The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-04-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Fer the Week Fading March n.
The straits of Mackinac are now
open for navigation.
Will Dorsey (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham. Ala, for highway
robbery.
The supreme court of Ohio has de.
clared constitutional the state local OPP.
ton statute.
The Missouri legislature before ad.
journing made appropriations amount.
ing to $685. 22.
The weekly trade reviews report
business accelerated by the early
opening of spring.
The United States armored cruiser
West Virginia will be launched at
Newport News April 1s.
The German empress was thrown
from her horse near Berlin and her
right arm was fractured.
Frank NJ. Steinhart, of Illinois, will
succeed William a. Rublee, of Wiscon.
sin, as consul general at Havana.
Macabebe scouts defeated q San
Miguel force after q brisk battle.
The enemy leftt45 dead ON the field.
Walter Chism. Luther Owen and Jen,
ME George were drowned near Caruth-
ersville, Mo-, by the upsetting of q ca.
noe.
John v. Connolly, a noted shorseman,
was thrown to the street by the horse
he was riding in Madison, Ind, and
killed..
The Carthusian monks, the richest
religious order in France, have been re.
fused permission to remain in the re.
public.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children will
spend the time during the presidents
western tour at Sycamore Hill, Oys-
ter Bay.
The National Council of Women, in
session at New Orleans. elected>Mrs
Mary Wood Swift, of San Francisco
president.
While insane Mrs. Peter Burke killed
her four children at Fiskdale, Mass,
with an AK. cut her own throat and set
fire to the house.
President Roosevelt will start April
on his tour of the west. He will
travel $4,000. miles, visiting 90 states
and two territories.
Fire destroyed the plants of the
American Cycle company and the In.
dia Rubber company at Akron, o., the
1occ 1,o;ro eOsN mn
Michigan railroads have begun suit
in the federal court to restrain the
state from collecting taxes on the
ad valorem system.
During the first 25 days of March
49,162 immigrants arrived in New
York, being 1000 more than during
the same period last year.
A new counterfeit two-dollar silver
certificate, series 1899, check ette,
&C." Lyons, register; Roberts. treas.
urer, has been discovered.
William Nichol. James McLellen,
Hugh McCallum and H. Boulton were
drowned in Bass lake, near Owen
sound, Ontario. while fishing.
The Lowell (Mass.) Textile council
voted to strike because ten per cent
wage increase is refused. Seven plant,
and $4,000 employees are involved.
William B. Byers, Colorado pionee,
and founder of the Rocky Mountain
News, the first daily newspaper pub
lished in Denver, died in that city, aged
" years.
Seven packing concerns purchased
last summer by ADMINISTRATIONS
interests have been merged in the Ma
tional Packing company, with Sis, 0oO,
600 capital.
At the annual meeting of the trus
tees of the Drake university in De.
Moines, Ia, ex-Gov. N. NJ. Drake, the
founder, announced donations aggre
eating $150,OO0.
The Mills & Knight company, Of
Boston. one of the oldest printing
and book houses in New England, has
assigned. Liabilities, $91,279; assets
nominally about the same.
At the national convention in New
Orleans of the American Women's
Suffrage association Susan b. Anthony
was elected honorary president and
Carrie c. Gait, of New York, was elect
ed president.
The exchanges at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 9th
aggregated $4,000, 31s,131. The de-
crease compared with the CORE.
spending week of last year was 80.
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