Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-04-11
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week Ending April 9.
The present condition OF the cereal
crops indicate splendid yield.
BY vote OF Is to IL the wisconsin
senate killed the anti-cigarette BILL
Almost the entire business portion OF
Augusta. Mont. was destroyed by fire.
Michigan university defeated Chicago
university in their annual debate In Chi
cago.
The present condition OF the cereal
crops in the country indicates q splendid
yield.
Missionaries are preparing to reorgan-
tricts.
Illinois As to get Is commissions in the
army list authorised by the law recently
passed.
Almost the entire business portion OF
the little town of Lehigh. Ia. was swept
away by fire.
Turkey has agreed to settle the long
standing American claims. and payment II
expected soon.
The war department will promote army.
officers who helped Gen. Funston to cap-
ture Aguinaldo
The famous temple Hommongt at Ike
gami. Japan, was burned. 1t was erected
in the year 275.
The Minnesota legislature passed law
providing for nomination of candidates
by primary election.
A hymn book in which Polish indc.
pendence is advocated has been sup.
pressed by Germany.
Miss Rose p. Duffey. aged 10. deputy
postmaster at Parnell. Ia. is charged
with embezzling $1,000
The war department is advised by Gen.
Macarthur that the Manila commissary
frauds are unimpOrtant.
A British parliamentary committee
recommended an annual allowance OF
sSlO0.O00 for King Edward.
Two women at Newkirk, Okla. fought
a duel with revolvers at 20 PAGES. one
of them being shot twice.
The silver service for the battleship
Illinois has been completed 1t consists
of ten pieces and cost 5000.
The new White Star steamer Celtic.
the largest vessel ever built. was sue
cessfully launched at Belfast.
Municipal elections are TO be held
throughout Cuba on June 1. Fifteen days
will be allowed for registration.
One of the Detroit (Mich.) plants OF
the American Radiator company was
burned. causing loss of 100000
Mrs. Opheiia Meyer, aged IS years.
threw herself in front of a train at
Celino, o.. and was cut to pieces
Gen. George +. Anderson. the famous
confederate brigadier commander. died
at Admission, Ala, aged u years.
[ Two brothers, George and James Todd.
were killed by the explosion of a boiler
In O sawmill near Ketterman. Mo.
A movement has been inaugurated in In.
dianapolis to erect a suitable monument to
the memory of Benjamin Harrison.
The Wisconsin senate has defeated Q
proposed constitutional amendment per.
hitting the use Of voting machines.
Beers brought suit in the United States
court at New Orleans to stop the shipment
Of mules to the British in South Africa.
E. C. Griffith. of Rhole Island. won the
grand American handicap in the shoot
OFF of the ties at Interstate Park. l.. l.
The Kiowa. Comanche, Apache and
Wichita reservations in Oklahoma will
be opened for settlement on August 8.
At Parkersburg. w. Va. Mrs. Morris
while insane. held the head of her baby
in the fire until 1t was burned to death.
Gen. Cassius M. Clay with rifle pre-.
vented deputy sheriffs from levytng on
furniture in his house at Whitehall. KY.
BY the terms of a bill passed by the
house at Springfield kidnapping for ran-
som is made capital offense in Illinois.
The Vanderbiits have acquired control
OF the Delaware &, Hudson road. which
will be merged into the New York Gen.
trail
In two days 1000 immigrants from Eu.
rope passed through Chicago en- route
to homes in Minnesota and North Da.
kota.
Valet Jones confessed the cold-blooded
murder of aged Millionaire Rice in New
York. charging Lawyer Patrick as insti-
gator.
Republican leaders in Washington
started a movement to discourage the
formation OF large Industrial combina-
lions.
Mrs. William Carroll was burned to
death at Lincoln. ILL.,. by lamp explo-
sion, and her husband was fatally
burned.
For the first time in the history Of Ha-
yana. Cuba, the month of April begins
without single case OF yellow fever IN
the city.
John Gulick killed his mother, aged 81
years. and his brother. aged q. at Kleina
Grove. Pa. and escaped. Cause 1or tne
crime unknown
Marrying Pastor Mecse, of Auburn.
Ind, reached his fifteen hundredth we'd
ding by officiating at his grandson's mar
riage in Chicago.
The largest irrigation canal in the world
was opened and the waters of the Colorado
river were turned In at the head gates
below Yuma. Ariz
The mayor and aldermen of Kansas City,
Kan. were forced by threats of hanging to
pledge themselves to defeat street rail-
way franchise ordinance.
Civil officers are said to have located
the $722.OO0 stolen by Capt. Oberlin NJ.
Carter and his associates. and the ar
rest of we'll known men charged with
protecting Carter is likely to follow.