Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-01-29
General.

General.
The buildings OF the Syracuse Re.
duction company at Syracuse, N. V,
which disposes of the city's garbage,
We're destroyed by fire. The loss is
$4,000; partly insured.
Jacob. X. Upton, chief clerk of the
United States life saving service, died
in Washington suddenly. He was
siXty-fve years of age and leaves 9
widow and three daughters.
The AlaskaPeninsula Packing com
pany was incorporated at Trenton. n.
j., to operate salmon fisheries and to
prepare the product for the market.
The capital stock is s2,750,000.
President Schurman of Cornell, in
speech at Cleveland, reiterated his be.
lief that the Philippines should be
granted independence. He says Gov.
Taft is just the man for his place.
Despite the fact that he is the pos
SCISSOR of Dakota divorce, Joseph
James Curry is locked up at Yonkers,
N. Y, in default of bail on the charge
of abandonment preferred by his erst:
while wife.
Director of Works Taylor has made
his quarterly report to the manage.
ment of the Louisiana Purchase expo.
sition showing that nine principal
buildings of the fair are in process of
construction.
Independent steel manufacturers OF
Lockport, N. y. are trying the new
process of making steel direct from
ore in an electric furnace. The proc.
ess saves SO per cent in fuel and nine.
tenths in power.
Mrs. Florence Brown, wife of the
Rev. Charles Stewart Brown, one of
the chaplains of the Protestant Epis.
copal Mission society in New York,
has signed a contract to sing in a
vaudeville and will make her profes.
sional debut in Brooklyn.
The Honolulu stockholders of the
Chinese telegraph system have re-
ceived news that the empress dowager
intends to seize the telegraph system.
giving decorations and orders in pay
ment for stock. A meeting of the
local stockholders has been called.
The monthly statement of the COL
lector OF internal revenue shows that
for the month Of December, 1902, the
total collections were $2O,943,852, a
decrease as compared with December.
1901, of s2,069,062. For the last six
months the receipts show falling off
of s22,972,931.
The supreme court of Nebraska III
an opinion by Chief Justice Sullivan
declares the reading of the Bible in
the public schools of Nebraska permits
sable so long as it does not, take the
form of sectarian instruction. This
is practically a reversal of previous
decision by the same court.
Charles Augustus Pulsifer Chicago
millionaire, has obligated himself to
pay his wife 5000 month for the rest
of her life. with the understanding
that this allowance is in full release of
all claims she now has on him for her
support, or that she may have on his
estate in the event that she survives
him.
The United States government is eff
fectively policing the 400 miles of
boundary between Washington state
and British Columbia. Inspector Hues-
tbs will be stationed in Victoria to
watch for smugglers and Inspector
Sparkling has been put on at Hunting
don to watch the boundary near that
point.
Clarence B. Gillette, aged twenty
two, of Winsted. Conn.,, who served in
the Spanish-American war, has been
granted patent for improvements in
submarine boats. The Gillette boat is
designed to stay down for fifteen
hours, and longer If desired. Its meth
cd of attack is different from that of
the Holland. The Gillette will fire
Whitehead torpedoes, and it is not
necessary to come to the surface.
The Rev. Joseph B. Wilson died in
Princeton, N. j., at the home of his
son, Woodrow Wilson, president of
the Princeton university. DR.. Wilson
was leighty-one years old and was
born in Steubenville, Ohio.
. The Berlin National Zeitung says
an American firm is about to erect q
/ foundry at Magdeburg to manufacture
radiators. . The paper assumes that
this is due to the tariff and that, many
foreigners will follow the Arms ex'
ample. 2 tiga'it y5u Isi{l SIT .zaf,i..4.
The Independent, Home Rule party
Of Hawaii has prepared Q memorial in
SUPPORT Of a federal lepsr settlement.