The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-08-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. 60.

For the Week Ending Aug. 70.
Clarence De Ryder. a cyclist, was
killed while attempting loop the loop"
at Salt Lake City. Utah.
Fires are still raging in the great for
ests of Washington and British Colum-
bia, doing incalculable damage.
The democrats of the Nineteenth Illi-
nois congressional district nominated
Adolf Sumerlip. of Nation. for con-
gress.
Safe blowers wrecked the safe and
building of the post Office at New Sharon,
Ia, getting away with $3.50 in cash and
stamps. . 800. .-. -
Mrs. Mable Hart, age 80 years. and her
cousin, Clarence Dunlap, aged 8 years,
were drowned in the Delaware river
near Easton, Pa
Michael Callahan and John Mark
ham, of Van Horne, Ia, were killed by
a Chicago & Northwestern freight train
near Blairstown, Ia.
One of the acts of grace signaling the
birth of an heir to the throne will be
the total abolition Of corporal punish
ment throughout Russia.
James r. Williams, of Carmi, was re-
nominated for congress by the democ-
ratio convention of the Twenty-fourth
Illinois district at Norris City.
Valentine Hengel, mail carried, died
at Winona, Mimi, after an illness OF
one week as a result of having tooth
pulled, causing blood poisoning.
The farm house of B. A. Bowling, near
Perth, Okla, was struck by lightning
and burned. -Four members of the fam
lily were burned to death in the house.
Alexander Agassiz, the celebrated
scientist Of Cambridge, Mass, was elect
ed president of the International Zoo
logical congress in session at Beme,
Switzerland.
Earthquakes have caused serious dam
ages to several villages in the island of
Samos Tin the Green archipelago As
miles west of Smyrna). Some Of the in
habitants were killed.
Japan has officially notified Great
Britain that she does not propose to give
up the Russian torpedo boat destroyer
Ryeshitelni, captured in the harbor
of Chefoo, August IL.
Miss Clara Bourland, the 16-year-old
daughter of Hon. w. E. Bourland, of
Dixon, KY, was killed by lightning
while talking over a telephone during
heavy thunderstorm.
Mrs. Margaret Gindelsparger was ar
rested at Hanging Rock, o., for the MUIR
der of her husband in Buckskin town
ship, Ross county, o., in 1895. The
woman denies her guilt.
The knights templar and their
friends from the east, who will attend
the triennial conclave in San Francisco
beginning September S, are expected
to form an immense crowd.
Edward Luckenbach, probably the
largest individual tugboat and barge
owner on the Atlantic coast, is dead at
his home in Brooklyn. He was 60 years
old, and began life as canal boatman.
In Indianapolis, Ind, passenger
train struck an automobile at the Lib
erty street crossing, instantly killing the
driver, Frank L. Steen, manager of q
coal company, and severely injuring
Seth Burnett.
A cloudburst on Summit Cernbat
mountain in Arizona sent flood of water
Is feet down through the canyons, carry
ing everything before it. At the Night
Hawk mine house was carried away
and two men drowned.
There is CONSERVATION over the death
OF fish in the lakes about Albert, Mimi,
and no one can explain the cause They
seem to sufocate, although there is
good stage of water Tons of fish are
dead along the shores.
John Parker, prominent farmer
living near Grinnell, "a, was shot and
killed by George Mitchell, a renter.
Mitchell shot Parker with shotgun.
following an alteration in which
Mitchell was badly beaten up.
Jacob Hussman, an aeronaut was
drowned in Lake Alice at Fergus Fall.
MINI. He had made a balloon ascension
and on coming down in parachute fell
into the middle of the lake. He became
entangled in the weeds and drowned.
Fish Rock Camp. owned by Isaac
selfgman, of New York, located on
Upper Saranac lake, and said to have
been the most beautiful and expensive
camp in the Adirondacks, has been de-
stroyed by fire Of unknown origin. The