The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-07-30
General.

Daniel j. Sully & Co. and Daniel J.
Su!ly have made formal compromise
Offers of 40 per cent cash and 10 per
can in ninety-day notes.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon has de-
clarel his intention of taking an &C.
tive part in the campaign this fall,
making speeches in Illinois, Wisconsin
and Indiana.
DR.. Edward Breuss, aged 70, for
thirty years editor of the st. Louis
America, a German Catholic daily,
died in st. Louis Of nervous debility
after an illness of three years.
Having Travelled 1000 miles that
they might carry on their courtship
without interruption, G. A. Gordon and
Miss Katherine Hucek of Tacoma,
Wash, have been married in Evans.
ton, Ill.
The Daily Trade Bulletin credits
the United States with a wheat crop
Of 61O, 900, 900 bushels, and claims that
reducing supplies 10 a minimum the
surplus for export may be 142, 0O0, 900
bushels.
For the first time since 1877, Balti-
nore has been called upon to ship
wheat to the West. Approximately
100, 900 bushels of No. 2 have been for
warded to millers as far west as Gin
cinnati.
A caboose and two ore cars on the
Wisconsin Central jumped the track
on the Hurley branch near Plummer,
killing the conductor. Wilbur r. Cur
ry, and injuring the brakeman. Hsr.
vey Allen.
The Neptune Salvage company has
located the wreck of the Canadian
steamship Islander, which sunk in ALL
gust, 1901, carrying down nearly 100
passengers and crew, besides half a
million of Klondike treasure.
No man over IS years applying for
work on the Delaware & Hudson rail-
road will be accepted in the future.
The officials say that such a man Is
too old to learn %railroading, and not
active and vigorous enough for the
hard work required.
Despite the rain Of the early part of
last week and the excessively warm
weather that followed it. the attend
ance at the worlds fair for the past
seven days was more than a half-mil-
lion persons. There was not a single
special day to bring the attendance
up, and the result is quite satisfactory
to the management.
Carrie Nation, who is attending the
annual fair at Guthrie, KY, walked up
to a young man named John Williams,
from Trenton, KY, and slapped a CT.
gazette from his mouth. He warned
her not to repeat the act, but she did
not heed the warning, again knocking
the cigarette from Williams mouth,
whereupon Williams knocked her
down.
Farmers in the town Of Wheaton,
near Chippewa Falls. caused the ar
rest of j. ]. Desmond, a civil engineer
of the Wisconsin Central railway, be-
lieving he was insane. He has been
taking levels in Wheaton with a look
ing glass and a water bulb, and slept
in the woods at night. His return to
Milwaukee was advised.
The Republican county committee
met at Barron and fixed the date for
the county convention for August 10.
The caucuses will be held on Aug. 10.
There is less stir in county politics
here this year than there has been for
years.
Frank Fuller, a Chicago travelling
man, saved an eight-year-old boy from
drowning while On N excursion on
the steamer Robert Harris at La
Crosse. The boy was leaning against
a railing on the edge Of the boat, which
gave way and he al thrown into the
Mississippi Mr.. Fuller, who yIlssFas
standing near by, leaped into ~ w,
ter and succeeded in rescpingsSa rim