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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
RADICAL CHANGES.
Favored by Mr.. Bryan in His Plan
for Reformation Of the
Democracy.

Lincoln, Neb., July 22.-W ]. Bryan's
plan for the reformation of the democ-
racy was given publicity Thursday. In
it Mr.. Bryan favors radical changes, but
advocates the election of Judge Parker
for president as good beginning. In
opening his statement Mr.. Bryan says:
CHOW, that the leadership of the party
devolves upon another and I bear only
the responsibility that each citizen must
bear, namely, the responsibility for my
own opinions, my utterances and my
conduct, I am free to undertake work
which until now have avoided, namely,
the work of organizing the radical and
progressive element in the democratic
party"
Mr.. Bryan declares for state owner
ship of railroads, government control
Of telegraphs, adjustment Of the private
monopoly, favors the income tax and
election of federal judges by the peo-
pie.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
IOWA REPUBLICANS.
State Ticket Is Nominated-The Cam
didates-Platform Adopted.
Is Brief

Des Moines, a., July 21.-The follow
Ing ticket was nominated by the repub-
licans of Iowa Wednesday afternoon:
Secretary Of state, w. B. Martin. of
Adatr; treasurer, G. S. Gilbertson. of
Winnebago; auditor of state, B. F. Car
roll, of Davis; attorney general, c. w.
Mullan, of Blackhawk; supreme Judge,
H. E. Deemer, of Montgomery; railroad
commissioner, N. S. Ketchum, of Mar
shall; electors-at-large, Col E. H. Orms-
by of Palo Alto, and ]. H. Wewin. of
Linn. The convention was notably har-
monious, every candidate but railroad
commissioner being nominated by accla-
nation. Gov. Cummins made a speech
that was unique in that he aligned him
self fully for the campaign with the
dominant faction in the party, which is
opposed to him.
The resolutions adopted are brief and
the include nothing to give offense to
the Iowa idea minority, although the
standpat majority had it in its power to
do so. The resolutions indorse the Chi
cago national platform, the administra-
ton of President Roosevelt and the
nomination of Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
The Iowa delegation in congress is in
dorsed. and also the administration Of
Gov. Cummins.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

A company has recently been organ
fzed at Rendsburg, Prussia, for the
purpose of distilling alcohol from peat.
The company is now building a distil.
lery which it hopes to be able to put in
operation some time during the month
Of July, 1904. According to it's pro-
cess, the company will be able to dis
till alcohol cheaper from peat than
it can be obtained from other sub.
stances, and will therefore be able to
sell its product for fuel purposes. It
will also be in a position to do an ex.
port business.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

The antiseptic craze has taken pos.
session of New York. Ever since the
board of health issued its pronuncia-
mento to the BARRIERS in the matter
of towels, shaving mugs, etc.. com.
handing that they be rendered hygi.
enically perfect, the word "antiseptic"
has chung to the roof of the mouth OF
every nervous Gothamite possessed Of q
smattering Of fungi. bacteria, microbes.
germs. bacilli and parasites, and un.
told misery has been the result. Il
has even prevented the eating of many
foods and the enjoyment Of others.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

One of the great forest fires was
the Miramichi fire in 1925. It began
its greatest destruction about / o'clock
in the afternoon Of October z at q
place about 60 miles above the town
Of Newcastle. on the Miramichi river,
in New Brunswick. Before 10 O'Clock
at night it was 20 miles below New.
castle. In nine hours it had destroyed
q belt of forest 80 miles long and rs
miles wide. Over more than 100000
acres almost every living thing was
killed. Even the fish were afterward
found dead in heaps along the river
1,anka
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

Residents of Woodbury., N. J., have
adopted novel plan Of saving time
for themselves and the drivers Of
tradesmen's delivery wagons. They
hang out signal flags designed to bring
the desired wagon to the door when.
ever it may be passing, saving the an
noyance of having them stop when
they are not wanted. A red flag means
that ice is wanted, white flag that
milk is desired and a blue flag that
bread will come in handy.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
MRS. MAVERICK FREED.
She Is Released from Custody and
Leaves England for France
A Famous Case.

Truro, Cornwall, England, July 81
Mrs. Florence Maybrick is free. She
left here at 11:43 q, m. Wednesday on
her way to France. Mrs. Maybrick's
imprisonment was not terminated with
the clang Of doors, the last.sound which
remains in the ears Of so many of her
fellow prisoners who had preceded her
to liberty from Yalesbury prison, where
she spent more than IA years of her life.
It closed before the arched doorway of
the white convent of the Sisterhood of
the Epiphany, of this little town, with
the black-robed sisters softly uttering
their blessings and good wishes for her
future
Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Florence
Elizabeth Chandler, a member of a we'll
known and prosperous southern family,
was married July ~, 1881, in st. James,
church, Piccadilly, to James Maybrick,
Of Liverpool. She was then 10 old. Her
husband was over 40 years of age. In the
spring of 1889 Mr.. Maybrick became i'll
and in a few days he died. His brothers
Investigated his death and charged Mrs.
Maybrick with the murder of her hus-
band. A long trial followed, and num-
Der of doctors swore that the deceased
died of arsenical poisoning. The de-
tense proved that for 20 years Mr.. May
brick had been a confirmed user Of ar
senic and that he daily took doses large
enough to have killed a dozen ordinary
men. Mrs. Maybrick was eventually SEN
fenced to death by the Judge, Sir Fitz-
james Stephen, who spoke for two days
in charging the jury. He said it was i'm
possible for them to find her not guilty
in the face of the medical evidence The
judge died some time later in mad
house. From the time of Mrs Maybrick's
conviction her mother, Baroness de
Roques. was unremitting in her efforts
in behalf of the prisoner. She succeeded
in having the death sentence committed
to penal survitude for life and finally has
obtained the freedom of her daughter, to
whose release from prison she had de-
voted her life. The baroness was aided
by influential friends on both sides of the
Atlantic.
Oyster Bay, L. L., July ,21.-President
Roosevelt Wednesday afternoon received
an official dispatch sent to notify him
of the release of Mrs. Maybrick.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
NAMED FOR GOVERNOR.
Joseph ". Folk Is Selected as Stand.
ard-Bearer Of Missouri
Democrats.

{ Jefferson City, Mo-, July 22.-After
an all night session, marked by inter-
walls of disorder and commotion that
could not be ,quelled by the gavel, the
democratic state convention unani-
mously nominated Joseph w. Folk,
circuit attorney of St. Louis, for gov
ernor and adopted platform which
promises vigorous, unrelenting crusade
against corruption and Doodle in Mis-
souri, in the event of democratic SUI
premacy at the polls.
Joseph Wingate Folk, was born in
Brownsville, Tenn, October %, 1869.
His father is Judge Henry B. Folk, of
Brownsville, and his mother is a de-
scendant of the Estes family Of Virginia.
Mr.. Folk is q graduate of Vanderbilt
university Of Nashville, Tenn, where he
finished his literary and legal education.
He practiced law in Brownsville for two
years and then went to st. Louis in 1892.
Soon he became identified with the
younger element of the democratic
party and first became prominent in
political circles when he was made a
charter member of the Jefferson club,
the leading democratic organization.
He served in the capacity of president
Of the organization in 1898. Mr.. Folk
became generally known to the citi-
zens of st. Louis through /the prom
inent part he took in tie settlement of
the great street car strike of 1900. AS
circuit attorney of St. Louis Mr.. Folk
successfully prosecuted a number Of
bride takers in both branches of the mu-
nicipal assembly.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
st. Louis Lawyer Dead.

st. Louis, July Backward T. Parish.
one of the oldest members of the st.
Louis bar, died Friday at the age Of 70,
from q stroke Of apoplexy. Mr.. Parish
was at one time city counsellor, during
which he drafted the bill which separ-
ated st. Louis from st. Louis county.
Some 20 years ago he conducted the
prosecution against the Missouri state
lottery. when, after a long and bitter
struggle in the courts. the anti-lottery
law was upheld.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
More Ordered to Leax.

Victor, COL, July 23.-The Portland
mine is operating with new force of
engineers and firemen in place of those
arrested by the military authorities,
who asserted they had discovered con-
sptracy among the men in the mechan-
zeal department at the mine to walk out
in body. Ten of the 40 men arrested
have been ordered by the military board
to leave the district, and the remainder
have been releasd.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

Statistics indicate that Great Salt
Lake. the Dead Sea Of America, is
doomed-that it is gradually drying
up. The opinion now almost univer-
sally prevails among scientists that
this mysterious body of water, To-
Gated at an altitude of 4,210 feet above
sea level and 1000 miles inland, and
which has but single rival, the Dead
Sea of Palestine, is certain within the
course of half century to disappear
from the map. -
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

The coffee and cocoa plantations In
the Congo have been greatly enlarged.
In 1893 there was only about 10000
coffee trees on the plantation and now
there are 100000. The production
of rice has also been increased and
the growth of cotton has become so
flourishing, especially in the north
east, as to cause some disquietude
among the cotton growers of Egypt.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

The representatives Of the different
German steel manufacturers in Lon.
don, all Of whom are members of the
German steel trust, have agreed upon
the opening of q sales agency in Lon
don, from which to control the steel
trade Of the world. The English Office
is under the management of a limited
company, and the shareholders are
members of the different steel trusts
Of Germany. J.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
TRADE REVIEW.
Encouraging Factors Said to FREEDOM
inate-Crop Prospects Re-
ported Brighter.

New York, July pr. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Encouraging factors predominant.
Little definite increase is seen in the
distribution of merchandise, but devel-
opments of the past week promise bet
ter things in the near future. The
most important influence for good is
brighter crop prospect. For the pres
ent the best news comes from the large
cities, where warm weather has slim
ulated retail trade In light weight fab
RIGS, and jobbers report that orders
from agricultural communities are bet
ter than from manufacturing centers.
There are still many complaints Of
slow collections. In the principal man
ufacturing branches there is still much
idle machinery, especially at cotton
mills and iron plants, while most win
dow glass producers will not resume
until September. Reports Of railway
earnings for July so far show only q
small loss Of Is per cent. as compared
with the same period last year. It is
gratifying to note in dispatches from
iron and steel making centers that the
decline in quotations has ceased and
consumers making inquiries which
promise to result in considerable bust
ness.
Failures of the week numbered 213
in the United States; against 1911 last
year, and 20 in Canada, compared with
10 year ago"
Bradstreet's says: GOOD progress
by most crops strengthens belief in
favorable fall trade following the pres
ent season of comparative quiet and
inactivity Among the industries quiet
ness and even dullness is still the fea-
ture. but rather more is doing in the
leather trade, foreshadowing later de-
velopments in the shoe business, and
the production of iron and steel is be-
ing steadily curtailed, with resulting
firmer tone to pig iron prices. Several
basic industries still show little ten
dency to revive"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Thousands in Prison.

Washington, July 2O.-The immigra-
ton bureau has issued a. statement show
ing a total Of A, 5S2 inmates in the penal
reformatory and charitable institutions
of the United States, not including Ha-
waii and Porto Rico. These comprise
1889 males and 1858 females. There
are 4,717 prisoners serving for life. TO-
112 for over two years and 1888 under
that period.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Death Of Wilson Barrett,

London. July 23-Wilson Barrett,
the actor, died Friday morning. He
underwent an operation for cancer July
20, and the doctors thereafter said that
after few weeks rest Barrett would
be all right and able to carry out his
intention Of producing new play in
September. His death is attributed to
heart failure.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
BUTCHERS TRUCE,
Was SHORT lived
PACKERS AND STRIKERS REACH
AN AGREEMENT TO SUBMIT
TO ARBITRATIoN.
Men Start to Resume Work, But De-
clare Discrimination Is Made in
:Reinstating Them and Strike u
Again Ordered.

Chicago, July 21.-The strike of the
$4,000 butcher workmen at the great
meat packing plants of the United
States was settled Wednesday night.
Work in all establishments will be re-
sumed this morning and the points in
dispute will be adjudicated by arbitra-
ton.
By the terms Of the agreement,
signed by representatives of each side.
all disputes pertaining to wages and
working conditions will be submitted
to board of arbitration, and pending
an adjustment of the controversy the
men will receive the same wages that
were paid just previous to the strike.
The question of reinstating the men
on strike was the chief matter of dis
pute, and finally was disposed of by
an agreement that the men shall be
taken back as fast as possible without
discrimination. After As days from
the date work is resumed any former
employe who has not been taken back
will have the privilege of submitting
his case to arbitration.
Strike Is Renewed.
Chicago, July 23.-The stock yards
strike is on again. On the charge that
the packers were discriminating against
certain persons in the unemployment
process the union officials Friday Or
dered their men to quit work, and the
situation at the yards is as bad as
ever. The strike was renewed in other
packing centers also. Strike leaders
declare that unless the employers
change their attitude at once, all the
allied trades workmen will walk out
and that complete stoppage of work
at the packing plants will ensue.
President Donnelly, after comforting
with other leaders, gave the order for
the strike and then sent this telegram
to union officials in other packing CEN
tiers of the country: PACKERS already
have violated agreement by discrimi-
nation. Order men out"
When the word that another strike
was ordered reached the workmen who
had gone to the different departments
to begin their labor, they finished the
work Immediately in hand and then
marched in bodies out of the yards,
taking their tools with them.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

Shipments Of anthracite coal from
the mines in the month Of May aggre.
gated $3.50, 079 tons, which is larger
than in any month ever reported, ex-
cept April of this year and January
Of last year. This heavy movement
does not include the usual volume of
shipments by lake, as lake naviga-
ton is largely suspended on account
Of the strike; and the demand is still
verv active "a rs
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

The total shipments of oranges and
lemons from Southern California
for the season, November l. 1908, to
June %, 1904, have been 25,450 car.
loads, which, at the rate. of $50 boxes
to the car, would amount to 100000
boxes. The shipments for the corre-
spending period last season were 49,.
800 cars, or 7,16O, 400 boxes.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Committee to Meet.

st. Louis, July 22.-Hon. James K.
Jones, of Arkansas, chairman Of the
democratic national committee, who is
in the city, has issued a call for meet
ing OF the committee to be held at the
Hoffman house in New York at noon
Tuesday, July 26, for the purpose of or
ganizing.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

Honeymoon, the new treaty port Of
China, is on the West river, Sun-Ui
district, in the province of Kwang.
Tung, and by the river route is up.
ward Of 60 miles distant from Canton.
It's population within the walled city
is about 10000. Including the suburbs
its population reaches 100000. There
are no foreign residents either in
Honeymoon or its immediate vicinity.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Values It Highly.

Esopus, N. Y, July 22.-Former Pres
>ident Cleveland's published article dis
cussing the present democratic policy
and Judge Parker's leadership is re-
garded' by Judge Parker as likely to be
Of great value in the campaign and as
one of the strongest appeals yet made
to democratic voters.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
His Speech Completes.

Oyster Bay, L. l.. July 22.-President
Roosevelt has completed the speech he
will deliver on the 9th instant, on the
occasion Of his notification Of the action
of the Chicago convention. It is about
5000 words in length.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Chicago's New Directory.

Chicago, July 22.-The new city d.
rectory for Chicago has been given to
the public. Based on the number of
names it gives Chicago population for
1904 Of 2,241 900. This figure is arrived
at by computing upon the census of 1899.
The new directory contains 657, 900
names, an increase of 5000 over the
directory of 1903.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28

The presence Of moisture in tobac'
co is, the Lancet believes, of some i'm.
portance to public health, since the
combustion of tobacco containing a
large proportion of moisture is i'm.
peded, while as the generation Of va
Dor Is increased, so are the chances
Of the poisonous principle being car.
ried into the mouth.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
BIG VICTORY FOR
kUROKI'S ARMY
JAPANESE AFTER HARD FIGHT
ING DRIVE RUSSIANS FROM
FORTIFIED POSITION.
Kiaotung Is Captured-Losses Of Rus
SLAMS Placed at ,OOO-Japs Lose
424-Czar's Force Repulsed at
Molten Pass.

Toxic, July 23.-Gen. Kuroki, after
a severe fight. occupied Kiaotung only
July 10. The place had been fortified
by the Russians, who defended it stout
ly. In the fighting Gen. Kuroki's troops
drove the Russians from their strongly
fortified position on the Chi river,
which is northwest of Molten pass and
east Of Anping, inflicting upon the en-
envy more serious losses than they sus-
tanned themselves. The fight began on
the 18th and ended on the 18th. The
japanese lost 424 men in killed and
wounded. The Russian losses are esti-
mated at 1000.
Discredited at st. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg, July 23.-There is no
official confirmation of Gen. Kuroki's
report that the japanese have captured
Kiaotung. No such place as this is
laid down on Russian maps, the near
est approach to- it being Kantziatum,
which is only IL miles from Liaoyang
on the Saimatsza road.
Japs Repulse Fierce Attack.
Toxic, July 19-At three o'clock
Sunday morning, a heavy fog yelling
their movements, two divisions of Rus
slams, commanded by Lieut. Gen. Kel-
Ter, made an assault on the Japanese
positions at Molten pass. Gen. KuroH
adds that the Russians assailed all the
japanese positions at Molten pass and in
its vicinity desperately. The japanese
resisted stubbernly, repulsed the Rus
slams and pursued them for consider
able distance westward. Kuroki in his
report praises the valor Of his men.
Fixes Loss at 1000.
Gen. Kuroki's Headquarters in
the Field (via Fusan), July 2o.-More
Russian troops were engaged in Sun
days battle at Molten pass than in
previous engagements. There were
probably doubles the number of those
which took part in the fight at Yalu
river, while opposed to them were only
one brigade and one battalion of the
japanese forces. The Russian loss is
estimated at 1000. The burial of the
dead continues. The japanese casual
ties aggregated 300. The engagement
sS<SASPASOOu6Ay .OSuOu6Ik6tSVs Iue
wonderful efficiency Of the japanese in
fantry. They proved incomparably the
better marksmen, more initiative and
they outfought and outgeneraled the
Russians on every point
Japs Forced to Retreat.
Liaoyang, July 22.-The Russian east
ern army Wednesday attacked the Jap
anese on the other side of the valley Of
the Lao river. Lieut.. Gen. Count KEEL
Ter, after hard fight, compelled the
japanese to retreat with great loss.
Gen. Herschelmann, July 10, had a sue
cessful engagement, forcing the Japan
csc to rapidly retreat on their main
force. The Russian losses were 200men
killed or wounded. Gen. oku, it is ru-
mored, has resumed his advance beyond
Kaichou. The Russians are expecting
q battle.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
A Fatal Blow.

Benton Harbor, Mich, July 1S.-J. A.
Cook, a local manufacturer, killed
Burton Grissold by striking him with
his fist.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Dies Of His Injuries.

Pennington, Conn.,, July 1s.-Charles
r. Rogers, Of Chicago, who was injured
in an automobile accident here Satur-
day, died at the Elm Tree Inn Monday.
His skull was fractured and he did not
recover consciousness after the accident.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Jurist Drowned.

Cape May. N. j., July 21.-Judge Up
ton Muir, Of Louisville, KY, who was
spending his vacation here, lost his life
in the surf Wednesday while bathing.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
old Wisconsin Grocer Dead.

La Crosse, Wis, July 21.-George
Bauer, the oldest grocer in western Wis
consin. died Wednesday, aged 70. He
started q grocery store in La Crosse in
1850.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Michigan Politician Dead.

New York, July 22-William G.
Thompson, q prominent politician of
Detroit, is dead at private sanitarium
in Yonkers as the result Of being
knocked down by bicycle scorcher
on April IL last Mr.. Thompson was
twice mayor Of Detroit, state senator
and always prominent in Michigan poll
tics.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
Convention Date s 81.

Oshkosh, Wis, July 2o.-The date
for the democratic state convention to
select state ticket has been fixed for
August 81 in Oshkosh.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-28
WIDOW Of Henrv George. Dead

Widow OF Henry George. Dead.
New York, July 22.-Mrs. George,
widow of the late Henry George, the
political economist Of this city, died
Wednesday night at her home in Mon
ticello, Sullivan county, N. Y. at the age
Of 60 years.