The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-12-14
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A New Yorker is held In London as Q
suspect in the Liverpool bond frauds
case.
Popular and official feeling in Ger
many continues a~ntagonistic to Ameri-,
ca. AZ y
The indifference Of America to the
South African war prevents European
interference.
AS a direct result Of the Boer war.
English industrial and government
bonds decrease greatly in value.
The British government practically
offers to open negotiations with the
Beers. on the basis OF local representa-
alton self-government. +&
The Shanghai correspondent Of the
London Times avs an imperial edict
that the court will start on
the last stage Of its journey to Pektn
on Dec. IA.
The extremely cold weather through-.
out Russia, and especially in Siberia,
has delayed the mails, and many trains
are now snow-bound. Grain steamers
on the Vistula are frozen in the river.
Baron Zorn Won Beulach, he uffra-
gan bishop of Strassburg, has taken
the oath Of allegiance to Emperor Will
lam, in the presence of Count 0 Buzz
low, the imperial chancellor, and Prince
Won Hohenlohe,
Official reports received from Mush
are that Andrak, aleader of Armenian
bandits, has again occupied an Arme-
MAN monastery in the neighborhood Of
Mush, where. he and his followers are
surrounded for a second time with
Turkish troops. Armenian outrages
and other districts.
General /"
Kaskaskia, former capital of Illinois,
has died an oficia! death.
Bar Johnson was reelected president
of the American Base Ball league.
Trade in Amalgamated Copper stock
aggregates 40 per cent of capitalization.
3 Ex-Queen Liliuokalani was refused
admission to several New York hotels.
Chippewa pine will probably be sold
on a log-scale basis, the lands to be re-
tanned.
The exports of wheat from Puget
sound for 1901 will be double those OF
the preceding year.
An Eastern inventor thinks he has
solved the problem Of perfect combus-
ton Of biruminous coal.
An important discovery Of red hema-
tite has been made on the Canadian
side Of the Minnesota border.
Lieut.. Laurin L. Lawson, q Former
Minnesota man, has been rendered q
commission in the regular army.
Mrs. John Frank, wife Of a Misha-
waka, Ind, farmer, gave, birth to trip
lets, all girls, each weighing six pounds.
The new monitor Florida was
launched at Nixon's ship yards. Eliza
bethport, N. J. Mrs. Lewis Nixon
christened the Florida. 4
The enrolment Of Harvard univer-
sity, including students Of all classes,
teachers and administrative officers, Is
6,15s, as against 6.317 last year.
An order has been prepared at the
war department for the return to the
United States from Cuba about Jan. Is
Of a battalion of the Second regiment
of cavalry.
The Christman tree industry has OBJ
tanned an early start in Maine this
year, and already car loads and even
vessel leads are going forward to the
large cities.
The new Holland boat Fulton. which
remained under water all night at
New York recently, inside Of two weeks
will make q trip to Washington with
out being towed.
Manual training and technical schools
were described by speakers at a meet
ing Of the Chicago Federation of La
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industrial unions.
There is a continued improvement IN
the switchmen's strike in Pittsburg.
More crews were at work, and the dif-
ferent terminals showed that little con.
gestion exists.
A movement isSon foot to organize all
the basket manufacturers 8 of the
Mississippi into a trust. One of the
leading promoters Of the scheme is
Willard Duncomb, president Of the
Findlay (Ohio) Basket company.
In the case Of Frank Rinehart, ac-
cused Of causing the death: Of Miss
Mary Frinbrock by rocking q rowboas
at Hagerstown, Nd, the jury has dis
agreed and the accused has been re-
leased without bonds, subject to recall
at any time.
Property owners Of Evanstown, being
greatly worried over q threatened In
vaeion of that exclusive suburb BY fiat
dwellers, have induced the Evanston
council to take up a building ordinance
that is intended to prevent the erection
OF. further fiat buildings fnsthe district.
The invention Of a new machine gun
which, It is stated, is capable Of firing
bullets at the same rate as the Maxim
gun, with q range5o Of 5000 yards, is $in-
~teresting English military circles. The
bullet is> one-inch caliber. The cart
ridge Is very long,.
Richard Croker has mede the an
nouncement that he viii remain In the
country until spring. and may not 8
abroad then. He may even sell Want
age and his racing stable It 10 said. and
become acquainted with his adopted
country again. <
The Kentucky state board RI valua.4
ton and assessment has passed finally
In the matter Of assessing Kentucky
whisky, fixing asyalue9 of 80 per bar
rel. for the purposeSSof taxation. This
Is an INCREASE az "a per barr 81 overs4lasti
year. and - over the assessment 0ft
49,. %s
AZ Special meeting of the stockhold.
err ofs HE PtttsburEss Plate Glass scotnpa--9;
ny, recently, the capitai3 stock was in-
creased from 110,600.000 10 x2,0oe.00t.
The increased gCapita1s III TO- be sUSed#tQ