The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-10-27
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Oct. %.

JHe NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Oct. 90.
The total number Of students enrolled
at Yale university is 1896. this being the
largest number in the history of the uni
versity.
Gershon Marx has been sentenced to
be hanged at New London, Conn, on
January 26 next. for the murder OF one
of his farm hands.
The United States Steel corporation
has resumed operation at its Section 16
mine atIshpeming. Mich The property
has been idle for a year.
A. g. Case, president of the First ma
tioual bank, Of Charles City. Ia, died Of
pneumonia, aged &c. He was the most
prominent banker of northern Iowa.
At Memphis. Tenn, The Monk and
Equity trotted mile to pole in 2:07 ga.
The worlds record made by them on the
Memphis track last year was 2:0S.
Some of the most distinguished schol-
ars in the world are expected to attend
the Bible convention which is to be held
in Boston the first week in December.
James S. Cochran, widely known in
Illinois legal and political circles. died
at Freeport, ILL.,. aged II. He was q
former member of the Illinois state SEN
ate.
Fire in Milwaukee. Wis. destroyed
elevator B of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad, which contained q, 900
hV,yh hall rs
$4,000.
After taking drink of icewater Isaiah
E. Aultman, 81 years old, of Bryan, O..
dropped dead in the United States gov
eminent building at the worlds fair
grounds.
Capt. Henry M. seeley, of Boston, has
been appointed inspector of hulls and
Theodore T. Mersereau inspector of boil.
ers In the steamboat inspection service at
New York.
Frank Krubinger ended feud when
he met Guy Powell. of Wheatland, Mo-.
on the public road between Wheatland
and Hermitage, firing at Powell with
; shotgun and killing him instantly.
Prince Direct and Morning Star, driven
to pole to lower the half-mile worlds
!! pacing record of 1:01 IA, made the dis
lance at Memphis, Tenn, in 100 ga,
thus breaking the worlds record.
Edgar Mckenzie, young man. con-
fessed that he had shot John Smithers,
farmer on the latter's place near Fay
cite, Mo-, and declared that he had been
influenced by Smither's wife to commit
the deed.
! Tripping on stair landing by the
French heel of her slipper. Mrs. Emma
Latassa fell over fifth story balustrade
in an apartment house in East Fifty
.ourth street. New York, and was instant
ly killed
! John Robinson, who killed his wife
and brother-in-law, Sheppard Patter-
bury. was sentenced at Carmi. Ia, to
Imprisonment for % years. Robinson,
who is blind. In a ct of jealousy shot and
killed both.
The Illinois federation of woman's
clubs, in session at Danville, elected
Mrs. James Frake, Of Chicago, presi-
dent, over Mrs. w. E. Fithian, of Dam
vile. by 100 to 70. The next session
will be held in Joliet
William Schwarting, president of the
Farmers bank at Walcott, Ia. commit
ted suicide by hanging. He is said to
have been Respondent over the loss of
money in connection with the failure of q
bank at New Liberty, la.
The powers signatory of The Hague
peace convention are to be asked to
form q fund of 100000 for the main
tenance OF Andrew Carneeie's palace of
peace. The cost of the building is esti-
mated at about 100000.
A report issued by the interstate COM
! merce commission shows that the total
number of casualties to persons on rail-
roads in the United States during tho
fiscal year ending June 80, 1904, was 55,-
100, comprising 1881 killed and 81 ,343
injured.
Word has been received Of the death
Of Capt. Edward N. Whitehouse, u. s. NJ,
at Varenna, Lake Como. Italy. Capt.
Whitehouse was a paymaster in the navy
and the second son of Bishop White
house, of Illinois He served over 40 years
in the United States navy.
The Manchester. Eng, Guardian
learns that American Ambassador Jo-
seph Choate will resign his post at the
court Of st: James March next, whether
President Roosevelt is reelected or rot.
The paper mentions Whitelaw Reid as