Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-08-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jul. IS

lage of Buckley. Wash.
The Peruvian government, has adopted
the single gold standard
United States, following France. forbids
| Shipment OF arms TO China.
| constitutional convention will be held
IN Havana. Cuba. November j.
brief bat fierce storm cost many
lives and did great damage in England.
Miss Bessie Anthony. of Evanston. III.
Won the woman golf championship of the
west
The severe drought in the New Eng
land states has been broken by copious
rains.
Iowa republicans decided to hold their
state convention in Des Mones on Aug
ust !.
The Massachusetts, republican state
convention will be held in Boston Oc-
tober L.
Mrs. Thomas Wheeler celebrated her
one hundredth birthday at her home near
Nillisca. la.
Edward Bowen, of Lincoln. Neb. has ar
rived in Paris on his trip around the world
on bicycle.
A hailstorm damaged crops in North
Dakota over a territory comprising 100
square miles.
A gigantic plot to release prisoners from
the western penitentiary in Allegheny Pa,
was discovered.
American soldiers killed 50 I'ilpinos in
northern Mindanao for the murder of one
OF their number.
Charles Hale Hoyt. the famous author,
actor and manager has been declared
insane in New York.
An official dispatch received al the state
department tells of the collapse of the
revolution in Panama.
Twenty-Five conspirators who plotted to
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go, have been arrested.
Bartholomew Ruello, an Italian, the
king of silver dollar counterfeters, was
caught in PHILADELPHIA.
Nathaniel c. Bordwine. a soldier of the
Blackhawk war, died in Lewiston. ILL.,.
at the age of l0l years.
c. d. Sheldon has been renominated for
congress by the republicans of the
Twelfth district Of Michigan.
The United States transport Warren,
from Manila. reached San Francisco
with number of discharged men
Four hundred persons were poisoned
by eating ice cream at an Evansville
Qnd0 church social All will recover.
Jack Hillsman (colored) was hanged by
mob near Knoxville. Ga, for ASA ult.
ing the young daughter of a planter.
Advices received at Kingston, Jamaica
announce the denomination for a fourth
term of President Zelaya of Nicaragua
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson fought a
mob OF 200 men, who assaulted him while lie
was speaking at race track in Fort Scott,
Kan.
Henry B. Metcalf of Pawtucket. r. L.,
was officially notified of his nomina ton
for vice president on the prohibition
ticket
The National Woman's Relief Corps
will hold its eighteenth annual conven-
ton in Chicago during the G. A. r.
encampment.
The democrats have nominated John W.
Leonard for congress in the Eighth llli-
nois district and Frank A. Horner in the
Fifth Indiana district.
Sergt Ed Jackson, writing to his father
in Wichita. Kan. from the Philippines.
says the soldiers there generally believe
that Aguinaldo is dead.
The United States League of Building
and Loan Associations in session in In
dianapolis Ind, elected ]. w. Bailey, OF
Somerville, Mass. president.
Mary Yardley. spinster. 1O5 years old.
whose life extended through the admins
tration of every president of the United
States, died in Chicago Thursday
The new liner Deutschland made a
record run from New York to Plymouth.
in days, IA hours. minutes. handi-
capped by fog. Her speed averaged %
knots.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow in his report on Cuban postal
affairs says Nicely. Rathbone Rich and
others were in collision and are en-
bezzlers.
Congressional nominations: Iowa. Elev-
enth district Lot Thomas (repD renom-
mated; Illinois. Seventeenth district. B.
F. Caldwell (dem.) renominated: Indiana,
Tenth district. John Ross (dem)