Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-09-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
For.,he Week Ending Sept. 2.

For.the Week Ending Sept. q.
Peoria Ull) people i.aid so GO for sailed
gold claims in Alaska.
The entire business portion OF Mantle,
III. was destroyed by fire
Since July 1899. % oco immigrants have
arrived at Havana. Cuba
Mrs. Zilpha Boone lcoored) died at
Spencer, Ind, aged los years.
Utah republicans have renominated
Heber NJ Wells for governor.
Robbers held up the Alton station at
Marshall. Mo, and killed a Waterman.
The monitor Wyoming was launched at
the Union iron works in San Francisco.
The Western Baseball league closed its
season with Denver the pennant winner.
English troops in Ashantee are making
a general campaign against the hostile ma
ttves.
The state bank of Lamont, ILL.,. closed
Its doors with liabilities of $1,000; assets,
S24. 900.
Lord Roberts is due in London on Novem-
Der l. Butler is to command in South
Africa.
A new volcano has broken forth 80 miles
southeast of the old Colima volcano in
Mexico.
The Pottawatomie Indians claim miles
OF lake front in Chicago. which is valued at
$l5.0O00OO
mated George r. Mclean, OF Simsbury.
for governor
Charles Russell, the human arrow" a
famous acrobat and clown, died in poverty
at St Louis.
The Michigan peach crop is the largest in
years, taxing the capacity of steamboats,
and railroads.
IN Michigan, where they will be free from
labor troubles.
George n Elsbury civil war veteran
and founder of Tower City, n. D.. died at
Centralia. Wash.
Gen. Maxine Gomez declined to accept
nomination to the constitutional con-
vention In Cuba.
The freshman class at West Point 176 in
number. is the largest in the history of the
military academy.
During a quarrel ranchmen drove 5000
sheep over precipice at Sharpsdale Col,
and all were killed.
Jacques Faure. treasurer of the Paris
Aero club. successfully crossed the Eng
lish channel in a balloon.
The letter carriers in national convention
in Detroit. Mich. elected John n. Parsons.
OF Now York, president
Capt futile. OF the revenue cutter Bear.
reports that fever and famine threaten to
exterminate Alaska natives.
A tropical gale swept the Florida coast.
causing loss OF life, wrecklng of ships and
great damage to shore property.
Thomas kingsford, head OF the Kings
ford Starch companys works at Oswego.
N Y, died at the age of 10 years.
Rev. T.. Nj Cravath, for =. years pres
ident of Fisk university at Nashville,
Tenn, died at ST, Charles, MINI.
Joseph Dakus, a Missouri farmer, has
been arrested. charged with poisoning
melons and causing the dea In of nine boys.
Spirit distillers and distributors have
formed a cooperative association embrace
ing ali the disuleries in the United States.
mutiny occurred among the Filipino
prisoners in Bilibd prison, which resulted
in the death of four and the woundlng
of 10
Aguinaldo instructed F'ilipnos to capture
Manila by an attack III which treachery is
relied upon for success against the Amer
leans,
Railroad passenger agents have decided
that politicians must pay for special trains
and accommodations in the present cam
paisn
Women singers in Roman Catholic
churches are alarmed because of the de-
cree which forbids their appearance In
choirS.
Despondent because Of i'll health Mrs.
Hannah Hansel. 33 years old ended her
life and that of her 14-months- old son in
Chicago.
Duke d Abruzzi, OF Italy, has returned
from the arctic region. having reached
point al miles from the pole, making
new mark.
AT Mckeesport, Pa, the Fifth Avenue
Savings and Loan association was placed
in the hands of receiver, with liabilities
of s5Uo, ou1.
The secretary of war has instructed Gen.
Shafter, commanding the depa rtment Of
California, to discharge all volunteers in
San Francisco.
Gen. Chaffee praises Lieut. Col Daggett
for his sallantry in the Chinese campaign
and recommends his promotion TO be
brigadier general.
William Fitzpatrick, a weak minded man.
killed Richard Gordon and fatally wounded
his twin brother at Clifton, s. l. because
they ridculed him.
The United States transport Rawlins ar
rived in New York from Havana. among
the passengers being Brig Cen Eitzhugh
Lee, commanding the eastern department
of Cuba
John Reider, I veteran of the civil war.
killed his wife and himself al their home
in Brooklyn, \. y He was 50 years old
and his wife was % years younger Jeai-
ouSy Was the cause of the double tragedy.
| In the Lawrence county (Mo) circuit
court Friday r Smith was found guilty
Of murder in the second degree, and vas
given 40 years in the penitentiary Smith
was charged with killing Henry Watson
at Aurora Mo- March last, by crushing
his skull with 4 billiard cue.