Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1902-02-06
Otherwise.

Negotiations for peace in South Afri-
ca have been formally opened.
The fifty-ninta anniversary of the
birth of President Mckinley was cele-
brated generally throughout the coun-
try.
The American Poultry association, in
esssion at Charleston. S. c.. elected DIR.
F. D. Kendall of Columbia, S. c.. presi-
dent, and reelected T. E. Orr of Pitts
burg secretary and treasurer.
Barney Furey of Cincinnati knocked
out Kid Baxter of Chicago in the Sec
ond round of a bout before the Young
Mems Gymnastic club at New Orleans.
The men weighed in at 1873 pounds.
Women medical students thrown out
Of the class room by the closing Of
Northwestern university's medical
school fer women are to be admitted
to full privileges in Rush medical col
lege.
Canton. Ohio, is to have q hote.
named the Mckinley. Announcement
was made by Austin Lynch, attorney
for Mrs. Mckinley, that she had con-
sented to allow the Saxton Hotel COM
pany to use the name.
Assistant United States Attorney
General James NJ. Beck. as special
master commissioner. has decided to
sell the Philadelphia Record at public
auction at noon on May 12 next in
Philadelphia.
A conservative estimate of the mum.
her of horses shipped from Montana
last year is 100000. The British call
for mounts for South Africa has re-
suited in thousands of head of stock
leaving the state.
DR.. Lachlen Tyler, son of John Tyler,
tenth president If the United States.
and brother of the president OF William
and Mary college. is dead in New
York from appendicitis. DR.. Tyler was
fifty years old.
President Roosevelt was elected an
honorary member of the Union League
club, Chicago, at its annual banquet re-
Gently. AS result of this action it is
thought that the president will visit
Chicago next fall.
Maj. Ely Ensign, manager of the
American Car and Foundry company
plant in Huntington. w. Va. and one
of the most prominent men in the state
died suddenly at his home there. Maj.
Ensign was sixsy-one years of age.
According to the New York Evening
Post, negotiations have almost been
completed in that city and in Canada
for the construction of a bridge across
the ST. Lawrence river at Montreal, to
be one of the largest of it's class in the
world.
Herbert D. Bennett. president of the
American District Telegraph company.
the Illinois District Telegraph COM
pany, and the National District Tele-
graph company, died suddenly at his
home in Columbus, Ohio. of heart dis
ease.
Fifty-six persons who We're about to
take their midday meal recently, Were
quarantined at the Union hotel. Leba-
non. Pa, Mrs. Wittle, wife OF the pro-
prietor, having smallpox. There were
eleven regular boarders, the rest being
travelling statesmen.
John w. Gates, the Chicago stesl
magnate, has just secured another OF
Renbrandt's oldest and finest paint
ings, entitled. "St. Paul." which repre-
sents the apostle in prison. 1t was pur-
chased of a New York dealer. at price
in the neighborhood of $4,000.
c. D. Pierce, consul Of the Orange
Free State, said in New York. in regard
to the report that Paul Kruger nigh,
come to this country in April. in re-
Spouse to the many invitations he had
received, that it had been definitely set
tied that he would not come. He spoke
as II this decision was final