The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-07-07
THE NEWS I'M BRIEF.
For the Week Ending July !

For the Week Ending July 1.
Clement Scott. the dramatic critic
died in London, after a prolonged ILL
ness.
A cablegram from Manila announces
the death there of Archbishop Guidi.
Heart failure was the cause of death.
In quarrel between John Wainscott
and Channely Cardinal at Madison, Ind,
Cardinal shot and instantly killed Vain
scott
The forty-third annual convention OF
the National Education association
formally convened at the worlds fair
grounds At st. Louis
The first national bank Of Saratoga
Springs. N. Y. was closed by direction
of the comptroller Of the currency A
run on the institution caused the failure
An unusually heavy hail storm in the
vicinity Of Bolton, Mo-, and Manhatton
KAN. has done much damage to crops
and orchards and broken hundreds Of
window panes.
Through the accidental explosion of
rocket at Kiel, Germany, on board the
cruiser Juno. one of the English vessels
escorting the royal yacht, two of tn.
crew were killed.
Prof. w. ]. Hussey, of the Univer.
sity of California astronomical de.
partment at Lick observatory, has
just announced his discovery of 1O(
new double stars.
James Dewar, wealthy Scotchman
says he likes America SO we'll he has
purchased 7OO-acre farm in North
Carolina, on which he proposes to re.
side three months in the year.
A locomotive boiler exploded on the
Pennsylvania railroad while going w
the mountain, SO yards from Ehrenfeld
station, Pa, killing three men. injuring
two Others, one of them fatally.
Heavy rain. wind and hail seriously
damaged the wheat crop in the central
portion of Kansas. Large fields OF
wheat have been flattened out by the
storm. The harvest was about to be.
gin.
John B. Stewart, So years of age. wa,
shot and almost instantly killed by the
husband of his step-daughter, Samuel
Peck, "a years of age, at their home in
Collinwood, o., as the result of a fam.
lily row.
Nine millions of acres of government
land in Nebraska have been thrown
open to homestead entry Tuesday un.
der the provisions of the Kinkaid law
by which homesteaders may file upon
$40 acres
Col. Edward Butler, prominent St.
Louis politician, came into court in an.
swer to bench warrant charging him
with bribing witness. He was released
on bond of $40 900, with John j O'Brien
as surety.
New York Central locomotive No. 999,
made famous as the first engine to run
the Empire State express, and which
was exhibited at the Chicago worlds
fair, is now hauling a milk train in New
York state.
Frederick Field Billiard. a we'll
known organist and musical composer,
died in Boston of pneumonia. His best
known compositions are '"The Stein
Song,' 'The Sword of Ferrara" and
THE Nottingham Hunt"
The stockholders of the State National
bank and of the Euclid Park bank of
Cleveland, o., voted to consolidate the
two GOVERNS. The combined capital
iaztion amounts to $2,OOO,OOO. The de-
posits aggregate $12,OO0,00O.
James Cowan, a Mojave, Cal, miner,
charged with the murder of James
Cummings, a negro, who was lynched
at Mojave on March 10, was conviced OF
manslaughter. The jury recommended
the prisoner to the mercy of the court
DR.. Seymour T. Jarrecki. a young
physician. was shot and killed at his
home in Denver, Col. Two shots were
fired. one bullet entering his body near
the heart. Apparently he had been
called to the door and assassinated. The
murderer escaped.
| The pension bureau at Washington
estimates that the unknown army"
of veterans made eligible for pensions
under the new order of President
Roosevelt will not exceed $4,000 men.
and of these less than 1000 have APP
| piled for pensions.
Judge George Gray, OF Delaware, ,ex-
presses hope that former President
Grover Cleveland will be nominated for
the presidency by the St. Louis conven-
ton. Next to Cleveland. he favors Judge