Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-16
NEWS III BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires in a Con.
len1eGl Form.

VVeTuOW from the wires IN q Com
densed Form.
Minister Rodriguez, representing the
Greater Republic at Washington is in
Managua, Mic, suffering from fever.
Proceedings have begun at Vienna
against Herr 1ro, German Nationalist
deputy, on the charge Of high treason.
Red fungus is destroying the fruit
on thousands of coffee trees in the de-
partments of Jinotepe and Matagalpa,
in Nicaragua.
The jury In the libel case against j.
s. Crawford Of Cherokee, returned n
verdict Of not guilty after being out
twelve hours.
Edward Oakley, who claimed to be
n doctor Of divinity of Brown univer-
sity, has been arraigncd on the charge
of begging at London, Eng.
1t is announced that peace has been
concluded between Uruguay and the
Uruguayan insurgents through the
mediation of DR.. Retmirez.
Richard Holt Hutton, the famous
literary critic and editor of The Lon
don Spectator since 1861, Is dead. He
was In his seventy-irst year.
Thomas Cottrell Of Shell City, Mo-,
fell from his bicycle on Main street in
Webster City, Iowa. Conclusion of
the brain followed, and he died.
Emperor William personally COM
manded the attacking force in the
army manouyers, all the troops being
engaged against an imaginary army.
Attorney General McKenna will
visit President Mckinley at Somerset,
Pa, to learn what the latter thinks OF
the opinion he Is preparing on section
%.
Lieut.. j. G. Sobral, naval attache
with the Spanish legation at Washing
ton, Is charged with having inspected
some Of the United States coast de-
lenses.
Mrs. Florence Van Setback of New
York has sued her father-in-law, Peter
Van Setback of Chicago for $G5,OOO
for the alienation of the affections of
her husband.
The fishing fleet returned to Dunkirk
from Iceland and reports that out Of
ni"ety-six boats six foundered during
the season, resulting in the drowning
of thirty men and boys.
The Chattanooga Savings and Build
ing association has made voluntary
application for a receiver. The liza
bilities are $4,000; assets it is believed
will pay dollar for dollar.
The provisional state committee of
the Silver Republican party OF Cali
fornia has formed a permanent or
ganization and elected George w. Ba-
ker OF Oakland, chairman.
The so-called Struble murder mys-
terry at Shepherd, Mich, is developing
into a story Of defalcation and suicide.
1t is known almost beyond doubt that
Cashier Struble died by his own hand.
A cable from Cologne says: In a
collision at Urbach between a freight
train and a passenger train two rail
road employees were killed, several
passengers were injured and much
damage was done.
The children of the town of Lake
Forest, twenty-four miles from Chi
cago, will be kept away from school
until the law has decided whether the
city council or the board of education
of the suburb has control of the
schools.
The Ward line steamer Niagara,
Capt. Crocker, from New York on Aug.
80, for Guantanamo, Cienfuegos, ETC.,
is ashore on the Colorado shoals off
the harbor of Santiago de Cuba. The
crew has been saved but it is feared
the vessel may be lost.
Vice President and General Manager
w. w. Peabody, Of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern railroad, has ap-
pointed O. P. Mccarthy general pas
senger agent vice j. NJ. Cheseborough.
Mr.. Mccarthy has accepted and will
assume the duties Of the office Oct. l.
The Democratic general conference
committee for Greater New York rati-
fed the action of the subcommittee
which set the holding OF the Demo-
cratic city convention for Sept 30. The
Republican convention will be held
Sept. %. >
The four thousand men who nave
been at work OH the new underground
trolley line which is being built along
Madison and Fourth avenues, New
York, are on a strike. The strike was
inaugurated because the men have
received no pay for three weeks.
The secretary of the treasury held
in a letter to the collector of customs
at Plattsburg, N. Y. that stemmed
leaf tobacco exported to Canada and
then imported into the United States
is not a manufactured tobacco and is
not subject to duty.
At st. Martin, about three miles
from Ferrol, Spain, bombs We're ex-
ploded simultaneously outside the res
licences of the mayor and the magis-
trate Of the town. Great damage was
done by the explosion. In the con-
fusion which followed the miscreants
escaped.
At a meeting of the National Dem
ocratic state central committee at Lin
coin, Neb., it was decided to hold a
state convention at Omaha Sept. %
and nominate state ticket. The call
provides for 600 delegates. EX-Secre-
tary Of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton
was among those in attendance.
Electric Cars Collide.
San Francisco, Sept. 12.-Seven per-
sons We're injured in Il collision of
electric cars on Mission street \ car