Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-07-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July 2.

For the Week Ending July 2.
The Mddlebury tNt.) college held its
Centennial celebration.
The governments surplus for the fiscal
year Just ended was sSl DOC. ~.
Mrs. Sarah Place celebrated her one hun
drecth birthday in Lebanon. Ind.
The French government will erect an
embassy building in Washington.
Eighteen business houses at Prairie
Depot, o.. We're destroyed by fire.
The car of Russia has issued an order
abolishing Punishment to Siberia.
Twenty St. Louis street railway strik-
ers have been indicted for murder
Sebastian Miller aged IS. committed sui
eide on his wife'S grave in Quincy. Ill.
President Mckinley delivered a Fourth
OF July address to the people of Canton
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin announces
he Will not be candidate for reelection.
Seventy-siX Chicago couples crossed the
lake to St. Joseph, Mich, and got mar
ried.
Fourth of July celebrations throughout
the country killed SO and injured 2,16,
people.
Paris gave the Boer ENJOYS a warm
greeting on their return from their Amer
lean visit
Americans and Frenchmen joined in
unveling in Paris monument to George
Washington.
Fire in the Standard Oil company's
plant a Constable Hook. y. j.. caused Il
loss of Sl.500, 900.
The funeral services of William b Cur
tbs, the father of American athletics, took
place in New York
Nathan L. Baker killed his daughter
and himself at Richmond, Ind. No cause
known for the crime
In a storm off Pehriop ro,ct ,l,a
sloop Seattle, with seven men. capsized,
and all We're drowned.
Mrs. Maggie 7. LehniS. a widow of o.
killed her baby boy and herself in Cncin-
natl while respondent.
The ST Louis grand jury accuses the
police of that city with completely in the
iaW!essness of the strike.
In a wreck on the Montana Central
railroad 10 miles from BUTTE, two persons
were killed and 3S injured
American tourists in Edinburgh cele-
! brated the Fourth by dedicating the
statue of Abraham Lincoln
The Carnegie company is said to have
forced all steel companies to agree on
| a permanent basis of prices
The sultan has promised to pay $780,
0co indemnity in settlement of American
missionary claims in 80 days.
| A fund of slS,546 has been collected for
v,
! Henry, of the United States army.
| Antonio $3.50 and Jose Nasquez. two
| prominent Mexican cattlemen. killed each
| other In Il quarrel near Tucson. Ariz.
| The tug Marion Teller foundered in
| Lake st. Clair. near Port Huron. Mich /.
and three OF the crew We're drowned
| All the union miners in Alabama, about
10000 in number, suspended work pend
! ing the settlement of the wage dispute.
Six men We're killed and scores of per-
sons injured by the explosion of AN inn
| menSe oil tank at Parkersburs. w Va.
! Noble Prentice, editor of the Kansas
| City (Mo) Star. died at La Harne, III.
from a stroke of paralysis aged 81 years.
! Fire destroyed the Cataract house the
leading hotel in Sioux Falls. S. d, and
| other property. the total loss being $50 :
| 600.
In fit of jealousy c. A Martin. OF
Pendleton. Ore. shot and Killed Miss
Leah Coleman and then fatally shot him.
self.
! John Roe. an 1Syear-old negro. was
| lynched near Columbia Ala for an at
tempted assault. His body was shot TO
| pieces.
The Lafayette statue, gift of Amer
lean children. was presented to France by
MIR. Peck and accepted by President
! Loubet
1tVfuS L. Wy fl2ht poisoned his wife OF
| three days at Columbia. S G.. and then
| poisoned himself No cause is known tor
| the deed
The socialistic labor party in Wscon.
| sin nominated state ticket headed by
| Frank X Wiikcns, of Milwaukee, Tor
! governor.
Emil Markenbcrg an experienced
1 aeronaut. Tell 800 feet in full view of a,
! crowd at Santa Ara, CAL and was crushed
! to death.
The deep waterways commissions re.
! port favors 2O-foot channel from the
| lakes to the ocean. which would cost
$3.50 lS3 3S6
Thomas Dixon and his wife were taken
| from their home after midnight at Bloom
inston, Ind. and whipped by d doz n
masked men.
The coinage at the minis during the
past fiscal year was valued at Sal co.,
$50. an increase OF 81 4i6 99S3 over the
! previous year.
Noah Blickonstaff and two of his chill
dren We're kilt"'! and his wife and ano,!ser
! child fatally injured at railway CRUISING
near Flora, Ind.
| BY The sinking of a skif al Lake Charles,
La. Mrs. c. Phelps her mother, Mrs.
I Amanda johnson. and her brother. Albert
J johnson. We're drowned.
! The branch factor. Ct the Standard
| Wheel company was burned at Santils Ky
| O., the loss being Sleo0o0, and Two men
!, persisted in the flames
! In Illinois the United Christian party
nominated Rev. John CordinglN. of Chs
| cago, tor governor. and in Iowa named
| T. w. Sage of Washington. for secretary
| of state.
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