The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-03-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Fer aAs week EsAlse March ~
Nathaniel Surdam died at his home
in Almena, Mich, sged 100 years.
The Missouri Legislature has passed
q bill making chicken stealing fell
ony.
Metal workers employed in ~ Of thsss
largest shops in Chicago have gone 49,
strike. -.
Secretary Shaw has decided to Co.
ploy no more women immigration n
spectors.
The Delaware house of represents
tives defeated local option bill for
the state. .,
Gen. James A. Dumont has ~
signed as chief of the steamboat In,
spectfon service.
Two men cracked the safe in the
State bank, of Kasota, Mimi, secured
$500 and escaped. -. s
Weekly trade reviews report .
promising outlook; for spring and
summer business.
Joseph H. Gibbs killed his wife and
himself at: st. Paris, o. Domestic,
trouble was the cause.
The death list of students at Corr
nell college at Ithaca, N. T., from
typhoid now numbers %.
President Roosevelt hopes to leave
Washington about the end Of tho
month for western tour.
The Kansas legislature adjourned
after having been in session ten days
over the constitutional limit. Il,
Gottlieb Niegenfried, who muir
dered his divorced wife and her
father, was hanged at Lincoln, Ncb..
Three men were killed and IL
severely injured by an explosion OF
fire, damp in a mine Mt Pontiac, Ill.
The launching Of the battleship
Colorado, building at the Cramps
yard, has been postponed until April
IS.
The Cuban senate has ratified tho
reciprocity treaty with the United
States, two-thirds voting in the affirm-
alive.
Robert G. Hedrick, commissioner
of Indian affairs under President
Lincoln. died in poverty in Indian
apolis. Il. es
Andrew C. Wheeler, better known
as "Nym Crinkle," a well-known news-
paper writer, died athis home ut Mon-
sey, N. Y.
In the so leading post Offices in tho
country the gross postal receipts for
February show q net increase of over
H. per cent.
Eight men were killed and large
number wounded, in fight between
the hands Of rival turpentine camps
near Orange Springs, Va.
Seven million dollars worth of art
objects, bought by ]. P. Morgan in
Europe, must pay 100000 duty II
brought to United States.
Eugene Marshall, negro student.
won in the debate at Ann Arbor to sc.
lect an orator to represent Michigan
university in the Northern league.
The interior department authorizes
the acquisition of property in Wyom-
ing, Montana, Colorado, Nevada and
Arizona for extensive irrigation
works.
j. P. Morgan is said to have bought
for the American Tobacco company
the entire Vuelta Abajo region Of
Cuba, the finest tobacco lands in ths
world. /,
Thomas Hardenburg died in Allan.
tic, Ia, aged 90 years. He has drawn
a war pension regularly since 1885,
and claims to be the oldest pensioneE
ON the roll. y
Frank C. Pingree, who was presi-
dent of the wrecked City savings
bank in Detroit, has filed o petition
in bankruptcy. His liabilities ara
1925, 900; assets, $124,00O.
A government report shows that
the amount of wheat remaining in
farmers hands March was 64,O0O,.
600 bushels, corn, 1850, O00, 900 bushels,
and oats 365,00O,000 bushels.
An alleged Philadelphia murder
mill where undesirable .relatives or
friends can be disposed Of at ncm-
ihal cost was unearthed by deteo.
tives. W.
Judge John F. Phillips. Of the Unit
ed States district court, granted an
Injunction against striking team
sters in Kansas City on the grounds
that they were violating interstate