Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-09
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Otherwise.
George Green was knocked out In
eighteen rounds at San Francisco by
Joe Walcott.
Judge Acheson has rendered a de-
cision in the United States circuit
court at Pittsburg declaring the alien
tax law unconstitutional.
At the Arena ut Philadelphia Harry
Peppers of California put out Leon
Block Of Cleveland in the early part
of the eighth round.
The mortgage for $75O,000 which the
Iowa Union Telephone company gave
to the Illinois trust company, has been
lost in the mails.
Chief Of Police Peter Conlin of New
York has been retired by the police
commissioners on his own application.
He will receive pension of $1,000 q
year.
Ship charges are still on the increase
ut San Francisco, and Is Cd from that
port to Europe has been reached. At
this rate three vessels have been en-
gagged.
The steamer Mariposa, which ar
rived at San Francisco from Sydney,
via Honolulu. brought a consignment
of $2,25O,0OO in English sovereigns for
San Francisco banks.
Reports to the Illinois Central from
all stations in Iowa indicate a large
crop of corn, within thirty to forty
days of maturity. There has been no
frost as yet.
The Pleasanton stock farm, near
Oakland, Cal, the famous training
and breeding establishment of some
of the worlds greatest race horses,
has D2en declared insolvent by Judge
Hail.
On behalf of the officers of the Farm
ers' National Congress and Pan-Ameri-
can Agricultural Parliament, Col. John
NJ. Stahl has issued the call for the
annual meeting, which will be held in
st. Paul Aug. 81 to Sept. Z.
The Wisconsin State timber estimat-
ors who have been cruising over the
state park lands report the minimum
value Of the tracts at $347, 053. The
land and timber will be sold by the
state at public auction Oct. 5.
The Northern Pacific and Ashland
railroads have ceased hostilities at
Moquah, Wis. The Ashland road will
be allowed to relay it's track. 1t will
also put in interlocking swithces at
once.
The Wisconsin state veterinarian has
killed a herd Of thirty-five Jersey cat
tie belonging to D. J. Farnum, at Mer-
rimack, on account Of tuberculosis,a and
other herds will probably meet the
same fate.
The bureau of Catholic Indian mis-
sions at Washington is about to quit
work. The meeting Of the Catholic
archbishops, to be held there next Oc-
tober, will formulate new plan for
the administration Of the affairs Of
Indians.
The best previous record for heavy
lifting, that of Louis st. Cyr, who put
up 1886 pounds, was broken by St..
Louis man. Pat Mccarthy, aged thir-
ty-six, shouldered q board platform on
which there was pile Of stone aggre-
eating 1922 pounds in weight.
A great strike in the building trade
begun at Budapest. More than 10000
men are involved. Several encounters
have taken place between the police
and strikers, and two hundred people
are injured. The police have made
about enc hundred arrests.
When the Philadelphia authorities
examined the bills incurred for the en-
tertainment of guests at the recent I'M
yelling Of the Washington monument,
1t was found the cost Of entertaining
Mayor Strong Of New York was just
SO.
The owners Of the Down Town
mines In Leadville, allowed to fill with
water during the great miners strike
and have not been operated since, de-
clded, at a conference in that city, to
defer the unwatering Of the mines I'M
til the silver market becomes more set
tied.
"Died by the visitation Of God'' was
the verdict Of the coroner's jury that
sat at Cortland, n. Y; in the case Of
Frank Dickinson, who expired while
struggling with his son, Leroy, Tues
day, after quarrel. The autopsy in
dictated badly-diseased heart, which
had been ruptured in three places.
AL cIIOI VI 1ldSulLuuC las OcCA uAoO
covered in the treasury statistics re-
lating to wool imported for consump-
ton in 1893. Woods OF class 3, I'M
ported in the fiscal year Of 1893, were
reported to have been 49,, 197 $50 lbs.
These figures are too high by 2G,302,-
700 lbs.
The directors of the Astronomical
Society Of the Paicfic have formally
accepted the foundation and endow-
ment Of the gold medal by Miss Cath
crime Wolfe Bruce Of New York city,
to be awarded not oftener than once q
year by the society for distinguished
services to astronomy"
Prof. w. II. Holmes, curator Of the
department Of anthropology in the
Field Columbian museum and profess
sor Of geology in the University of Chi
cago, has been assigned to the care Of
the collections in the departments OF
anthropology and ethnology in the ma
tional museum and Smithsonian mu.
scum at Washington.