Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-06-04

1874 ASASSS III G6S ~. ~ 40 NAANNA9SNO>A
the post in Egypt has been accepted by
Cen Pole-Carcw.
Grimes and Criminals.
Fire in the plant of c. Dietrich &
Sons, pork packers at Allegheny. Pa,
did 100000 damage. Several narrow
escapes We're reported.
Charles Adams, sentenced to twenty
Years for attempted wife murder.
drowned himself in bathtub at the
Jail at Middletown, N. Y.
Emil Hartmann, former member OF
the St. Louis house of delegates, has
been sentenced to six years in the pen.
itentiary for burglary.
An incendiary fire almost totally de
st1oyed the town of Altman, Col. The
flames were finally checked by blow.
ing up several buildings.
A private detective named James
Smith, employed to investigate munich
pa scandals at Indianapolis, is under
arrest for attempting to bride.
Miss Temple, daughter of Judge
Leeper of st. Louis. committed sui
eide by drinking carbolic acid. Mel.
aEchcly due to illness was the cause.
After a chase of four miles and
desperate attempt to commit suicide,
Stephen Isour, who tried to kill his
wife, was landed in Jail at Marion, Ind.
1t is now believed that the assault
Gil 10th Rosa Keiser and her father at
Lawrenceburg. Ind, was by white
man and not by negro. and that re
venge instead of robbery was the mo.
tive.
Mrs Lizzie Mccormick has been in
dicted at Memphis for murder in the
first degree for sending a bottle of poi
scned whisky to a woman in Cincin-
natl. which caused the death of one
person.
M. w. Least, who murdered his
father-in-law at Portland, Or. and then
fled, taking his divorced wife along ss
ALI unwilling companion, was captured,
wounded, in barn four miles from
Portland
Bennett Bibb and James Williamson
were arrested at Birmingham, Ala.
charged with burglarizing the safe in.
the union passenger station ticket Of
fee and taking nearly $1,000 in cash
and Endorsed checks
Otherwise.
A. S. Robinson of Missouri has been
chosen supreme regent of the Royal
Arcanum.
The Irish Industrial League of Amer
lea has been incorporated. The pri-
mary object is to promote agriculture
III ireland and advance land tenures.
Dennis Connolly. native of County
Cork. Ireland. is dead at Slmira, N. Y,
aged 103 years. He read without
glasses up to the time he was 100
years old.
Lincoln Taylor has announced that
he will bring suit against Mayor Null
vihill and the city of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
for $4,000 damages for injuries re-
celved in the strike riot.
Benjamin F. Jones, steel manufac.
turer of Pittsburg. Pa, left an estate
valued at S60,000,000 The widow re-
ceives an income from the bulk, the
balance going to four children.
A movement to stamp out the prac-
tlce of divorce, or at least to reduce
the number of cases to the minimum,
has been begun by the Protestant and
Catholic churches of Milwaukee.
At the seventy-ninth annual meeting
OF the American Baptist Publication
society at Buffalo the officers were re-
elected. The treasurer's report showed
assets of S1,950,617 and liabilities Of
sSS9,346.
The Iron League of New York has
| issued def" to the labor organiza.
items, telling the ornamental iron
workers they must return to their old
positions June / or other men will pa
employed.
The Woodmen of the World made al
appropriation of $4,000 toward fra
tcrnal building at the Louisiana Pu:-
chase exposition. N. B. Maxey of Mus.
coeee, l. T., was elected chairman OF
the board Of managers. .
State Insurance Commissioner LII
ling of Kansas is the first official to ap.
roint a woman as examiner OF insur-
ance companies. Mrs. NJ. l. .Wad-
leigh, his stenographer, has left for
San Francisco to examine the assets
OF company. Later she will look into
the affairs of other insurance compa'
nice doing business in Kansas.
The family of Mark Twain Samuel
L. Clemens) are under physicians care
in New York. The humorist has a Sc
we're attack of bronchitis, two daugh-
ters have the measles, and Mrs. Glenn
ems is stricken with nervous prostra'
| ton.
Henry Tierney, a novitiate of Ken
rick seminary, St. Louis. Mo-, it is an
nounced, will receive the prize offered
by King Christian of Denmark for the
best poem in commemoration of the
recent meeting at the Danish court OF
the Dowager empress of Russia and
Queen Alexandra Of England.