Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-01-06

years. She was a prominent abolition
list. and her home at Bridgeport was 81
station on the Underground railroad.
She founded the first sanitary society
for soldiers during the civil war.
General.
The membership of the New York
Driving Club is now 3O1. The annual
dues amount to $500
Dan Creedon has gone to New Or
leans with Benny Falk. and will work
for the boollmaker at the race track.
Oscar Ames has a yearling by Joe
Patchrn which has shown a quarter i'll
351-2 seconds on the rot.
1t begins to look as if Critic and
kid Lavigne would have to so East
to get u chance to box each other.
The banking and brokerage house Of
the L. Il. ward company at 81 and 80
Broadway, New York. was closed by
the sheriff OH an attachment.
Parscn Thomas Uzzell distributed
5000 jack rabbits among poor people
who applied for them at Denver.
These animals were shot in the annual
hunt at Lamar, Col.
Bob Fitzsiinmons has bought another
lion, paying $1,000 cash for it. Bob's
first lion crossed the dark river on a
live electric light wire at Cleveland a
year ago.
Benjamin Jordon, the English featll-
erweight who defeated Tommy White
has challenged Dixon, Solly Smith and
Pedlar Palmer to box at 120 pounds in
April for $500 a side.
t. w. White & Co. and Frank w.
White, manager of the White Catering
company, proprietor Of restaurants on
Fourth and Fifth streets, Cincinnati.
assigned to A. w. Goldsmith. Total
assets $4,000 total liabilities. $1,000
During the last eight years twenty
seven Yale men. twenty-threa Primo
ton, twenty-five Harvard. fifteen Uni
vcrsity of Pennsylvania and one Cor
nell man have been chosen on the ALL
American college football elevens.
Joe Patchen, 22:O11-i Gace record
2:O11-2l, has paced siXty-Six heats in
2:1O or better. He has taken part in
fortyseven races, of which he won
twenty three; contested 1856 heats,
winning nienty-Seven.
1t is reported that Chicago parties
will soon establish Il photograph fact
DRY in Muskegon. Mich, capitalized at
100000. Philip d. Armour is credited
with being one of the principal invest
OTIS.
Princeton athletes have been forbid
den to take part in sports as the re-
preventative of any athletic club. Har-
ward was the first to pass this rule, and
the other big universities are likely to
follow the good example set.
The owners of all the large and
prosperous mines in Cripple Creek
made Il handsome Christmas present
to their employees by allowing full time
for an idle day. The gift in the aggre-
gate amounts to about $4,000, divided
among several thousand miners.
At New York William Gottzyzer and
Mrs. John Rice, dropped dead at mid
night while trimming Christmas trees
for their respective children. The g.
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Field Of Keyport. N. j., pulled a light
ed tree-over on himself the same night
and was burned to death.
Ben Jordon, the English feather
weight boxer who recently defeated
tional Sporting Club, is coming to
America. He has authorized San
Tommy White, of Chicago at the Nat
Austin to make a match for him with
George Dixon, Solly Smith or Frank
Ernc, to take place in America some
time in February. Jordon will leave
England UP on receitp of information
that he is matched.
In the ring building of the breeding
barn on DR.. w. Seward Webbs extern
sive farm at Shclburne, VT, was held
saturday night Christmas celebration
unique in character and on a scale
never before known in Vermont The
guests included all the employers OF
Shelburne farm with their families, the
adults in Trinity parish, and other
friends in the village, making about
$50 in all.
Says a friend of the wonderful little
Welsh rider: 'A1ichael never drinks
anything but ten and ale. He is Il
great tea drinker, but seldom touches
water; and he never smokes never has
smoked in fact a cigar or cigarette.
He uses no vegetables. as they tend
to fatten, and warns off all highly sea-
soncd foods-chicken. game, pies and
pastry. He regards coffee drinking as
also being bad"
They have queer ways of running
college football at the University of
Michigan. Honey Stuart. the speedy
halfback and the best man in the uni
versity team, suddenly left Ann Arbor.
and on investigation it was found that
Stuart bad never been q bona tide
student at the university. The fac1
developed that while he had attended
classes, signed the usual pledge in re.
gard to professionalism and was
to all appearances Il regularly enrolled
student, he had never registered or
Iaid his university fees.
John S. Barnes, formerly of Minnea-
polls. now of Birmingham, Eng, has
abandoned the prospect Of opening
boxing club at Paris as the project Of
police has refused to give him H.
cenSe.
An OuJraNe.