Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-12-17
CONDENSED NEWS.

Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
ISOLATED Press.
a 925, 900 fire oocurs at Dodgeville.
Wis. 55s -.
Diptheria is epidemic at Wheatland,
MINI. q. IS b G, ( 3
a great scarcity Of fuel ia reported at
Miller, 8. d. II
Senator Quay is i'll at. his home in
Beaver, Pa.
Oshkosh, Wis, is DESTROYS of having
drunkard curing factory.
A wheat blockade at Winnipeg is
embarrassing grain dealers.
Joseph Otis Glover, well-known
lawyer in Chicago, is dead.
Louis VAIL, a prominent citizen of
Chicago. is on his deathbed.
DR.. Washington F. Peck, dean of
Iowa University's medical school. is
dead.
The remains of Dom Pedro have been
placed beside those of his wife at Lis
bon.
Rev. w. s. Pond, the Oldest white
resident of Minnesota, died at Shakopee
on Saturday.
The total number of persons rendered
homeless by the recent earthquake in
Japan is 100000.
Levi Hardin, who recently died near
Earlville, Pa. had read the Bible
through 100 times.
John L. Sullivan denies that he will
receive treatment at the Kelley Insti
tute at Dwight, Ill.
A young man named Bolger. of Black
River Falls, Wis, broke his leg while
turning over in bed.
It is reported from Washington that
Hon. John Sherman is full fedged
presidential candidate.
Congressman Mills is Frustrated with
Malarial fever and his friends are quite
anxious abouth his health.
Editor w. s Campbell, of The Roscoe,
s. D., Herald has purchased an intere 81
in The Dakota Farmer. at Aberdeen.
The Louisiana lottery men will have
q large majority of the delegation in Il e
Louisiana democratic state conventit H.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has &c
cepted an invitation to attend q banquet
to be given by the Boston board Ct
Trade. .t...
The body of Hugh Banne1man, le-t
in the storm, was found within 200
yards of his home, which is near Wiz
nipeg.
Gen. Lucius Fairchild denies Il a'
Army of the Republic and the Lo, al
Legion.
1t is said that the Chicago & North.
western Railroad will soon have control
of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & West
ern road. .=-...
It is now believed beyond doubt
that Henry L. Norcross was the man
who threw the bomb in the Office of Rus.
sell Sage.
The friends of Howard Miller, a young
man abeut 10 years of age, who lived in
Cakes. are greatly worried over his dis
appearance.
A destructive wind storm visited Los
Angeles yesterday. One man, A. G
Tabor, was killed and several others
were injured.
The American hop crop of 1891 is
computed to be 243. 300 bales. as com.
pared with 2O4, $40 bales last year. The
Wisconsin crop is failure.
The sensational reports regarding
Mrs. Clevelands health are untrue
She is now said to have never enjoyed
better health in her life.
At Vernon, Ind, John @. Cope, the
hold. over auditor of Jennings County,
was forcibly elected by w. A. Shuck,
the democratic auditor elect.
Workmen dredging the Harlem ship
canal discovered the tusk of q mastodoD
measuring four feet long and eight
inches in diameter at the butt.
The Chicago Herald states that Chi
cago should not attempt to get the dem
ocratic convention after being SUCCESS
full in securing the world g fair.
Fred Boomer and Miss Luella Thomas
were to be married at Waukon. Ia, but
Boomer failed to put in an appearance.
He has mysteriously disappeared.
A $1O,OOO,0OO mortgage from the
Cleveland & Pittsbnrg Railroad Com
pany to the Farmers Loan & Trust
Company has been filed in Cleveland.
Miss Julia A. Ames, editor of The
Union Signal. of Chicago, the official
organ of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance, union, has just died in Boston.
Grand Commander J. P. Sanborn, of
the knights Templar, denies the report
that Denver has been abandoned as the
place for holding a national encamp-
ment. *
The Pioneer Press correspondent in
Washington states that there is no ap-
parent opposition to the appointment
of Captain Castle as postmaster in st.
Paul.
Mayor Winston, who has inst returned
from the east, says that st Paul'e
chances for securing the democratic
national convention grow brighter each
day.
The First Congregational Church at
Webster, s.. D.. has extended call to
Rev. A. M. Glidden, q former mission
airy in the Whiteohapel district of Lon
don.
A leading Wall Street banker says
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