The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-11
the NEWS IN BRIEF.

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For tAe Week Ending Feb. g.
Lake Village, Ark, was almost totally
destroyed by fire.
The shipbuilding trust fight ended by
G. M. Schwab surrendering control.
Ernest Cashell was hanged at Calgary,
N. w. T., for the murder Of a ranchman.
John w. Daniel has been reelected
United States senator by the Virginia
legislature.
Lord Wolseley declared in London
that the American army was the finest
in the world.
Business failures in January aggre-
gated $1s,4S3,573, against $12, 97S, 979 in
January, 1903.
The National Republican Editorial
association began its annual convention
at Washington.
The Baptist May anniversaries will
be held in Cleveland, o., from May 16
to "a, inclusive
Boxing bouts at Detroit, Mich, have
been prohibited by a special order of
Mayor Maybury.
Five students have been expelled from
Princeton IN. j. university for cheating
at examinations.
Gov. Peabody, OF Colorado, has pro-
claimed the term of martial law at Grip
pie Creek at an end.
The. south is estimated to be $780,
100000 richer througheD. ]. sully's bull
campaign in cotton.
Mrs. Abby B. Frost, sister of the late
George Francis Train, died at Omaha
at the age of 81 years.
Mexico has issued decree forbidding
any person bearing firearms to cross the
border of the country.
William w. Shaw, pioneer in the
cracker manufacturing in the west, died
at his home in Chicago, aged u years.
Congressman Charles E. Fuller has
been renominated by the Twelfth dis
trict republican convention at Ottawa,
Ill.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York, or
dered six theaters closed because they
have not made certain alterations for
safety.
National banks have been notified by
Secretary Shaw that 20 per cent. Of
government funds held by them will be
needed.
Harry Forbes was knocked out in the
fifth round by Abe Attel, of st. Louis, in
a battle for the worlds featherweight
honors.
M. S. Otero, probably the wealthiest
man in New Mexico and delegate in
congress from 1873 to 1888, died at Albu-
querque.
Secretary Taft asks congress to APP
propriate $4,000 to pay for chickens
stolen by the soldiers during the ma
neuvers.
Adolph Schwarzmann, one of the
founders of Puck, and editor in chief
of that paper, died in New York, aged
GO years.
Two twin baby sisters named Black
were SO badly bitten by rats at the Lo-
gan county children's home in Ohio that
they died.
Thrilling experiences at sea were re-
lated when the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse arrived in New York, 43
hours late.
Yaqui Indians held up stage be-
tween Ortiz and Las Cruces, Mexico.
and the passengers. six in number.
were massacred.
Corporal Charles A. Valois and his
young wife, spurned by relatives and
penniless, sought death together at
Saginaw, Mich.
]. G. Myers, a farmer, died at Car
thage, Mo-, having starved himself to
death. He had not eaten particle of
food for 40 days.
John Winters (colored), who shot
and killed John Eastland, a wealthy
planter Of Doddsville, Miss, was
lynched by a mob.
A caucus of democratic members of
the Maryland legislature selected Isi-
dor Rayner, of Baltimore, for the
United States senatorship.
Ex-Secretary of War Root, at ban
quet in his honor by the New York
Union League club, said he returned
convinced the government was grow
ing better.
George A. Rose, late cashier of the
Produce Exchange bank in Cleveland,
who confessed to embezzling $4,000,
has been sentenced to ten years inn
prisonment.