Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-07-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July

For the Week Ending .JuiylA.
John E!liinssley, aged los. died III Lou
don. Ky
four years
The president has appointed 40 West
| Point cadets
| John l.. Thomas died in Racine. Wis.
| aged los years
The worlds Christian Endeavor confer
ence opened in London
| West Virginia republicans nominated
Albert e. White for governor.
Italy will send 1000 men with go guns
TO Join the allied army in China.
Nebraska prohibitionists named L. o.
Jones as candidate for governor
1t is announced that by October /
only 1000 troops will be in Cuba.
Hot dry weather is causing great loss
10 cattlemen in southern Arizona.
Extreme cold weather and heavy snow
storms prevailed throughout Austria.
Inc United States and Germany have
entered into a reciprocity arrangement.
Mrs Laura Grant May, famous artist.
Killed herself with poison in Bloomfield,
\. j.
King Oscar has offered rewards for
news OF Andree's balloon polar expedi-
ton.
Tramps tried to capture a Big Four
freight train near Indianapolis and were
worSted
North Dakota republicans have nom
mated F., &. Fancher. OF Stutsman, for
governor.
The yield OF wheat in Minnesota and
North and South Dakota is estimated at
10000 900 bushels.
John Jennings (colored) was lynched
by a mob at Cresswel. Ala, for the MUIR
der of l.. Martin.
1t is Officially stated that Great Britain
will have an army of 100 900 in China be-
fore next September.
Returned gold seekers say lawlessness,
suffering. disease and death are features
of life al Cape Nome
Indianapolis has been selected as head
quarters of the middle-of- the-road popu-
list national committees.
Messrs. Bryan and Stevenson will be
oHcally notified OF their nomination at
indianapolis on August S.
The transport Hancock reached San
francisco from Manila with l0l general
passengers and 547 soldiers
Lewis G. Tewksbury, New York
broker and SPECTATOR. is missing. 1t is
SAID he owes from $3.50 600 to $500. 900.
Mrs Mary Lee, aged 80 years and 10
months. and believed to have been the
Oldest woman in Ohio. died at Warren.
John Chapman and 1ver Lawson rode
a mile on a tandem bicycle in Salt Lake
City in l:i,la breaking the world's record
PopullstS an, democrats fused in South
Dakota and nominated a ticket headed
by b. Ii. Lem, of Sioux Falls. for gov
ernor
The commercial treaty between the
United States and Italy has been APP
proved by the Italian chamber of dep
utieS
Charles r. Westerveit. treasurer OF the
Snx-in
was said TO be $4,000 short in his &C.
counts.
The middle of-the-road populists OF
North Dakota have put full state ticket
in the field. headed by c. G. Major for
governor
Late reports from Red Lake. Mimi.
say that the Blanket Indians are con-
gregating in large numbers and an out.
break is feared.
Rear Admiral Remey has arrived at
Chefoo and relieved Rear Admiral kempr
OF supreme command of American naval
forces in Chinese waters
Senior Silvela. the Spanish premier, saws
that no Spanish war vessels will go to
China, Spain having interests to de-
fend in the extreme orient.
DR.. Francis f. Clark OF the Christian
Endeavorers. just arrived in London
from China, said that northern China
had been a hotbed of instruction all
spring
J NJ Green. Of Trenton, NJ j., was
chosen president of the National Educa-
uonal association. The next place OF
meeting was left to the executive COM
mittec
The republicans have nominated Wal.
ter Reeves for congress in the Eleventh
Illinois district. John F. Lacey in the
Sixth Iowa and Henry o. Smith in the
Second Michigan.
Congressional nominations: Indiana,
Thirteenth district. G. e. Bowers (demD:
Illinois, Fourteenth district. Jesse Black,
Jr. repD: Michigan. Eleventh district,
A. 3. Darra:h (rcpD.
Hon. l.. H. l1stee. justice Of the United
States district court of Hawaii, has APP
pointed Walter Il. Hailing of Portland,
Me. a nephew of Senator Perkins, of Call
ltorna. clerk of his court
AT the National Educational associa-
ton meeting at Charleston. S. c. it was
urged that the bureau of education be-
given direct charge of schools in Alaska,
China. Porto Rico and the Philippines