The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-11-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


For the Week EsAiag Nsv. 1.
Alaska's gold output this year 70
estimated at 5000, OOO
White house improvements will bs
finished by December I.
The Morgan opera house at Sharon,
Pa, was completely ruined by fire.
The army in the Philippines is to
be reduced from 1000 to 10000 men.
A combine of the malleable iron
plants of the country has been formed.
A new direct steamship service is
to be established between New York
and China and Japan.
President Roosevelt and small
party left Washington on an outing of
day or two in Virginia.
Fire destroyed the whole of the
business portion of Primghar, Ia.
Loss estimated at s50,0oe>
Gov. Brodie of Arizona, in his an
nual report to the secretary of the in
terror. renews the plea for statehood.
unions.
Colombia still delays matters in
connection with canal negotiations,
but the United States may soon force
the issue.
Physicians admit that Gov. Yates.
of Illinois, has developed typhoid
fever, but say his condition is not
alarming.
c. w. Hooper shot and killed his
wife and then killed himself at In
dependence, Kan. Family trouble was
the cause.
Engineer Conn and two unknown
men were instantly killed and many
passengers injured in a railway wreck
near Oxford, o.
John Sherer, the oldest settler, died
at Hammond, Ind, aged 100 years.
His father was 1O3 and his mother 1O1
when they died.
Frederick Roberts killed Mrs.
Charles Cooper in Pueblo, Col. be-
cause she refused to marry him and
then killed himself.
Pittsburg workmen threw bricks
from roof at the Fourteenth nation
al guard regiment, returning from
the coal strike duty.
Gen. Gillespie, chief engineer of the
United States army, in his annual re-
port urges the necessity of providing
defenses for the great lakes.
Two big consultations are planned
by beef interests. Packers will COM
bine first and then effect merger Of
all stock yards in the country.
Five New Orleans banks are said
to have been defrauded out of $780,
600 by son of one of the oldest
commission merchants of the city,
w. X. Vanderbilt, Jr., was con-
demned to two days. imprisonment
and payment of fine for speeding his
automobile in the streets of Paris.
w. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., has been con-
demned to two days imprisonment
and payment of fine for speeding an
automobile in the streets of Paris.
Old Tabby, chief of the Uintah Utes
for as far back as the memory of the
Oldest inhabitant runs, died near
White Rock agency, aged 1o4 years.
L r. G.. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
says that speculation waits upon
politics, but legitimate business is
not disturbed by the approaching
election. l,H ,s;,,lt ,,,,.,,l b. .,,,,..
Safe blowers robbed the post Office
and store of +. B. Willard & Co., at
steece, o., of 5000 in cash, $35 in
stamps and $4,000 in government
bonds, notes and insurance policies.
The supreme court of appeals says
that failure to use copyright notice
in publishing copyright story does
not give the right to other persons
to publish the story for their own
| use.
At Kenosha, Wis.,, Daniel Avery was
sentenced to life imprisonment after
pleading guilty to the murder of
Rachael Davis, colored actress. He
smiled at the judge as sentence was
pronounced.
A jury at Grand Rapids, Mich, has
awarded Mrs. Charles j. Lewis $4,000
damages. for the death of her husband,
who died from injuries received whilea
being initiated into e camp Of the.
Woodmen of America q,
Railroad officials have abandoned the
movement to abolish all passes, begun
one year ago. Western lines at a St.
Louis meeting .reaffirmed the old
| agreement, which allows passes al
most without restriction.