Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-02-19

S<sSASSASAA >AA~~> $500
posing an additional rate on domestic
companies.
Four railway employees were killed
in a collision at Elmira, n. Y.
GOVERNOR BIRD, of the Indian Ter
ritory, was organizing the militia to
eject intruders from the Chickasaw ma
ton. The Government would assist.
1t was estimated that there were at
least 10000 intruders.
JACOB WEBER, living near Sidney, O.,
was shot dead by William Cisso, a
neighbor, while stealing corn from the
latter's barn. Weber leaves widow
and ten children.
THE Indiana Legislature passed law
making it q felony to conduct bucket
shop, deal in margins or rent a building
for the purpose.
In hotel at Columbus, Kan, Louis
P. Holsey, of Arizona, shot his wife,
who had instituted proceedings for
divorce, and then committed suicide.
A PASSENGER train was thrown down
an embankment near Maynard, Ia, aud
sixteen persons were injured, some Sc
riously.
I JAMES GAFFNEY, of St. Louis, placed
So, 500, the savings of years, in a stove
for safe keeping. Some time after he
started a fire in the stove and the
money was consumed.
NATHANIEL GREENE, book-keeper for
Farmsworth & Ruggles at San Fran
cisco, was said to be $4,000 short in his
accounts.
The First National Bank and the
North Middlesex Savings Bank at
Aver, Mass, closed their doors.
In q quarrel over a girl at a dance at
Palmyra, Kan, John Benton and Hale
Cooper were fatally injured
THE shortage of j. Eldridge Pierce,
the absconding secretary of the City
Loan Association of Wilmington, Del,
was placed at 100000.
THE iron ship Bruce and two tugs
were sunk in the bay at New York and
eighteen lives were reported lost
DAISY BREZE, sent to the Illinois
penitentiary for life for numbering a
| woman, was pardoned. She had served
sixteen years.
GEORGE c. GIBSON, of Peoria, Ill.
secretary of the great whisky trust,
was arrested in Chicago on the charge
of plotting to destroy the Shufeldt dis
tillery (Which would not join the trust)
with dynamite.
JACOB FREUNDLIcH and his team
were drowned in sight of 100 people IN
the Ohio river at Evansville, Ind.
A BILL to resubmit to the people the
question of prohibition amendment
to the constitution was passed by the
North Dakota Legislature.
The Census Office announced the pop
ulation of Michigan to be 1908, $50.
ONE HUNDRED converts were i'm
mersed in the river at Greensboro, KY,
as the result of a revival meeting.
ALLAN NJ. MURPHY, Baraga Mich. }
farmer, was fieeced out of $500 by
New York ''green-goods" men.
THE British steamer Thanemore,
which left Baltimore for London on
November 26 last, was given up as lost.
There were forty-six persons on board.
The Missouri Legislature passed a
bill prohibiting pool-selling in the State
Oh horse races and elections.
|. Toward JACKSON, ex-member of the
Indiana Legislature, committed suicide
by hanging ~ his homt, near Lawrence
burg, Ind
FIFTY of the Indiana survivors of the
Mexican war held a reunion at Indian
apolis.
EXTENSIVE prairie fires ragged through
out Hale and Swisher counties in Tex
as and thousands Of acres of range were
totally destroyed.
AT Kearney, N. j., non-union en-
ployes of Clark's thread-mill were at
tackled by a crowd of men, women and
children, and nearly every window in
the mill was smashed by stones thrown
by the mob.
JUDGE WILLIAM LEWIS, of Pineville,
Ky, who had been sappressing bloody
fcuds in that region, was shot and
killed by his own son, Sidney Lewis,
whom the judge had put under bond as
one of the unlawful gang.
THE Lake Superior & Northwestern
railroad has changed it's name to the
Duluth, Mesab & Northern.
By an explosion of natural gas at La.
fayette, Ind. four persons were in
jured, two fatally.
The National Miners convention at
Columbus, o., adopted resolution that
all miners and mine workers in the
United States demand the eight-hou1
work day May next
A FIRE at Aurora, ILL.,, caused q loss
OF s105, oOO
| AT Wichita Falls, Tex, a fire de.
stroyed five hotels and four business
| houses.
ONE HUNDRED certificates for 100
shares each of the American Sugar
Trust. aggregate face value $1,000, 600
were pronounced in New York to be
counterfeit.
THE river which was rapidly rising al
| Cincinnati drove out of their homes
sixty families.
AT Sumner, ILL.,, John Graham was
sentenced to thirty years in the peni
tertiary for killing Duane johnson, O.
Russellville.
ARTHUR MCALLIsTER, of Cleveland,
O.. was elected president of the Ma
tional Builders Association at their an
nual session in New York.
AT the meeting in New York of the
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