Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-04-27
Thursday, April 20.


Recent cold weather is said to have
badly damaged the peach crop In
Georgia.
Hon. Henry G. Thayer, seventy.two
years old, a prominent Indiana Re-
publican and Mason. is dead at his
home in Plymouth, Ind.
On account of the Marais river irri-
cation project the secretary of the
interior has ordered the withdrawal
from entry of $50, 900 acres of land
in the Great Falls MONTY land dis
trict.
Colonel D. W. Emmons, founder of
Huntington and one of the most prom
inent citizens of West Virginia, was
stricken with apoplexy while seated
at the breakfast table and died within
a few minutes.
Professor John F. Jameson, head of
the department of history at the Uni
versity of Chicago, has resigned to &C.
cept the post of director of the bu-
reau OF historical research in the Car
negie Institution, Washington.
Friday, April Fl.
The Grant w. Kenney elevator at
Argentine, Kan, was destroyed by
fire Thursday. Loss, $3.50 1000.
Major James Stewart, U. S. A., re-
tired, is dead at his home at Fort
Thomas, O., aged seventy-nine years.
Forest fires are raging neal the
town Of Sampson, Wis, and farmers
are in danger of losing thousands Of
dollars worth of property.
Rev. Stewart Bingwall Fordyce Sal
mond, principal of the United Free
Church college at Aberdeen, Scotland,
and the author Of many religious
works, is dead.
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl-
vania has signed the Greater Pitts
burg bill, which provides for he con-
solidation of the cities of Pittsburg
and Allegheny City.
Fire has destroyed the business e c
ton of Sour Lake, Tex, an oil town
and health resort twenty miles west
of Beaumont. The flames did not
get into the oil fields,
Saturday, April 22.
Henry P. Ford, former mayor of
Pittsburg, is dead.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin and
Joseph Pulitzer, the publisher, sailed
for Europe Friday on the White Star
line steamer Cedric.
Mrs. Donald Mclean, regent of New
York city chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, has been
elected president general of the ma
tional society D. A. r.
James j. Carroll, better known as
Virginia" Carroll and for many years
n of the most noted figures of the
American turf, is dead at New Or
leans Of cancer, at the age Of forty
seven.
Plans have been completed in Wall
street by which funds for the con-
struction of the Western Pacific rail-
road are absolutely insured. On it's
completion the Western Pacific will
become an integral part of the Gould
transcontlnental system.
Monday, April "a.
Captain O'Shea, whose divorced
wife became Mrs. Charles Stewart
Parnell, is dead in London.
About 300 riveters employed by the
Pressed Steel Car company of Pitts
burg have gone on strike for an ad
vance in wages.
William G. Tiffany, s%ixty-three years
old, well known in social and club
of New York, was Sunday
found dead in his rooms of valvular
disease OF the heart.
Charles M. Schwab of the Bethle-
hem works and Charles R. Flint of
New York have arrived at st. Peters
burg to discuss with the Russian ad-
miralty the building of new warships.
Harry Sanford, we'll known in the
atrical circles in America and Eu-
rope, is dead in New York city. In
recent years he acted as business
manager for many prominent perform
ers.
-. Tuesday, April IS.
Easter contributions to the churches
of New Y0rk nitv ORC oot;,no