Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-05-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Overflow From the wires In . Con.
| densed Form.
Lord Roseberry's bay filly, She
landry, won the 1000 guineas stake
at Newmarket. ID
Count Nichalos Esterhazy. the cell
ebrated sportsman and breeder of race
horses, Is dead.
The United States revenue cutters
Rush and Corwin have started for
Alaska to join the Bear.
Rev. John Burgess, pioneer Meth
cdist preacher and author, is dead at
keokuk. Iowa, aged seventy-six.
The Ohio Republican state central
committee has decided to hold the
state convention in Toledo June % and
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| Private advices from Washington in
dicate that c. S. johnson of Alaska
will be the next governor of the dis-
trict.
| Both houses Of the Iowa legislature
have passed a resolution making the
wild rose the official flower Of the
state.
| BY the unanimous opinion Of the
judges Princeton won the annual de-
| bate held with Yale at New Haven,
Conn.
The Due d'Aumale died at Zuccs,
Sicily. of the shock he experienced
| upon hearing Of the death of the Ouch
ess d'Alencon.
Robert III. Martin, formerly treasurer
of the Columbia university at Wash
ingtOn, has been arrested on charges
of embezzlement.
| Gen. Shafter, who it was once
thought might be sent to st. Paul, is
assigned to the command Of the de-
partment Of the Columbia.
Henry Jones (colored, convict in
the Indiana state prison, was hanged
in the prison for the murder of a fell
low convict named Thomas, who testi-
fed against him in the trial.
The twenty-seventh annual Wood
ford prize in oratory was held in Cor
nell and was won by Daniel III. Wells
Of Salt Lake City, whose Grafton was
entitled 1.-THE Practical Age"
| J. A. Mckenzie, minister to Peru, has
just arrived at Bowling. Green. KY,
much improved in health. He has sent
In his resignation to Washington and
expects to remain in Bowling Green.
Eddie Bald has deposited $500 with
| y. W. nAAS"duS OASyC4C SOlIOI VI lAC
Louisville Evening Post, to bind q
match race with Tom Cooper, to take
place at any time between July and
| Aug. 1.
The committee of the National party
of Argentina, DR.. Pelligrini, chairman,
appointed to investigate the extent Of
the decreased expectation of cereals,
reports that the expectation decreased
$25,OOOOOO.
The naval militia of Michigan has
put in an earnest request to the
navy department for the loan of the
! use as soon as she returns from the
South Atlantic.
DR.. J. H. Hollander has been ap-
pointed secretary Of the international
bimetallic conference committee. He
is professor of economics at the Johns
| Hopkins university, and a French and
German scholar.
There is a movement on foot to or
game all the salt companies in Pome-
roy Bend, Ohio, into an association
and raise the price of salt to CSC per
barrel. All but one company has
joined the association.
Police Capt. Charles E. Aldrich Of
Chicago has been declared insane and
sent to the Elgin asylum. Several
years ago during the street car riots
the captain was struck heavy blow
in the head with a brick.
| Commissioner Hermann, of the gen.
eral land Office, has recommended to
the attorney general suspension for the
present Of legal proceedings growing
out of sheep pasturing within the
Cascade range forest reserve.
AS tribute to the memory of Gen.
Grant, Yang Yu, former minister from
China, planted a tree in the ground
Under which the casket of Gen. Grant
lay for twelve years. The tree Is called
ginkgoblio-ba by Chinese botanists..
John Dwyer. commercial agent of
the Burlington railroad, having super
vision of all routes in Western Ne.
braska and the Northern Kansas lines
of the road, with headquarters at
Beatrice, Neb., is dead at his home.
The Dalles orr National bank has
been closed by Bank Examiner Clary
against the advice and in spite of the
protest of the banks officers. The inn
mediate cause of the closing, it is said,
was disagreement among the stock
holders.
London capitalists purchased for S.
100000 from w. G. Yawkey of De-
,troit and Capt. N. d. Moore, A. e.
Humphrey and ]. u. Farrell of Spo-
kane, group of silver mines near
Three Forks, SLOGAN district, composed
Of the Idaho, Alamo, Cumberland, Con-
centrate and Tramway. The Alamo
and Idaho have. already paid 1925, 900
divide nds.
A woman known as Miss Belle Walk
er, was shot and instantly killed at
Leadville, Colo, by her lover. who
called himself George Ratlitfe. after q
quarrel. The assassin then took his
own life. A letter found on the per-
son of the dead man addressed to the
coroner states that his real name was
Gardiner Marchbank. The woman's
name was Laura Belle Lantz.
Indicted for Forgery.
NIadelia, Mimi, May 8. : Charles
Deputy OF this place has been indicted
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