The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-05-05
the NEWS IN BRIEF.

& For IL Week Ending April 50.
Il seems probable that the gold
standard will be adopted by Panama.
Almost 20 900 acres Of farm lands are
under water north Of Hannibal, Mo-, and
wheat crops are ruined.
Over 6, OOO, 900 bushels of coal have been
shipped south from Pittsburg on the
present rise in the rivers.
The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse said from New York for Europe
with upwards of $500 passengers.
The republican convention for the
Twenty-fourth Illinois district nomi-
mated Pleasant T. Chapman for con-
gress.
AtMiddlesboro, KY, George Matthews
killed Green Henderson in quarrel over
q young woman and fed 20 the noun
tains.
Three lives were lost and property
valued at 100000 was destroyed in q
fire at the John Stanley soap works in
New York.
The war department has decided to
rehabilitate old Fort Omaha and es-
tablish a signal station training school
at the old fort.
Fire destroyed the greater part Of
the business portion of Brainerd.
Mimi, causing a loss which is esti-
mated at $4,000.
A monument was unveiled at Grafton,
w. Va, in the National cemetery to the
memory of Bailey Brown, the first SOL
der killed in the civil war.
The supreme court of Indiana de-
cided that under the provision of the
Nicholson liquor law now in force all
saloons must face on street.
Marville and Constance Allen, aged
II and eight years respectively, were
burned to death by the, destruction of
their parents home at Austin, Pa.
Nire-tenths of Fernie, B. c., town
Of 5000, the largest settlement in
Crows Nest Pass district, was de-
stroyed by fire. Estimated loss $780,.
600.
A jury at Rock Rapids, Ia, found
Charles Rocker guilty of the murder of
August Schroeder, at Doom, Ia, June
30. 1900. and fixed the penalty at
death.
DR.. w. s. Evans died at his residence
in Marion, ILL.,, aged "a. DR.. Evens prac-
ticed medicine for 40 years, and was a
minister in the Methodist Episcopal
church. y..". .
The unprecedented speed of 1894
miles an hour has been made by: the
Michigan Central train carrying Pres
ident Ledyard and President Newman
to Chicago. =.
Progress is reported in the movement
to endow chair of political science in
Western Reserve university. at Cleve-
land, O., as a memorial to the late Sen
ator Hanna.
Mrs. r. Z. Taylor has been granted Z
divorce from former Gov. Robert L. Tay-
lor. in chancery court at Knoxville, Tenn.
Mr.. Taylor served. three terms as: gov
ernor Of Tennessee. Y s###
Under a resolution passed by the
board Of education in New York city
female teachers in public schools may
now contract marriage without the al
tentative of resigning or being dis
missed.
Because nobody wants to be post
master the post Office at Killingworth,
Conn, may have to be abolished.
Congressman Sperry says he can get
no one to accept the Office. The SAL
airy is $172 a year.
Thomas Emerson, negro, whose
heart was pierced by a penknife nearly
two months ago, has recovered after I'M
dergoing the operation of having the
wound stitched and has been discharged
from a hospital in Philadelphia.
President Roosevelt has directed the
reappointment of w. d. Crum as COLI
lector of customs at Charleston, s. c.,
The senate will take up Crum's case inn
mediately on reconvening next session
when it will be disposed of finally.
Wendell Phillips Stafford, of Ver-
mont, has been appointed a justice of
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, to succeed Justice Peter c.
Pritchard, who has been made q
United States circuit judge.
Indiana populists in state convention
1t Indianapolis named delegates-at-large
and district delegates to the national
convention, which will be held July