Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-02-26
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Seventeen letter carriers of Sar
Francisco have been suspended for al
legged political activity
There have been three more deaths
from typhoid at Cornell university. A
S150,000 filtration plant will be put in
The Mckinley Memorial association
has collected 100000, but wants $780,
600 more before work shall commence
on the monument.
Five hundred schoolboys at Kokomo.
Ind, were found to have 22-caliber re-
volvers in their pockets when searched
by the principals.
Prof. J. w. jerks of Cornell univer'
sity has gone to Mexico to confer with
the authorities regarding the establish
ment of new monetary system.
A Russian boy dropped dead with
separation of several years, on the
arrival of the Graf Waldersee at New
York.
The Methodist Book committee has
decided that the meeting place of the
next quadrennial conference of that
body shall be at Los Angeles i'll May,
1904.
News from Douglas, Ariz., Says that
great excitement prevails over a rich
gold strike made in the Turres noun
the Nacohari railway.
Further conferences have been go
ing on in New York looking to the
organization of Southern cotton yarn
combination, under the name of the
Southern Textile company.
John Henry McCracken, president
of Westminster college. Fulton, Mo-,
has resigned to accept the position of
assistant to his father, who is chan
cellor at the University Of New York.
The Massachusetts electric compa-
MES controlling all the electric street
car lines in Eastern Massachusetts
outside of Boston, have granted their
employees an increase in wages of 2.1S
per cent.
The Pettebone colliery of the Della.
ware, Lackawanna & Western at
Wilkesbarre. Pa, has been closed as
a result of the refusal of the men to
accept the companys price for GER
tain work.
Joseph B. Davy, instructor in botany
at the University of California. has
been appointed chief agriculturist and
botanist of the Transvaal government
at an initial salary OF $1,000 a year
and expenses.
Reciprocity with Italy and no re-
striction OF immigration to this coun-
try were the keynotes struck by the
speakers at the third annual banquet
of the Italian chamber of commerce
of New York.
The United States circuit court at
Boston has settled the controversy be-
tween the Union Pacific and the gov.
eminent by giving the latter 100000,
now in the hands of the American
Loan and Trust company of Boston.
The special committee appointed by
the New York County Medical asso-
citation to investigate the office of
coroner, recommends such legislation
as will abolish the Office and distrib.
ute the duties to other city and county
departments.
With the exception of the chief en-
gineer, member of the marine engi-
neers' union and few laborers, all
of the employees of the Chicago Ship
building company have gone on strike
in support of the machinists. One
thousand men are idle.
Steps have been taken to save TO-.
900 starving elk on the Jeton-Yellow-
stone reserves in Wyoming. Snow
seven feet deep covers their feeding
grounds. and temperatures as low as
40 below zero have added to their suf.
ferings.
1t is learned at Batavia, N. Y. that
findings adverse to the Rev. George N.
Howard, charged with receiving com.
promising love letters from a number
of women, have been handed down H.
! council of Free Baptist ministers.