Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-04-21
CONDENSED NEWS.
Interesting Happenings Of the Past
Week Culled from the As
ISOLATED Press.

Inc epiQenhC oA Stnalipo4 IL raging IN Poland
Minister Albert C. Porter VIII return to Rome.
Keewatin, Mant.
Hugh S. Thompson has resigned as member
Of the civil service commission.
Senator Allison says he is not candidate for
the presi1en nomination.
c. Knorr Is in trouble at Bridgewater, S. D..
for selling liquor without license.
George Wilkes. known as the liking OF the
forgers, = died in New York Thursday.
senior BEST Cana has accepted the post n,
Chilean minister TO the United states.
Miss Amelia B. Edwards. the wen known
novelist and lecturer, is dead in London
Col Fred P. Wright has been nominated for
ma! or Of st. Paul by the independents,
Yesterday was Emancipation day and it was
celebrated by the negroes IN various cities,
Boomers are gathering at the borders Of the
Cheyenne reservation In Oklahoma.
President Harrison's wife is not so well. Her
physicians are quite alsrms1 over her condition.
Friends of the Hatch anti-opt1on bill admit
that there is some doubt as TO its passing the
house.
Acyclone swept through West Virginia yes.
teIday, leaving death and ceya' tation in its
TACK
The Massachusetts, house has passed the bill,
ployes. 49, ''N>N L.
Ida Farrow. married woman. is uoder arrest
ear with halcheI
A republican member OF congress- who spent
the past week IN New York, says senator CASEY
Is sure of a reelection.
The condition Of Grand Duke George, second
son Of tine car of Russia, who has been III for
some time past, has become worse
At Cakes. n. D., Andrew Beaver is minus a
Uranium, it having been blown off By the ac-
cldental discharge OF gun.
Washington republicans elected an unin-
structed delegation 10 the nau' nal convention
Harrison's administration was endorsed.
Cope J. snaop. chief commission clerk for the
Northern Pacific Railroad company. is under
arrest at ST. Paul charged with embezz,enent.
George Frahn. German farmer. at Dupning
near Chicago. shot his wife and then committed
suicide. FranD was killed Instantly. bus the
woman viii probably recover.
Alex Mckenzie OF North Dakota was in Wash
lngton Friday night AID had long conference
with prominent North Dakota politicians in that
city.
New York brewers and their workingmen have
come TO $ n agreement. n this agreement II is
stipulated that the latter saa.l haze all the beer
theywisn.
Tommy While, the fearherweleht and Ike
Weir, The Belfast Spider" VIII fight q ren-
on Tuesday evening.
The New York chamber OF commerce rendered
banquet to Whitelaw Reid last night. Ad-
dresses we're made by Chauncey Depew. Gen.
Horace Porter and others.
Secretary Lander and Oscar viii OF the state
board Of agriculture tf North Dakota will con-
suit railroad officials with view to securing re-
ductd rates for visitors to the state lalr.
Il haven't seen anything since the retirement
of Mr.. Blaine that leads me TO believe that there
will be erious opposition TO President Harr1-
sons denomination" says Murat Halstead
Today services will be held for the frst time
in The chapel Of the Perpetual Alteration at Mil
waukee. This magnificent church eaitice has
just been constr ucted for the sisters OF Notre
Dame.
dispatch from Inkster, N. D.. SAYS the recent
sale M school 1aDdi III INT
1880 acres-S152 900. OF this s3O0 900 was paid in
cash. The prices averaged sz0S0 per cent,
ranging from $40 to $40 an acre.
The attorneys OF Alice Mitchell. who is CON
fined in jail at Memphis, charged with the muir
der OF Freda WaId, are In Pennsylvania TO see II
insanity exists among the relati7es OF Miss
Mitchell.
Frank J. Mead the veteran Minnesota Jour-
nalist. has been engaged BY Manager Hall as one
OF the co respondents OF the Press >e"s Associ-
alton. Mr.. Mead retains his other newspaper
COM ections in the Northwest.
captain Aird, the retired commodore OF the
Allan line OF steamships, after having crossed
the atlantic IN SAFETY more than 1ive hundred
stream near COWansv1lle. Que.
In accord with the notice given by the Fedora
tlon OF Master Cotton spinners OF England. the
majority Of the cotton mills in the Re ieration
were stopped Saturday. throwing many thou
sands OF people out OF employmenG
Samuel Jackson, the NEST famous pyTotech-
mist or the country. and the inventor Of the
present torn form OF railroad danger gnais. lied Of
day night. He was seventy years old.
Warren Watkins. q farmer living near Hub
bard. MINI i, has a pig with an almost human
plgle, It's prob Sc s is very much ike toat Of
an elephant. Hundreds OF persons have Viewed
the freak.
Following is the crop condition for North Da-
10 western counties; ground in bad condition
for present work: seeulng will generally resume
IN ten days If fair, Warm weather continues,
temperature and rainfall below normal.
P. ". Wildt has returned from the Sisseton
reservation and reports as false the stories about
the wild rush for land on the day OF the opening.
Ne SAYS anyone can enter claim In three
months and secure good piece OF land. The
reserve Will not be settled for several years to
come.
An interesting painting has been discovered
family. Experts say that the picture. which is
the head Of Christ Is worth S16,coO This paint
ing Is attributed 10 Raphael The picture is an
which the colors blend. expert say it shows a
mastery hand.
bob Hilliard, the actor. while rebearsing the
play Of Across toe Potomac in troc OF IS theatre.
in the face with lot Of powder He will prIb.
ably be slightly dis, gureo for lie but he is not
PROBABLY appear Monday night.
Adrices received from ST. Petersburg state that
the council OF the empire has adopt. d series OF
drastic measures which indicate that prep,la-
lions are being made for war. A plan Las been
approved by which ali private railways and
steam ers Will be turned over to toe government
In the event OF mobilization OF the forces being
ordered.
A bullet crashed through the window OF the
sleeper SC. petersburg on the westbound North
western train two niles west of Geneva, ILL.,,
saturday evening. w. F. Hale. q travelling man
Of Omaha. was washing his hands. and the mis-
stle just missed his head. His face was cut by
flying glass A. L. Br1tton OF st. Paul was also
biz by the glass. The bullet imbedded irself in
the WOODWORK an inch above another mans
head.
NI,Kenzie II Dead.
TORONTO, Ont. April 17.-Hon. Alex
Mckenzie died at 1910 O'Clock this
morning. He was born in Perthshire,
Scotland, in 1922. and came to Canada
10 1912 In business he WAS builder
and then publisher of q newspaper. In
politics he was liberal. He first
entered the parliament in 1851, when he
was elected to ths united