Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-04-13
Thursday, April 6.

Thursday, April 6.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Cogswell, N. D.
United States Ambassador Meyer
left Paris Wednesday for St. Peters
burg.
George w. Goodal, aged eighty
three, an intimate friend of President
Lincoln, is dead at Washington, D. C.
The safe in the State bank at Re-
villo, s. D., was dynamited by bur-
glars. They failed to get any money.
Thomas H. Montgomery, president
of the American Insurance company,
is dead at Philadelphia, aged seventy
five.
Charges of Incorporating city
funds have been filed against Fire
Marshal Geddes of Elgin, Ill. The
amount involved is not known.
Chris Won der Abe, for many years
prominently connected with the St.
Louis National League baseball team,
is in a critical condition at st. Louis
from a stroke of a9oplexy.
Friday, April z.
The Spanish council of state has
decided in favor of the creation of
free ports in the Canary islands.
An imperial trade just issued at
Constantinople sanctions the conclu-
sion of a loan in Germany to pay for
war material.
Rev. H. P. Haylett, a we'll known
Methodist divine, is dead at Racine,
Wis, after several months illness,
aged sixty-three years.
The Mckinley antitrust bill has
passed the lower house of the Illinois
legislature by a vote of 112 ayes to 9
nays and now goes to the senate.
The authorities of Knox college at
Galesburg, ILL.,, announce a gift of
$4,000 by Andrew Carnegie to that
institution for a new science building.
General Frederick Funston has ar
rived at San Francisco and relieved
General Moore, in command of the
department of California, who retired
from the army at noon Thursday.
Saturday, April 8.
Dispatches to Dun's Trade Review
contain much that is encouraging re-
garding the business outlook.
Thomas G. Atkinson, a millionaire
lumberman of Green Bay, Wis, is
suffering at San Francisco from a
severe attack of paralysis.
The %1atteners employed at the ma
chine equipped factories of the Amer
lean Window Glass company have
been notified of an advance of 10 per
cent in wages.
Professor William H. Pickering,
director of the Harvard astronomical
observatory, has decided to observe
the eclipse of the sun on Aug. 80 from
Northern Africa.
An imperial trade has been issued
at Constantinople approving the
French loan for satisfying the de-
mands of the Syrian Railway COM
pany and the Constantinople QUAY
company, both French concerns.
Monday, April 10.
David X. Phillips, a wealthy banker
OF Swampscott, Mass, committed sui
eide by drowning.
Jesse knight, chief justice Of the
supreme court of Wyoming, died at
his home in Cheyenne Sunday.
Spinal meningitis has made it's ap-
p%earance in Sheboygan county, Wis,
and has already claimed one victim.
Judge Albion Tourges, American
consul at Bordeaux, France, is crit
ically i'll. Little hopes are entertained
for his recovery.
A telegram received at st. Peters
burg from Picking says the illness of
M. Paul Lessar, the Russian minister
to China, is critical.
Mrs. Roosevelt and three of her chill
dren, who have been away on a short
cruise in Florida waters, returned to
Washington Sunday.
Tuesday, April II.
The electric street railway at Ma.
Mia was formally opened for traffic
Monday.
Daniel Mccullough, we'll known in