Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-12-06
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the wceL Ending nee. =.

ma, Turkey
The United States monitor Nevada was
| launched at Bath, Me.
| il is said that Uruguay j. about 10 ever
| friendly relations with Brazil.
The official vote of California gives
| Mckinney plurality OF ]4..5i.
Morris Shoinosky was killed IN a loot
| ball game at Greensburg, Pa
| The Georgia legislature defeated d bill
prohibiting child labor IN mills
The Pennsylvania railroad Will retire over
900 employees on pensions January L.
! a Pittsburgh firm has contracted TO ship
100000 tons of coal TO Nantes. France.
| Isaac Woolf. Il Chicago clothier, gave TO-.
| 600 newsboys d Thankssiv dinner,
| John I. Morgan (dem) has been reelect-
! ed nited States senator from Alabama.
fat stock SHOW opened in Chicago
with s2,ooo.0o0 worth of animals on view.
| committee of 10 has been appointed To
lead the crusade against vice in New York.
! Robert E. A. Dorr. publisher of the Mail
and Express died at his home In New York.
| Evangelist Sam Small was placed in Jail
/, at Havana Cuba, on charge Of Swn-
ding.
| Yale eleven won the football champions
| ship by defeating Harvard 2S to in New
| Haven.
a French gunboat forced Chinese to pay
| Swallow
| Illinois has 45 cities with populations be-
tween 5000 and %, coo and IS between ZOO
and 5000
Chief of Police John w Campbell of st.
| Louis. Mo, has accepted me post OF chief of
| police of Manila.
| The trotting stallion Axtel sold at auc-
and w p. Jjams.
In Newark ~ Caleb BALDWIN cole.
| brated the one hundred and first anniver-
| sary of his birth.
| David Whitney, Jr, millionaire lumber
man and vessel owner, died at Detroit
| Mich, aged 20 Years.
| Secretary Long has ordered supplies sent
TO natives of Guam who are starving as a
result of the typhoon.
| Official reports show that the number of
/ saloons in Manila has decreased 30 per cent.
| under American rule.
| James Coleman. engineer. and D. C.
| Cook. mechanic, We're killed by AN tXpo-
| sion in Davenport, la.
Miss Helen Gould has: sent 81. o0o worth
of Christmas presents to New York sol
diers in the Philippines.
| St. Petersburg dispatches insis, the car
| was being slowly poisoned. The ruler is
| gaining in strength daily.
Louis Gilmore. captain OF the high school
| football team at Lowell Mass, died vi in
| juries received in a game.
| Secretary Roots army reorganization
| bill provides for minimum strength of u.s.
924 and a maximum OF 9G,TlG.
| While fishing with dynamite in Johnson
| county, Tenn. Marion Snyder lost his d ms
and both eyes by an explosion.
Provisions for important changes in the
army bill are embodied in Secretary
| Roots bill for reorganization.
The immigration bureau has allowe,. con-
tract laborers from Porto Rico to land
in the United States citizens.
The corner stone of the lie" state capt. /
at Little Rock, Ark. was laid under The
! auspices of the masonic fraternity.
Nome, Alaska. is now completely isols To 4
from the outer world by a barrier of Ice,
| ana Will remain so seven months.
| Three boys and baby We're killed and
Is or 20 lads injured by an explosion OF
nitroslycerin at Wellshurs. w. VA.
Mrs. Samuel Stevenson sister of Or. ="
Dowie, died of pneumonia and was buried
at sea She refused medical attention.
Preston ToGd, aged %, was killed durr :
| football game in Chicago. MA king the
| fourth victim during the past season.
Gov. Stickney signed bill passed by
| the Vermont legislature prohibiting the
sale OF cigarettes TO minors in the state.
| Two university students. Max Pilling-
helm and Max Eichtersheimer. left New
York on a trip afoot around the world.
Rear Admiral Frederick V. McNar, rank
ing next in line to Admiral Dewey. died
! of apopleNy at Washington. aged G9 years.
| Five highwaymen held up Il crowde d
car in Chicago beat the conductor and
robbed Edward Wright. a passenger. OF
SSH.
The celebrated November corn corner
engineered by George II Phillips came to
an end in Chicago. Phillips cleared about
$3OO, 900.
Andrew and Bridget mckinley. a mar
| burned to death in their home in Newton
! township, Pa.
Joe Mulhatton. perhaps the most noted
writer of newspaper fakes in America
has been placed in the insane asylum at
| Phoenix. Arz
Miss Antoinette Firck. New York
| heiress. broke her engagement to we'd
Baron Won Stechow because he would not
| live in America.
Richard Novak the 14-year-old boy who
stabbed and killed his companion. Albert
| Olson. of the same age, in Chicago was
found guilty of murder
Thanksgiving day was celebrated
throughout the country. The president at
| tended church and sat Gown to his dinner
at seven O'Clock in the evening
The census gives North Dakota popua-
ton of 3la,l46 increase 1876, i27; South Da-
kota 4Ol,510 increase 72.762: Nashingto,
5lS,l03 increase ltS, 1l3; Oklahoma 3aS 245,
increase 3S6.4ll New Mexico 1875 olV, m
crease 4l,1l7.