The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-06-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Tor the week Ending June IL.

u. +. Dewey, OF Manhattan, Kan, the
millionaire ranchmen, is dead at Wheel
ing. w. Va.
John Alexander Dowie has announced
his intention to establish Zion 40 miles
from Berlin. Germany. ~
Democrats of the Twentieth Illinois
district nominated HenryT. Rayner, Of
Carrollton, for congress.
Fire destroyed the Crescent Coal COM
pany's yards in Chicago, causing total
loss estimated at $250,000.
The Pearce wooden mill at Greenville,
Pa. was totally destroyed by fire. The
loss is about $50, 900 with $45, 900 insur-
ance.
The democrats of Colorado named del
egates to the national convention at st.
Louis. The delegation goes unin-
structed
The Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
main building was totally destroyed by
fire at Troy, N. Y. The loss will exceed
100000.
The great hive, Ladies Of the Macca-
bees in session at Battle Creek, Mich, re-
elected Mrs Frances Burns great CONF
mander.
Cardinal Satoli was passenger on
the steamer Princess Irene. which ar
rived in New York from Genoa, Naples
and Gibraltar.
Dominic j. Murphy, commissioner Of
pensions under Cleveland, was elected by
the Panama canal commissioners as Sec
rotary of that body.
Kokichi Maraka was hanged at Folsom.
Cal, for the murder Of Mr.. and Mrs. T.
Yoskimoto and another Japanese in
Sacramento . year and half ago.
William H. Colby, judge Of the probate
court of Sangamon county, Illinois,
dropped dead in his Office in Springfield,
Ill. The cause was heart disease.
Laurence Hutton, the well-known au-
thor and literary critic and lecturer in
English literature in Princeton univer-
sity, died suddenly at Princeton, N. j.,
aged 81 years.
Secretary Wilson Is on a tour of about
ten days in western states to inspect the
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
tons. He will visit Wisconsin. Mime
sofa and Iowa.
Isaac c. Alden, Of Akron, o.. formerly
head Of the Alden Rubber company. filed
. petition in voluntary bankruptcy His
liabilities are stated to be $23S. 120. and
assets $10S.113.
The government has nolle pressed the
two remaining indictments against Har-
rison ]. Barrett, former law clerk of the
post ONCE department, growing out Of
the postal investigation.
Julius Meinshock, who shot and killed
Mary Dowdyney in Cincinnati. died at
the city hospital from the effects of NOR
phine which it is said he swallowed
shortly after killing the woman.
Morris Finkel, an actor. shot his wife
at Vailsburg. N. j.. and then shot and
killed himself. Mrs. Finkel is so dan
gerously wounded that she may die. The
cause of the shooting is not known.
Milton E. Clark, a pioneer banker Of
Leavenworth. Kan, and father Of Mrs.
Flower, of New York, formerly Miss
Hilda Clark, the prima donna, died az
the result of an operation for apppendi-
citis.
Members of the honorary board of
Filipino commissioners to the Louisiana
Purchase exposition reached Washing
ton and from that point will begin their
tour of the United States as the guests Of
the Government.
Frantic with fear at q fire in a six
story tenement house in New York. Mrs.
Benjamin APPEL threw her only child, a
babe of four months, from window Of
her apartment to death on the pave
ments stories below.
Thibetans recently attacked the Brit
ish post at Khangma. The British losses
were one Ghurka killed and five wound
ed. The Thibetans left ia men dead
around the post and many others were
killed in the pursuit.
The state convention of the prohibit
ton party in Connecticut made nomina-
lions for state officers, for congress and
for presidential electors. Fred C. Plat,
of New Britain, was nominated for gov
ernor
The national convention of the peo-
pies party will be held in Springfield.
ILL.,, July T. Among those mentioned for
the nomination for president are
Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia. and
Samuel w. Williams of Indiana.