Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-09-12
Accidental Happenings.

An expert swimmer was drowned at
Rockaway Beach while giving an ex-
kibition.
Johnny Nelson, the cyclist, was seri-
ously injured in race recently, and |
may never ride again.
Cleveland, Ohio, was recently flooded
by q rainstorm and $1,000 900 worth Of
property was destroyed.
The wife of Congressman Barney of
Milwaukee and companion were in
stantly killed on g. railroad crossing.
Two miners, Joseph Josiski and Chas. |
Pinck, were killed by an explt sion Of
gas while at work in No. 9 shaft of the
I4ebigh & Wilkesbarre Goa! company at
Pittsburg.
Fire at South Lake. Linden, Mich,
caused a loss of $4,000. The lire pro-
lection was inadequate. and it was an
hour and half before the flames could
be put under control
The Powder mills at Kreb's Station,
Pa, We're totally destroyed by d ter
rifle explosion and two men were killed.
They are Ira Rupert and Richard
Houser, both of Krebs Station.
AT Menomonie, Mich. the match
block factory of A. w. Clark & Co., and
a swmill and shingle MILL were de-
stroyed by fire. The estimated loss is
$4,000; partly covered by insurance.
vesta G., one of the fastest of the
New York Speedway trotters, with a
record of 2:O9 1-2, was killed as the re-
suit of collision with a street car.
The mare ran away with the owner:
DR.. David Randall.
coc1,
factory of n. McGrath &, Son 1T Lake.
side, Muskegon, Mich, was burned, to-
gether with the finished stock. Loss,
$4,000; insurance.! about half. The
fire caught from sparks from a passing
freight engine.
| A series of heavy rain storms caused
considerable damage to farm property
and roads around Cumberland, NJ |.
| Traffic has been suspended on the West
Virginia Central railway by a big wash
| cut near Rawlins, and on the Baltimore
& Ohio railway by heavy landslide
| near Magnolia.
| John Elliott, an eleven-yaar-old lad,
! who occupied q place on a float in the
labor parade at Atlanta, Ca, was
thrown from the wagon after the pro-
ccssion disbanded, and crushed to
death. He was the son OF the chief
electrician Of the Atlanta RailN ay and
| Power company.
The Logan Square terminal Of the
Metropolitan Elevated road in Chicago,
was practically destroyed by fire. The
ticket agent narrowly escaped death in
the fire, which destroyed about a dozen
cars, a train shed. repair shops and
other railroad property. A motorman,
waiting for his train, saw the flames,
and pulled about eighty cars out Of
the yards before the flames reached
him. The estimated loss is $4,000.
| Otherwise.
Gov. Shaw declares that he is not a
candidate for presidential honors.
Duns weekly trade review says the
commercial sky is practically clear.
1t is proposed to turn hogs into the
| alleys of Chicago to eat the garbage.
J. j. Hill is determir ed to fight the
Southern Pacific and the Union Pacificj
| Arthur Howard, the American de-.
serter in the Philippines, has been cap
| tured.
Residents of Zapata county, Texas,
| are in bad way on account of the pro-
longed drouth.
The Fond Gu Lac Indians have made
| request for permission to sell their
| timber lands.
Civil Governor Nunez suppressed a
play in Havana as beirg an insult to
the American people.
A Chicago woman had her husband
j arrested because he allowed her only 6
l to 1o1
A man who started, May 1, to walk
from New York to Sioux Falls, COM
pleted his journey and wins $4,000
All bituminous coal companies of six
of the leading coal-producing tates are
to be combined into one big corpora
ton.
It is officially announced that the
trackmen's strike on the Canadian Pa
cific railway has been settled.
President I4indblom, of the Chicago
Civil Service commission, announces
that sweeping inve: tigaticn of the
detective bureau will begin about Sept.
10.
1t is reported in San Francisco that
Consul General Ho Vow will be ap-
pointed to succeed Minister Wa Ting
Fang, If the latter is transferred to
London.
The steamer Hosmer has arrived at
San Francisco from the Pribyloff is
lands with 22,672 seal skins, a large
number of fox skins and d quantity OF
whalebone. The catck of seals is re-
ported small.
One hundred skilled butchers and L.
500 unskil]ed laborers, employed in the
packing houses of South Omaha. have
demanded an Increase in wages, AMI
have given the packers until Monday to
sign the scale.
Cleveland neighbors of Senator Han
ma have formed club, the avowed OBJ
| ject of which is to boom him for the
presidency. Many Of the members Of
the club have been his reighbcrs for
years, and some of them are close per-
| sonal friends.
| Many Bostonians are not enjoying
their customary rapast of beans, BEL
cause the scarcity of this staple food
| orooupfc nlO,oSt tO = famine About