Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-08-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. II.

Tor the Week Ending Aug. IL.
The census bureau gave The population
Of Providence, X l., a; l15.oo".
Hawaii has closed its last school for
teaching the native language.
European governments are planning FOR
the suppression of anarchists.
Two hundred Arr!eui;,nS We're rlassacred
by Turkish troops al Spaghank.
An explosion in d factory at .Azuma
1ama. Japan. killed ~ persons
st. Louis union street car men have
formed street railway company.
The population of Milwaukee. Wis, is
S5.3l5, gain of So,s4' in ten years
Germany will send 10000 more troops
to China to cooperate with the allies
Iowa democrats will hold their staSe con-
veEtion in Cedar Rapids on August Ii
Texas democrats nominated j. d. Say
ers. OF Basrop county, for governor
The government crop report shows de-
clines in the condition of nearly all crops
for July.
Union republicans in Delaware have NOM
mated George w Marshall, of Kent. for
governor.
GOV. Tanner has suspended the Illinois
cattle quarantine law until legality is adj
judica,ed.
Fifty-two cases of yellow fever are under
treatment at Havana, Is of which are
Americans.
Mrs. Phoebe Moulton celebrated her one
hundredth birthday at her home in La
Crosse. Wis.
William Bateman Leeds gave his bride
In Cleveland, o., presents TO the value of
over $5ou,Vuo
\. E. Backenstoss reached Seattle on a
bicycle. having made the trip from New
York in 81 days.
After a family quarrel Charles Dabor.
,ol5 Not a Iii !, "A
himself in Chicago.
The Russians who have been fighting
around Tsai-Chow are reported to have
KILLED 5000 Chinese.
Judge V. v Barnes was officially notified
OF his domination by the prohibition party
Tor governor of Illinois.
The large floating dry dock bought at
Havana from the Spanish government will
be located a Pensacola.
The strike of cabmen in Paris. France,
resulted in a lockout and $500 drivers We're
deprived of their vehicles.
Junius w Cobb, of Cleveland O.. was
enjoined from making love to Miss Agnes
c. Smith by Judge Dissette.
There is promise of a larger number OF
visitors at the Yellowstone park this sea-
son than in any previous scar.
The name, building and other property
of the Harper Brothers sold at auc-
ton i'll New York for 81 100000.
Capt, Frederick jerome. an oldtme
sailor. who saved over 1000 lives during
his career, died at San Francisco.
Fire at Atlanta. Ill. destroyed the livery
barn of John Longnecker and % horses
We're cremated. valued at $2.5o1.
The democrats of the Fifth district OF
Wisconsin nominated Charles H. Welse.
OF Sheboygan Falls, for congress.
English papers commenting on the bond
i. IL,
greatest money market in the world,
The percentage of sick among our sol.
diers in the Philippines amounts to S0l.
or less than one-twelfth of all the troops.
Receipts of l\loldike gold at Pacific coast
points so tar this season are about S3,50O,-
000 against s. $50, 900 at the same time last
year.
Admiral Watson said in London the
United States was making slow but sure
progress in the pacitication of the Philip
pines,
The quadrennial convention of democrats
ic clubs, originally set for September at
Indiana polls. has been postponed until Oc-
tober s.
Walter Russell Johnston. for more than
40 years organist Of St. Pauls Methodist
Episcopal church, New York, is dead OF
heart disease.
William Richardson has been nominated
for congress by the democrats in the
Eighth district OF Alabama, to succeed
Gen. Joe Wheeler
All records for sales a the Chicago stock
yards We're broken when a herd Of 90 blood
ed shorthornS from Canada brought an
average price of $19364
DR. CYRUS Hamlin. founder of Roberts
college in Constantinople died at Port
land. Me, aged - years. He one OF
the most celebrated Turkish missionaries,
y Waterloo DAD special says The repub-
lican state committee has announced that
Gov Roosevelt will open the campaign ir
the west on September 20 in this city. This
will be his only speech in b,wa.