Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-01-22
Otherwise.

Thomas S. Wells, pioneer miner, is
dead at Leadville, Col.
w. B. Hepburn was nominated b,
the joint Republican caucus of Idaho
for United States senator.
Edward A. Mclean, United States
vice and deputy consul general in
Paris, is dead of pneumonia.
Lucien Bolles Otis, who came t.
Chicago forty-seven years ago, died re
Gently aged eighty-three years.
A new gusher broke away from the
drillers at Sour Lake, Texas, and is
spouting $4,000 barrels of oil per day.
Gov. Ferguson of Oklahoma has in.
terdicted the wearing of boomers in
basket ball games by girls in the state
educational institutions.
Gen. Samuel Thomas, we'll known
financier, died at his home in New
York, aged siXty-three years. He was
at one time president of the Duluth
South Shore & Atlantic railroad.
According to an unofficial report, H
H. Nreeland, president of the Metropol.
itan Street Railway company of New
York, will go to London to manage the
Yerkes tube or underground railway.
Lyman j. Gage said recently: ut is
possible for this country to have real
credit currency without resorting to
any such Chinese policy as this gov
eminent has pursued for the last thir'
ty-siX years"
Alfred Chasseau of New York has
been appointed United States commits.
sioner to the International Engineer.
ing, Hardware. Machinery and Allied
Trades exposition, to open at the Crys.
tai Palace, London, next week.
On Aug. 10, 1S43, Samuel F. B
Morse wrote in his diary: "The i1eer'
ence is that a telegraphic communica
ton on my plan may, with certainty,
be established across the Atlantic.
Startling as this may seem now, the
time will come when this project will
be realized"
Active operations will, it is said
begin soon toward the erection of the
largest gas plant in the world in the
Astoria section of Long Island City.
The plant will cover 800 acres, and it
will probably take five years to erect
it. When in full operation, the plant
will employ several thousand men.
The jury in the case of John Hyde,
statistician of the United States blu.
reau of statistics, against H. & B. Beer
Of New Orleans, for 100000 damages
because of a cablegram sent to LIVER.
pool questioning Mr.. Hyde's crop re-
port, and intimating that there had
been congressional investigation OF
his Office, returned verdict of $4,000
in favor of the plaintiff.
Prof. John Thompson, d. &c., F. r.
S., a we'll known English scientist, has
been appointed head Of the depart.
mont of physics by the trustees OF
Columbia university, to succeed the
late Ogdel. Nicholas Reed. For the
last eighteen years Prof. Thompson
has been Cavendish professor Of ex.
detrimental physics at Cambridge uni
versity, Endgland.
For the reason that he proclaimed
himself greater than Elijah Dowie. and
because he tried to leap from NOV.
ing train, having scruples against trav'
cling on Sunday, George j. Huston, q
follower of Elijah H., was given hear
ing at Washington. on the charge OF
insanity. preferred by DR.. Dowie. The
jury found Huston to be sane. The
testimony showed that he wanted ia
get to his old home In Iowa to do mis-
sionary work, and would not be- per.
mitted to 60 until he had assigned all
of his property to his wife. an ardent
follower of Dowie. Then 1t was that
he got into wrangle with Dowie.