Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-04-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 81.

The seventy-fourth general assembly of
Ohio adjourned sine die.
Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, the
artist. is dead in London.
a big cement plant near La Sale, Ill.
was burned; loss. S25oooo.
The Blackstone national bank OF Boston
has gone into liquidation.
During the fiscal year just ended 5000
Italians have landed in this country
The New York democratic state conNen-
ton will be held in New York city June a.
Elmer Harris. IL years old. fell dead in
Hamilton. O.. at the end of boxing bout.
The steamer Jesse Spalding is the first,
to pass the Straits of Mackinac this sea-
son.
Francis T. Lossier (denl.) was elected to
congress from the Fourth Virginia dis
trict.
The signal corps has 1851 miles OF wire
in operation and l6O telegraph Offices in
luZon.
Harry Williams was hanged at Toronto,
Ont, for the murder of j. Z. Narcoe. a
grocer.
j. H Raymond resigned as president OF
the University of West Virginia because Oh
politics.
Sidney Powers shot and killed his di-
vorced wife in Elsin. H., and Then Killed
himself.
baseball season opened throughout the
country.
North Carolina populsts in convention
at Raleigh nominated Cyrus Thompson for
governor.
New Jersey republicans elected delegates
to the national convention favorable TO
Mckinley.
The democrats of the Twenty-tirst llli-
nois district have nominated Fred }. l>ern
for congress.
n j. Haines, founder of the piano firm
of Haines Bros, New York. died suddenly,
aged Is years.
During the present decade the United
States has produced halt OF the world 5
copper supply.
The war department is taking steps TO
aid the families OF officers and men who
fail to support them.
Homer Crawford, a negro. was hanged
in Hawkinsville, Ga. for the murder OF
johnson Pate (coloredl,
Engineer George Crane and Fireman
Frank Reynolds were killed in a railway
wreck near Aurora, Ind.
The president has appointed Frank w.
Hackett, of New Hampshire, TO be assist
ant secretary OF the navy.
Fire in lumber yards in Brooklyn. ~ y.
caused a loss of $500 900 and j. G. Donald
son and boy We're killed.
James r. Willard. a Chicago broker has
filed petition in bankruptcy. He owes
Ss45, 600 and has not a dollar.
The distress from famine among the peo-
pie of India is spreading. and a,sVu.ooO per
sons are now receiving relief.
The Alaskan winter was the coolest on
record The temperature ranged from IL
to SO degrees below at Dawson
Riley Powell (coored) was hanged at
of u 1yy,n "a
Charleston, Mo. in October, 1893
A company of the Seventh United States
infantry, stationed at Columbus. O.. has
been ordered to Alaska to protect miners.
w w. Heard (dem.) was elected govern
or of Louisiana in the first election held
under the new law DISTINGUISHING the
negro.
President Patton. of Princeton univer-
Sity, says If the Presbyterian creed Is
changed or revised it will be the doom OF
the church.
show that the Filipnos had a plan to gain
SPANS assistance to crush the American
troops in lloilo.
AT TaZewel, W. Va, John Peters tcol-
ored), who assaulted Miss Katie Richie, q
white girl l6 years of age. after brutally
beating her has been lynrhcd.
The heirs of Philip Francis Renault have
organized in Texas, claiming title. under
a French grant. TO about S2ou.e"o,TH worth
of property in Wisconsin and Illinois.
The supreme court of Indiana has de
cided that shares in national banks mus,
be taxed at their marketable value. with
out regard to debts which holders may
owe.
The republicans have nominated Edwin
Wright for congress in the Fourth Ohio
district, Colon Melville in the Seventeenth
and John j. Esch in the Seventh Wiscon-
sin district.
Hon. Sullivan NJ Cutcheon, cx-speakrr
of the Michigan house of representatives
and prominent in local business circles,
died at his residence in Detroit, Mich
carly in the morning, aged 81 years.
George r. Angel. president of the City
savings bank of Detroit. Mich, and OIL
HE Michigan Bankers association, eN-
rired suddenly at his breakfast table. the
result of an attack of heart disease.
The republican state convention of Yer
mont pronounced in favor OF the single
gold Standard Endorsed Mckinl-ys adj
mnistration and nominated uninstructed
delegates to the Philadelphia convention.
The Emmanuel Holland Reformed church
burned at Muskegon, Mich. Nicholas
Carey. driver of hook and ladder truck
was killed by the falling of the rear wall
and Ben Peterson. who. with Carey, was
on a ladder. was seriously injured.