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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
THREATEN TO STRIKE
WESTERN RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
TO QUIT UNLESS DEMANDS
ARE GRANTED.

Chicago, March ga crisis has
been reached in the negotiations be-
tween the railroads throughout the
West and their employees over the
wage question and sit is UP to the
general managers according to rep
resentatives of the $4,000 railroad en-
ployes who have voted to strike unless
their demands are complied with. The
reply Of the general managers to this
sentiment is we have conceded all we
can"
Both sides will meet in conference
again shortly and unless there is a
b%ackdown on n side or the other the
most gigantic strike in the history of
transportation in this country appears
imminent. Forty railroads with a
trackage of $4,000 miles and an an
nual payroll of $500, 900 600, are stand
Ing together on the proposition. These
systems represent one-third OF the
railroad transportation business of
the country.
Opposed t o this a~orcgation OF
capital stands tho brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmca with Il mcmbcr-
ship OF 10000 men and the Order of
Railway Conductors With a member
ship of $4,000. The mon demand an
increase OF 12R per cent and a work
ing day of nine hours. The general
managers have offered a 10 per cent
increase without the nine hour work
day.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
OFTEN coNsULTs COUNSEL
Thaw's Attorneys Declare He Is Per.
fectiy Sane.

iSSIiy SditC.
New York, March 23.-Aftidayits Of
the defense OF Harry X. Thaw as to
his mental condition and whether or
not a commission in lunacy should be
appointed TO examine him were filed
OF noon with the clerk of the supreme
court. There eight a%fidavits, of
which hal of Dolphin NJ. Delmas, of
che Thaw counsel, was first.
MI. Delmas in his affidavit declares
1t to be his opinion that Thaw has
been and is capable Of understanding
che nature and object of the proceed.
angs going on against him; of COM
pretending his own condition in ref
~srence to such proceedings and Of
conducting his defense in a rational
ananner and that, during the whole Of
She trial, he has understood the nature
and object Of such proceedings; has
scompTehended his own condition in
reference thereto and has conducted
mis- defense in a rational manner
This opinion, the affidavit says, is
biased upon the professional relations
t1r. Delmas has had with the prisone.
aimee the beginning Of the trial and
ahe many communications he has sent
TO Thaw and received from HIM.
Eighteen letters received by MI. Del
mas from Thaw during the trial and
several slips Of paper containing sug-
g%estions with reference to the conduct
Of the proceedings actually going on,
which were handed him by the de
fendant in the courtroom. are made a
part of the af1daYit.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
OCCUPY MOROCCAN TOWN.
Cabinet Decides to Send Army
Across Border,

Across Border.
Paris, March 25.-As a result Of
the cabinet meeting it was decided to
send French troo IS to occupy Oudja,
a frontier town III Morocco, until the
Moorish government gives full salts
faction TO France for the assassina-
ton of DR.. Mauchamp. The French
demands for PREPARATION will be for
warded to Fee Immediately.
Foreign Minister Pichon, at an ex-
traordinary session of the cabinet,
recommended a policy of reprisals if
necessary to secure from the Moroc-
can government satisfaction for the
murder of DR.. Mauchamp.
The Temps says the steps contem-
plated by the government involve not
only a naval demonstration but direct
coercion.
The armored cruiser Jeanne dare
and the cruiser Lalande, which sailed
from Toulon Sunday for Tangier, car
fied field equipment for marines.
The French foreign Office has dis
patched a note to the powers explain
ing the situation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Friday, March %.

Charles Tweed, son Of William
("Boss') Tweed of New York, is dead
at New Haven, Conn, aged about
forty-four years.
A violent hurricane, which has
caused serious damage, has swept
over Italy. Several vessels are report
ed to have been wrecked.
Train service on the Southern Pa.
cific west of Ogden has been an
nulled by the washing out Of a part OF
the Ogden-Lucin cutoff across Great
Salt lake.
In a fight over a game of marbles at
Grown Point, Ind, Fred Weis, a news.
boy, aged eleven, killed another news
boy, Eddie Kaiser, aged thirteen.
Kaiser's neck was broken in the fight.
Dennis Simmons Biggs, aged thirty.
five years, of Williamson, N. c., died
suddenly from h%iccoughs. Mr.. Biggs
was president of the Bank of Will.
iamston and of the Dennis Simmons
Lumber company.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Seller Responsible.

That a mar who sells a horse attlict-
ed with glanders is responsible for all
damages resulting therefrom, was the
decision of a jury at Hillsboro in the
case of Ole II. Nelson VS.. Horton com
pany. The defendant sold to the plain
tiff a horse afflicted with CHAMBERS.
Four other horses became afflicted
and all five were killed. The jury
found a verdict for $685.. The PLAINTIFF
sued for 1000.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
De Mores Plant Burns.

The last evidences Of the North Da-
kota investments of the celebrated
Marquis de Mores Of France disap-
peared with the destruction by fire of
the old clearinghouse and cold stor
age plant. which for twenty years
have stood as monuments to the enter.
prise OF the versatile Frenchman at
Medora. The fire is supposed to hav
been started by tramps.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
President Of Negro Bank Under
Arrest.

Hattiesburg, Miss, March %
Joseph Pettus, president of the Peo-
pies bank, a negro institution Of this
city, has been arrested and charged
with the murder of Edward Howell,
the cashier of the bank, who was way
laid and shot to death here on the
night of March 10. Pettus and Howell
were the only persons who knew The
combination to the bank vault. After
the murder the vault was opened and
several notes Pettus owed the bank
and $1,000 in cash was taken out.
This led to the arrest of Pettns.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Chicago Grain and Provisions.

Chicago, March 25.-Wheat-May,
75Mc; July, 77A@77Ac Corn-May,
45B @46c; July, 451ac. Oats-May,
41h M41%c; July. 37Mc. Pork-May,
$15.45; July. $3.50. Butter-Cream-
cries, 22@29Ac; dairies, 20@21c.
Eggs-16hc. Poultry-Turkeys, 12c;
chickens, 12kc; springs, 12c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Blockade is Raised.

After being tied up for two days
last week the Northern Pacific road
succeeded in getting through two pas
senger trains that had been stalled
north Of Cashel. The Great Northern
cleared the Hannah line after being
tied up for two days.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
IDENTITY OF THIEF UNKNOWN.
corteIyou Receives Report on CHICAGO
Shortage.

Washington, March 25.-Mr. Bantz,
assistant treasurer of the United
States at Washington, has returned
from Chicago. where he went to SUI
perintend the count of cash in the
su%b-treasury in that city in order TO
verify the statement that a shortage
of $4,000 had been discovered. Mr..
BantZ had a conference with Secre-
tary Cortelyou. but his formal report
will not be made for some days. 1t is
believed that Mr.. Bantz' report will
show that the shortage actually exists
and that up to this time no evidence
has been secured fixing the identity
Of the person or persons who are re.
sponsibie for it.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Duluth Wheat and Flax.

Duluth, March 25.-Wheat-To ar
rive and on track-No. 1 hard, 5000;
No. 1 Northern, 79Ac; No. 2 North
err. TITO; May, 1870; July. 79%c;
Sept, 7SMc. Flax-To arrive and on
track, $1.1Sk; May, $1.19k; July,
$1.2OA; Oct, $1.18.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
st. Paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, March 25.-Cattle-Good
to choice steers, $5.5O@6.25; fair 10
good, $4.O0@5.O0; good to choice COWS
and heifers, $3.50@4.75; veals, $4,000
$50. Hogs-s6.00@6.15. Sheep-Weth-
ers, $5.50@5.90; good to prime lambs,
Sc.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Saturday, March %.

Count Arco, in his wireless sele-
phone experiments in Germany. has
succeeded in obtaining distinct ex-
changes Of words in a tolerablv nat
ural voice at a distance of two miles.
The Nebraska house has passed the
senate terminal taxation bill, requiring
railroads to pay municipal taxes on
terminal property in addition to the
mileage valuation assessed by the
counties.
The Northern Pacific and the Ore.
gon and Washington, a Hartman
property, have settled all their differ
ences and pending litigation in the
courts of Western Washington will be
abandoned at once.
Louis Chaldecott, secretary and
treasurer of the National Chicle COM
pany, committed suicide at Chicago by
shooting himself through the head.
He had for some time been suffering
with nervous debility
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
RESULTS IN THREE DEATHS.
Officers Raid Gamblinehouse at Fort
Worth, Tex.

Fort Worth, Tex, March 23.-Fol-
lowing a raid on a gamblinghouse
County Attorney Jeff d. Mclean was
shot and killed and Hamil P. Scott, a
member of the raiding party, fatally
wounded by William Thompson, pro-
prietor of the resort.
Half an hour later Thompson was
surrounded in a lumber yard and cap
tured after a desperate fight in which
Thompson received fatal bulle.
wounds.
The series of tragedies was wit
messed by hundreds.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Laundrymen oroanize.

The laundrymen of the Northwest.
who met at Grand Forks last week
effected an organization Of which F.
d. Leach Of Fargo was elected presi-
dent; j. G. Sheppard Of Grand Forks
vice president and w. A. Pollins OF
Grand Forks, was secretary and treas.
urer. There were about twenty-five
laundrymen present from over the
Northwest.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Thursday, March Fl.

The 18S-ton German steamer Horn
has been sunk in the North sea with
the loss Of twenty-one lives.
Harry Pratt Judson was formally in
stalled as the second president of the
University of Chicago at the sixty
second c%onvocation of the school.
Clearing weather and a cold wind
have checked the rising streams at
the headwaters and all danger of an
other flood at Pittsburg has passed.
Lord William Neville, fourth son of
the Marquis Of Abergavenny, has been
committed for trial at London On a
charge of stealing jewelry from a
friend. Bail was fixed at $25, 900.
T. j. Morrissey, grand master of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
says there was no truth in the report
that the trainmen employed on roads
west of Chicago had rejected the wage
scale recently offered by the general
managers. The result of the vote will
not be known for several days.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28

Minneapolis. March 25.-Wheat-
May, 77Ac; July, 7SMc. On track
No. 1 hard. S0A @S0hc; No. 1 North
ern, 73AM 73&c; No. 2 Northern, II
@17kc; No. 3 Northern, 74m76c.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
MOTHER AND BABE PERISH.
Former Stricken Dead Drops Child
Into Tub of Hot Water.

Ashland, Ky, March 23.-When Mrs.
Levi Jet, a relative of Curtis Jett of
Breathitt county feud fame. vas bath
ing her infant she suddenly was seized
with a pain in the head, it is said, and
fell dead. The babe fell from the
lifeless arms of its mother into a tub
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Chicago Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, March observation-disclosures,
$4.00@6.70; cows, $1.GO@4.75: heifers,
s2.t0@5.25; calves, s5.5O@7.50; good
to prime steers, $5.3O@6.70. Hogs
Light, $6.15@6.32k; mixed. $6.15@
6.32R: heavy, $6.oO@6.sO: rough,
Sc. pigs, s5.60@6.20; good to
choice heavy. $6.20@6.3O. Sheep,
81. lambs. S. O0S.Os.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Her Own People.

Washington. March 26.-Senor
Corea, the N%icaraguan minister, has
received a dispatch from President
Zelaya of N~icaragre announcing the
capture and occupa, On of Tegucigal-
pa, the capital of Honduras.
The capture of Tegucigalpa, the
capital of Honduras, by the Nicara-
guans, coupled with the recent defeat
of the forces of Honduras and Saliva
dor at Choluteca and the flight of
President Bonilla of Honduras, puts
an end to the latest Central American
a 1t is now probable that Nicara-
qua will install another president al
Tegucigalpa in lieu of President Bonil-
la, and then withdraw her troops to
her wv territory.
The conflict has been of short dura-
ton and, Judging from the reports
which have been received here, none
of the various engagements has been
serious. The casualties have been
comparatively light, 400 or 500 in the
1llONL IllpOl IdllI cuSdSelllSLlL Spol lSu'
the fight at Choluteca.
Honduras has been helped in this
war by Salvador, with whom she had
an offensive and defensive alliance,
and she has had to contend with a re
bellious outbreak of her w people.
This was also the case in Nicaragua,
the latent revolutionists in each coun-
1,-r H. II m.
difficulties of the government to fur
ther their own cause. Only three
Central American states have become
involved, Costa RIGA and Guatemala
remaining neutral.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
PEOPLE PANIC STRICKEN.

Severe Earthquake Shock at King.
ston, Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica, March ga Sc
we're earthquake shock occurred here
during the night. The people were
panic stricken, but nobody was hurt.
A number of walls damaged in the big
shock were thrown down.
Speaker Cannon and the other
American tourists just missed the ex-
p%erience, their ship having sailed
shortly before the shock occurred.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
CONVERSATIONS
Wednesday, March 20.

The business portion of Gotebo, a
small town in Kiowa county, Okla,
has been destroyed by fire, causing a
loss estimated at $4,000.
The Butte (Mont.) street railway
system has suspended operations in
consequence of a walkout of track and
repair men. No cars are running.
Senator w. A. Clark of Montana and
his associates are out of the San Pc
dro, Salt Lake and Los Angeles rail
road and E. HI. Hartman is the owner
of their stock.
A receiver has been asked for the
S175,000 Xenia CO., Gas company. 1t
is charged that the Chicago holding
company overloaded and "milked"
this and other companies.
Justice Moody of the supreme court
of the United States has allowed a
writ of error bringing to the court the
case involving the consolidation OF
the cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny,
Pa.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
GENERAL WHIT is DEAD.

Army Officer Expires Suddenly in
Philadelphia Hotel.
Philadelphia, March 22.-Brigadier
General Theodore j. Whit, U. S. ~,
commanding the department Of Mis-
souri, with headquarters at Omaha.
died suddenly at a hotel here. He
came to Philadelphia t o undergo med.
ical treatment. He was sixty-two
years of age.
General Wint's death was due to
heart disease.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
SIX KILLED IN WRECK.
Collision of Passenger Trains at Los
AnqeIes, Cal.

NH9eIeS, Cal.
Los Angeles, CAL, March 25.-A
special train on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fee railway, carrying ore
of students home from an ~intercollegi-
ate field meet at Claremont, collided
headon with the Overland limited No.
2 on the same road while both trains
were moving at a rapid rate within
the city limits.
Six persons we're killed and seven
teen injured, several of them fatally.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Woman Assassinates Physician

~Spartanburg, S. c., March 25.-Dr.
William Linde. a prominent physician
of Union, s. c., was shot and in
stantly killed by Lucy Litzey, who
walked into the physicians office,
closed the door and fired a bullet into
his back. The woman was arrested.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Monday, March Is.

NJ. Pobedonotseff, e~x-procurator
general OF the holy synod, is dead at
st. Petersburg.
The pope has received in private
audience Mrs. Robert S. Mccormick.
wife OF the eX-American ambassador
to France.
Two men were killed and four mr.
five injured by an explosion in a mine
belonging to the Sunday Creek COM.
pany near Athens, o.
The president has signed the COM
mission Of former Senator joseph G.
S. Blackburn of Kentucky to be a
member Of the isthmian canal CON
mission.
James Oliver, pillow manufacturer
and wealthiest nan in Indiana, is
critically i'll at South Bend with acute
Brights disease and serious complica-
tons. Mr.. Oliver is nearly eighty
fOur years old.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
Tuesday,, March 26.

Prince Won Arenberg, one of the
Centerist leaders in the German
%reichstag, is dead, aged thirty.fye
years.
Professor o Bergman, the FAM
GUS surgeon. is dead at Wiesbaden.
Germany. He was operated upon
Sunday for appendicitis.
Edwin Bradbury Haskell, one Of the
proprietors Of the Boston Herald and
formerly editor.in chief of the paper.
is dead at Auburndale, Mass. of an.
gina p%ectoris.
Colonel Albert l.. Myer, Eleventh
cavalry. has been selected for promo
ton to the rank of brigadier genera
to fill a vacancy created by the death
of General Whit.
Governor Davidson of Wisconsin
and a legislative committee of six
members has gone to Georgia to in.
spect stone quarries of that state with
a view of getting material for the now
capitol building for Wisconsin.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
HALT IN THAW TRIAL
DISTRICT ATTORNEY MAKES IN
FORMAL REQUEST FOR LUN-
ACY COMMISSION.

Court Takes Prompt Action When
in His Hands and in That Of Coun,
sci for the Defense Would Show the
Defendant lnsane-Jury Excused
Until the Matter is Decided.
New York, March 20.-District At
torney Jerome has finally made the
move Whicl! has been Il menace to
the defense in the trial of Harry X.
'Thaw ever since the hearing of his
case was begun nine weeks ago by
asking Justice Fitzgerald to hear evil
dence as to the appointment of a
Commission in lunacy to determine
the present state of the defendant $
mind. Trial was Immediately halted,
the Jury was excused for two days and
Justice Fitzgerald will in the mean
Cine receive afidavits from opposing
counsel and determine whether OF not
Ii lunacy commission shall be APP
pointed.
Mr.. jerome declared there was evi-
dence in his own hands and in the
bands of the counsel of the defense
which would convince the court that
the trial should proceed no further.
Justice Fitzgerald called for every
bit of available information and went
SO far as TO state that in the personnel
Of the proposed commission he did not
wish to appoint any one who had been
consulted In the case by either side.
de therefore requested counsel to
aubmit TO him a list of all the alien
tsts who have been In any way con-
oected With the proceedings thus far.
Thaw. who had appeared pale and
eIfed when the days session Of his
$fial was begun. turned crimson dur
ng the exciting scenes which attend
d the adjournment of court on Mr..
1efome's motion for a lunacy com
mission. He bit his nails, tidgeted
lbout in his chair for a while and
inally assumed al attitude Of de-
Spondency.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
TAKE CAPITAL CITY
NIcARAGUAN FORCES OCCUPY TIE.
GUcIeALPA, HONDURAS, AND
WAR MAY END.

Conflict Has Resulted in Continuous
Victories for Nicaragua, Although
Honduras Has Been Assisted by
Salvador, but She Had Also to Con-
tend With a Rebellious Outbreak of
Her Own People.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-03-28
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat.

MARKET
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Knocked Against the Building

THIS reminds me of clever young aeronaut who
had his arm broken because his balloon carried
too much ballast at the start On being released the
great gas bag slowly to height of about fifty
feet. Then the wind caught it, and it swept
along at the rate of perhaps fifteen miles hour.
The aeronaut realized his danger and began to
hustle out ballast at lively rate, but the balloon
did not rise much Directly in its path a
large brick building. lust before reaching this,
the balloon to clear the roof, but the
dashed against the walls just beneath it; and
the aeronaut, who was at the moment reaching down
for another bag of sand, hurled violently
against the side of the and sustained severe
bruises and fracture of the
To try making ascension in strong wind is
both difficult and dangerous the following Incl
dent will show. Henry Coxwell, a well known
English sailor of the air, had arranged to make
ascension from the Crystal Palace in London. The
morning set for the start fair and bright with
a c1oudess sky and a light wind an ideal day for
a balloon ascension After experimenting the begin
ming of the imitation Coxwen retired from the field,
return few hours later he found that the wind had
only half inflated, had broken from its leashes, and,
dragging with it a score of worknen was being
blown hther and thither about the large field from
which the ascension was to be made. Under Coxwells
directions, the finally succeeded in getting the
unweldy gas bag under the lee of clump of trees,
where the force of the wind was broken.
Under these circumstances, the conditions for
ascension decidedly unfavorable-a balloon
half inflated the wind blowing gale, and falling
barometer There had gathered, however, large
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slightest hitch; the car, containing DR.. Thomas,
Mrs. Thomas, and Charles Levee (the aeronaut in
charge rose gradually and gracefully into the air.
and sailed slowly upward and away, until it
lost to sight in the clouds. After sail of about
sixty miles which, as Mrs. Thomas said afterward,
was perfectly fascinating uleventful descent
was made at about eleven O'Clock in the evening.
This ideal balloon voyage.
Such ascensions as this are often more fire.
quent than most people imagine; for in spite of the
fact that the history of balloonng is repete with
adventures hair breadth escapes, and tragedies
ballooning is not the whole, an unsafe sport
The vast majority of ascensions are without accident
or nisadventure. On the other hand, however
there may occur in spite of the highest degree of
skill and prudence the part of the baoonist,
anyone of a thousand casualties which may add
excitement danger, even tragedy to the voyage
To make safe and successful ascension several
things are necessary: The wind must be light
There must be sufficient space all sides of the
point from which the ascension is made; so that
should the balloon rise slowly, it will not be in dan
ger of being carried by the wind against some
obstruction, such tall building, high chimney
or the face of cliff.