Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-06-08
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Crops in Nebraska counties We're de-
stroyed by hail.
Retail merchants of Ohio will form
a state association for the purpose Of
fighting the trusts.
Nineteen insane Japanese will be de-
ported from California to Japan by the
authorities.
The Lincoln Park board of Chicago
has decided to erect 100000 mon
ument to Admiral Dewey, the sum to
be raised by subscription.
The employees of the Cleveland,
Akron & Columbus railway have had
the 10 per cent cut in wages. made in
1893, restored.
The Pressed Steel Company of Pitts
burg has received another big order
from the Egyptian States railway, call
rug for 200 more steel freight cars.
A famine in pig iron is threatened at
Cleveland. The surplus supply is now
only three days ahead of the consump-
ton.
4 large number of volunteers in the
Philippines will remain there and enter
into business after they are mustered
out.
Social Democrats met in convention
in Boston and nominated state ticket.
\ Chicago Statistician claims that in
dustrial combines raise prices.
The Jesuit church of SITS. Peter and
Paul in Detroit celebrated its golden
jubilee with grand and solemn cere-
monies and services.
Two score scientists of note, consti-
tuting the Hartman exploring eXpedi-
ton to Alaska. arrived in Portland,
Oregon, by special train. Later they
left for Alaska.
In an interview, ex-senator Dubois
of Idaho. said the Silver Republicans
| would meet in national convention at
the same time and place as the Nation
III Democrats.
The Lima. Toledo & Cincinnati Rail
road company has been organized at
Toledo. Ohio. with capital stock of
half a million The road will extend
from Toledo to Dayton.
| The New York board Of aldermen
| adopted the report of the committee on
arrangements recommending an appro-
| priation of $4,000 for the purpose Of
welcoming Dewey home.
The Amalgamated Copper company
of Silver City. n NJ. has purchased
from Joel Parker Whitney the famous
Santa Rita copper mines in Grant
county, paying the sum OF $1,200,000.
The Germans of Dubuque county
held convention at Dubuque, Iowa,
to protest against an Anglo-American
alliance. Delegates from every Ger
man organization il the county and
hundreds of others We're in attendance
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness May 81. 1899. the debt, less cash
in the treasury, amounted to $1,1GS,-
S91 .4OI. a decrease as compared with
last month Of $3,G95,S57.
Commissioner General Peck has an
nounced that American exhibitors at
the Paris exposition If 500 will have
to pay a charge of not more than 40
cents per square yard for the construc-
tion Of permanent floors and temporary
walls.
The unwilling of the bust of the late
Henry George, which took place in the
rooms Of the Peoples club at New
York, was attended by large gather
ing. The bust was presented to the
club by Mrs. John S. Crosby. Dr.
Edward McGlynn delivered an eulogy
A party of surveyors has commenced
work on the proposed Ohio ship canal
The work commenced at Bucyrus
Three routes will be surveyed, one
from Portsmouth to Sandusky, one
from Sandusky to Cincinnati and one
from Cincinnati to Toledo
After sixty years the Thomas Paine
monument in New Rochelle, N. Y, has
been finished by the GROWING Of the
shaft which was created in 1887 with
a bust Of the freethinker. The placing
of the bust was under the auspices of
the Liberal Club Of Manhattan and the
Brooklyn Philosophical society.