The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-01-05
THE NEWS NJ eRsEF.

For the Week Ending Dec. 50.
The president has appointed w. Halt
Harris postmaster at Baltimore.
A church census puts the total popu-
lation Of New York city at 4, 100000.
In IRE at. Villa Ridge, ILL.,. John
Mahoney. a farmer, has been burned
to death.
The Japanese government has
agreed to negotiate an arbitration
treaty with the United States.
z The newl; built Majestic theater at
Fort Wayne. Ind. was Quilted by fire.
causing loss of probably $4,000.
Three persons lost their lives in fire
which totally destroyed the farm resi-
dence of Charles Mcmillan, near Gene
SEQ, N. Z.
Great Britain has assumed control Of
the legal and financial administration
Of the Tonga islands, the native chiefs
consenting
Rev. Father T. F. Lillis, Of Kansas
City, was consecrated bishop Of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Leaven-
worth, Kan. "a.
President Marvin Hughitt. Of the
Northwestern railway, opposes Presi-
dent Roosevelt's plan for the interstate
commerce commission to FIX rates.
President Roosevelt has appointed J.
Hampton Moore, Of Philadelphia. CHIEF
Of the bureau Of manufactures of the dc.
partment of commerce and labor
The will Of the late William Alvord.
president Of the Bank Of California, at
San Francisco. makes his stepsons
heirs to his estate. valued at $1,000, 900.
A modern hotel containing 400
rooms, and costing more than $1.000,.
600. Is to be erected on the site of the
Pike opera house building in Cincin-
natl.
Rev. Richard Lovett, NJ. A., secretary
Of the Religious Tract society since 1899
and q well-known writer on religious
subjects, died suddenly at London of
heart disease.
The st. Croix Shoe company as
signed at Calais Me-, for the benefit Of
creditors. The liabilities are said to
slightly exceede $4,000. The assets
The station of the Crescent Oil & Gas
company, near Hartford City, Ind, was
blown up. Ono man was killed and five
injured. The destruction was complete
Loss. about $4,000. '-'-@ 49,
A. d. Lewis, white man 80 years of
age, whose home is in Chicago, was
dashed in the woods near Natchez.
Miss, and ordered out of the state He
had insulted woman.
Fire at Council Bluffs, Ia, complete
~ destroyed the four-story warehouse
and the entire stock and fixtures Of the
Fuller & Johnson Shugart company,
causing loss Of $4,000.
It can be safely asserted that It 10
Mr.. Choate's intention to tender his
resignation as ambassador to the court
Of St. James soon after the inaugura-
ton of President Roosevelt.
| In rear-end collision ut Stamford,
Conn.,, between the Boston express and
local. both going west, Conductor
Holland of the express was killed and
six others were badly injured.
The last shipment on contract for
100000 pounds of barreled beef has
been sent from the Cudahy Packing
company at Sioux City, Ia. to the be-
sieged Russians at Port Arthur.
Justice Olmsted handed down an opin-
ion in the New York court of special ses-
sions, holding that the law against the
selling or giving away of street rail-
way transfers is constitutional.
From December / to December "a, the
night before Christmas, no less than 334,-
084 international orders were forward
ed to foreign lands from New York, and
these orders called for $4.667, 62890.
The Chinese government has pre-
sented the Chinese worlds fair pavilion,
which was erected at cost of $135, 900,
to David r. Francis. president Of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition com.
pany.
While Mrs. Pasquale Dell and little
son were eating breakfast at Fairmont,
W.. Va, a lamp exploded and ignited
the clothes of both. They were so
horribly burned that they died within
a few hours. 8
OF the 705 steerage passengers brought
over on the steamer Merton, which ar
rived at Philadelphia, more than $50
were Russians. Most of these were able
bodied men, between the age of 20 and
30 years. and liable for duty in the army.