Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-01-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week lsndinA Dec. -.
Chicago. is dead.
Mrs. kittie Rice died at Mount Morris.
Ill. at the age of los.
Official reports show that there are 30 900
lepers in the Philippines.
Frank Barr aged 10 years was killed in
a boxing contest in Philadelphia.
John Laing celebrated the one hundredth
anniversary of his birth in Chicago.
An Indian ran amuck at Eufaula, Ind.
T.. Killing three men and wounding one.
The last Christmas in the nineteenth CEN
fury was celebrated all over the country.
Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor c. r. Hale.
OF the Springfield diocese. died at Cairo. III.
Orders have been issued abolishng news
boys on all trains of the Erie railroad sys-
tenn.
Gustave Wolf. the last member of tho
Bridgeport Comm Suicide club. killed HIM
self.
Andrew McNeff celebrated at La Rue.
O.. the one hundredth anniversary OF his
birth.
James Wood. the oldest man in New
Hampshire, died in Portsmouth. aged lOA
years -
"A Chinese viceroy by treachery mas
sacred $500 reformers in the province Of
Pechiii.
w. D. Coleman, president of Liberia. re-
signed. G. W. Gibson was elected TO sue
coed him.
A son of Louis Tonhose. of Judd, Ia. has
been kidnapped and it is believed he is held
for ransom.
Michael Maloney a farmer of LenoX
township, Pa, died at his home at the age
of l07 years.
University of Chicago psychologists as
sert that salt causes the heart to beat and
keeps up lie.
The American national bank of Balti-
more, Md, has been placed in the hands
of a receiver.
campaign has been officially inaugurated
in New York
A direct line of steamers between Port
land Ore, and Manila will be in operation
by February 26.
Director of the Mint Roberts says the de-
mand for pennies has been greater this year
than ever before.
All cities report that postal facilities
were never so taxed as during this years
holiday business.
]. B. Scarlett, aged IS years. and daugh-
ter Minnie, aged 81 years, were killed by d
train at Colmar III.
w. Irvine Shaw. recently appointed con-
sui general to Singapore. committed sui
eide in Philadelphia.
A lone robber held up a stage in cam
yon near Hot Springs Junction, Ariz., and
rlfied the express box.
Mayor Patterson, of Bismarck, N. D..
was arrested by the sheriff the charge
OF permitting gambling.
Italian anarchists shot and seriously
wounded Chief of Police Brown al Barre,
VT Six are under arrest.
Chairman johnson and Secretary Walsh
will keep national democratic headquarters
In Chicago open till 1904.
Francesca Martinez Negrete & Sons,
bankers. failed at Guadaloupe. Mexico,
with liabilities s., ,DU. 900,
Mrs. Margaret Cullagan. an inmate OF
the home for the aged in Chicago. was lOo
years old Christmas day.
The sheriff of Ripley county, Ind. paid
81. 600 to Mrs. l.. c. Jenkins whose husband
was lynched Septe mber IA, 1897
Rev. DIR Thomas Murphy one of the
most eminent Presbyterian clersymen in
Philadelphia, died of pneumonia.
The Demorest branch of the w. G.. T. T..
in New York denounced kissing as an in
toxicant. and therefore to be barred
Roger 7. Gill was named receiver of the
Old Town bank. one of the best-known
banking institutions in Baltimore. Md.
An unchartered island near the Philip
pines is said to have been annexed by the
commander of an American gunboat.
John w. Tnsey shot and killed his wife
in Los Angeles, Cal. and then killed him.
self. Domestic trouble was the cause.
Alfred G. Harmsworth. a London pub
Usher who arrived in New York. says
American newspapers are too frivolous.
Lord William George Armstrong, in
ventor of the Armstrong gun. died at his
home at CragsGe England. aged 81 years.
AT East Braintree Mass. the torpedo
boat destroyer McDonough was launched
at the works of the Fort River Iron COM
pany.
Members of the Hyde Park Baptist
church in Chicago made a Christmas Offer
ing of $50. 255 to be used for the erection of q
new church.
A lot of Christmas consignments were
destroyed when the Western Express Of
flee in Houghton, Mich. burned. Loss
about $1,000.
DR.. j. II. Kellogg. superintendent of the
Battle Creek tMich.) sanitarium. was
stabbed by an insane woman patient, but
may recover.
John Alexander Dowie received COM
municati in London threa ;ening his life
and warning him that vitriol was to be
thrown on him
Mrs. May Teresa Josephine Schmidt. OF
Chicago. was sentenced to an iEdetermnate
term in the penitentiary the plea OF
guilty to the charge of killing her husband.
w. j. Bryan. speaking at a banquet in
Lincoln. Neb.. id democracy must stick
to silver and fight imperialism. but ad-
mitted he might not again run for pres
iGent.
AS the result of fire caused by the ex-
plosion of an alright stove the Providence
Methodist Episcopal church (colored) at st.
Joseph, Mo, was partially burned and tho
pastor. Rev. J. l.. Leonard was fatally