Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-05-16
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week E.aiae May n

For the Week Ending May H
Evan Williams. ex-governor of Nevada,
died in San Francisco.
Justice King, OF the Ontario supreme
court. died at Ottawa.
The cup defender Constitution was
launched at Bristol. r. I.
Harvard trustees voted to make Presi-
dent Mckinley an LII. D.
Jackson Harris (coloreG), aged 100 years.
died at Terre Haute. Ind.
The village of Kendall. N. Y. was almost
completely destroyed by fire.
Three men were burned to death in q
boarding house fire at Ottawa. Ont.
Seats collapsed in circus at Oil City,
Pa. badly injuring dozen persons.
Gen. Weyler ordered instant shooting OF
all engaging in disorders in Barcelona.
Marylands corrected census figures re.
duce the population of the state to l,l8SO44
Engineer Monk and Fireman Addison
were killed in a railway wreck near Jop-
lin. Mo.
New Jersey prohibitionists have nom.
mated Joel w. Brown. of Jersey City. fol-
governor.
Prof. j. H. George. of Montreal. has been
elected president of the Chicago theological
seminary.
The Twenty-ninth infantry, United
States volunteers, was mustered out at San
FRANCISCO.
Five men were fatally injured by an ex.
plosion of powder in a mine at Wilkes.
barre. Pa.
Cardinal Martineili was invested with
the red berretta by Cardinal Gibbons at
Baltimore.
Policemen sheehan and Mosher were
found guilty in Chicago of robbing Hugh
McDougall.
In Mrs. Mary E. Owens Chicago has the
only patrolman in the world doing daily
police duty.
Washington advices say the educationa!
qualification for suffrage Is growing !r
public favor.
The schooner Fostoria sank in st. Clai,
river after a collision with ice. Two sailors
were drowned.
Ex-Treasurer Ladd. Of Cuba. says the
revenues Of the island are not equal te
the expenditures.
Col. E. F. Taggart, Of Akron. has been
partment OF Ohio
Prof. r. g. Moulton told Junior students
at the University Of Chicago that fiction
was truer than fact.
All factories of the National Starch
company have been ordered closed because
of the corner in corn.
Expulsion of Italians from lola. Kan.
in labor fight is to be investigated by
the Italian government.
Former President Grover Cleveland made
$400, 900 by the skyrocket flight Of Northern
Pacific stock in New York.
John NJ. Carroll. who was member OF
the Forty-second congress, died at Johns
town. n. Y, aged "a years.
The Thirty-second infantry. United
States volunteers. has been mustered out
of service at San Francisco.
Joseph Hush, living near Mishawaka
Ind. celebrated his one hundred anG
eighth birthday anniversary.
Industrial interests of Cuba urge annexa.
ton to the United States. fearing disaster
If they lose American markets.
T. S. McClindy. in a fit of insanity. shot
and killed Howard Baker and then killed
himself at Boone's Ferry. Ore.
Henry johnson, a negro. was lynched
at +Valdosta, Ga. He had fired at young
white man. but did not hit him.
Efforts are to be made at the next ses'
sion of congress to give the interstate
commerce committee more power.
A decision of the comptroller of the
treasury will make it easier hereafter tc
keep out Objectionable immigrants.
Charles Foster, of Fostoria. o.. former
secretary Of the treasury, filed a petition
in bankruptcy with ZOOS liabilities.
Inc chicago az 4NOTluWeSteTu railway
plans to spend millions In improving the
northern division of the Omaha road
The thirty-third annual convention OF
the National Woman's Suffrage associa.
ton will convene in Minneapolis May go
f. w. Methever. who murdered Dor.
othy Mckee at Long Beach. Cal. in July,
1899. was hanged at San Quentin prison.
Three thousand farm districts are now
served by rural mail carriers at cost Of
sa,50OOO0 year. More routes are pro-
jected.
Evelyn B. Baldwin. the American arctic
explorer, says he has the best equipped eX.
petition that ever started in search Of the
north pole.
Scott r. Wellington was arrested IN
Chicago. charged with proposing marriage
to over score Of women and obtaining
their tewelry.
Mayor Frank Moores. of Omaha. says a
majority of the residents do not favor Sun
day observance. and that hereafter every
thing will be run wide Open"
Andrew Carnegie doubled his recent gift
of 1872 500 to the Iron and Steel Institute OF
London. In an address the donor declared
England must adopt American methods.
Prof Nichols. of Dartmouth college. In
experiments with especially constructed in
struments at Yerkes observatory. discov.
ers and measures the heat radiated by the
stars.
Miss Helen Could overcome by the strain
of her extensive charitable work. has
been ordered to take "A long rest and is be.
lieved to be suffering from nervous pros.
tration.
The seizure of William OBrien's paper,
The Irish People. for libelous attack on
King Edward was resented in the house of
commons by John Dillon. who declared 1t a
scheme to destroy opposition papers.