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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
Banquet to United States Naval
Officers In Innllan.

OMcers In London.
London, May 25.-The banquet ten
dcred to Admiral Erbon, Capt. Mahan
and the officers of the United States
cruiser Chicago by officers of the English
navy and army and distinguished citi-
zens of Great Britain was held last night
iii st. James hail. The principal table
was placed upon a platform under the
organ loft, from which hung immense
English and American flags. Intertwined
Union jacks and stars and stripes were
placed in many parts of the hall. A broad
hand inscribed Blood Is Thicker Than
Water was suspended from the gallery
opposite the organ loft. Two British
naval officers escorted each officer of the
Chicago to his allotted seat. The officers
were uniforms. The other guests were
i'll evening dress, but most of them wore
order and sashes. Chaplain Sherman
pronounced grace, both before and after
the banquet. Lord George Hamilton Of
fered a toast to the queen and Presi-
dent Cleveland. He said that Queen Vic
toria and President Cleveland were at the
head of the two great English-speaking
nationalities of the worldly, the heads of
governments whose authority was exer-
cised over large portion of the globe
and still larger proportion of the human
race paid them honor and respect. Many
words of friendship We're spoken during
the evening.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

From the Nntiou's Capital.
Representative Simpson Is still in a
critical condition.
The United States proposes to secure
cOaling station ut Samoa before With
drawing from the tripartite agreement.
Representative Bryan proposes a
new plan for the completion OF the
Nicaragua canal.
Representative Breckinridge has filed
the bond at Washington in his appeal
in the suit OF Miss Pollard.
The legislative, executive and Judi
cial appropriation bill is reported. 1t
carries $21. .S23. or S7G6, 100 less
than last years bill.
The United States supreme court de-
MES the appeal Of Mckanc. the New
York Democratic boss now in state
prison.
The A. A. is lobbying in Washing
ton against appropriations for Catholic
Indian schools, threatening those who
vote for them With slaughter ut the
polls.
Senator Walsh has introduced bill
in congress making it a crime, punish
able by Imprisonment from one to
twenty years, to retard or obstruct the
passage of any train carrying the
United States mail.
Supervisor of Indian Schools Moss
has sent to the bureau of Indian affairs
a denial of the statement that Apache
Kid" the noted outlaw. was an edu-
Gated Indian, which false report had
been used as an argument against edu-
eating the red men.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
SATURDAYS, May 1O.


A large colony Of Nebraska farmers
will locate near Cando,
Ninot has floated its $4,000 Of water
works bonds.
Sergeant Thompson. Of Fargo. Is to
he appointed regimcntal sergeant major
in the state militia.
Bismarck has Il crazy man who
threatens to destroy the world unless
somebody loans him $9,OO0,O0O quick
The stock company ut Devils Lake is
digging Il coal NINE One shaft is down
Is feet all the way through Il slate
foundation.
Grand Forks is agitating the question
of paving its streets.
jamestown will not send Il team to
the tirenen's tournament.
Tire North Dakota National Guard
will so into camp at jamestown on
June % and break camp on July 5.
The Fourth will be governors day.
\ heavy rain visited Glendale and
was much needed. The grain was
showing serious effects Of he late dry
hot weather. Wheat is all seeded and
will fall 40 per cent below last seasons
acreage.
The Hillsboro hospital will operate
an insurance department. 1t is pro-
posed to insure farm labocers and for
Il regular monthly premlu IN to be paid
by the farmers, take care of the men
when they are sick.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
From Foreign Shores.

Political riots occur in Newfound-
land.
A row in the miners international
conference at Berlin was ended by the
resignation of the English chairman
and the election of a Frenchman.
The court of cessation has pro-
nounced null and void ukase rein
stating ex-King Milan and ex-Queen
Natalie's regal rights.
Nationalist and Orangemen came
into collision near Portadown, Ireland.
during funeral, and two Of the former
We're shot. Many arrests We're made.
The harboring of Brazilian insur-
gents on board Portuguese men-of- war
leads to 4 very serious difficulty be-
tween Brazil and Portugal.
The Associated Press understands
that the United States ambassador,
Thomas A. Bayard, has intimated to
the British government the desire of
the United States to withdraw from
the Berlin agreement, provided all
the rights of United States citizens in
Samoa are safesuarded.
About 5000 cab drivers of London
went out on strike against the ex-
orbitant charges for cab hire insisted
upon by many owners Of the cabs,
The public is suffering but little in con-
sequence. The cab drivers during the
day marched in procession to HYDE
Park.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

.
Malcomb Tibbltts died Mt Usage, Ia,
from eating poisonous plants that he
thought were artichokes.. William lib
bits also ate some, but will probably
recover.
A passenger train on the Lehigh Vol.
ley road was wrecked ut Oswcgo, N. T.,
by a broken rail. Willie Mahan. a:ied
II years, was killed and eight orr h
passengers We're seriously injured. III
A cyclone in Denver Ill.,, destroyedsa
number of farm buildings, fences and
fields of grain One hundred chickens
had their heads cut off as smooth as il
by knife. e ~
Jacob Schroeder, a prom'ileht con
tractor of Akron, Ohio, got up in his
sleep and made his way out of the WIN.
dow to the roof. He walked OF the
roof, falling and breaking his neck. lie
was found in the morning dead.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Unfortunate Events.

1,Smavck Wise was struck by train
and Killed ut Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Three colored men were suffocated
in Il cesspool at Martinsburg, w. Va.
Immense damage was done in the vi
cinity Of Dover, Ind, by cloudburst.
-Four Harvard students are drowned
in Boston harbor.
Over a hundred dwelling houses in
Boston are burned, leaving 500 people
without homes.
IocLard Sturm was accidently shot
vile, Illinois.
Tie Cottage, summer resort lie tel
near st. Louis, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is $4,000.
Lightning at Flint, Mich, set fire to
schco house, causing $1,000 damage,
and shocking some of the pupils.
The Owenslllrg tunnel, on the Monon
road caved in. OZama Jackson and ].
A. Trusty were killed
Three railway employees were injured
in freight wreck on the Big Four near
Springfield, Ohio.
Henry Davis, II years old, was
drowned while swimming in the
Wabash River at Vincennes, Indiana.
John Mooney and Albert Swansberg,
farmers. were drowned in the food at
Mindon, Benton County, MIMI
-Four gas wells near Selma, Ind, are
ablaze, having been set On fire by light
ming.
Twelve persons were poisoned at To-
hv
Three may not recover.
Terrible floods sweep down the Black
and Chippewa rivers in Wisconsin, car
rying dams, factories and bridges,
causing loss Of millions Of dollars
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
miscellaneous Items.

Robert H. Coleman has sold his
pennsylvania iron interests to the
Lackawana company for $3,OOO,OOO.
DR.. e. A. Stone has resigned as pas-
tor Of the Baptist church at Cham.
paign, Iii.
The Illinois board of worlds fair
commissioners is finishing up it's bust
ness at Springfield.
The courts at Keokuk. Iowa. ordered
the foreclosure Of a $25O,OOO mortgage
on the plant of the Fort Madison
Water and Light company.
Three members Of the First German
Evangelical st. Emanuel church of
Rockford, ILL.,, foreclosed mortgages on
the church property and it will be sold.
Senator Teller Of Colorado has writ
ten letter in which he characterizes
the arrest Of Coxey, Browne and Jones
a farce.
Congressman Hayes was renomi-
mated on the first ballot by the Demo-
cratic convention of the Second Iowa
district.
Miss Emma Moody. daughter of the
evangelist, was married at East North
field, Mass, to Arthur P. Fit Of Chica.
60.
A plot is said to have been discovered
in Chicago to seize Ireland, the under
mining and blowing up of Gibraltar
being Il feature Of the programme.
Judge Jenkins overrules the demurrer
and plea Of the Northern Pacific to
the bill of trust company to forcclose
q mortgage for $30,O0O,OO0
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Indian Afn..j.

Washington, May 25.--Thc senate com
mittee OIL milan affairs authorized a fa-
vorable report on The bill providing for
the opening of the Untah and Uncom-
pagre Indian reservations in Utah. The
bill provides for the allotment of a portion
of the land OF the reservations iii several
ty to the Indians, and the opening of that
remaining to settlement. The committee
also ordered favorably reported an amend
ment to the Indian appropriation bill in
troduccd by Senator Pettigrew for the
ratification of the treaty with the Yank-
ton Sioux Indians.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

WI shington, May a5.-Thc c,,,,.
al investigation into frauds ard . .;ss'
lrritles in naval armcr plate began ,a,ias
with open doors. REPRESENTATIVE Dy n"hs
stated thar his information conn ', sl
docun ents sent to tn. departments f ls"'u
othcial papers and trcln the nr,;.,ona .a
MIR. Dnnphy's Statement drt,;,nii I"p. y.
G, rly discovery of the Irregularities a ,us
the investigation made by ths nav. a la
partnent which led to the tininr of " w.
Carnegie company. MIR. DUMMY SUI. luz
armor plates had been tested at ,,o 'I Iu
dion Head proving grounds, and hal ,,n,r
found defective. 1t had then Iprn ,r.a .u
ell SD as 10 Crcrcon!e the defects
WAS this treatment in secre.. Z" aS1,,,
Chairman Cummings. "eu
Mr.. na.sphy answ cred in the altman
tive. He said that one plate WAS ,,:,l.,,
out as sample OF Il large num-. ~
plates, amounting to :;lS tons W,oa
this secret retrcatment had been ,r,,n Is
served to pass the sample plate au,l t,at
in turn passed the entire ;;lS fan: oe
armor. VI
Mr.. Dunrhy then spoke of blow l,olos
in the arlnor of the monitor Terror NJ
perts had gone to the navy yard and 40.
tro!ly had located two blow holes wt;cb
had been filed up to deceive the govern.
ment. Similar blow holes existed in Tho
armor CT u2any other ships, bur it WITS i'm.
possible for the experts to locate tie do.
fects, rs tile ships wi.rc abroad at ,hrir
stations. Recent charges covered not
only ar::;or plates but the bolts and
screws securing the plates. Iii cour),.
sion Mr.. Dln!,hy said:
My information is that the defective
plates will be- found on the Oregon. the
Macllias, The Cas;ine, the ,1onaAuock, tho
Cincinnati, the Tccror, lie New York and
the Monterey, aud that the exact position
Of the plates on each CT these vessels
can be located" He added that thu do.
fcctive plates located by the government
experts had been estimated to be worth
100000 to $1,GO0,0OO.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

There is an exceedingly able woman
in Boston who can report a speech de.
ivered rapidly in German, she first
translatng the speech into English and
then recording it in stenographic char
acters. Such celebrity of thought is
only approached by the tradition re.
specting 40 sutl, who is said to have
thought in Hungarian, translated into
Latin and rctranslated and uttered at
rapid rate the choicest English, born
Of a study Of the Bible and Shake
speare.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Sins and Sinners,

Z. A. Sage, San francisco grocer,
committed suicide by hanging.
John Verholks. charged with bur-
glary. escaped from Jail ut Grand Ha.
ven, Mich.
Charles Peterson killed Ernest Don.
aldson at Keb. Iowa, because of his re.
lations with Mrs. Peterson.
David Smith. colored barber of
Bloomington. ILL.,, committed suicide by
jumping in front of train.
Daisy Vaughn. 1O-year old Anna,
ILL, girl. took poison because her moth
er refused to let her have her own way.
j. S. Monroe. a dry goods merchant
at Sullivan, ILL.,, shot himself and will
probably die.
Eugene Brady stabbed his mother to
death at Albany, \. Y. in Il tit of tenn
porary insanity.
The powder house at the Grant Goa,
mines, near Terre Haute, Ind, was
blown up by strikers.
Frank Rcnadum will be tried for
murder ut Winchester, Ind. Mike Cor
man will be tried at Muncie, where
both pleaded not guilty.
A man named Morrison, claiming to
be in command of an army of wealers,
is in Jail at Nincennes, Ind, for drunk
enneSS.
Ada Culver, sixteen years old. of
Canton, ILL.,. shot and fatally wounded
herself at Bellefontaine, Ohio, the re-
suit of petty quarrel.
MIN Young. colored, was lynched in
Ocala, Fla, yesterday for assaulting
Lizzie WeemS, 4 siXteen-year-old white
girl.
Miss Lucy Seton committed suicide
near Vandalia. ILL.,, by taking poison.
She was to have been married in q
month.
John Bennon died near Wesley, Tex,
from eating poisoned food. and his
wife is under arrest charged With the
crime.
Mrs. Pahen. widow. forty-one years
old, committed suicide by hanging at
st. Louis. She had been an invalid for
fifteen years.
John Dyall shot and killed his
nephew, William NIcEachem, and
wounded Andrew McEachem at Bax-
ley, Ga.
A man named Azoff tried to rob the
stati'n ascnt at I'oulder, Col. Detec-
tive Harris, who tried to arrest the
man, was fatally shot by him.
john APPEL, of Woods County, Ky,
won a tin box and few scraps of pa
per and lost $1,000 in good money in a
game of cards with two strangers.
The Rev. DR.. w. H. Coleman, pre-
siding elder of the African NJ. E.
churches Of Ohio, found a dynamite
bomb under his residence at Dayton,
Ohio.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Friday, May rs.

Williston City has been incorporated.
Hillsboro is to have Il creamery as
ISOLATION.
A young German was held UP and
robbed by Il trio Of Fargo boys and re-
lieved of watch and ST. in cash.
Prof. Clemmcr of Grand Forks will
take charge OF the Dickinson schools.
Northern Pacific men will hold their
annual picnic at Valley City on June
23
The principal Of the Wilder school
in Grand Forks had quite an expert
ence the other day with Il small boy
who was flourishing big and wicked
revolver altogether too freely. The jul
venile was obdurate. but finally sur
rendered before any blood was shed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

Senator Davis has been appointed a
member of the Committee on census.
Prince Bismarck would rather have
sure cure for rheumatism than all
the titles in Europe.
John Sample died at Kirkwood, Ill,
aged seventy-one years. He was quite
Il traveller, having encrcled the globe
twice.
The Rev. James p. Long, for fifty
years Methodist preacher. died at
Sioux Falls, S. D., aged eighty-one
years.
Judge Thomas S. Wilson of Dubuque,
Iowa, is dead. aged eighty-one years.
George Gould and family have gone
to Europe.
The old home of Benedict Arnold in
New Haven, Conn.,. has just been sold
for the use of Il lumber firm. Relice
from it will be taken by the New Ha-
ven Colony and Historical society.
The Rev. Dennis Hird, minister of
the Church of England, who was COM
PEELED to leave the church because he
is a Social Democrat, has been given
a living by Lady Somerset.
1t is reported that some old-fash-
toned English people who lave met
Rudyard kipling durins his present
visit to England are panied at what
they consider evidences Of American
ization in his manners.
Congressman John Dalzell and Will
lam A. Stone have been renominated
without opposition by the conventions
of the Twenty-second and Twenty
third Pennsylvania districts, respect
lively.
Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow Of the
eX-president, has arrived at st. Louis
from the San Francisco midwinter fair.
While here she will visit her BIRTH
place, White Haven, ten miles south OF
the city, and other points of personal
interest to her.
Col. John Powell, a justice of the
peace in Ocoquam, Prince William
county. Va, mounted his horse without
assistance on his recent ninety-first
birthday and rode over to his former
home in Fairfax county, where he
| held a reception.
James Parkinson Taylor. lord high
sheriff of London, died at San Antonio,
Tex, of paralysis Of the brain. He
was en- route to California. when, last
! Wednesday, illness compelled him to
stop there. Travelling with him was
Lieut. Mortimer Frye, of the Seventh
dragons.
Supervisor of Indian Schools Moss
denies the statement that the apache
Kid" the noted outlaw. was an edu-
Gated Indian, which had been used as
an argument against educating the red
men. While at San Carlos Supt. Moss
inquired about this and learned that
the outlaw never was in school a day.
He was a government scout, and in
that position learned to speak English.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Thur.dny, May "a.

Stutsman county, and several horses
have been killed.
The wheat supply in The state Is grow
ing smaller-mi!lcts are buying ZIP rs
much rs possible.
jamestown intends to make all dog
owners pay a license. and il any dog
is found ut large without check, woe
be unto him.
Three murder cases are on court
dockets in various paris oc the state
for trial, one ut Fargo. one ut Devils
Lake and one ut TOwncr.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

Farm work is in gratifying state
of forwardness throughout the North.
west. The crops are nearly all planted
and those that are aboye ground are
showing good progress There is every
prospect for an abundant yield Of all
the cereal products, while root crops
were never in better condition. There
is little fruit raised in this section, but
the little there is looks well and prom
Uses good yield.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

While the regular army service does
not seem to be very popular in Great
Britain just now, the volunteer serv-
ice, corresponding in general lines to
our national guard, seems to be es-
pecially so. The returns for the last
year show the number of enrollments
to have been greater than in any year
with one exception since the organiza-
ton Of the force. There were 227, 741
enrollments, of which 219,111 are re-
turned as efllcients. This number Of
eficients has only been exceeded three
times.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

The roar Of the lion can be heard
farther than the sound of any living
creature. Next comes the hyena, then
the screech owl, the panther and the
jackal in succession. The donkey can
be heard fifty times farther than the
horse, and the cat ten times farther
than the. dog. Strange the quiet and
timid hare, when she cries in fear, can
be heard farther of than either dog
or cat,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

New York, May 25.-The Herald's dis.
patch from Paris says: M. Bourgeois has
declined to accept the responsibility Of
forming ministry. and no one else has
thus far been selected for the task. 1t
will not be astonishing, however, il NJ,
Boulanger, the present minister Of colo.
MES, should play an important role in the
next ministerial combination.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
May Use Force.

Pomeroy, Ohio, May 25.-The miners
held secret meeting to-day and re-
solved to continue the strike until
general settlement is affected. They
further resolved to compel the three or
four mines now in operation to cease
work at once, using force if necessary.
The operators are willing to make con-
cessions to start the works.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

Arrangements are again heiny made
to bring the coal from the Plenty coal
mines In Mercer county to Bismarck
by river.
Mrs Bartholomew has secured the
conviction of II. T.. Wogan, II lay
preacher and educator at Woglnsport,
for cruelty tn animals.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Thousands Slain.

New York, May 25.-The Hcrald's La
!-;beitad dispatch says: There has been
very fierce fighting here since May IS
between the national troops and the
rebels. A series of desperate battles
have beer fought with sc~ere losses on
both sides. More than 5000 troops havs
been killed, and many wounded.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Tuesday, May %.

United States court is on at Fargo.
Valley City is to have u handsome
new school house.
500 gallons minute.
jamestown will not send a team to
the firemen's tournament.
Prof. Stockwell has been reelected
superintendent of the Grafton schools.
\ Devils Lake stock company is dig
ging for coal, and have gone down
fifteen feet.
G. II. Clelnmer of Grand Forks has
been elected superintendent Of the
Dickinson schools.
John NJ. Cochrane has been retained
to defend Spence of Devils Lake, who
shot and killed farmer named McIn-
tyre.
The old Fort Seward grounds on the
bluff at jamestown have been decided
upon as the state militia encampment
grounds.
June II, the date for the firemen's
tournament is drawing near and but
few companies of the state have yet
done anything in the way Of prepara-
ton.
Sam Smith, the colored man who
murdered Ole Peterson at Towner, was
previous to coming to MinOt an army
private stationed at Fort Buford, be-
ing discharged after fourteen years Of
honorable service. He states rnar ne
killed Peterson in self-defensc. Charles
Gregory, the well known Minot attor-
ney, has been engaged to defend him.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Freddie Johnson.s Adxcrtu-.

Sioux Falls, S. D., May 25.-Freddie
johnson, six years old, was run over by
an electric car at East Sioux Falls last
night. He was playing on the car and
tried to get off while it was in motion.
The flesh and muscles We're stripped from
tie leg bone, and his right foot had to
be amputated.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Between the strikes of trainmen and

Between the strikes of rainmen and
coal miners the railroads are having a
pt ok Of trouble. The supply Ct coal on
nearly all the lines has run low, and
has to be used with the greatest eccn-
Omy. If the coal strike continues much
by strikes Of their own men will. be
compelled to suspend opera tions for
want of fuel.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

The strongest timber known is the
"Bilian'' or Borneo ironwood. whose
breaking strain is one and tifty-two
hundredths times greater than that OF
English oak. By long exposure it be
comes Of ebony blackness and i'm
mensely hard.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

Mark Twain declares that all mod
ern Jokes were derived from thirty-fiye
original jokes which had their genesis
in the days of Socrates. 1t has been
noticed of late that Mark Twain's jokes
have had a frayed appearance and a
musty flavor, and his explanation OF
their origin will have to be accepted as
the true one.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

With the biggest gas well in the
world spouting cheap fuel at the rate
Of 5O,OOO,OOO feet day, Fostoria. Ohio,
will soon be able to open new manufac-
turing establishments regardless of the
bloody work of the tariff butchers at
Washington.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31
Queen Vic. Anntxer...,,

London, May 25.-The birthday of
Queen Victoria, which occurred yesterday
(her majesty was born May "a, 1870,
was observed throughout England, al
though the official. celebration of the
event will not take place until Saturday
ntx 1t, according to custom.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

The patent on flying machines has
expired by limitation, and hereafter
each citizen will have the privilege of
making his own flying machines in his
own way. The intelligence will be
hailed with delight by the thousands of
poor people who desire to navigate the
air, but were deprived of tho privilege
owing to the extortionate demands of
the flying machine lnonopoiists.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-31

Over a million and quarter of dol
lars have been realized from the sale
of Moody and Sankey's hymn books.
Every dollar of this amount, to the
credit of the evaugelists be it said,
has been expended in religious and
charitable work.