The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-05-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For see week n.ai.~ NAV IA,

For see Week DaAiag May 10.
Mayor Low has stopped the preach
ing of Mormonism in the streets Of
New York city.
The Lebaudy airship made another
ascension from Paris, circling Nantes.
Rosny and Moisson.
Postmaster General Payne will es.
tablish no more rural free delivery
routes until July I.
Forest fires have done great damage
in the New York counties of Warren.
Essex and Hamilton.
Cars on a trolley line collided at In-
dianapolis and ten women were in
jured. three seriously.
Jacksonville, Fla, was flooded BY
heavy rains and property valued at
100000 was destroyed.
Gen. Shafter has been elected de-
partment commander of the G. A. r.
for California and Nevada.
Plans are being made to celebrate
the two hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary of New York city May &c.
Russia announces that all Manchuria
Is now open to foreign trade and pass
ports are no longer necessary.
Gen. Mabini, the former minister Of
foreign affairs of the Filipino govern
ment, died of cholera in Manila.
Ten Chicago laundries that tried to
resume work were besieged by strike
pickets and the workers assaulted,
Appropriations by the last session Of
congress totaled $753,05s,506. A total
OF 9,501 new Offices were created.
Statistics compiled by the board Of
health show that the population Of
New York city is nearly 1000, 900.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, of New York,
was robbed of jewels valued at $4,000
while en- route from Paris to Calais.
William NIcCarty, wife murderer,
who was to be hanged at Lexington,
KY, committed suicide by taking poi
son.
The diocese of Arkansas, Protest.
ant Episcopal church, voted against
the proposed change in the name of tho
church.
Weekly trade reviews declare tho
industrial situation exceptionally en-
couraging except for the army Of
strikers.
Gov. Mickey, of Nebraska, an
nounced that he had been offered 81 900
each for four positions under the state
government.
The 5000 employers of labor in Kan-
sas City, Mo-, have banded together to
fight the members of labor unions who
use the boycott.
Advices from Morocco say tho
American missionaries have practically
abandoned Mequinez, owing to the
critical situation.
A bill prohibiting Illinois circuit
judges from practicing law in state
courts or acting as legal counsel was
vetoed by Gov. Yates.
ID. NJ. Parry in an address before the
manufacturers at Buffalo says the
trend of industrial conditions is q
grave menace to the country.
The navy department suspended re-
cruiting indefinitely, owing to the
prevalence of contagious diseases at
stations and on receiving ships.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain. in
speech at Birmingham, warns
Great Britain that it must modify its
free trade ideas or lose its colonial
markets.
A memorial arch to the memory Of
10 missionaries of the American board
of foreign missions who suffered mar
tyrdom in China in 1900 was dedicated
at Oberlin, o.
It has been discovered that the in.
fernal machine intended to blow up the
steamer Umbria in New York was
made in Chicago by George Russell.
who is missing.
All Denver (Col.) labor unions, in-
Guiding 1880 members, have struck
because of the failure of the Citi-
zens' alliance and theirleaders to agree
over central arbitration board.
Steps towards building trades em-
ployers' association were taken at q
New York meeting. Paralysis of build
ing industry is declared to have been
brought about by irresponsible walk
ing delegates.
Moody Merrill, a former Boston
lawyer and now bank president in
New Mexico, who is under arrest at
New York for embezzlement ten
years ago, is declared to be serving
as scapegoat for relative.