The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-01-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tn. Week Fading J... n.

Eoe the week E0dtoG Jo0. A.
At Brighton. Col. the Adams county
courthouse was burned to the ground.
The Kentucky legislature passed a
bill appropriating $l.0OO.0O0 for new
state capitol.
Mayor j. NJ. May, inventor of farm
machinery, died in Cedar Rapids, Ia,
aged 80 years.
Mrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, daugh-
tec Of John Brown, the liberatoI, died at
Pasadena, Cal.
Mrs. Louisa Elton, % years of age.
killed her two children and herself in
New York city
William Sparrow and wife. old resi-
dents at kasson. Mimi. were asphyxi-
ated by coal gas.
G. A. Tressler. of Springfield, O.. has
been elected president of Midland college
at Atchison, Kan.
The will of former Gov. Asa S. Bush
nell. of Ohio. distributes an estate esti-
mated at 100000.
Burglars took 81 200 from the bank at
Jamestown. Miss. and $500 from the state
Uauh at mclean, NeO.
The distillery plant of Mihalovitch,
Fletcher & Co. at Cincinnati was burned.
the loss being $25O,O0O.
Franklin Union No. of Pressfeeders
In Chicago was placed in the hands OF
receiver by Judge Brentano.
Andrew Carnegie has given SIS 900 to
build library at Talladega college, a
coiored school at Talladega. Ala.
A plea for ship subsidies was made by
Senator Hanna at the national board OF
trade convention banquet at Washing
ton.
Gov. Yates has filed protest against
the Illinois state tax rate of SO cents per
500 valuation with the secretary OF
state.
Secretary Hay left Washington for
brownsville. Ca. where he expects to
remain two weeks as the guest of Col.
Payne.
Kid Carter knocked out Joe Choyr-
Ski In the first round of a fight at Bos-
ton and the police arrested both prin-
cipals.
New coaches which, it is claimed, can
not be telescoped, are being tried by the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
company.
The New York Central railroad will
try to break the worlds speed record
Of 120 miles an hour made at Prossen,
Germany.
Control Of the copper supply and mar
kets of the world has passed to the hands
of the Standard Oil company and the
Rothchilds.
A. j. McLaurin and III. d. Money have
been elected by the Mississippi legisla-
ture to succeed themselves in the United
States senate.
A Brooklyn IN. W wife beater was
sent to prison for eight years on his
eighth appearance before the courts on
the same charge.
Mrs. Linday Allison, who claimed to
be the Oldest resident in the United
States. died at Pensacola, Fla, at the
age of 1873 Yeas.
While handling gun he did not
know was loaded Charles Crabtree, a ~
year-old boy at Burlington. Ia, acciden-
tally killed his mother.
The ELEPHANT breaker and washery Of
the Delaware & Hudson company at Oly-
plant. Pa. was destroyed by fire, throw
ing $500 persons out of work.
A movement is under way to secure
investigation by the national govern
ment into the causes of fires and to avert
the great loss of life and property.
Cured of broken neck, James Dunn.
II years old. has been discharged from
hospital in New York, where he had
spent five months in plaster cast.
w. j. Bryan, in an address at Linz
coin (Neb.) banquet given in his honor.
opposed abandonment Of "bimetalism"
or change in party's tariff attitude.
Santa Fe railroad officials were elated
over life sentence given John Divine
for wrecking the Colorado express on
October 80, by which Is were injured.
The latest reports to the American
board in Boston from the relief centers
in Macedonia show that there are now
100000 persons homeless and without
means of support.
A battle at Puerto Plata between San
Domingo revolutionists and government
forces was practically refereed by the
United States naval commander, who