The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-03-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FER the week E.a,.s March :.


Fer the Week Ending March 2.
The population of New York city =
now placed at 3.7ss,s03.
Ira D. sankey, evangelist and sing
er, has, it is said, become totally
blind.
Mrs. Josephine Quintal. aged 1os
years, died at her home in. Jackson
vile, Ill.
President Roosevelt has signed all
the appropriation bills passed by
congress.
John d. Rockefeller has given $780,
600 to negro college at MARSHALL
town, Tex.
The British army estimates for 1903
o. call for total expenditure of
$171, 225, 000., 4s
james Madison Bell, colored poet,
friend and associate of John Brown,
died in Chicago.
Local manifestations in behalf of
the reelection of President Diaz are to
be held all over Mexico. 1
The president has .renominated
William ID. Crum as collector of Gus
toms at Charleston, S. c.
William Ross was executed at Bot
tineeu, N. D., for the murder of Thorn
as Walsh on July $, 1902.
Weekly trade reviews report inn
proved conditions; due to increased
movement of freight and fuel.
Il Charles E. L. Henderson was hanged
1t Duluth, MINI, for the murder on
June 81 last of Ida Mccormick.
Andrew Carnegie has given Prince
ton university 100000 for the con-
struction Of a graduate school.
The United States transport Sheri-
dan arrived ut San Francisco from
Manila with nearly 1900 soldiers.
The Wisconsin legislatures proposal
for national conference on the negro
question is favored in the north.
Arthur P. German, of Maryland, has
been chosen by the democrats as their
leader in the United States senate.
The new United States monitor Ne
vada has been placed. in commission at
the navy yard in Portsmouth, N. H.
Secretary Hay and Sir Michael
Herbert have exchanged ratification
of the Alaskan boundary treaty.
q a national and international good
roads congress will be held, in st.
Louis from April 81 to May next
The world five-men bowling record
was broken in Chicago by the Empires,
of Chicago, the new record being 1852
Earl Shaw and Lee Shellenberge1
were killed ut the Warren mine, near
Joplin, Mo-, by bowlder weighing q
ton. 8S
A general strike against the Ameri
can Bridge company has been ordered
by the structural iron workers in Phil.
adelphia. ., e es.sn -. -. .e..a / ~.
Sir Thomas Upton announced, after
inspecting Shamrock III. at Glasgow.
that the launching would take place
March II. ~ s8Bss
Government receipts in February
were s43,o2s,17o and Expenditures s37,
$50, 749, leaving surplus for the month
Of $5,277, 43O.
Admiral Crowninshield, displeaset
with his flagship, asked to be PLACED
on the retired list, and his reques,
was granted.
The Arkansas legislatur has passeG
bill requiring street car companies
to operate separate cars for white ant
kcolored people, ID
The fire loss in the United State.
and Canada in February was $4,000,
600, against s21o1o, 600 III the sam,
month in 1902 ~ Ri #s
Josiah Muir, the inventor of the pa
per car wheels now in use on rail
roads, died at Morristowr, n. j., a,
the age of slyears. ad.i'
The Indiana legislature has passed
a bill appropriating $15oeoo for Til
Indiana exhibit and building at tn
st. Louis exposition. ' - .
James J. Corbett and James J., JET
fries have agreed to fight in California
in July or August for the heavyweight
championship of the world.
Col. Yorke, of the London board O
trade, after inspecting American rail
ways, reports that in many eesentia
respects they are superior to the Brit
ish. ~ - ss'5s' -
The secret Of restoring. lost eyesigh'
is claimed 10 have been discovered BY
Prof. Peter Stems, of Paris. An ap
| paratus supplies the place Of the eye
while; the function of seeing is per
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