Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-09-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. 81.

Nine. Seals. an InulaN woman, G.SC III
Madison. Ind, aged lo3 years.
Iowa mddle-oft he-road populists will
place Il state ticket in the field.
The kentucky Legislature met IL! extra
session to pass new election law.
MAYOR James G. Woodward. of Atlanta,
Ca. was mpeached Tor intoxication.
The Rogers locomotive works at Pater-
son. n. j.. going out OF business.
peapack Smith family held reunion at
Peapack. n. j.. and 100 Were present.
The German press no hope for ef-
fective measures against the anarchists.
A negro was lynched at Forest City. n.
c. for the murder of a white man named
Flack.
John l.. Sullivan was given a rousing
benefit by the Twentieth Century club in
New York
The battleship Wisconsin will be ready
for her official trial trip about the 18th OF
September.
Sons of Veterans have raised $4,000 and
will erect college in memory of the grand
army men.
American Bar association began in Sara
toSa. n. y.
jerome c. Kearby, of Houston. has de-
clined the popuist nomination for gov
crnor of Texas.
Hiram Sharpe. who killed his wife last
December in Dekalb county, was haiStd
in Decatur, Ala.
The will of the late Archbishop Hennessy.
of Dubuque, Ia. leaves 81, 100000 to relatives
and church societies.
In the Third Iowa district the demo-
Gratis have nominated w. n Birdsall, OF
| Waterloo for congress.
| Three women and two men killed them
| selves in Chicago Thursday and another
woman attempted suicide.
| John r. Rogers was nominated for gov
ernor Of Washington by the fusionists in
| union convention in Seattle.
ogden H. Fethers, of GAINESVILLE, Wis.
| was elected supreme chancellor of the
| grand lodge. Knights of Pythiae.
The United States transports bearing the
| Cuban teachers who attended the Harvard
summer school arrived at Havana.
Home rule for cities was advocated at
| the meeting in Milwaukee of the American
Society OF Municipal Improvement.
Wisconsin democrats have nominated f.
A. Partlow for congress liz the Tenth dis
trct and n. L. Morgan in the Eighth.
The steamship Senator brings the report
to Seattle of the drowning of Capt Giliey
| GU years old. noted Alaskan explorer.
Census returns give Boston a popula tior
of 500. S92 an increase of 11a,4l5 in ten years,
and San Francisco '42.7S gain of 49,
The American Society of Municipal Inn
provements in session in Milwaukee elect
ed Robert E. McMath, of ST. Louis. presi-
dent
An anarchist has been arrested at Car
rara, Italy. on suspicion OF having CON
spired to assassinate King Victor EmmaH.
ucl Ill
The cruiser Montgomery. of Admira
Schleys squadron, which arrived at New
York, will go out of commission for ext u
Sive repairs.
Thomas ]. Powers, commissioner o
banking for Pennsylvania. was killed by
falling from a train in the outskirts o.
Philadelphia.
Rev. DIR. Francis S. McCahe. a PreShyte
rian clergyman Well known throughout tn,
west. died at his home in Topeka Kan.
aged Il years.
Mrs. Mary McGill killed in Mary
willie, Mo-. by the shock of the liz tina
her son. James McGill had died suddenl,
at Jetmore, Kan.
The North Atlantic squadron uhe Kcar
sarge. Kentucky, Massachusetts, Indian
and the Texas sailed from Boston 70
Trial Station, Ala.
Mary Sellers. of Lancaster. England. VOL
the title of Bride of the l'mb1i" by be
ing married on that liner to William Phil
lips. of Rhode Island.
The Prussian cabinet has resolved t
grant modified railroad tariff foi foreig
coal in order to facilitate the inportatio
of coal from the United States.
The state department announces that W
Irwin Shaw. United States consul at Bar
ranQulla, Colombia. who reported. t
have died of yellow fever. is alive an
we'll
More than a score of missionaries. Won
en- and children who escaped from Chin
at the beginning of the Boxer u,break. al
rived in San Francisco on the steame
China.
William Andrews. one of the wealthics
and most influential bankers in centr;
Iowa. was accidentally killed in Marshal
town by falling and striking his head 0
the pavement.
The steamship Ohio arrived at Scattl
from Nome with $50 passengers and treas
ure estimated at S2.000.0O0. About one thil
of the gold came from Nome. The Nlondik
contributed the balance.
!. r. Philip Gormully. of Chicago. pres
dent and treasurer of the Gormully
+ Jeffrey Manufacturing company. died
Montreal. Mr.. Gormully was d pioneer i
the manufacture of bicycles.