The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-12-29
THE NEWS m GRIEF.


Fer the Week Ending DEC. q.
Eight business houses 1t Mitchell.
Vile. . suburb Of Des Noines, L.. burned.
entailing less Of $4,000.
Seth Stoddard Wood. well known a.
q writer on social economies. dropped
dead on the street At Passaic, N. ].
There were insight earthquakes, fol-
lowed by one strong shock, at David,
Panama. Numerous houses were dam
aged.
Two children. eight and ten years of
age. were burned to death in q IRE which
destroyed the home Of Joe Covey. At At
lanta. Wis.
Mrs. William GLADDEN. shot and killed
her husband at their home at Requa
sulch. south of Cripple Creek, Col. She
says that he abused and beat her.
Nathan Edward Spencer was found
guilty at Nashville, o., of the murder Of
William G. Tanner on August 10. The
motive for the crime was robbery.
The John Thompson & Son agricul-
tural machine works and gasoline en-
CINE factory. at Beloit, Wis, was de-
stroyed by fire. causing loss of 500. 900.
Jacob Kuhn, a travelling man. fell
from fourth story window in Evans
vile, Ind, and was instantly killed. 1t
is believed he was the victim of an acci-
dent. =;
Fire in Columbus, o., destroyed prop
erty and stocks valued at between $780,
600 and 100000. in the center of the
business district. Five f1remen were
injured.
The Metropolitan club house, the
home of the most fashionable club in
Washington. was Quilted by fire. involve
ing an estimated loss of from $6O,OOO
to 100000.
President Roosevelt accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an address at the Lin
coin day dinner to be given by the Re-
publican club, of New York. on the 18th
of next February.
The Dedham savings bank. of Dedham,
Ia, has been closed and the president.
]. G. Cation. who left ostensibly for
funds, cannot be found. He is said to be
short about $4,000.
Travelling statesmen have no right to
collect funds Of companies by which they
are employed, and spend the same for
their expenses. This rule is laid down
by the Illinois supreme court.
After lingering illness Of three years,
due to infirmities of old age. Rt. Rev.
Richard Phelan. bishop of Pittsburg dio-
cese, Of the Roman Catholic church,
died at Pittsburg. Pa, aged Is.
o. G. Lille, cashier Of the closed First
national bank of Conneaut, o., and pres
tdent and owner Of the Marine savings
bank, at Conneaut Harbor. which is also
closed. has made an assignment.
The factory Of the Passumpsic Fiber
company and the flour mill of f. T. & H.
K. Ide & Co.. in the village Of Passump-
sic. VT, were destroyed by fire, involving
financial loss estimated at $4,000.
Prof. ]. L. Budd, for % years at the
head Of the horticultural department at
Iowa state agricultural college, and ono
of the most widely known pomologists
in the world, died at San Antonio, Tex.
Edward T. Potter, q well-known archi-
tect, son of the late Bishop Alonzo Pot
ter. Of Pennsylvania. and brother Of
Bishop Henry G. Potter. is dead at his
home In New York. He was % years
old.
Admiral Sir Francis Ommanney, tho
father of the British navy" died at
Portsmouth, Eng. He was the last sur.
vivor Of the battle of Navarino, fought
in 1927, which resulted in the destruction
Of the Turkish fleet.
The conviction of State Senator Will
liam p. Sullivan, for soliciting bride,
was affirmed by the Kansas City court
Of appeals. In the Cole county (Mo.)
court Sullivan was convicted. In August,
1903, and fined 800, 900.
Alderman Hubert w. Butler was hailed
before the bar of the city council Of Chi
cago and publicly censured as SLAM
derer by his colleagues for his re-
cent reckless charges rejecting on the
integrity Of the aldermen.
The police and Cossacks dispersed q
demonstration Of 5000 students who had
assembled in the principal streets of
Moscow and in front of the governors
palace. Three hundred of the students
were arrested and 60 were injured.
The Wade Park bank, Cleveland, o., of
which Irl Reynolds is secretary and
treasurer, together with two branches,
has been taken over by the Cleveland
trust company. which will conduct the
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