Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-06-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending June =


Hailstorms in Kansas destroyed large
areas of wheat
Admiral Dewey and his wife were en-.
| tertained in Detroit.
Fire losses in the United States in Nav
amounted to $l5,59 700
Austinburg. O., celebrated its centen-
NAL anniversary Wednesday.
The levee at Amesville. La. broke. de-
stroying several fine plantations.
John G. Brady has been reappointed
governor of Alaska by the president
The village OF Faulkner Kan, was al
most entirely demolished by tornado.
The bank at Donovan, III, was robbed
by burglars of $1,000 In money and notes.
John A. Russell. of Elgin. ILL.,. has been
appointed attorney general OF Porto Rico.
President Mckinley's Canton (O) homo
is being fitted up for his reception July 4.
Forty buildings in the business district
of Susanville, Call were destroyed by
fire.
w. S. Taylor announced that he would
not be a candidate for governor OF Ken
lucky.
The new CAPITOL of New Mexico was
dedcat ted at Santa Fe with imposing GER
emonies.
Wind blew train from the track near
Oswego, Kan. and several persons were
seriously injured.
the national democratic (golD COM
mittee has been called to meet in In
dianapolis July %
Berea uly) college completed its s2O0-
600 endowment fund, Miss Helen Gould
| contributing 100000
President Mckinley will remain in
Washington until after the republican
national convention.
| The Colorado democratic state convene
ton instructed for Bryan and Endorsed
the Chicago platform.
The United States has sent the war;
ship Helena from Manila to reinforce
the command in China
The New York democratic state conven-
ton elected national delegates favorable
to Bryan for president.
Many houses and a church were
wrecked by wind at Miami l. T, and
several lives We're lost.
Mrs, Rebecca Lowe, of Georgia. has
| been reelected president of the General
Federation of Womens Clubs
| Stephen Crane, the American author
and war correspondent died at Baden-
| weller. Germany, aged 20 years
Judge J. Z. Hand N'ep.l was elected to
| the Illinois supreme bench in the Fifth
judicial district by 1900 majority.
! A French syndicate is said to have been
formed to extend Siberian railway to
| Behring sea and across to Alaska.
| By an explosion in mine near Glous-
ter. O.. Evan Joseph. John McCielland
and Aaron Swanson We're killed.
A divorce case in which the defendant
was aged % years. correspondent 60, and
| plaintiff SO was dismissed in Chicago.
| In feud at San Augustine. Tex. Sher-
| iff Noel Roberts and his two brothers.,
| Sidney and l.. q. Roberts. We're killed.
Citizens of Kentucky presented to tho
battleship named after the state a sill
YER service OF 20 pieces. which cost 5000
West Virginia democrats nominated
John II. Holt of Huntington. for gov
ernor, and Endorsed Bryan for prest-
| dent
At Carmel, Ind. Evangelist johnson
| killed Deputy Sheriff Carey and in turn
| was shot dead in the fusil,ade which fol.
| lowed.
| Missouri democrats nominated cx-Con-
gresham a. NJ. Dockery for governor
| and Endorsed Bryan and the Chicago
! platform.
| Several naval officers believe the United
States will send squadron to impress
the sultan with the ACCESSIBILITY of se&,
| thing claims
Mrs, Armoret Reese Henson, wife OF
Rev. DR. Z. S. Henson. pastor of the
| First Baptist church. died in Chicago.
! aged e. years.
Capt Henry T Blake. commanding the
revenue cutter Galveston. died at Calves
ton. Tex He was native of Brooklyn
and was g. years of age.
Gen. Otis while in Chicago said organ-
| ICED resistance of Flipinos is at end.
but "chaos. absolute anarchy and RUM
would follow American withdrawal
Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, of Burling.
ton. VT. Thursday unanimously re.
elected president of the Congrega ional
Home Missionary society in session at
Detroit. Mich.
w. d. Bender. who died at the College
Hill sanitaritlm. In Cincinnati. insane.
destroyed $4,000 worth of government
| bonds before his relatives could interfere.
| He accumulated fortune in California
years a.o.
J. NJ. Anthony, brother of Susan e.
| Anthony and Col II. D. Anthony, editor
/ of the l.cavcnW orth Times. dropped dead
| of heart disease at Fort Scott. Kan. For
80 years he had been n prominent bust.
ness man in Fort Scott.
| Bad hailstorms reported at Med.
| ford Okla, and at Pond Creek and otheu
towns in Kansas along the Rock Island.
| Large areas of wheat We're destroyed.
/ An elevator at Pond Creek was blown
! down and a mill burned
Friday vas Mrs. Mckiney's birthday.
| and in remembrance Of the occasion
| number of nyral pieces sent to the
white house. The president remembered
the day by giving Mrs. Mckinley chcch
| for $40 for each year of her life but the
| amount is not known, no had the
tcmerity to inquire about her age.