Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-11-27
Resume 81 the newS.

Nearly S,OOO,OUO gallons OF petrOle'
UNI, stored in reservoirs on the out.
skirts of Odessa, have been destroyed
by fire.
The Brussels police have arrested an
Englishman named James Hardie on
suspicion of his having been connected
with the attempt made by Rubino on
the life of King Leopold.
An American firm was awarded q
81 ,000,0 contract to construct sew.
er and telephone conduits in St. Pc.
tersburg. A Chicago firm has Sc.
cured contract for the switchboard.
Frequent acts of piracy between
Hongkong and Canton are causing
much uneasiness. A constable of the
British consulate, who was wounded
while travelling on junk to Hongkong
has died.
Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the cele
brated Wesleyan minister, died sud
denly at London. MIR. Hughes was one
of the leading spirits of the racial pur-
ity movement and anti-gambling
league.
The British government is deter
the United Kingdom shall contribute
to the extent of Is pence on every 6 1
of his income towards liQuidating the
war debt
1t is rumored that Car Nicholas is
contemplating divorcing the czarina
Her chief offense is her failure to pre-
sent a male heir to the throne, but she
is also unpopular with court officials,
largely on account of her ideas of pro.
priety.
Generals Botha and Delarey are, ap
parently, not going to the United
States. The Petit EICu prints an inter.
view with Gen. De/trey to the effect
that he and Gen. Botha have decided
to return to South Africa, where they
will meet Mr.. Chamberlain.
Public opinion supports the govern
ment of India in it's refusal to grant
permission to the Standard Oil compa-
ny to exploit the Burmah oil fields.
Two companies with large capital,
besides numerous Burmese owners, are
successfully developing the field.
Otherwise.
her brain to Cornell university, but
her daughter is fighting the bequest.
Segregation is to be inaugurated at
the University of Chicago with the be-
ginning OF the new year, just after the
Christmas vacation.
Anthony Fialia has been selected as
the leader of the next Ziegler polar ex-
;o1i ic h0
man ever selected to lead polar expe.
dition.
A quarrel over the biggest piece OF
pie at the table of Noah and Catherine
Loop at Kokomo, Ind, was followed
by an action for divorce by the bus
band.
Two hundred and fifty crippled chill.
dren in New York have applied for
treat.' ent by DR.. Adolph Lorenz, the
Vienna expert; who will visit New
York in December.
Daniel K. Pearsons will make a gift
Of $4,000 to the Chicago missionary
society, on condition that the members
Of the Congregational society raise
100000 before Jan. 4, 1904.
The remains of Gen. Nathaniel
Greene, one of the foremost military
leaders of the Revolution, were rein
tered at Savannah, Ca, under the
Greene monument, in Jackson Square.
Jules Cambon, the retiring French
was given dinner in New
York by Chauncey Depew and James
NJ. Hyde. High tributes were paid to
the Frenchman, and to the United
States by him.
A verdict of $500 damages has
been awarded by jury in the circuit
court at Newark, N. j., against Thorn
as E. Carr who, on Feb. 10 last, shot
Theodore Ferre, a railroad brakeman, ,,
him for a highwayman.
The sister Of a we'll known society
leader of Chicago, it is supposed, is the
author of many anonymous letters
making scandalous charges against
prominent people. The woman is al.
legged to be mentally unbalanced.
An effort is being made, which there
is every reason to believe will be sue
cessful, to get all the bicycle manu-
lecturers together once more in CO.
operative association and raise prices
FOR 1903 all round. 1t began with the
makers.
The Pioneer Mining company of Sc
attic has announced that it will con-
Struct a railroad from Nome to Coun-
Gil City, which will be in operation by
the end of next season. The season
following it will probably be extended
to Salmon River and Cada de Paga.
That no dances labeled Asiatic arc
to be exploited in the Midway at the
St. Louis exposition, has greatly
pleased the Orient, according to dis
patch received by Miss Helen Gould
from John Barrett, former minister to
Siam, who is representing the exposi.
ton in the Far East
Thomas H. Davis died at the Nation
al Soldiers home at Marion, Ind, and
two women, claiming to be legal wives
Of the deceased, attended the funeral
with their two grown children. Davis
had lived double life for over twenty
five years. The wives wept on each
others breasts.
A great earthquake, which will de
stroy the greater part of the works of
man within the next ten years, was
predicted by Samuel Fox, of Summer
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