Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-04-17
OF the Week

An Oklahoma woman killed her hus-
band by driving nail into his head.
Four members of the family are
charged with numbering Caleb France.
retired clergyman. in whose yard
were found many dead dogs, has been
arrested.
A unknown woman. on her deathbed,
confessed to a theft committed seven
years ago.
Two Chicago men, officers of alleged
fraudulent publishing houses. have
been arrested.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York has located fifty Creeping joints
in one precinct IN ehat city.
4 Salt Lake boy has confessed that
an old man who was found dead hired
him to cut his throat and hide his body.
Mrs. Minnie Grady OF Butte, Mont,
has confessed that she gave Mrs. En-
ma ProuiX poison and then robbed her.
An Omaha youth confesses the en-
bezzlement of $4,000 and saved his faith
err, who was on trial charged with the
crime.
A girl was slain in public view on the
streets Of Detroit. and the slayer es-
capped. Neither victim nor murderer
has been identified.
An unlicensed whisky still which. ac-
cording to revenue officials. was one Of
the largest ever discovered in New
York, was raided in New York city.
Lee Gallaher. paying teller of the
First National Bank of St. Joseph, Mo-,
has been arrested on charge of en-
bezzling $4,000 of the banks money.
A shocking tragedy occurred at Ev-
erett. Wash, recently, when Mrs. Shep-
ard r. BUGGY. wife of the assistant
cashier of the American National Bank,
killed her husband, their four-year-old
son and herself, i'll a fit of insanity.
After an imprisonment of eight
months in the county Jail at Eldorado,
Kan, Jessie Morrison, awaiting her
third trial for the murder of Mrs. DIN
Castle, has been released on $4,000 bail.
There We're four signers on the bond,
who qualified for $4,000 each.
General.
The Abbit and Lord Derby will trot
for a $4,000 purse.
Fred Russell and Joe Walcott fought
six rounds to draw in Chicago.
The New York invitation to the prince
of Wales will probably be accepted.
The Audubon society of Chicago has
declared war against bird hats
Indications are ,hat the ST.. Louis ex-
position must be postponed until 1904.
Rumors of a transfer of Wisconsin
Central control are persistently circu-
lated.
A Philadelphia halter sued an associ-
alton for alleged boycott, demanding
s25O,00O.
Rochester and Pittsburg company
has tegun grim fight on unionism to
the death.
National executives Of the United
Mine Workers Of America met recently
in Indianapolis.
The State of Washington has applied
to the supreme court for permission to
sue the Northern Securities company
ct az.
A story is circulated in New York
that the National magnates have a
100000 fund to swamp the American
league with.
Green 3. Norris. the we'll known
horseman, has been stricken with
smallpox, and now is an inmate of the
San Francisco pest house.
During the fiscal year 1901 foreign
countries purch ased American farm
products to the value of s952,O00,000,
breaking all previous records.
It has been announced that at an ex-
ecutive session Of The board of estimate
of Greater New York, resolution was
unanimously adopted to cut the city
salary list 10 per cent.
For the second time within a year
the Barker, Williams & Co. furniture
installment house, on Pennsylvania av-
enue, Pittsburg. was burned out. The
fire originated on the ninth floor.
Cardinal Gibbons received telegram
from Rome recently stating that a pa
pal brief had been issued appointing
Rev. William J. Kenncy of st. August
inc, Fla, bishop of st. Augustine.
The Canadian government has appro-
priated $4,000 to build a barbed wire
nee alon. the boundary between the
DOI1.llllOIl anu EHOHtdud, Aieuut.t5 1Ic:H
st. Mary's lake to the Sweet Grass
hills.
Sixty of the eighty or more bishops Of
the Episcopal church are expected at
the meeting of the house Of bishops in
Cincinnati April 16 and II. This will
include nearly all of the foreign mis-
sionary bishops.
The congress of Latter Day Saints
at Lamont, Iowa, has denied recon-
mediation for the credentials committee
to seat delegates representing the
South Sea Islanders. The delegates
had not been chosen by the islanders.
DR.. Alexander Dienst of Temple, Tex
as, has received a letter from President
Roosevelt in Which the latter states
that as soon as he retires from the
presidency he proposes to give his at
tention to writing the history of the
Texas revolution.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was arrested at
Nebraska City, Neb., and taken to Jail.
but was released on her promise to de-
part on the next train. She had been
making the rounds of the saloons. and
at one threatened to demolish huge