Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-08-13
LATEST CONVERSATIONS.

Earthquake at Sandiego. Cal.
Jessie Fothergil, English novelist, is
dead.
Fassett has accepted the New York
oollectorship.
The Canadian house votes down re.
Gprocity, ia to So.
The Tennessee extra legislative
session begins Aug II.
A receiver has been applied for the
Texas Grand Trunk railroad.
New York republican state convention
is to be held at Rochester, Sept. 8.
The Portuguese financial situation is
improving.
Allen County, Ind, is suffering from
grasshoppers.
Grasshoppers are damaging Van
Vert, Ohio, crops.
There is danger of coal famine in
the west this winter.
Toledo -four and grain will be taken
to Europe by water.
The New South Wales legislature de-
feated waman suffrage
A waterspout did considerable dam
oge at West Point, Miss.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal re-
jects Parnell's leadership.
There was quarter of million loss
from the Liverpool cotton fire.
The story that Secretary Noble had
resigned is denied by Secretary Halford.
Judge Mckay, the Kansas alliance
judge, again defes the supreme court
The vessel arrivals at Quebec de-
creased ninety-one, also thirty ocean
steamers less
Cashier Kirby, who fled with $780,
600 from the Marshall Miss, bank, has
been captured in Missouri.
The Norwegian schooner LORNA sank
in collision in the English channel, and
eight sailors were drowned.
O'Brien and Dillon have been re-
leased from Jail, their terms having ex.
PRED.
Three hundred people were drowned
by floods in the province of Gujerat
India.
John @. Avery, New York broker
assigned, he was large dealer in west
ern lands.
Saratoga winners: Bolero, IN 1870;
Latosca, 1:434; Miss Dixie, 1 :O4; Get
tysburg, 200.
Grasshoppers are running the oats in
twenty counties along the Ohio and
Indiana border.
The Chicago labor assembly will
warn people not to come to Chicago for
labor on the Worlds Fair.
The new reciprocity treaty between
San Domingo and Cuba and the United
States will soon 60 into effect.
The st. Paul & Duluth directors de.
clared a per cent dividend on pre-
ferred stock, payable Sept l.
Archbishop Ireland and Indian Com
missioner Morgan are said to have
reached satisfactory understanding.
Saratoga winners and time: Mount
McGregor :1a; King Grab 2:OO5; STRAIT
agem 1856; Saunterer 1919; Ocypete
1905; Cerebus 1 20.
Among the new Annapolis cadets are
J. A. Schwellenbach and Mack Olsen of
Wisconsin, and Jonas Lient of South
Dakota.
Workmen in Minneapolis unearthed
Large pocket of counterfeit, supposed to
be hidden by the Mcdonald gang four
or five years ago.
There have been 1,404 government
liquor licenses issued this year in the
northern Iowa district, an increase of
400 over last year.
1t is said that Judge Aiken, of Sioux
Falls, will interpret South Dakota's di-
vorce law in accord with its spirit in
stead of the letter, and thus bar out
many outside applicants.
E. Wood has been appointed post
master at Menoken, while a new Office
has been established in Mcintosh Coun-
ty called Ostrem, and John Ostrem is
postmaster.
Maryland democrats nominated
Frank Brown, for governor; John A.
Poe, attorney general; J. Frank Ford,
clerk OF the court Of appeals: Marion
Dekalb Smith, comptroller.
Vice-President Clough recently made
an argument before the interior depart
ment against the recent decision of
Secretary Noble. who held that the
Great Northern could not take land in
the indemnify limit of its MAN line for
that lost on the branches.
Second Comptroller Gilkison has ap-
proved bills of the Western Union Tele-
graph Co., amounting to 100000 for
telegraph service for the United States
signal bureau, at the rates established
by the postmaster general. The COM
pany has notified the secretary of the
treasury that it will accept payment at
the rates named under protest until the
question of the legality of the present
contract can be judicially determined.
A HiIlsboroile Drowned.
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