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WASHBURN LEADER. BY R. H. COPELAND, NORTH DAKOTA WASHBURN, CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The Welland canal is temporarily disabled. Cholera in Massowah is confined to the natives. The damage from French floods increases. Scotch furnace men have struck for an advance. Chicago is crusading against the smoke nuisance. Patrick O'Brien, M. P., has been arrested at Dublin. The Sydney, New South Wales, strikers are riotous. Colorado republicans nominated John L. Routt for governor. Ex-Congressman Morey of Louisiana died at Washington. The house had no quorum yesterday and could do no business. The Pennsylvania republican league is meeting at Philadelphia. A new Portuguese cabinet will be formed headed by Chrysostomo. The world's fair commission selected a director-general Thursday. The house conferees have accepted the senate reciprocity amendment. Albert Richner, shot by his brother-inlaw. Kessler, in Chicago, has died. James and John Gladson were killed by a wild engine near Ooltewah, Tenn. Mrs. Emma Cooper, of Fulton, N. Y., has fallen heir to $9,000,000 in England. Lars Ericksen is in jail at Barron, Wis., charged with the murder of his father. The natives massacred thirty-two Spaniards in the Caroline Islands, August 10. Boston gold beaters have struck for an advance which probably will be granted. Charles Drumm, a Springfield, Ohio, wine merchant, killed his wife and self. Slavin and McAuliffe have been bound over to keep the peace in bonds of $5,000. The Oakland bank Chicago, has suspended. Liabilities, $60,000; assets, $75,000. Masked robbers killed John Krimm, in Hocking county, Ohio, and robbed the house. Thirty buildings were burned at Whitehall, Mich., by an incendiary fire. Loss $100,000. The government bought 470,000 ounces of silver, prices ranging from $1.161/4 to $1.16 4-9. A family of eight were killed at Treesburg, N. Y., by ignorantly eating a nightshade plant. An incendiary fire destroyed eleven buildings at South Haven, Mich., causing $70,000 loss. The widow of Gen. John C. Fremont is sick and in straitened circumstances in Los Angeles. The Turkish man-of-war Ertgroul foundered at sea and five hundred of the crew were drowned. John Wm. Dunn, a brick manufacturer of Chicago, has disappeared, leaving $35,000 of unpaid debts. The house again lost a quorum on account of the disappearance of democrats and adjourned. The statue of Horace Greeley in front of the New York Tribune building was unveiled yesterday. The Massachusetts democrats nominated a ticket headed by William E. Russell for governor. The Excelsior Oil works, Cleveland, have burned. Loss, $50,000. Three men were badly burned. John Dillon and William O'Brien have been arrested at Dublin for inciting tenants not to pay rent. Belfast merchants are trying to get as much linen as possible before the McKinley bill goes into effect. The democrats propose to make the republicans pass the tariff bill without the presence of democrats. The Chicago council by formal resolution asked the Illinois attorney general to bring suit against the gas trust. It is believed the tariff bill will be reported next Tuesday, in which case congress will adjourn a week later. A commercial panic prevails in Lisbon. where the leading banks are trembling. A crisis is imminent. The Milwaukee & Northern has been bought by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul for a little over $5,000,000. The president by proclamation extends the time for removing cattle from the Cherokee outlet to November 1st. Chauncey M. Depew doesn't believe the Knights of Labor are back of the train wrecking on the New York Central. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck a train on the Chicago & Northwestern road, near North avenue, Chicago. The Washington Sunday Chronicle was the first paper refused by the postoffice because it contained lottery advertisements. Six new bridges, three saw mills and much property was washed away Thursday by the giving way of the dam near Poestenkill, N.Y. The stockholders of the Milwaukee road ratified the purchase of the Milwaukee & Northern and authorized a new issue of stock to pay for it. It is reported that the Portuguese government has declared a state of siege in Lisbon on account of the fights between the police and mobs. Casualties in Minneapolis. MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 28.-Charles Limbland. a stone cutter employed on Dickinson & Cunningham and Willis & Dunham's new store building on Nicollet avenue, was killed at 1 o'clock this afterthe fall of huge derrick.