Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-09-01
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den.ee Form.
Aboaut 300 miners were drowned by
the flooding If the Kasimir coal mine
at Nience, Silesia.
The thirtJ-second annual convention
OF the Universay Peace union opened
at the peace temple at Mystic, Conn.
Sir Thomas Upton, the challenger
for the Americas cup, has been elect
ed member Of the Royal Clyde Yacht
club.
Thomas NJ. Adams, Democratic non-
inee for the legislature. has been assas-
sinated at Giles, Chattahootochie coun-
ty, Ga.
Roswell G. Rolston. former president
Of the Farmers Loan and Trust COM
pany. died at his country home, Baby
Ion, l.. I.
Roman II. Jarvis of Benton HarbOr
was nominated for congress by the
Fourth Michigan district Democratic
convention.
EX-Delegatc Dennis Flynn of Okla
hOma was nominated for territorial
delegate to congress by the Republican
convention.
w. II. WoOdin of Columbia county.
Pa, was nominated for congress by the
Republican cOnferees of the Seven
teenth district.
The gross earnings from operations
of the Baltimore & Ohio railway for
the month of July were $2,3O5, 991, an
increase of SGO,499.
NJ. D. Kane and Christopher Jurgen-
son, privates Of the Seventy-frst New
York, We're killed while skylarking on
a train in New Jersey.
The steamers Rival and BriXham
have sailed from Seattle for ST.
Michael with fifty passengers and 4
large amount Of freight.
About $4,000 Spanish arms and sew
eral million rounds of ammunition
were taken at Santiago. The guns
may be issued to the army.
c. o. Hall Of Des Moines was NOM
mated for congress at the Seventh dis
trict fusion convention. to go on the
ticket against Congressman Hull.
The authorities at San Francisco
have received orders from Adjt. Gen.
Corbin countermanding the orders to
send a large body Of soldiers to Homo
lulu.
The employees Of Mayo & Sons WOOL
en- mills Foxcroft, Me-, have received
notice that the plant will close for an
indefinite period. A dull market is the
cause.
Capt. Edward Collister, inspector of
British naval stations in the Pacific,
says an island near Honolulu is to be
seized by Great Britain for a coaling
station.
Sir Robert Threshie Reid, formerly
solicitor general and attorney general.
has been appointed additional counsel
for Great Britain in the Venezuela
boundary association.
The members of the Eighteenth
Pennsylvania volunteers, who have
been garrisoning Forts Brady and
Wayne, have left for Mddletown, Pa,
where they will be mustered out.
1t has developed that Haiti, in re-
fusing the establishment of United
States weather station at Mole St.
Nicholas, was suspicious that it was
initiative in territorial acquisition.
Eugene S. Wolff, the we'll known
German explorer who is charged with
usurping tribunal and liberating al
legged murderers of missionaries in
China, denies that there is any truth
in the charges against him.
The University of Cambridge has
conferred the honorary degree of doc
tor of science upon several delegates to
the international congress of zoology,
among them being DR.. Henry P. Bow
ich, of Harvard university.
Alexander Scott, heavyweight
pugilist. was so severely beaten by
Tommy Butler in a boxing bout at the
Greenwood Athletic club, Brooklyn,
that he was taken from the ring I'M
conscious. Butler has been arrested.