The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-01-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Eada.s Jan. 10.
Edwin Warfield was inaugurated as
governor of Maryland.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
bank q COT. Kan, secured $4,000 and
escaped.
Sixteen churches in Chicago have
been closed for violations of the build
ing law.
Fire at Hayre, Mont. caused a loss
of 100000 and left many persons
homeless.
The Persian government has recog-
uized the independence of the republic
of Panama.
Butch" Riley, negro who killed C..
c. Mcmillan near Tallulah, Miss, was
lynched by mob.
The annual dinner of the diplomatic
corps was given at the white house by
President and Mrs. Roosevelt.
John s. Cooper's horse sale pavilion
and mule stables were burned at Oma-
ha and eight horses persisted.
A. A. Volks. rich farmer of Sioux
Los Angeles, Cal, while insane.
Ex-Gov. John Young Brown died at
Henderson, Ky He was prominent as
a statesman, soldier and citizen.
Col. Thomas M. Gunter, a member
of congress from 1875 to 1885, died
in Fayetteville, Ark, aged IS years.
AS a result of drinking ginger ale
favored with lemon extract three men
died from poisoning at Alexander, Ark.
E. H. McCutcheon, head of the bank
ing house of E. H. McCutcheon & Co..
of Holstein, Ia. died of typhoid fever.
Henry Ford, of Detroit, Mich, clipped
6A seconds off the worlds automobile
record for mile, his time being O:39 2-5.
A run on the Superior (Wis.) First
National bank was continued by saw
ings depositors till $325, 900 had been
withdrawn.
Indiana farmers boys are warned by
state board of education bulletin
against emigrating to Chicago and other
large cities.
The house committee on insular af-
fairs proposes to bring 600 teachers from
Porto Rico to attend summer schools in
the United States.
Rev. Joseph Platt. "a wears old. WIN
has held many charges in Presbyterian
church in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.
died in Davenport.
Tieup of navigation decided on by
Lake Carriers association at it's De-
troit (Mich.) convention, to check de-
mands of unions.
An American group" to be affiliated
with the interparliamentary union for
international arbitration, has been or.
ganized in congress.
A negro named Gilmore Mosefey was
lynched by mob of negroes in Sus-
sex county, Va. after being acquitted
in trial for murder.
The commissioner of internal revenue
says that state prisons can manufacture
tobacco or cigars for their own mates
without paying license.
Removal of disfiguring advertising
signs along railroad lines is recommends
ed by Gov. Murphy in his message to
the New Jersey legislature.
The war department has ordered that
hereafter all details of staff officers for
Philippine duty shall be for three years
instead of two. as at present.
Joe Cans title of lightweight cham
pion was successfully defended at De-
troit, Mich, against Willie FITZGERALD.
of Brooklyn, after ten rounds.
Rather than risk wrecks, the North
western railway ordered that no train
shall run at more than schedule speed.
no matter how late it may be.
August w. Machen, the Groffs and the
Lorenzes were placed on trial in Wash
ington under indictments in connection
with post Office investigation.
Carriages for use at funerals are hard
to get in Chicago owing to the revival
of the strike by livery drivers. Hearses
are not to be interfered with.
The Union national and Colonial ma
tional banks of Cleveland have CONSOLE
dated under the name of the former, with
Senator M. A. Hanna. as president.
Senator Reed Smoot replies to charges
made against him. He declares he is not
a polygamist and has taken no oath
whichinterferes with his allegiance.
A new picketing method has been
devised by the Chicago Federation of
Labor to force nonunion men to Join or
leave the city; abuse of family to he
tried.
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