Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-02-08
miscellaneous Items.


Montana courts intiict severe pun
ishnent upon highwaymen.
Iowa's supreme court aftirms a former
anti-prohibition decision.
The right of the city of Peoria, Ill,
to annex "No Mans Land" is denied
by Judge Wead.
Cheyenne Indians in the western part
of Indian Territory are falling victims
to the grippe.
Ohio capitalists are considering the
feasibility of building an electric line
south from Norfolk to- FAIRFIELD.
The directors and officers of the Pitts
burg & Lake Erie railroad We're re-
elected at Pittsburg.
One hundred Kansas editors attended
the meeting Of the state association at
Hutchinson.
National board of trade men in ses>
sion at Washington want foreign skilled
labor admitted and paupers barred out.
A woman near Louisville, KY, I'M
earthed $1,000 in bogus coin while dig
ging in her garden.
w. III. Talbot. st. Louis printer,
was found dead at Garland, Mo. He is
thought to have been poisoned.
The old soldiers of Eastern Nebraska
will hold reunion at Tecumseh, Neb.,
during the latter part Of August.
Small pox at Manhattan, Will county,
board of health.
Timber thieves operate extensively
on government lands in Colorado and
Oklahoma.
Street car strikers at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, engage in riot, and for a time
rule the town.
The Philadelphia Optical and Watch
Company has failed, with liabilities of
$25O,O00.
More than 10000 persons are out of
work and destitute in the city Of New
York.
More than 600 conversions is the re.
suit Of a revival of the Methodists now
being held at Galesburg, Ill.
Gov. Rich will investigate frauds in
connection with the canvass Of the sal
aries amendment to the Michigan CON
stituton.
Thirteen schools in Lyon county,
Kan, will be obliged to close on &C.
count Of the Santa Fe road failing to
pay it's tax assessment of $4,000.
A Baltimore packer is perfecting ar.
engagements to erect in Omaha, Neb.,
one of the largest vegetable and chick.
en- canning factories in the West.
John G. Haddock, Plymouth, Pa,
mine owner, sued the Lackawanna
Company for $4,000 alleged over.
charges for freight.
Kat Johnson has been divorced from
George Johnson at Scottsburg, Ind, be
cause she would not take in washing to
support him.
J. Fl, Flick, Of Dixon, ILL.,, was award
ed the contract for building the San
Antonio & Gulf Shore Railroad, from
San Antonio to Galveston.
The midwinter fair at San Francisco
is said to present many features, with
out being copies, Of the great Chicago
exposition. $751; T...
Miss Cornelia Collins has been sus
pended by the Presbyterian church al
Quincy, ILL.,, for accusing her pastor
falsely. 4.. .
T. r. Griffith of Somerset, Ky.
claims $500 reward for giving informa
ton leading to embezzler Phil Sheig'!
! capture.
/ Free Masons at Monmouth, ILL.,, viii
not participate in the laying of tn,
courthouse corner stone because of oh
| jections.
Physicians who attended the victim.
of the Wann, ILL.,, disaster, have suet
the county Of Madison to recover To-
services.
Springfield, Ohio. Methodists are spill
over Pastor Bartels accusing Mis-
Warner Of irregular dealing witt
church funds.
The Bank of Brescia at Brescla, italy
has found it impossible to meet it's oh
legations as they fall due and has mp
piled for moratorium.
| The Marietta. Ohio. Chair compan.
has resumed operations. giving employ
ment to 600 men. The employees are Il
work ten hours for eight hours pay. 4
1t is reported that the gold ore to tn,
value Of $12S, 600 has been taken from
the Little Johnnie mine at Leadville
Col, in one day. This beats all prev
l0un Ieodvllle recOrt1S We