The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-11-17


For the Week BINDING 1ev. n.
-Four tranpe were burned to deatA
In barn which was destroyed BY iire In
Altoona, Pa
Negotiations for . treaty of arbitra-
between the United States and Denmark
have been opened.
The October grand jury at St. Louis
returned II indictments against men
charged with registration frauds.
The Danish government will accept
President Roosevelt's invitation to par
tictpate in second peace conference.
James H. Foote and Alfred Gaines,
electricians. were drowned while duck
hunting at the St. Clair Flats. near De-
troit, Mich
The total strength of the United
States army at the close of the last fiscal
year was 1871 officers and 68,946 en-
listed men.
A grand jury in Chicago recon-
nlends that capital punishment, II
need be, be the punishment for armed
holG-up men. T
"BilP'' Hatfield shot and killed his
wife. Maud, and then blew out his
Trains at Meeteetsee. Wyo. Jealousy
was the cause.
frank Grosvenor, a nephew of Gen.
Charles H. Grosvenor, was instantly
Killed in a runaway accident in Rome
township, near Athens, o.
"a BY an explosion Friday In the mine
OF the Peabody Coal company, at Sher-
man, ILL.,. two miners, James MCGEE and
Anton Neruscha, were killed.
The emaciated body of Tom Wall, Of
Chicago, was found in the underbrush
near the town Of Alton. Ia The man
Lad literally starved to death.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland performed
ceremony of laying the corner stone Of
the new building of the Hebrew technical
school for girls, now being erected in New
York.
Mrs. Annette Moran, widow of the
late Edword Moran, a distinguished ma
rine painter, Is dead at her home in New
York from pneumonia. She was about
so years old.
Charles Hackensen. a window washer
In the Rookery building, Chicago.
slipped beneath guard rail on the ninth
floor Of the building, fell and was in.
stantly killed.
Former Congressman Augustus Bran.
degnee. ex-mayor and one of the leading
citizens of New London, Conn.,, is dead
at the age of rs. His son Is now q mem.
| Der of congress.
1t Is announced that Emperor William
has decided to hereafter use the pardon-
ing power literally in cases of lese
majestic. This Is radical departure
from the previous practice.
Ray Boron. who was arrested in Spo.
kane, Wash. and brought to Decatur, ILL.,.
charged with killing Richard l.. Roberts
In April last, was found guilty and SEN
fenced to 40 years in the peniten-
tiary.
Three persons lost their lives, 20 were
injured, nearly half q hundred were
overcome by smoke and an equal number
are temporarily homeless as a result of
q series of fires in various parts of Great
er New York.
Edward Howard, q pattern maker
living In Detroit, was shot and in.
stantly killed by his son Arthur, aged
Il years, while the elder man had his
wife and daughter pinned to the floor
by their Threats.
Mrs. Henry H. Donaldson, wife of the
head professor of neurology at the UNI
versity of Chicago, committed suicide
by hanging. 1t is supposed dependency
over her i'll health caused her to become
temporarily insane.
Terribly cut and crushed about tho
head. the dead body of Alma Steinway,
a telephone operator, aged 1S years, was
found In a vacant lot near the Spring
Grove cemetery at Winton Place. q
suburb of Cincinnati.
Elbert Kramer, 40 years of age, was
murdered and placed on the railroad
track near st. Charles, Ky. The suppo-
sition is that he was the victim of rob-
berry, as money and other articles be.
longing to him were missing.
Alexander Sutherland, said to have
been the last survivor of the famous
Balakalava "Six Hundred" is dead at his
home in Denver, COL, where he had re-
sided for 40 years. He was the trumpet
er who sounded the bugle call for the
memorable charge immortalized in verse
by Tennyson.