The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-12-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.



For ths Week Ending Dec. II.
Berlin has passed the 2, 1000 600 mark In
the population Of the city proper.
The Mississippi river is frozen over.
end navigation Is closed at La Crosse.
Wis.
A treaty of arbitration between the
United States and Italy has been
signed.
Will Jones, colored, was hanged 1T
Helena, Ark, for the murder of A. w.
Robertson.
The body OF the late President Kru-
ger was inferred with impressive cere-
monies at Pretoria.
James Connors. the murderer of Dep
uty Sheriff Sweet. Of Blackfoot, was ex-
ecuted at Boise, Idaho.
A lone highwayman held up the
bank Of Chisholm. Mimi, during busi-
ness hours, and secured $4,000.
The government crop report shows
that less winter wheat and rye have been
sown than in 1903, but an increased yield
is predicted.
Joseph Ryant and Paul Wienewsky,
fishermen. were drowned in Grand Tray
erse bay. The two men had gone out
10 fish in heavy fog.
Firein Goshen. Ind. destroyed Hawks
hardware store, Hawks Electric COM
pany, Collins saloon and the Globc
Milling company. The loss may bs
100000.
Acting presumably for the bondhold-
ers. Henry Jayne purchased the Musca-
tine North & South railroad at receiy-
ers sale at Muscatine la. The price paid
was 100000.
Disease of the spine. attributed to an
injury received in football game, has
caused the death at Lakewood, N. j.. of
Augustus F. Holly. Jr, a former member
of the Princeton team.
| Reports received from the Humble Oil
field, in Texas. state that $4,000 dam
age has been done by blow-outs or
fissure openings in the ground and emit
ting dense volumes CT gas.
A Pennsylvania freight train crashed
through bridge over Martindale's
creek. at East German, Ind The con-
ductor was killed and brakeman IA
tally injured.
Fire at Hartford, VT. destroyed the
Hartford chair works. C. l.. Bugbee's
carriage factory and warehouse and
several small wooden buildings. The
total loss Is placed at $4,000.
Robert N. Ford, whose trial for embez-
element has been on at Warren, O., was
found guilty. Ford was engaged in the
banking business with his brother at
Burton, O., the bank going into receive
ership.
Philip Weinseimer. former president
of the New York Building Trades alli-
ance, who has been in the Tombs since
October Is last, under sentence to Sing
Sing for extortion, was released in $1O,-
900 cash bail.
BY direction of the police of Chicago.
where he is wanted upon a charge Of
having embezzled $4,000 from the
Stratford Hotel company last October.
Alfred G. Lewis. of that city. was ar
rested in New York.
Mr.. Davis, the American consul at
Alexandria,. who recently got into
trouble with the Turkish authorities
because he lowered the flag from the
consulate during celebration in hon.
or of the sultan's birthday, will resign.
A fast mail train on the Chicago, Burl-
ington & Quincy railway was wrecked
near Bristol, III. One person was killed
outright, two fatally injured, and num-
Der of mail clerks bruised. The wreck
was caused by the spreading of the
rails.
The engine Of a Wisconsin Central
train became unmanageable at Chippe-
wa Falls, Wis. and George Rosine. the
fireman. and Walter Mohr. the brake
man. jumped from the cab. Rosine
was instantly killed and Mohr was IA
tally injured.
The big ice gorge above Cincinnati
broke and great mass Of ice moved
down the river for several hours.
threatening damage to property, but A.
nally gorged again without having
caused much loss. *8
In a verdict rendered in Grand Rap
ids, Mich, by coroner's jury, called
to place the responsibility for the Pere
Marquette wreck of November is, at
Elmdale. in which Ave persons were
killed, the Pere Marquette Railroad
company was held responsible.