The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-12-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Ending Dec. 10.
Fire in the business district OF g.
Joseph. Mich, caused damage esttmsa'
ed at $4,000.
Fire destroyed the main building Of
the Pontiac Ull.) Shoe Manufacturing
company. Loss, $4,000.
Charles H. Slack & Co.. prominent
Chicago grocers, failed with liabilities
Of $167, 900 and assets Of 100000.
Catholics all over the world cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary of the
proclamation of the dogma OF the I'm
maculate Conception.
Thomas B. Ayers and wife, Of Meadow
Grove, Neb., each SO years old. were
caught on a high bridge by a train, ana
we're hurled to death.
Charles H. Laird. an expert rifle shot.
and winner of the international cham
pionship in 1879, is dead as the result
Of stroke of paralysis.
Thieves entered the post Office at
Harrison, Westchester county, N. T..
blew open the safe and stole $3.50 in
Maj. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles is heading
1 movement for the erection Of monu-
ment on the site of the famous Ander-
sonville prison, at Andersonville, Ga.
Baron Won Busche, with 20 men,
proceeding to Warmbad German
southwest Africa, was attacked by
rebels and II of the men were killed.
Ralph Adams, aged 16; Frank Bayless,
aged 16, and Burdett Bleet, aged IL,
were drowned while skating on the
Lake of the Woods, near Decatur. Mich.
Elias Johnson, farmer living near
Orearville, Mo-, shot and killed his
wife, believing some one was stealing
his chickens. A coroner's jury is In
vestigating.
The relatives of j. l.. Boyd. 16-
year-old jockey, whose whereabouts are
unknown, state that he is the sole heir
TO an estate of 5000, 600 left him by his
grandmother.
James McCord, former mayor of La
Crosse, Wis, and prominent whole-
sale druggist, is dead, aged 63 years
He was one of the pioneer druggists OF
the northwest.
The president expects all the meme
hers of his cabinet and all ambassa-
doris and ministers to send in their
designations between now and the
fourth of March next.
According to the annual report OF
Herbert Putnam, librarian Of congress.
The total number Of printed books and
pamphlets in the library is 1.179.7l3, q
tain of 1891 for the past fiscal year.
Hon. William Milliken. said to be the
oldest newspaper editor in the United
States, dice in Washington Court
House.. O., aged SO years. He served
terms in the Ohio and Indiana legisla-
lures. =:
Eleven fishermen were drowned in
an attempt to assist the Norwegian
steamer Anglia. from Hamburg for
Sunderland, which was wrecked ON
the rocks near Newbiggin, NOrthum-
berland. a,.
Constable Joseph F. Biedermann
was killed when rival slot machine
raiding parties clashed in Blue
Island, ILL.,, saloon. His antagonists.
Il two Of whom wore constables' stars,
were arrested.
Il An Official statement given out by tho
Interior department announces the gov
ernment's purpose to prosecute every
guilty man in the public land frauds to
the full extent Of the law, regardless
* nf n0sition in life.
az A bold robbery was committed at tho
a office Of the waterworks department, In
Cleveland, O. About $4,000 in currency
and checks was taken from the desk of
Cashier G. A.. Patterson while he had
stepped aside for moment. E
Syveton, the nationalist deputy
whose action in striking War Minister
; Andre in the French chamber of depn-
ties November 4 led to the minister's
resignation, was found dead, in Paris.
having been asphyxiated by gas. ~
/ Rev. e. p Dorset, pioneers Episcopal
minister of the northwest, died in Ia
Crosse, Wis, aged 70 years. He was or.
dained so years ago. and has been rec
| tor of various Episcopal churches u
Illinois. Wisconsin and Minnesota.
While in q delirium,, John Delaney.
sailor from Binghamton, N. r,
. jumped from the third story window
of the marine hospital at Cleveland,
, O., and received such severe injuries