The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-12-17

THE. NEWS m RRlEE.
FER lEe week EAalas Dse. n.
Tho United States battleship lGai1G
left Colon for the United States to IN.
dergo repairs.
Two severe earthquake shocks were
felt ct Enumclaw, Wash, At the base
Of Mount Rainier.
Nine. Nordica has entered suit In the
New York courts for . divorce from her
husband. II. Doeme.
Rear Admiral Bancroft Oherardi Ire.
tlred) died at his residence In Stratford.
Conn. aged u. years.
Dr.. Edwin Holt Hughes has been in-
augurated president of De Paw uni
versity at Greencastle. Ind.
Buneau-varilla's name has been add.
ed to the diplomatic roll in Washing
ton - minister from Panama.
William Henry Welsh. once private
secretary to President James Buchanan,
died In New York. aged "a years.
Elections were held In 20 cities in
Massachusetts,. the Republicans elect
Ing IL mayors and Democrats.
The government of Sweden and Nor.
way has recognized the republic Of
Panama as m Independent state.
Rev. Seth K. Mitchell. an evangelist
Of national reputation, died at his home
In Dorchester, Mass, aged 70 years.
A schedule Of 145 games next season
was decided on by the National Base
ball league conference at New York
Fifty passengers ON the Greek steam
or Pyloros were drowned as the result
Of collision with the Asses at Ithaca.
The winter wheat area is estimated by
the governments report at 32,0O0,OOO
acres, decrease of six per cent. from
1902.
Two hundred Rhode Island clergymen
have begun crusade against divorce
and will refuse to remarry divorced per-
sons.
The Goulds have gained an entrance
to Cleveland for tho Wabash road.
using trackage rights over the new Erie
cutoff.
Mrs. Catherine I. Curtin. widow Of
Andrew G. Curtin. Pennsylvania war
governor. died in Bellefonte. Pa. aged
81 years.
Four hundred United States marines
and 300 bluejackets landed ut Guantana-
mo. Cuba, and installed the naval station
at that point.
Orders have been received at the
Brooklyn navy yard directing that the
battleship Indiana 60 out Of commits
sion for repairs.
Prof. ]. D. Robertson. In q lecture to
an Eclectic society in Chicago. declared
doctors will have nothing to do when
people stop bathing.
A committee of the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition company ut st. Louis
will ask congress for an additional APP
preparation Of $4,0o0.000.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight was convicted at
Cadillac, Mich. Of poisoning her
brother, his wife and their baby, and
was given life sentence.
A company Of marines from the Unit
ed States cruiser Dixie were landed at
Colon to give them relief from their long
confinement on the vessel.
Charles Waldegrave SANFORD, for
nearly 80 years bishop of Gibraltar and
founder Of the Gibraltar mission to sea-
men. is dead at Bishopburne.
Russia has sent eight warships to
Corea to back up her demand That
Yongampho be maintained as closed
port and threatens 10 march on Seoul.
Langley's air ship made complete
failure in Washington. the craft break
Ing In two ct the launching stage and
falling into the Potomac river with the
navigator.
The annual report Of the inspector for
Indian territory says that the I'VE civ
ilized tribes. in the territory number
$4,000 people. who hold over $4,000. 900
acres of land.
A cemetery at Victor, COL. known ~
the "nonunion graveyard" because it is
owned by firm opposed to labor
unions, was attacked with dynamite
and destroyed.
Miss Elizabeth Gillespie, Of Rising
Sun, Ind, died of shots fired through q
window of her home and her twin
brother was called before q grand jury
for examination.
War between the United States and
Germany over the latter's encroach-
ments in South Americas is reported to
have been predicted by Gen. Macarthur
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