The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-10-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEI.


Fer me Week Eallss oct. n.
Gov. Yates opened the republican
state campaign at Anna.
The Cuban senate has discontinued
Its legislative sessions until Novem-
Der 3.
A French coal miners national
strike, involving 10000 men, was orr
dered at Paris.
Sir Thomas Upton has sent another
challenge to the New York Yacht club
for Americas cup.
Four men were killed and two
wounded in a shooting ARRAY in the
streets at FL Dorado, Ark.
Earl Bush and Frank Anspaugh were
blown to pieces by an explosion Of
nitroglycerine near Lima. o.
The private bank of F. H. Cutting
and j. 7. Willett at Otto, Ia, closed its
doors with liabilities of $4,000.
Rev. Kate Hughes, of Table Grove.
has been elected president of the Illi-
nois Equal Suffrage association.
With over 5000 students, Columbia i
university in New York opened for it's
one hundred and forty-ninth academic
year.
Garfield Burley and Curtis Brown.
negroes, were lynched at Newbern,
Tenn. by a mob for the murder Of a
farmer.
Violence continues in the anthracite
region. One striker was killed by a
guard. and two trains were wrecked by
dynamite.
r. The first annual meeting of the trus-
tees of the Mckinley National Memoir
ial association will be held in Canton
October 25
Rhode Island republicans nominated
Charles Dean kimball for governor and
Endorsed President Roosevelt for re-
| nomination.
Prof. John Trowbridge, of Harvard,
claims that experiments conducted by
him nave shown lightning will not
strike water.
President Roosevelt is opposed to
bulky government reports and has
asked department chiefs to make
them shorter.
The British Miners federation
adopted resolution favoring gov-
eminent control of land, mines, min.
erals and railways.
Five persons were drowned near
Kincardine, Ont, in an attempt to
rescue the crew of the stranded
schooner Anna Maria.
Lady Henry Somerset. president Of
i ho n
York and declared England is become
ing nation of drunkards.
| The Beaumont oil field in Texas
has again been swept by fire. Fifty
five derricks were burned, and there
were reports of loss of life.
Vice President Barabas caused an
uproar in the Hungarian parliament
by openly accusing the emperor of
conniving to ruin the kingdom.
The largest increase in the postal
receipts in the history of the ser.
vice is shown in reports of so lead.
ing post Offices for September.
Rey.J. y. Prince.a Baptist preacher.
was shot and killed by. Pole Watson
near Henderson. KY, because he per-
SISTED sin visiting Watson daughter.
Officials at Washington nre much
disturbed over the delay and appar-
ent Indifference on the part of Cuba
/ in concluding the treaty.
Anattempt Of the New Orleans Rail-
way company TO start cars on'its lines
which have been tied up for IL days
precfpitated riot and troops were
called out.
Henry /. Toews. teacher at Al
toona. Manitoba, fatally shot two
school trustees who criticised him.
shot two of his pupils fatally. and
then killed himself.
The New York police fear coal riots
by the poor when freezing weather
comes. The city refuse dumps now
being sorted over and apportioned
under police guard.
The shoe manufacturing trade is be-
ing transferred from the east to the
middle and western states. Boston
trade for the year decreased 3s7,oco
cases. Chicago and St. Louis gained
l6 per cent .s4 e
The government monthly crop res
Iport showed condition. Of corn as
1916. against SAB for 1907; oats yield,
34.5 bushels an acre, against 25.1 for
1901. Condition of potatoes, s2.5.
against SOL for. September 1.
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