The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1903-04-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Fer &c Week EsAiag Aprlt 10.
The Erie, Oswego and Champlain
canals will be opened for navigation ON
May 2.
Ex-Congressman Benoni F. Butler.
aged ~ years. died suddenly at Boon.
vile. Ind.
The Ohio democratic state conven.
ton will be held at Columbus August
IS and 90.
j. Pierpont Morgan celebrated his
sixty-sixth birthday at his home in
New York. g
.Gunners Of the battleship Alabama
are the champion marksmen 81 tho
Americans navy 90
Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, the puei.
lists wife, died. at Bensonharst, N.
Y, of pneumonia.
The Wabash river levee broke near
Clinton, Ind. and $50, 900 acres of farm
land are under water.
William Dudley and the three chill
.dren of Ora Eddington were drowned
in food at Clinton, Ind.
Weekly trade reviews say business
has been retarded by cold, wet
weather of last few days.
Former Congressman A. s. Mcclure
died suddenly from heart disease at
Wooster, o., aged "a years.
Henry E. Youtsey. in testimony al.
Frankfort, Ky, declared Gov. Goebel
twas murdered by james Howard
At the national Irish convention in
Dublin the British ministry's Irish
land bill was Endorsed in principle. :.
The boiler of mill at Ruby, o., ex-
ploded, killing Charles Bevans, Richard
Houck, Rufus Houck, and two boys. !.
Vandals invaded the cemetery at
Mishawaka, Ind, and destroyed every
| monument and tombstone in the place.
Harry Kline assaulted May Jack
son and then killed her at Fort
Wayne, Ind, and then took his own
life.
A crop .review shows that April
weather thus far has been ideal for
growth, but unfavorable to farm
work.
il. Davis. who founded the Manhat.
tan (Kan.) Mercury in 1884, died on a
train while returning home from New
Orleans.
Brig. Gen. Frank X. Baldwin ha,
taken charge of the department of the
Colorado, succeeding Gen. Frederick
Funston.
| (. Cox James Powell, u. S. A., veteran
Of the; Mexican and civil wars, died at
his home in Peoria, H., after an illness
of 20 years.
President Roosevelt during his stay
in Springfield, ILL.,, June will dedicate
the new state armory, opposite the
state house.
Capt. Horace Hollingshead, one Of
the best-known pilots on the Missis.
sippi in his day, was drowned near
Lansing. Ia.
The Peoples Bank and Trust COM
pany, of Fort Wayne, Ala, having
branches at Attala and Collinsville.
has suspended.
The house in Washington given to
Gen. Phil Sheridan has been sold by
Mrs. Sheridan, who ia said to have
needed the money.
Thomas Waterman Wood, famous
portrait artist, died in New York of
heart disease. He was born at Mont
pelier, VT, in 1923.
During a severe northeast gale tho
scow Hughes capsized in the Delaware
river of Marcus Hook, Pa, and four
men were drowned.
Charles Barron, chief engineer of tho
Graham e. Morton line Of Chicago,
shas resigned after GO years Of service
on the great lakes.
A commission. to kill Gen. Otis, writ
ten by Aguinaldo, was discovered
among papers in Washington taken
from the Filipino insurgent govern
ment.
Gen. Baden-Powell, of the British
army, who is touring American, CALI
ed on Secretary Root at Washington,
and inspected American cavalry meth.
DDS and tactics.
Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, has or.
dered the Hammond police to stop
pool selling ut the Lakeside race
track ut Roby, which means the clos
ing of the track.
The steamship Minnesota, tho
largest cargo and passenger boat yet
built, was launched at New London,
Conn. The vessel is 63O feet long and
contains IL. 600 tons of steel Dlates. +,