The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-03-08
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Senator Lodge has introduced q bill
creating the bureaus Of drainage. irrt-
cation and highways in the department.
of agriculture.
Consul Mcwade. at Canton, China,
reports to the state department several
deaths from Asiatic cholera in that city
but no plague exists.
4, The postmaster general has Issued
q general order announcing the increase
In pay of the rural free delivery mail
carriers 500 each per annum.
The Illinois Democratic delegation in
the house selected Representative G. B.
Foster, Chicago. as the Illinois men,
Der Of the Democratic national con-
gress:onal committee.
DR.. Jose Vincente Concha, minister
Of war in the Colombian cabinet, has
arrived in New York and will leave for
Washington Shortly, to succeed MI.
Martinez Silva as Colombian minister
to the United States.
The Washington executive commit
tee Of the fourth general conference
district. Epworth league convention.
which will be held in Washington in
June, has formulated elaborate plans
for the entertainment Of the conven-
ton.
President Roosevelt has decided to
spend a week in April trout fishing in
the Allegheny mountain streams in
Garrett county. Md, sixty miles west
of Cumberland. The president has en-
gagged quarters twelve miles from Oak
'and, the county seat.
The United States government Is now
perfectly satisfied az t. the correctness
as to Russia's intention respecting Man.
churia. The pledges heretofore obtained
from Russia have been renewed and
so strongly that they must
be accepted as satisfactory unless II
government is prepared to deliberately
question Russia's integrity. which it
has not the least disposition to do.
Unfortunate Happenings.
Fire destroyed the sawmill Of the
b. r. Wingate Lumber company at
Orange, Tex. Loss, $4,000.
Fire destroyed the greater portion of
causing a loss OF 800, 900. The loss is
covered by insurance to the extent Of
y per cent.
AS the result of a collision on the Au-
branch Of the New York Central,
seven miles west Of Auburn, N. Y. be-
tween a west-bound passenger train
and a steam derrick, four trainmen
are dead, two seriously injured II two
missing.
The %coroner's jury in the inquest over
the victim of the Archer avenue explo-
sion at Chicago returned a verdict to
the effect that the death Of the eleven
victims was due to an explosion in q
gas main. The city holds the gas COM
responsible.
Sins and Sinners.
Sheriff Swart frustrated an attempt
at a Jail delivery at Sault Ste. Marie.
The police of Laramie, Wyo., arrest
ed l.. L. King, John Campbell and Ed
They are charged with
up Arthur Newland Of Wood
lawn, Iowa.
While her companion, Jack Kirk, was
asleep, Lulu Watta, a variety actress
Nome, Alaska, attacked him in a fit
jealousy and severed his head from
bis body with a razor.
The remains of Lena May Prender-
grass. aged seventeen, who has been
missing since Dec. %, last. have been
found at Bonham, Tex. She had been
murdered and her body concealed in a
hollow stump, being much mutilated
In the process.
BY a decision Of the United States
court Gerhard Terlinden of
Chicago has lost his last hope of re-
naming in this country, and he soon
will be returned to Berlin for trial ON
tn, charge Of defrauding several banks
Of 1000, 900 marks.
Henry Kress of Union Hill, N. j., was
beaten with a syphon and is now in q
hospital with a fractured skull, because
he maligned the Hohenzollerns. and.
Prince Henry in particular, in the pres
ence Of a German bartender. The lat
ter was arrested.
Gov. Stanley, Kansas. honored a re-
quisition from the governor Of Arkansas
for George Durham and John Dunn,
under arrest at Wichita, charged with
the sheriff Of johnson u
ty and robbing the Clarkville, Ark,
bank, on receipt Of a telegraph guar
antee from Gov. Johnson Davis that
the men would not be mobbed. Dunn
Is said to be at the point Of death from
blood poisoning. There is $1,000 re-
out for Dunn. .
Foreign GOSSIP.
All immediate dlnger Of the death OF
Count Tolstoi has been passed..
There ie no foundation -for the rumor.
which emanated from Budapest, that
the king Of servia had been assassinat-
ed.
Hon. William Templeman. senator of
Columbia, was sworn in as a
member Of the Dominion cabinet with
out portfolio.
The British government was defeat
ed in the house Of commons by one vote
q question involving long hours fof
Of railroad employees.
The physicians Of Queen Wilhelmina
her to take q prolonged
rest in the south to restore her health.
The states general will be convened TO
appoint a regent during her. absence.
It is reported in shipping circles at
Liverpool that the combined Interna-
tional and Leyland lines have secured
the control Of the Dominion, the Boston
and Dominion and the Canadian lines
Of steamers.
A London dispatch says that Acting
President schalk-Burger and other
members Of the Boer government werA
in the lager captured at Noeit Gedacht
by a detachment Of mount
ed national scouts under Col. Park, but