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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
General.

The ninth annual Princeton-Harvard
debate was won by Princeton.
The Virginia legislature passed a
bill appropriating $4,000 to defend the
recent suits against the new consti
tuition.
One hundred and fifteen midshipmen
at Annapolis are sick from ptomaine
poisoning, either from salad dressing
or from sausage.
Billy Rhoades of St. Paul knocked
out Marion Mcintyre of Lincoln, Neb..
in the first round of a fifteen-round
contest at st. Joseph.
Jack McClelland Of Pittsburg and
Hughey McPadden of New York, went
the limit in a twenty-round boxing
match at the West End club at St.
Louis, and the contest was declared a
draw.
On the run from Hampton Roads to
Culebra Island, the maximum speed
for battleships was:Kearsarge, 1885
knots; Alabama, 1858 knots; Massa-
chusetts, 11.50 knots. The official trial
speed OF the Kearsarge was 1854
knots.
The making of physical measure,
ments of young girl pupils in the Lor-
, inner school of Evanston, Ill.,, without
the knowledge or consent of their pa
rents, has caused indignation on the
part of some OF the citizens, and pro-
tests have been made to the board of
education.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
People Talked About.

]. Edward Bardwell. one of the old.
est photographers of the country. died
in Detroit, Mich, at the age OF sew
enty-nine years.
Word has been received of the
death of Gen. Henry H. Cist at Rome.
He was a we'll known lawyer and au.
thor of Cincinnati.
Lieut.. Col. H. j. Foster. commanding
the royal engineers on the island of
Guernsey. has been appointed military
attache to the British embassy at
Washington.
Rev. Edward Hannin, one of the
best known Catholic priests in the
country and the pastor of st. Patrick s
church in Toledo for forty years, died,
aged seventy-stx years.
Cardinal Martinelli has recommend
ed to the congregation of the propa-
ganda the appointment of the Rev. ].
Fregis Canevin, rector of St. Paul's
cathedral, Pittsburg, to the post of
coadjutor- bishop of Pittsburg.
General Peanuts" who was for q
number of years one of the best known
midgets and clowns connected with
Barnum's, Forepaugh's and Sells cir.
cuses, was found dead in bed in New
York. The midget was a Japanese,
thirty-eigh years old and two feet ono
inch high.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
CONGRESS-.
House Votes to Reduce Duty on Phil.
ippine Products

House Votes to Reduce Duty on Phil.
ippine Products.
Washington, Dec. 19-The house yes
terday passed the bill to reduce the
duties on the products of the Philip
pine islands coming into the United
States from Is per cent of the Dingley
rates (the present duties) to IS per
cent of those rates. The discussion of
the bill was accomplished by consid-
cradle maneuvering on the Democratic
side to secure test votes on various
amendments designed to lower the
tariff barrier still further, and
record vote was forced on a motion to
recommit with instructions to report
a. bill providing for absolute free trade
with the islands. The division on this
proposition was on party lines with
the exception of Mr.. Call of Massa-
chusetts, who voted with the Demo
Gratis.
The discussion of the pure food bill
which has been made a continuing or
der until disposed of. was begun Mr..
Tomplzins of Ohio and Mr. Adamson
Of Georgia opened the debate re-
spectively for and against the bill.
Mr.. Gardner of Massachusetts opposed
the bill.
The Mccall resolution calling on the
state department for the correspond
ence in the Venezuelan embroglio was.
adopted at the beginning of the ses-
sion.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
DOWN ON BOYCOTT
CHAIRMAN GRAY VERY SEVERE
IN 0ENUNc,ATioN OF SUCH
METHODS.
CALLS PARTICIPANTS EDWARDS
TESTIMONY TENDING TO SHOW
THAT REIGN OF TERROR DID
EXIST.
CALLS PARTICIPANTS EDWARDS
LAID At no0Rs OF UNION MEN
COAL COMMISSION HEARS TEST.
MoNY PRESENTED BY NOM
UNlONlSTS.

Scranton, Pa, Dec. 20. - The coal
strike commission listened yesterday
to further testimony tending to show
that a reign of terror existed in the
anthracite coal fields during the five
and half months of the minewo:kers
strike. About a score of witnesses
were called during the two sessions by
the attorneys for the nOn-union men,
They told of serious boycotts, brutal
attacks by crowds of men, women and
boys, and an attempt to burn the
houses OF non-union men. In most
instances the witnesses testified that
the alleged offenders were members of
the miners union. The lawyers for
the miners objected frequently to the
admission of testimony on heresay.
and some times objected because of
irrelevancy of certain other state
ments. Chairman Gray said the COM
mission was not bound by any strict
rules of evidence, but asked counsel
to confine themselves in examining
witnesses as far as possible
To Direct Evidence.
He said it was too difficult in trying
to prove that boycotts exist, to get in
formation on the subject. The com.
mission, he said, wanted to know
whether a reign of terror existed in
the anthracite region, and it could not
get that information if the strict rules
of evidence were applied.
."The coward who will go to the
storekeepers," he said, land tell them
not to sell the necessaries of life to a
poor woman, usually seeks the obscur-
ity that the law of evidence throws
around him. If girl is discharged
from her position in a store because
she rode in street car in inclement
weather while street car strike was
on, the coward who discharged her is
coward enough to refuse to testify
He recognized, he said, why some
merchants will not come forward and
tell who forced him to refuse to sell
necessaries of life to
Certain Boycotted Persons,
but if he chairman Cray were store
keeper, he thought he would risk his
all in order to assist in breaking up
the cowardly business.
Witnesses testified that their wives
were insulted on the streets, the chill
dren were beaten by other children
and could not be safely sent to school,
that local unions requested store
keepers to refrain from selling goods
to any one related to man working
in the mines, that their homes were
stoned. that they were stoned, shot at
and hung in efigy, and that life was
generally made miserable for them
and their families. Most of the wit
nesses connected strikers with with
the offenses alleged.
The lawyers for the non-union men
said last night they would continue
calling witnesses to prove that a reign
OF terror existed during the strike.
The commission will adjourn at about
noon on Saturday and will reconvene
in Philadelphia on Jan. 5.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Crimes and Criminals.


Roger Hamburger, Fort Sheridan
sentry, was murdered by two escaping
convicts.
Thomas ]. Sharkey. private de,
tective, is on trial in New York for the
murder of Nicholas Fish, the banker.
James Clark says he robbed the jew
elry store of Bernard Hagamann at
Chicago, with the active assistance of
Policeman Patrick Mahoney and Sa.
loonkeeper Daniel Curran.
Miss Birdie Woodward, an employe
in a basket factory in Metropolis, ILL.,,
was nearly fatally poisoned by strych-
nine placed in some tacks which she
held in her mouth while at work.
Mrs. Robert Garrison, a farmers
wife, was found murdered near Bed
ford, Mich. John Brantlinger, farm
hand, was arrested for the crime. He
is believed to have also assaulted the
woman.
Judge Moore declined to hold Will
lam r. Draper, the taking correspond
ent, for whose arrest a warrant was
issued on the charge of criminal libel,
preferred by the Philadelphia North
American, at st. Louis.
Cora Fuller and Mary E. Queen,
young women, were committed to an
swer to a charge of highway robbery
at Baltimore. Barney Abrahamson
was the victim, whom, it is alleged,
they slugged and robbed.
The Northwest mounted police have
captured man in Manitoba who is be-
lieved to be Paul Mueller, wanted in
Brookfeld, Mass, for the murder of
three women in 1897. Mulller's de.
scription tallies exactly with the pris:
oner's, who is going by the name of
Mulvey.
Three men made a daring attempt to
rob the First National Bank of Alvord,
Texas. One of the would-be robbers,
Frank Martin, was killed; another,
John McFall, is seriously wounded,
and the third, Claude Golden, is in GUS
tody. The bank officer shad beer
', warned.
William A. Henderson, one of the
five criminals who murdered Police
man Eugene c. Robinson of san Fran
cisco, pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Henderson's true name is Joe Frazer,
and he halls from Montreal, where for
years he was specially prominent, be-
ing a college man whose ability as a
football player was widely known.
BY a vote of to 1 the state board OF
pardons of Idaho granted pardon to
Diamond Field Jack" Davis, who was
convicted and sentenced to death in
April, 1897, for the murder of two
Cassia county sheep herders, the re-
suit of war between the cattle and
sheepmen. In July, 1901, Davis SEN
tence was committed to life imprison.
ment.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Resume 81 the neWS.

The Canadian order for twenty loco
motives. which was received by the
firm of Nelson, Reid & Co. of Glasgow
provides that the engines shall be
built from American designs.
1t is now reported that Count VOL
Buelow, the imperial chancellor; will
be elevated to the rank of prince by
Emperor William after the successful
completion of the commercial treaties.
Mrs. James Brown Potter has just
refused the record salary of $500 per
week, offered by Oscar Hammerstein,
to create the part of Mashova in Toll
stoy's Resurrection" at the Victoria
theater, New York.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Notes From Abroad.


Vice Admiral Kruys, minister of ma
cine of the Netherlands, is dead.
The strike at Marseilles is at an end.
The sailors have voted to resume
work.
The estamentary requests for re-
ligious, educational and charitable pur-
poses in England during the past year
exceed G4,500,o0O.
Gen. Herrera, accompanied. by sew.
eral members of his staff, has arrived
at Panama on the gunboat Berlaca.
Public order has not yet been estab.
lished.
Collector CrAzen of San Juan, P. R..
seized several hundred cases of liquors
which he said had been smuggled from
st. Thomas on board the United States
lighthouse tender Laurel.
Mail advices from Chang King, in
SEE Chuan province, China, report that
both the cities of Moi Chou and Kiat-
ing Flu have had their gates closed and
martial law declared, owing to the nu.
merous bodies of armed Boxers in
their vicinity.
After displaying friendliness toward
Americans for two months, thereby
arousing feeling of hopefulness that
it would not be necessary to resort to
hOstilities, a number of MorOs fired on
the American troops at Camp Wears
but hurt no one.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
coLoMB'ANs ARE PLEASED.

Likelihood That Canal Treaty Will Go
to Congress Before Christmas.
Colon, Dec. 22.-The news that the
Colombian charge d'affaires at Wash
ington, Senior Herran, had conferred
with Secretary Hay on Dec. 16 for
the purpose of fixing the price of the
canal concession and the likelihood of
the treaty being ready to submit to
congress before Christmas has been
favorably received on the isthmus. 1t
has inspired confidence. Certain mis-
givings as to the final selection of the
Panama route had previously existed.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Many Had Narrow Escapes

Chicago, Dec. %. - Several persons
had a narrow escape from death last
night in a fire that destroyed the
Seelinger apartment house at Forty.
fifth street and Evans avenue. The
flames spread SO rapidly that those
who occupied the upper stories were
cut OF from the stairways and were
rescued by firemen just few minutes
before one of the outer walls col.
lapsed. Loss. $4,000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

The way to masculine heart from
time immemorial has been via the
digestive apparatus, but it has re-
NAMED for a Hoboken lady to love
and marry man because of the pieg
he manufactured.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Death in Collision.

Table Rock, Neb., Dec. 90 - Two
freight trains on the Burlington road
collided, head-on, in the yards here.
wrecking both engines. Fireman
Morrell was killed. 1t is thought one
OF the engineers was asleep.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
CAUGHT IN MACHINERY.
Michigan Man Is Pounded to Death in
Quincy Mine.

WICTIydN Wait Is TOUIIUeU 20 OtdIr1 III
Quincy Mine.
Houghton, Mich, Dec. 22.-Thomas
Lindvall, nineteen years old, was
killed at the main engine shaft of the
Quincy mine yesterday. He was on
the night shift and took care of the
machinery that operates the large fan.
When the day shift went on his
mangled body was found on the floor.
1t is supposed that while oiling he
was caught and whirled to his death.
The face was the only part of the
body not bruised. His neck and legs
were broken, his hips dislccated and
the skull fractured.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

A French army officer claims to
have invented gun that makes
neither flash nor sound nor smoke.
Now let us have one that makes no
wound and we may listen for the com.
ing of the millennium.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
CANADIAN STEAMERS.

New Line From Liverpool and GIas-
gov to Montreal.
London, Dec. 22.-It is stated here
that the Canadian Pacific railroad
company has determined on opening
the st. Lawrence route next spring
and to establish a weekly service of
cargo steamers from Liverpool, ten
days service from London and a sim
liar service from Glasgow.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Dried corn as an article of diet has
caused the separation of a husband
and wife in Ohio. But this is a mere
patch on the trouble corn has caused
throughout the world after it has
soaked awhile
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Postmaster General Is Sick.

Washington. Dec. 2O.-While on his
way to the White House yesterday
shortly after noon to see the president
Postmaster General Payne suffered an
attack of acute indigestion. The pa
tient is now much improved.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Frozen to Death.

Sumpter, Or, Dec. 20.-John Pow
ers, superintendent of the Tiger mine,
was frozen to death yesterday in the
Greenhorn district. He was sixty
four years of age.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Since President Eliot has made the
amende honorable it seems to be ul
to Mr.. Gompers to explain that his al
fusion to Judas Iscariot was meant
in Pickwickian sense.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Millionaire Clark offered $1,000, 900
for his first grandson, and his son
w. A. Clark, Jr., has won the prize.
Has the car or King Humbert tried
this plan yet?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Gabrielle d'Annunzio, among other
things, had seventy-two shirts and
twenty-tour dozen pairs of quiet tint
ed' silk underwear. And yet they
tell us it does not pay to write poetry!
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Expensive lingerie works not for
modesty. When girl is wearing
the finest OF silk stockings, every
street crossing looks muddy to her.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Washington's theater managers have
decided to stop wasting money. They
have voted to abolish window litho.
graphs and to advertise hereafter only
In the newspapers.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

The Scottish-American declares that
the length of mourning for a mother
in-law is six months Grape and six
months black. What man would
grudge the time?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

An Eastern paper wants to know
What co-education has done?" Well,
from all accounts, it hasn't done a
thing to DR.. Harper.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Gen. Uribe-Uribe has been sentenced
to death. The wonder is how did he
manage to live so long with a name
tc mention which is to disturb the
peace.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Asia will probably derive more
pecuniary benefit from the visit OF
President Schwab of the steel trust
than America got from that of the
Crown Prince of Siam.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

"The greatest blessing in life, nc
doubt, is TO give,' says DR.. Lorenz
And yet young Mr. Vanderbilt com.
plains that his father left him SO much
money that there is no mission in life
for him.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

The football fatalities. appalling as
they are, might have been worse. Sew:
eral games We're unavoidably post
poned.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

John L. Sullivan is without his ST.
100000. But the rich memories of the
gorgeous time he had in blowing it
in remain to cheer his declining years
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

The Brooklyn genius, who has sec
cured patent for nursing bottle
holder for baby carriages, dreams of
millions like Col. Sellers with his
eye wash.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Trains that can run a hundred miles
IN a hundred minutes are almost as
common now as men who can eat
thirty ducks in thirty days.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

King Leopold's blast of defiance to
anarchists is doubtless made by his
comfortable assurance that anarchists
are poor shots.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Chicago's gambling king is bank.
rupt. He admits, however, that other
professional gamblers were the ones
who got it.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Sometimes, says the Homely One,
thank the Lord for that am not good
looking, Tor then / might also be a
fool.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Another diamond mine has been dis:
covered in South Africa Will soms
one please put an extra chain on the
dogs of war?
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

We probably have to do the things
re ought to great deal oftener than
@e dare to do the things we want to.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

pennies long saved amount to dol
lars at last said Franklin, and it is
just as true to-day of cents.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Bank Safe pynamited.

Mullins, S. c., Dec. 2O-The bank
here was broken open last night, the
safe dynamited and about $1,000 in
money stolen.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

The man who succeeds best is gen
orally the one who has the talent to
advertise himself most judiciously.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

A big sturgeon in the New York
Aquarium is reported to have COM
mitted suicide Sounds fisEy.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

France is making the French duel
a felony. Ping-pong will surely come
in as misdemeanor.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Sig. Marconi continues to send mar
conigrams across the ocean through
his hat.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

1t is fortunate for royalty that an
archists are so frequently bad shots
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Casualties.


The home of John Puglughi, at Fort
Lee, N. j., was demolished and his
five children killed by the explosion of
IN Illuminating gas tank.
Fire in Montreal, Que, destroyed H.
Jacobs & Co.'S cigar factory. One mil
lion cigars just finished went up in
smoke. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
In the Watts kidnapping case at
Springfield, ILL.,, Mrs. Watts, wife of the
defendant. alleged that counsel for the
, defendant attempted to buy her off.
Fire destroyed H, Jacobs & Coz
cigar factory at Montreal, Que. One
million cigars, just finished, went up in
smoke. Loss, $4,000; fully insured.
The Victoria hotel in Quebec was
completely destroyed by fire. The
guests and employees escaped unin-
jured. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $751;
900.
Fire in the Hathaway building, Bos-
ton, did damage to the extent of $751;
900. The building is occupied by print
T, ing and bookbinding firms and Wool
/ 1ealers.
Railway traffic in Tennessee is de-
moralized in all directions, because OF
washouts and the flooded conditions OF
rivers and streams, caused by the con-
tiunuous rains of the past three days.
Edson's hotel, at Gazelle, Siskiyou
county, CAL, the home of E. B. Edison,
railroad commissioner of California,
was destroyed by fire, involving a loss
of $4,000. Miss Elizabeth B. Foulks,
aged twenty-five years, persisted in the
ire.
Eleven persons were injured, one Sc.
riously, in rear-end collision between
two south bound Second avenue ele.
waited trains in New York. The mo
torman of the second train, apparently
misjudged the distance, and, although
he had slowed down, his car crash.]
into the rear of the other train with
sufficient force to throw it off the
TACK
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25

Charles NJ. Schwab is simply tired;
tired spending money.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-12-25
Washington Notes.

S0SutuS&St sN0ASSs
The coal famine is affecting the gov
ernment buildings. The capitol has
only two days supply of coal.
Elmer Pettiford, the Seventh Day
| Adventist clerk, will be given place
where he can do piece work, and thus
avoid laboring on Saturday.
1t is the intention of Chairman Coop
er. of the house committee on insular
affairs, to move for prompt action on
the bill to establish the gold standard
in the Philippines.
The legislative, executive and judi
eial appropriation bill. carrying S26.-
930,453 was reported to the house by
the appropriations committee. This is
IN increase of s5O0,S01.
Senator Mason of Illinois has bill.
which he promises to introduce in the
senate within day or two. giving the
president of the United States authori-
ty to seize and operate coal mines.
Senator Foraker introduced biz to
provide a government for the island
of Guam. The tariff on Guam-made
is reduced to so per cent of existing
~ates
The house committee on judiciary
decided not to report either of the
three resolutions providing for con-
stitutional amendment prohibiting po-
lygamy and preventing polygamists
from holding Office.
The senate committee may drop the
educational test in the immigration
bill. Commissioner General of Immi-
grafton Frank Sargent said that this
feature could be sacrificed without de-
stroying the efficiency of the bill.
A bill introduced by Mr.. Esch of
Wisconsin. directs the secretary of
war to establish a military camp, for
the use of United States and national
guard troops, in the vicinity of Camp
Douglass, Wis, and appropriating the
sum of $4,000 for that purpose.
The Indian appropriation bill will
not be considered by the house until
after the holidays. Another effort will
be made to induce the house to make
an appropriation. for the support of
sectarian schools, but the movement in
his direction will undoubtedly fail.
The house passed the senate bill for
a union railway station in Washington
to cost 100000. The station is to
be situated north of the present site Of
the Baltimore & Ohio depot at Della
ware and Massachusetts avenues, and
in front of it is to be a large plaza
park.
I'm my judgment, the question of the
control of corporations by congression-
al legislation is the most important
problem that now confronts the Amer
lean people," said Senator Nelson, who
is a member of the judiciary commit
tee of the senate, and author of the
bill to increase the power of congress
through changes in the Sherman anti
trust lava