Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-11-24

| lNpnOlu Is rampant among the sol
dierS at Honolulu.
The National Live Stock association
convcneS at Denver Jan. ~.
Senator Stewart Of Nevada tele-
graphs that he will have Il two-thirds
majority in the legislature.
The defeat of Senator Turpie of
Indiana is decisive victory for the
! Nicaraguan canal people.
The naval architects and marine
engineers are holding their sixth gen.
eral meeting at New York.
1t is understood that negotiations to
revive the steel rail pool are under
way at Pittsburg.
Zinc is S36 per ton and $40 is an
ticipated this week. The highest
price ever reached before was $34.
In Plymouth church. Brooklyn, a
movement was inaugurated to pro-
vide employment for Cubans.
Independent strawboard plants will
consolidate against the American
Strawhoard company.
" lillian Bryan. plumber. New York.
has filed 4 voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of $13S, 900 and
no assets.
Through the efforts Of Gen. Joseph
Wheeler over 100 colleges will grant
free tuition to two or more young
Cubans.
An order has been issued in the
United States court at Chicago for the
sale of the Metropolitan Elevated rail
road at an upset price of SG,OO0,O0O.
The directors of the Revere National
bank of Boston have voted to place
the institution in liquidation on Dec
10.
The orlen publiao force, cavalry and
infantry regiments. have been dis
banded at Havana after q part pay
ment of arrears had been made.
\ dispatch has been received an
nouncing that the hospital ship Scan
dia has sailed from Manila for San
| Francisco with about seventy sick SOL
diers.
All the potent interests in the tin
| plate industry are now getting to-
gether in the formation of the COM
bination which is to be capitalized at
S-O,O0O,O0O.
1t is rumored that Senator Mcmillan
!
Hay as ambassador to Great Britain,
and that Secretary -Alger will succeed
him in the senate.
Receiver Oscar G. Murray, of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, denies that
! there was a disagreement with James
J. Hill over the successor to w. NJ.
Green as general manager.
| Window glass factories, with ca
pacity Of about LOO pots, started
work at Pittsburg and nearly 10000
men and boys are earning their first
money for over six months.
There is much comment over the
conduct Of President Orr, of the New
York chamber of commerce, at the
banquet Tuesday night in toasting the
queen before the president.
All white officers Of the Sixth Vir-
ginia have resigned except Lieut.. Col.
Croxton and Lieutenants Heath and
Richardson. The lieutenants are on
special duty and not III command of
negro soldiers.
The transport Ohio left Honolulu
for Manila on the 18th. the Indiana on
! the Sth and the Zealandia on the 18th.
Typhoid fever broke out on the .Ari-
IONA just as she WAS to sail for Ma
nill
The engagement is announced at
Fort Worth, Tex. Of Miss Fannie Hal
bert Mills, daughter Of United States
Senator Roger Q. Mills, to First Lieut..
George Richards, United States Marine
corps.
The torpedo boat Davis, which S,s-
tanned an accident on her trial trip by
which seven men We're killed, will he
given another trial at Portland. Or.
Tie Farragut, in her trial at San Fran
CISCO fell below speed.
The Buckeye Tobacco works, former
ly Chase, sherwood Il Co., of Toledo,
Ohio. the Oldest tobacco firm in Ohio
has closed permanently and retired
from business The proprictOrs have
been unable to meet the competition OF
the trust and preferred to close solvent
The supreme court has affirmed the
judgment OF the supreme court OF
Washington. enjoining the city of
Walra Walla from building water
works, on the ground that this violated
q stipulation by which the water fran
chise was given to a private company
lie miners cIu)loyeu III t1c Flclully
of SiIvcrton, B. c., have rounded VI
all the Chinese labOrers in the various
camps and shipped them out Of the
district The Mongolians are expect
cd to return to China by the next
steamer.
Senator's o. II. Plat Of Connection
and j. X. Jones Of Arkansas, compos
ing a majority Of Il subcommittee OF
the senate committee on finance. are IL
New York for the purpose Of invcsti
eating the methods of administering
the internal revenue and customs laws
The bill providing for n treaty com
mission was lost In the Cherokee sen
ate by tie vote. The Cherokees viii
now be governed by the Curtis bill
BY the terms Of the bill the tribes were
given their choice of treating with the
Dawes commission or accepting the
provisions Of the Curtis bill.