The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1903-10-10
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Notes From Abroad.

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Russia is said to be having a hard
time competing with the United States
In securing the trade of China.
Both the plague and the cholera are
raging at Peitang, fifty miles from
Tientsin. Two thousand have died in
two months.
In a duel al Biarritz, France, be-
tween Count ARGOS of Clavike, and the
marquis of Arguida, the latter received
three slight wounds.
The birthplace of Charles Dickens
has been bought by the city OF Ports
mouth, England, which will install In
it a Dickens museum.
The whole of the province of Tara
paca, Chile, including the port of lqui-
que, the capital, has been declared
free from bubonic plague.
Frau Maria Geistinger, the actress
and singer, died at K%lagonfurt, near
Lake Worth. She made two tours OF
America, the last M in 1897.
The growing discomfort in the Ger
man army because of the brutality OF
the officers was manifested by a crowd
of private soldiers of the Second Gren-
adiers, who stoned their officers.
Sir Edward Barton, federal premier
of Victoria, has resigned, following his
appointment to a judgship in the fed
eral high court. Alfred Deallin, attor-
ney general, will form a e cabinet.
The murderers of King Alexander
and Queen Draga have been convicted
and sentenced to Imprisonment for Pc
RODS ranging from three months to
two years, but King Peter is expected
to pardon them.
ceived reports from Lake Erie saying
there is a great deal Of illegal fishing
going on. The revenue boat Petrol
recently seized ffty-six American nets
in Canadian waters.
The storms of the past summer de-
stroyed the fruit crop both in England
and on the continent, and American
fruit is in active demand. Sales, main
ly of California fruits and Canadian
apples, are twice as large as usual,
and prices are high.
The pope has indicated his intention
of visiting the monastery of Monte
Casino at an early date, and has also
told the abbot of the B%enedictine mon
astery Cava del Tirriene, near Salerno,
that he would open the jubilee Of the
Immaculate Conception in person.
Otherwise.
Women tramps are becoming com.
mon in New Jersey.
A case of smallpox was found in the
Case School Of Applied Science at
Cleveland.
The blast furnaces of the Lake Supe-
rior ore district will be closed down
temporarily.
The strike of the lake masters and
pilots is ended, a compromise having
been reached.
Willard Boyce and wife of Bingham
ton, N. Y, reunited after ten years.
separation, quarreled about a cat and
parted again.
A lion at an amusement park at
Ccney island, New York, escaped and
created a panic in the streets till it
was recaptured.
Capt. Jennings of the %wrecking
schooner Osceo has found a treasure
ship sunk near Miami. Florida, in 1885,
loaded with silver ore.
Baling of the Oregon hop crop is I'M
der way and indicates a yield this year
of about 10000 bales, compared with
5000 bales produced last year.
The Southern Pacific railroad esti-
mates CALIFORNIA; bean output in the
lower counties this year at 100000
sacks, about 100, 900 sacks more than
any previous estimate.
George M. Collier, chief state in
spector of engineers of Ohio, missing
since Sept. IA, has been suspended
from Office and suit will be instituted
to recover a shortage of $2,716.
Sophomores in Syracuse university
have forbidden freshmen to wear mus
taches, and B. G. Kassess. who at
tempted to disregard the rule, vas for
chilly deprived of his mustache.
Charles Dubois was killed at Buxton,
Iowa, and at nearly the same time his
wife, from whom he was separated,
died at the Providential hospital in
Chicago. They left four children.
Margaret Ryan, an insane woman
who has been kept chained to the floor
by her mother at White Plains. N. Y,
protested against being released, say
ing she could not rest or sleep with
out her chains.
The district court at San Juan, Por-
to Rico, has ordered the release of
Eduardo Condo and Leonidas Guillot,
Socialists, recently sentenced to six
months Imprisonment for insulting
the American flag.
F. ~Schaenfeld, a stakeholder in the
American Car company, has filed a bill
for an injunction to restrain payment
of a 2h per cent dividend or the pre-
ferred stock, charging fraud in the or
ganization and overcapitalization.
Warden McClaughey of the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kan, says that
every one of the 200 prisoners in the
institution is suffering from tubercu-
losis, including all of the Indians con-
fined there. Thirty Indian prisoners
died of the disease during the past
year.
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