The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tho Week Ending Sept. "a.

For tho Week Ending Sept. "a.
Killing frosts are reported over
New York state and throughout New
England.
The next session of the sovereign
grand lodge, I. o. o. F., will be held
in Philadelphia.
The St. Paul club won the pennant in
the American baseball association race.
The season has closed.
The plant of the Pacific Starch COM
pany was destroyed by fire at Jackson.
Mich. Loss about $4,000.
The board Of lady managers Of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition has
abolished the Office of secretary.
The republicans of the Twenty sixth
Pennsylvania district nominated G. A.
Schneebell, Of Nazareth, for congress.
w. Hudson Matthews, we'll known to
the hunters of Michigan as BILLY"
Matthews, was drowned in Saginaw bay.
Prince Alert ma0e new worlds rec
ord on half-mile track, at Allentown,
Pa, by pacing mile without wind
shields in 2:O31a.
The Cuban senate ratified treaty of
friendship and commerce with Italy,
the first entered into by Cuba with an
European nation.
Thomas E. Watson, populist candi-
date for president, will open his cam
paign in Illinois October 10, with a
speech in Chicago.
The grand jury at st. Joseph, Mo-,
indicted w. H. Harroun, the grain
plunger, on seven counts for forgery
in the third degree.
Two men, one woman and baby were
killed at Braddock, Pa, by the Pennsyl-
vania fast express. The accident hap
pened at street crossing.
Gen. Harrison Allen, deputy auditor
for the post Office department, died sud-
denly at his residence in Washington,
aged GO years. Death was cue to heart
failure.
Admiral George Dewey, on Friday, re-
ceived the congratulations of his fellow
officers and friends upon the fiftieth an
niversary of his entry into the naval
service.
For the sixth term Cyrus A. Sullo-
way was unanimously renominated
for congress by the republicans of the
First New Hampshire congressional
district.
In the municipal court at Milwaukee,
Wis, jury found ex-Alderman A. G.
Weissenbom guilty as charged of solicit
ing a bride of 500 from Attorney F. J..
Brochard.
Benjamin Matlack Everhart died at
his home in Westches.er, Pa, aged 81
years. He was known to scientists as
one of the most expert botanists in
the world.
1t is officially announced that En-
perOr William has conferred on Presf-
dent Harper, of the Chicago UNIVERSE
ty, the order of the Red Eagle of the
second class.
Justice D. Cady Herrick, democratic
candidate for governor, of New York,
will resign from the supreme court
bench as soon as he can finish the
legal work now before him.
The Society of the Army of the Cum
berland, at its session in Indianapolis.
elected Gen. H. v. Boynton, of Wash
ington, president. Chattanooga, Tenn,
was selected as the society's permanent
meeting place.
The democratic campaign textbook
has been completed and is about to be
issued. 1t makes a volume of 314
pages, discusses the issues of the two
parties and reprints q number OF
speeches by leading democrats.
Count Tisza, the Hungarian ministe,
of the interior, has rendered a de-
cision prohibiting Mormon propagan-
da within Hungary, upon the ground
that such movement is undesirable
both from the standpoints of state
policy and religion.
A heavy frost was reported from all
sections of Lancaster county, Pa, the
thermometer dropping in some sec
tions to 81 degrees. A large quantity
of tobacco which was still uncut is
ruined and the loss will run into
many thousands of dollars.
The international peace congress
will be held in Boston during the week
of October 3. Many men prominent
in various countries in the peace
movement will attend. Ways and
means looking to the cessation of hos
tilities between Russia and japan will
be considered.