The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-03-24
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March 10.

ia Two earthquake shocks weresfelt at
Seattle. Wash.
The Colombian legation in Washing
ton has been closed.
Mrs. Adam Carte died at Deckerville,
Mich, aged III years.
w. T. Nichols has been appointed by
the president to be secretary of Ari-
IONA.
Jesse Spalding, pioneer lumber man
and banker, died in Chicago, aged 67
years.
The Kentucky republican state con-
vention will be held at Louisville
May 8.
The duke of Cambridge, cousin OF
Queen Victoria, died in London, aged
IS years.
The transport Thomas, from Manila,
arrived in San Francisco with the
Eleventh infantry.
Mrs. Nancy Tigue celebrated her
one hundred and fifth birthday at her
home in Lafayette, Ind.
The United States now leads all the
countries of the world in the value of its
exports of domestic produce.
Andrew Carnegie has duplicated the
late Senator Hanna's gift of $4,000 to
Kenyon college at Gambler, o.
Minnesota republicans elected dele
gates to the national convention in
structed for President Roosevelt.
Gen. Joseph Warren Keiffer has been
nominated for congress in the Seventh
Ohio district by the republicans
Indiana republicans have renominated
Hemenway in the First district and
Brick in the Thirteenth for congress.
Commander William E. Sewell, late
governor of the island of Guam. died
at the hospital on Mare Island. Cal.
The republicans of the Eleventh dis
trict of Georgia have nominated Rev.
A. B. Finley, Of Douglas, for congress.
The heaviest hailstorm on record,
followed by terrific rain, did damage in
New Orleans to the extent of $500, 900.
Nebraska democrats will hold their
state convention at Omaha June ! to
select delegates to the national conven-
ton. -.
Paderewsli, the noted pianist, was
expelled from Russia on "a hours no.
tice because of a remark made TO the
car. +t (.
Mrs. Miles, wife of Lieut.. Gen. Nell
son A. Miles. retired. is said to be-
hopelessly i'll at their home in Wash
ington.
For the second time in two years
the building industry in Sacramento,
CAL, has been suspended because Of
strikes. ~ . 20. -
James Mcdonald pleaded not guilty
to the murder Of Sarah Schafer at Bed
ford. Ind, and his trial was set for
May 16.
Gen. H. HI. Thomas, aged 70, former
government appraiser, dropped dead
in a lawyers Office in Chicago, whils
seeking pension.
J. Fred Rhodes editor of the Eldora-
do News, has been nominated for con-
gress by the republicans of the Sixth
Missouri district.
Financial powers in New York are
unanimous in accepting the supreme
court decision in the Northern Sc
curities case as final.
Mrs. Hetty Green, Americas richest
woman, has joined the millionaire col
ony in New York city by purchasing a
home on upper Fifth avenue.
The insurance companies have
closed 600 of the 1900 losses by the
Baltimore fire. It will take a month
longer to complete the work.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the National Civic Federation
in New York Andrew Carnegie was
elected to place on the committee
David Carroll, aged 80 years, shot
and killed Anna Maxwell, 16-year-old
girl, because she would not marry him,
and then killed himself at Nemaha,
Neb.
The appellate court at Springfield, ILL.,,
holds that saloonkeepers are liable for
the death of their patrons who are
killed while under the influence Of
liquor.
Maj. William H. Bean. chief COM
missary of the department Of the Mis-
sissippi at Omaha, after requesting his
wife to play a lively air on the piano.
shot himself dead