Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-06-24
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Russia has agreed to assist the Unit,
eG States In the better protection Of
seals in the North seas. '5355 HI
a formidable movement is On foot to-
GUST Russell Sage from the presidency.
of the Iowa Central railway. ss.Ssi
Giuseppe Verdi the celebrated COM
poser, now in the eighty-third year OF
his age. is reported seriously ill ats
Rome. .}'
A dispatch from Paris announces the
marriage Of Puvis de Cbavannes, the
famous painter, and Princess Canta-
cuzene. l3ls3
Elmer Dahl, eight years old, son OF
Martin Dahl Of La Crosse, was
drowned by going into the river over
his depth. 7g
Within q short time three furnaces
In the Mahoning valley, Ohio, which
have been out of blast for some time,
will resume. IA
Judge Joseph Sibley died at Quincy.
Ill, aged eighty years. He was on
the circuit bench from 1855 to 1879 and
served two years on the appellate
bench.
James Oesterle, one of the pioneers
of Sharon, Portage county, Wis, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
the right temple. He was eighty two
years of age. sss
John M. Francis, senior proprietor
and editor-in-chief Of the Troy Times,
ard ex-minister of the United States
to Austria. Greece and Portugal. die6M
at his home in Troy, N. Y.
Richard Oates. proprietor of the Cen
trail house. Calumet, Mich, left for
Chicago one month ago yesterday,
promising to return in five. days. No
word has been heard from him and
foul play is suspected.
Rev. Lorenzo d. McCabe d. D., LII.
D.. for fifty years a professor in the
Chic Wesleyan university and q dis
tinguished author and theologian in
the Methodist church, died at Della
ware, Ohio, in his eighty-frst year.
The Udell Woodenware Company Of
ST. Louis. whose stock for the third
time in as many years was burned last
week, filed general assignment for
the benefit Of its creditors. The liza
bilities are $4,000; assets, $4,000.
Henry B. Stone, formerly vice presi-
dent of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, and for the last seven
years president of the Chicago Tele-
phone company. will retire from it's
service in July, having other plans in
view.
Mrs. Marion Kelly, handsome
young widow from San Francisco, has
brought suit at Butte, Mont, for $1O,-
600 damages for breach Of promise
against Oscar Bell, a mining engineer,
and to get title to $4,000 worth OF
property which he had promised her
and which she is now in possession of.
The Mexican official gazette de-
nouEces the report published in the
United States that the government has
granted charter for gambling houses
at Tijuana, Lower California. The re-
quest was recently made by some
Americans for charter for lottery
in Lower California but the govern
ment did not consider the petition.
The statement that Julia Marlowe
and her husband, Robert Tabor, will
Miss MaT1S has gone to Europe to
secure SOM new plays and will APP
pear under the management Of Mr..
Froh1nan next season. This in nOwise
affects the domestic relations Of AIr.
and Mrs. Tabor. Mrs. Tabor will
stage her plays.
DESPITE the fact that he was COM
PEELED to testify in the Davis will case
to the effect that he believed the sig
nature to the alleged will to be
forgery, George Maxwell, after twenty
years service as paying teller for the
First National Bank of San Francisco,
has been summarily discharged for
having violated the confidence of that
Institution in his startling testimony.