Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-06-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEE.
For ,he week Ena,ns jan. !.

The warship Illinois Is to be given IT.
official trial on June Is.
Eliza Taylor (colored) died In Charles
town. Ind. aged los years.
Ohio democrats will hold their state con-
ventton In Columbus July o.
The bank at Collision. ILL.,, was robbed
by burglars OF $l.600 in cash.
L. F. Loreee has been elected president
Of the Baltimore 6 Ohio railroad
Russian troops killed 40 strikers and
wounded $50 near st. Petersburg.
The liners st. Paul and Teutonic left
New York for a race across the ocean.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Wilson, U. s. A. (re-
tired). died in New York. aged 10 years.
Minister Loomis will not return to Vene-
zuela, but will be given another position.
The Pennsylvania republican state COM
vention will meet at Harrisburg August q.
The Peoples state bank at Gothenburg.
Neb., closed its doors with deposits Of $60.-
600.
The United States supreme court has adj
journed until the second Monday in Octo.
Der.
Robbers wrecked bank at Bowling
Green, KY, with nitroglycerin and secured
5000.
Lieut.. Col. Francis Michler, military sec
rotary to Lieut.. Gen. Miles. died in Wash
ington. M
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
eighty-second birthday at her home in
Boston.
Nelson Hatfield killed his wife and him.
self at Avoca. Ind. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
A Chinese student won the oratorical
prize at the Vanderbilt university in Nash
vile. Tenn.
Three men were drowned in the Calumet
river in Chicago by the capsizing oR&
small boat.
A revolution has been inaugurated in
the state of Guerrero. Mexico. by political
malcontents.
Four Of the children of George III. Bram-
hall. pianist and composer. died in Chicago
within two weeks.
The American colony at Paris decorated
the tomb of La Fayette. Ambassador Por-
ter making an address.
Ninety houses in Bakersville. N. c.. and
vicinity were swept away and four lives
lost by the recent food.
Frank Reeves. negro. was hanged by
a mob near Georgiana, Ala, for attempts
ing to assault white girl.
Bank notes to the value Of $3.50. 900 were
stolen from the Singapore branch of the
Hong-Kong and Shanghai bank.
William Campbell (co.ored) was lynched
Oy mop at roma creek, Okla., lOT Su0OI>
ng Deputy Sheriff George Smith.
Military surgeons in convention at Min
neapolis adopted resolutions calling for the
restoration of the army caEteen.
Gen. John B. Gordon was reelected com.
mander of the Confederate Veterans as
sociation at the Memphis reunion.
The Presbyterian general assembly In
Philadelphia elected DIR. Minton chairman
of revision committee and adjourned.
~ Ia0 Eat
appeal to the President to reinstate the five
West Point cadets recently dismissed.
Gov. La Toilette has appointed Dr. Alma
J. Frisbie the first woman member of the
Wisconsin board of university regents.
Gen. Weyler proposes to reorganize the
Spanish army by establishing three army
corps. capable of repelling any invasion.
Under the operation of the new commute.
ton law about 1000 convicts will be re.
leased from the prisons of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Clark. Harvey Nll.) laborer.
wounded his wife and then killed himself
with revolver. Jealousy was the cause.
A defect in the new criminal law in the
state Of Washington is said to invalidate
it as to all persons now under sentence OF
death.
Wiley Kirk (colored), 10 years old. was
hanged at Towson, Baltimore county. Nd.
Friday, for criminal assault on white
woman.
Queen Wilhelmina was welcomed to the
German capital with military display.
She was escorted by the emperor and his
guards.
trip from Escanaba to Menominee caused
a panic among 200 excursionists. No one
was hurt.
A gang of five tried to hold up Burling-
ton limited, en- route to Minnea polls from
Chicago. but was fooled by the quick wit
Of the engineer.
Miss Vivian Sartoris. granddaughter OF
next month to Archibald Balfour, cousin Of
Arthur Balfour.
A Paris dispatch says that the duke OF
Abruzzi and DR.. Nansen will shortly start
Joint polar expedition in one Italian and
one Swedish vessel.
Thomas Kimball. representative from
Marshall county in the Iowa legislature.
and wealthy, is dead at Lamoille. aged IS.
from consumption.
Both houses of the Michigan legislature
suspended business after having been in
session since January l. Final adjourn-
ment will be taken June 6.
The Minnesota supreme court gives RUS
sell Sage. as assignee of the Hastings 4
Dakota railroad. possession of 10000 acres
of land row held by settlers.
An Italian anarchist under arrest in Rome
persists in the statement that plot exists
to assassinate Gear Nicholas, Emperor
William, President Loubet and the queen
Of Italy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton scathingly ar.
raigned the Christian church for its treat-
ment of women and demanded an expur-
gated Bible. Her paper was read by Susan
B. Anthony at meeting of the Woman's
Suffrage association at Minneapolis.
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