The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-08-06
Domestic.

Domestic.
F. Augustus Heinze denies that a
deal has been effected whereby he will
relinquish his Butte holdings to the
AInalgamated.
The Baltic. the new steamer of the
White Star line and the largest vessel
afloat, sailed from Queenstown fol-
New York on its maiden trip.
While no final action has yet been
taken on the latest offer by D. J. Sully
for a settlement at 40 per cent. it is
believed that the committee will agree.
Gen. j. L.. Lewis. famous as the COM
mander Of the Orphan Brigade" in
the Confederacy. dropped dead at
Frankfort. Ky. He was chief justice
of the court of appeals over twenty
years.
Thomas e. Watson of Georgia for
president and Thomas V. Tibbles of
Nebraska for vice president was the
ticket nominated by acclamation by
the Populist national convention at
Springfield. III.
After having been suspended since
last fall, ore is again being hoisted
from the Consolidated Lake Superior
company's Helen mine, in the Michipi-
coten district of Ontario. New ma.
chinery has been installed.
The resignation of Charles M.
Schwab, former president of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation, as a d.
rector of the corporation, it is an
nounced, will be accepted at the quar-
terly board meeting in July.
The United Fruit company will es-
tablish throughout the entire scope of
their distribution in this country. saya
the New York Journal of Commerce,
the system of selling bananas by
weight instead Of by the bunch.
Thirty-ive hundred packing house
employees in East ST. Louis have voted
that the wages of the laborers must
be increased from Is cents an hour to
1872 cents. Similar meetings have
been held in Chicago, Kansas City, st.
Joseph and Omaha
The Louisville school board has in.
structed the high school committee to
inform four Filipino students who ap-
piled for admission to the Dupont
manual training high school that their
color debars them from the privileges
of the public schools.
At the annual meeting OF the stock.
holders of the Lewis and Clark expo.
sition at Portland, Ore, President
Harvey w. Scott rendered his resigna-
ton. which was accepted. The rea.
son assigned by Scott is failing health.
His successor has not yet been Sc
lccted.
"There will never be another silver
dollar coined in this country" said
George T. Roberts. director of the
United States mint at Portland, Ore,
unless by some chance a 16 to l con
gress should be elected, for the supply
of silver bullion purchased under the
Sherman act is exhausted"
Several hundred people besieged.the
doors of the German-American bank
at. Aurora, Ill.,. the cashier of which,
BY his own confession, is short 100000
in his accounts. The bank officials de-
clared the institution prepared for the
run. Most of the Withdrawals were
said to be by small depositors.
Little ~six-year-old Harry Norton of
Alta, Mass, saved his eight-year-old
brother Artie from a horrible death
by an act of bravery. Artie fell from
the top of a fence into d pigpen and
vas set upon by an enraged SOW, and
would have been killed but for the in
interference of his little brother. who
climbed into the pen and beat off the
brute with a stick.
Gen. Pet Cronje of Boer war fame
was married to Mrs. Stertzael, the
widow of a Boer soldier. The cere.
mony was performed in the Boer camp
at the worlds fair.
Acting on instructions from Rome,
the authorities at Messina. Italy, have
arrested Capt. e. r. Colesse of the
Italian army and his wife en- a chargs
of high treason in selling 70 agents q
a foreign power plans for the mobile.
cation of the Italian army IN, Sicily.