Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-01-25
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Atlantic steamship companies have
advanced rates in view of the Paris
expos ition.
No negotiations are in progress look
ing to the abrogation Of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty.
McI.aurin was elected senator for the
long term and Sullivan for the short by
the Missississippi legislature.
For the first time in ten years q
bounty has been claimed for a wolf
shot in the wlds of Cook county. III.
Davis 4 Drake. wholesale liquor
dealers of Boston. have filed Il petition
in bankruptcy. Liabilities, S9o,loo' as
sets. S1S.160.
Another big colony of Dunkers from
the northern part of Wabash county,
Ind. will probably leave for North
Dakota in March.
Trading i'll puts" and calls on the
Chicago board of trade has been finally
and absolutely prohibited by the di-
rectors of the board.
There is a soft coal famine at Phila-
delphia and in consequence several
manufacturing concerns in the Schuyl-
kill valley have shut down.
The Virginia house of delegates has
passed the "Jim Crow car bill, a
measure requiring separate cars for
whites and blacks on railways.
The Live Stock Commission Mer-
chants Protective association has been
formed at Kansas City to secure better
protection against cattle swindlers.
At meetings held at New York the
foundation plans We're laid for the
ecumencal conference to be held in
this city from April q to May 1, 1900.
Attorney General Griggs has filed an
answer in the supreme court that
Dewey's Manila bay captures and
fleet cannot be considered personal
prizes.
The North Caroliha Populist state
committee has called the state conven-
tion for April is at Raleigh. 1t was
practically decided to continue the
fusion arrangement with the Repub-
leans.
The professors of the university at
Cincinnati will Immediately quit if
President Aver insists that all mem
bers of the faculty should resign and
he accept such designations as he may
select.
d. a. Grutzer of Chicago and several
other capitalists of that city have de-
cided to establish large furniture
factory i'll Knoxville. Tenn. One thou
sand Swedes will be coloniZed here to
operate the plant.
Notice has been given to the en-
ployes of the American tin mill at
Canal Dover, Ohio. that the mill is tn
be Slut down indefinitely. The closing
CT the mill throws about 800 heads of
families out of employment.
Trustee Jacob Schwab, of the Chi.
cago board of education, will offer Il
resolution at the next meeting to pro
vide separate school buildings for boys
and girls. He says: 1.-THE girls learn
too much roughness from the boys
The judiciary committee of the house
unanimously agreed to grant the re
quest Of the Woman's Suffrage unior
for hearing on Feb 13. at the tims
wien the National Woman Suffragist
association will be in session here.
Representatives of the cement trade
in the trims Mississippi territory at {:
called meeting at Kansas City. Mo.
are said to have decidedto raise prices
on that articles. Delegates were
present from Kansas, Nebraska an6
Iowa.
Mrs. Roswell r. Flower has pre-
scented 100000 to Flower hospital nj
New York, and Mrs Flower'raylor
daughter OF the late Roswell r. Flow
4er. also gave the institution 500, 600
The only condition attached to the
gifts wns that the Flower hospital
shall he retained IL perpetuity.