Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-06-24

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Andrews. Nebraska, auditor Of the
treasury d department..
Personal Mention.
PATHS Nicolini is said to be dying.
Baron Dickinson, the Arctic explorer,
is dead at Hjo, Sweden.
Prof. Alvin G. Clark, the famous tel
escope lens manufacturer. died at his
home at Cambridge. Mass, the result
Of stroke Of apoplexY.
Charles l. st. John. consul of Great
Britain at New Orleans, is dead Of
meningitis after an extremely brief
illness. Mr.. st. John was scion of
the house of Bolingbroke. His father
was the fifth viscount Of st. John.
DIR. NJ. Schiller, the fiance of Mile.
Yvette Guilbert., has sailed for Europe
on board the Lucania. DR.. Schiller
says that his marriage with the
chanteuse will take place in Paris the
latter part of July.
NJ Paul Cassimir-Perier. senator
from the department of Seine-Inferiure
and uncle of the ex-president Of hat
name, is dead. He was born In Paris
in 1872, and was the second son Of the
illustrious minister of Louis Philippe.
Prince Macmillan of Saxony, who
for year past has been officiating as
a Catholic priest in the slums Of White
chapel. has been ordered by his doctor
to leave London on account Of his
health breaking down.
The earl Of Raafurly, the new gov
ernof Of New Zealand, is head Of the
Knox family, which counts among it's
members the celebrated John. the icon
cclastic reforner and monitor of the
haplcss Mary, Queen Of Scots.
J. H. Armstrong, pioneer business
man of Hillsdale, Mich, and ex-mem-
Der Of the Michigan legislature, is
dead. aged eighty-one years. He had
been grand commander of the knights
Templar Of Michigan.
Emma NJ. WINS, known to. the stage
world as Virginia Stuart. has been
granted a decree Of divorce from her
husband, Horace f. WINS, physician
of Philadelphia. Desertion and nom
support was the claim in which Miss
Stuart won her case.
arch of Methodism in Indiana, and he
wrote, in his eighty-eecond year, a
book of $50 pages, containing anec-
dotes Of pioneer preachers and their
charges in the West, together with a
Mr.. Lyman, formerly the president Of
the civil service commission, has Just
taken the examination himself, and re-
ceived marking Of 9S.47 per cent out
of a possible 100. This was prelimin-
FRY to his appointment as chief of the
stationery division.
Mr.. G. Creighton Webb, brother Of
DR.. Samuel Webb of New York, and
Erskine Hewitt. son of Abram S. Hew-
lit. New York, have been appointed adj
ditional secretaries to the special en-
bassy appointed to represent the Unit
ed States at Queen Yictoria's jubilee
ceremonies.
Olga Netlersole carries two bicycles
of American make with her on her
travels. and will take them to England
when she sails next week. The fair
actress is a devotce Of the wheel, and
rides every pleasant day, generally ac-
companied by her companion, Miss
Fields.
Arthur Deustrow, who was hanged
In st. Louis fro the murder Of his wife
and child. was reputed to be a million
aire. But it turns out that his fortune,
as he left it, amounted to $8,742, and a
handful Of cents, against which the
state has a clai n Of $7,63S for the ex-
penses of his p.osec ltion.
Richard Grant White was a great
stickler for calling a spade spade.
"Very worthy and well behaved and
even intelligent men, he used to say,
keep bars and taverns, but IL they do,
let them say sc. When I see sample
room over the loor, I feel a respect
for the bar room, and as If could take
to my heart man who owns that he
keeps a grog slsop."
Rear Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee,
q. s. n. retired, the last of the COM
manders Of the great squadrons dur
ing the civil war, is dead at his home
at Silver Springs, near Washington,
after a short illness from a stroke Of
paralysis. He was a Virginian by
birth and direct descendant of Light
Horse Harry Lee Of Revolutionary
fame.