The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-01-12
THE NEWS M eRIEF.

For - week Ending IAN. Z.
France and Morocco have settled
their reoeat misunderstanding.
The Eorty-fourth general assembly
Of Illinois convened It Springfield.
Gov.-elect John A. johnson. Of Min
nesota, was inaugurated in st. Paul. L
William L. Douglas. OF Brockton; was
inaugurated governor Of Massachusetts,.
Eleven Swiss have been frozen to
death while making an ascension Of
Mount Saint Bernard.
Fire Quilted the plant Of the Union
Meat company at Portland, Ore. The
loss will run upward of 500, 000.s
Intense cold has prevailed for the past
few days in the province Of SiiestA-
Twelve persons were frozen to death.
Henry v. Poor, widely known Tor
many years as railroad authority and
an expert on financial affairs, is dead at
his home in Brcokline, Mass.
John Hathaway. negro, who Is years
ago ranged high as a jockey, was hanged
at Winchester KY, for the murder OF
Ella Thomas, his sweetheart.
Former Gov. William Clafin, Of Mas
sachusetts, died Thursday evening at his
home in Newtonville, Mass. He was
governor in 1S72-1873 and 1874. 49,
Otto Schnurrer, editor Of the Ohio
Waisenfreund and recognized writer
on Catholic church subjects, was found
dead in his room at Columbus, @. iua
The New York legislature assembled
at Albany for its session of 1905. After
organizing, the first annual message OF
Gov. Higgins was received and read.
The. body of Neil S. Phelps, the capi-
ta1ist, who mysteriously disappe AIRED 8
number of weeks ago. was found badly
decomposed, IN the river at Battle Greek,
Mich. :i,'"o
Larry O'Neil, -nliaa Henry iiton Twas
hanged in the state prison, at San, Quen-
tin. CAL. fer The mq murder M Jaamfes: Gil
| liees an aged saloonkeep'eelY, Of San Fran "a
REPRESENTATIVE Adams I,sf il Peibjaasyi-
vania, has introduced a bill ppfottdlng
for the establishment III The District OF
Columbia of whipping post:fof wife
heaters. ~ s3s1s assf Hfis.sia .:s,iA {; !
CIT o. Barber. vice presidents Of the
wrecked Qommsrpi al cbaitl. .:nfy Cam
'bridge, o.. was sentenced testaTee years
and one-hal1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS s eng
hbeeyz4lement. .s,s,,r ~ ::..,e,s
The refrigeratipg. plant Of ? bgsFsr,
AT .Colburg, Germany, oYerWeightea
with ice collapsed, burying nine work
men, Five Of them were killed ana -four
were wounded. Gosas9JAj 90 st6jt
| The Hafrouii grain ELEVATOR an 1fal
lem; suburb of Kansas CITY; Mo-, VIA!
destroyed. by, FIRE with 1900 bushels, d
wheat. Loss in the building. .sl5o. 900
insurance. $4,000. 49, j!u .9a,3,. / .
j. R. Good and P. G: Ungeref, of For
Wayne, Ind, walked on the, tracks a
Ada, o., while doing some work. an
were struck by a passenger train, Bot.
were instantly killed. '''' '' ,.. - Si'
Gen. Edwin Niles, aged u years, die.
in an asylum at Goshen, Ind. d 'Dnrfn,
the civil war he was hit byoa cannon
ball. For over 40 years hfse mind IA
been partially wrecked. . . . boew
9 An. explosion I,of, a, tank Of gasolin
caused a fire, in the Hubbard, Laundry a
Greenland. Mich, killed one. woman
and probably fatally injured another
and wrecked the building. ''''''''''
III Christian "Wolmdorff. aged 80 years
living at Brighton, Jefferson county, Ia
was found dead. las theresuN Of a blos
on the temple. inflicted with an; al
Hssmurderer is unknown. oaf 80
Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Collins. Mclean
q. s. A., retired. whose father, John Nc
Lean, was postmaster general unde
Presidents Monroe and Jackson is dea
at his home in Bellport, l.. l.
Detective James keefe was killed
Richard Birmingham a fellow police
man, was wounded, and two men WHOM
they sought to arrest were struck b.
bullets in fierce battle in Chicago.
One man was killed and half doze
persons were seriously injured in rea,
end collision, in which three train
crashed together on the Ninth Avenu
Elevated railroad structure in Ne,
York.
Herman H. Knippenberg, said to hay
been the Oldest postmaster in point Q
continuous service in the United States
is dead at his home in Femme Usage
st. Charles county, Mo. He was 70
about S. years postmaster and genera
} storekeeper at Femme Usage. .i,...
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