Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-06-10
Personal Meatioi.

Sallie Gamble. the Los Angeles. Cal.
flower girl. to whom Senator Fair once
proposed marriage, has fallen heir to
100000 left by an aunt In England.
Boston papers say that ex-Secretary
Richard Omey is learning to ride the
bicycle, and it Is intimated that at first
he found it not quite as easy as solv-
ing international or legal problems.
e. S. Maloney of Tennessee, son-in.
law Of Senator Mills of Texas. and for
two years a clerk in the postof6ce de
partment. died from heart disease
while driving to his Office recently.
Frank McCoppin. postmaster of San
Francisco for the past five years, and
prominent Democrat. is dead. His
death was the result Of a surgical op-
GRAFTON.
John George Dodson, first baron
Monk-Bretton, Is dead. He was for
eight years deputy speaker Of the
house of commons and has held other
Offices.
Charles William Frederick Bosom.
Prince de Sagan. eldest son Of Napol-
con Louis de Tallyrand-Perigord. due
de Tallyrand, is critically i'll. The
prince is suffering from congestion of
the brain.
The smallest men in congress are
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire
and Representative Wheeler of Ala
bama, Fighting joe" of Confederate
fame. Mr.. Chandler is sixty-two years
old and Gen. Wheeler is sixty-one, but
both have slender. boyish figures and
affect somewhat youthful dress in
wearing trim, nstty little sack coats.
Casualties.
The large grain elevator at Radford.
ILL.,. was destroyed by fire. The struc-
ture had just been rebuilt.
During a display of fireworks at
Nantes four persons were killed and o
score Of people were injured by the
explosion of bomb.
An engine on the Jamaica railway
ran into a trolley car in tunnel at
Kingston, Jamaica, killing three per-
sons and injuring four others.
During a quarrel between two
brothers by the name of Neal, sons of
Joseph Neal of Mingo, Iowa, one of the
boys shot the other.
Fire destroyed the wholesale grocery
store Of Smith Bros, and badly dam
aged the grocery stock of ]. NJ. Dixon
& Co., on Bay street, Savannah, Ga.
Loss, 100000; fully insured.
William johnson and man named
Schaner were instantly killed, and 9th
ers seriously injured by the explosion
of boiler in saw mill at Glenhazel,
Elk county, Pennsylvania.
Philip McElhone, recently convicted
at Washington of taking valuable doc
uments from the congressional library,
has been sentenced to pay fine of
$500.
Mrs. Elsie Neu.niller. of Milwaukee,
crazed by domestic trouble, gave her
eight-year-old son carbolic acid and
then took a dose herself. She is dead
but the boy may recover. as he re-
jected a portion Of the dose when II
was given him.
Charles Still, the ex-detective OF
York. Pa. who was arrested at Glas.
Cow. Scotland, on April "a upon a
warrant demanding his extradition to
the United States to answer a charge
of receiving stolen money, was dis.
charged discharged at the Bow street
police station at London.
Sick and discouraged over his ina
bility to meet payments on his home
Alexander T. Beckett, formerly a CLERK
in the National Bank Of Illinois OF
Chicago. which collapsed few months
ago. shot and killed himself. This is
the third suicide resulting from the
failure of the bank.
George A. Duey, who has been con
nected with the Associated Press al
Cincinnati and at Denver and other
places for many years. was killed al
Cincinnati in most peculiar manner
by Policeman Amos Booth. An alarm
burglars was given. calling Booth to
the place. Duey was en- route home
at the time and refused to halt. when
the officer shot him dead, mistakine
him for one Of the burglars, who made
their escape.