The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1902-04-26
Warrington Notes.


Warrington Notes.
The United States will send no mis-.
sion to Rome.
Federal action will be begun against
the beef trust.
The civil service commission espouses
The cause of employment of women.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill repeating the war revenue taxes.
President Roosevelt has decided to
continue Dole as governor Of the Sand
| wich islands. s Il
Gov. Odell has signed a bill appro-
priating 500, 900 for a statue Of the late
President Mckinley in Buffalo.
United States treasury money will be
distributed among national banks, to
relieve the congested condition caused
by the surplus.
1t has been decided at a conference
o. Republican leaders OF both houses
to shelve the ship subsidy bill recently
passed by the senate.
According to general orders issued by
Department Commander A. H. DeGroff
the date Of the annual encampment OF
the Grand Army of the Republic of
Wisconsin will be held at Stevens Point
June II to 10. II
The president has directed an %investi-
cation Of the charges of cruelty toward
Filipino prisoners, denounces the wa
ter cure" through Secretary Root, and
orders Gen. Smith, Maj. Waller and
other officers to be courtmartialed.
The senate committee on pensions has
ordered a favorable report on the bill
granting an increase of pension to SOL
diers who have lost arms, limbs or feet.
The increase will be SIS per month each.
and will increase the annual pension
appropriation bill 81, 900, 900.
The friends of the bill taxing oleo-
margarine are confident that they Will
be able to carry 1t through. Speaker
Henderson and the committee on rules
have decided to give a rul for the con-
s%ideration of the bill as soon as the
Cuban bill is out Of h way.
Senator Fairbanks, chairman of the
senate committee on public buildings
and grounds, has reported favorably a
bill providing for a building for the use
of the executive, the department Of
state and the department Of justice.
The building site will cost 1000, 600.
Foreign Gossip.
Rebels threaten to occupy the town
Of Becas del Toro, Colombia.
A stage cage dropped 200 feet down a
shaft in a Mexican mine, killing five
men.
A benefit matinee in Paris netted TO-
900 francs for the Mckinley Memorial
fund.
The commission which is to value
the Spanish artillery remaining in the
West Indies has sailed from Madrid.
The Turkish government has con-
cicted a man for a theft committed In
the United States.
Queen Wilhelmina is i'll with fever,
and festivities in honor of the prince
consort's birthday have been aban-
.loned.
Senior Robert, a leading Catalonian
deputy, died at Barcelona as he was
beginning a speech at a municipal
banquet.
The Paris committee on a memorial
to the late President Mckinley, has
secured a good performance for the
Opera Comique for the benefit of the
fund.
Herr Ferenczy, the manager of the
Central theater Of Berlin, a gone to
London to secure rights for the produce
ton OF ben Hur'' in Germany and
Austria.
Col Maximoff has been sentenced to
two years imprisonment for killing
Prince Wittgenstein in a duel. The
court recommended that the colonel be
hardened.
Nine rebels, captured in arms. have
been convicted of joining the Beers a
second time, and sentenced to terms of
Imprisonment ranging from five to
twenty years.
The Vienna Naprzod states that the
assassination of the minister of the in
terror, Sipiaguine, was the result of a
students conspiracy Matched at Kief.
The assassin was chosen by lot, and
other murders have been planned.
At the close of the celebration of a
grand mass, the tower of the cathedral
of Cienta. at Madrid, collapsed and de-
stroyed three adjoining houses and part
or the ,ClOlSIeTS: Inc TeIldliluei VI IAS
cathedral threatens to fall. Two bodies
and a number Of injured persons nave
been recovered from the ruins. The
number of persons entombed is not
known. .e-,l rH#
Grimes n Criminals.
A race riot occurred in the Tender
loin district of New York.
Anegro woman and her son were vis-
tied by Ku .Klux in Oklahoma.
Calamity Jane" pulled a gun at
Cakes. N. d., and forced a crowd of
men to dance.
A bookkeeper in New York is sus-
pected of stealing $4,000 worth Of st.
Paul Railroad stock.
A New York widow says that a nan
who hired her to keep house, stole her
watch and pocketbook.
Mrs. Fanny Goldman Of Toronto com
mitted suicide in Chicago, broken