Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-02-14
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Enaing Feb. D.
The bank at Elletsville. Ind. closed it,

For the Week Enaiag Feb. ..
The bank at Elletsville. Ind. closed it,
doors
An internal machine exploded in hotel
At jacksonville. Fla. creating panic.
The Canadian parliament convened at
Ottawa and was opened by Lord Mimic.
The town Of Blackford. KY. was com.
pletely wiped out by fire,
The cries Of a child saved "a persons from
asphyxiation In Philadelphia.
"A new paper. the Reasoner. has been
started to oppose Bryan's Commoner.
Scores Of persons perished in the burning
Of great naphtha tanks at Baku. Russia.
|, Capt. James 8. Dunham, q well-kDown
Chicago vessel owner. died Of heart disease.
At Cleveland Senator n. "A. Hanna was
elected O comrade In Memorial post. g.
A. r. 4
A steam pipe on the steamer Ventura
burst while at sea and five Of the crew were
killed.
Bishop Favier is accused Of stealing $780,.
600 from the home Of an executed Chinese
oficial.
Two parties of Canadian engineers. build-
Ing the Yukon telegraph line overlapped
20 miles.
Michigan viii distribute from the states
hatcheries sl7.000000 fish in the great lakes
this year.
A bill has been introduced in the Kansas
legislature designed to protect the Joint"
smashers.
The immigrant bureau reports that 81. SO
foreign home seekers landed in New York
during 1900.
Some army officers regard with disfavor
the organization Of native regiments in this
Philippines.
George ]. and Helen Gould have been
appointed receivers for Count and Countess
de Castel1ane.
w. ]. Lyman charges that Richard Cro-
ker led gang of repeaters and voted II
times himself.
Horace Silsby. the inventor Of steam
fire engine. died at Seneca Falls. N. "
aged GO years.
Capt. Joseph T. johnson. a well-known
Ohio river captain. died in Bellevue. Pa.
aged 81 years.
The senate amendments of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty are unacceptable to
Great Britain.
Five persons were killed and many in.
jured in wreck on the Erie railway at
Greenville. Pa.
Sixty fishing boats near Hashidate, ia.
pan, were wrecked, and Of 40 fishermen
only Is escaped.
Prof. Pickering, of Harvard. was awarded
tho gold medal Of the Royal Astronomical
society. England.
Andrew Carnegie 1t Is said. will devote
lishment Of libraries.
A bill was introduced in the Illinois
house making 1t bribery for political candl-
dates to treat voters.
John Big Fire Jacket. last Of the Red
Jacket line, died at the Cattaraugus reser.
walton. N. Y, aged SO.
William NJ. Evarts. the noted lawyer.
celebrated in New York the eighty-third
anniversary Of his birth.
w. s. Ament, an American missionary in
China. arrested by French and German
troops, has been released.
Theodore Rosenblush and his vile wero
killed by an explosion of natural gas In
their residence at Canton. o.
Charles Allen. the post office robber who
escaped from jail in New York in 1895. has
been found in an English jail.
The Belgian chamber Of deputies has
voted unanimously In favor Of interven.
ton in the Boer- British war.
Blindness is the penalty paid by Frank
Jefferson. of Upper Roxborough. Pa. for
the excessive use Of cigarettes.
A bill to make electrocution the legal
method of execution in Illinois has been In
troduced in the state legislature.
The continued cold weather. which has
frozen the mountain streams, has resulted
In water famine at Butte, Mont
The war and navy departments are plan-
ming for joint military and naval maneuvers
in New York harb0r next summer.
Five women rallied two saloons at Dial.
ton, Ark, destroyed all the furniture and
poured the whisky into the street.
Two persons were killed and three fatal.
ly injured in fire which destroyed the Elk.
position hotel in Binghamton. N. =. S9
Otncials Of the Illinois Central railroad
celebrated in Chicago the half-century
anniversary of the birth Of the system
Troops in Peking looted the roof Of .
Buddhist temple in the belief that the tiles
were gold. but they were only gold plated
Lorenzo Priori, who murdered Vinceno
Garuzo in New York city December IL.
1888. was electrocuted in Sing Sing prison.
The Alabama legislature passed bill
prohibiting Christian scientists or faith
cure doctors from doing business in Ala.
bama.
The Thirty-seventh regiment United
States volunteers arrived in San Francisco
from the Philippines on the transport
Sheridan.
A gold expert says there has been an
error in the estimates which placed tho
gold stock of the country at $l25. 900. 900 in
advance Of the real amount.
The crank shaft of the starboard engine
aof the Furst Bismarck snapped 800 miles
beast OF Sandy Hook. The remainder of the
Voyage was made with one engine.
The building trades lockout in Chicago.
which lasted a year, has been ended by an
agreement reached by the arbitration COM
mittees of the carpenters and masters as
sociations.
THE MARKETS.
New York, Feb. &
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Sheep Observation-Disclosures. $50 94&
FLOUR-Wfnter Straights.. 3 IS 0465
Minnesota Patents. 40 043
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BUTTER-Creamery 100000. Is @ y
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