Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-05-02
OF the Week


The king of Saxony opened the inter-
national art exposition in Dresden.
1t is regarded as certain that Great
Britain must adopt the protective plan
Of raising revenue.
j. Pierpont Morgan and j. S. Morgan
& Co. have each subscribed 91,000O to
the Victoria memorial.
The deceased wifes sisters bill has
passed to its second reading in the
British house of commons.
The census returns from Glasgow
show total of 760,329 population, an
increase in a decade of 194,615.
The American society in London has
issued a circular announcing the form
alton of an American branch of the Vic
toria memorial.
President Diaz will be unable to ac-
cept an invitation to meet President
Mckinley at the border, on account of
the pressure of public business.
Spanish socialists have decided to
celebrate May day with a. general
strike. The anarchists, however, re-
! fused to cooperate with them.
A dispatch to the Paris Reppel from.
Rome says that Bresci, the assassin of
King Humbert, has become mad in
consequence of the ill-treatment of his
jailers.
Frank D. Riordan, we'll known IT,
commercial circles, and for several
years a broker with Offices in the
Rookery building, Chicago, died in that
city from heart failure.
DR.. Henry Byron McKellops of St
Louis is dead, aged seventy-eight. He
authority on all matters pertaining to
dentistry and dental surgery.
Emperor William has presented his
bust, in marble. to the duke Of Aber-
corn, the chief of the British accession
mission, and other members of the mis-
sion will also receive valuable gifts.
News has reached London of severe.
battle in the vicinity of Fort Darwin,
Mashonaland, between force of Char
terland police and natives from Chin1
81. under the outlaw Mapondara. Sixty
Of the natives We're killed.
There is no truth in the report thai
Romanagli, the anarchist who is said
to have been chosen, at the circle, at
Paterson. N. j., to assassinate Emper-
or William, has been arrested at Bre-
men.
Up to date there have been $50 cases
of plague and 1876 deaths in Cape Town.
There have been 1892 NEGOTIATIONS. It
is feared that all the rats from East
London to the Orange river are infect.
ed with the plague.
w. E. Kennedy, a prominent resident
of Humboldt, ILL.,, is dead, aged eighty
three years. Kennedy was veteran
of the Mexican and Civil wars. He
was a personal friend and companion
of Kit Carson, the famous scout, and
shared many of the latter's thrilling
experiences on the plains.
General,
Arrangements have been completed
for building an immense steel plant at
the 500.
The price of steel rails will be ad.
vanced 50 per ton. J. J. Hill has or,
dered 100000 tons.
Attempts are being made to get all
the telephone business of the country
into one organization.
The coal miners of Southern Indiana
have returned to work, and the mines
are running on steady time.
Prof. Heron of Iowa will not be tried
for heresy, as he would like, but on
charges affecting his morality.
Three stitches were taken in the
heart of a st. Louis man who was
stabbed during a fight. He died two
days afterWard.
Alabama has voted, by a large major
ity, in favor of a constitutional con-
vertion. The vote was light through
out the state.
Lockett Agnew, of the firm of Thorn.
as Agnew & Sons, states that ]. Pier
pont Morgan paid $15O,OO0 for the
Gainsborough portrait of the duchess
of Devonshire.
Manufacturers of clothing in Chicago
are laying plans for the formation of a
gigantic combine, embracing the lead
ing houses of their trade in every city
in the country.
Gov. Ross was formally inaugurated
at Dawson, April ~, and Gov. Oglivia
stepped down and out. The ceremony
was largely attended, and Dawson was
in gala attire for the occasion.
Chief Of Police Ripley of Chicago
has handed in his resignation to Mayor
Harrison. For some time it has been
evident, from statements made by the
mayor, that he did not intend to reap.
point Chief Ripley.
The Chinese quarter of San Fran
cisco is very much perturbed at an ef-
fort by the federal authorities to sup
press the traffic in female Chinese
slaves. United States Marshal Shine
has arrested thirty-four women.
An effort is being made to consolidate:
all of the tanneries in Allegheny coun-
ty, Pa, with a capital of $4,000, 900.
Mine companies, it is said, have already
agreed to enter the combine, and OPP
tons have been secured on several
others.
Miss Helen Deshler. the alternate,
will christen the battleship Ohio at San
Francisco in May. Mrs. Worthington
Babcock. Gov. Nash's daughter. who
was to perform the ceremony, is con-
fined to her home in Columbus by i'll.