Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-09-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending sept. 90.

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WIS, aged Jul years.
Returned miners say the seasons clean
up ON the lNlondike Will be s.. 900 900.
Ky the upscltins of a boat near Savan-
| nah. Ca. six negroes Were drowned.
Nine fishing boats with two men in each
We're lost in a gale off Chatham. Mass
Since August Is last "A persons have been
Killed by the cars at crossings in Chicago.
National headquarters OF the gold demo-
cratic party We're opened at indianapolis.
Thirty-sX persons were killed and many
wounded in mine explosion in Bohemia.
The coupon chain letter system of get
ting business has been barred from the
mails.
Connecticut democrats nominated Sam
uel L. Bronson, of New Haven tor gov
ernor.
In automobile races in Chicago mile
was made in e6 and ten miles were made
in 1902.
Belle Archer, noted as one of the most
beautiful women on the stage died al War;
rem. Pa
William +. Shepard killed his aged par
ents at FoNboro, Mass, and then drowned
himself.
BY the caving in of a bank four men
working on a new bridge near OsSood, Ind.
We're killed.
The Howard MCGEE feud in Monroe coun-
tE, Tenn, was resumed and four persons
We're killed.
While insane Fred Kane killed his wife
and daughter near Sumpter, Ore, and then
shot himself
Commemorative tablets We're presented
to the battleships kearsarse and Alabama
at Portsmouth, y. H.
Democrats and popuiists fused in Mon-
tana and nominated Joseph *. Toole, of
Helena, for governor.
The Texas republicans Green faction)
nominated I; state ticket headed by q. w.
Burkett for governor.
Fred +. Clark killed his wife a:ld him
self in Englewood, H., because of financial
and domestic troubles.
Four Indians killed each other at Turtle
Mound, Fla. in night, all wanting to mar
~ the chiefs daughter
The South Danvers national bank of Pea
body. Mass in business Is years has been
placed in receivers hands.
The last of the Balaklava survivors.
James A. White, is dead He had lived
near Sandusky, O., since 1851
Spring Lake, N. j., summer Resort
Wednesday,. Total loss. $3.50, 0oA
Glass chimney manufacturers have con-
ceGed an advance of six per cent. in wages
and liIG0 men will resume work
The Rock Island railroad has made a
large appropriation To improve the sani-
tary conditions of its properties,
In freight wreck on the Queen q Cres-
cent route at Sadieville. Ky. five ,ramps
We're killed and six badly injured.
Terminal stores in New York were
burned, the loss being 81 ,nn.or) and five
fircmen We're overcome by smoke.
Andrew Van Ribber. formerly a wealthy
manufacturer in Cincinnati, committed
suicide in Chicago by taking choral.
j. +. Achorn established a new bicycle
road between New York and Albany, q dis
tance OF $50 miles. His time WAS II ~
Upon vote now in progress by the Pres
byteran churches Of America a majority
are in favor OF a revision OF the creed.
The Inheritance tax on the COILS p.
Huntington estate will be- more than s2','.-
uD, Indicating :. total value OF S10.g.ut2
i,,x-Ciov Roger Wolcott, of Mas.,achu-
sets, has declined the post OF ambassador
to Italy tende red him By President Mcl<in-
ley.
During the last Few months half Il dozen
Kansas banks have lquida,eci because
there was no longer any profit in the bus!-
ness.
w. j. Walker. OF Albany. n. y. was
elected president of the Wholesale Drug
gists' association a the annual meeting in
Chicago.
road will shortly unite into one system III
its branch and leased lines in Iowa and
The census bureau announces that the
population of Dubuque. la. is 30
against 3o.3ll in 1890. an increase OF 5. l9G, or
1915 per cent.
DR.. Lewis Albert Sayre, one OF the most
noted physicians and surgeons of this
died at his home in New York,
aged 81 years.
William w. Kennedy, chief OF the Chi
cago police department during the great
fire, was found dead in his room in that
city Thursday
DR. George L. Miller, an Oma Ia pioneer.
famous as editor OF the Omaha Herald and
as 4 democratic leader through the west,
has become Il raNing maniac
Col. Joseph III. Mood civil war veteran
and grand marshal Of the grand army pa
rade during the recent Eationa, enCamp-
ment in Chicago, died suddenly, aged 81
years.
Wellington r. Burt has been nominated
for congress by the democrats of tho |
Eighth Michigan district and Z l.. Lee
seMd-c has been nominated in the Tw l1th |
district
n. Bertrand. Jr., sole proprietor of tho |
Bank OF Walker. Mimi, committed suicide
oy shooting himself with rifle. The bank
is in good condition and depostors will DO |
paid in full.
James ELLIS Tucker has sailed for Homo
ulu on an important mission. He has |
been commissioned to revise the customs |
aw and service OF the Hawaiian islands, |
o as to bring them up to the standard OF !
hose at home.