Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-05-27
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uispatch from bonne Terre, Mo-.
says: Gen. James X. McCormicl, IL
ue ~, aged seventy-three years.
ne strike of tanners and curriers' nj
Chlcas 80 has been officially declared or
Dy the several unions involved, d.
Cambridge university (Enplnndl NV
q vote of 1,713 to 6G2, rejected tho
proposal to confer degrees unon wn.
men. "pon w
n. Is. Rose & Co. wholesale mil.
lincrs OF Pittsburg, were closed by the
~Eeno on executions amounting to
The leaders of the taiiors' strike es.
innate that $4,000 workmen are now
OUT III New York, Brownsville, Brook.
lyn and Newark.
The duke Of Buccleuch unveiled nj
Westminster Abbey a memorial bust
OF Sir Walter Scott in the presence of a
distinguished assemblage.
bemto Lopez, seventy years old, was
hanged IN the state prison at Folsom.
CAL for the murder of George Wash.
Durll, wealthy ranch owner.
Inc secretary of the interior has au-
thorized a contract for an additional
school building at Mount Pleasant In
dlan school, In Michigan, to cost S4D..
600. ~ ~'' w
The president has decided upon the
appointment Of G. c. Tuthill Of Column
bil City, Ind. as United States COM
missioner for Alaska, with headouar-
tiers at Sitka.
Matthew Ldnin, one of the oldest
residents Of Chicago, and one Of the
founders of what is now the Loflin-
Rand Powder company, is dead, aged
nincty-four years. /,
Announcement has been made that
the Third National Bank Of New York
has decided to retire from business,
and transfers its accounts to the Ma
tional City bank
judgements by confes sion were en-
tered in the superior court at Chicago
against Richard H. Southgate, man
ager Of the Auditorium hotel for sums
aggregating $S9,1S9.
While attempting to arrest q negro
at Wetaug, Ill, Officer s. T. Detricks
of Ullin was fatally shot. The officer
fell, but, lying on his side, shot the
negro five times, killing him.
James B. Eustis, ex-ambassador to
France, and for twelve years a sena-
tor from Louisiana, announces his in
tention of becoming head of the law
firm Of Jones & Gown of New York.
II. 5. Flei5cher, a we'll known real es-
tate man Of Pittsburg, was robbed and
murdered while on his way home
shortly after midnight. After robbing
Fischer.of his money and valuables his
assailant threw him over the bridge
into the ravine ninety feet below.
Wesley Zeleboke of Grant county,
Okla, in fit of jealousy killed Joe
EIajel1 while he was visiting the girl
for whose hand they were rival suit
ors The sheriff found Zeleboke and
arrested him. On his way. to town
Zeleboke died in great agony beside
the sheriff in the buggy, after having
confessed that he had swallowed
strychnine.
George Hobson has been recorder Of
Hamilton county. Ohio, for six years
previous 60 entering on his duties last
September as clerk Of the courts. 1t
has since been fond that he was
short 100000 as recorder. Now the
experts find that he is already short
So3,4t;4 as clerk. although he has held
the Office only six months. His trial
begins Monday.
An explosion of gasoline at st.
Louis resulted in the death Of Mrs.
Ada Mohr, thirtythree years old. her
eighteen months-old baby and Hugo
Howard fifteen months old. Mrs.
Bessie Howard and William Howard,
her five-year-old son, were probably
fatally burned, while Max Gumpert
and Henry Surman were badly burned
in attempting to rescue the unfortun-
nate victims.
Theosophists have closed a deal by
which forty acres of land at Point
Iona, Cal, were added to their hold
ings, which now include more than
half a square mile in the choicest sit
uation on the bay. Their temple, to
be erected on this tract, will cost at
least $25O,OOO, and improvements con-
templated will cost $15O,000 more.
They have already expended $4,000