The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-04-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending April H.,

For the Week Ending April TO-
Congressman Amos ID. Allen, OF AL
fred. was renominated by the First
Maine district republican convention.
Congress has been formally invited to
attend the opening OF the Louisiana
Purchase exposition on Saturday, April
30.
The supreme court decided that
books are not entitled to transmission
through the mails as second class mat.
ter.
Twelve prisoners confined in the-mili-
tary guardhouse in Des Moines escaped
by saving their way out with a case
knife.
1t Is ohcially announced at the
worlds fair in ST. Louis that the total
number of employees may slightly ex-
coed 100000.
In the Fourth Michigan district repub-
ltcan convention Congressman Edward
L. Hamilton, of Niles, was renominated
by reclamation
Martin Hannen, a laborer, was killed
and five other persons were injured in
collision between an electric car and
wagon in Minneapolis, MINI.
The steamer Ranger, with 10000
seals; the Bloodhound, with 5000. and
the Leopard. with 1000, orrived at St.
Johns. N. F., from the ice fields.
Hadji Mohammed Bui Aboullah. the
Mad Mullah against whom the British
have been conducting a campaign in So
maitland, has escaped into Italian terri
tory.
Thirty-four anacondas were born in
the New York geological park, and the
mother snake fought to prevent the
keeper from approaching the little
ones
The United States is held liable by
federal court for damages to the own
ers Of British steamer run down and
sunk by cruiser during the war with
Spain.
The plant of the Pittsburg Lumber
company. about two miles north of Will
mington. N. c.. was destroyed by fire.
Loss. 100000; insurance about one.
fourth.
William MacQueen, an anarchist who
returned from England to serve out
i've years sentence for melting the silk
riots at Paterson. N. j., two years ago.
surrendered himself to the sheriff at
Paterson.
+. H. Hartman. Of New York, presi-
dent Of the New York worlds fair COM
mission, will deliver the address on be-
half of the domestic exhibitors at the
opening exercises of the worlds fair in
st. Louis.
Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson
was defeated in his fight for the NOM
ination for congress from the Sixth
Alabama district. j. H. Bakhead, the
incumbent. being renominated at the
primaries.
The president has contributed the sum
Of 500. and the secretary of the navy
a like sum, as the nucleus of a fund for
the relief of the dependent next of kin of
the enlisted men who lost their lives in
the disaster on the Missouri.
d. T. Larkin. a United States deputy
marshal of Virginia, has been allowed
$4,000 by the house committee on
claims towards the expense he was put
to In defending himself in the courts
for having killed moonshiner.
According to dispatch received from
Windhock, German southwest Africa, a
captain. a first lieutenant and six men
were killed and lieutenant and seven
men severely, and five slightly, wounded
in battle with the Hereros on April Is.
Samuel Hoar. a distinguished lawyer,
and nephew of United States Senator
George F. Hoar. died at Concord, Mass.
Of paralysis. He was 50 years old, and
for nearly 20 years had been general
counsel for the Boston & Albany rail-
road.
The jury in the case of the United
States against Charles F. w. Nicely.
former director of finance Of the post
Offices of Cuba, in which 1t was sought
to determine the exact amount of his
populations. failed to agree in New
York and was discharged.
The Federal bank, state institution
in New York city, has closed, and OH
cials of the state banking department
are in charge. The banks capital is
$250.O00. According to the last state
ment in January the individual deposits
were $4S5, 410 and loans and discounts
$632. 16O.