Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-10-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FOR the Week Ending sept. 20.

Archbishop keanc MAS installed in office
at Dubuque, la
The torpedo boat O'Brien was launched
al Elizabeth. \. j.
Archie kiasauls was hanged at Char
lotte. \. {. Tor murder.
Fire destroyed property in the City of
Mexico valued at Sl,ooo,ec0
Felix Marchand, premier OF quebec. died
in Montreal. aged Is Yeas.
The torpedo boat destroyer Decatur was
launched at Richmond. Va.
Yale opened its two hundredth college
year at New Haven. conn.
Many lives were lost and much property
destroyed in a storm at Nome.
Revolution against President liminez is
under way in Santo Domingo.
The Chicago university has offered free
tuition to ten Porto R;caa boys.
Maj. Gen. Otis was entertained al dinner
by Lafayette post. G. y. r.. New York.
Gen. Nelson a. Miles was elected COM
mander In chief of Spanish war veterans.
billiard Warren was hanged at Wood
bury Tenn. tor the murder OF FL Evans.
In a train wreck at Springfield, H. En-
gineer Ryan and Fireman Hall We're killed.
The Abbot trotted a mile in 2:03A a Terre
Haude, Ind, setting new worlds mark.
Cresceus took the great stallion race at
Readviile, Mass, winning purse of 81, 900.
The census shows that he population Of
Memphis, Tenn. O.,52U), is doubled since
1890
The republicans of the Tenth Iowa dis
trict have nominated j. Z. Conner for con-
gress.
-Four hundred thousand immigrants came
to the United States during the year ended
June 80.
In jealous rage Joseph Stoup fatally
Chicago.
Adlai L. Stevenson issued a letter ac-
cepting the populst nomination tor vice
president,
Fire destroyed the Iron Mountain rail-
way shops at Barring Cross. Ark. the loss
being 100000.
The National Association of Postmasters
troit, president.
Charles a. Collier. ex-mayor of Atlanta.
Ga, died Friday from the effects of a
pistol shot wound.
The Michigan commission merchant III
cense law has been declared void by the
state supreme court.
Three of Nrugers cabinet have sailed
from Lourenzo Marques for Europe with a
large amount of bar gold
Great Northern railway officials estimate
that SO, 900 fasteners will immigratc to the
Adam Giles and his wife and daughter
were murdered by Joseph Smalls. negro.
in Beaufort county. N. G.
In session in Kansas City the United
Typothetae elected as president George +.
Matthew'S. of Buffalo, n. y.
Great Britain has notified Holland that
transportation of loer archives or bullion
will be a breach of neutrality.
Vast fields of pure anthracite coal has
been found in the Cascade mountain dis
trict in the state of Washington.
MeXico'S congress declared the result of
the presidential election. Gen. PORT. 10
Diaz was unanimously reelected.
The month of September closes with a
better outlook in the industrial world than
was apparent week or ten days ago.
Ohio democrats have nominated John
B. Peaslee for congress in he First dis
trict and Henry Keller in the Second.
Neganigitis, a tiveyear-o!d boy, has been
chosen chief of the Chippewas on the Lac
du Flambeau reservation in Wisconsin.
The Canadian government will cooper
ate with the United States in excluding
Objectionable immigrants from this coUn-
try.
Gen. Woodford. ex-minister to Spain,
was married Wednesday in New York TO
Miss Isabel Hanson, formerly his secre-
tary.
Lord Roberts at Pref Oria reviewed the
Canadian troops on the eve of their de-
parture and complimented them upon their
services.
The first football fatality of the season
recorded was received by l.. A. Pierson of
Lake Forest university. dying of injuries
sustained Wednesday.
Capt. Frederick Dent Sharp. T. s. A.
retired. cousin of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
died in Kansas City from an overdose of
bromide, taken to relieve pain.
The tenth biennial reunion OF Crocker $
Iowa brigade, consisting of the Eleventh,
Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth reg
inents. was held in l\eoiuk. la
Frank Shepard. law book publisher and
we'll known throughout the United States
as the originator of the shepard .Annota-
tons" died in Chicago aged 80 Years.
Mrs. Congcr. in a diary sent to q relative
in Des Moines. describes the narrowing
experiences and hard battles with Boxers
during the GG-day siege OF the legations in
Picking.
Solomon City. at the mouth of Solomon
river was devastated by the recent storm
on the coast of Alaska. All buildings were
| either swept away by the waves or were
wrecked by the wind. The town had Il
! population of 200, all of whom are desti-
! tute and homeless.
| fast freight train crashed into a switch
engine on the Detroit, Grand Haven &
Milwaukee railroad at Durand Mich. kill
ing Engineer Thomas Hamlin, OF Detroit
! and Fireman John Linden. of lona Sam
| uel Beck, brakeman, was slightly injured
TWenty-four loaded cars We're burned and
| both engines We're demolished.
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