Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-15
Criminal Record.

Criminal Record.
Cubans lynch an agent of Weyler,
who murdered women and children.
Sheriff Hazen. who is wounded in
the fight With train robbers, near Cas-
par, Wyo.. is dead.
AT Westminster. Pa. Jonas Preston,
,Ir.. colored. was hanged in the Jail for
the murder Of his wife in February,
1895.
Casimir Baptiste. the Indian who,
while drunk. murdered a respected cit
izen. Philip Walker. on April 10, was
hanged at Kamloops, B. G.
During a quarrel over a ditch near
Peoria, ILL.,. Harry Thurman struck
Alexander Hammond with spade,
killing him almost instantly.
the Bill Alder of Chicago, being the
official man-liiller of that town, killed
Fred w. Tucker with his fist.
Three squads of Usage Indian police
and light horsemen evicted several
hundred intruders from the Usage In.
tian reservation. The destruction of
crops is great.
Freeman Cochran. who killed George
Scarborough near Bethany, Mo-, in 1897,
was hanged at Bethany. Cochran and
StanSbrOuSh We're farmers, and quar-
relied over 4 woman.
Baron Edgar dc Bara and his wife,
Fannie. We're found guilty in the Unit
ed States court at Chicago of having
used the United States mails to de-
fraud residents of Great Britain.
nolds Post No. II. &. \. r.. Philadel-
phia. committed suicide by cutting his
throat With a razor. 1t is believed he
killed himself while temporarily in
sane from illness and heat.
The Cocheco Savings Bank. of Do
yer, n. H.. was enjoined from paying
out or receiving money. and warrant
was issued for the arrest of Harry
Hough. the treasurer. who is charged
with a shortage of $500.
Augustus T. w. Hartman of Milwau-
kee, who was arrested at Colorado
Springs. on the charge of attempting
to poison Charles E. Bivens and fam
lily by mixing Strychnine With their
food has been released, having been
adjudged insane.
Mrs. Belle Marshall Robson. wife of
r. w. Robson of Chicago, for twenty
five Years a prominent and wealthy
member of the board of trade. commit
ted suicide at her home by shooting
herself in the right temple. Mrs. Rolo-
son mad for some time been sufferer
from nervous prostration.
Otherwise.
The United Daughters of the Con.
federacy held their annual reunion at
Glen Echo. near Washington.
Sixty representatives of architectural
clubs of Boston, New York, Pittsburs,
Detroit. Chicago. st. Louis, Toronto,
Philadelphia and Cleveland, have met
in annual session at Cleveland.
The Omaha and Grant smelter. at
Durango. Col. has been closed by a
strike. the result of the new eight-hour
law. One hundred and fifty men are
cut.
a Chicago officer of the Woman's
temple said that 100000 of the $780,
600 necessary to retire the temple bust
bonds and secure the legal control OF
the building has been provided for.
\ farmers coordination. which has
wheat and grain markets. is said to
lave been formed in Sullivan and Nigor
counties, Ind.
The tracks Of the White Pass railway
will he completed to Lake Bennett by
July /. The schedule time from Puget
Sound ports to Dawson will then be
about eight days.
From Eddy. y. NJ. during the month
of May. $4,000 head of cattle We're
shipped to Kansas. 10000 to Wyoming.
5000 to Nebraska and 5000 to Indian
Territory.
The officers and executive board of
the National Congress Of Mothers have
decided upon Des Moines, Iowa. May
3. 1900. as the place and date for the
next congress.
The steamer Dirago. which has ar
rived at Seattle from Alaska. reports
that the Alaskan rate war is ended.
The old rate of 500 from the lakes to
Dawson has been restored.
Six thousand employees Of the Ten
ncssee Coal and Railroad company. at
Birmingham. Ala. have received an adj
vance of , - cents per ton. This is
the fourth advance within Il few
months.
S. T.. Lieb. president Of the Stanford
university trustees. is quoted as saying
that the property decided to that insti-
tuition by Mrs. Stanford is worth S3S,-
OOO.OOO. and could be converted into
S15.OOOUO0 cash.
Degrees were conferred upon nearly
500 young mnn and women at the COM
mencement DAY exercises of Columbia
university in New York. Gov. Roose-
welt received the honorary degree OF
doctor of laws.
A Steubenville. Ohio. telegram says:
The big strike of sewer pipe workmen
of this valley was settled at a confer
ence last night and all works have re-
sumed operation The workmen ac-
cepted the advance of Is cents per day.
Gov. Sayers of Texas has telegraphed
to all the governors and attorneys gen.
eral of the Southern states call for an
antitrust convention to meet in st.
Louis Sept. 20. for the purpose of Sc.
curing concerted action against trusts.
The will of the late Robert Goelet
was filed for probate at Newport, r. 1.
After making provision for certain be-
quests for the widows support during
har l;fnf;,no ~ divides 1l,o pdo,.