The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-12
PITH OF THE NEWS
CONDEMNED hEWO FROM ALL
PARTo OF ThK WORLD.

eeaeEksED NEWS FROM ALL
PARrs o. THE WORLD.
TIE department Of commerce will
investigate the beef trust in relation
to Injunction.
The Minority in the house of repre-
ssatskves want sths %postoface depart
meat Investigated.
Reosidsnt Smith Of the Mormon
shassh, te%stifying in the Smoot hear
- asserted q nrm belief in polyga-
~.
ne North Atlantic squadron will
have a endurance test, racing across
Ne Atlantic after target practice with
eat waiting for repairs.
A bill rskQuiring the use Of Amer
lean vessels in transporting govern
mont supplies to tie Philippines
passed the senate by a strict party
vote.
The administration ia puzzled by
tho situation in San Domingo, where
no real government exists to which
protests a be made by the state de-
partment.
The senate committee On finance
has made q favorable report on the
nomination of M. Smith Wooley, a
Mormon, nominated for assayer at
Boise, Idaho.
The report Of the postofice depart
ment on account of the activity OF
members of congress in behalf OF
postmasters and local postofices may
start a storm of talk.
The order issued to the Third in
fantry to relieve the marines on duty
in Panama has been countermanded.
William M. Treloar, postmaster at
Mexico, Mo-, has been removed, as a
result Of charges.
r. s. Parnell of Junction, Union
county, Ark, has resigned his Office,
and in his letter to the postmaster
general says the action is due to a po-
litical feud to escape which he is 60
ing to leave the state. .
: Casualties.
"A dozen OF more persons we're killed
by the collapse of the steel skeleton
of a New York hotel.
The steamer Queen reached Port
Townsend with a narrowing story of
sufferings by storm and fire; fourteen
lives lost.
During a recent gale eve separate
prairie fires caused heavy damage to
farmers within a ten-mile radius of
Salina, Kan. It is reported twenty
houses were burned at Hill City.
Mrs. Mahala Altman, aged seventy
years, and her daughter, Mrs. Caro-
line Early, aged fifty, were found dead
in their chairs near the kitchen stove
at their home in Huntington, Ind. The
discovery was made by Mrs. Tarly's
son. Natural gas fumes are supposed
to have been the cause.
Albert Mootmiller, q wellknown
farmer Of South Bend, Ind, was killed
By N explosion Of dynamite. His
beAy was tern into absat fifty pieces.
Msetniler left homo in . buggy with
! stick Of dynamite beside him On the
seat. Shortly afterward the family
heard q terrific explosion.
The Buplinste1 bridge ever the Re-
publican river rear the CslsrAtoNe .
braska Ane burned recently. All
tra1nc was delayed several hsurs.
The bridge was nearly enc mile long
and cost @5ee.eee. 1t caught Are from
Goals from Q passing engine. A sixty.
nile per hour wind was blowing. max
ing it impossible for the railroad men
- extinguish the flames.
People Talked About.
Miss Lydia Fletcher, authoress and
dramatist. better known by the pen
name Of "Conyne," died in Washing
ten, aged fifty years.
DR.. Howard c. Russell Of the Unit.
ed States marine hospital service died
at the marine hospital ut staplstan.
L. l.. ef pneumonia.
Noah Rahy. n innate Of The New
jersey poor farm, Who rsnenbsred
seeing George washington, died at
the age Of 1873 years.
Russsil ". Davenport one Of the
leading metallurgists Of Tie country.
died at his home in PhilaAelphia q
pneunsaia. He was Afty-avs years of
ags. 4
". ". Copeland. president Of the
San Trasaisoo typographical union,
10 dead, a. tbs result Of falling
through an open elevator shaft. He
was connected with Iowa newspapers