Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-02-17
SPORTING Notes.

SHOTtlhN NoNSNs
Jack Donovan of Cleveland knocked
out Frank Mayo Of New York before
the Dunkirk Athletic club in the fifth
| round.
Tim Hurst, on behalf of the Empire
Athletic Club Of Buffalo, has offered Il
purse Of $1,000 for II twenty-round
bout between Kid Mcfarland ana
Charley McKeever.
Down at New orleans the other day
Jockey Dunn was fined $40 for beating
Gioja over the head with his whip
while at exercise. and the owner of the
horse was fined $40 for instructing the
jockey to hit the horse over the head.
Referee Sam c. Austin decided the
fiftecn-round contest between Billy
Whistler Of Philadelphia and Tommy
White of Chicago before the Palace
Sporting Club of Trenton, n. j., Il
draw.
Frank Childs. the colored boxer who
walloped big Bog Armstrong ut Chi
cago. is much sought after. Before
his victory over Armstrong he had lit
tie reputation. He is 5 feet 8 1-2 inches
tall and is hard hitter, it is said.
He is to receive 4 chance against Joe
Butler Of Philadelphia in Il few weeks
at Chicago.
Foreign.
Mgr. Edward McColgan, vicar gen.
eral of the diocese Of Baltimore, is
dead.
The Canadian Pacific railway earn
ings for the week ending Jan. 81,
We're $4,000.
Canadian Pacific earnings for the
week ending Feb. were $685.. 900: for
the same period lost year, $500 900;
an increase of $4,000.
lac Joint TraIllc association has ap-
proved special rates to the Mardi Gras
celebrations ut New Orleans and Mo-
bile on Feb. %.
Eoissan Freres of Montreal. fancy
and staple dry goods, has suspended
payment. Liabilities are said to be
about $4,000.
A Peoria, ILL.,, distillery has received
al order by cablegram from Ham,
burg, Germany, for 10000 barrels of
alcohol.
II is officially denied at Vienna that
there is any question at present of re-
stricting the importation of American
trult or pants.
DIR. Ingraham, who is now senior Zee
turer of Trinity College, Dublin, first
came into notice more than fifty years
ago. as the author of the famous rebel
ballad. beginning, ''Who fears to speak
of '9S?'
Mrs. Tyndall, the widow of Prof.
Tyndall. has sent to the British Royal
institution sum of Fl, OOt:. which she
states that her husband desired her, at
such time as should be convenient to
nreself, to present, as an expression OF
his attachment to the institution.
The duke of Fife, vice president Of
the board Of directors of the British
South Africa chartered company, and
Sir Horace Farquhar, Bart, member
of parliament for West Marylebone,
have resigned their seats in the di-
rectcra.: Of the company.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Singapore says: England has
bought w all the Welsh coal available
here and ut Chinese and Japanese
ports for the British fleet There is
1luch excitement in the foreign COM
munity over the fact.
Secretary Sherman has received a
cablegraM from Minister Hitchcock
stating thai the Russian minister for
foreign affairs requests him to express
the sincere appreciation Of the Rus
sian government for the presidents
prompt and friendly response to it's
request to raise our representative le-
cations to embassies.
Lionel Phillips, the South African
Spectator, who was one Of DR.. Jane
sons accomplices, Las been banished
for life from the Transvaal republic.
He was set free, with other conspira-
tors. on promising never to interfere,
directly or indirectly, in Transy;,al pol
itics. He broke his promise by writing
an article rcndemning the government
in the Nineteenth Century.