The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-04-18

there are so many suspects III italy at
present that the cars safety would
be endangered if he went to that coun.
try.
Casualties.
The cottage which John Brown USED
as the headquarters of his under
| ground railway burned at Tabor, Iowa.
A fire entailing a loss of $4,000 and
destroying fully half of the town oc-
CURED at Single House, Potter coun.
ty, Pa. =
Fire in the engineers barracks at.
Fort Leavenworth for a time threat
ened the entire barracks. The fire
was extinguished with $4,000 loss.
Mrs. Henry l.. Page, a daughter OF
ex-Gov. John p. st. John of Kansas,
is dead at Fort Scott of Inflammation
of the stomach, caused by poison eaten
in some canned fruit recently at st.
Louis.
Two negroes were killed, two SER.
ously hurt and nine slightly injured by
falling walls in a brick tenement
house at Louisville, KY.
Otherwise.
Daniel Butler, aged 104 years. is
dead at Enfield Falls, N. Y.
The tower Of Philadelphia's $40,
600, 900 city hall is crumbling.
Work in laying the cable from Hon
olulu to Manila will begin soon, and
completion is expected by July 4.
Ri. Rev. George Montgomery, CO.
adjutor archbishop of San Francisco,
has been appointed archbishop of Ma
nila.
The Kokomo Cooperative associa.
ton of Indianapolis, formed by the
Socialists, has gone into the hands of
a receiver.
Most of the striking miners in the
bituminous coal district of Indiana
have returned to work under the new
wage scale.
Attorney General Webb of Califor
MIA has rendered an opinion declaring
the use of the Bible in tho public
schools unconstitutional.
BY vote of 70 to 10, the Michigan
house passed the primary election bill,
| providing 70 ra direct vote on all nom.
nations, including state officers.
Gov. Bates of Massachusetts has
signed a bill providing for an appro-
priation of 500, 1000 for a state repre-.
sentation Mt the st. Louis exposition.
Bandmaster F. N. Innes and Miss
Frances Boyden, who accompanied the
lines band ON its tour last winter, ap-
pearing as the principal soloist, were
welded at the brides home at Gin.
| cinnati.
Charles. A. Parker, chairman of the
Colorado Railroad association, has
been selected as traffic manager of the
Colorado Fuel and Ircn company, to
succeed A. C. Cass, who goes abroad
for his health.
AS the result of a long crusade, the
board of commissioners of the District
of Columbia has adopted q resolution
forbidding expectoration on the side
walks, making violation thereof sub.
ject to a fine of 81.
An old oil we'll in the vicinity OF
Cadiz, Ohio, has been spouting salt
water and eyeless fish. The fish are
dead when they come to the surface
and are being belched forth at thesrata
of two tons a day.
Mrs. McKinley's team started on 8
runaway as she a driving to the
cemetery at Canton. recently. The
horses were stopped in time to prevent
injury to Mrs. Mckinley and the other
occupants of the carriage.
E. e. Hartman is to get u valuable
land and cash concession from Presi-
dent Dlaz of Mexico o condition that
he build. o railroad in Lower Califor-.
MIA that shall have q connection With
the Southern Pacific ain California.
"A telegram from Lewis Nixon. pres
| ident Of the United States Shipbuild-
ing company. received by w. q. Dodd.,
president Of the United Iron works at
San Francisco, indicates that the men.
will be granted thsss nine-hour day on
May 1. with roper cent increase IN;
pay. 83ts
The Essex county (Mass.) court haS;
been asked to pass upon the question
Of the influence OF Spiritualism on q
sick person, and whether OF not
through . medium George "A. Caldwell,
eighty year sof age, late Of Lynn. was
unduly influenced to give away his
property.
Allegations made BY the growers Of
citrus fruit IN Southern California tha1l.
lower freight rates and queer tilae for
shipments between the coast and tho,
Middle West and Atlantic points are
imperative, were considered ct assee
ond hearing before g. "A. Proutys ~
] the interstate commerce commission.
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