Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-09-20
Peuple Talked About.

Brig. Gen. Innis F. Palmer, United
States Army, retired, died at Chevy
Chase, Md.
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford is to wed
Miss Isabel Hanson, formerly his pri-
vate secretary.
Miss Mabel Mckinley, niece of Pres
ident Mckinley, was married to DR..
Hermanus Baer.
John J. Hewitt, aged seventy three,
formerly of F'reeport. ILL.,, died at Riv-
erside, Cal, where he was the president
of the First National bank.
| H. A. Sober, professor of Latin in
the University of Wisconsin died after
an operation for appendicitis in ST.
Luke's hospital at Davenport, Iowa.
| Lester A. Rose, a we'll known Wis
consin newspaper man and recently
secretary Of the Wisconsin Valley Ad-
vancement association. died in Mil
| waukee from heart failure.
Allan Hay, one of the organizers and
the first vice president of the West
Shore railroad, died at his residence in
New York from complications re-
sultant from advanced age.
Sister Mary Clara, a member of the
Notre Dame Sisterhood in the see Of
Baltimore, has been appointed mother
superioress of the Western province of
her community with headquarters at
Milwaukee.
Capt. Daniel F. Stiles, U. S. A., re-
tired, died at Oklahoma City, OKLA, of
Inflammation Of the bowels. He was a
Grand Army veteran and was promi"
nently connected with the opening Of
Oklahoma, being stationed there at
that time.
William Mccoy, the first mayor of
Independence, Mo-, and one Of the Or
ganizers of the First National bank of
that city, died there, aged eighty-seven
years. AS cashier of the bank he fig
ured in celebrated bank robbery in
November, 1867. After banking hours
he was forced to surrender the key Of
the bank vault to masked robbers who
secured $4,000 in gold. The robbers
locked Mccoy in the vault. where he
had to remain five hours. The perpe-
traitors of the robbery were never
punished.
Otherwise.
A rich gold strike is reported at Ia
mama, b. G.
Many people are in destitute circum-
stances at Nome, Alaska.
The iron ore industry on the Mesaba
range was paralyzed by heavy rains.
New Hampshire Republicans have
nominated Chester B. Gordon for gov
ernor.
Vessels are in demand at Chicago for
shipment of grain from Chicago to Lake
Erie.
The steamer Danube arrived at Vic
toria from the Klondike with over $780,
900 in gold.
E. A. Alexander Of Reading. Pa, was
chosen chief Of the Sons
of Veterans.
A. G.. Brown secured $4,000 damages
from the Milwaukee road at Fargo for
personal injuries.
Work on the Duluth & New Orleans
railroad. in the vicinity Of Ames, Iowa,
has been suspended.
Republicans of the Second Wisconsin
congressional district nominated Her
man B. Dahle of Mount Horeb for con-
gress.
Western railroads have decided to
hereafter charge presidential and vice
presidential candidates for special train
service.
Six thousand Democrats are expected
to attend the meeting of the National
Association of Democratic Clubs at In
dianapolis, Oct. 8.
The Rice Lake Lumber company has
sold $4,000 acres Of land in washburn
and Sanger. counties, Wisconsin,, to an
Iowa syndicate.
Under the provisions of an act Of
the last legislature Of New York the
state controllers department has COM
pleted the purchase of twenty-five
acres at Lake George. including the
site Of the old battlefield OF Lake
George, for q state park.