The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-04-16
The NEWS IN BRIEF.


THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Fer tie Week nnAlsg Aorll n.
King Christian celebrated his
eighty fifth birthday in Copenhsge3.
Andrew Carnegie bassoRered Clsye.
land, O., $sSo,oO0 to erect seven bra1eh
libraries. 80 :.,.
The Washington Humane society Has
elected President Roosevelt an hoaor-
ary member.
j. w. Bryan. former lieutenanta row
ernor of Kentucky. died at his hos in
Covington, Ky. go
The Indiana supreme court holds
that the weekly wage statute IL sun-
constitutional.
Jane Lewis (colored) observed her
one hundred and fourteenth birth.
day at Hamilton, O.
After serving years imprisonlnent
on Blackwell's island, N. Y, JohnMpst.
an anarchist, has been released.
A.EW. Machen. chief Of the free deliv-
cry division Of the post Office depart
ment, is said to be slated Tor removal.
States Attorney General Webb says
the use Of the Bible in the .npblic
school in San Francisco is uncons ltu-
tional. sef.sSgyt -
Mrs. Yetta Brownstein. agedy 30
years, and her two children we're
burned to death in their home IN Phil
adelphia. -
The crown prince and princess Of
Saxony are said to have become recon-
ciled and will be remarked next week
at Salzbourg. 10
About a dozen strikers were shot
down by the troops in Rome during
riot which the men had started ips the
center of the city. s
Shamrock I. was defeated by Sham.
rock III. in three trial races over
windward and leeward seven miles
course ut Weymouth.
At Colorado Springs Carrie Nation
made a savage attack on President
Roosevelt at the Temple theater and
was Missed off the stage.
Reginald Vanderbilt, enraged At an
attempt to secure picture of his bride.
to-be and himself, horsewhipped Q
photographer at Newport. !.
g The governor of New Jersey, by proc
lamation, wiped out Of existence hum
dreds of concerns incorporated under
the easy laws of that state.
| The Northern Securities merger dee
:: cision expected by brokers' to stopcor.
poration promotions until q federal su.
Dreme court ruling is secured.
News from Venezuela indicates that
President Castro will sustain Minister
Bowen in his refusal to permit finan-
cial syndicates to settle the claims.
The fire loss of the United States
and Canada during the month of
March amounted to $o,o07, 900, against
$12,O54, 600 in the same month last
year.
Percy M. Clark, civil engineer of the
Chicago & Northwestern railway, was
killed in tornado north of Appleton,
Wis.,, and much property was de-
stroyed.
The United States government crop
report for April 1 places winter wheat
condition at 97.3; 570,OO0,O00 bushels
yield will result if continued on acre.
age planted.
Admiral Walkers estimate of tho
number of men to be employed on the
Panama canal when the United States
formally shall have entered upon tho
project is 10000.
Five men were injured, John Murray,
James Clayton and Jefferson Powers
perhaps fatally, by the falling ofa der
rick while at work on o worlds fair
building at st. Louis.
James J. Hill hopes the supreme
court will reverse the finding in the
merger case, and intimates that it ID
does not the railroad owners will find
some other method to meet the emer.
gency.
The T. C. Williams Tobacco company,
of Richmond, Va, has been sold for $4.-
OOO, 1000 to the British-American Tobac-
co company, combination of the Con.
tinental Tobacco company, the Ameri-
can Tobacco company and the Imperial
Tobacco company, the latter Of Eng.
land. T..
In fight at Jacksonville, o., Mrs.
Henry Skrotsky, Charles Riley, Charles
Cochrane and Seth Tinkham were ia.
tally shot and Henry Hoblett seriously
wounded. The fight grew out Of card
playing in saloon. u is feared Tink.
ham. Riley and Cochrane will be