Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-11-25

or, is dangerously i'll ut Fargo.
Government work on the Big Muddy
at Mandan has closed for the season.
w. J. Hoskins has received his CON-
mission as postmaster ut Rolla.
Fred Thompson, Great Northern
brakeman, had his hand crushed WINE
making coupling at Gran dForks.
The Mandan Library association
committee is soliciting donations OF
books.
The recent Episcopal convocation
was the sixth in the history of the
diocese.
It is rumored that Park River Is
soon to have q well equipped electric
light plant.
James Weeks of Bathgate lost
quantity of hay by prairie fire this
week.
Work on the power house for the
city electric light plant has begun Ut
Casselton.
Sheriff Dahl prevented a prize fight
being pulled off in the vicinity of La
kota.
The postoffice at Dogden, Mclean
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will 60 to Velva.
Sylvester Hill and George Foster,
both of Fargo, have been granted pen
sions.
The Mandan band has secured the
services of w. r. Green, formerly
bandmaster at Cornell university.
A bunch Of scab-infected sheep are
ranging between Tioga and White
Earth.
The Northern Pacific offers a spe-
cial feed rate for North Dakota and
Montana stockmen.
Fire was discovered in the Sheldon
roller mills, which was extinguished
before any serious damage was done.
The Valley City school ma'ams took
in $42 with TIER school-plano, chick
en-ple supper.
Several blind-piggers have been SEN
fenced at Lisbon, and several otherA
bound over to the district court.
A new bridge at Fishtrap will ena-
BILE the farmers to market their wheat
at Walhalla.
The Grand Forks Gas and Electric
Light company declined to furnish
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city council.
Senator Rourke has withdrawn his
resignation as states attorney Of
Ransom county, in consideration Of an
increase of salary Of 40 per cent.
J. Christopherson is to erect 50x6T
two-story block in Mayville, with a
pressed brick front and brown stone
trimmings.
Attorney Mark Wilson of Fessenden,
popular member of the Republican
state committee, is ill with typhoid
fever.
Rev. M. G.. Hansen of Grand Forks,
pastor of the Lutheran church there,
has been elected president of the Lu-
%heran seminary at Red Wing, MINI.
Bathgate Episcopalians are making
arrangements to erect rectOry, and
wirk will be commenced in the near
future.
Albert Palmer Of Crosier has been
granted q pension; George N. Stark of
Cooperstown a reissue, and Mrs. Caro-
line Cramer, widows pension.
J. w. Watson of Park River, collect
or for the Singer Sewing Machine
company, was held up by masked men
and robbed Of $160.
Ed STEVENSON, an Icelander, in
Walsh county, is under arrest, on the
charge of having ruined three girls
Of the same family.
A pupil in the public school at Far
go has died Of diphtheria, and steps
have been taken by the authorities to
prevent spread Of the disease.
Three churches, some half-dozen
good dwelling houses and one good
hotel, the Merchants, ar eamong the
improvements noticed at Leeds for the
present season.
The city council of Jamestown is
considering the possibility of licens-
ing various trades, professions and &C.
equations in that city for the purpose
Of raising revenue for the city.
A farm house near Lisbon, occupied
by Frank Babcock and family, was
destroyed by fire. Mrs. Babcock and
three children barely escaped with
their lives.
Henry Grasser, the Courtenay blind
pigger, pleaded guilty, and got ninety
days in Jail and $500 fine and, in de-
fault OF the money, he will serve 100
/ days in Jail.
Lena Hanson will be tried in tho
United States court at Grand Forks
for opening letters belonging to
namesake and abstracting their con-
tents.
George Garrison, Fargo barber,
has been held tos the district court.
charged with going through the pock-
cts Of a customer while shaving him
and relieving him Of $40.
There are 1863 pensioners residing
in North Dakota, who drew from the
government last year $222,92O; 4,7O3
IN South Dakota, drawing 1923 O3O per
annum.
The treasurer of Burleigh county
has received $30,o64.52 Of taxes this
year. OF this amount, $27, S4S.O7 is
old back taxes that has been delin-
quent since 1887 to 1896, $3,O16.45 be-
Ing for the current year 1896.
The second annual convention of
the North Dakota Equal Suffrage as
ISOLATION Is to be held ut Fargo on
the Goth inst. Reduced railroad fares
/ for Delegates have hpan sacurod mr.