Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-06-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending jane "a

tIo!lCa democrats nominated w Ilt!ttn ).
Jennings for governor
A boiler in sawmil, near Eden. y Y.
exploded. killing three men.
Couat Mouravieft Russian minister of
foreign affairs. died in ST Petersburg.
The big Union grain elevator in Kan
sas City was burned, the loss being slVa.-
COO
Sidney Spears was hanged at sherman.
len, for the murder of his wife July .,
1899.
Canada has been awarded first prize for
Its display of timber at the Paris EXPOSE
ton.
Fire in one of the principal business
blocks in Pittsburgh, Pa caused Il loss OF
| $3.50 900
| BY reason of age Maj Gen Wesley
| Merritt, United States army, has been
| retired
In fire at Buffalo. n. V, Mrs. G. Mi
ianda and her three children We're burned
to death.
The Commonwealth Mining companv's
mill Pearce. -Ariz, was burned the
loss being S500.o
Oliver Dalrymple says two-th!rls of the
| North Dakota wheat crop has been de-
! stroyed b. drought.
l.. H Thompson. Judge OF the Vermont
supreme court, died at his home at lras-
burs. a.cd y wears
! The democrats OF the Fifteenth Illinois
district nominated Willis Hazelwood. o.
| Quincy. for congress.
The Worlds Womans Christian Tenn
| perance union opened its annual meeting
| in Edinburgh. Scotland.
| john H Butler. one of the most prom
| lnent lawyers of Indiana, died in In
I dianaoolis', a~ed $. years
Kansas nrohibticnists nominated Il fun
state ticket headed by Frank Ho#inger,
OF Rosedalc tor governor,
john y Gallagher state geolosjst. aged
| -, died 1T his home in Warrenbul. Mo-
| of an o.'e ration for cancer.
AT Eldorado. Kan. Miss Jessie Morrison
killed Mrs. Olin Castle with {. razor and
then fatally wounded herself,
Census enumerators found in Lcavon-
| worth the oldest person in Kansas Mrs
kittie Williams, aged III wears.
Charles Fultz. of Quincy. Ill. has in
vented a new match. Instead o: wood he
uses the stems OF prairie grass.
The statue of Washington. the gift to
Paris by the Daughters OF lhe American
Revolution. arrived in that city.
South Dakota farmers. by digging a
short cut for the Missouri river AT Rem
myers Neck. changed its course.
rainstorm in Indiana did great dam
age at Fort Waync. Warsaw. Peru and
other towns in the Wabash valley.
Jasper Francis Cronsey. one of the old
est American portrait painters. died at
his home in Hastings. y. " aged Is
Congressman j. A T. Hail was reNom-
mated by the republicans of the Seventh
Iowa district There was no opposition.
The five hundredth anniversary OF the
| birth of John Gutenberg. the inventor of
| movable type. was celebrated in Berlin.
AT Galena, kan. City Marshal Milford
Parker was Instantly killed by an cleo
trio shock from Il broken telephone wire.
Mrs. Lois S. Hall, who celebrated her
one hundredth birthday anniversary on
May - last, died at her home in Canton,
III.
Rev John Philip Conradi died at his
home in Baltimore. Md. aged IS years He
was the pioneer of Lutheranism in Amer
lea.
Mrs Beveridge wife of Senator Albert
j. Beveridsc. of Indiana. died at the
sanitarium in Evansville, n. y. aged &c
| years.
Perry Wagner. convict in the pcni-
tertiary at Rusk. Tex. was hanged for
the murder of fellow convict last Oc-
tober.
Robert Locl<hart. of Covington. Tenn,
and Miss Katherine Cline. OF Patoka
Ind. were married by long dis lance tele-
phone.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Aist'I iu refractory I;lSpaNSTS are TO DE
Jailed and opposition newspapers sup
! pressed.
A monument e. the memory of Samuel
l1ahnemann. founder of the homcupa thic
school OF medicine, was dedicated in
Washington
Harrison De sylvia Pike. railway Off
"!al, killed his wife in San Francisco and
's.ien committed suicide Domestic trouble
was the cause.
Joel Hunt. his wife and William
Barnes. negro farm tenants were killed
near Corscana, Tex. in a dispute ever a
division of crops.
AT the annual meeting in Des MONIES,
Ia of the National Music Teachers as
ISOLATION Arthur l.. Manchester of Cam
den. n. j., was elected president.
Edgar O. Weeks trepD has been renom-
mated for congress in the Seventh Mich
isan district and Charles +. Cochran
ldem) in the Fourth district of Missouri.
Gov Roosevelt, who has returned to
his home at Oyster Bay. l. l., will remain
there until June %, when he goes to Okla
homa to attend d meeting of his regiment.
National republican headquarters will
be opened in New York and Chicago about
July 20 Henry c. Payne will be in charge
in Chicago and Joseph II. Manley in New
York
Joseph Gibson, of the Gibson house
Cedar Falls. Ia. committed suicide by
taking poison. Grief over the death of
his wife is supposed to have been the