Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-01-17
The NEWS IN BRIEF.

Fer the Weelk Fading Jan. n.
The Minnesota legislature convened In
st. Paul.
Paul Kruger was said to be seriously
III at The Hague.
A police force of 800 americans Is to
be organised in Manila.
1t is estimated that there are $4,000
cases Of grip In New York city.
Mrs. Mary b. Smith died at Los An.
geles. Cal. at the age Of log years.
The sixty-second general assembly OF
Indiana convened at indianapolis.
Mrs. Cyrus Taylor. Of Brazil. Ind. came
to life after being pronounced dead.
Theodore Roosevelt has been given the
freedom Of Colorado to hunt for game.
Fire along the river front in South
Brooklyn, N. Y. caused q loss Of $500 ZOO.
A man hunting near Atlanta, Ca. dis
covered large cave Of excellent rock
salt.
Secretary Gage says he would like to
abandon coinage of silver II 1t could be
done.
Frank Brill. of Chicago. won the ma
uonai contest In the city for individual
b0wlers.
Six hundred and dfty-two Of the Thir-
sty-seventh infantry sailed from Manila
for home.
DR.. George ]. Smith. the Oldest survey
or and civil engineer in Nebraska, died
at Omaha.
Measures to punish kidnapping and
lynching were introduced In the Illinois
legislature.
The one hundred and twenty-afth ses-
sion of the New Jersey legislature opened
In Trenton.
Thomas Chidester. aged nine years.
shot and killed his sister, aged "a. near
Marietta, O.
Frank WEIGH. pugilist, died at Easton.
Pa. from the effects Of fight at Phil
lipsburg. N. J.
Emanuel De souza, q pioneer Portu.
guese resident. died in Springfield, ILL.,.
aged los years.
American, Canadian and English iron
interests have practically united to push
trade in Europe.
Former officers Of the Salvation Army
are organizing body to be called Chris.
tan Comrades"
Elizabeth Parigin celebrated her one
hundred and fourth birthday at her home
In Richmond. Ind.
w. II. Redman. speaker Of the Iowa
house in 1888. died at Newton. He was q
civil war veteran.
John q. Fea. founder Of Berea college
and famous abolitionist. died at Berea,
KY. aged IS years
Ex-Mayor John p. Hopkins. Of Chicago.
has been elected chairman Of the state
democratic committee.
Commander John w. Quackenbush.
United States navy, retired. died at his
residence in Washington.
Congressman Frank q. Clarke, of the
Second New Hampshire district. died at
Peterboro. aged 81 years.
The Russian minister OF finance says
Russia and America have been agreed
all through the Chinese trouble.
John ]. Sadler. convicted Of the MUIR
der OF Stewart McCune on July S. 1899,
was hanged at Greensboro. Pa.
The police records show decrease of
SO per cent. in arrests since the closing Of
saloons at midnight in Chicago.
Edward Bockus. chief editorial writer
of the Boston Herald for 20 years. was
killed by the cars at Dorchester.
Willis Kent. who killed his brother on
an Alton train at Girard. ILL.,. has been
sentenced to IS years Imprisonment
Charles L. Benedict Judge Of the east.
died in New York city of pneumonia.
Handy Westbroook. negro, was
hanged at Marion. Ark. for the murder
of his stepdaughter on October Is, 1899.
The will of Andree has been made pub
lie. In which he tells how he expected
to perish in his arctic exploring trip.
The Daughters of 1776 and 1872 raised
a flag at the unfinished Jackson monu-
ment on the battlefield of New Orleans.
The Nebraska senate passed a resolu.
ton extending sympathy to the Beers in
their struggle to maintain independence.
Mrs. Philip H. Kennedy. of Kansas
City. shot her husband dead because he
sought an annulment of their marriage.
A Montreal paper declares the United
States will wreck the British empire UNI
less English insults of Trench-Canadians
ceases.
Louise Schaefer: a teacher in the pub.
lie schools in New York, narrowly es.
capped being buried alive while in a
trance.
Jemes Kelly (colored) was hanged in
Charleston. S. c., for the murder of Will
lis Bonneau. a miser, whom he first
robbed.
The taking of the Canadian census will
begin Monday. April l. All persons living
at midnight Sunday. March 81. will be
counted.
Henry e. Burnham, of Manchester has
been nominated to succeed w. e. Chand.
Ter as United States senator from New
Hampshire.
Sevante Anderson. q Swede. shot and
killed his wife and fatally wounded his
mother and five-year-old boy at Jamaica
Plains. Mass
Gov. La Toilette read his own message
to the Wisconsin legislature and recon-.
mended revision of the election. taxa
ton and antitrust laws.
the port of New York for the calendar
year of 1900 show an increase in the ag-
gregate movement of merchandise to the
extent of over $67 900, 900.