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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-09-03
Card Of ] hanks.

We hereby give our heartfelt thanks
TO the many who assisted usand bright
sned the sad journey Of our beloved
eon, Ingyold.
MARTINUs SKRAMsTAD
s:95ss AND FAMILY.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-09-03
LOCALS

Editor Lowden, Of McHenry, passed
through Cooperstown Monday enroute
for the twin cities to take In the big
fair. Seeing that the new paper was
to be issued this week he thought Nc
Henry would be well looked after and
made his escape.
Prof. d. 81. Loreaux and wife arrived
in Cooperstown last Thursday and have
been busy settling down to housekeep-
ing before school commences. They
will live in the old Virgo house. The
Prot. has been engaged as principal Of
the schools for the coming year.
NJ. E. Holt took his little gun and
dog and started out on foot right after
sun rise chicken day and brought down
four nice ripe chickens right close to
town. Martin thinks that beats pay
log . high price for . livery team and
other trimmings all to pieces.
william f. Fitch, general manager
Of the Duluth b South Shore Railway
arrived in Cooperstown Monday to en-
JOY a few days hunting. He was ac-
|companied by Mart Adson, general
passenger agent, and Bert Perrin, city
ticket agent. The gentlemen went out
under the guidance Of /. D. Allen Tues
day and met with some good sport.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-09-03

Cards have been received announc-
ing the marriage Of Daniel H. Loreaux
to Habel 81. Hatfield, which happy
event occurred at Wooster, Ohio, on
Thursday, Aug. 20. Mr.. and Mrs. Lo-
reaux win be at home after Sept. Is,
at Cooperstown, N. D., where Mr.. Lo'
reaux has been engaged as superinten'
dent Of the cft7 schools. The many
friends Of the groom In this city joir
with us in extending congratulations
News and Times.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-09-03

Speaking Of the efficacy Of prayer, .
little Grafton girl who declared she
had seen q lion in the yard, was told
she must go to her room and pray God
to forgive her for telling story. After
q few moments she came tripping into
the room, and the following dialogue
ensued with her mother:
ibid you ask God to forgive you,
dear7"
"Yes, mamma, he told me not to
give it a second thought, as he took II
for q lion himself when he first saw 1T. /
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
WOULD ABOLISH WAR.
Universal Peace Union, at Closing
Session, Adopts Resolution
Looking to That End.

Mystic, Conn, Aug. 31.-The Univer-
sal Peace union at its closing session
Saturday adopted a series of resolutions,
or convictions. The preamble SAYS
that with all the encouragement on the
demand for peace 1--WE are still confront
ed with obligations resting upon peace
societies and all advocates of peace to
remove the causes and abolish the GUS
tom of war"
A peace conference to be called by the
president every four years, looking to
the prevention of war is favored The
closing conviction is that this country
and England, (which by force Of arms
have conquered weaker nations, should
made reparation by the introduction of
the best of their institutions and the
gifts OF liberty and independence.
The union recommends an appeal to
all nations to set aside by legislation at
least one per cent of their annual ap-
preparations for permanent peace fund
to be expended under direction of The
Hague international arbitration court.
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D0INGS OF A WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review of the Happenings
of the Past Seven Days in This
and All Foreign Lands.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

BY an order issued by the postmaster
general requiring baggagemen On trains
without postal clerks to deliver news
paper mail every railroad train In the
United States is practically put under
government protection.
The governor of Vermont has been
notified by the state department at
Washington that revolutionary an
archist paper is published at Barre.
A stir is created in the government
printing office by an order to all heaos
of departments, which will be extend
ed to all employees, that the oath OF
allegiance to the United States must
be taken.
1t is announced that United States
Senator Thomas r. Bard, of California,
whose term expired in March, 1905, Will
not be candidate for reelection.
Government printing office employees
began taking the oath of allegiance TO
the United States before notary pubic
at Washington.
The alleged land frauds perpetrated
on Indian territory Indians will be IN
vestigated by special commission sent
to Secretary Hitchcock. Charges are
practically confirmed by the latter.
The president names Henry Q. lde
as vice governor of the Philippines, to
succeed Luke E. Wright, who will be-
come governor.
The navy captured Long Island In
the mimic attack on Portland, Me-, har-
Dor. All of IL opposing warships were
destroyed later by the army. The for
mer victory was the more important.
The Olympia was damaged by running
aground.
American Bar association committee
on commercial law reported in favor
of drastic measures either to Kill or
curb trusts, three plans being proposed
to tax them out of existence, to COM
pei large reduction in prices or for the
state to compete.
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strain on hearing of the verdict of guilty.
The jurors declined to state what oc-
Cured in the jury room. George Wyatt
was foreman.
Arthur Goebel, the brother of the vic
tim, is a prominent merchant at Cincin-
natl, and he spent his time and fortune
for over three years in the prosecution
of those accused of being in conspir-
acy to kill his brother
Powers has been convicted twice be-
fore, this being the third trial in which
the jury brought in a verdict of guilty
against him. On his previous trials, he
escaped with a sentence of life impris-
onment, as the evidence was not SUI
ficiently strong against him to lead the
jury to inf1icting the extreme penalty.
All three of the trials were held at
Georgetown, and in each of them he had
the assistance of the most able lawyers
who could be procured. Subscription
lists were circulated in his interest by
friends, and a sum of money was Sc
cured to defray the cost of his repeated
trials and the investigating Of the cir
cumstances which preceded the killing
of Gov. Goebel in the interest OF the de-
tense. The last trial was distinguished
by the fact that Powers addressed the
jury in his own behalf, and in long re-
view of the case showed himself to be
a very competent attorney, while his ell
oquent pleading for his life astounded
those who had watched him carefully in
4x,;o l. r.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-09-03
RACE is AGAIN POSTPONED
Too Much Wind Prevents Contest
Between the Big Yachts.
Sailing Is Made Impossible by .
Furious Storm and
High Sea.

New York, Aug. 31.-For the first
time in the history of Americas cup
contest a race has been postponed
because of too much wind Saturday
the third of the present series of races
was to have been sailed. Following
the futile attempt of Thursday, when
there was not enough wind to COM
plete the race within the time limit,
it was earnestly hoped by yachtsmen
that Saturdays contest would be de-
cisive and the series completed. Ten
hours after Thursdays drifting failure
a storm broke over the cup course and
ragged about Sandy Hook. The water
was tumbled into waves that troubled
even an ocean liner The wind blew
with a velocity estimated between 40
and so miles, and the rain driven be-
fore it obscured the vision beyond a
mile or two.
Within the sheltering bend Of Sandy
Hook, where the two racing yachts
rode at their moorings, the water was
comparatively quiet during the morn
ing, while across the sandy peninsula,
on the ocean side, the surf doomed as
it broke upon the beach. At seven
o'clock the regatta committee met at
the New York yacht club house and
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The cotton trade in England is in a
worse state than for Is years in conse-
quence of the shortness of the supply
of cotton.
Mail advices from Shanghai say sew
eral hundred lives were lost in recent
great floods at Chefoo.
News from London says the sale at
auction of the birthplace of Charles
Dickens on Commercial road, Ports
mouth, is announced.
Twelve more Christian villages in
Macedonia have been destroyed by the
Turks, who massacred women, children
and aged, and who are said to aim al
the extirpation of the Bulgarian popu-
lation. The sultan called out large
additional force. of reserves.
A train between Buda-Pesth and Con-
stantinople was blown up by a dyna-
mite bomb and seven persons killed and
Is injured. Revolutionists are ac-
cused.
A plan for government Of Tur-
keys European provinces has been pre-
pared by the Macedonian committee
and submitted to the sultan. Four prov
inces are provided for.
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dubbed to Death.

Kansas City, Aug. 31.-Michael
Hoolihan, bartender, while sleeping
in chair in saloon owned by his
brother, John Hoolihan, at Sixth and
Broadway, in the downtown district of
this city, was beaten to death with a
club early Sunday by some unknown
persons, whose motive is supposed to
have been robbery. The body was
found in chair tilted back against
the wall with the feet on another
chair A heavy table leg covered with
blood lay near the body. Everyone in
Hoolihan's place was drunk. Hooli-
hans skull was crushed. His pockets
had been rif1ed. Will Lee, a negro, has
been arrested on suspicion.
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THE EAST.

In the first race of the contest for the
Americas cup the Reliance beat Sham
rock III. by seven minutes and three
seconds.
At Media, Pa, Robert Fitzpatrick was
hanged for the murder, in February,
1902, of Elizabeth Bearmore, his house
keeper.
Charles Albright, engineer, and
John Burns, fireman, were fatally
burned by the bursting of Lake Shore
engine at Erie, Pa.
While in Boston Lord Brassey, pres
ident of the London chamber Of COM
merce, said the United States would lead
in naval power.
The attacking fleet of Rear Admiral
Barker in the naval war game was
BADLY damaged while trying to enter
Portland (Me.) harbor at midnight.
Parks, the waikiki g delegate convict
ed in New York of eXtOrting money
from a contractor for settling strike,
was sentenced to prison for not less
than 21s nor more than 31s years.
The death is announced of DR.. Chris
topher G. Tiedman, dean of Buffalo
law school.
A band of robbers dynamited the
safe in the post Office at Sandy Lake,
Pa, and secured nearly $1,000.
One hundred of the wealthiest mer-
chants of Stockholm will visit the
United States and the st. Louis fair
in the autumn of 1904.
Three men were killed at Carthage,
Mo-. by an explosion in the Independ-
ent Powder company's plant.
Steamship H. M. Whitney, from New
York to Boston, ran down and sank
the schooner John Booth just west of
New Haven Six persons were drowned.
President r. F. Davis, of the First ma
tional bank of Park Rapids, Mimi, was
drowned in Fish Hook lake.
The larger building trades unions of
the country are invited to send three
representatives each to conference to
be held in Indianapolis, Ind, October
s. 1t is hoped at this meeting to eff
feet the formation of national fedora
ton of building trades.
HI Doherty, of England, defeated w
A. Larned, of New Jersey, at Newport, R.
l.. and to his title of tennis champion
of England added that of champion of
the United States.
Over 1000 Smiths were present at the
twenty-eighth and largest reunion of the
Smith family and friends at Peapack, N.
]. Their ages ranged from few weeks
to so years.
The Americas cup race between the
Reliance and Shamrock Ill, was unfin-
ished because of light winds. The chal-
lenger was distanced after the first five
miles, and ANONYMOUSLY beaten at the
start. Hope has been abandoned by
Lipton's friends.
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WEST AND SOUTH.

State convention of Ohio democrats
unanimously nominated Tom l.. John
son for governor, and Endorsed John
H. Clarke, gold" democrat. for
United States senator. The resolutions
reaffirm the Kansas City platform and
Mr.. Bryan has been invited to stump
the state.
In Kansas the damage to farms in
Nemaha and Marshall counties by the
recent cloudburst is greater than at
first estimated and now is placed at
$500. 900.
At Danvile, ILL.,, jury to try eight
of the rioters of July % was obtained
and the taking of testimony was be-
gun.
In Cambria, Wis, David G. Will
liams, aged So years, who was bitten
by rat two weeks ago, died from
blood poisoning which resulted from
the bite.
Ex-President Martin kellogg, of the
University of California, died as the
result of an operation for stomach and
liver troubles.
Heavy rains caused loss of life and
much damage to crops and railway prop
erty in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska.
Seven inches of rain fell in "a hours IN
Omaha. The stoI % belt extends to the
Atlantic coast
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HUNDREDS DIE IN HURRICANE
Terrible Result of Storm in the
West Indies.
Many Vessels Wrecked and Their
Crews LOst-Two Islands Are
swept Clean.

New Orleaus, La, Aug. 31.-Passen-
gers from Jamaica report that the re-
cent storm swept Grand Cayman, off
the Jamaica coast, almost clear One
hundred and sixty houses in George
town We're blown down and destroyed,
and all the trees leveled. Twenty
three vessels in all were wrecked in
and about Grand Cayman, and 80 or
more seamen drowned. The people on
shore are in great distress and appeal
for relief. They were IL hope of sue
cor from Jamaica until they heard of
the disaster there. The storm is said
to have been more violent than that
of October, 1876. Trese that with
stood the earliest hurricane went down
like pins. Nothing has been heard
from Little Cayman and Cayman Brac,
and it is believed that both islands
have been swept clean.
Mobile, Ala, Aug. 31.--All the in
formation reaching this city of the
results of the hurricane which visited
the Cayman islands on August IL con-
firm the first fears that disaster has
overtaken the inhabitants of the
islands. All the correspondence which
has reached here, via Cienfuegos,
Cuba, agrees that the hurricane at
tanned velocity of over 100 miles an
hour, that there is not tree left
standing on any of the islands, that
hundreds of houses were destroyed,
and that famine threatens the people.
The loss of life is speculative in the
absence of definite news, and may be
100 or 1000. The islands consist of
Grand Cayman. IL miles long and four
to seven in width, and Little Cayman
and Cayman Brac The latter are in
latitude 10 degrees north, off the south
coast of Cuba and between that island
and Jamaica, being part of the British
West Indies.
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JURY CONV|CTS
| CALEB POWERS
Guilty of Completely in the Murder
of Gov. Goebel, of Kentucky.
HE Is GIVEN DEATH PENALTY
Result of His Third Trial-Had Twice
Previously Been Sentenced to
imprisonment for Life for
Same Cause.

Georgetown, KY, Aug. 31.-The third
trial of ex-Secretary of State Caleb Pow
ers for completely in the murder of Gov.
William Goebel, in January, 1900,
closed shortly before noon Sat-
urday, with the extreme penalty
of hanging for the distinguished
prisoner, who had been in the peniten-
tiary for three years on life sentence.
The verdict of the jury, Guilty, and the
punishment of death, was reported into
court at 11:20 o'clock. Several hundred
people crowded the courtroom when the
verdict was read, and the most intense
silence prevailed. The jury was polled,
and each man declared the verdict of
guilt to be his finding. Powers sat
unmoved, while his attorneys asked for
time to make motion for a new trial.
Arthur Goebel broke down from the
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FOUND GUILTY.
SIX Men Are Convicted of RiOting at
DanvilIe, IlI.-TyvO Are
Acquitted.

Danville, ILL.,, Aug 31.-Six men
were found guilty of taking part in the
race riots the night of July rs. They
are Winfield Baker, John Walton,
Adam hurry, Isaac Slade, John Rob-
ertson and Thomas Bell William
Redwine and Clay Biddle, who were
also indicted, were found not guilty.
The sentence calls for fine and impris-
onment. The evidence conclusively
proved to the minds of the jury that
the six men were concerned in the at
tack on the jail when the mob at
tempted to lynch Henry Wilson, A
negro. Sheriff Whitlock and his
deputies who defended the Jail, identi-
fed the men.
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WILL CONTINUE AS AGENT.
Sam Parks, Convicted Union Repre-
sentative, to Act While
in Jail.

New York, Aug. 81. = At a meeting
of the United Housesmiths' and
Bridgemen's union plans have been
adopted which will enable Sam Parks
to continue, from his place of confine-
ment in Sing Sing prison, his work as
business agent of the union, and par
ticularly the resistance to signing the
employers arbitration agreement
The union voted confidence in Parks
and decided to continue his salary OF
$4S a week regardless of his incarcer-
alton for extortion of money from en-
ployers.
The Sing Sing prison physician who
has just examined Parks says he is
suffering from tuberculosis and cannot
live more than one year.
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MESS ROOM GOSSIP.

France spends 35 per cent. of ner re-
sources on military preparations.
John Waterman, of Ithaca, Mich, is
proud of the fact that five generations
of the Waterman family have fought for
their country in five different wars.
Waterman's great-grandfathe served in
the war Of the revolution, his grand
father in the war of 1872, his father
fought in Mexico, he himself took hand
in the civil war and his son Lewis is
just completing 2 three years enlist
ment. most of which has been spent in
the Philippines.
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London, Aug. 31.-Secretary of War
Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of State John
w. Foster, Hannis Taylor and Judge
John M. Dickinson arrived at Liver
pool on the Celtic Sunday for the
meetings of the Alaskan boundary
commission, which will open in Lon
lon September 3. They were received
It Liverpool by Mr.. Petherick, assist
ant United States dispatch agent, on
behalf of the American embassy. The
party came directly to London.
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Three Drowned.

ST. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 31.-Three peo-
pie were drowned at White Bear lake
Sunday night by the overturning of a
rowboat The dead are: Wilbur Carl
son and wife and Seth Johnson, all of
st. Paul. The party had been spend
ing the day at the lake and early in
the evening entered rowboat A
short distance from the dock they be-
gan cutting up and attempted to knock
off each others hats. In the mix-up
the boat was overturned and all of the
party were drowned before aid could
reach them.
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WISE AND OTHERWISE.

Truth lies at the bottom of well. No
body catches fish there.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
The trouble with wisdom Is
that it is easier to get in than to take
out.-Ram's Horn.
1t has been said that number OF So
ciety men never pay anything but COM
pIiments. Chicago Daily News.
Tell man he has cute children and he
Immediately tells you about some OF the
smart things they have done, and you
wish you had kept still. Washington
(Ia.l Democrat.
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TAKES UP NEW DUTIES.
Gen. oliver, of New York, succeeds
Sanger as Assistant Secre-
tary of War.

Washington, Aug 31.-Gen. Robert
Shaw oliver, of New York, the new
assistant secretary of var, Saturday en-
tered upon the duties of his Office. He
arrived at the department arly, and at
nine o'clock the officers on duty in the
war department and the clerks and en-
ployes of his office called upon the new
assistant secretary and paid their re-
spects Mr.. Sanger, the retiring as
sistant secretary, assisted in the cere-
mony and took occasion to bid the Off
GERS and EMPLOYEES farewell.
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The city of Oshkosh, Wis, celebrat-
ed the semi-centennial anniversary OF
it's incorporation.
Populists of Iowa held their state
convention at Des Moines A full ticket,
headed by L. H. Weller, of Nashua, for
governor, was nominated. The Omaha
platform was Endorsed.
The United States vice consul at Bel
rut, Syria, has been assassinated, and
Rear Admiral Cotton is ordered by Pres
ident Roosevelt to sail for that port i'm
mediately with two cruisers and gum
boat Quick reparation is to be demand
ed from Turkey.
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The Boston Herald makes an inter-
esting summary of the material prog
ress of the negro in the period since
slavery was abolished. Forty years ago
the negro had not foot of land nor a
roof over his head. Now there are $780,
900 farms owned by negroes valued at
$3.50, 900: 10000 homes outside the
farm ownership valued at s265, 900, 900,
and personal property valued at $685.
100000. So, starting from nothing, here
is an accumulation of nearly $500, 000,-
O0O
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decided to postpone the race for the

decided to postpone the race for the
day.
The committee of the New York
Yacht club named to-day as the day
for the next race. 1t was also de-
cided to hold the races every day
thereafter until the international con-
test is decided.
London, Aug. 31.-A cable dispatch
was sent to Sir Thomas Upton Sat
urday offering to guarantee the ex-
penses if he will arrange for a series
of five races between the Reliance and
the Shamrock III. with heir crews ex-
changed.
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What place Lord Salisbury will hold
in history as compared with the other
British statesmen of the nineteenth
century time alone will tell, but that he
will be accounted among the great prime
ministers is not to be doubted. For
in British diplomatic and governmental
affairs, and for much of that time his
was a figure of commanding eminence.
Neither Pitt, Canning, Palmerston,
Disrael, nor Gladstone had a more
marked personality, and the era of his
political activity spans the most impor-
tsnt eroch in modern times.
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steamer Burned.

Detroit, Aug. 31.-The passenger
steamer Pittsburg, running between
Cleveland and Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
and owned by the Georgian Bay
Transportation company, of which w.
J. Brown, of this city, is manager,
burned to the waters edge at her dock
in Sandwich, Ont, early Sunday. The
crew escaped uninjured. Loss. $50. 900;
partially insured.
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Chicago, Aug. 31.-Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M Shaw held con-
ference in Chicago Sunday with a
committee of officers and directors of
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
company and perfected arrangements
for his inspection of the worlds fair
grounds at st. Louis on Tuesday next.