The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-08-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. g.


Ben Milan has shot and Instantly
killed his wife at Sewell, w. Va, while
in fit OF jealousy.
Fire burned the old c. & c. Touring
mills, the pioneer plant of Spokane,
Wash, with a loss of 100000
Trains on the Louisville & Nashville
road collided near Horse Cave. KY.
Thirty-seyen persons were injured.
DR.. Brown AXres, Of Tulane university,
New Orleans, has accepted the presi-
dency Of the University of Tennessee.
John Lyons was hanged in the county
jail at Paterson, N. j., for the murder
OF John Christian, an aged Waterman.
A fire at Salisbury, Md, DESTROYED
the mill and lumber yard Of E. S. Ad.
kins & Co., resulting in a loss of $40..
900.
Robert Garrett was nominated for
congress by the republicans of the
Second Maryland congressional dis.
trict.
Green McCurtain was reelected gov
ernor of the Choctaw Nation, defeating
I. w. Hunter. This is the last tribal cleo
ton.
Judge NJ. L. F. Smyser. of Wooster,
was nominated for congress by the re-
publicans of the Seventeenth Ohio dis
trict.
George Coffee (colored) aged IL.
stabbed Frank Neal (also colored) aged
ID, to death at Danville, Ky. Coffee was
arrested.
Judge d. P. Werner, master in equity
OF Greenville county, S. c., committed
suicide by shooting. He was one of the
pest-known men in the state.
Driven insane by the news of the
butchers strike, Alfred Day, meat in
spector for the packing house at Cedar
Rapids; Ia, committed suicide.
| Fire OF unknown origin DESTROYED the
building and stock Of drugs owned by
A. J. Kupka, and eight other small busi-
ness houses at Albion, Ia Loss, SIS, 900.
The body of Mrs. Ed Doherty. wife Of
ROCK Island conductor was found by
the police locked in her room at Des
Moines, la. She had been dead for six
hours.
The porte insists that Russia shall
give written declaration concerning
Doth nag and cargo before permitting
volunteer fleet vessels to traverse the
Dardanelles.
DR.. w. NJ Frye reported to the Kansas
City police that burglars had entered his
home and stolen $1,000. DIR. Frye car
rled his money about with him. not trust-
ing the banks.
The populist national committee has
decided to have the formal notification
OF their party candidates for president
and vice president at Cooper Union. New
York city, August 10.
DR.. Orlando Brown, formerly a brig
adler general in the United States army.
and for many years a leading physician.
died at his residence in Washington.
Conn. aged u years.
The Rock Island Railroad company
and the United States Express company
have offered reward of $4,000 for tho
capture of robbers who held up the Rock
Island train near Tucumcari, Mex.
robert Christensen, district attorney
Of Irempealeau county. Wisconsin, and
prominent as q republican politician.
was found dead In his bed at La Crosse.
Wis. He was a professor in Gale COLI
lege.
Thomas H. Tibbles, populist candidate
Tor vice president, has been strongly OPP
posed to fushion with the democrats.
but he now says he will agree to fushion
with any party that would oppose NOM
opolies.
A burglar entered the house of M.
Rasmussen, a wealthy farmer of Prior.
Mimi, and after beating the aged man
over the head with a pump handle un-
til he was unconscious, secured $4,000
In gold and escaped.
Alfred Knapp, the STRANGER" who
has been condemned to die in the cleo
trio chair In the Columbus co., peniten-
tiary, on August 10, has collapsed and
cannot eat nor sleep. The prison off,
Gals fear he will have to be carried to
the chair. ID s
John M. Jones, the Oldest printing
press manufacturer in the United States.
died in Palmyra, N. Y. He is credited
with having made and patented the first
typewriter in this country, receiving his,
patents on his machine In 1856. He was