Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1897-10-07

VI AuOIe ludll USUAL lulpOfttIlce Ill
view Of the pending Japanese-Hawa-
iian questions.
General.
The Millikan National Bank of De-
catur, ILL.,, has been authorized to be-
gin business. Capital, 100000.
Mrs. Ida o. G. Shirk had her divorce
suit against Judge William S. Shirk
dismissed, he paying the costs.
A three days celebration of the COM
pletion of the new steel arch bridge
over the Niagara gorge has formally
begun at Niagara Falls.
The sanitary condition of Havana Is
bad. Many pacificos herded here and
not allowed to ask charity are starry
ing.
The convention of doctors of Central
Wisconsin was held at Reedsburg.
There We're about forty doctors pres
ent.
The directors of the Delaware. Lack
awanna & Western railroad have de-
clared regular quarterly dividend of
81 per cent.
The American Paper company, deal
ers in printing paper at Chicago, has
assigned. Assets, $4,000; liabilities
about $4,000.
Murray & Watt, for seventeen years
one of the most prominent dry goods
firms of Akron. Ohio, have assigned;
liabilities $4,000, assets $4,000.
At the Greenport sporting club at
New York Bobby Dobbs of Minneapo.
lis got the decision over Joe Cans of
Baltimore in twenty-round bout.
The Shell Lake, Wis, Lumber Com
pany has completed an eleven-mile ex
tension of its logging railroad and
also improved the old roadbed and
equipment.
Farmers of Irving township. near
Hiawatha, Kas., report that myriads Of
grasshoppers are flying south, some
dropping on the way. 1t is feared that
the pests are making ready to hatch
out next spring in Brown county.
The secretary of the interior has
awarded the contract for the proposed
Indian school building at Flandrau,
S. D., to Owen & Hille, on their bid
of $4,000, and has signed the con-
tract.
Mrs. Leon LIE Dent of Bevier, Mo-,
made three attempts at suicide by ~
ing down upon the Burlington track.
Mrs. LIE Dent has good home and
every comfort Of life. The reason for
her desperate act is unknown.
The Second Baptist church of Rich
mond, Va, has extended a unanim GUS
call to Rev. Carter Helm Jones. d. D.,
of Louisville, Ky, to become it's pas
tor. 1t is believed that the call will
be accepted.
The growth Of London is astounding.
The latest returns on the subject
show that over 1900 houses are erect
ed monthly in the metropolis. Be-
tween the months of August, 1896, and
August, 1897, 1851 houses were
built.
dad" Earhart arrived at Carney,
Kas., from Portland, Ore, having trav
eled the entire distance afoot. He left
Portland last April and was about five
months on the road. Mr.. Earhart is
seventy-si years Of age. He is in good
health and little fatigued from his jour-
ney.
Officers Mitchell, Pearson, Butler and
Faundlee, Of the Choctaw country. ar
rested John Carpenter, who is charged
with being cattle thief and an all
around bad man. Carpenter was Sc
verely wounded while resisting arrest,
thirteen buckshot having entered his
body.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricultur-
al department, has secured an order
from the postoffice department permit
ting the agents of the agricultural de-
partment ia attach the department
frank to packages of sugar beet seed
to be sent from growers to the expert
ment stations throughout the country
for analysis.
The city of West Superior has pro-
ceeded with it's business, the injunc-
ton restraining it from paying out
any funds until w. r. DAVIS judy
ment of $1,000 was satisfied, having
been dissolved. Judge Vinje held that
even were the city disposed it had not
authority to pay this judgment until
taxes had been levied for the purpose.
The steamship City Of Seattle
brought the news Of a murder and sui
eide at Skaguay. The night of the DIST
George Buchanan, foreman of the
Skaguay Bay improvement company,
shot ana kllleu MIS-. StellI AOSSut1,
the proprietress Of a lodging house and
restaurant, and then killed himself.
He was madly Jealous Of her.
The second annual log rolling Of the
Woodmen Of the World of Missouri
and Kansas is being held at Nevada,
Mo. About 10000 people are in attend
ance. Mayor Graves delivered well
come address and was followed by
Sovereign Chief Root Of Omaha, Lieu
tenant Governor Northcott and ex-Gov.
Sherman Of Iowa. Kansas City, Me-
vada. Scdalia and Joplin are contest
ing for the next annual meeting.
Mrs. John Ash, living with her hus-
band at Scranton, Pa, received letter
from her son John, who was kidnapped
by relative twenty-four years ago.
The boy was four years old when taken
from home, and she had never heard
from him before since his abduction.
Ex-Gov. e. N. Morrill, has presented
the Congregational Sunday school of
Hiawatha, Kas., with new library.
He has been superintendent of the
school for :uOre than twenty years.