Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-07-04
TIRE NEWS IN BRIEE.


Fer the Week 9nAisg Jane -.
Twenty houses were burned at Chester
Point, Ark. Loss. 100000.
The Pynchon national bank at Spring.
field. Mass. closed its doors.
b. Shattick. of Anoka, Mimi. was robbed
Of a. 500 on train near Manoka.
Count Won Waldersee has decided to
visit the United States next May.
Senator n. A. Hanna gave $4,000 to
Kenyon college at Mount Vernon. o.
Fred Lee and his wife. just married. were
killed by lightning at Meriden. Conn.
The Nebraska republican state conven.
ton will be held at Lincoln August q.
John Hockstock was killed and devoured
by a pack of wolves near Mellen. WIS.
Lee Setter, aged II. and Walter Evans.
aged "a were drowned at Waterloo, Neb.
The first load Of new Kansas wheat was
marketed at Winfield and sold for s cents.
Mrs. Maria Hixon. OF Clinton. Mich. cele.
brated her one hundred and first birthday.
Frank Miller ard Alonzo Williams. negro
murderers, were hanged at Birmingham.
Ala.
A Boston doctor will fast month to
prove that such treatment will cure all ILL
ness.
Through mistake China agreed to pay
~. $4,000 more indemnity than the powers
demanded.
An Oil tank at Decatur, Ind, was struck
by lightning and $1,000 barrels Of petroleum
destroyed.
The total seasons cleanup of gold on the
KlonGike is estimated at between $4,000 wv
and $20,O00O00.
Jesse Vanscoy and his brother John. aged
respectively Is and II years, were drowned
near Ames, Ia.
After 40 years of service in the Chicago
fire department William H. Musham has
become its chief.
Railroad construction this year promises
to exceed the work done in any similar
period since $780,
Chinese rebels in the province OF shen-
king burned several villages and killed hum
dreds of natives.
Fire at Mayfield, KY. destroyed 50 resi-
dences and two tobacco warehouses. the
loss being 100000.
Commander Frederick r. Smith. United
States navy (retired), died in Bnghamton.
N. Y, aged 81 years.
Four Dowieites holding meetings in
Evanston. ILL.,. were egged, roughly jostled
and driven out OF town.
While working in a field in Lincoln coun-
ty, N. c., William Huss and his two sons
were killed by lightning.
AS a result Of personal observations Arch
bishop Keane asserts home rule Is being
gradually given to Ireland.
Austria has resumed diplomatic relations
with Mexico, which were broken In 1867 by
the execution of Macmillan.
William Magruder (colored) was lynched
by mob near Georgetown, Ca, for trying
| to enter Woman's bedroom.
Three thousand Beers made an attack
on Richmond, in Cape Colony. but were
| repulsed after II hours fight.
The French senate found Marquis de Lur-
| Saluces guilty of treason and sentenced him
to Punishment for five years.
William Myers, of Chaska, Mimi. was
drowned in fruitless attempt to rescue his
three-year-old son from drowning.
Charles F. Marcher, who made future
book on the American Derby in Chicago
and took in 900, is not to be found.
The boiler of locomotive exploded at
Blue Cut, Mo-, killing Engineer George
Gerew and Fireman Julius Crowley.
Lightning struck the tent Of Wallace's
circus at Eau Claire, Wis, killing an ele.
plant and shocking several persons.
Peter Price, a negro charged with assault
on a white woman, killed two of iynchinG
| party at Panther, w. Va. and escaped.
Don Harmed. Joseph LaFarre and Grover
| Gamphor, of Bowling Green. O.. were
| drowned while bathing near Perrysburg.
Bernice Violette, aged IS. was killed by
| lightning at her home in Chippewa Falls.
| Wis
Lightning killed the first baseman in a
| ball game at Monroe Center. ILL.,. and
| shocked several other players and specta'
| tors.
Control Of the Lehigh Valley road has
| passed into the hands of the Erie and other
| competing companies by the purchase OF
| stock.
Senator Patterson, of Ohio. one of the
| states Pan-American commissioners. says
that President Mckinley will visit the ex'
| position July Is.
The government has acquired one square
mile of property on Plum island and will
| erect Notifications greatly strengthening
New York city's defenses.
| lean Federation of Labor, fell from a
street car in Washington and is suffering
! from conclusion of the brain.
The royal proclamation giving notice q
| the forthcoming coronation of King Ed.
! ward was read in London with all the
! pomp and ceremony of former ages.
Railways estimate that the grain crop OF
the northwest will be the largest ever
harvested. and they are confronted with
the problem how to move the product.
| A minister at Detroit asked for divorce
because his wife made him do the washing
| on Sunday and get his own meals. Shs
| sometimes threatened him with an ak.
Ten high school graduates at Mount Yer
| non. N. Y. were hazed by Cornell students.
| who tied them to trees in the woods and
| left them to the mercy of mosquitoes for
| four hours.
| Government receipts exceed expenditures
| by $4,000 900 for the fiscal year ending June
| 60 Balance of foreign trade in favor of the
| United States amounts to $675, 900 600, an in
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