Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-04-27

ABOUT DUO horses anu mules 10 De SOlu.
The Florida legislature has adopted
by a majority vote Of both houses a
memorial to congress asking an i'm
port duty OH Egyptian cotton. A duty
of so per cent ad valorem and 5 cents
per pound on all long-stapled cotton
imported into the United States is IA
yored.
Henry Il. Wells, q real estate broker
of Newton, Mass, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $175,S63
assets, 1874, $50.
The governor of Alabama has issued
a call for an extra session of the legls-
lature to repeal the constitutional con-
vention act.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ending April IA We're
$500 900; same period last year, SHOT,
600; increase, $4,000.
At an informal meeting, the Ger
mans of Toledo arranged for mon
ster mass meeting, at which time res
olutions will be adopted against any
foreign alliance.
a new first-class theater to cost, with
the land. 100000. is to be erected on
Gealy street, opposite Union Square, at
San Francisco and will have a seating
capacity of 1900.
Supt. Gaskin, of the Union Dry Dock
Company of Buffalo, says there is no
truth in the report from Cleveland
that his company had been leased to
the American Ship Building company.
1t is announced that the Maumee
rolling mills at Toledo have been alb
sorbed by the iron trust and will be put
in operation at once. The concern goes
in at S25O,0OO
Henry W. Struss has filed a petition
in bankruptcy at New York with LA
bilities of $579. 40 and no assets. Near
ly all the liabilities We're contracted as
a partner in the firm of Louis FRANKIE
& co.
A thousand Toledo. Ohio. carpenters
will strike on May / unless their de-
mands for IS cents an hour and eight
hours work is agreed to by the con-
tractors. The decision was reached at
a meeting attended by over 200 men.
The export of specie from New York
for the week We're $97S.3S5, of which
$333 .GSS were gold and $944,G91 were
silver. The imports We're S24.257, of
which $500 We're gold and $16,O57
silver.
The state college of Kentucky which
owes it's existence 70 the land grants
effected by the late Justin Morrill, of
Vermont, celebrated it's benefactor's
birthday yesterday with becoming ex-
erciSeS.
1t is reported that the Midland
Terminal Railway company and the
Florence & Cripple Creek railway and
the Florence reduction works at Flor
ence. Colo. have been sold to Il Lon
don syndicate for $S000,00O.
The Fort Wayne electric manufac-
tory at Fort Wayne. Ind, has been
sold to the General Electric company
by order of the United States district
court. The General Electric COM
pany's bid was $35G.4O0
There is an accumulation of nearly
100 tons of liquor in bonded ware
houses at Skaguay, the United States
collector of customs declining to re-
lease it so long as the Canadian Off
Gals insist upon stopping American Of
ticerS at the summit.
A postal route entirely north of the
Arctic circle will be established in
Alaska. between Yukon, on the river
Of that name. and Peavy. Il distance of
about $50 miles. -Four round ipS will
he made from Nov. 1, 1899. to May 1,
1900
DR.. David Clarendon Bryan. former
1x- f,f nd an
in bankruptcy in the United States cir
lillties of 100000. Dr.. Bryan was
formerly house physician ut the Lin
dell hotel.
The Tammany Hall executive COM
mittee, on the motion of Richard Gro
kerr has adopted 4 resolution urging
the legislature to give prompt atten-
ton to the pending bills authorizing
the city of New York to build its own
gas plant.
Judge Peabody Of st. Louis has come
out in a card utterly repudiating the
report that he upheld Il wifebeater.
He adds that during his service on the
bench he has always severely punished
wife beating and the abusers of chill.
dren.
On refusal of the demands for ali
increase from $3.50 to S. beating,
the Gold Beaters' National union has
ordered strike in Chicago. The local
union, with thirty-three members, has
quit work. Six hundred heaters
throughout the country are affected.
The newspaper signature law, which
recently went into effect in California,
will be ignored by many papers in that
state, including all the San Francisco
dailies. The newspaper publishers be-
lieve the law is unconstitutional. and
will fight it in the courts.
'BenHur" is to be dramatized under
the supervision of Klaw & Erlanger
and with the consent of Gen. Lew
Wallace. The author made this state
ment with the accompanying an
nouncement that the religious features
of his book would be safeguarded
when it is put upon the stage.
The interstate commerce commission
has entered an order instituting an in
vestigation in regard to relative rates
charged by carriers Of domestic ann
export shipments of grain and grain
products in North Atlantic and Gulf