering mail pouches left in his
office owe night. Decoy packages put
In the mail by Postmaster Purmet led
to his arrest. Melindy confessed.
The Bank Of Plymouth, Iowa, Vas
dynamited by robbers recently. The
safe, vault and building were badly
wrecked. The sum Of $500 was Sc
cured. The robbers escaped, leaving
no clue. This is the seventh bank rob-
berry of the kind occurring in Iowa in
q month.