The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-09-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Fer the Week EaAing SEPT ..
Nebraska socialists have nominated
George e. Bigelow for governor.
A score of persons were injured, IL
or more seriously, in cable-car crash
in Chicago.
In the Third Ohio district the re-
publicans have renominated r. n.
Nevin for congress.
In northwestern Nebraska, portions
of South Dakota and western Iowa
frosts have occurred.
Gems. Chaffee and Davis recom-
mend redistricting the Philippines in
to three departments.
The White Star line has ordered
the construction of the largest ocean
steamship in the world.
A Boxer proclamation has. been
posted at Canton, China, melting the
slaughter CT foreigners.
David p. James, of Holton township,
Mich, killed his son and wounded
neighbor in family quarrel.
Edgar v. Einstein & Co.. proprietors
of a large department store at Harris
burg, Pa, failed for $4,000.
A negro named Hog Wilson was
hanged near Stephens, Ark, by q
mob for assaulting a young woman.
New York and Chicago capitalists
are about to invest s5,OO0,OOO in buy
ing 800 retail coal yards in Chicago.
Edward Besun (colored), charged
with chasing white girl, was shot and
killed by mob at East St. Louis, Ill.
Explorer Baldwin, in a statement on
the failure of his polar expedition.
blamed open sea, poor ice and death OF
his dogs. ,EeGN}
The Odeon theater in Cincinnati has
been burned at loss of 100000, and
Music hall was damaged to the extent
of $4,000.
A. j. Cummings & Co.. one of the
largest brokerage houses in Pittsburg.
Pa, with branches in IS or 20 towns,
suspended. t.
The steamer Frithjof, unable to
reach Franz Josef land, returned to
Tromsoe, thus delaying the Arctic
expedition.
Thirty-eight ships were wrecked in
Algoa bay, near Cape Town. Fifty
bodies were recovered and others are
being sought.
The receipts of the treasury de-
partment for the month of August
were $4s,6O5,s12, and the expendi-
lures $42,65O,OOO.
The treasury department expects
surplus of $15,0OO.O00 in receipts for
the year, basing the estimate upon tho
business for August.
The London trades union confer,
ence rejected n resolution favoring
woman suffrage and condemned the
Boer war as wrong.
A French normal school is to be
founded in Chicago by NJ. Mabilleau.
of the Paris Social museum, during
his visit this coming winter.
The island of Hayti is likely to be an.
nexed by the United States unless rev.
olutions there cease. Haytien and SAM
to Domingo republics are said to hs
farce.
A tug strike, lasting five mohtns,
ended at Cleveland in recognition OF
the union and agreement by the Great
Lakes Towing association to discharge
nonunion men.
In order to inspect Pacific coast ar.
tillery defenses Gen. Miles will sail
from San Francisco for Manila Sep.
TENDER 30, instead of September is, as
at first intended. e7 t : q
Veterans who served as confeder-
ates before becoming union soldiers
are entitled to pensions only from
the date claims are filed after July I,
1902, according to the commissioners.
C. F. w. Nicely has arrived at New
York from Havana and says the Gu.
ban government, having decided it
has no civil responsibility in his case.
he fails to see how the United States
can have any.