Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-02-14
Resume 81 the news.
People Talked About.


Peuple Talked About.
Count Won Waldersee has ordered the
release of Rev. Mr.. Ament.
Mrs. Banks, widow of Gen. Nathaniel
P. Banks, is dead at Walthaln, Mass.
Explorer Baldwin is perfecting ar.
rangements for his trip to the North
pole.
Edward Hopkins, organist of the
Temple church, London from 1874 to
1898, is dead, aged eighty-three.
Horace silsbee, the inventor. of a
steam fire engine, is dead at Seneca
Falls, N. Y, aged sixty years.
The earl of Kimberly, Liberal leader
in the British house of lords, is suf-
fering from congestion of the lungs.
Robert D. Todd, formerly justice of
the supreme court of Louisiana, died
at the home Of his daughter, Mrs. S.
B. Daniels, in Brooklyn.
Col. Albert Hartsuff, assistant sur
geon general, U. S. A., has been retired.
Very Rev. Thomas E. Walsh. vicar
general of Ogdensburg IN. W diocese,
is dead.
In consequence of the recent death of
Wilhelm Won Rothschild, Baron Ar
mand de Rothschild of Paris becomes
the head of the Frankfort banking
house of the family.
Rev. Jonathan Weaver, Bishop En-.
eritus of the United Brethren church,
and an aged divine, widely known in
religious circles, died at his home in
Dayton, Ohio. His religious career be-
gan in 1871.
John Leoni, noted sculptor, who
was brought from Rome by the man
agement of the Worlds Columbian ex-
position at Chicago, died at st. Louis
from injuries received in falling from
scaffold While at work in the admins
tration building in 1898.
Joseph Crockett, q cousin of Davy
Crockett, the famous pioneer and wit,
who died in Fort Alamo, Texas, with
the gallant band that held at bay for
days the Mexican army under Gen.
Santa Anna, is dead at his home in
Liberty, Mo. He was eighty-sevep
years old.
William Chapman Baker, philanthro.
pist and capitalist, formerly a leading
citizen of Morristown, N. j., died at
the home of his daughter-in-law at
Grand Rapids, Mich, aged ninety-two.
He was the Oldest surviving graduate
of Princeton, and had a personal &C.
quaintance with Gen. Lafayette.
Otherwise.
The cut nail pool at PittSburg an
nounced an increase in price of cents
key to go into effect at once
The New York Tribune says that the
duke of Cornwall will be present at the
Americas cup races, which begin off
Sandy Hook Aug. 2.
A bill was introduced in the lower house
Of the Illinois legislature providing for
capital punishment hereafter in the cleo
tr.c chair instead Of by hanging.
The local branch of the Good Tenn
plars at Beverley Farms, Mass, has
voted to buy Ratchet and send it to Mrs.
Carrie Nation, the Kansas reformer.
Mayor Zeigenheim of st. Louis recently
signed a bill for the issue of $4,000, 600 in
bonds for the city's contribution to the
Louisiana purchase worlds fair to be held
in that city in 1908.
General Manager Howard Elliott of the
Burlington lines in Missouri wound up
the affairs of his Office at St. Joseph, Mo-,
and hemceforth will direct the manage
ment of the road from st. Louis.
President Wheeler of the University of
California has received telegram stating
that President Mckinley will accept his
invitation to address the students of the
university on commencement day, May Is.
Robert Mccormick of Chicago, one of
the proprietors of the Chicago Tribune, is
4 candidate for minister to Austria to sue
coed ADDISON c. Harris of Indiana, who
has rendered his resignation, to take eff
cect March 4.
The American Protective Tariff league
has received the acceptance of United
States Senator William E. Mason of Illi-
nois to be present and speak at the an
nual banquet which will be held at the
Waldorf-Astoria, Feb. IS.
Insurance companies formally instruct
agents to indorse outstanding policies on
saloons and drug stores specifically
against liability for damage to plate glass
by Mrs Carrie Nation and all of tho
members of the w. c. T. U.
New Hampshire's largest man, II. D
Conrey, who tipped the scales at 400
pounds, died suddenly at his home in the
Hamlet of South Merrimac. His enor-
nous weight made him well known
character throughout the state.
Justice Lawrence in the New York SUI
preme court signed decree of divorce in
ulie NouII pIOuSllL ny MIS-. w 1IlSl1Llnc
Marie Mcdowell against William Mel.
bourne Mcdowell, the actor and former
husband of Fannie Davenport.
The German steamer Barcelona, which
arrived from Hamburg recently, brought
into port the captain and fourteen sea-
men of the Russian bark Cuba, which
was abandoned at sea Jan. 13 in dis.
.nasted and water-logged condition.
A steward of the British steamer Friary.
recently from Alexandria. Egypt died
from the plague. This makes the total
number of deaths among the ships crew
from the plague seven No further cases
of the disease are under observation.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Diamond Match company
the old officers and board of directors
were reelected. The annual statement
showed net earnings equal to IL $40 per
cent on the $15.0OO,OO0 capital stock.
Ja'hn Dickinson, of the firm Of John
Dickinson & Co.. commission merchants,
has been expelled from his seat on the
Chicago board Of trade by the board of
directors. The charge against him was
cutting the standard commission rates set
by the board.