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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
HIS LAST KICK.

James DOoley. Hanged, Complaina of
the Laws Violation.
Fort Madison, Iowa, Oct. 21.-James
Docley stepped upon the scaffold in
the east corridor of the penitentiary
cell room. He said: You have vio-
lated the law. The law allows but
seventeen persons to witness an exc
cution and there are twenty-five pres
ent now and more coming. A poor
man can violate the law and suffer the
penalty. A rich man can do the same
and he goes free. l hope God will for
give your sins as know mine are.
The drop was about seven feet.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Thursday, Oct. IS.

The Trail county seat commissioners
have occupied the $4,000 court house
donated by Hillsboro and thus ends the
Trail county seat fight.
The Kent case at Mandan is post
poned. Attorney Nye and another Min
neapolis lawyer being there for the
prosecution.
Three blind pigs at Lisbon were pull
ed by the sheriff last week and con-
siderable stuff" with discriminating la
bells secured.
An appeal has been filed against the
decision of the Pembina county COM
missioners ordering a vote on the
county seat removal at the coming cleo
ton.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Tuesday Oct. 10.

The new Methodist church Mt Fargo
will have seating capacity Of 700.
The new Odd Follows building Mt Far
80 will be dedicated Thanksgiving.
The Valley City fair is reported as a
signal success.
The Benson county commissioners
have divided up the county printing
giving all the home papers show.
Governor Kinter. receiver of the
I-loyd's bank at La1Ioure. will pay q
dividend Of 10 per cent Monday.
The $40 and the Milwaukee road
have filed an acceptance of the railroad
commissioners coal rates. The G. ".
and N. p. We're heard on Friday at
Bismarck and given until Wednesday
to file an answer to the commissioners
statement.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
NEWS BOILED DOWN,
Items Of General Interest Placed i'm
Few Lines.

Items of General Interest Placed I'm
81 Few Lines.
Prime Minister Sagasta has offered
the presidency of the Spanish senate
to Montero Rios. who has accepted.
Pere Ivan, otherwise known as
Holy John of Cronstadt." who is
going to Livadia to pray for the car
is a miracle worker.
An express package containing So.
600 in gold was opened somewhere
between Cheyenne and Ogden on the
Union Pacific road.
The Layton Park Furniture com
pany's factory. located outside the city
limits of Milwaukee. burned last night
Loss. $4,000. No insurance.
In st. Louis Richard Lehn, of Ger.
man parentage and a printer by trade
shot and killed his wife and unborn
babe. He was taken into custody.
AS a result of primaries held yester.
day in st. Louis Fred +. Esnens,.hied
was declared the Democratic congress.
trict. VIC
The physicians have prepared the
czaf'na Tor tile worst. The cars con
se'ous days are numbered. He wants
10 witness the marriage of the care
witch. ""'e
George w. Champln. . we'll known
broker of Chicago died at Hot Springs
ARK. last night Mr.. lhamDlin suf.
Tered severe stroke of puralysis last
spring and has never rallied.
AZ shell. Ait. II daughter of Sidney
Hudson was bitten by dog five weeks
ago last Friday. She was taken sicl,
ana died Thursday night after on.
"' ,r' 1he sSonics Of hydrophobia.
Inc PERUVIAN government announces
me recapturr Of Payta aud the defeat
y. .ne rebel forces advancing on
lr"lillo. Tho government claims that
,"' repeIs are now dispersed into small
bands. '''-A''''
(: AZ Holly Springs. Miss. Gjrar1
thateau desperate and horse thief
Jumped from the train aud cs.aped.
lie was in charge Of Sheriff John.
son OF Christian county. ILL.,. to answer
charges OF horse stealing.
Inc American schooner Sadie has ar
rived at Westminster. B. c.. to Jond
lumber az Brunette mills for San Fran
cisco. This is the first cargo of Inn
DER shipped from British Columbia to
American coast points.
Skinny Ring. a we'll known young
man III Anderson. Ind. entered Sam
hohSs laundry ana shot him five
times. Ring then walked out OF the
laundry and has not yet been cap.
tured. The Chinaman. who is fatally
wounded. says Ring was drunk.
chief OF Detectives Miller OF phila-
delpIllt arrested ". w. King Of Way.
cross. Ga. and a. l.. Fulton OF Savon.
nan. King acknowledged that he has
be"l' making money by inducing 400.
pie from this section TO yisi, Now
York and buy green goods. II. had
'aRen Fulton TO New York "a Ills last
victim.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
ASK THEIR REMOVAL.
Petitions for the SuspcnsiOn Of Coun
ty SupervlsOrs MT Sioux City.

Petitions for the Suspension of Coun-
ty Supervisors Mt Sioux City.
Sioux City. Iowa. Oct. 21.-The citi-
zens and taxpayers committee in dis
trict court to-day served notice that
they will file petitions for the removal
from office of Supervisors Strange and
Hunting. and possibly of Epps. In
case they are removed the court will
appoint new men to take their places
till after election to fill the vacancies.
The Farmers Loan and Trust COM
pany. which holds 100000 of county
warrants. has begun suit to collect
$4,000 of them. The persons to whom
they We're issued are also made de-
PENDANTS. and the company says it will
endeavor to secure judgments against
any of them whose warrants are de-
clared by the court to he Illegal
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
D1sBANDING MILITIA.
A Yankton Company Found Want
Ing in Several Rcspects.

- sSAs sAAOAA company rOuhO want.
Ing in Several Respects.
Yankton, S. D., Oct. 21.-Gov. Shell
don is here trying to straighten out
the affairs of Company G, of the state
militia. Some time ago the governor
ordered the company disbanded and
new company organized. the causes
being sufficient. Since then protests
have been sent to the governor asking
him to rescind this order till after
election. for political reasons. The
captain of Company c preferred
charges against Maj. Coxhead. alleg-
ing misrepresentation Of funds. A
committee was sent here to investi-
gate, and their decision has not vet
been made. However, soon after the
Investigating committee returned
home, the captain of Company C was
ordered to turn over the company's
effects to Mai. Coxhead and disband
the company. Gov. Sheldon said to-
day that this company would surely be
disbanded for the good of the service.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Wednesdax. Oct. IL.

Colonel Iickert the bonanza farmer
of Steele County. has gone to New York
to see his new granddaughter.
L. Lyon White, an old time Fargoite,
now a railroad magnate of Jellico,
Tenn, is reported in Grand Forks.
Judge Mcconnell holds court in Hills.
boro Nov. to issue naturalization pa.
pers.
The Lingerwood Mill company's -four.
ing mill was completely destroyed by
fire. The mill was full of wheat and
flour. The loss is $4,000 and is par
TALLY covered by insurance.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Friday, Oct. 10.

The Northern Pacific road has in
structcd it's employees against taking
any active part in politics.
D. H. Macarthur was to-day appointed
postmaster at Bottineau, Bottineau
county. vice G. S. McCandlesfi resigned.
The house and barn on Charles
Harris farm in Kidder county was
destroyed by fire. Their s months old
child was burned
Editor Thomas NJ. Hancock of the
Edgeley Mail and Miss Hattie E.
French were recently married at Can
ova. S. ID. They will reside at Edgeley
after Nov. 1.
Pastor Mcintosh of the Forest River
Presbyterian church, is going to Edin-
burg, Scotland, to get some new ideas
an preaching.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Personal Mention.


Prof Clarke, who fills the chair of
botany in the University of Chicago,
is not yet twenty-one years old.
Andrew Carnegie has opened public
library in the town Of Jedburg, county
Of Roxburg; Scotland, and has given
$4,000 for it endowment
Intimate friends of Mr.. Gladstone
say that the grand old mans restored
vigor may justify his temperance in
politics.
Frof. Nathaniel Pringeheir, the dis
He was born at Wziesko, Silesia, Nov.
80, 1923.
Lady Somerset and Miss Frances
Willard are at Cincinnati attending
the annual convention of the Ohio w.
G. L. U.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont has been
elected president of new chapter Of
the Daughters Of the American Revo-
luton, which has been formed in Los
Angeles. Cal.
Mrs. Catherine Neale, widow of the
late William II. Neale, and aunt Of
Gen. Stonewal Jackson, died last
night at her home in Parkersburg, w.
Va, aged seventy-eight.
Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation
Army, arrived at Montreal. and will
remain for several days. He will pro-
coed from there to Ottawa and then
go to New York.
Mr.. Won Heggenmuller. the new
Austrian minister to this country.
will bring a bride to Washington when
he arrives next month. She belongs
to the Polish nobility, and the mar
event at Vienna during his recent visit
there.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
saturday, Oct. 20.

Hon. ID. G.. Tufts has three children
down with fever.
Harry Hun:erford sent 10 the pen for
stealing horses has escaped.
The Grafton w. c. r. IT,. ladies' are
raising funds to send ipebriatcs to the
Kelley Institutes.
Cavalier county will hold a special
election Not. II. TO vol" $4,000 in
bonds for the erection Of u court house,
Spottcr Wright. who was badly
smashed up by unknown parties in Far
80 has become dis outraged and quit the
tc WI.
Hon. Bailey Fuller of jamestown
raised 1.5Oo bushels Of potatoes from
six acres. and Melted $3.50 clear nrofit
from the crop.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
A ROBBERY in TEXAS
-FOUR MEN lItsI.D sl,P IA TEXAS pa.
CIFIC TRAIN.
They Secure = SUM sstlmatea n,
From $500 to 45.'MO. but Are In.
able to Open = safe In Which Their.
Was 43O, 900.

~ H
Dallas, Tex, Oct. 21.--A specia, =,
the Dallas News from Weatherfom,
says A report has reached here thar
the wesr-bound passenger train on tho
Texas Pacific railway which left hero
this morning was held up and robbed
by four men near Gordon. The News,
correspondent learned from Mr.. J. R
Young of Gordon, who came in on tho
Mest-b0und train, that at q point hp.
about two miles this side of Gordon
four men, unmasked. approached the
section gang and forced them to oh.
struct the road and flag the train rs
1t approached, and when the train was
stopped the bandits forced the express
messenger to open the door Of the ex-
press car. They also forced the Sec
ton men to 20 into the car with a
.sledlge hammer and try, to batter the
combination Off the express safe, but
their efforts to open the safe were un-
successful. The messengers way safe
was battered open and what money
there was in it taksn by the robbers,
The amount secured. it is estimated,
runs between $500 and 5000. This
being pay day Mt Thurber for a large
number of hands that work at the
mines. there was in the combination
safe $4,000 consigned to the Pacific
Coal company. which was to paw off
the hands. Suspicious characters have
been seen for the past month or so in
that section, and the express CON-
pany was prepared for the attack as
they had on the train one Of their
special combination safes. to which no
agent along the line knew the comb
nation. The express company had
special man back in the coach who
knew the combination to the safe and
who would come forward at stations
where he was needed and open the
safe. The passengers and mail cars
were not molested. After the robbery
four of the robbers walked away to-
ward the mountains whistling. The
Texas & Pacific Coal Company Of
Thurber have offered $500 reward for
the capture of the robbers. There
We're no shots fired during the rob
berry. and it is considered one of the
boldest train robberies ever recorded
III the country for long time. 1t is
thought the robbers are from Indian
Territory and are now on their way
back. Posses are out after them and
there is some hope of capturing them.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Cony,ct.a ., Ar.ov.

Chicago, Oct. 21.-Five people were
convicted of arson Yesterday and sen
fenced to the penitentiary. The con
victed persons and the allotted terms
in prison are: William .Scharff,
years: W. b, Nelson, years; Caro-,
line Nelson, 2 years; Carl Herlitz, .
years; Josephine Herlitz, 2 years. II
was proven In the trial that Scharn'
who Is said to be a friend and disciple
Of Herr Most, induced both the Her'
litz and Nelson families to burn thelT
homesteads for the purpose of defra'lh'
Ing the insurance companies.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
END DRAWS NEAR.
No Longer Any Doubt But That the
Gar Is Near Deaths Door,

'>o AShSeF ANY DOuOt nut Ihat the
Gar Is Near Deaths Door.
st. Petersburg, Oct. p. - 1t is an
nounced here to-day that the condition
of the car is desperate. There seems
to be no longer any reasonable doubt
that the car is rapidly approaching
his end. A dispatch received from
Lividia announces that the condition
of the car has changed for the worse
since Yesterday. and the imperial fam
lily is described as being alarmed at
the present condition of the czar. A
special dispatch received subsequent
ly from Lividia says that the car last
evening suffered from sudden spasm
OF the heart which compelled him to
lie down. His condition became so
critical that his confessor. Father
4anischew, was hastily summoned.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Sunday, October IA.

The receipts Of the jamestown fair
were ,$4,S1O.9O and the disbursements
$5,61343.
Cattle are being shipped to the East
ern markets In large numbers from Sar-
gent county, owing to the failure Of the
hay crop.
Chris Anheir, Fargo, has finally cap.
Sul6Il SIe'&lunoo lusSIgS u! sastuIRtI
alniner for North and South Dakota
Chris was Joe Hughes opponent in the
race for the Fargo Dostoffice.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
From the Nation's Capital.

From the Nations Capital.
Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle
wants to return to the senate. and II
Is said will make a contest for Black
burns seat.
Lieut.. r. P. Rogers, the naval at
tache at the United States embassy at
Paris, said If a squadron Of United
States war vessels is to visit TOulon
it would probably take place during
the winter
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Unfortunate Even,a.

Thomas Anderson, Jr.. aged 16. &C.
cidentally shot and killed himself at
Cambridge City. Ind.
The cotton crop in the Columbus
(Miss.) region has been heavily dam
aged by frosts.
Mrs. T. J. Ireland of Riggild City,
ILL.,. died of injuries received in a run
away.
Joseph Nash, glass worker Of Alton.
ILL.,, was fatally hurt by falling between
cars at Muncie. Ind.
Henry Hodge. Of Eldorado. Ia, was
killed by a bucket of stone falling on
him while in well.
A boiler exploded in B. NJ. De
Vaine's cotton gin near Adel Ga, and
decapitated James Futch. Several 9TH
ers were injured.
Another child was crushed to death
by a Baltimore electric car yesterday
owing to the absence Of a proper fen
der
Two children of John Deering were
burned to death by a fire which de-
stroyed his residence at Princeton, w.
Va.
Prof. Ancaersoper, an aeronaut from
Saginaw. Mich. was SO badly injured
at Vancouver, B. c., that he may not
recover.
An explosion in a mill at Dexter, Mo-,
killed three men and seriously wounded
another. The killed were brothers nam
ed Johnson
An explosion occurred in Newcastle
(Wash.) mine. One man was killed
and two injured ve:y badly, probably
fatally.
Miss Beatrice Vandec ,ssden W Is kill
ed at Buffalo. n. Y. while making a
balloon ascension. She fell 1000 feet
and was dashed to death.
The number of fires from electric
wires or lights during the last year
was 23S, and the value of property
thus destroyed amount I'd to $3,2O4,5 S7.
One man was killed and six persons
injured in a trolley car accident in
Tacoma, caused by the breaking Of an
axle
Much excitement prevails at San Pc
dro, Cal, over the supposed loss by
drowning of party Of four citizens
who left that harbor last Saturday
in the sloop Leon, bound for San Mich
Olas island.
The south-bound fast mail on the
Louisville e. Nashville railroad was
wrecked two miles south Of Bells,
Tenn, late yesterday afternoon. No
one was killed, but several of the train
crew were hurt.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
At Lufnxette,s Tomb.

Paris. Oct 21.-Capt, Nathan Apple
ton. the delegate of the Society of the
Sons OF the American Revolution Of
Massachusetts. yesterday afternoon
placed on the tomb of Gen. Lafayette
In Pichpus cemetery the bronze en-
blem Of the society which was for.
warded here for that purpose. All
the leading Americans in Paris and
the descendants of French who took
part in the War of Independence. as
we'll AS the surviving members Of La
fayette's family were present.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

Terrence V. Powder]y is said to be
q candidate for general master work
man of the X. of l.. again. The gen.
eral assembly will meet in New Or
leans on Nov IS. Sovereign will be
candidate for reelection, and the
battle between his friends and those
Of Powderly is expected to be ter
rife one
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
Nova Scotian Apple PFC.

A recent visitor to Nova Scotil heard
there IN anectiotc OF II little cid woman
who was one day urging upon. he,
guests choice Of refreshments. which
they, not being hungry. refused
Now, do let me 80 and get you some
pie" said the hostess Just sly the
word, I've got three kinds Of apple .pit
-opep-fsce. cross-bar and kivcrIid."--
Boston Transcript
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

Five thousand French and British
soldiers in 1880 captured the city Of
Tsin and the Taku forts. destroyed
the summer palace Of the Chinese EN-.
per0r and took possession Of Pekia.
China then signed the treaty desired.
The warning counted for little. AZ she
Is still the largest and the freblest Of
nations
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

Jim Root. the engineer who saved the
train in the recent forest fires, gained
fame by that heroic action, and now he
has gained fortune. A New York
theatrical manager has signed him for
$500 per week to take the hero's part
in play called The Ride for Life,' -
and Jim is now playing to packed
houses in New York.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

The general decrease in the death
rate this year is attributed to hard
times, which are said to induce a more
frugal mode of living. But New York
reports an increase of SIP in births
The figures will have to be referred
back to the professors of statistics
with request for more comprehen.
slve theory
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

Inquiry into the mutiny of eight SOL
diers of the German army who at
tackled a captain with swords at Hof-
helm will probably develop another
case Of brutality by officials. The
better average record than the Ger
man officer
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

The Japanese advance into China
continues. Everything at the present
time seems to be favorable to victory
for the "Japs." But numbers some
times count more than skill or sci
ence, as in the case of the Custer mas
sacre, and it will be time to predict
final defeat for Chinese when that
defeat is virtually accomplished.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

1t is proposed to erect statute of
Cromwell in England as one of tie
chancellor of the exchequer has prom
Used to make the necessary provision
series of historical personages. The
in the estimates for next year.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

Solitary confinement is calculated,
doctors state, to produce melancholia,
suicidal mania and loss of reason. Nine
months of absolutely solitary confine-
ment are almost certain to result in
the mental ruin of the convict.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

Valentine. the sculptor. has completed
a fine marble bust of Professor John B.
Miner professor at law at the Univer-
sity Of Virginia. 1t is to be presented
to the university by his former stu
dents and is to be placed in the IL
brary of the university.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

London had its last total eclipse Of
the sun in 1715, and the next is not
due until the twenty-frst century.
Notwithstanding this astronomical fact.
the Londoners will manage to worry
along with their daily showers, coal
smoke and occasional pea-green fogs.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

The Hungarian count who comes 10
this country to begin life with wife
and children he was disowned for le-
gally acknowledging is welcome adj
dition to our population. Men of that
stamp are preferable to the impe-
cunious possessors of titles who come
to our shores to pick up heiresses.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

The latest reports from Hawarden
state that Mr.. Gladstone is still able
to see with the eye which was not
operated on sufficiently to read and
write. The other eye is not serviceable
that the sight Of that one will ulti-
mately be recovered.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

AS part of the defense Of the lower
Thames, boom is soon to be stretch
ed across the Midway at Sheerness.
Four obsolete gunboats will be used in
the construction, which will cost many
thousand pounds, the shore anchorages
alone requiring $4,000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

A patent has just been taken out for
glasses and mugs with quicksilver
thermometer. in order to enable the
drinker to determine which tempera-
ture of the liquid will be most agree
able to his taste and most beneficial
FOR his health.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
LANGDoN, NORTH DAKOTA.

It is said that while $50 feet is the
limit at which diving work can be car
ried on safely under water, depth of
2O1 feet has been attained by helmet
diver"-a diver who descends by him
self and not in diving bell.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25

Erastus Wiman, since he gave bail
and came out of the Tombs, has been
kept busy attending to his many enter
prises He is just as active and en-
ergetic as formerly. and his friends say
he will vet work out of all his financial
trouble.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-10-25
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS
INTERESTING NEWS FROM All
PARTS OF THE STATE.

A Condensed Record Of the lmpor.
tant HappeninEs Of the Week h
North Dakota, Arranged for Rapls
Reading.