Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-05-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEE.


Fer the Week Ending May Is.
The village OF Stoussville. No.. was Do.
stroyed by fire.
A cyclone struck Fort Mil. 8. c.. and
many houses were wrecked.
The Baldwin polar exhibition will start
for the arctic regions In June.
Mrs. Leah A. Robinson died at Victoria,
ILL.,, aged lOl years and months.
Former Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes
| Is to be fitted up as training ship.
The annual crow hunt near Elgin. ILL.,.
resulted In the killing Of rosa birds.
Nearly the entire business portion OF
Lily Lake, ILL.,. was destroyed by fire.
| Four persons were hurt In a Rock Island
passenger wreck at West Wyanet. Ill.
Archibald A. Gibson. lieutenant governor
of Illinois inlS74. died in Wichita. Kan.
King Humbert OF Italy had q narrow es-
cape from death in an elevator in Rome.
Iowa prohibitionists have nominated A.
| u. Coates, of Dallas county. fol, governor.
| An explosion in coal mine at Sem
| ghenydd, Wales. caused the loss of 7Slives.
| Russian warships have been authorized
| to buy stores in the United States free OF
duty.
A thoroughbred Hereford COW brought
| 1900 at sale in Chicago, the highest price
| on record.
Charles T. Yerkes has sold the Chicago
Inter Ocean to George Wheeler Human. its
| editor in chief.
| Three British officers and nearly 100 men
are in Portland prison for treason 10 the
| flag in South Africa.
Robbers blew open the post Office safe
| at Buena Vista, Miss. and secured $500 In
stamps and money.
| Admiral Schley. whose return from Eu-
| rope was FASTENED by illness of his son.
has reached New York.
The police in San Ygnacio. Mexico. un-
/ earthed a complete outfit for making coun.
| terfeit American money.
| Mrs. Charles F. Gunxert shot and killed
her 13-year-old son and then committed
suicide at Tacoma. Wash.
Census returns for Ireland show popu-
latioI. Of SAG, a decrease of 5.3 per cent.
since the previous census.
The United States cutter Grant was
| wrecked in Saanich inlet. near Victoria.
and may prove total loss.
Fire damaged the plant Of the w. ..
Boyce Paper Mills company at Marsetlles.
ILL.,. to the extent Of 500. O00
The Sovereign Camp Woodmen Of tho
World has voted to expei members who en-
gage in the liquor business.
| Weston Rowland. the discoverer of the
method OF refining petroleum. died ut Fair
haven, Mass, aged S6 years.
| one hundred ElllplnOS IRON various ISe
| lands of the archipelago will be feature
OF the Buffalo IN. Y.) exposition.
A national tax conference assembled at
| Buffalo, N. Y. to discuss reforms in fed
| eral, state and municipal methods.
| Edison has perfected a storage battery
which 1t is believed will revolutionize the
use of electricity as motive power.
Elmer Lane cut his wife's throat at Os-
ceola. Ia. and then L-sd the knife on him'
i fros h .vxyuS ho lNSa
| Emperor William has issued orders ex-
Guiding newspaper reporters from all pub
lie functions where he intends 10 speak.
Under the operation of the new commute.
| ton law about 1000 convicts will be re.
leased from the prisons Of Pennsylvania.
Machinists will demand shorter hours
without decrease in pay ON all railway
systems in the United States and Canada.
| Two more bodies were recovered from
the wreck. Of the City Of Paducah near Car
bondale. ILL.,, making the total loss OF
| life q.
The country home of Thomas B. Wana.
maker at Meadow Brook. Pa. was struck
by lightning and burned. the loss being
$5O0, O00
Senator M. A. Hanna has been mustered
| in as member of Memorial post OF the
| Grand Army Of the Republic in Cleve.
land. o.
| James B. Kicks (dem) was elected to the
| Illinois supreme bench from the Second
| district, to succeed the late Justice Jesse j.
| Phillips.
Benjamin Atkins attempted to stop Den.
| mis- d. Mccarthy. in Chicago. from beating
| the latter's son and was killed by the father
by q fist blow.
| The Presbyterian general assembly In
| Philadelphia by decisive vote decided to
| continue consideration Of the question Of
creed revision.
Sir Alfred Miner British high commits.
| sioner to South Africa. mas arrived In Lon.
don and has been elevated to the peeraga
by King Edward.
| Queen Victoria's birthday was observed
at London by the impressive ceremony of
trooping the colors in which King Edward
and the horse guards participated.
Treasury officials are taking steps to
have the Chinese exclusion act extended 10
Cuba to prevent Mongolians coming to the
United States through that gateway.
France expects 10 develop second Egypt
along the course Of the Niger river. The
government expedition proves the river
| to be navigable aud the country fertile.
| The government will curtail the business
| of San Francisco pension sharks. who are
| found to have induced soldiers returning
from the Philippines 10 swear falsely.
Figures prepared ty the commissioner
| Of internal revenue aow the receipts un.
| der the war revenue act from the date Ut
Its passage to April 90 last were $500. 137. SS4.
The Kate Shelley bridge. which spans the
| Des Aoines river near Boone. Ia. has been
young woman whose heroic act several
| years ago saved a passenger train.