The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-14
THE NEWS IN gRlEF.



Fire nearly wiped out the town Of
Sulphur Springs, Ind.
Secretary Shaw and his family will
sail for Europe July I.
Railroad reports show liberal In
creases in the, earnings.
A peanut trust with a capital of
$4,OO0.OO0 has been formed.
Bakers in Chicago have decided to
raise the prices of their goods.
John Finney and John Sullens, prom
inent ranchers, were drowned at White
hall. Mont.
Henry Wilson and Bud Gray. negro
murderers, were hanged in the Jail
yard in st. Louis.
David Mills. justice of the supreme
court of Ontario, died suddenly in OF
tawa, aged Il years.
Presbyterian creed revision appears
to be near at hand. after prolonged
struggle.in that church.
Willis Sweet. of Occur d'Alene,
Idaho. has been appointed attorney
general of Porto Rico.
Federal Judge Munger. of Omaha. is
sued sweeping restraining order
against striking teamsters.
The St. Louis and San Francisco rail.
road system, with 1000 miles of track,
has been bought by the Rock Island.
An airship built for the Lebaudy
Brothers of Paris made highly sue
cessful trip in the suburbs of that
city.
Russia is said to have reoccupied
! New Chwang with large force and to
be. making warlike preparations in
Manchuria.
Father Walser. arrested for the al
legged murder of Agatha Reichlin ut
Lorain, o.. was set at liberty by the
coroner's jury.
Charles Matherson shot DeputySher-
if j. c. Baker. of Council Bluffs. Ia,
causing fatal wounds, when the officer
tried to arrest him.
The body of Charles G. Dennison. Of
Chicago. who disappeared from Buff
falo March 10. has been found in Nj
agara river near the falls.
The management of the I.acka-
wanna railroad has decided to super
sede the telegraph with the tele-
phone in operation of trains.
Joseph Lamp, pioneer and million
aire lumberman, fell and broke his
neck while experimenting repairs on
his residence at Princeton, Wis.
The army board which has been con.
sidering the merits of the new army
musket pronounce it the most power
full weapon of it's kind in the world.
S. +. Wilson, who shot Edward
Knight, of Lorimer. Ia, as the result
of political feud, has been found
guilty of murder in the second degree.
A grand total of $15.359, 995.5O was
appropriated for state expenditure
during the next two years by the
Forty-third general assembly of Illi-
nois.
Municipal lodging houses instead of
police stations as sleeping places for
tramps are favored by the national
charities and corrections conference
ut Atlanta, Ga.
The solution of the negro problem
was declared by Booker I. Washing
ton in an address in Chicago to depend
on honest cooperation between races
and north and south.
The New York court of appeals con-
firmed the verdict of 100000 dam
ages awarded Mrs. Jennie Legs for
the death of her husband in the Park
avenue tunnel collision.
i. George N. Benedict, well-lsnowh
court stenograPher of Chicago COM
mitted suicide ten hours after his
wife's death. He declared that he
could not live without her.
4 The Gallatin (Tenn.) rural post
Office delivery service has been
stopped by the postmaster general
because of threats made by masked
men against the negro carriers life.
Rev. james Stafford. pastor of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church ut
Hazlcton, Ind, has perfected stop
per to make bottles nonrefillable,
and has been offered $I.OO0,OOO for
his patent.
Andrew Carnegie. in an inaugural
address as president of the Iron and
Steel institute of Great Britain,
ascribes the success of his undertake
ings to the interlinking of the interests
of employed and employer.