The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-05-21
General.

General.
Zionites rejoice over the news of
Dowie's safe arrival in Europe after
his long voyage from Australia.
A gift of 5000, 900 from John D. Rock
efeller to the Case School of Applied
Sciences is announced at Cleveland.
Chinese commissioners are in this
country studying steel plants with a
view of establishing great mills in
China.
Miss Helen Gould has been closely
guarded to avoid the snapshot fiend
and persons with schemes that need
financing.
Three deaths in one family in a
week, caused by the mysterious "black
DEATH" have caused a panic at Rock
well City, Iowa.
Mrs. Bessie Nunzinsky of New York
is insane over the delusion that she
car attain perfection in spirit by abb
staining from all food.
!. Ham sandwiches and h%ard-boiled!
eggs will be used to combat pipes and;
cigarettes with the boys of the school
of education Of the University of Chi
cago.
President Eliot Of Harvard has con.
f1rmed the, statement that the crimson
university and the Massachusetts in
stitute of technology are trying to CON.
bine.
The Kansas supreme court has de-
clared void the statute which makes it
unlawful to discharge an employee be-
cause he belongs to a labor organiza-
ton. IL
After fruitlessFy wandering over the
hills for years, Patrick Sullivan, an old
prospector of Park City, Utah, died Of
heart failure upon discovering a rich
mine. b.
It is announced officially that the
| executive committee of the New York
| Central company had met to comulete
arrangements for q loan of $3O,OO0,-
| 900. So. 20
Ex-Mayor James A. Reed of Kansas
| City has announced his withdrawal
from the race for the Democratic NOM
ination for governor to support Joseph
| w. Folk. s.., .
The Columbus Aeroplane company
has Incorporated at Columbus, Ohio, to
construct an airship upon lines de-
| signed by George T. Meyers, a local
mechanic. M~..
The presentation of the resignation,
of Senior Bishop Stephen NJ. Merrill of
Chicago has been made before the
Methodist Episcopal conference at Los
Angeles. a.a
In an excitement following a narrow
escape from running down, a fishing
schooner in a dense fog. one Of the
passengers of the Kaiser Wilhelm IL.
died of fright. :af
In connection with the ninety-second
commencement of Princeton theolog-
ical seminary, Harold Robinson Of
White Bear, Mimi, received a fellow
ship in a~pologetics.
! ExGov. William A. Stone y of
Carnegie's hero fund: II consider this
newly established Carnegie hero fund
the most ridiculous, foolish and insane
organization of the present day."
It is. reported that Harry Payne
Whitney has leased for five years, with
the option of purchase outright. the
breeding and training farm neal Red
Bank, N. j., known as Brookdale.
The Johns Hopkins hospital of Bal.
timore has received it's promised gift
of 100000 from John D. Rockefeller,
with 1000 interest on the gift from
April 4, the day he announced it.
"A complaint alleging insanity. has
been filed at Lincoln, Neb., by E. Ben
jamin Andrews, chancellor of the Ne.
braska university, against his son, Guy
A. Andrews, because of kleptomania.
The needful appropriation Of s10r;
100000 having been voted by the New
York board of estimate, work on the
structure of the new Manhattan bridge
over the East river will begin July 1.
John Cupsick, a miner, was taken Ill
at Hazelton, Pa, and raj pronounced
dead by the doctors. As he had no
family or friends to bury him, his body
was sent to q Philadelphia hospital for
dissection. When placed on the table,
and just as the knife was about to bs
put to him. Cupsick arose and wanted
to know Why he had been ''undresssa.s