The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-21
The NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July le.

For the Week Ending July le.
Judge Parker declines to comment on
the Statement issued by Bryan.
One man was killed by lightning and
1--WE others were injured during a storm
In st. Louis.
Rev. Sanford washburn, a Methodist
pastor for almost so years, died at his
home in Chicago.
Fire at Covington. Ga. resulted in
the destruction of property valued at
1925, 900, with $4,000 insurance.
Owing to the long dry period forest
fires along the coast of British Columbia
have given unusual trouble this year.
Seven stores at Overlook, Kan.
were destroyed by fire, causing loss
of over $4,000, with small insur-
ance.
Simon Riggs shot and killed his wife
at Clinton, a., and then committed sui
eide. Dependency is given as the
cause.
Marshall Alger and wife, of Wheeling,
w. Va, were drowned while attempting
to ford Short creek, three miles east Of
Portland, o.
Miss Ethel Boyd, of Cleveland, died
at jamestown, N. Y, as the result of in
juries received in an accident on the
':loop-the-loop."
Eight of the largest window glass fac
tories in the country will be placed in
operation on September 10 by the Amer
lean Window Glass company.
Fire in the plant of the Uvalde
Asphalt company in Jersey City de-
stroyed the refinery building and
caused loss Of about $4,000.
Philip Casey, who for rs years held the
title of champion handball player of the
world, is dead at his home in Brooklyn.
He was born so years ago in Ireland.
During game of ball at McKeesport,
Pa, Charles Jeffries, left fielder of the
Johnstown baseball team. was struck
by lightning and died almost instantly.
A negro was lynched at Clayton, La,
for assaulting Jesse Hilliard, sawmill
foreman, with spade. billiards
wound is dangerous, but not necessarily
fatal.
A Big Four freight train went through
a trestle at Sharon, O., and Fireman
Metzger, of Delaware, o., and Brakeman
Casead, of Osborne, O., were instantly
killed.
Over $4,000 is the loss estimated from
fire which destroyed ]. Eisman & Co.'s
clothing factory and damaged number
of adjoining business houses at Ports
mouth, o.
A movement is on foot to erect
monument in Mount Vernon, o., to the
late Daniel Decatur Emmett, author Of
the song Dixie" who died a couple Of
weeks ago. '..t
Losses caused by the heavy storms
during the first part of the week in
various parts of the state of Oregon
show that the damage will amount to
about 100000. -iss
Tony and Jacob Martin, farmers, liv-
ing near Flanagan, ILL.,, shot and killed
Perry Myers, of Gas City, Ind, while the
latter was burglarizing their farm and
farm buildings, l Mr.
DR.. G. A. Alfonso Smith, associate pro-
fessor of the chair of English at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, has declined
the offer of the presidency of the Uni
versity of Tennessee
The San Francisco Bulletin says
that the finest aquarium in the world
is to be established in Golden Gate
park by Henry Tevis as memorial to
his father, the late Lloyd Tevis.
During cloudburst near Mitchell, in
Wheeler county, Ore, Mrs. Bethune,
aged 80 years, and Martin Smith, 81
years, were drowned. Twenty-eight
houses in Mitchell were destroyed.
Rev. RI. Lemuel Moss, D. d. LII. D.,
one of the foremost Baptist educators
and divines, is dead at his home in New
York after an illness of more than one
year. He was born in Kentucky Is years
ago.
James Vogelony, aged %, shot his
15-year-old sweetheart, Anna Under
ansky, five times with a revolver,
causing instant death. The crime was
committed at Hooking, la. Vogelony
killed the girl because she refused to
marry him.
The French government has conferred
on Secretary Hay the dignity of grand
cross of the Legion of Honor, in recogni-
ton of the services rendered during the
last six years by the Amerisan depart
ment of state toward the maintenance of
the peace of the world.