The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-10-22
THE NEWS n 0RlEE.

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Fee the Week Esalsg ostsbep ~.
The United States supreme court has
convened for the October term.
John Alexander Dowie and his inyad-
Ing host from Zion City arrived In New
York.
The British bark Loeb Long vas
wrecked Oh Chatham island and "A lives
were lost
DR.. Francis Landley Patton has been
inaugurated president of Princeton
IN. ~ college.
Bob Ntzsimmons failed to knock out
Joe Grim in the scheduled six rounds
ct Philadelphia.
A crusade against gambling by clerks
and bookkeepers has been begun by Chi
cago business houses.
Henry L. Mitchell. governor Of
Florida from 1888 to 1897, died in
Tampa. aged 20 years.
A new record for 5H furlongs was
set at the Worth track in Chicago by
Golden Rule, In 1:O6 1-5.
J. w. Butman. retired capitalist.
dropped dead in Decatur. ILL.,, from heart
disease. He was 80 years old.
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, of New
York. has been reelected president of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee.
Complete UNOFFICIAL returns give
Hoffman, democratic candidate for
mayor Of indianapolis, q plurality Of
s3s.
The convention Of Indiana Baptist
churches at Bloomington passed resolu-
tons denouncing Senator Smoot, Of
Utah. SES
Dairymen and bakers of st. Louis are
forming combine with q capital stock
of 81. 500 900 to purchase the smaller con-
Germs.
The Panama canal route has not been
abandoned by President Roosevelt. who
believes Colombia will agree to new pro-
posals.
The fourth worlds Sunday school
convention will be held in the city of
Jerusalem, Palestine. April IS, 10 and
20, 1904.
Heads Of unions have been notified By
railroads that 100, 900 employees must be
laid OF IL demands for higher wages are
enforced.
During storm in lafayette, Ind.
lightning killed Mrs. James Van Meter
and five other persons were seriously
injured.
Despondent because of continued Ill
health. Bernard Schultz and his wife
committed suicide in Milwaukee by in.
haling gas.
The transport Sheridan arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with 600 men of
the First, Fifth and Sixth cavalry and
200 mariners.
The cost of living has increased Is
per cent. since 1898. according to sup
Elemental report of the United States
labor bureau.
Heads Of unions have been notified
by railroads that 100000 employees
must be laid OF II demands for higher
wages are enforced.
Word has been received 1t the white
house from Gov. Taft that he will be
ready to assume his new duties as secre-
tary Of war in January.
i Miss Annie Ball has the distinction Of
being the first woman in Chicago to
pass the examination for stationary en-
gineers and to get q license.
Marshall Field, the Chicago mer-
chant. says Chamberlain's tariff policy
will be adopted by England, thereby
inflicting serious blow on America.
johnson Chase Hull, the Oldest letter
carrier in the country, fell dead while
standing beside the cofhn containing the
body Of his brother in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Hetzlor summer resort hotel at
Cedar Lake, Ind, was burned and Will
liam Potter and wife perished in the
flames. The couple bad just been mar
ried.
The receipts at so of the largest post
Offices in the country during September
were ,422, gain of nearly nine
per cent. over the same month last
year.
Gen. Ian Hamilton, of the British
army, was presented to President
Roosevelt. and he accompanied tho
president and Mrs. Roosevelt on q
horseback ride.
The arbitration treaty between
Great Britain and France has been
signed in London by Foreign Secretary
Lansdowne and the French ambassa-
dor, M. Cambon.