Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-02-10

In the bout arranged for twenty
rounds ut Birmingham. Eng. between
Joe Elms of Boston and Johnny Simp-
son, the Englishman. Simpson knocked
Elms out in the fourteenth round.
Otherwise.
1t is said that Singcrlys bank at
Philadelphia will pay in full.
All negroes are being run out of
Loanolle county, Ark.
The Standard Poland China Record
association held its annual meeting AT
maryville. Mo-. Feb. 1.
Tie First Presbyterian church. the
largest in New Albany. Ind. was to-
tally destroyed by fire. The loss will
be $4,000; insurance, 100000.
Henry c. Frick, partner of Andrew
Carnegie the steel manufacturer, has
paid 100000 for a painting, Blessing
the Bread"
Altogether Tod" Sloane rode in fifty
eight races in England. He won en-
actly twenty of them, was second in
nine and third in six.
Isaac r. Adams. once we'll known
and wealthy lawyer of Chicago, was
committed to Bellevue, New York, for
examination as to his sanity.
Frank Phiscator. the Illondike king,
of Raroda, Ind. who sold his claim for
S1,000,0O0, has left for Alaska with a
company Of prospectors.
United States Consul Dudley at Van
couver reports the arrival there an
Jan. 10 of a car load of 100 trained
Newfoundland dogs. for use in carry
ing freight in the Klondike.
The dominion government has passed
an order renewing the modus vivcndi
covering fishing right on the Atlantic
coast for another year. The terms are
the same as last season.
The executive committee of the Ma
tional Association Of Labor Commits
sioners has fixed June H. in Detroit,
as the date and place Of their next
meeting.
The bishop of Wichita, Kas., and the
archbishop of Milwaukee, who are
touring Mexico, will leave the City of
Mexico for the mines of Militia, in the
state of Oaxaca.
Alice Nielsen, the prima donna of the
Bostonians, was legally separated from
her husband, Benjamin Nentwig, by
Judge Henry, of the circuit court at
Kansas City, Mo.
The wholesale and retail hardware
house of George NJ. Scott & Co. of
Salt Lake, Utah, one of the largest
and oldest hardware houses in the
intermountain country, has made an
assignment
Farmer" Burns has been matched
to wrestle "Jock" King, in Marquette
Mich, next Saturday night for $500 a
side. The match will be under catch
as-catch-can rules. best three out of
five falls.
The estimated gross earnings of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail-
way company, east and west of the
Missouri river. for the month of Jan
uary, is 81. 23S, 1871, an increase, as
compared with the estimated earnings
for January, year ago, of $217, G51 10.
Hamburg has not been nominated
for either the Brooklyn or Suburban
handicap, and the horsemen are guess
ing hard as to what DAILY is going to
do with him. Hamburg is eligible for
most Of the rich Western stakes. and
will probably campaign in the West
this year.
In the presence of the entire Cali
| fornia congressional delegation, JUS
tice Mckenna, of the supreme court,
and Mrs. Leland Stanford and other
ladies. President Mckinley touched a
| telegraph key at the White House and
opened the California golden Jubilee
at San Francisco.
The order of Insurance Commission
NG Nal
valid the bonds of foreign insurance
companies includes every fire insur-
ancc company doing business in the
state not incorporated under the laws
Of California.
AS a preliminary to determining
upon reconstruction of the large
dock at the Brooklyn :lavy yard, men,
| bers of the house committee on noval
affairs have asked Secretary Long to
secure testimony from civilian experts
on the character Of the ground under
lying the structure with a view to
learning whether quicksands exist.
A number of senator's and members
OF the house are arranging to go to
Michigan later this month to attend
the Lincoln banquet at Grand Rapids
on the 10Th, and Michigan club ban
quet at Detroit on Washington's birth
day. 1t is expected that Senators Ma
son and Wellington and Representa-
tivrs McClcary, Mccall and Pearson
will go to Grand Rapids.
Jim Janey, the BLACK Demon" who
| halls from Baltimore, has issued q
challenge to meet Kid Mcfarland be,
fore any club ut 142 or 145 pounds
Janey is said to be Il good man, and his
quick victories over Lon Beckwith and
Jim Waits stamp him as formidable
customer. Should Mcfarland refuse
Janey says the def is open to Marty
Matthews as q preferable opponent.
Bids for building sixty miles of
barbed wire fence along the north line
Of the Pine Ridge reservation, s. D.,
will soon be advertised for by the In
dim office.