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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
PoPULIsTs NOMINATE.
Thomas E. Watson Their Candidate for
President, with Thomas II. Hb-
,bles as Running Mate.

Springfield ILL.,, July 6.-Thomas e.
Watson. of Georgia. for president, and
Thomas H. Tibbles. of Nebraska, for
vice president was the ticket nominated
Tuesday by tha populist national con-
vention.
The platform adopted reafirms adj
herence to the basic truths Of the Omaha
platform of 1892, and of the subsequent
platforms Of 1896 and 1900; demands
that all money shall be issued by the
government in such quantities as shall
maintain stability in prices, every dol
lar to be full legal tender, none of
which shall be debt redeemable in
other money, for establishment of postal
savings banks; pledges the efforts of the
party to preserve the right of labor to
organize for the benefit and protection of
those who toll, and pleads for that broad
spirit of liberation and justice which
will promote industrial peace through
the observance Of the principles of vol
untary arbitration; favors enactment Of
legislation looking to the Improvement
of conditions for wage-earners, the
abolition Of child labor, the suppression
Of sweatshops and of convict labor in
competition with free labor, the exclu-
sion from American shores of foreign
pauper labor and the shorter work day;
favors the initiative, referendum and
proportional representation and direct
vote for all public officers with the right
of recall; demands prohibition Of alien
ownership of land; dehounces govern
ment by injunction and Imprisonment
without right of trial by jury; favors
government ownership of public untili-
ties; demands that special privileges
now enjoyed by trusts and monopolies,
and which alone enable them to exist, be
Immediately Withdrawn.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
BIC: STEAMSHIP
STRIKES A REEF
DANISH VESSEL NORGE, LADEN
WITH EMIaRANTs, SINKS OFF
COAST OF SCOTLAND.
OF the 774 Persons on Board, 62o Are
Still Missing, and Have Probably
Observation-Disclosures Of the Yes
sells Captain.

London, July 5.-Early on the morn
ing of June %, the Danish steamer,
Norge, which left Copenhagen June %
with ia passengers on board, all Of
whom, except members of the crew,
were Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and
Finnish emigrants, ran onto the Rock
all reef, about 29O miles off the west
coast of Scotland, and sank in a few
minutes. OF those on board las are
known to have been saved. There is
little hope for the remaining 629, vino
are missing, and doubtless drowned.
Soon Sinks.
According to the survivors, the mo-
ment the vessel struck the engines
were reversed and the Norge came
back into deep water. The rent in her
bows was so large, however, that she
began to fill rapidly. The vessels
eight boats were swung over the sides
rapidly and the women and children
were put into them first. There was
heavy sea running and in lowering the
boats one was smashed.
many x0oSCUSOs
The steamer trawler Saliva put into
Grimsby late Sunday night with 26
rescued Scandinavians aboard. On
Monday 1O2 survivors, who had been
picked up by passing steamers. were
landed at stornoway, Scotland. Among
these were Capt. Gundel, of the Norge,
Capt. Gundel's statement, which reads
like an AFFIDAVIT from the dead, for he
went down with his ship, maintains
that the Norge struck on sunken
rock 10 miles from Rockall.
Glasgow, Scotland, July 9.-Another
boat with Norge survivors, II passen-
gers, eight sailors and one child, has
reached the Shetland islands. This
boat, which was in charge of the sec
ond mate of the Norge, was eight days
on the open sea. The party rowed the
entire distance to the islands All on
board the boat were much exhausted
and unable to stand when landed.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
BLOWN FROM A BRIDGE.
Seven Men Killed and Two Injured
as Result Of Tornado at
Thebes, Ill.

st. Louis, July "a special to the
Republic from Cape Girardeau, Mo-,
says: Seven workmen were killed and
two others seriously injured by being
blown from the second arch of the new
railroad bridge across the Mississippi
river at Thebes, ILL.,, Friday night. The
tornado struck travelling crane, upon
which the men were at work, and
pushed it backward for 200 feet. At
the second. arch from the Missouri
shore it struck an obstruction and was
hurled to the rocks below. A relief
train was hastily made up and the
dead and injured brought here.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
AN AL1-N1aHT SESSION.
Wild Scenes Follow Representation Of
Candidates. Names.

Wild Scenes Follow Representation Of
Candidates' Names.
st. Louis, July 9.-The morning ses-
sion of the democratic national conven-
ton on Friday was very brief, adjourn
ment being taken until evening to re-
ceive the report of the committee on res
buttons. At the opening of the evening
session the platform was adopted, and
then began a call of the states for presi-
Dental nominees.
Martin w. Littleton, Of New York,
placed Judge Parker in nomination.
For Is minutes the delegates and the gal
leries cheered, shouted and yelled for
Parker, while banners were carried in
struggling professions to the blare Of
bands and the singing of men.
E. M. Delmas, of California, NOM
mated Hearst. For IS minutes delegates
and galleries yelled, shouted and
cheered for Hearst, while men marched
in professions and carried banners and
flags to the music of bands
L. Irving Handy Of Delaware pro-
posed Judge Gray's name. David Over
meyer of Kansas nominated Gen. Nell
son A. Miles. Richard Olney of Mas
sachusetts was nominated by Mayor
Collins of Boston, and Mayor Rose of
Milwaukee presented the name of Mr..
Wall, Wisconsin's favorite son. Sen
ator Cockrell's name, presented by
Champ Clark, set the convention wild
again at two o'clock in the morning.
the scene was well night Unprecedented.
Ten thousand people in round numbers
were still in the big hall.at 2:10 a. NJ,
pounding. cheering, yelling at the name
of venerable senator whose nomina-
ton before the convention was moth
ing more than the merest formality.
No ballot had been taken at 4:3O q. m.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

The corn crop, which is so import.
ant matter to the Southern farmer,
although not usually considered a
cash crop. is making as good progress
as cotton, and large yield is indi-
Gated. A good corn crop has most
important bearing upon the sale of
the cotton crop. If corn is abundant
farmers have to buy much less feed
for their stock and food for their
hands. hence cotton has to bear q
smaller per cent. of the cost Of main.
tanning the farm.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
TRAIN WRECKED
BY Open Switch
TERRIBLE DISASTER OCCURS on
THE WABASH RAILROAD AT
LITCHFIELD, ILL.
Nineteen Persons Are Known to Have
Been Killed-The Injured Number
IS or 4O-Cars Take Fire and
Victims Burn.

st. Louis, July 5.-A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Litchfield, ILL.,.
says: Nineteen are dead and NUM-
Der are missing as result OF the
wreck on the Wabash railroad here
Sunday night, when train No. II from
Chicago left the track at misplaced
switch and crashed into a line of
freight cars standing on sidetrack.
Seven hundred persons we're on the
Inflated train at the time it dashed
into the sidetrack. The injured num-
Der IS or 40.
The following is revised list of
the dead:
Mrs. Florence Smith, 215 Twenty
fifth place, Chicago.
Mrs. Perkins, 500 Union avenue,
Chicago.
Charles Galaise. 1884 Michigan ave-
nue., Chicago.
Harry M. Dietrich, Chicago.
Miss G.. F. Luther, Milwaukee.
Isaac r. Mills, Decatur.
Ubald st. Pierre. Montreal, Canada.
Jacob Barber, Park River, N. d.
L. A. Eichstadt, 1854 South Albany
avenue, Chicago.
James Sanford, engineer, Decatur.
Rev. M. M. Mills, Bridgeton, Ia.
Charles Ward, 215 Sixty-dfth place,
Chicago.
H. l. Graves, train dispatcher. De-
catur.
w. F. Smith. fireman, Decatur.
Richie Noack. boy about eight years,
Arlington Heights, Chicago.
William Camdalis. haywood, Ill.
Two unidentified men.
Saw Three Burn to Death.
A. e. Darling, of 1856 Forest Park
boulevard, st. Louis. was one of the
passengers on board the observation
car. He said: Il saw three persons
burned to death. One was man and
the other a young girl. do not know
their names. Wreckage held them
down until the heat became unbearable
and the men who were trying to save
them could not remain another mo-
ment. There was another passenger,
a woman, whose feet were pinned
down by a heavy beam. It could not
be moved, and she begged that her
feet be cut of. Flames drove every
body away before she could be saved.
F. Ward, of Chicago, showed particu-
lar nerve. One of his legs had been
torn off. When he was carried out
of the wreck he said: "Lay me down
somewhere and go back and save the
women and children"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

The entomologists of the agricu.
tural department at Washington are
disposed to think that there is q gen.
eral tendency to make exaggerated es.
Inmates of the amount of damage done
to the cotton crop by the cotton boil
weevil. Some of these estimates have
been as high as $55 900. The cen.
sus office, in its final bulletin on the
quantity Of cotton ginned in the Unit.
ed States of the crop Of 1903, estimates
the total loss due to the boil weevil at
$49.272,989. The estimate Of the bu.
reau of entomology is not over
$15.O00,00o.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
THE SECOND DAY.
Bryan's Determined Fight for illinois
Cnnfosfa nfS T.oaf

Bryan's Determined Fight for illinois
Contestants Lost.
St. Louis, July 8.-The democratic
national convention on Thursday
adopted the report Of the committee
on rules. credentials and permanent
organization. The session opened at
ten o'clock, an hour later took re-
cess until two p. M, and adjourned at
6:20 until ten o'clock to-day. During
the day several speeches were made.
chief of which was William Jennings
Bryan's effort to overthrow the report
of the credentials committee and seat
contesting delegates from Illinois. The
controversy was ended by the rejection
of the minority report of the commit
tee by vote of CAT nays to 299 ayes.
The ovation given Mr.. Bryan was
one of the greatest ever transpiring at
any of the notable events for which
the immense coliseum is famed. It was
begun before the afternoon session of
the convention had been called to order
and continued for IL minutes with so
much Juror that Temporary Chairman
Williams and all of his assistants, in
Guiding 100 policemen, were unable to
restore order.
When the result of the contest was
announced the report of the commit
tee on permanent organization was
made. Representative Champ Clark,
who was chosen permanent chairman,
addressed the convention. Adjourn
ment was then taken until ten a. m. Fri
day. a..
The morning session of the conven-
ton was without material interest ex-
cept for the discussion caused by OBJ
lection to that part Of the report from
the committee on rules which
provides for the seating of delegates
sent by insuular possessions. Several
delegates discussed the report, and
roll call was asked for, but the re-
port was finally adopted without re-
sorting to that method Of determining
the action of the convention, but as a
result of ruling. by the temporary
chairman, acquiesced in by the conven-
ton, which has the effect Of refusing
representation to the delegates who had
come from the Philippines
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

A chain of electric power station,
stretching from Lima to point in the
Andes foothills, in Peru, South Ameri-
ca, is'to be the work of new firm of
engineers and architects. Much diff
Guilty will be experienced in transport
ing the construction material and the
heavy machinery from the seacoast to
about so miles inland. Roads are an
unknown quantity a short distance
from Lima. $3.50 a. 45
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

An Englishman visiting the Worlds
fair recently wore'fn his buttonhole an
orchid that had been plucked nearly
two months and was still fresh and
green. He called his floral ornament
an everlasting buttonhole," and stated
that it was the latest fad in. London.
The flower is new variety of the
orchid which has the useful merit Of
remaining fresh for 60 days after be-
ing plucked
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

Colorado is looking we'll after the
interests of those who desire fine fish.
ing. Last spring nearly 100000 east
ern brook-trout fry alone were dis.
tributed by the fish and game commits
sioner in the various streams of the
state, and there are more to follow.
The rainbow trout, for which the wa.
tiers Of the Rocky mountains, in Colo.
RADIO, are noted, will be distributed Ia
ter in the season in equally large
nuanfifies
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
City Not Liable.

Chicago, July S.-Ltigation to the
probable aggregate total of $4,000, 900
was discouraged Wednesday when Judge
Holdom, in the superior court, ruled that
the city Of Chicago was not liable in any
degree for the Iroquois theater fire. A
suit by Eva Catherine Gibson for SIS 900
damages because of a broken arm and an
injured spine was the case decided.
Sixty other suits are pending andhad the
decision been against the city hundreds
of other actions probably would have
been filed.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
BATTLE IN A STORM.
Russians Surprise and Annihilate
japanese outpost-Latter
Lose 1000 Men.

London, July 8.-The Central News
has dispatch from st. Petersburg
stating that early Wednesday morning
Gen. Kashtalinsky's troops surprised
and attacked the Japanese outposts at
Lantyansan. Advancing through a ter
rife rain storm; the Russians reached
the outlying videttes of the japanese
without an alarm being raised and
finally rushed the camp of the outpost,
killing every one in it. The japanese
were reinforced and made three fierce
attacks, but were repulsed. The adj
vance of the second Russian battalion
enabled the first to retire in safety.
The Russians had 300 casualties The
Japanese casualties are reported to
have been 1000.
Tatchekiao, July S.-The japanese
swarmed over the mountain crests early
Wednesday morning and advanced on
Kaichou, compelling Gen. Charikoff,
with the center of the Russian vanguard.
to fall back. A whole brigade of Japan
csc, with masses of cavalry, followed
and occupied the village of Nantay.
driving out two companies of Russian
infantry and two companies Of Cossacks
who were entrenched there.
st. Petersburg, July 9.-The war Of
fee confirms the reports of the Japan
ese advance toward Kaichou as report
ed in these dispatches, but is inclined
to regard the movement as a demon
stration while changing the disposition
Of troops to make an attack elsewhere.
Danger is considered more likely from
the direction of Ia or Fenshui passes.
although there is. no sign of a move
in force thence. Yet the advance upon
Kaichou extends over front of tx
miles and includes about 10000 men.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

Even in Spain waterfalls are now be.
ing used as source of electric power.
In one case % small villages are sup.
piled from the power station. In Italy
the employment Of innumerable water
falls has enormously increased the out.
put Of manufactured silk. Here"
says an English writer. sis form Of
power that will last longer than Great
Britain's coal fields.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

Colonization projects are proving
very popular in the agricultural dis.
tricts Of Colorado. Negotiations arc
pending for the purchase of 5000 acres
of land. in a twelve-mile trip, along the
Arkansas river, in Southern Colorado,
for the establishment of a colony Of
ranchmen. A large party of people
from Illinois is making arrangements
to settle in the famous San Luis val
ley, on tract Of several thousand
ACRES
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
Mother and Child Drowned.

Springfield, ILL.,, July 9.-The wife
and child of Harmon Werns, a farmer
near Chaplin, west Of this city on the
Wabash, were drowned in cistern
Friday. The child, 81 months old, fell
into the cistern, and the mother in
trying to rescue it also fell in. Before
assistance came she also drowned.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

The cultivation of rubber in Siam
has recently been started, some thou
sands of plants having been set out as
on experiment. These plants, of the
Para variety (Hevea brasiliensis), are
said to be doing exceedingly we'll, al.
Though they have had no especial care,
but have been planted unfortunately
in various places and under varying
conditions of moisture, sun, etc.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
aforementioned and Robbed.

Denver, Col, July 9.-Four of the
six union men who returned to their
Cripple Greek homes and were run out
by masked mob, say they were horse
whipped. robbed Of all their money
and valuables, amounting TO several
hundred dollars, by the whitecappers.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
DEMOCRATS NAME
ALLEN B. parker
NEW YORK JURIsT Is No1EI-
MATED FOR PRESIDENT ON
THE FIRST BALLOT.
Result Is Reached After an Albright
session-synopsis Of the Platform
Proceedings Of the Convention at
st. Louis. a.a

ST. Louis. July 9, a. Nudge AL
ton Brooks Parker, of New York. was
nominated for president Of the United
States by the democratic national con-
vention on the first ballot.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

In Germany, where indictments are
not made by grand juries, and where
there is no habeas corpus act, it has
sometimes happened that innocent PEG.
pie have been confined in jail for many
months. The Imperial Bundesrath is
now considering bill providing for
the awarding of damages to any inno-
cent person who may be forced to
serve q time in JAIL
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

Mrs. Daniel sully, who has been
much in the public eye as the wife of
the ex-cotton king, is said to be one of
the most expert needle women in Am
erica. Her embroidery Is equal to the
much-vaunted convent work, and her
favorite gift for bride, in her init
mate circle Of friends, is trousseau
Of lingerie worked entirely by her own
hands, from seams to monogram.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

One seldom hears of what is prob.
ably the largest and oldest-and to
Western eyes the oddest-university
in the world, EleAzhar. 'the splendid, -
at Cairo, Egypt. While the dates Of
the founding of the universities of Ok
ford. Paris. and Bologna, for which
great antiquity is claimed, are lost in
the midst Of the middle ages, FL
Azhar can read its title clear from the
year 975 A. D.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

A daily newspaper gives the follow.
ing estimate Of the number of idle
men In the various industries: Rail.
road employees, 10000; New England
mill operatives, 10000, packing house
employees, $4,000; iron and steel work.
ers, 10000; coal miners, 10000; work.
ers, s140, 900; coal miners, 10000;
workers in other trades and industries
(estimated), 10000; total. 665,OOO.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

the government, economically administered
against any industry. class or section, to
the end that the burdens of taxation
shall be distributed as equally as posi-
bic.
The Trust.
The platform recognizes that the gigantic
trusts and combinations. designed to enable
capital to secure more than its just share
of the joint products Of capital and labor,
and which have been fostered and pro-
NOTED under republican rule are a men
ace to beneficial competition and an OBJ
stacle to permanent business prosperity.
A private monopoly is indefensible and
tntolerable. Individual equality of oppor
tunity and free competition are essential
to healthy and permanent commercial
prosperity, and any trust, combination or
monopoly tending to destroy these by
controlling production, restricting COM
petition or fixing prices, should be pro-
hibited and punished by law. 1t especially
denounces rebates and discrimination
by transportation companies, as the most
potent agency in promoting and strength
ening these unlawful conspiracies against
trade. 1t demands strict enforcement of
existing civil and criminal statutes against
all such trusts combinations and monopo-
lies; and we demand the enactment of such
further legislation as may be necessary to
effectually suppress them.
On the race question the platform de-
clares that to revive the dead and hateful
race and sectional animosities in any part
Of our common country means confusion,
distraction of business and the reoponing
Of wounds now happily healed. It depre-
Gates and condemns the Bourbon-like sell
fish and narrow spirit Of the recent repub-
lican convention at Chicago, which sought
to kindle anew the embers Of racial and sec
tional strife, and we appeal from it to the
sober common sense and patriotic Split Of
the American people.
Appeal to the Country.
The existing republican administration
is strongly denounced for it's policies. In
conclusion the platform says: Conduct
ing the campaign upon this declaration Of
our principles and purposes. we invoke for
our candidates the support, not only Of our
great and time-honored organization, but
also the active assistance of all our fellow
citizens who, disregrading past differences
upon questions no longer in issue, desire
the perpetuation Of our constitutional gos''
eminent as framed and established by tho
fathers Of the republic
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
WIN Visit st. Lonia.

London, July 5.-Eighty members of
the house Of commons have announced
their intention of Joining the parlia-
mentary party which will visit the st.
Louis exposition in the autumn. It ia
exected that number of others will
also 60.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14
Six Persons Perish in Storm at Gin
ton, okla.-Kansas Cities
Are Inundated.

Oklahoma City, Okla, July ga wa
terspout, accompanied by terrific wind,
passed through Clinton, Okla, and vi
cinity about midnight Wednesday in
which six persons were killed and sew
eral injured. The dead are: Mrs. Baker
and three children; Mr.. and Mrs. John
Flenner. All were drowned. Reports
from Araphaie, Weatherford, Geary,
Cordell, Anadarco and other points in
western Oklahoma tell of great damage
by food.
Wichita, Kan, July S.-Wichita is
flooded worse than ever before in its his
tory. The bikes at several places along
the Little river gave way before the rush
of water which poured down Waco av-
enue, one of the principal residence
streets, in raging torrent, becoming
waist deep. The house of Cass Woods,
a park policeman at Riverside park, was
washed away, and Mrs. Woods died of
fright.
Topeka, Kan, July S.-Flood has
caused much damage here. In Topeka
proper the water is three blocks uptown
from the river channel. The well-to-do
class Of people in North Topeka stacked
their household goods in the upper
stories of their homes and fled. The
poorer classes, driving their live stock
before them, carried what goods they
could upon their shoulders The mer-
chants and milmen worked all night
getting their goods to safe quarters.
Boats are being. used
Kansas City, Mo-, July S.-One-half Of
Armourdale, the packing house town in
the suburbs on the Kansas side, is under
water from the overflow of the Kaw
river Over 5000 people fed from Ar
mourdale, many of whom were forced
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-14

In West Africa the natives hiss when
they are astonished; in the New He
brides when they see anything beauti.
full. The Basutos applaud a popular
orator in the assemblies by Kissing
him