Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-04-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week E.ainx Atril "a


Augusta, little town in Ohio. was q.
most wiped out by fire.
Lucy LITER, 100 years old, died at her
home near Hicks Store. Ky.
The Indianapolis News has purchased
its afternoon rival. the Press.
Two hundred persons are reported to
have frozen to death in Alaska.
Niles. Mich. and vicinity is flooded with
counterfeit five-dollar gold pieces.
Richard p. Rothwell. editor of the Min
ing Journal died at his home in New York.
Mrs. Rebecca May celebrated her one
hundred and first birthday in Newcastle.
Ind.
Miss sartoris, granddaughter Of U. 8.
Grant, is engaged to Archibald Balfour. OF
London.
A terrific storm swept over portions OF
Alabama and Tennessee. destroying much
property.
A $5O.0oo COO steel plant is to be built along
the Sault Ste. Marie canal. to employ TO-
600 workmen.
Commander Charles o. Allibone, Of the
at Cavite. p. /.
The republican state committee of Iowa
called the state convention for August
at Cedar Rapids.
The International committee has APP
proved plan for a new system of teaching
in Sunday schools.
Anew political party. 1.-THE Greater New
York Democracy" has been organized TO
fight Tammany Hall.
The business interests of the Stats
Zeitung and the Freie Presse in Chicago
have been consolidated.
Postmas ter General Smith has issued an
order permitting letter carriers to wear
shirt waists in summer.
The United Mine Workers society last
year expended Sl53.0o0 for the relief OF
strikers and their families
David H. Creech. an elderly capitalist at
Jackson. Mich. tried to kill his wife. who
had just secured divorce.
The transport Rosecrans arrived at San
Francisco. after taking 43 Filipino generals
to Guam as prisoners of war.
The contamination of the project to con.
solidate all the independent cereal plants
Of the country is now assured.
Harry Cain and Paul Baumgardner. lie
year-old boys. were in Jail at Wilcox. Mo-.
charged with trying to wreck train.
Melvin r. Baldwin. an ex-ccngressman
from Minnesota, killed himself ct Seattle.
Wash, because of business reverses.
The president has been asked by repre-
sentatives of the Beers to prevent British
shipment of mules from New Orleans.
Northern bricklayers refuse to work be.
side negroes at Jackson. Miss. AS re.
suit work on the new capitol is stopped.
The Comanche. Kiowa. Apache. Wichita
and Caddo reservations in Oklahoma ter.
ritory will soon be thrown open for settle.
ment.
The Twenty-ninth and Thirty-second
regiments. United States volunteers. ar.
rived in San Francisco from the Philip.
pines.
The tanning plant of the A. Platz Leather
company, Racine. Wis, was completely
destroyed by fire. Loss. $100. 900; insurance,
So, 600.
Gov. Yates. of Illinois. issued his first
pardon, the beneficiary being Decatur
Young man who pawned his sweethearts
watches.
The strike of the coal-hoisting engineers
in the Masstllon CO., district. which has
kept 1900 miners idle for TWO weeks, has
been settled.
John H. Gorham shot and killed George
Is. Mccarthy at Copperopolis. Cal. and
then killed himself. Jealousy over girl
was the cause.
Experts report winter wheat conditions
the best in 20 years. Cold. wet weather IL
delaying farm work, but is extremely ia.
vorable' to fruit.
Russell B. Harrison is to be reinstated
as major Of volunteers by the presiden:
TO remove the stigma that now rests upon
his military record.
Col. AIWOOU, CNleL QuaEIeTuNaSleE VI I1le
department of the lakes. has been ordered
to purchase nearly LOCO horses for the
United States army.
BY the fall Of derrick near Buffalo. N.
Y. William Dahlgreen and Nicholas Green
were killed and Wesley Eddy and A. L.
Cameron fatally injured.
Col. Alfred III. Belo. proprietor Of the
Dallas News and Galveston News, and the
tirst man to take up arms for the confed.
eracy. is dead at Asheville. N. C.
Theresa Vaughn. the talented actress.
has been placed in an asylum for the insane
at Worcester, Mass. Grief over the death
of her husband has unsettled her mind.
Henry c. Baster was found guilty Of
numbering Peter r. v. Miller in Chicago
and given IA years In the penitentiary.
The tragedy was the result of a labor fight.
Free trade between Porto Rico and the
United States will be established after
July !. the local assembly having passed a
tax law TO meet the necessities of the gov.
eminent
The National Baseball league season be.
gan Thursday. but only one game was
played. Brooklyn beating Philadelphia i.
to Z. ChIcago-St. Louis and other games
were prevented by rain.
DR.. Gustave A. Tasche1eau and Miss NJ.
NJ. Organ. of Quebec. were united IN mar.
riage in convent at Bedford Park. N. Y.
formed in the United States.
The anti-scalpers bill has passed both
branches of the New York state legis.
lature. 1t makes the buying and selling Of
railway or steamboat tickets by other than