Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-05-06
Otherwise.


Otherwise.
A 100000 fire burned the business
section Of Tullahoma, Tenn.
The do wager duchess of Bedford is
dead.
A $4,000 fire burned a part of a
storehouse Mt the Washington navy
yard.
During the past few days twenty
wolves have been killed within six
miles of Jefferson, Iowa.
1t is announced unofticially that the
st. Lawrence canal will be opened Oh
May 1.
Representative Seth l.. NIilliken OF
Maine died at Washington OF pneu
mtnia.
Fire ard water did 100000 damage
in three buildings ut Arch and Sum
mer streets, Boston, occupied by jew.
elers.
The Randall Banking Company OF
Eureka, Cal, has closed it's doors and
posted notice that its depositors
would be paid in full.
Amid imposing ceremonies the cor.
ner stone Of the trans Mississippi ex-
position arch Of state was laid at
Omaha.
Robert w. Hamer. a we'll known re-
tired broker. living at 1857 Deming
due to i'll health.
A Lima advice says the Chancha-
mayo colonists, alarmed by the threat
of attack by 1900 Indians, have asked
the protection of the government.
The first production of the 'Hoosier
Doctor" Augustus Thomas' new pas
toral comedy-drama, was given at
Washington at the Natict.l theater
with Digby Bell in the title role.
The two hundred miners employed
in Chicago Virdew Coal company's
shaft at Auburn, ILL.,, have struck be-
cause the price of powder was ad-
vanced by the company from $1.90 to
1925.
The japanese, having been turned
away from Hawaii, are trying to gain
entrance into the United States. Fifty
Japanese laborers arrived at San Fran
cisco from British Columbia to work in
California orchards and fields.
George w. Donnelly has been ap-
pointed temporary receiver for the
Jacob Ahles Brewing Company of New
York. Unsecured liabilities, $S1, 791;
nominal assets, $1e5, 800; actual as
sets, $4G,53S.
A Lima advice says: In conse-
quence of the decree suspending the
coinage Of soils, exchange, now at %,
will rise, 1t is believed, to "a. The pro-
pcsal Of the Pacific Hualgayoc CON-
pany to lease the Pacasnayo mole has
been accepted.
The barkentine City of Papate, just
arrived at San Francisco from Tahiti,
brought news confirming the report
that Queen Namae of the Raiatea
islands was captured by the French
and sent into exile with her husband
an dthe principal chiefs.
James NJ. WALL cashier of the Farm
ers' National Bank of Portsmouth,
Ohio, pleaded guilty to an indictment
for making false returns to the gov
eminent Of the condition of the bank.
The court gave him the minimum SEN
tence, five years.
Coroner Percy +. Smith and his jury
at Uniontown, Pa, have finished their
inquiry into the tragedy which oc-
Cured at the Lafayette hotel, and rem
dered verdict that Joshua McFad-
den had shot Frank M. Brown and
then taken his own life.
Mrs. Maria Ewing Martin has been
awarded $4,000 damages from the
Third Avenue Street Railway company
Of New York city for the death of her
father, Gen. Thomas Ewing, who was
knock ed down and fatally injured by
cable car Jan. 26, 1896.
After full hearing had been had,
the Texas railroad commission an
nounced that while they were opposed
to any change il the present rates, be-
lieving them to be just and amicable,
they would recognize the authority of
the interstate commerce commission in
case they made any change.
The revenue cutter Rush has re-
turned to San Francisco after an I'M
successful search for the overdue
ship Samaria, bound from Seattle for
San Francisco. The Rush went 200
miles up the coast but saw no trace OF
the ship and saw no wreckage. There
were twenty-one on board.
Frank *. Johnson, the heel and toe
walker, was defeated i'll match with
John Mahoney and w. J. Darling,
which was completed at Arbeiter hall,
Detroit, after twenty-five hours and
thirty minutes walking. Johnson had
walked 100 miles / lap his opponents
between them making 100 miles II
laps.
Floating wreckagc. believed to be
part Of the overdue ship Samaria, from
Seattle for San Francisco, is reported
by Capt. Wallace, of the steamer Wal
IL Walla, from Puget sound. The
wreckagc. which was sighted off Cres-
cent City. resembled the roof Of a
deck house. Little hope is now cher
ished for the safety Of the ,,amaria.
Buck Connolly Of Pittsburg, repre-
senting Peter Maher, met Dan Lynch
of California, manager of Tom Shark
ey, the sailor pugilist. at New York.
They agreed that Maher and Sharkey
should meet in a twenty-five-round
contest to be held in this vicinity on
day to he named between May %
and June 10.
Judge Woods in the United States
court at indianapolis has decided that
the State of Indiana may bring suit
in the state courts against the Van
dalia Railroad company under an act
Of the last legislature to decide what
ever amount the railway company
| n1xyac tn tGn ctn4n IN ~ 4I,o