Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-06-20
Philadelphia, Pa, committed suicide.
Continued illness was the cause.

Continued illness was the cause.
The body Of James Mcpherson, Ne
siding eight miles east Of Lebanon,
Ind, was found partially concealed In
a hollow log With his throat cut from
ear to ear. Ne had not been seen
since week ago.
The man Zerby, who criminally as
saulted his seven-year-old niece a few
nights ago few miles from Elkhart,
Ind, and his wife We're stripped, tied
to a tree and whipped by Il mob and
ordered to leave the neighhorhood.
Both ,cft The child will recover.
DR.. Dennis j. Seaman and Mrs. Alice
Lane. charged with the murder o.
Envy ..41s..l. the English girl sent to
this country by Rev. jonathan bell,
We're :,rrai2ned i'll Detroit, Mich, to-
day. Both defendants refused to
plead. Their trials Will take place In
about two weeks.
Fred Smock. Il young farm hand of
Linton township. Ind. was shot by an
assassin. SMock called at the house
of Eeiyhbor named Pennington and
spent the evening With the latter's
daughter. When within 100 yards Of
his employers residence he was fatally
shot
James Howard. a Wells Fargo COM
pany employee. rushed into police
station ut San Francisco covered with
blood. His skull had been fractured
and he was only able to mutter few
words about having been beaten and
robbed. He was removed to the re-
ceiving hospital and died in about two
hours.
Foreign.
The Japanese have captured Kee
Tung on the island of Formosa; and
three hundred Chinese were killed.
The Japanese are rapidly evacuating
the Lilo Tung peninsula. The move
ment will be completed in ten days.
The captain general of Madrid is
shot and wounded by an army officer
who had been refused the hand of the
captain generals daughter.
The Rothschilds will issue Gillian
AZ percent loan of f2,0OO,OO0 at a price
of 92la, in order to place the paper cur
rency of Chile on specie basis.
Sir Charles Augustus Murray died
at Paris. His first wife was an Amer
Wadsworth.
1t is reported that Prince Alfred
WindischgraetZ, president and premier
of the ministry of Austria, has re-
signed.
The government has refused new
trial for Hendershott and Welter, SEN
Ont, for the murder of young u.:yTd
Ont, June IS, for the murder of young
HendershOtt.
The dowager empress of Russia has
summoned Prof. Leyden, the eminent
specialist on pulmonary complaints, to
examine her son, the Grand Duke
George, the cZarowitZ.
The London Standard today con-
tains an intimation to the effect that
when the insurrection in Cuba is end
ed Spain will request the United
States to pay her part Of the costs Of
suppressing it.
The Spanish cabinet at meeting
to-day discussed the situation Of af-
fairs in Cuba. and decided to await the
decision of the captain general Mar
shall Martinez de Campos, bcfore'send-
ing any further reinforcements
Very favorable advices have been
received at st. Petersburg regarding
the prospects of a definite settlement
of the questions remaining in dispute
consisting Of II vessels, has arrived
between the powers and Japan.
A tidal wave has occurred on the
northern coast of Peru, and the cable
between Calao and africa is broken.
Much damage has occurred at Molten
do, which is also a cable station and
which is the terminus of a railway to
Arequipa and Pund, and has an ele-
CANT railway station.