The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-09-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. -.

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For the Week Ending Aug. "a.
Samsono6. the assassin Of NJ. Plehva
has been sentenced to death.
Edward Thornton. the British minis-
ter to Nicaragua, is dead, following .
severe attack Of asthma.
Over $4,000 persons In Chicago ara
out Of work because Of strikes. Ths
weekly loss in pay roll is over 100000.
Rear Admiral John c. Watson has
been placed on the retired list OF the
navy. having reached the age of 81
years.
DR.. Oliver Ferguson, British scien-
fist, sees an era at hand when man
will live more than 100 years and die
painless death.
at the DEVILS Lake Fort Totten land
lottery was Bruce G. Warren, Forest
River, N. D., aged %.
Three persons killed and scores In
jured in one week is the deadly record
of the automobile in France, and pub
lie indignation is growing.
The post Office at Piru City, Cal, was
totally destroyed by fire, and Deputy
Postmaster Burnham was caught in
the flames and burned to death.
William Matherly. employed on tho
new Wabash river bridge at Terre
Haute. Ind, was killed by touching
live wire while trying to repair mo-
tor.
The Harvard club, of San Francisco,
has awarded to Yasunoske Fukukita, q
Japanese graduate of Stanford univer-
sity, a scholarship at Harvard univer-
sity.
The Black Hand society in New
York threatens to murder United>
States Attorney Marx unless he stops
prosecuting Italian voters naturalized
by fraud
Alexander Agassiz, the celebrated
scientist of Cambridge. Mass. was elect
ed president of the International Zoo
logical congress in session at Beme,
Switzerland.
Frank and Fred Eberhardt. of Sa-
lima, Kan, won the tennis champion
ship of the middle west by defeating
H. M. Holland and F. r. Sanderson. OF
Galesburg, ILL.,, at Omaha.
Japan, in formal statement. asks
for fair play in Chinese neutrality.
pleading justification of the seizure OF
Russian torpedo boat at Chefoo and
charging the car with bad faith.
The city council of Denver. Col, has
passed an ordinance making the use
of trading stamps punishable by fines
Of 500 to 5000 for each offense. or a
Jail sentence of from 30 to 80 days.
DR.. Charles F. H. Wilgohs, aged 100
years and eight months. is dead at
Akron, o. He was of remarkable men,
tai and physical vitality until a week
ago and was able to walk for miles.
Mrs. Rosina Watkins, retired come
dienne and great favorite in the stock
company days of generation ago, Is
dead at the Edwin Forrest home at
Philadelphia. She was 76 years old.
Edward Luckenbach, probably the
largest individual tugboat and barge
owner on the Atlantic coast, is dead at
his home in Brooklyn. He was GO years
old, and began life as a canal boatman.
John w. Gates and party lost $33, 600
in a faro game in Saratoga, NY, in which
the limit was raised to 81 900. all over
$3.50 being taken by Bookmakers Ull-
man and Blumenthat, who won $23.-
600.
The Japanese minister has asked
the Korean emperor to disband his
army, abolish his minis and replace
his cabinet with pro-Japanese. This
points to Japanese absorption Ut
Korea.
The total number of admissions to
the worlds fair for the past week
amounted to 641,2S3, and the total for
the week previous was 666,6O7 Since
the opening day, April 81. 1866. 1913 adj
missions have been recorded.
Attorney George w. Sicard. former
law partner of Grover Cleveland.
Charles w. Goodyear and the late Post
master General Wilson s. Bissell, and
for years one Of the most distinguished
lawyers of the Erie county, N. T., bar,
is dead, aged 66 years.
A cavern occurred on the Knoxville
| & Augusta branch of the Southern rail-
road Wednesday afternoon at point
where workmen were excavatfng for
the foundation of bridge pier at Lit
tie River, Tenn. Six men were buried.
of whom two were killed and four in
jured. -