The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-03-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March IL.

Senior Alvarez. vice president of Uru--
quay. is dead.
Mrs. Eliza Montgomery, who was 100
years old, died at her home in Chi
cago.
Congressman Victor Murdock OF
Wichita. Kan, has bsen renominated by
the republicans.
Sale of season tickets to the exposition
has commenced at st. Louis, the price Of
the ticket being $25.
Archbishop Machray. primate of all
Canada, died at Winnipeg of pneu-
monia, aged Is years
Gen. Henry Boynton. who won dis
tinction in the civil war, died at Angus
ia. Me-. aged % years.
One OF the worst dust storms in years
swept over the central part of Kansas,
greatly damaging the wheat
Jacob Romeis. who served the Tenth
Ohio district in congress from 1884 to
1889. died at his home in Toledo.
A mob seeking to break into the jail
at Murphysboro. ILL.,. to lynch negro
prisoner. was foiled by the sheriff
Mrs. Rebecca Mayo. aged 80, the last
but one surviving widow of revolu-
tionary war soldier, died at Newbern,
Va.
Congressman Phillip P. Campbell. OF
Pittsburg. Kan. has been renominated
by the republicans of the Third dis
trict.
The worst rain and wind storm in 1;
years swept over San Francisco and
along the Pacific coast, doing great
damage.
John Bright, George Jackson and Will
liam Robinson. of Lincoln ILL.,, have been
disfranchised for ten years for bribery
in elections.
The Maryland legislature has passed
bill for a constitutional amendment
designated to eliminate the negro vote
in the state.
Russia has warned China that the
presence Of Chinese troops north of
the great wall will be held q breach
of neutrality.
The Missouri Pacific railroad now con-
trolls the Wabash. according to the an
nual statement of the former line to the
stockholders.
Rhode Island democrats named dele
gates to the national convention
pledged to vote for William r. Hearst
for president.
Robert MacMahon. Respondent over
his fall from millionaire to- strand
ed book agent. committed suicide at
Waterloo, la.
The Kansas City court of appeals has
decided that grain speculative trading
on the board of trade is gambling and
therefore illegal.
The republican territorial conven-
ton at Tucson. Ariz.. elected delegates
to the Chicago convention and instruct
ed for Roosevelt.
The president has directed the trans
fer Of John Barrett, the president min
lister to the Argentine republic, to be
minister to Panama.
Negro bishops and clergymen favor
suggestion that the United States ac-
quire San Domingo as a colony and
refuge for the blacks.
The will of Sarah Schermerhorn. OF
New York. bequeaths 5000 900 to charity.
of which $4,000 goes to the consump-
tives' home in Denver.
James Il. Watson. of Rushville, Ind.
has been renominated for congress-
from the Sixth district by the republic.
cans for the fourth time.
James II. Shippie. 80 years OF age.
when arraigned in court at Elizabeth.
N. j.. on charge of bigamy. admitted
that he had been married Al times.
Attorney General Knox has informed
members of the senate that there will
be no hitch in perfecting the title Of
the United States to the Panama canal.
William Lynn and Oliver Hoagland.
who pleaded guilty at Lincoln, ILL.,. to
bribery at elections. were sentenced each
to three months in Jail and to disfran-
chisement for ten years.
After being speechless for five month
as the result of fall from a street
car, Rev. d. f. Standard, pastor Of
st. I.ukes Methodist church in St.
Louis, suddenly recovered his voice.
Thirty thousand dollars disappeared
from New York bank while alterations
were being made In the Office. The
finding Of $1,000 under the floor leads to
the discovery of the loss and futile
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