The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-10-06
the NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Oct. l.,

For the Week Ending Oct. l..
Frank Lewandowski, wife murderer.
was hanged in the county jail, Chicago.
The wages of all OF the seamen en-
ployed. on the great lakes. numbering
upwards Of 10000. will be advanced
from 10 to Is per cent.
Three men were probably fatally in
jured and two hurt less seriously in
the collapse Of an apartment building
being erected in Chicago.
Judge e. B. Bundy is dead at Menom-
tnee. Wis, Of cancer He had been ON
the bench of the Eighth district court
for nearly 10 years prior to 1896.
Alderman John Pound. chairman Of
the London General Omnibus COM
pany, limited, was chosen lord mayor
Of London for the ensuing year.
The three children OF Charles N. Bird,
Ruth. Edith and Ernest, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed their
home, which is located near Robinson,
la.
| COL ID. G. Colson, former congressman
from the Eighteenth Kentucky district,
and colonel of the Fourth Kentucky
regiment during the Spanish-American
war. is dead.
The Rhode Island democratic state
convention nominated a state ticket
without opposition. 1t is headed by
Lucius F. c. Garvin, of Cumberland.
for governor.
]. ]. Marty, cashier Of the Longford.
Kan, bank, committed suicide BY cut
ting his throat. Dependency over long
continued Ill health is supposed to have
caused tho d.
Samuel EelZ, sa prominent farmer,
was shot and instantly killed at coun-
try school meeting near Mt. Ayr, Ia,
by William Killing. The shooting was
the result of quarrel.
Public requests aggregating over
100000. the largest being gift of
$250.000 to the city of New Bedford, are
contained in the will of the late Mrs.
Sarah Potter of Boston.
Driven insane through grief at the
death of Edward Hartman, whom he had
accidentally shot, George Brown of Chi
L
Peoria, ILL.,. raving maniac.
The first convention of the universal
congress Of lawyers and jurists ended
In st. Louis. after three days of pres
entation and discussion of legal propo.
sitions Of worldwide interest.
After fight of nine months, waged
by the white messenger boys, the negro
messenger service Of the Western Union
at Richmond. Va, has been abandoned
and the white service restored.
Over 100000 loss was caused by q
1re in the big block of meat packing
house and refrigerating plants in
Tenth avenue. between Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets, New York city.
President Roosevelt has reiterated to
Representative Cooper, Of Wisconsin.
his expressed determination not to par
ticipate In any way in the factional
trouble now in progress in that state.
Twenty thousand dollars to estab-
lish home for drunkards' wives in
Iowa is one Of the requests of the late
James Callahan. the eccentric philan-
thropist millionaire of Des Moines. Ia,
James Oscar Webb and Samuel.
Archer. negroes, were hanged in Phil
adelphia. Webb was executed for thu
murder Of his wife and her mother in
June. 1902, and Archer for killing q
policeman.
COL James A. Brown, former treas
urer Of the Peoples Savings bank at
Stonington, Conn.,, pleaded guilty to
four counts of making false entries in
the bank books, covering up an alleged
shortage of $4,000.
Mrs. Kate Winner has been indicted
by the grand jury at Little Falls, MINI.
for murder in the first degree. She
is charged with having killed her hus-
band on June % last by beating him
with club while he slept.
"Ticky" Jim Bach" who was re-.
Gently acquitted at Mount Sterling OF
the charge of perjury, at the trial Of
lett and White for the murder of At
torney Marcum, was shot and instantly
killed at Jackson, KY, by his recently
divorced wife.
Miss Estelle Mortimer, an actress in
the BIRD Center" company playing in
Kansas City. Mo-, died suddenly Of .
complication of Bright's disease and
diabetes. She was So years old. and dur.
ing her stage career had supported many