Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-11-03
General.

The Cuban evacuation limit has been
extended by the president to Jan. ].
The National Council of Women be.
gan its executive meeting at Omaha.
During the past fifteen months there
were G32 deaths out of 700 inmates of
the Mazorro insane asylum at Havana.
The board of health of Memphis,
Tenn. las raised the quarantine. and
| that city is now open to all points.
| Chairman Babcock. of the Republic,
an congressional committee. figures
out majority of twentyseven in the
| next house.
The United States supreme court has
| pronounced the joint traffic associa-
| ton an organization in violation of the
antitrust law.
The strike Of the ccmposito1s against
the typesetting machines at Antwerp
is extending. most of the papers being
unable to appear. ....
The Iowa supreme court decided
there can be no refund of the mulct
liquor tax after liquor business has
been conducted more than six months.
Five more lake vessels have been
| taken to the ocean for transportation
purposes. This makes forty nine lake
vessels taken to the ocean within a
| month.
The First National Bank of Lima, O.,
was closed by the directors. II. J.
Childs, who has been the cashier for
twenty years, has not been seen since
| Thursday morning.
Heavy rain storms last week. caused
some damage at Havana. The water
as over four feet deep in many of the
streets. flooding out dwelling houses
| and stores.
Naval Constructor Hobson it is
saiG, is going to Washington to obtain,
if possible, $1,0O0.0OO. for the purpose
Of raising the sunken Spanish cruiser
EiZcaya.
Gen. Whittier, the collector of Gus
| toms at Manila, has been ordered to
proceed to Paris for the purpose Of
testifying before the United States
peace commission there.
At a meeting of the newly elected
heard Of directors Of the Union Pacific
| railroad, the present officers were re-
| clcctcu liz CAeClliNt CoIllIItttc WIS
reelected. with T. II. Hartman as
chairman.
Gen. Harrison returned to Indian.
apolis Saturday. He said he was too
usy to enter the campaign. The gen.
cral said the Venezuelan commission,
after meeting in Paris in February. as
required by treaty, would probably
adjourn until May.
1t is reported to the Boston Shoe and
Leather exchange that the Boston Rub
Der Shoe company has been absorbed
by the United States Rubber company,
and that Mr.. Converse, it's president
will become director in the new cor
poEation.
1t is stated that the expected reor-
ganiZation of the Union Pacific and Or
egon Short Line and the Oregon Rail
| way g. Navigation companies will have
the effect Of consolidating the short
line and the Oregon Railway e. Navi-
CATION concerns into one system to be
operated from Portland. Ore.
The will of the late Mrs. Joseph r.
| Smith, wife of the late secretary Of the
bureau Of American republics, names
President Mckinley. Solicitor General
j. X Richards and Edward f.. Iutches
as executors Of the estate. The Prcsi
dent was warm friend Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith during their lives.
The Alabama state health depart
mcnt officially declared off all quaran-
tines by that state OF yellow fever in
fcctGd districts and relieved from duty
the quarantine officers on all trains.
This will enable railroad traffic and
| l<l,I
icappcd, to be fully resumed
David i. Snider, one Of two bachelor
brothers. who gave Springfield, Ohio,
Il valuable park, Is dead, aged eighty
two, leaving IN estate worth $1,000
600. The other brother, who died two
years ago, left 100000 for the sick