Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-11-04
Forcirn Notes.

ward Langtry, returned verdict CT
accidental death.
An Uusuline nun Mt Boulogne, whose
Tooth birthday is to be celebrated, en-
tered her convent eighty years ago and
has never set foot out of it since.
"Bradshaw's" originator, Robert Dig
giles Kay, has just died in Southport
Eng. Though he edited the guide fol
forty-one years, he lived to lie eighty
seven years of age.
Count Boniface de Castellalc, Anna
Gould's husband, is about to enter roll
tics. He is a candidate for the cham
Der of deputies for the department OF
the Bases Alps.
A tilemaker named Outlet. lis wife
and four children have committed sui
eide by the use of charcoal fumes, ut
Choisey-le-R France. Poverty was
the cause.
Countess Samuel Gyula of Budapest
who was n Baroness Alice Becsly, is to
compete with the Princess de Chimay
by appearing ut the Paris Olympia in
poses plastiGues."
y memorial to the late Guy de Maus-
SAINT, the novelist, was unveiled in the
Pare de MOnceau, Paris. The memori-
nj Grafton was delivered by Emile
lola.
Hydrophobia, causing death, was
communicated to Paris young woman
recently by her pet dogs tapping her
face before it was observed that it
had gone mad. The doctor could find
no trace of a bite.
The United States embassy Mt Berlin
has been instructed to vigorously re-
new Its remonstrances against, and to
demand the repeal of the prohibition
against the importation Of cattle and
fresh meat from America.
The negotiations of the Chinese gov
eminent with the Hooley syndicate for
loan of $SO,OOOOOO have been aband-
oned. The government is now ncgoti-
ating with the Hong Kong and Shang-
hal banks.
Two Mauritius postage stamps of the
issue of 1858, belonging to DR.. Le-
grands collection. have been sold for
$4,000 francs to NJ. Bernichon of Paris.
There are only seventeen impressions
Of these stamps in existence.
Bismarck's name has been the SUBJ
ject Of an elaborate investigation by a
DR.. Lange, who concludes that it is a
contraction of Bischofsmark, and re-
iects the derivation from Blese. the lit
tie river that flows near the Branden-
burg town, Bismark.
The general disposition to increase
naval armaments can be gagged by the
fact that eighty-seven warships are
building in Great Britain alone. They
aggregate a displacement of 3lS,Gl2
tons. OF these eighty-seven warships,
thirty-four go to foreign governments.
The Prussian department of agricult-
ure has resolved to encourage fruit
growing. and is presenting fruit trees
to the farmers living along the public
roads and railways. Several of the
provincial chambers have adopted sim
liar resolutions.
The chamber of commerce of Reich.
enberg, Bohemia, has passed a resolu-
ton urging the government of Austrl.
Hungary to negotiate with the other
powers with the view of taking con.
certed action against the new United
States customs tariff.
Leon Gutter, professor of paleogra.
graphy at the Paris Ecole DIES Charles.
is dead, at the age Of sixty-fve years.
His edition of the "Chanson de Rol
and was adopted by the French
schools. and served to pOpulariZe the
study of old French literature in that
country.
Franz Betz, the baritone of the Ber-
lin Opera house, who was the original
Hans Sachs when the "Meistersinger"
was first performed at MUNICH, in 1865,
is about to retire. He has been a men,
Der of the Berlin company for forty
eight years. He was the Wotam in
the first performance of the Neibelun-
gen triology at Bayreuth in 1876.
The United States embassy Will make
an application to the Francn govern
ment for the eXtradition of William T.
Foster, Jr., who abscondcd from New
York Sept. 26, 1873, with Sl93,OuO be.
longing to the gratuity fund of the
New York Produce exchange, and who
was arrested at Neuilly Ivy the French
police at the instance of Scotland Yard
detectives.
Herr Liebnecht, the Social Democrat
leader, has had the sentence of four
months Imprisonment for indirect lese
majestic, inflicted upon him by Bres-
lau judge, confirmed by the supreme
court at Leipzig. Although he did not
mention the kaiser, the court held that
some of his words might seem to the
hearers aimed at him, and by the doc
trine of the dolus eventualis it might
be held that in his thoughts he was in
sulting the ruler Of free Germany.
Accidental Happenings.
The Commercial National Bank of
Union City, Ind, has been authorized
to begin business; capital, $4,000.
Bob Fitzsimmons picks Dan Creedon
to win from kid Mccoy if these box
| ers ever meet in contest.
The Pennsylvania capitol building
commission has selected Henry Ives
Cobb of Chicago as architect for the
new capitol and adopted his design.
| Canadian Pacific railroad earnings
for the week ending Oct. u were
$619,O09; same period last year, $4S4,
600; increase, $135.OOO.
Tommy c'Kid') Hogan, the Western
featherweight, is after Johnny Van
Hecst for a go. It's sure thing that
he can get it, if Johnny has no previ
GUS engagement.
'Denver Ed' Smith, who is manager
of a hotel at Victoria, B. c., has writ
ten to sporting man asking him tt