The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-02-22
Resume 81 The f1ews.


Warrington Notes.
Gov. Taft says that official life in
Manila costs too much.
President Roosevelt has declined the
brevct rank Of brigadier general.
Prominent men Of the q. A. r. have
investigated the pension bureau.
Congressman Loud wants rural deliv-
cries to be made under contract system.
The Filipino Federal party has petit
toned congress for q territorial form
Of civil rule.
The navy department has submitted
the financial history Of the new navy
to thu senate.
Presley M. Rixey. the new surgeon
general Of the navy, has entered on the
duties Of his office.
The senate committee on foreign at
fairs tells Of the importance Of the
Danish West Indies.
The Anglo-Japanese alliance Is re-
gardei as an Endorsement of the Amer
lean policy regarding the "open door,"
A definite understanding has been
reached by the river and harbor COM
mittee hat the river and harbor bill
shall be kept down to about $780, oo. 600
the amount carried by the, measure
framed and defeated last year.
Capt. Matthew A. Batson, Fifteenth
cavalry. who rendered such efficient
service in the early days of the cam
paign in the Philippines. in command
Of the Macabebe scouts. has been re-
tired In consequence of wounds re-
eeiyej in action against the insurgents.
Crimes and Criminals.
The City Savings Bank of Detroit was
looted Of ST. 5s. 900.
|. Beggars Of Hoboken MAIN themselves
that they may win sympathy.
Forged paper sold by the defunct
Platte Valley Bank Of Bellwood. Neb..
amounts to $4,000.
A blind tiger saloon in Kentucky was
raided by a posse and six deaths result
ed from a pitched battle.
Banker Foster and DR.. Woodward
were indicted for completely in the muir
der of Myrtle Gale Of Plano. Ill.
A Dcs Moines, Iowa. burglar declares
that he saw Richardson, the million
aira merchant of Savannah, Mo-, MUIR
dered.
George s. Gould was arrested at
Bellwood, Neb., charged with conspira-
cy in connection with the failure Of the
Platte Valley Bank of Bellwood. He is
the third Of the Gould brothers to be
placed urder arrest.
Louis Chambers and Telesen Trujillo
fought q duel with pistols in a saloon
at Bowen, Colo, in which the latter was
almost instantly killed n Chambers
received wounds from which he died
several hours later.
Tho private bank Of DR.. Lewis Of
Carbcndale. Pa, located at S%tonefort,
ILL.,. was entered by burglars. the safe
dynarnited and the entire contents
taken. Quite a large amount Of money
was secured. the exact amount not yet
known.
Squire John M. Blue Of Larue, Ohio.
was found hanging to q bedpost at his
home. Two weeks & Blue, who was
seventy-three years old, and Clementia
Drake, aged sixty-three years. were
married. No cause for the suicide has
been found.
Henry Weber, a member Of the Cook
county Democracy, attempted to COM
NIT suicide at Danville, Va, and is IN
Q critical condition. Weber sought to
take his own life as the result of q
practical Joke played upon him by his
fellow clubmen.
Militiamen on guard owe the fire
ruins heard groAns in q house just
within the fire lines. They ran upstairs
and found Charles Handley, a tele-
sraah lineman. with his head crushed
in. He revived sufficiently to say two
women had attacked him. @
F. M. Zellers, a patient in the hospi-
tai at the national militia home at Dan
Vile, Ill, has received a letter from the
stating that his daughter, Margaret
Zellers. had committed suicide there
Dec. %. and that he held $25,000 in gold
which she had left for her father.
Lawrence. the ~six-year-old o Of
Mrs. A. j. Countryman Of st. Joseph.
Mich, who has been q victim Of two
sensational kidnapping cases, has again
disappeared from the homo of his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Van
Brunt. He has not been seen for sew
Arpad Won Kubinyi, formerly a first
lieutenant in the Austrian army, then a
broker and last a journalist. is locked
in the Tombs in New York because Of
the allegations Of a German hotelkeep-
err of that city, who charges Won Ku-
binyi with having raised two of his
checks from IS to $50 each. This Won
Kubinyi denies. \
Foreign Notes. Z
Christian Science is opposed by En-
peror William.
Count Won Buelow. the German cham
cell3r. has espoused the aus Of agri-
culture.
Europeans continue greatly agitated
over the coming visit Of Prince Henry
to America.
The German foreign Office says that
nations Intervention note reply was
made orally. -
Britial, troops sNrnrised q Roer camn