Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-10-25
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Oct. 20.
The battlesap Alabama has zone into

The battlesaip Alabama has gone into
| commission
ForiGas orange crop this year is es
timatcd at l.0poep-l boxes
The uprising in San Domingo is onded
! and tie rebels are scattered.
Station II OF tho New York post office
was robbed Of nearly $1,000
The incrcasa il registration IN Greater
| New York over 1896 is 5000.
Jonas Strauss died at his home in Ken
! dallvi!le, Ind, aged los years
The total registration In Chicago is iQl,-
i05. an Increase of y los over 1856.
Divide Berniche's four children were
| burned 10 death at Holyoke. Mass.
The annual report of the I'ulln.am com
pany shows Iet earnings of So IS, i.i
Mark Twain has arrived in New York
after Il nine years sojouin in Europe.
John Nelson made Z. new lo-nile bicycle
record in Chicago, His time being 2.:q+ 10.
Dwight u Reed, of New York. United
States vice consul to Spain, died in Madrid.
Lord ClTZon SAYS 5Uo tts) deaths in India
| have been cue 10 famine, but relief is in
sight.
y locomotive ran down a loaded street
car in Indiana polls and 10 pass Mgers were
| injured
Lord Alverstone (Sir Richard WehsteI)
has been appointed lord chief justice Of
England.
Medical! students broke up a Dowic meet
| Ing in London and The Zionist Has saved
| BY flight.
All immense field of coal near Cops Sa-
| binc. on the Arctic coast of Alaska. W as
| discovered.
Six persons were injured in a passenger
train collision on the Nan4alia road at
| Verona, Ind.
Maj. NJ r. Peterson died in Cuba of yell
| low fever and an hour late! his widow COM
mitted suicide.
The Union Pacific receiver paid $1,000. 900
to unsecured claimants, practically closing
the reccivership.
The Pennsylvania railroads system of
pensions for employees may be extended tc
its western lines.
Peter Armour. of Sandstone, MINI, while
drunk cut his wifos throat and ihcn fatal
~ wounded himself.
The state Of Indiana obtained judgmen'
for S142. LA against the Natdalia ralloal
under alI old charter.
Three robbers held up a passenger or
the Baltimore < Ohio road at Athens, O..
and robbed! him OF 500.
Ramon Reyes. a Filipino, asked the pr vi
lese of registering at omaha with the NleW
of voting for president.
Count Zeppelins a:r%htp al Height o
800 feet sailed successfully against th,
| WllG at i fiGGTlCnSEdlti..
jefferson jones and his wife and four
children We're blown toato.ns at Sells, Ark.
by dynamite explosion.
John Hughes. postmaster at Cambria
Pa. shot and killed an Cnidentilied burs!,s
who broke INFO the Office
AT Jacksonville, Fla. Mary Bail V.
negro woman. gave birth TO live chi!Greu
three boys and TWO &!ris.
Superintendent wainwright. of the n"v;,
acaGe my at Annapolis, Nh, issu,d an Of
ticial order against ha1ins.
Jay a. Huhbel died at his honls il
Houghton. Mich. aged II wears. He was
congressman for ten years.
Mlry Dodson (coioroo;> was hanged b.
a mob at Brusle Landing La, for shoot
ing Conductor VIII Jordan.
\ party OF negroes will soon 60 to Africa
sent there by the German COVE :Mnl, 1T. /
introduce cotton raising there.
The Norwegian steamer Ca!lanGa col
liGed with another steamer off loWass!!.I
and SO persons were drowned.
The London Times says that Sir Alfre,
Miner will be appointed governor of III
former South African republics.
Gen. Fit2hugh Lee says Cuban polite
are mixed and the outcome of the cOMst q
tutional convention is a problem.
The report of the commissioner of tn
general land office shows the gov,rnmen
mas VI I. l.S. eSU acres open 10 settlement.
Mrs. ThaCdeus Z. Stanwood, of E.vanstol
Ill, has been elected president ot the IN
nois Federati ol Wonel'a Clubs at Rock
ford.
Congressman John b. Corlss. of Detro!
was renominated by acclamation by tn
First Michigan district republican convo:
ton.
: Archbishop Ireland says the pope is We
pleased with relations between America
, government and church i'll Philippines IL.
Cuba.
A dynamite bomb was found under
railway tunnel through which the car
train TO pass. y student was u:
I. rested
IONA as off rialst announced is L..
against 50 go in 1890. This is an average ,
{ 6o592, 1919 per cent
The Pittenser Grand opera house. at Ger
tralia. Ill, was completely destroyed i
fire "Wednesday night, involving loss
: $50, GEO. insurance. $1,000
, Gen. John w Fisher died ct CheNenn
+. Wyo., aged 81 years. He Was civil ".
veteran and chief justice of the terri,or
supreme court from mi To 1881.
F'ratus Wartield, Il negro, was lNnchc1
;, Elkton, Ky. by Il mob for attic mptina
enter a farmers home whe. the tarmel
!. wife ard little child were the only occi
a pants.
The National Master Horseshocrs.
a session in Milwaukee. Wis passed in
' creating Il national holiday for the lr;l,!
Il the date being the first Saturday AIT
/ the second Monday of August each wear,