The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-02-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

FOR the week B0dlAg Feb. II
Bandits dynamited the safe of banl
1t Rayia. l. T., and secured 81, 700.
Burglars wrecked the interior of the
Aillerstown (Pa.) bank and got $500.
After run of ten days the Bank Of
Dunn. N. c.. state institution, closed
itsSdoors. d.
Paul Misik, convicted of the murder
of Charles O'Brien, was hanged al
Hartford. Conn.
The Equitable national bank of New
York city closed its doors, with de.
posits Of $395,273.
The Citizens national bank, of Nc.
Gruder, Tex, closed it's doors with liza.
bilities of $134,603.
A national boxing association has
been organized at Detroit to control
professional boxing.
Henry w. Oliver, of Pittsburg, CAPT.
tallst, steel master and politician, died
at the age of 81 years.
Erastus Wiman, once a famous pro.
moter, died poor on Staten Island. N. Y,
at the age of 20 years.
The 10000 rural free delivery mail
carriers in the United States will have
holiday February %.
Rev. Mr.. Soden, a Baptist minister a
Miss Clinton and a child were killed in
tornado at Union, Ark.
-Four men were crushed to death a,
Steubenville, O., by the caving in OF q
pile OF iron ore at mine. .re
Fourteen persons were killed and more
than a score injured in railway col.
llslon near Sand Point, Ont.
John A. Roche, mayor of Chicago
from 1887 to 1898. died suddenly OF
heart disease. aged 60 years.
Ice gorges in the Susquehanna river
were causing great damage at Wilkes.
barre, Pa, and other places. .+as +.
Inc new customs duties announced py
Cuba practically prohibit American
competition in many articles. ;Has
Mayor johnson formally opened the
national bowling tournament at Cleve-
land by rolling the first ball.
Andre Matteson, for 20 years editor
Of the Chicago Times, died at his home
IN Highland Park. ILL.,, aged Is years.
George Bearskin, principal chief of
the Seneca Indians. was found frozen to
death by the roadside near Cayuga.
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The Iowa convention to select dele
gates to the national democratic con-
vention will be held in Des Moines on
May 4. '4 - ''''z.' ''7 - -
-Four men were shot to death and
three wounded at Coal Greek, Tenn.
In fight between union and nonuniop
miners. ~a,~ .....5sg.
James Mcdonald, a teamster, was ar
rested at Bedford, Ind, on suspicion of
being the murderer of Miss Sarah C.
Schafer. f.tal"f} I'll ''f0Yi 'S'
Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, former
London preacher, has been called to the
Second Presbyterian church in Chicago
as pastor.
Two twin baby sisters named Blacl,
were so badly bitten by rats at the Lo.
gan county children's home in Ohio that
they died. @ i'titI@-.7f, s'il -.
Owing to shortage of So, 500 in the
cashiers accounts the savings depart
ment Of the Wolfboro IN. HI Loan
bank closed.
Twenty persons leaped from the third
story windows of a. burning factory
building In Brooklyn, N. Y, and five were
fatally injured
August w. Machen, the central figure
in the postal trial in Washington, took
the witness stand and denied all the
charges preferred against him.
Rev. James Warden, who for GO years
was an active Methodist minister, has a:
the age of 1O2 years been admitted to
the Baltimore (Md.) almshouse.
Two of the three great buildings of
the Corn Products company were de-
stroyed by fire at Oswego. N. Y, caus-
ing a loss exceeding $1,O0O,O00.
A banquet 40 feet under Jackson
boulevard, in the Illinois Telephone
company's tunnel, was given by the
latter to 1000 guests in Chicago.
Secretary Taft told the house COM
mittee on insular affairs that slavery
had been abolished in the Philippines
by legislative action taken there.
Advices say that the powers of the
world are indorsing Secretary Hays
plan and that the integrity of China is
assured, no matter how the Russo-Jap-