The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-22
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Ending Sept. II.
Halifax, Nova Scotia, is mourning .
100000 less by fire.
Seymour Clark, Q farmer, and his son
were found cremated in their residence.
five miles north of Youngstown, o.
Circuit Judge John H. Moffett. Of
Paxton, ILL.,, died at Battle Greek.
Mich, from locomotor ataxia, aged 81.
Robert ]. Mcclellan, of Depere. was
nominated for congress by the Ninth
Wisconsin district democratic conven-
ton.
p Charles C. Black, of Hudson county,
was nominated for governor by the New
Jersey democratic state convention at
Trenton
The republican campaign will be
formally opened in Minnesota septem-
Der %, when Senator Fairbanks will
speak in st. Paul.
BY boiler explosion at the Heran-
court brewery, Cincinnati, Joseph Lem
hart was killed and Edward Wund ser
iously wounded. -44
The next session of the International
Geographical congress will be held In
Geneva, Switzerland, some time. be-
tween 1907 and 1909. .5..-.
William G. Ritch, ex-governor OF
New Mexico, is dead at Engle, Sierra
county, N. NJ, near which place he was
engaged in ranching.
To celebrate the birth of the crown
prince, the king of Italy has donated
the sum of $4,000 towards an old age
fund for workingmen.
The st. Paul Sash & Door company,
located in St Paul, Mimi, was practi-
cally destroyed by fire. The loss is
$4,000; partly insured.
Charles Cranston, inventor of the
first underwriting paper machine used
in America, is dead at his home in Brook
lyn, at the age of Is years.
Seven persons in one family were
burned to death and six others were in
jured seriously in a fire which partially
destroyed a tenement building in New
York city.
Gus A. Henkleman, alias Sid Hall.
aged about Is, was shot and killed in
Detroit, Mich, while trying to escape
from Detective John Buhr, of the city
detective bureau.
The democratic congressional con.
vention unanimously nominated
Stephen p. Finn, Of West Bay City, as
candidate for congress in the Tenth
Michigan district.
President Francis has signed war
rant for the sum of $500 900, the regular
semimonthly payment on the govern
ment loan of $4,600,0o0 to the worlds
fair management.
In a quarrel at Grinnell, Ia, between
Walter Champlain, age Is, and Will
Morgan, aged 16, Champlain struck Nor
gan with his fist, killing him instantly.
The boys were cousins.
Fire broke out in the Beard ware
house, near the Eads bridge entrance,
at East st. Louis, ILL.,, and consumed
the structure, which had been recently
erected at cost Of $4,000.
President Roosevelt will leave Oys-
ter Bay for Washington Thursday, the
22d inst, in a special train. The en-
tire executive force will return to
Washington at the same time.
Fire destroyed the Manasquan IN. J.)
block ice and cold storage plant, entail
ing loss of $150,00O. Fish to the
amount of 100000 pounds, stored
against the winter demand, was de-
stroyed.
At Hoquiam, Wash, James Miles shot
and killed the woman with whom he
lived, and then fatally wounded Ole
Sand, logger, and ended by shooting
and killing himself Jealousy led to the
shooting.
Permanent organization of the new
American party, whose avowed purpose
is to oppose the alleged interference OF
the Mormon church in politics, was eff
tected at mass meeting in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
The largest assemblage of people ever
congregated within the confines Of st.
Louis thronged the worlds fair grounds
Thursday in consideration of "St. Louis
Day." Estimates of the attendance are
between 100000 and 100000 persons.
The post Office department has is
sued general notice that the sale of
the commemorative series of Louisi-
ana Purchase exposition stamps at
post Offices throughout the country