The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-01-07
the NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the week Fading Jaa. =.
Seven thousand sheep were burned to
death at the East Buffalo IN. " stock
yards.
Safe blowers at San Jose. ILL.,, cracked
and looted the safe in the post once
Of $1,000.
]. Ed. Grille, of Cincinnati. has been
elected president OF the American Base
ball association.
Robert G. Harper. the Oldest man in
Minneapolis. died ct the age Of l04 years
and six months.
Secretary Root has declined to accept
the chairmanship of the national repub-
ltcan committee.
Within eight days Minneapolis mills
booked almost 100000 barrels of Hour
for export to Japan.
Lives lost in wars throughout the
world the past year number S6.46S,
against 25.70O in 1902.
The Standard Oil company has reduced
the price of oil five cents in the east and
two cents in the west.
All the livery establishments in Chi
cago are open, the employers agreeing
to reinstate the striking drivers.
Moses T. Clough and William Shaw,
prominent lawyers, lost their lives in Q
fire In Troy IN. W clubhouse.
Chicago ltverymen rejected proposal
to arbitrate made by the livery drivers
and declared they would fight to the end.
Mrs. Margaret F. Sullivan, one of the
best known newspaper women in the
country, died in Chicago, aged Sc years.
Another warship at San Domingo
has been granted Minister Powell. as
three revolutions are in progress there.
Inventors of a trackless train made
their trial trip in Paris, and were con-
graduated by President Loubet on its
success.
Burglars dynamited the safe of o.
Cohen. a jeweler in Des Moines, Ia, and
stole $4,000 in cash. diamonds and
watches.
Col. Henry L. Thomas, for "a years
translator in the state department. died
at his residence In Washington, aged
68 years.
Detlef Evans. a German farmer near
Dentson, Ia. poisoned his 1S-month-old
child and his wife. 1t is believed Evans
Is insane.
Ann Tyler, blind negro woman 80
years old, and James Turner, a negro
IS years old, were burned to death in
Sedalia, Mo.
Experiments with turbine propulsion
prove successful and the new system
will be used on new naval ships of the
United States. @-
Mrs. Myra Jane Williams. of Brain
erd. MIMI, was sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for life for the murder of her
little daughter.
| Frederick Lindstrom. trusted em-
ploye of Chicago wholesale house. con-
tesses to embezzling $4,000. which he
lost in the poolrooms.
gin. totally destroyed the grain eleva-
tor at Corning distillery in Peoria. ILL.,.
with loss Of $4,000.
+ Marys Anderson, read and sang In the
Peoples palace, London, for the first
time In Is years. The entertainment
was given for the poor.
| DR.. Herman Adler, of London, praises
American Jews for seeking to have Pres
tdent Roosevelt interfere to prevent an
other Kishineff massacre.
At Missoula, Mont, Judge Webster
sentenced John Tully. soldier, to hang
February 26 for the murder of Thomas
Kennedy at Fort Missoula.
| Jerome Sykes, star comedian of 'The
Billionaire,". died of pneumonia con-
tracted during Christmas party given
for his company in Chicago.
Joseph Boyd, employed as a track
walker in the st. Clair tunnel. shot and
killed his wife in their home at Sarina,
Ont, and then killed himself.
The advance in price of cotton breaks
all records Of the season, and 1t is esti-
mated that the south will receive more
than $700,000,000 for this years crop.
The corn crop Of 1903 is announced
at Washington as 2,244, 1926 bushels,
valued at $685., S6S.So1; winter wheat.
399, 1867 $50 bushels, worth $286, 242,8 49.
Alice Pitcher, 81 years old, daughter
| Of Louisville (Ky.) organ manufac-
turer,. masqueraded as boy for three
years in Montana with her fathers con.
sent.