Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-12-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Dec. q.

For the Week Ending Dec. 3.
Chicago is flooded with counterfeit sill.
| yer dollars.
The equa!ized value of property in Illinois
The first Porto Rican legislature met
| and organized.
George Fitzgerald. lol years old, died
at Glenmore, Wis.
\ The official vote in kentucky gives Bry-
| an plurality of sos.
| The state of Montana is out of debt for
the first time in its history.
Mrs. Anna Allen died in Adrian. Mich.
| aged 100 years and 10 months.
Harvard, men won the annual debate
| With Yale at Cambridge, Mass.
The islands OF Kumter and Kmatara in
| the Pacific, were annexed to France.
| Queen Victoria is reported to have failed
|frapidy in the last two three weeks
| President Mckinley entertained the DEL
egates to the w. c. T. L. convention.
Russian report says 25o,o 600 Christians
have been massacred by Boxers in China.
A flood in the river Tiber caused a loss
| of S.5OO,O00 to property in the city of
| Rome.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee took command OF
the department of the Missouri at
| Omaha.
| The Ohio Federation of Labor conven-
| ton ended in row and split in the or
| ganization.
Thirty coal boats. containing Goo.Goo BUSH
! els of coal. sank in the river near Hunting
| ton. w. Va
President Kruger arrived at The Hague
| and was given a rousing reception by the
| Hollanders.
Mrs. Abbey Sage Richardson. of New
| York. author and literary critic died in
| Rome. aged 63.
Theodore Walert pleaded guilty to MUIR
| dering his wife and four stepchilGren at
| Arlington. MINI.
New York packing firm paid s.. las. or
| $l.5O a pound for a steer at the fat stock
show in Chicago.
Dan Long. a negro. was lynched near
1vanhoe, Va, by mob for criminally as
| saulting Mrs Fisher
William B. Dunton was convicted in
Chicago of embezzing sl55oo from the
Union national bank.
The isthmian canal commission re-
ported to congress in favor of building
| the Nicaragua canal.
The Alabama legislature passed I, bill
calling for a constitutional convention to
restrict the negro vote.
Navigation on the great lakes has closed
| after one of the most prosperous ship
| ping seasons ever known.
George Arthur Pearson. who murdered
Miss Annie Griffin his sweetheart. was
| hanged at Hamilton. Ont.
The bureau of statistics in Washington
| submitted figures showing enormous
lake traffic in past season.
III. NJ. Hanna. brother of the senator. gave
Cleveland hospital Northern Pacific pre-
| ferred stock valued ut $4,000.
Lord Roberts speech at Durham indicates
| the beginning of d concilatorN policy by
| Great Britain toward the Beers.
The British government has not formally
notified the powers of its annexation OF the
| Transvaal and Orange Free State.
A gale of 20 miles an hour wrecked many
| ships along the New England coast. Five
| sailors are known to be drowned.
Twenty persons We're killed and many
| wounded in collision of passenger and
freight trains nsar Jimulco. Mexico.
| j. j. AXtell. eX-parson. barber and pugi-
list. was knocked out in 43 seconds by lid
O'Hara, of Detroit, at Pontiac. Mich.
Gov. Stickney signed bill passed by
| the Vermont legislature prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes to minors in the state.
A gigantic international combination OF
| all big warship-building concerns is being
enginee red by Cramp 4 CO. of Philadel-
pha.
G. F. Swift gave 40 boys and young men
| from Barnstabie. Mass, his birthplace,
/
! plant.
| Judge Ewing of Cleveland, O.. is draw
| ing up measure for presentation to the
| next Ohio legislature to prohibit football
| playing
| Joseph Chamberlain told parliament that
civil rule would soon be established i'm South
| Africa republics, with Sir Alfred Miner as
| governor.
Holland and Portugal have quarreled
| fhe. of Nm ..h nj et
| Lorenzo Marques and have recalledj their
| minister's
| AT the end of the fiscal wear there were
| on the pension roll of the United States
993 22o names. net increase of 2.Olo over the
| fiscal year 1892
August Anderson and Charles Massman,
| employed at the Illinois Steel company's
mills in South Chicago. were Killed by the
| fall of scaffold
| Russian consuls in Turkey report a
dreadful condition of affairs in Armenia,
and state that hundreds of Armenians are
| daily being killed.
| One thousand one hundred acres of land
| in Nassau county. Long Island has been
| purchased by the Boer refugee aid COM
mittee to establish a burgher colony
Funeral services over the remains of Col.
| F.. S. Liscum, killed at Tientsin, China,
| were held at San Francisco Wedne sdav
after which the body was shipped to Wash-
| ington d. G.
kanS 4u Wei. a Cantonese reformer SAYS
| the chinese people hate the dowager en-
| press and blame her for the calamities OF
| the nation. The emperorS restoration IS
The only plan for peace.