Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-05-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Enalns April ~.
Fire DESTROYED IL business houses at Dan

For the Week Ending April ~.
Fire destroyed II business houses at Dam
Vile. Va.
Fire destroyed one-haif the business sec
ton of Plainview. Neb.
Lieut.. Gillespie. who located Aguinaldo.
has arrived at San Francisco.
Ohio republicans will hold their state
convention in Columbus June g.
The police at Peru. Ind. have broken up
gang of alleged counterfeiters
The president has ordered Washington
relics restored to the Lee family.
Three men were burned to death and
three injured in a fire in Chicago.
Arabs are reported to have mastered
200 inhabitants OF an Algerian village.
The bank OF G. j. Baetke & Co. at
Brighton. Mich, was robbed Of $4,000.
Consolidation Of all labor unions into one
big organization is the aim of labor men.
An electrician at Portland Me-. shot
four persons fatally in an insane frenzy.
American Pugilist Smith died from the
effects of his fight with Roberts In London.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora. Mo-, caved
in and buried five men at depth OF ITO
feet
The pope has ordered friars in the Phil
ippines to emigrate to Venezuela and Ecu
ador.
The famous battleship Maine will likely
be fioated in Havana harbor In the au-
tumn.
Two men were killed and Il hurt in q
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton wreck near
Dayton. o.
Parliament refused to permit the estab.
lishment of a Roman Catholic university
in ireland.
Thomas Cole was hanged at Clinton, KY.
for the murder of Emma Cara Rice. his
sweetheart.
Mark Thomas Hayes was hanged at
Uniontown. Pa. for the murder Of Will
liam Lowdon.
Mayor Leonard. of Waltham. Mass. is-
sued an order to the police to stop public
whist parties.
Shamrock H.. challenger for Americas
cup, was successfully launched at dunbar
ton. Scotland.
A $50, 600. 900 steel plant is to be built along
the Sault Ste. Marie canal. to employ TO-
600 workmen. ~
The Michigan house of representatives
passed by unanimous vote a stringent anti
cigarette law.
The Western league baseball season
opened with victories for Indianapolis. To.
ledo and Dayton.
Over 90 banks have suspended payment
at Osaka and In the southern and central
provinces of Japan.
The largest beet sugar plant in the world
is to be established In the Arkansas River
valley in Colorado.
Gen. o. A. Miller. one of Indiana's ia.
nous heroes of the civil war. died at
Lebanon. aged "a years.
M: Louis GODDARD. the French aeronaut.
will attempt to cross the Atlantic In ball
loon carrying nine persons.
Mrs. Hannah Kjoren. widow. and her
two boys were burned to death in their
home near Galesburg. s. d.
Police Chief Ripley. of Chicago, resigned
after being informed by the mayor that
he would not be reappointed.
Rev. Lyman II. Sherwood. founder and
head of the Lyons Musical academy. died
in Lyons. N. T.. aged q years.
In q bicycle race at San Jose, CAL, Bur.
ton Downing broke the worlds one-half
mile amateur record in so fiat.
Adelbert Hay. son OF the secretary Of
state, has resigned his post as United
States consul general at Pretoria.
W.; F. l.. Hadley. of Edwardsville. ex.
member OF congress from the Eighteenth
Illinois district. died at Riverside. Cal.
DR.. Horatio Guzman. for many years
minister from Nicaragua to the United
States, died in Washington. aged so years.
James M. Marvin. representative in the
Thirty-eight. Thirty-ninth and Fortieth
congresses, died at Saratoga. N. Y, aged %
years. .g8sT 5$E $50 zf5 st5sf8
Gen. Ludlow has been invaded home
from the Philippines. an attack Of grippe
having developed into dangerous case Of
tuberculosis. ~ " 46.fgss5F5 44t
The secretary Of war made public the
names of $50 men selected for first and sec.
ond lieutenants In the regular army or.
ganization bill.
Vienna dispatches announce that the
car has ordered the expulsion from Rus.
STA OF Count Tolstoi and that the decree
has been served.
fast mail train on the Northwestern
made squirt OF nine miles in six minutes
and passed SO swiftly that those watching
could not distinguish 1t.
Secretary Hay will prepare a new canal
treaty. which he thinks can be drawn so
that 1t will prove acceptable to Great Brit.
ain and the United States.
Z Commissary Sergt. John Weston has
been sentenced to dishonorabie discharge
and two years In prison for completely in
commissary frauds at Manila.
The CuEard steamer Saxonia sailed Tues.
day from Liverpool for Boston. carrying
crossing the Atlantic In one vessel.
IN Wales. will be sold at auction in London
June is. Wealthy Americans are expected
to bid for the magnificent property. All,
Details of the plan for the army reorgani-
cation are completed by Gen. Miles and APP
proved by Secretary Root. II provides for
$3.50 infantry. l5.S4O cavalry. 1852 artillery
and l.24S Engineers.
The Cunard line will install a wireless
telegraph system by which vessels may be
reported when within is hours of their des.
tinatton 1t is the first transatlantic line