Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-03-28
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Fer the Week Enainw march =.
Jerry Bell. a negro. was lypched at Terry.
Miss. for robbery.
Fire almost entirely destroyed the VIII.
lage OF Tiptonvllle. Tenn.
Port'and. Mich. was under water be-
cause of an Ice gorge IL Grand river.
The warship Massachusetts, has been
fioated at Pensacola without damage.
The California legislature appropriated
$3.50. 90 to purchase and preserve the red
wood forests.
The president has appointed Frederick 4.
Coyne. now collector at Chicago. postmas-
ter of that city.
Mrs. Kate Green celebrated her one hun-
dred and eleventh birthday at her home in
Goldwater. Mich.
Gov VOORHEES, has signed bill dividing
New Jersey into ten, instead of eight, con-
gressional districts.
Three churches in New York city re-
fused to accept money raised by the Tam-
many organization.
Three million boxes of oranges are rot
ting in California orchards owing to lack
of shipping facilities.
1t is denied at me white house that eX.
Senator Wolcatt. of Colorado. is to be sec.
rotary of the interior
company's plant in Port Huron. Mich. en-
failing loss of $l75.00G.
Omaha police say the confession of man
in Dallas, Tex, to the Cudahy kidnapping
is trick to get the reward.
The British foreign office fears the re-
lations between Russia and Japan may
soon reach the danger point
Managers of English charities are lying
in wait for Andrew Carnegie to relieve him
of some of his surplus wealth.
H. Barringer Cox. an Indianapolis sc-
enlist. says he has discovered the law for
measuring iEtersteliar spaces
The Minnesota legislature passed bill
prohibiting the manufacture. sale or giving
away OF cigarettes in the state
The first discovery OF oil in the southern
portion of West Virginia was made In a
soO-barrel oil we'll drilled at Milton.
new counterfeit flve-dollar national
bank note on the National Iron bank Of
Morristown, n. j., is in circulation.
The Wisconsin assembly passed pri-
mary election bill which provides for nom-
nations by direct vote OF the people.
The British house of commons has passed
a bill prohibiting the sale or delivery OF
intoxicants TO persons under 16 years of
age.
Charles Pfeifer fell dead in Brooklyn
while going for q doctor for his mothe-.
rived.
Rev. DR.. Frederick y. Muhlenburg, ono
of the best known Lutheran clersymen in
America, died in Reading. Pa, aged So
years.
Guglie!mo Marconi in the United States
circuit court in New \ ork was recognized
IS the sole inventor Of the wireless telc-
graph.
Cashier johnson, alleged wrecker of the
ov1kp of M{n1, anti twG Cn1f I'M.
bus. O.. has been taken to Grand Rapids
for trial.
]. p. Morgan & Co. have absorbed the
Rockefeller steel interests, necessitatir:s
$l0O00O.00O increase in the capital of ths
steel trust.
Sedition is rampant IN Russia. and the
car has fled from s.. Petersburg. The
police have evidence Of gigantic plot to
kill the czar.
Albert W. Wishard has been appointed
United States district attorney for Indiana.
and C. H. Petit United States marshal for
the same state.
The steambca. City or Poughkeepsie ran
on the rock: ard sunk at Stony Point, r..
Y. All on board were saved. The prop
erty loss is Slsu,Cu0
w. s. Eden, manager OF the Great North.
ern hotel In Chicago. flied n petition in
bankruptcy. scheduling liabilities OF 81. so,
c6S and assets S640,1l1.
Mrs Zerelda G. Wallace. wife of the late
Gov. Wallace. of Indiana, died at the home
of her daughter. Mrs. j. II. Steiner. at
Cataract, aged 81 years.
The warehouse of j. s. Ford johnson e
Co.. chair manufacturers. Sixteenth street
and Indiana avenue. Chicago was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss. S20O.000
A woman found dead in New York-is be-
lieved TO be the daughter of Thomas Low
ry. the Minneapolis millionaire. and wife
Of H. F. Robinson, editor of the Chicago
Railway Age.
The Minnesota senate passed a bill pro-
hibiting the marriage of insane. epleptic
and idiotic persons. and requiring medic
cal certificate Of all applicants for mar
riage licenses.
The body of May Comstock. girl violin.
list of the American conservatory of music.
was found buried in the sand on the Chi.
cago lake shore. Her father says worry
ever 81 debt drove her TO suicide.
Prof. Willis l.. Moore. chief OF the
weather bureau. under the authority Of
Secretary Wilson. has called the tricnnial
convention of weather bureau officials at
Milwaukee. Wis. August q TO % next
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson csti-
mated Tuesday that over s6.c01600 worth OF
young live stock throughout the country
was saved during 1900 by the prompt use
of medicine for blackleg sent out by the
department..
The funeral services of Hon. Mark 8.
Brewer. ex-civil service commissioner.
who died in Washington. d. c.. last Tues
day. were held at Pontiac. Mich. Friday in
the First Presbyterian church. At tho
conclusion Of the ceremonies the body