Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-02-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fer the Week Fading Feb. 10.
Five 1900 bills were stolen from . bank in
Kansas City. No.
President Mckinley gave . state dinner
to foreign ENJOYS.
The Missouri senate passed q bill to pun
bh kidnapping with death.
Tesla has completed plans to send wire
less message across the ocean.
Lincoln's birthday was very generally OBJ
served throughout the country.
The high school at Rock Island. ILL.,. was
destroyed by lre. Loss, 81 900.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt at
Memphis and Union City, Tenn.
Mrs. T. G. Plat, wife Of Senator Plat.
died In New York. aged 66 years.
Elizabeth Van Hoenenberg died at her
home in Kingston, N. T., aged 100 years.
The Kansas senate defeated the bill to
restore capital punishment In that state.
Andrew Carnegie is to give a fund for .
Lincoln Memorial library at Springfield.
Ill.
]. c. Loomiller. wealthy blind man.
was murdered near his home at Haxleton.
Ind.
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her eighty
first birthday at her home in Rochester.
N. Y.
The Mardi Gras carnival was formally
opened in New Orleans with the Aomus
parade.
Marshall 8. Pike. poet. singer and actor.
died at his home in Upton. Mass, aged
81 years.
Vice Prestdent-elect Roosevelt and his
party have ended their famous hunt In
Colorado.
The senate has confirmed the nomination
Of Mai. Gen. Nelson A. Miles to be lieuten-
ant general.
William H. Halle, former lieutenant gov.
ernor of Massachusetts. died at Springfield
aged 81 years.
The Presbyterian committee has de.
cided that change in the creed of tho
church Is necessary.
Ths imports of the United States in Jan.
uaIy last amounted to IS. lOO.l9A ana the
exports were $l33, $50. 0S2.
Albert Nelson. II years old. entered 9
tigers cage in the Zoo at Indianapolis and
was attacked and killed.
Violent earthquake shocks in Mexico did
much damage in Chilpancingo. Mescala,
Dos Dios and other cities.
Alexander w. Longfellow. a brother Of
the poet, Henry w. Longfellow. died at
Portland, Me-. aged s. years.
Union mines, Cumberland. B. c.. and all
are believed to have persisted.
George W. Brintnail, war veteran. who
was known as the drummer boy Of
Shiloh" died in Lancaster. Pa.
John Hooker, clerk and reporter for the
Connecticut supreme court for sc years.
died in Hartford, aged IS years.
The federal court in Porto Rico decided
that the executive council cannot be en-.
joined from granting franchises.
A new 900 corporation. 1t is said. IN
being formed in Chicago for the purpose Of
controlling the tin-can industry.
Judge James Monroe Jackson died at
Parkersburg, w. Va, aged Is years. He
was On ex-member Of congress.
Peggy Jones (colored) died at Client. KY,
aged 1O4 years. Her Oldest living child,
Charlotte, is over 100 years old.
George Vance, 70 years old. paroled
convict, presented forged check in Chi
cago to get back to Joliet prison.
The duke of Connaught has been made
grand master of the grand lodge of Eng.
lish masons to succeed King Edward.
George Thomas (colored) was hanged at
Beaufort, 8. c., for assaMlttng Mrs. John
Dunkerly, Of Savannah. nearly year ago.
Connecticut Louisiana, Tennessee and
Washington have been selected as the
names of the four new warships to be built.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that the
Chinese attacked a Russian force beyond
shanhadkwan and killed four officers and %
men.
The Kansas senate passed bill desig-
mating places where liquor Is sold as pub.
lie nuisances and providing means to sup.
press them.
Joseph B. Hinton, aged q years, q re.
jected sutton, shot and killed Maggie
Shurt8, aged II, and then killed himself at
Logan. Kan.