The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-05-26
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
I For the Week Ending May 81.

The second anniversary of Cuba's I'M
dependence was observed in Havana.
Thieves entered the Roberts, Ill.,. post
ONCE, blew the safe and secured 275 in
stamps and cash.
The First district republican congress.
stonal convention renominated Con-
gresham H. A. Cooper.
Democrats of the Thirteenth Ohio
congressional district nominated for
congress- David r. Cruisinger.
Ernest b. Schneider, of GAINESVILLE.
was nominated for congress by the DEM
ocrats Of the Fifteenth Ohio district.
Boundless. the American Derby win
ner of 1893, fell and broke his neck on o
farm eight miles from Lexington, Ky.
The remains of Sir Henry NJ. Stan
ley were buried in the churchyard OF
the old Surrey village of Pirbright,
Eng.
At Giller, Peter Keyser and another
man named Jackson have been drowned
while fishing in Owens lake, near Boul-
der, Col.
Seven hundred carpenters of Des
Moines, Ia, shut out since May l, re-
turned to work, all differences having
been settled.
The Ohio republican state convention
at Columbus nominated state ticket.
as we'll rs delegates-at-large and cleo
tors-at-large.
"A general strike of the shingle weav-
ers has been declared and but few up
per Michigan and Wisconsin mills are
manufacturing.
The safe in the Office of the Billings
(Mont.) Brewing company was dyna-
mited and papers, money and diamonds
valued at $500 were taken.
The society of the Army of the Po-
tomac held its annual meeting at Hart
ford, Conn. Col. Horatio c. King, OF
New York, was elected president.
An eastbound Burlington train was
wrecked three miles east of Moore
croft. Wyo., by the spreading Of rails
and George Carpenter, of Cody, was
killed. ~ u &a. rs ( ts8 ss&
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, who is in st.
A|OuAo oIICAu1A6 IAC 6OOu AO1OS WI
vention, expressed the belief that the
Russo-Japanese war will eventually
involve other nations.
The nineteenth annual convention OF
the National Editorial association, COM
prising 500 delegates representing the
state press organizations Of the United
States, convened in st. Louis.
George Z. Foss, chairman Of the
house naval affairs committee. was
renominated for congress from the
Tenth Illinois district at the republic
can convention in Chicago:
John w. Lounsbury, vice president
of the First national bank, Of Por.
Chester, N. Y, and diFector in half
q dozen other financial institutions IN
Mestchesstteer county, is dead.
Thomas Murdoch, q retired building
contractor, who was postmaster OF
Rock Island, ILL.,, for ten years AMI
mayor of that city for two terms, died
in Kansas City, aged 80 years.
Z Hail that weighed more than three
ounces fell at Pueblo, COL, to depth OF
an inch. Much damage was done and
several persons were slightly injured.
Hundreds of windows were broken.
The president of the Carnegie hero
fund committee, Charles l.. Taylor, re-
ported that the committee has now GUS
tody Of the $4,000, 900 in bonds donated
by Mr.. Carnegie to endow the fund.
r.. Ortez,. the Porto Rican murderer
serving life sentence at Saltwater.
Mimi, prison, has been pardoned by
President Roosevelt and will be re-
leased June 8. No reason for the par
don is given. s
A monument to Gen. Rufus Putnam,
of the revolutionary war, was dedicat-
ed at Sutton, Mass, in connection with
the bi-centennial celebration of that
town. The memorial is located upon
the site;o Gen. Putnam's birthplace.
Nebraska republicans held their
state convention at. Lincoln, and nomi-
mated delegates-at-large and electors
at-large. Representative Elmer ]. Bur-
Ekett of the First congressional dis
ttrict, was named as the party's choice
Ifor United States senator
h The eleventh general assembly ct
1.-The Presbyterian church Of the United
Estates is in session at Buffalo, N. Y.
There are in all 10 commissioners en-
Ititled to seats in this general assembly.
representing 100000 persons, 1900
congregations and 1900 ministers.
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