The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-04-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 9.

Former Congressman Timothy ].
Campbell died in New York of pneu-
mOnia
In his shop in San Francisco, L. Car
sagni. q tailor. killed Mrs. Weimer and
then committed suicide.
Conservative estimates place tho
spring cleanup of gold in the Nome
(Alaska) district at 81. 25O,OOO.
John A. Peters. for is years chief
justice of the Maine supreme court.
died at Bangor aged 81 years.
The Tennessee republican state con-
vention nominated Jesse Littleton. of
Franklin county, for governor
An agreement between union men
and employers assures peace in Chi.
cago brickyards for the coming year.
Mrs. Potter Palmer's concert at her
residence in Chicago realized $4,000 for
the benefit of the Russian Red Cross So
ciety.
Clark Ridley, an aged miner of New
Bedford. Mass, after saving $4,000 in
SIS years, is giving it away. hoping to die
poor.
The joint committee of the Ohio leeis-
lature reported April 20 as the date for
holding the Hanna memorial CAV ex-
ercises.
John w. Kalua, United States Judge
of the second circuit at Honolulu, has
been removed from Office by President
Roosevelt.
Rose Beckett. once a famous ballet
dancer, was found dead in her New
York home. 1t is believed to be a case
of murder.
Oscar S. Strauss tells in interview
at New York of another anti.Semitic
agitation at Odessa and Kief, in south.
ern Russia.
Mail advices from the new Alaska
district Of Tanana indicate that the
winter gold cleanup will probably
reach 100000.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada during March were 81 ,2OO.-
900. 81 300. 900 more than for the same
month year ago.
Creditors Of d. ]. Sully & Co., at
New York. rejected his offer to settle
by paying 40 cents on the dollar and
giving notes for three years.
Four men were killed and one fatally
injured in an explosion at the Pintsch
Gas Comprising company's plant in
Southwest Washington, d. c.
According to reliable korean reports
the American mines at Unsan and the
English mines at Gwendolen are safely
guarded by detachments Of Japanese
troops.
A bill ,appropriating $25O,OO for an
agricultural college at Cornell univer-.
sity passed the New York senate. Tho
measure had previously passed the as
sembly.
The failure of the Greene Nervura
company is announced. The company
is capitalized at $4,000 and the es-
timated liabilities are in excess Of
100000.
Col Thomas Marshall Green, one of
the most widely known historians in
the south, died at his home in Dan
willie. KY, after short illness, OF
acute diabetes.
During quarrel at Fullerton. Neb..
Bert happening struck Maynard Ed
ington blow with his fist, from the
effects of which the latter died in a
few minutes. happening is under ar
rest
Work has been resumed at the Die
sci branch of the American Can COM
pany in Chicago. the strikers going
back to their old posts in the factory
which had been idle for over two
months.
The democratic state convention of
Kansas elected 20 uninstructed dele
gates to the national convention. The
delegation. according to personal pref
erences, will stand six for Hearst and
fourteen against him, it is said.
1t is said to be the intention of Pres
ident Roosevelt to appoint Gov. w. w.
Hunt of Porto Rico, as successor to
Judge Hiram Knowles, who recently
rendered his resignation as Judge Of
the United States district court at Hell
ena, Mont.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rocker, of
Boone, Ia, are in jail under an indict-
ment for murder, and Mrs. Rocker has
confessed to Attorney C. A. Irwin that
her present husband murdered her
husband A,ru,< Col,ooJo.