Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1902-01-02
CONnENsED SPECIALS.

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BITS ABOUT PEOPLE.-
King Edward will personally open par
lament. ,.s> =
Marconl will probably select Cape Breton
for permanent wireless telegraphy station.
Critical period in illness Of Gen. Alger has
been passed and doctors confidently assert
that he will get well.
AND FATAL FLAMEss-
Grain elevator of H. F. Mueller at CHI
cago burned: loss. 100000.
Simon Owens. colored, aged l02, burned
to death at Guthrie, Okla.
Fire in pharmaceutical department OF
Cudahy packing plant at Omaha. Ne5..
did over $4,000 damage.
CHURCH lTENlS.-
Zionist congress opened at Basic, Switz-
erland, by President DR.. Theodore Herxl.
Of Vienna.
New church law admitting women as
delegates has been adopted by Methodist
conferences,
New York, by making him knight COM
mander Of Order of st. Gregory the Great.
ARMY AND NAvYe
Navy department has taken initial steps
to adoption Of wireless Biography.
Admiral Evans to be assigned to Asiatic
station, which he will ultimately command.
Lieut.. Gen. Miles has decided to accept
the situation with the best possible grace
and the reprimand will make no decided
change in his future plans. official or social.
INTERNATIONALLY
Treaty of commerce between Italy and
Russia signed at st. Petersburg
Monthly line of steamers between New
York and Philippines to be established.
Gen. De Wet on night of December q
routed Col. Firman's camp at Zeefontein
and captured two guns.
h Delegates to Pan-Amer!can congress
have substantially agreed TO plan of ar
convention.
INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL,-
A soft coal famine exists in Detroit and
situation is becoming serious.
Michigan railroad commission planning
to revise railroad code to prevent accidents.
T On January B. 4 o. railroad will shorten
workday hours Of freight trainmen from
10 to 10 hours.
American tabocco trust has cornered
Turkish tobacco crop. principal source OF
supply for German cigarette manufac-
turers.
EDUCATION AND REFORM 49,.
Congressman De Graffenried. Of Texas.
has prepared bill to present to congress
providing for admission of Indian boys to
West Point.
Rumor in New York says Andrew Car.
lumbia university to be used for build.
Ing and to assist needy students.
Suggestion made at convention of Chill.
dren's Home societies In Chicago that
negro boys trained in northern white FAM
lilies is solution Of southern race problem.
FATAL ACCIDENTS,-
Four boys drowned while skating on
Lahave river at Bridgewater, N. s.
At American bridge works at Chicago
irnn pirder vaiuhinp IN O0O mounds foil kill.
ing three men.
Tornado and floods caused loss of several
lives in Italy and cemetery at Naples was
washed away.
Two prominent men of st. Louis leaped
from automobile to avoid collision with
of engine
POLITICAL,-
Ohio Republican league will hold Its ban.
quet at Springfield on February IL.
Rural free delivery mail carriers are to
be placed under civil service on February !.
Gov. Shaw. of Iowa, refuses to intimate
what his policy will be when he assumes
duties Of secretary of treasury.
Panama Canal company may offer their
canal for $40, OOO, 600 and commission is likely
to recommend acceptance and Nicaragua
may lose. Isl . 80,
CRIMINAL RECORD,- .,.
Safe in Henry Prag's mill at New Doug.
las. ILL.,, robbed of $1,000.
Diamond chain valued at $500 stolen on
way from Washington to New York. ~
Negro employe Of st. Louis health board
confessed to giving out infected serum that
caused IL deaths. - So
In general fight at Childersburg;i Ala.
J. Bird (white) and his son Ruben were
killed and Tom Holley (colored) and George
Bird wounded, the former probably fatally.
A race riot was averted by the prompt jail
Ing of all the negroes. 800. ..s !: