Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-06-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending juno =.

Jansen, Nob
Della Fox. the actress has been commit
ted TO an insane asylum.
Near Montgomery. w. Va. l. men died
from eating poisoned provisions
senate committee has begun investiga-
uon of the postal frauds IN Cuba.
Gen Eiwell S. OTIS is slated for COM
mand of the department Of the lakes.
The building Trades council at Kansas
City. Mo. ordered 5000 men to go strike.
Cholera is spreading rapidly in India.
killing hundreds of famine stricken ma
tiveS.
At Miles City. Mont. the Northern Pa
chic express office was robbed vi 5000
package
The school census OF Indiana shows a
population OF 2.63S. is3. a decrease of 5.i97
in year
The American Steel 6 Wire company has
closed down three of its principal mills at
Cleveland. O.
AT the opening of the CHILEAN congress
the president said Chilli was al peace with
all the world
Robert T. Burt the oldest locomotive
engineer in America, died in Beloit, Wis,
aged 80 Years.
Samuel Cupples and Robert Brookings.
of St Louis. donated So 00o.UUO to Washing
ton university.
Auditors investigating the Cuban treas
urN ana customs department found no
trace of fraud.
Princess -Aribert of Auhalt. sranddaush-
ter of Queen Victoria has arrived in New
York incosnitO.
Capt. Ariie Morrison. Frank Campbell and
William Medlar We're killed by lightning
at ST Clair, Mich.
William j Bryan. in q magazine article.
holds to the issue of sixteen TO in thu
coming campaign.
A Philadelphia messenger boy has de-
livered n message from American school
children to Kruger.
Gen. Jose NJ. Hernandez. the revolutions
AIRY leader in Venezuela. has been captured
by government troops.
Albert Francis Judd. chief justice of tho
supreme court of Hawaii. died at his resi-
dence III Nuuanu Valley.
Engineer John Hines and Fireman Wom-
Bile Were killed in the wreck of train 80
miles south OF Waco, Tex.
A cyclone struck the western part OF
Sehewa township. Mich. and did great
damage to farm property.
Railroad crop reports point to a heavy
harvest in Iowa, Nebraska, northern Mis-
souri, and northern Kansas.
Michigan republicans will hold their
state convention i'll Grand Rapids June
- to nominate state officers.
Dir II. l.. Mundy. aged A years, dentist.
was found dead In his office in Kansas City.
Mo. He had taken morphine.
The enumeration for the twelfth census
began. and it is To be completed III so days.
The cost will be over Sl5nro.o0o
The forty-fourth anniversary of the first
republican state convention held in Illinois
was celebrated in Bloomington
Judge James Scammon died at Kansas
City. He was of the most prominent
members OF the bar in Missouri
Congress has appropriated $4,000 for geo.
logical SURVEYS in Alaska THU. year. and ons
of three parties has already sailed
New Jersey democrats IN convention
avoided; pleeiging delegates I" Kansas city.
but showed their sympathy with BRYAN.
The United States transport Sherman
sailed from San Francisco for Manila
heavily laden with commissary supplies.
Harry f. Miles. 25 years old. was killed
and William +. Stafford was fatally in
jured in n bicycle race at Waltham. Mass.
David Ward. pioneer capitalist. lumber
man and owner of a fortune of upward OF
s250D,oo0 died at his home in Pontiac.
Mich.
by the death of Thomas +. Miaco in New
York six theaters and large fortune are
left to his l5-ycar-old daughter Edna his
sole hei:.
Twcnty-three foreign warships are at
Tak,,, and Russia owns nine of them. with
II 900 soldiers aboard Marines guard Legal
tons In Peking.
Rev. John G. Lowrie. ID d. of the
foremost missionary workers in the Pres
byteran church. died at East Orange.
y. j.. aged 81 years.
EN-MaNor John Steketce, OF Grand Rap.
ids. Mich. and for many years vice consul
for the Netherlands. of which country ia
was Il native. died suddenly.
Subscriptions are being received for a
monument in Erie. Pa. to Capt Charles
V. Grid'ry. commander of the flagship
Olympia in Dcweys fleet at Manila
The president has comnl,:cd to ten yeara
the liz" sentence of jefferson Harrison for
lohbins in 1893. mail car in Alabama and
threatening to Kill the postal clerk.
a passenger train on tho Green Bay &
Western road was wrecked near kcwaner,
Wis. by a washout. and Fireman Brown
was killed and ltnginee, Eiordan fatally
injured
The navy department is arranging fos
fertilization Of Dry Tortusas. Pearl Har.
Dor. Pansn Pango and Guam. With these,
Alaska and Cavite America would domi.
nate the P"cinc
Lieut. Col Webb G Hayes. Thirty-first
volunteer infantry. son of cx-Prrseent
Hayes. is no longer connected with the
array. his resignation having been accept
ed by the president.
Two children were dragged from a burn
ing house on the truck farm of T. Steer
Eichs!o". near Media. Pa. at might by tief
eiSht-y.hr-o!d brother. who. driven out
by the flames was BILE to save his moth.