The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-12-24
the NEWS IN BRIEF.

Doe the week 600eog dee. h
One hundred persons were made
homeless by IRE at Mfllvale. Pa.
The Great Lakes vessel season now
closed was the most prosperous since
1893.
The sum of $27.O0O was netted bysa
bal poudre for st. Luke's hospital annex
in Chicago.
Joseph Lauder celebrated his one
hundredth birthday at his home in
Dubuque. Ia.
By the sinking of the tugboat Mattio
NJ. at Lake Concordia, Miss. six men
were drowned. @
John Stringer (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, for the murder OF
William O'Neal.
Three children of August Batteen, a
farmer of Allamakee county, Ia, were
burned to death.
Five thousand Crane employees in
Chicago will receive $25O,OOO profits as
a Christmas gift.
Martin Olson, John Rusk and Lars
Anderson were suffocated in fire at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
M. Contesse, member of the budes-
rath from Neuchatel, has been elected
president of Switzerland.
The breaking of dam flooded large
portion of the city of Paterson, N. j.,
causing immense damage.
The board of lady managers of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition decided
to ask congress for 100000.
The Federal National bank, which was
closed by the stock panic early in Oc-
tober, reopened in Pittsburg.
Twenty-Five citizens have been
chosen by Judge Tuthill to plan cru
SADIE aginst crime in Chicago
Mr.. j. Msssersmith, her daughter.
and Frank Smith, q clerk, were burned
to death in a fire at Braidwood, Ill.
The transport. Sherman arrived in
San Francisco from Manila, bringing
the men of the Thirtieth infantry.
Mrs. Sarah Caswell Angel, wife of
the president of the University of Mich
igan, died at Ann Arbor of pneumonia.
Viola Sands Hazard. thought to be the
Oldest woman in Rhode Island, died at
her home at Wakefield, aged los years.
A New York court has been asked
to decree that Charles NJ. Schwab owes
$lS,O00.O00 to the shipbuilding trust.
Alexander Mcdonald, who was elected
to the United States senate from Arkan-
:as in 1869, died at Norwood Park, N. ].
William l. Buchanan. of Buffalo, N.
Y, the first United States minister to
the republic of Panama, sailed for Pan
ANA.
One brakeman was burned to death
and two fatally hurt in collision be-
tween freight trains near Pawnee.
Kan.
A meeting of scientists in New York
adopted resolutions spreading the war
on mosquitoes to every state in the
union.
The remains of Herbert Spencer were
cremated at Hampstsad, England, q
few invited guests attending the clos
ing rites.
Gen. Benjamin ViIjoen. Boer com.
mander, has arrived to arrange for an
exhibition of Boer life at the St. Louis
exposition.
Mrs. Harry L. Smith and her two
young children were burned to death by
fire which destroyed their home at
Oaklane, Pa.
Judge Jonas Hutchinson, Of the Cook
county superior court, died suddenly at
his home in Chicago of heart failure,
aged 63 years.
Benjamin Benedict, his wife and their
three-year-old daughter were burned to
Heath in a fire which destroyed their
home at Ashland, Ky.
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie are said to have reached an agree
ment to GUST j. Pierpont Morgan and his
friends from the steel trust.
News of the passage by the United
States senate of the bill for reciprocity
between the United States and Cuba
caused rejoicing in Havana.
The livery and undertaking business
in Chicago is tied up by strike Of driv-
ers, and funeral professions will have to
be done away with until the difficulty
is settled.
The full report Of Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow in the
post Office scandal has been made pub
lie in Washington. 1t charges many