Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-03-24
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NJ. Cornhauser Il Co., wholesale
liquor dealers, assigned at Chicago.
RESETS. $4,000; liabilities, 500, 900.
the cause.
Hampstead Washburn, Republican
member of the Chicago civil service
commission, has rendered his resigna-
ton.
At Mount Pleasant, Mich, the Peo-
pies Savings bank safety vault was
robbed Of $1,000. Duplicate keys We're
used. The bank is in the hands Of u
receiver.
Assistant Secretary Meikeljohn has
made an order restoring the wages of
the employees in the United States ars-
email at Rock Island, ILL.,, to the rates
existing Dec. 81, 1897.
The contract for carrying the mail
between Andover and Britton, s. d.,
was awarded to w. w. Marble at $797
year; also between Newark and
Britton, s. D., to A. H. Perkins at
sos per annum.
Mayor McKisson Of Cleveland has
announced that he would contest the
election Of Senator Hapna when the
latter attempted to take his seat fol
the long term. McKisson was the can.
didate of the opposition.
1t has been announced that a strike
which threatens to extend to ever de-
partment of the building trades in st.
Louis will be inaugurated on April 1.
when from 1000 to 1900 members of
the bricklayers' union will lay down
their trowels.
The civil service commission has Or
dered examinations to be held May Z
to establish register to fill vacancies
in the position of cooks at the Morris
Indian school, Minnesota, at $500 per
annum, and at Pierre school, South
Dakota, at $500 per annum.
At the Central Labor union meeting
at New York a strong protest in the
form Of resolutions was entered
against the acquittal of Sheriff Martin
and his deputies by the jury at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, and against the
court proceedings.
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
Over 100000 head of cattle will starve
to death in California this year unless
the government can be persuaded to
speedily modify the quarantine lines
against the splenatic or Southern fe-
yer.
w. c. Bradbury & Co. of Denver, in
connection with the Nassau Construc..
ton company Of New York city, have.
closed a contract for the construction
of l25 miles of railway from Chihua..
hua to Guerrero, Mex, at a cost Of
$2,5O0,O0O.
San Francisco has dry dock at
which the battleship Oregon has twice
been successfully locked. This. dock
is one Of the largest in the country
and at comparatively little outlay
could be adapted to the accommoda-
ton of battleships.
The steam whaler Karluk has sailed
for the far north from San Francisco
to reach the Observation-Disclosures. The
karluck is carrying supplies for the
ice-bound crews and Mr.. Blum be-
leves she will reach them before the
Bear gets anywhere near.
Tie Rev. Gilbert +. Williams, FORM
erly pastor Of Christ Episcopal church,
Washington, D. c., was found guilty
by an ecclesiastical court of conduct
unbccoming Il gentleman and Of i'm
morality. Later, he was deposed from
the ministry by Bishop Satterlee.
The Firemen's Benevolent Benefit
corporation at meeting at Bridge
port, Conn.,, unanimously voted to
place at the disposition of the navy
department for any purpose that may
seem appropriate, but preferably to-
ward the purchase of another war
vessel. the sum Of $4,000.
telegram has been roco;vod Of
Grand Island, Neb., from President
Oxford. of the beet sugar company,
dated at New York, in which he with
draws the anti-Hawaiian annexation
clause in contracts with beet raisers.
This clause provided for a reduction
Of SO cents per ton in case Hawaii
was annexed. 1t was bitterly fought
hy members of the growers associa-
ton, who declared they would raise
no beets unless it was withdrawn.