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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
Explainnb1c

"Thcse people next door must be
queer"
"Why?'
'They've lived there more than a
month, and I've never seen the post
man stop ut their house."
"Oh, we'll, perhaps the man prefers
to have the bills sent to the ottice.'-
Detroit News.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
Parallel CQscs.

"Here's the case of a man whose
hair turned from jet-blacl1 to snow
white in year."
"Humph! Ny head turned bald six
months after marriage. "-Philadelphia
North American.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
Comparative Cost.

Comparative C0Bt. n
Handel Bar-Your wheel may be q
very good one, but it can't quite come
up to mine. Why, Great Sprockets! I
paid a hundred and eighty dollars for
mine. You paid only ninety for yours.
Scorchlight-That's all true enough;
but you must consider this fact: Be-
sides that ninety dollars have paid
over one hundred dollars for repairs
thus far this season.-New York
World
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
Uncle Billy's Wisdom.

"Robby asked Uncle Billy what
noise was.'
''What did Uncle Billy tell him."
'TIe told him noise was any old kind
of racket-except the kind we like to
make ourselves" Free Press.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
ExnliCit.

Reporter-It is said that you and
O'Hoggagrty were calm and collected
after the dynamite explosion at the
quarry.
Clancy-Well, it was like this: l
was calm, an O'Hoggarty was COLLECT
ed.-Boston Traveller.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

Her Father-So you wish to marry
my daughter?
The Diplomat-Ies; but a dearer
wish of mine is to comfort your own
declining years.
Her Father-Say no more. You'll do.
New York Journal.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

Educate Your Bowels with Cascnrets.
l0c II c. C. fail druggists refund money.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

To Cure COnstipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic.. 1Oc or 25c.
II c. c. c. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

An Appropriate Ticket.
Trotter-I am going to Circle City,
away in the interior of Alaska.
perkasie-I suppose you will buy a
ticket?-Puck.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
POLLY'S LODGER.
T was o beautiful

T was O beautiful
August morning
one of those deli
ciOus summer
mornings. when the
air Is full of melt
ing blue light, and
the leaves futter
softly and the very
brown sparrows
dart in and out I'M
r11~ kho amman IL on
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23
GROWTH OF THE COUNTRY.

Honorable John L. McLaurin. of
South Carolina, in a recent speech, to
which the New York Sun calls atten-
ton, says that there are 183,OOO,O 900
acres OF unbroken forests in the
south, with pine, walnut, oak, cherry,
cypress, hickory and other woods; en-
ormous stores of granite, marble and
sandstone; phosphate rock in WONDER
full abundance; and. in some places, as
he learns, coal, iron ore, and limestone
close together in the same range, "a
condition that exists no where else in
the world"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

Then the people of the south, says
Mr.. McLaurin, "are religiously inclined
and churches are found everywhere"
Their educational facilities will appear
to visitors from other parts of the
country mot disappointing, and their
standard of morals fully up to the
average" The land titles are perfect,
and the taxes enviably low.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

Congressman Lowering of Massachu-
sets, himself manufacturer, with
large interests in the south, gave like
testimony in his recent speech OH the
tariff. Within two years the south's
addition of spindles, he said, had been
8S2,746, and New England's only 671.-
223, the former being an increase of 80
per cent and the latter of 5 1-3. IF
were asked where in all our country
was to be found the best planned, best
ordered and best equipped mill running
in low numbers, and at the best profit,
I would point to South Carolina"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

But of the favored state Of South
Carolina Mr. McLaurin particularly
speaks. In 1890 Mr.. q. J. Drake. Of
Marlboro county, won a prize of 1000
offered for the largest yield by gath
ering 1854 bushels of corn from one
acre. This amount looks large, but
he did it by getting two crops, plant
ing the first so that by the time it ma
tured he had second ready to culti-
vate between the rows. II have my
SELF" says Mr.. McLaurin, made crop
of oats. cut them the first Of June,
planted corn and peas and thus har-
vested three crops the same season
from the same land. I have also made
fair crop of cotton after wheat and
rye" On another prize stimulus, year
before last, Mr.. ]. c. Fletcher, from
100 acres, produces, at market prices,
$3,726.45 worth of farm products, rang
ing from 4S bales of cotton to 400 dozen
eggs.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

Last years cotton crop Of the
south was 1887, 900 bales, or 50 per cent
of the whole worlds production, and
brought more money from abroad
than all other agricultural products
combined" The total cotton produce
ton since 1890, at its price in gold each
year, is reckoned at $4,000, 900, 900
In exact figures, $14,99S, 5S8. 43O. The
exports alone for century, or since
1875, have brought us SIC, 400, OO0, 900.
Last year the south produced 729 ,392,-
561 pounds of sugar, 37,617,O76 gallons
of molasses. and 16S, 665, 440 pounds of
rich, although of each of these articles
far more was imported.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

In 1893 South Carolina raised :0,S3s,-
S95 pounds of rice, or about one-fourth
of the whole countrys product; 60
261 ,422 bushels of corn, 4,767,821 Of
oats, 1.732.S24 of wheat, 747,471 bales
of cotton, 222,29S pounds Of tobacco,
besides rye, potatoes and so on. April
cots, cherries, olives, promegranates,
and many other fruits are raised in
abundance There are 100000 acres
of yellow pine alone, and the turpentine
stills turn out an annual product of
$3,OOO,00O. The gum, magnolia, syca-
more, ash and other trees are we'll
known.
OF spindles there are more than a
million at work in the state, their cap
ital of sl2,OOO,O00 to s15,000000 being
drawn from the north and east. OF
Columbia's four cotton mills, one, the
CRANKY, was built in a cotton field and
inclosed a patch from which cotton
was picked while the brick walls were
going up. That was minimizing the
distance between crop and mill.
Pointing his moral. Mr.. McLaurin
saws that the south asks a fair share
of consideration for her interests in
the current tariff bill. and also wants
northern thrift and capital to enlarge
her material interests. Are we not
of the same great national family, an
Integral factor Of the same great ma
tom" Certainly he has set forth with
enthusiasm what the south has accom-
plished thus far.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-09-23

Manufactures are growing enormous
ly in the south. According to General
Longstreet, their products doubled in
value between 1880 and 1890. while the
wages of the factory hands nearly
tripled, as also did the capital invested
In cotton manufacturing. But, what
is very remarkable. that capital, ac-
cording to the general, has already
nearly doubled since 1890, being about
$12O,000,000 now to $61. 100000 then. In
1880 the cottonseed oil capital was 49,
100000, and now it is over $50, 1000, 900;
in 1880 the south made $4,000 tons of
pig iron, and in 1895 it made 1,702,SS0
tons; in 1890 it's coal output was 6,0O0,-
600 tons, and now it is at the rate of
30,0O0,000 tons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
MATE BRAN A MURDERER.
The Jury Brings in N Verdict of
Guilty After "a Long Fight.

Boston, Mass, Jan. 2.--Thomas Bran,
mate of the barkentine Herbert Fuller.
was found guilty to-day of the murders
committed on that vessel last July. The
jury went out al l 80 yesterday This morn
ing at 10 o'clock they reported that they
could not agree. Judge Colt directed them
to retire for further consideration. They
were again locked up with the result that
this afternoon at $40 O'Clock, they an
nounced a verdict of guilty
The murder was one of the strangest of
sea tragedies. On July q last the marine
observer at Halifax, N. S.. made out
vessel coming slowly into the hArbor fly
ing the stars and stripes at half mast. in
dicating death, and black flag beneath
1t. This meant mutiny. The police were
turned out in a hurry and sent to meet
the vessel She was the American bark
entine Herbert Fuller, SO tons of Barring
ton, Me. In her cabin lay the bodies of
Capt. Nash, the captains wife and
Second Mate Bamberg. The cook and a
young Harvard student named Lester H.
Monks were in charge of the ship, while
Seaman Charles Brown and Mate Thomas
Bran were in irons on the deck The
story was a horrible one. On Monday
night, July 13, Monks, who was a pas
senger on the vessel, which sailed from
Rosano Argentina, was awakened by a
woman's screams. He jumped up and
CROPPED his way to the chart room, where
the captain slept He put his hand in the
berth and drew it away smeared with
blood. EIe at once made for the deck and
met Mate Bran, who made a lunge at
him with a piece of lumber. Monks drew
a revolver and covered Bran. Monks and
the cook took charge of the vessel, put
the first mate, Bran. in irons, and navi-
gated to Nova Scotia.
Bran was convicted on the evidence of
Seaman Brown, who testified that he saw
the murders. Brown was at the wheel that
night, and he said that he saw Bran
strike Capt. Nash with an AK
No motive for the murders was brought
out at the trial. and there was a strong
feeling in some quarters that Bran was
not the guilty person.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03

received the following from Miami to-day:
The steamer Dauntiess rescued a large
body of men and a cargo from No Name
key. Many Of the men were in a helpless
condition. The Dauntless will wait and
meet the Commodore and deliver the men
and cargo to her. Will report as per sig
nails seen at Miami and will return as soon
as we meet the Commodore, probably Fri
day"
This confirms the reports received from
Key West Friday night, stating that the
Dauntless was anchored off No Name key
Friday afternoon taking on men and cargo
The Cubans here are very much concern
ed over the report that many of the men
are in helpless condition. 1t is not be-
lived that any of them were wounded when
fired upon by the Spanish patrol boat off
the Cuban coast, but that their condi-
tion is the result of exposure on No Name
key. The key is a deserted island and
the men had had no protection from the
weather for the past ten days. 1t is be-
lieved that those who are too weak to be
taken on the Commodore will be brought
to this port on the Dauntless.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
BANKER HAMM0SD DROWNED.
One of the Illinois Nationals Officers
Commits Suicide.

Chicago, Jan. 2.-William A. Hammond,
who was second vice president of the
failed National Bank of Illinois, went
from his Evanston home, partly dressed
and evidently demented, in the gloomy
darkness and wind swept rain about 2
o'clock this morning, and leaving a trail
of torn and twisted private papers in his
path, sought the Dempster street pier,
from which he threw himself into the icy
water of Lake Michigan, to obtain relief
from the troubles which have piled upon
him in the past two weeks.
The body was found shortly after noon
whittier it had been carried by the un-
dertow. 1t was taken to the morgue and
an inquest was held.
Ten days ago local morning paper pub
lished a sensational and lengthy attack
upon Mr.. Hammond's honesty as an Off
Ger of the bank of Illinois. 1t directly ac-
cused him of wrecking the institution, of
playing the role of "kiter," of specializing
with other peoples money, of practicing
carefully planned deception on his fellow
directors and the depositors for years and
of sealing the lips of President Schneider
by allowing the accounts of Weiss & Ber-
ger, sons-in-law of the president, to pass
safe bounds.
This paper alleged: HE has violated
wilfully and deliberately, the law which
is supposed to protect the public from
the operations of such as he"
Referring to these charges, friends of
Mr.. Hammond united in declaring that
they had driven him to his death.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
WILLIAMS STILL IN JAIL.
His Application For Bail Not to BE
Heard Until Next Wednesday.

Waycross, Ca, Jan. 2.-The motion of
Warren H. Williams fer bond was not Civ
en- hearing to-day by Judge Sweat. So
licitor General Bennett and J. c. McDon-
aid for the prosecution presented mo-
tion for a postponement of the hearing
until next Wednesday SO DR.. Wilson can
return from the burial of his son S remains
in Alabama, and also give the state time
to prepare evidence. Judge Sweat ordered
the hearing to occur next Wednesday. 8,
DR.. Wilson arrived this morning from
Alabama and returned tonight with his
sons remains.
Warren Williams Is sharing part Of the
cell in the Ware county jail occupied by
Black, who is also charged with murder.
They are in a steel cage and comfortable
bedding has been provided. Mr.. Williams
reads the newspapers and also his mail.
Mrs. Williams is more cheerful to-day,
but she Is still distressed about her hus-
bands future and her own.
Mr.. Williams father is stopping at the
Southern and will remain as long as ne
cessary.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
NEWSPAPER 0FFICE AFLAME.
The Blaze Started by a RObber Blow
Open a Safe.


Charlotte, N. c., Jan. 2.-The Observer
building sustained a disastrous loss by
fire tonight the result of an explosion in
the Office of the business manager of the
job department, on the second floor. The
explosion was the work of safe robbers,
who attempted to blow open the safe in
that Office. The paper stock in the room
was instantly ignited, and the fire spread
with such rapidity that the men in the
newspaper composing rooms barely had
time to get out, losing their coats hats
and other effects.
The second floor was wholly, and the
third partially gutted A new book bind
cry plant had just been put in on the
second floor, and this was entirely de-
stroyed, and all the presses were more or
less burned, besides the loss of a $1,000
stock of paper.
The Observers battery of Merganthaler
type setting machines was swept by the
fire, the belts burned off and the keys
melted. The loss is fully covered by in
surance.
The police claim to have a clue to the
safe blower. The combination knob and
it's outer works were blown from the
safe and the hinges were missing, but
the door withstood the shock. The OBJ
server will appear in the morning as US
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
NASHVILLE ABLAzE AT NIGHT.
THE LOSS OVER $1,OOO,OOO AND THE
INSURANCE ABOUT HALF.

The Second story of LebecI Brothers.
Dry Goods store the Starting Point
of the Blnxe-Grimes, Daily and
RObinsOn's Dry Goods store and
the Public Market Also Swept
Away-Am Area of n Block and a
Half Covered by the Burned Build
ings-Hcav.y Loss of Life Narrowly
Escaped.
Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 8. 1880 a. M
Fire started an hour ago and the public
square is doomed.
All the fire departments are out, but can
do nothing on account of high wind.
Lebeck Brothers wholesale and retail
dry goods store, Crime, Daily & Robinsons
dry goods store, and the public market
house, covering an area of a block and a
half, have been totally destroyed by the
fire.
No fatalities have as yet occurred, but
they are momentarily expected on account
of the immense buildings which compose
this part of the city and their now totter-
ing condition.
The fire is undoubtedly the most disas-
trous in the citys history, and the loss
will at a conservative estimate reach over
a million, with the fire still raging fierce
ly. The insurance at present is unobtaina-
BILE, but will probably reach about so per
cent
The same locality was visited recently
by almost as disastrous a contlagration as
the one of this morning.
Nashville, Tenn, Jan. 3, 2:30 a. m.-The
fire originated in the second story of Le-
beck Bros. and spread westward.
At 1890 terrific wind arose from the
southwest, which famed the flames into
a fury. The city hall and market house,
which is located opposite the ruined build
ings, caught from sparks and was very
seriously damaged.
Burns & Co., harness manufacturers, To-
Gated on Market street in the rear of Le-
beck Bros, caught at 1916 o'clock, and
was totally ruined.
The total loss at this hour is estimated
at ST. 100000. kilograms have been sent to
Louisville, Memphis and Chattanooga for
help, and the fire has little signs of abate-
ment
At 1905 O'Clock the rear wall of the Burns
saddlery store fell through the jewelry
store of B. H. Stenf & Co., crushing a
number of people. Charles Thompson is
the only one reported seriously injured.
AS already stated, the fire started in Lee
| beck & Co.'S. A policeman who was riding
| across the public square at the time, and
who turned in the alarm says the light
broke out all over the building at once.
Lebscks insurance is 100000
1t is impossible to give the insurance of
the others in detail, but insurance men
approximate it at 100000.
The falling of the south wall of the Burns
building did more to check the flames
than anything else, completely burying in
brick and mortar the small houses and
making a gap that the lire could not jump
on Market street, where it looked as
| though by the aid of the wind a tremen-
dous confiagration was in progress. Crash
ing walls and showers of flaming sparks
added terror to the scene. The marvellous
feature of the disaster is that no fatalities
occurred.
At a. am. it looks as though they had
the fire under control although three
buildings are still burning fiercely.
Lebeck Brothers are extensive wholesale
and retail dry goods merchants.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03

senator WOIcOtt Sails to Represent
This Country.


New York, jan Ex-senator Wolcott
sailed on the Campania to-day as the en-
voy of bimetallism. Before the end Of
this month an International conference
in the interest of bimetallism will be held
IN London. 1t is reported that representa-
tives of FIVE governments will be pres
ent The conference will be informal,
but those who will meet are accredited
representatives of their governments, and
out of this meeting will grow formal
conference.
The Blmetallic League of Great Britain
has been for some time working for this
end, and deep enough interest in bimetal-
lism aroused in the United States, France,
Germany and Russia for them to send
representatives to the conference.
Senator Wolcott, the representative
from this country, said just before sailing:
This conference will be entirely unofii-
cial. My invitation comes from bi-metal-
lists in England. This Is an auspicious
time for discussing the subject. l feel
very hopeful that something will grow out
of our meeting"
Senator Wolcott declined to discuss his
powers, which were bestowed by the con-
gressional caucus with the advice and
consent Of President-elect William Nc
Kinley.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
FATAL BLOW IN THE RING.

James Duhy 10 Die as the Result of
His Go with George Justice.
New York. Jan. 2.-During one of the
boxing bouts at the Broadway Athletic
Club James Dufy Of Boston was so Sc
verely punished by George Justice Of the
Nonparlel Club OF this city that he was
carried from the ring unconscious. Later
he was removed to 81. Vincent's hospital.
The doctors say he Is suffering from
hemorrhage of the brain and will probably
die. His opponent was arrested and locked
up to await the result of Duffy's in-
tIrfes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
CYCLONES WAKE on coRPSES.
FOUR PERSONS KILLED OUTRIGHT
AND THREE MORE DYING.

Twenty Persons More or Less serE-
OusIy WOunded-A score of DwelI~
Ings in Ruins and Only seven Left
Unharmed I'm the Whole Town.
MOOringspOrt, La, the Scene of the
Denth and Devastation.
Shreveport, La, Jan. "A cyclone from
the southwest struck and almost lteral-
ly demolished the town of Mooringsporr,
just north of this city, this afternoon. al
3:45 o'clock.
over twenty dwellings were blown down,
only seven buildings being left intact.
Four persons were killed and twenty
wounded. The dead are:
Willie Goodman.
Maud Goodman.
Hill Goodman. t
Infant daughter of Jesse Goodman.
The injured are:
Mrs. Jesse Goodman.
Alice Goodman.
Paralee Goodman. wife and two daughs
ters of Jesse Goodman.
His nephew, Clyde Goodman.
Mrs. Emmie Morgan and infant babys
injured.
Mrs. Head. mother of Mrs. Morgan, 6a
years of age. badly injured In back and
feet. All the children injured were Mrs.
Heads grandchildren.
Mrs. Milan and two children, slightly
injured.
Mr.. Aiken, hurt in head.
Thomas Elgin. arm broken.
Thomas Elliott. injured In head.
DR.. ]. b. Harris, head cut and left side
injured.
Tom Yeat, head cut
Mrs. Tom Yeat internally injured.
Miss Yeat, aged IA. slightly injured.
Alvin Yeat, years Of age. slightly I'M
jured.
Mrs Davis, slightly injured.
Jordan Robinson, colored. arm badly
fractured.
Three of the wounded will probably die.
The cyclone came in suddenly and last
ed only about one minute. The following
houses were destroyed:
w. H. b. Crooms grocery and cotton
seed house. Ivy's grocery store, Falns
saloon. Fuller's residence. Christians
store, warehouse. residence and tenant
house, Morgan's residence, Milan's resi-
dence, Frank Ivy's residence, Goodman's
residence, r. A. Yeats residence, MetnO-
dict parsonage, C. S. Groom, one vacant
house, o. V. Aiken's residence. Croon's
livery stable and smoke house.
The only houses left uninjured are: Mrs.
c. s. croom's residence J. S. Noers store
and residence. Methodist church, Mrs
Caldwell's residence. w. H. b. Croom's
main store and residence and depot
Physicians and a relief committee left
here tonight at $50 o'clock on a special
train and every possible attention is being
given the wounded
Capt Matt Scovelle, p. J. Trezevants
Henry Enders, NJ w. Burff. S. N. Keely,
Thomas Enders. Mr.. Seaman and others
went on the relief train, and are render
ing all the assistance in their power. 10
has been decided to take the wounded tn
the hospital at daylight in the morning.
They cannot be moved tonight, owing to
the difficulty in getting them on the
train.
DR.. Tillinghast, the local physician, was
found here doing all in his power for the
injured.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
CYCLE RACE CLOSED.
Waller Wins, With Maddox Second
and Ashinger Third.

Washington, Jan. 2.-The six-day, eight
hour race closed tonight in the presence
of the largest crowd that has yet been
in attendance. Six men were in at the
finish. The prize money was $500, Of
which $3.50 went to the winner and the
remainder was divided among the other
men according to position and distance
covered. The track was again officially
measured this evening and found to be 3S
feet too long on each lap, thus adding
about seven miles to the score made by
each rider. The race ended with num-
ber of exhibition rides. The following is
the score:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-03
-s-@D-S-
CONFLICTS WITH CUBANS.
GEN. Bosch Reports Number of
Successful engagements.

Havana, Jan. 2-Gen Bosch, with his
column, has arrived at Guisa, in the prov
ince of Santiago de Cuba, successfully
surmounting the obstacles which the
strongly entrenched rebels placed in his
way. The column had engagements with
the rebels at Iona, Piedra and Manzan-
lila, dislodging the enemy from their po-
sitions and forcing them to retire, leaving
many dead on the field. Gen. Bosch's loss
was one major, one captain, two lieuten-
ants, and a surgeon, and three privates
killed and twenty-nine wounded. In 9TH
er encounters reported from several prov
inces, forty-one insurgents were killed and
a large number wounded and made prison.
erS.