The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-04-07
the NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April 2.

For the Week Ending April 2.
Mrs. Chauncey Morlan. the 40.
pound fiat GIRL" died in New York
museum.
+ Thirty-eight persons were killed in
car accidents during March in Cook
county, Ill.
+ Colorado democrats will meet In
Denver June Z to elect delegates to the
national convention.
Indiana democrats will hold their
state convention at Indianapolis to
select delegates to ST. Louis.
Charles G. White. clerk in the white
house at Washington. killed his wife
and himself at Kensington. Md.
In New York George F. Slosson broke
the worlds billiard record at 1S-inch
balk line, two shots, with q run of POI.
James Lemlee and his wife were
burned to death in their home at Mont
rose, la. They were both 20 years old.
James f. Reeves, president of the
First national bank at Richmond Ind,
for 40 years, died at the age of 80
years.
Thomas Baldorf. farmer near Woos-
ter, O., his wife and son, were drowned
while attempting to ford a swollen
stream.
The private banking firm Of E. O.
Miller & Co. at Providence. Ia. failed.
1t is believed it can pay so cents on the
dollar.
The British expedition into Tibet
had fight with 1900 natives near
Guru and 400 of the latter were
killed.
Henry 7. Bannon. of Portsmouth,
o., has been nominated for congress-
man by the republicans of the Tenth
district.
The great Hazleton Und) fill of the
Evansville & Terre Haute railroad,
which cost 100000, was washed away
by flood.
The Antarctic expedition which left
London in July. 1901, has been signaled
off the coast Of New Zealand on its
way home.
Judge Parker is rated first by demo-
cratic leaders as a presidential posi-
bility. with Judge Gray second and
Cleveland third.
The Union Trust company closed it's
doors in Boston. with liabilities OF
$1,000, 900. and nominal assets of about
the same amount.
John Brink. % years old, the first
white man to see Lake Geneva. Wis,
and who gave 1t its name, died 1T
Crystal Lake, Wis.
r Records for fraternal order initia.
lions were broken in Chicago when the
Royal Arcanum received 800 canH-
dates into its ranks.
Rev. John Gordon, formerly presi-
dent of Tabor college, Iowa. has been
inaugurated president Of Howard uni
versity in Washington.
Four more negroes have been put to
death near Dewitt, Ark, making Is ne
groes who have been killed as the re-
suit of weeks rioting.
The secretary of the interior has I'm
formed congress that the new pension
order will result in increasing expendi-
lures $5.40O, 900 each year.
. Frank b. Wright, formerly cashier OF
the First national bank Of Dundee, ILL.,.
was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment for embezzling $5l, 200.
Wilkie l.. Edwards was arrested at
Colorado Springs, Col. for attempting
to murder his bride Of two months.
who is heiress to $1,000. 900.
Glenn Dawson. cashier of the Farm
ers' savings bank of Fenton, Ia, COM
mitted suicide in the bank. His ac-
counts are said to be straight.
The largest insurance policy ever
taken out by an individual. $1,50O.OO0.
has been issued by the Mutual Life to
James c. Colgate. New York banker.
H. G. Jepson. hermit. was found
dead in the woods near Escanaba.
Mich, with record Of his illness to
the day of his death ciutched in his
hands.
Gen. w. H. Payne, who was COM
mander of the famous confederate
Black Horse cavalry at the first BAT
tie of Bull Run, died in Washington,
aged 70 years.
Three members of an alleged mall
practice syndicate were held in Phil
ndelphia in connection with the deaths
Of two women. Doctors testified that
the syndicate had disposed of hundreds
Df babies by burning them.