The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-06-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Nay "a.

For the Week Ending Nay "a.
Maj. Gen. Sir John c. MCNEIL II
dead in London. He was born in 1881.
Hester Jackson. a negro woman who
claimed to be 1Os years old, is dead
in Washington city.
Daniel Graves, an so-year-old man.
was struck by lightning at North
Branch. Mich. and instantly killed.
. On the first ballot Robert H. Patton,
Of Springfield. was nominated Tor gov
ernor by the Illinois state prohibition
convention.
Prof. William H. Pettee, senior pro-
lessor of mining engineering at the
University of Michigan, dropped dead
ut Ann Arbor.
Stephen Herbert was arrested In
Providence, R. L., charged with steal.
Ing 1ewelry valued ct 100000 from ].
w. Kiser. Of Chicago.
G. G. Clark, a farmer near Wayne.
Neb.. was killed by lightning and his
son severely injured. Three horses they
were driving were killed.
Thomas w. Brennan and Daniel
Tautis: farmers. have been killed by
lightning near Sioux City. la, The two
were killed by 4 single bolt.
The democratic state convention Of
Maryland met In Baltimore, adopted q
platform and elected delegates-at-large
to the St Louis convention.
Charles Penio, the oldest chief of the
Ukiah tribe. is dead at Cox ranchero.
in California. and the Indians cele.
brated death feast. Penio was 107
years of age.
Nine hundred heavy hardware han
dlers struck for higher wages in Chi
,cago. The strike will cripple for a time
most. if not all. of the dealers in steel
/ s. and heavy hardware. =. ,
The president has xappeinted Com
mander Samuel w. B. Diehl to suceeed
Capt Samuel G. Lemly, as Judge advo-
cate general Of the navy, when the lat
ter's term expires June 8:
twenty persons were injured, some
seriously, in wreck on the Cleveland
4 Pittsburg road. near East Liverpool,
o. The wreck was caused by the train
running into some freight cars.
The Oxford University Athletic club,
on behalf of Oxford. and Cambridge
universities, has sent challenge to
Harvard and Yale to hold an athletic
meeting in London this summer.
The Illinois democratic state conyen.
ton will meet in Springfield on June
IA, at IL o'clock noon. TO nominate
candidates for state Offices, delegates
to the national convention, and presi.
Dental electors-at-large. ta
Rear Admiral Evans, just returned
from the far east on the battleship
Kentucky, says in an interview that
there is grave danger of China taking
up arms with Japan, and predicts q
general war would follow.
In the superior court at Grand Rap
ids. Mich.,, jury was secured in tho
trial of Eugene d. Conger, manager Of
the Grand Rapids Herald, who is
charged with conspiracy in the Lake
Michigan water deal of 1900.
Shortage of traffic and consequent ne
cessity for reducing expenses on the
Pennsylvania railroad are the reasons
given for the closing to through traffic
of the new Portage branch, built within
two years at a cost of $5,0O0,O0O.
A tornado struck about two miles
south of Guthrie. o. T.. doing much
damage to property. five farm houses
and many outbuildings having been de.
molished. From the wind and hail
the crops also suffered heavily.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives the total number Of EN-.
ployes in the executive civil service
of the United States as 150,383. These
figures include only those employees
who are required to take ar examina-
ton.
The First National bank, of Cape
May, N. j., was closed by order of the
comptroller Of the currency. It is said
that the depositors will be paid in full.
Financial difficulties of the former pres
ident, it. is stated, caused the present
trouble.
A double drowning in Big Yellow
creek, at Hammondsville. o. The dead
are Annie Piatt. aged IA years. and
Sadie Hardie. aged IL years. The girls
are supposed to have gone wading in
the stream. 1t is probable they ven
tured out too far and were swept away
by the swift current.