Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-06-06
killed by Adam and Tom Horton.
Thew are held for murder S&

MIS-. kate Aapp, 0Seu EV,S0I Fer
kins' Grove, ILL.,, committed suicide by
shooting. Dependency through i'll
health was the cause.
The fourth attempt at elopement Of
Louis Dixon and Maggie Clark of
Louisville, Ky, was success. On
two of the occasions tile father and
brothers of the bride had drawn re-
volvcrs and driven Dixon away.
Mrs. Belle Hickman, colored. of
Hillsboro, O., hanged her 10-months-
old child until she was dead and ran
across the fields beating the ground
with the dead body. Then she threw
her 6-year-old child into well.
An unknown man walked into a
hardware store at Anderson, Ind, and
under pretense of buying a revolver,
looked over many weapons and am
munition. Loading one revolver, he
put it to his temple and killed himself.
Raffaelli Ungaro fled from Wolfe
island with 1886 in cash, draft for
$4,000, and a gold watch and chain
which had been intrusted to him by
Alfred Duman, 4 New York con-
tractor.
w. ]. Mccarthy, Frank Williams
and Albert Bywater were arrested at
Center Grove, Ia, charged with hav-
ing attempted to rob the mail carrier
who rides between Peosta and Cen
tralia.
The third trial of James u. Lotan,
ex-collector of customs, and Seid
Back, wealthy Chicago merchant
! for conspiracy to smuggle Chinese
into Portland, Or, began in the United
States district court at Portland.
Foreign.
Japan refuses China's request fol
more time in handing Formosa over.
Villages in Italy are wrecked by an
earthquake and many people killed.
London has a spicy breach Of prom.
Use case, a baron's son being the de-
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Patriotic Americans in London have
arranged to celebrate the Fourth of
July.
Maj. Won Wissmann goes back to
German East Africa as governor in
place of Baron Won Schele.
Frozen milk is now imported into
/
In rapidly increasing quantities..
Lake Tanganyika's latest mail weigh.
ed 400 pounds. It had to be carried
from the coast over 1000 miles on the
heads of the carriers.
A drive of 24O yards was made by q
Cambridge golfer lately. The carry
was 30 yards, and the ball ranathirty
yards further.
English ship owners have cornered
the wheat ships of the Pacific coast
and are expected to make enormous
profits on wheat.
Turner'S painting of '"The Trosac hs'
was sold in London recently for $4,000
and Landseers original study fol
''Low Life for $575.
NJ. Zultan Dome, a Hungarian, has
just been engaged as leading tenor
at the Paris grand opera. Like Jean
de Reszke, he began by singing bara.
tone.
The emperor of China has issued q
decree recalling from the Island OF
f'ormosa, coded to Japan by the treaty.
of peace, all Chinese officials in the
island.
The Mccormick Mower and Reaper
company of Chicago and Enrique
Creel, a prominent banker Of .ttShihu.
ahua, have obtained concession IRON
the government for a railroad from
Chihuahua to the Ocampo mining dis.
trict. "a :,
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The Merchants National bank OF
Seattle, Wash, failed.
There was a killing frost again u
Middlesboro, Ky. 38
Poverty palace, the knights of Ia.
Dor headquarters at Philadelphia, Pa.
was sold for $4,000.
Mgr. Dubois, formerly Roman Cath.
ollc bishop of Galveston, Tex, died al
Vernaison, Italy.
Missouri silver Democrats are in O
move to run Senator Vest for presi
dent. y
The Bell Telephone company has
gained victory in the United States
court Of appeals.
Northwestern crop reports show that
the present climatic conditions are
very beneficial to grain.
President Thompson of, the Bank Of
commerce Of st. Louis has forbidden
his clerks to go to the horse races.
Frank Scott, dry goods merchant
failed at Leayenworth, Kan, for 500.
800. ~ 20
Fraud is alleged in connection with
million dollar bond issue by the
Columbia Straw Paper company o1
Chicago.
1t has been agreed to try the gov.
ernment's $15,000,OOO suit against the
Leland Stanford estate in June at San
Francisco, Cal.
Frank Cole, one of the leading live
stock breeders Of McHenrycounty. iii.
dropped dead at his farm near Rich
mOnd.
The Tamarack Mining company di.
rectors at Boston declared a dividend
of 81 share, payable June 25 to the
stockholders Of record.
Herman Redner set his lines fol
bullheads at Elsin, Ill.,, and caught a
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