Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-08-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Binding Aug. ls,

For the Week Binding Aug. IL.
Seattle 1Wash) will have a worlds fail
in lS0i
Grasshoppers stopped train near Ores.
sey. Mich
Two hundred persons Were drowned In
foods in japan.
The entire town of Columbia y q. was
destroyed by ire.
Smithtield, III, was almost wiped out by
fire caused by robbers
William Steinitz. the noted chess player,
died in New York Monday.
European governments are planning fol
the suppression of anarchists.
hailstorm destroyed 10000 acres OF
wheat near St. Thomas. n. d.
President Mckinley and wife arrived
in Washington from Canton. q.
Since March IA there has been a gain OF
SO. 900 in bank-note circulation.
The national bank at Somerset, Ky. or
ganized June - last, closed its doors.
\ storm in eastern Illinois damaged the
broom corn crop to the extent of $500, 900
New York democrats will hold their state
convention in Saratoga Springs Septem,
Der II.
A boy 10 years old, arrested in Leipsic,
was commissioned to kill King Albert OF
SaXony
James j. Hill says the year ended Juns
50, 1900. was the banner Year for all west
ern railroads.
John G. Hawley. a well-known and wide
ly-quoted authority on criminal law, died
in Detroit. Mich.
Confederate veterans of the south are
opposed to Gen. Gordon attending the q
a. r. encampment
Henry Lippert, aged -. ex-chief of the
fire department. dropped dead at his
home in Milwaukee.
Blanche Fearing. of Chicago. the only
blind woman lawyer in America, died al
Eureka Springs. Ark.
The three free employment agencies in
Chicago have found work for over 3o00
people within the Year.
The International Typogra phical union
in session in Milwaukee declared against
indiscriminate boycotts.
Members of the Atkins and Howard fam.
lilies in Elliott county. Ky. fought and two
of the latter We're killed.
Armed men and soldiers patrol the
streets of Liberty City, Ga. in anticipation
OF an outbreak by negroes.
Uncle Dan" Whipplc. of Traverse City,
Mich. the oldest G.. y. r. man, will attend
the encampment in Chicago.
Live stock agents of western railroads
say shipments of cattle from ranches Will
be unusually heavy this fall
Rev. Joseph ]. Harris. of Marion. Ill.
has been named for lieutenant governor
on the prohibition state ticket
Maj. Frederick f. Prime. during the civil
war chief engineer In Grants Mississippi
campaign. died at Litchted. Conn.
Emperor Francis Joseph's seventeen
birthday was celebrated in Vienna by
display of flags and an illumination.
Gov. Beckham. of Kentucky. has called
an extra session of the legislature for
August Is to modify the Goebel law.
Charles Stckles the oldest active railway
engineer in the United States, died at hi!
home in Oneonta, n. Y, aged IS Years.
George Griffin and his third wife were ar.
rested near Wilson. \. j. ON the charge ol
starving Grittin's four children to deaf tn
"Overthrow the sultan and stop the
massacres in Armenia" is the demand made
by the Anglo American society in London
Alfred Mulkin, an aged resident OF
Rockford, ILL.,. who was in Chicago seek.
ing his runaway WIFE, was robbed of
$3.50
Eugene V Debs was ndorsed by the
Typographical union at Milwaukee as the
sociaiistic democratic presidential canui.
date.
Henry j ONeill the barley king" OF
Chicago, iiles a petition in bankruptcy
scheduling debts Of 100000 and assets OF
$1,000
Mrs. L. S. Grant cannot attend the grand
army encampment owing to advanced age
and the nervous strain incident to the
event.
desperate attempt to wreck a Penn.
sylvania express train near Atlantic City
failed. the 200 passengers having narrow
escape.
Crickets have invaded Kalamazoo. Mich,
and business is practically at standstill.
The insects swarm in houses, stores and
restaurants and elsewhere.
| Washington republicans in convention
at Tacoma nominated j. NJ. F'rink, OF
| King. for governor. and w. l.. Jones and
| F. w. Cushman for congressman.
Next to France. the United States leada
the world in the number of honors won az
! the exposition. The American exhibitors
| have been awarded 300 grand prizes.
Count Boni de Castellane is financially
| embarrassed His beautiful summer
| place. Chateau de Marais, is to be sold
/ at auction. 1t is said in Paris that his
| wife. Jay Goud's youngest daughter.
declines to give him more money