Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-07-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending June 20.

For the Week Ending June %.
The Ninth regiment sailed from Manila
for Taku.
Boer sailed from New York Thurs
day for Havre.
Forest fires were doing great damage in
Wisconsin and Minnesota
Alabama republicans have nominated
John A. Steele for governor.
The democrats of Arkansas have nom
mated JEFF Davis for governor
Vermont republicans nominated W w
stickney. of Ludlow for governor
Transforms laid waste much of Spain
and drowned thousands of persons.
American silk exhibit won gold medal
over French exhibit at Paris exposition.
The republicans of Maine have nominat-
ed John f. Hill, of Augusta, for governor.
James II. Merrill. "a years old, mayor of
Oshkosh. Wis. died suddenly In New
York
Bob Davis. a negro desperate. was
hanged by mob at Mulberry Fla for
murder.
The Baltimore & Ohio road will ablish
automobile cab service for passengers in
Chicago
Pickpockets stole $4,000 worth of nego-
table bonds from Harry X. Duf1ield in
Chicago.
William and Rose Ruby. aged % and 10,
were killed by lightning near Oska-
loosa, Ia.
Martin ]. Russell. editor of the Chicago
Chronicle, died at Mackinac island, Mich.
aged So years.
jeff Gilmore shot and killed three per-
sons in a quarrel over a game OF cards
at Granite. Kan.
The Christian Endeavor convention in
London will be attended by 10000 delegates,
5000 from America.
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committed suicide in the cemetery at
New Prague. Mimi.
Damage of $4,000 was wrought by fires
in the packing house and the lumber yard
districts in Chicago.
Treaties with European countries will
postpone until 1903 the exclusion of canned
meat from Germany.
Francis T. Wheeler inventor of the first
machine for the manufacture of paper
bags, died in Chicago
The schooner Everett was wrecked on
st. Lawrence island and five of her crew
OF six starved to death.
Every street in Mobile, Ala. was SUBJ
merged by a cloudburst, in some places
to depth of five feet
Five persons were killed and great dam
age was done to property by a cyclone
In Beaver county, Okla.
William Nahrwald. a barber. killed his
wife and himself in Fort Wayne. Ind. Nc
cause is known for the deed.
fund of s1S.546 has been collected for
Mrs Guy Y. Henry. widow of Gen. Guy v.
Henry. of the United States army.
The Worlds Women's Christian Tenn
perance union in session in Edinburgh
| reelected Lady Somerset president.
The Indiana supreme court decided II
unlawful to pump natural gas from wells.
Only natural pressure may be used.
Andrew DekaS lO3 wears old a veteran
of three European wars of the early por-
ton of the century, died in Chicago
Gus Rubin, of Akron, O.. knocked ont
Tom Sharkey, the noted sailor-pugilist ir
the fifteenth round at Coney Island. n. y.
Congressman ]. A. T. Hull was renom.
mated by the republicans of the Seventh
Iowa district. There was no opposition.
Solomon Scruggs and Philip Hilpot, com.
mercial travellers, fought with pistols ir
saloon in New York and both were killed.
John Thomas. a negro who attempted
an assault on Mrs. keene, a widow liv
ing near O'Brien, Fla, was hanged by a
mob.
James H. Eckels says business condi.
tons are better than admitted. farmers
are prosperous, and trade will continue
| good.
Louis NJ Stein. South Bend Gnd J
merchant. was slugged and robbed OF
$4,000 while waiting for street car in
| Chicago.
President Mckinley will be officially in.
formed of his nomination for president Of
the United States at his home in Canton
O., on July II.
In Boston Rev. Francis f. Clark has been
reelected president of the United Society
of Christian Endeavor, which now has 8.
100000 members.
The federal court issued an injunction
at St. Louis restraining the Street Rail-
way Mems union from interfering with
the running of mail cars.
The department of state is advised by
Minister Powell at Port-au-P Prince, that
he has been informed that the government
of Hayti has adopted the gold standard
and that the unit of value is the American
gold dollar
The Ohio supreme court handed down
decision adverse to the Toledo centen
NAL project. The court holds that the
100000 which the centennial board seeks.
is not available. The decision will prob.
ably kill the centennial! movement
| The secretary of the navy has author
| lied the following names for the new
| battleships and cruisers: Battleships. Vr.
ginia and Rhode Island. Armored crus
ers. Maryland, Colorado and South Da-
kota. Protected cruisers, ST. Louis, Mil.
waukee and Charleston.
Say Andree Is Safe.
New York. June IS. = A dispatch