Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1903-01-08

Dec. IS, when about 900 miles from
Halifax, which smashed her life boats
shifted her cargo, carried away hel
steering gear and caused considerable
damage to her bridge.
Otherwise.
The scrub women of Chicago will
form union.
The January disbursements in New
York will be more than $150,0O0, 900.
Former United States Consul Gen
eral w. F. Jones, died at Rome OF
heart disease.
Beef prices have taken a tumble
and are cents pound lower than in
the summer months.
Prof. Carl Myers of Frankfort, has
completed an aerial torpedo" which
flies very successfully.
The holiday suspension of work in
the coal regions has resulted in loss
of probably 100000 tons.
Carl Theodore Francis Bitter has
/ been appointed chief of sculpture of
| the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
| DR.. LorenZ says he has received only
about $4,000 for the work he has done
in America, instead of the $165, 900, as
! reported.
William L. Elkins of Philadelphia
will found a 100000 home for orphan
girls, daughters of Free Masons of
Pennsylvania.
A jury in Chicago found that Mrs
Nellie Campbell was not guilty of
starving to death an infant which she
had adopted.
A cablegram announces the death
from pneumonia, in Seoul, Korea, of
Rev. DR.. G. Rankin editor of the for
eign missions publications of the Pres.
byterian church.
Albert G. Whitney of Chicago has a
scheme for tapping the electricity of
the skies, and expects to secure un.
limited power. He proposes cable
25O miles above the earth's surface.
Pietro Mascagni, the Italian com
poser, will appear in Chicago as tenn
porary director Of the Thomas orches-
ira. 1t was also determined that he
should resume his American tour.
Though the thermometer went down.
to % degrees in some sections of the
northern orange belt of Florida, little
damage was done owing to the timely
warnings given by the signal service.
The Leon Washbun Minstrel COM
pany disbanded in Little Falls, N. Y,
because of the fact that there were a
number of crooks in the organization,
who had been stealing from merchants
and residents.
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell says he
has not been working on flying ma
chine exactly, but is experimenting
with kites, and has made one capable
of sustaining the weight of man and
an engine.
Fatma Sing Hippo, reputed to be the
smallest adult person in the world,
died suddenly in Beaumont, Texas.
She was twenty-five years old, weighed
fifteen pounds and stood twenty-eight
inches high.
Judge Orr, of the county court at
Colorado Springs, Colo, admitted the
will of the late w. S. Stratton to pro.
bate, over the protest of the contestant
of the will, Harry Stratton. An appeal
will be taken.
A prehistoric graveyard has been
unearthed on the farm of Solomon
Hedrick in Henry county, Indiana. A
large number of human skeletons have
been found, and all are eight feet or
more in height.
The New Years benefactions of DIR
K. K. Pearsons Of Chicago to the vari-
Gus institutions OF learning in which
he is interested will amount to $175, 900
or more. Fargo IN. d. college will
receive $4,000.
Gov-elect Bailey of Kansas refuses
to marry any of the hundreds of wo-
men throughout the United States and
Canada who have proposed matrimony
to him. No Kansas woman was among
the applicants.
Presiding Justice Charles H Var.
Brunt, of the appellate division of the
supreme court of New York, first de-
partment, is the president of the Wind
sor Trust company, which was organ
ICED six weeks ago.
]. Raymond Palmenberg, founder OF
the form and picture business In this
country, and the inventor Of the meth
cd Of display now in use in all of the
big stores of the country, Is dead at
his home IN New York.
From the fact that among the Mayas
of Southern Mexico, every child is
born with a purple spot on its back,
the same as in the Monaghan race,
Prof. Frederick Starr, Of the UNIVERSE
ty of Chicago, thinks the former peo'
pie are of Monaghan descent.
The authenticity of the so.called
Gainsborough portrait Of Benjamin
Franklin, now in the library Of the
University of Pennsylvania. is attacked
vigorously by Charles Henry Hart, a
well known critic of Philadelphia, who
says that there never was Gainsbo.
rough of franklin.