Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-08-17


Mrs. Lucy Holcombe Pickens. relict
Of the late r. w. Pickens, minister to
ST. Petersburg under President Blu
chanan, and governor of South Caro-
lima, died at her home at Edgewoot:,
S. c., aged siXty-five years.
Rev. George w. Pepper, D. D., died
at his home in Cleveland, Ohio. DR..
Pepper has been in i'll health for sew
eral months. He was ordained Meth
odist minister in 1850 and has been
prominent in that church in Ohio.
Edward ]. Rowell, president of the
Lowell Courier Citizen company, Low
ell. Mass, died while on train from
Boston. He served several terms in
the house of representatives and was
president of the Lowell City bank.
Foreign
Emperor William will visit Queen
Victoria at Windsor castle in Novem-
Der. remaining week.
The car has conferred on NJ. Del
casse, the French minister Of foreign
affairs, the Alexander Newsky order
in diamonds.
An earthquake shock was felt last
night in the ncighborhood of Cycloro,
Corsica. A house was cracked and
there was semi-panic in the vicinity.
Consul Skinner, at Marseilles, re-
ports that a westward advance of the
plague is steady and constant, it's
latest point of attack being in Alex
andria, Egypt.
1t is announced that under the will
OF BARONESS Nathaniel Rothschild the
Louvre will receive her splendid collec-
ton of pictures, including several
paintings by Greuze.
De Wolf Hopper has secured an eN-
tended lease of the Lyric theater in
London, and continuation of Eel
Captain will now depend upon a re-
tease of the comedian from his autumn
engagements in the United States.
This is now being arranged.
Consul Grinnell reports from Man.
chester the export of cotton yarn from
that district to the United States for
the six months ending with June, at
1,033,304 pounds; of cotton velvets,
cord and fustians, 6,67s,lS1 yards.
In communication to the secretary
of state, Austrian Minister Mertens,
who is temporarily in charge of the
American consulate at Valencia,
Spain, reports a shortage of the wheat
crop, making it necessary to import
large quantities of the cerial for the
year.
Otherwise.
The brickmakers' strike at Chicago
is practically off.
Cyclone cellars are being dug under
schoolhouses in Oklahoma.
There is large surplus of money i'll
the financial centers of the West.
The report of grasshopper ravages in
w. w. Astor, recently naturalized as
a British subject, was hung in ettigy
in New York.
The Society of the Army of the Ten
nessee will hold it's next annual meet
ing in Chicago, Oct. 9, 10 and.11.
Joseph H. Choate, United States am
baSsador, says there is no danger of a
war over the Alaskan boundary
trouble.
Maurice Flynn, shoe manufacturer
Of Lynn. Mass, has filed a petition in
bankruptcy. His liabilities are $40,-
ia; assets, $23, 40.
Moses A. Ludington, solicitor,
filed petition in bankruptcy at Chi
cago, scheduling liabilities of 500, O56
ard assets of $3O1.
A correspondent Of the London Times
says the report that Wellington island
has been sold to the United States is
without foundation.
In Indiana it has been held to be il
legal for faith curists and Christian Sci
entists to assume the title of doctor
and attend sick persons.
The building trades lockout i'll Copen-
hagen, by which 10000 workmen We're
kept in idlcness two months, will be
settled by compromise.
1t is announced that A. J. Drexel, a
Philadelphia millionaire, will soon fol-
low the example of w. w. Astor and
become British subject.
The encouragement of Illinois holds
that stocks and bonds of the Illinois
Central railroad held by individuals
are liable to taxation.
The Western General Passenger as
ISOLATION held a meeting i'll Chicago
to give each road represented share
of the returning soldier business.
The audience at Chautauqua meet
ing at st. Joseph. Mo-, refused TO listen
to an anti-eXpansion TRADE by Con-
gresham Cochran and left the l:all
in body.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Association of Postmasters will
be held in Washington Nov. to 10. in
stead of the earlier date originally
fixed upon.
Buchanan & Lyall of Brooklyn filed
articles of incorporation. This com
parry will prove rival to the tobacco
t:ust. The company has capital
stock of $4,c00,0tU.
John B. Smith. formerly in the real
estate and building business, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy at New
York. Liabilities. $13G,494. of which
800. 7OS is unsecured; available assets,
$2S,3O7.
Pope Brown delivered an address on
the negro question at the meeting Of
the Georgia State Agricultural society
at Quitman, Ga, saying the whites
should aid the negroes in their efforts
to leave the country.