Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-05-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Ma, -

For the Week Ending Ma. p.
Mrs langtry. the actress, sailed rom
Kew York for Europe. =
II, business portion OF Lake View, ore.
Vas destroyed by tire.
Three big fires in Chicago Wednesday
caused a total loss of SliS,0n0
Frankfort, KY is free from soldiers for
the first tine since January 30.
Fire destroyed nearly the entire BUSH
ness portion of Shipshcwana. Ind.
Senator Foraker will nominate Nc !<inley
at the republican national convention.
South Dakota republicans have NOM
mated Charles N. IIerreid for governor.
Queen Victora's cighty-trst birthday
was celebrated throughout the British emt
pire.
Cholera continues in India. Cur2on re-
ports $780,, 900 famine sufferers receiving
relief.
The queen regent of Spain has signed
!. the ..postal convention with the United
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon. of Topeka.
Kan. a,ril >or of "In His Steps" sailed for
!. l'd Herbert t how'll prominent Cleveland
E:(o) business MIN, was fatally shot by two
I:footpads. :. ::
r. p. NJ arthur: has been reelected grand
Engineers.
Kansas delegates to the national demo-
cratic convention We're instructed to vote
for Bryan.
Ex-senator Quay. of Pennsylvania, has
announced his candidacy for reelection to
the senate.
= Engineer Frank Shaw and Fireman Har
| ry WetZell We're killed in a train wreck at
| Oakland. Cal.
re i'm, a
eminent suppress the BOXERS" who are
gaining strength.
James NJ. Lynch. of Syracuse, y. Y, has
| been elected president of the international
| Typogra phcal union.
| Thirty states We're represented at the
| opening in Chicago of the annual conven-
ton of the American .Anti-Saloon league.
Senator Hanna says statements that he
intends to resign Craftsmanship of republic
an national committee are unauthorized.
The Louisiana legislature elected eNC;ov.
| Murphy j. Foster to the United States SEN
| ate and reelected Samuel Douglas Nc Ems
cry.
Rousseau o. Crump, of West Bay City.
| was rcnominatcd for congress by the re-
publicans of the Tenth district of Mich
| igan.
Thomas S. Timpyon. general eastern
! agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railway, died at Buffalo, n. y aged ).
years.
The Chinese minister at Washington has
asked the president 20 withdraw the or
der excluding his country,nen from the
| Philippines
John s Shook was nominated on ,he
ninety-second ballot at Defiance demo
cratic candidate for congress from the
| Fifth Ohio district
Jonas G. Clark. founder of Clark nnver
sity in Worcester, Mass, died there. agc(
IS years. His gifts to Clark university as.
| greglte nearly $3,Ol0000.
The will of the late benjamin II. Howell
the Brooklyn On " sugar merchant. dis
poses OF an estate valued at 81 500. O0u ai4G
gives $l3,W0 to charities.
President Mckinley will ride on horse
back in the G. y. r. parade in Chicago
in August, having accepted a place on the
staff Of Commander Shaw.
AT the meeting in Detroit of the Nom
ems Baptist Home Mission society Mrs
j, \. Grouse. OF Chicago. was for the TWEEN
ty-thrd time elected president
The dLrector of posts of the Philippine
islands reports that with all expenses pai'
there will be profit of over Sl6.0 70
the II months from May /, 1890.
Charles w. Nicely was rearrestcd in Ney
York on the charge of conversion of $45. 80
of government funds while financial a2cn
of the post Office department in Cuba.
, Nathanlel t. flll. formerly nlte
States senator from Colorado. died il
Denver Tuesday of general debility re
sultng from stomach trouble lie wa
6S wears old
The engine attached to the wes,-boun
fast mail train on the Lake Shore. roa
] went into ditch at WcStiield, n. y. an
Engineer Reagan and his fireman. Williai
i.eShbOdy, We're killed.
The banking house of Nielsen & Co. @
Pentwater, Mich. failed to open its doors
: The liabilities are unolficiaily estimated Il
SIS. 900 to $l0o,0no 1t is Impossible at thi
time to form an estimate of the assets.
Fritz Meyer was put to death i'll the cleo
trio chair at Sing Sing On. v prison q
Cos o'clock Monday morning for the m,t.
der of Policeman Frederick Smith in Ne'
York city on the night of October u. 1897.
The secretary of war has directed Lieu
Col. Webb {. Hayes Thirty-trst voiur
1 teer infantry. upon his arrival at Sa
t Francisco To proceed to his home at Ciev,
, land tor honorable discharge from tn
service.
The department of state warns tn
public against the swindlins advertise
4 | ment and other publications of scheme,
relating TO pretended estates in Enslan
| and cautions the people against reri
ting money in view OF such adNcrtiS.
n ments to any strangers under any Gil
CumStanceS. =,