The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-03-19
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The Rock Island-St. LouistKansas
City line will be completed May 1.
BY the vote of the Yale faculty there
will be no appointment Of valedictori-
an and salutatorian after the present
year.
A dispatch from Sananac Lake, N.
T., states that Robert Taber, an actor,
and the divorced husband of Julia
Marlowe, is dead.
Maj. Joseph Wilson of the Canadian
500 claims to have discovered dia-
monds in the vicinity of Moose Fac
tory, on James Bay.
Rumors that Booth Tucker will soon
retire from command of the Salvation
Army in America and be assigned to
literary work in London are denied.
The Irish Nationalist of St. Louis
at their celebration of the birth of
Robert Emmett adopted resolutions up
holding Russia in her war with Japan.
The Cement Finishers and Helpers
union of Chicago will go on strike to
enforce its demand for higher wages.
Nearly one Thousand workmen are at
fected.
The American Locomotive company
has taken over the plant of the Loco.
motive and Machine company of Mont
real, limited. The capacity is 300 10
comotives annually.
Another attempt is to be made to
institute a Juvenile. court in Des
Moines for the care Of neglected and
criminally inclined children of that
city and surrounding towns.
Donald H. Upjohn,. sporting editor
Of the. Kalamazoo Gazette. and son Of
one Of the most prominent families in
Michigan, eloped with Miss Madse
Jackson, . telephone operator.
Reports of the United States ship
ping interests informed Gov. Wright
that the enforcement Of the American
navigation laws would mean a paraly-
sis of the commerce Of the Philip.
pines.
The steamship Grosser Kurfust sail
ed from New York recently with 800
delegates aboard bound for Jerusalem,
where the fourth worlds Sunday
school convention is to be held April
Is, 10 and 20.
DR.. Andrew 8. Draper, president of
the Illinois university and former su-
perintendent of public instruction. has
been chosen to be commissioner Of
education Of New York for the initial
term Of six years.
A conference has been held at Do.
trott between 8. T. Bastedo, deputy
fish commissioner Of Ontario. and rep
resentatives of the fish commissions Of
several states to secure q uniform
closed season law.
The Standard Oil company has cut
the price Of petroleum 8 cents Q bar
rel on all high grades and 3 cents on
tho lower grades. This is tn esecond
reduction .: 3 cents within = week,
making q total Of s cents.
The Kanzas City court Of appeals
has decided .hat the grain speculative
trading on the board of trade is gam
bling, and that the real object Of tho
sale of the put" contract Is to specu-
late upon the rise and fall in prices.
The Pacific Mail and the Occidental
and Oriental Steamship companies
nave adopted a e joint time sched-
ule, according to which vessels will de-
part from San Francisco for the Orient
Ut intervals of about eleven days.
has been decided that Hawaii will
.o"Ee no exhibit at the st. Louis fair.
Pneumonia and grip have spread to
such an extent in New York as to be
Practically epidemic. There are about
200 cases of pneumonia in Bellevue
hospital, and other hospitals have a
3r~oportionate number.
The establishment Of a college Of do
nestle science is announced at the
University of Chicago. Dean Marion
talbot is to be head Of the new depart
nent. The first courses will be Of
'ered at the beginning of the spring
uarter, April 1.
The ordinance recently passed by
re Chicago council, giving each mem
or Of the city fire department twelve
o-rs off duty daily, was vetoed by
~ror Harrison, the financial necesst-
assof Chicago being advanced as the
eason why the ordinance should not