The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-02-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Twelve budldnss werUuesssoysa:bv
fire At Bryant, s. d. LOSS is $50, 900; ven
insured. 49,
Two men met death from falling rock
in the Lake Superior copper mines =
Calumet. Mich
Four persons were found dead in =
small house inGeveland, O. The deaths
had been caused by escaping naturai
Isgas. d. - sac
One woman was burned to death and
10 men and women narrowly escaped III
q fire which damaged the Hotel WintOn,
| in New York city.
Mrs. Rebecca Snyder and her niece,
Ida Shade, of Liberty. O.. were killed
near West Carrollton. O., by being
struck by train 81
In a fit of insanity, Mrs D. Groves.
wife of mail carrier at Kalamazoo.
Mich, cut her left arm off with hatchet.
She died few hours later Is
Edinboro. Pa, the state normal
school town, was visited by one of the
most disastrous fires in it's history.
Loss estimated at $4,000. 7@ss 81
DIR. John H. Grannis, said to have been
the first union soldier to enter the town
Of Gettysburg at the time of the battle,
died at Saybrook, Conn, aged GO.
c. G. Mckibben. 4 travelling salesman
for a typewriter company OF Derby,
Conn.,, was killed by falling from VIM
dow of hotel at Providence. X. l.
The Kentucky Wesleyan college, tho
official school of the Methodist Episco-
pal church south. burned at Winchester.
KY, causing loss of about $4,000.
Anton Westmark shot and fatally
wounded his wife at her parents homo
in Dubuque, Ia. and then blew out his
brains Jealousy caused the tragedy.
| Alexander Mead. a colored man ZIG
years old, died at Toledo, o. Mead was
born in slavery October "a. 1889. near
the Big Sandy river, in Greenup county,
Ky I
1t is semi officially announced that as
q result of the disturbances atfLodz 144
bodies have been Buried whilei 200
wounded persons are stlli in 1.-THE hos-
pitfalls. /
Claude s. snively. p prominent at
torney. pitched headlonS from the
fifth-storys window Id the l.onsdale
I building, it 1uluth, Mimi, ind was
killed. / { =.
William Cullen Bryant, the publisher
of the Brooklyn Times and secretary
of the American Newspaper. Publishers
association. died at ~a~n sanitarium in
In4'e'"' ~ d. n sgftt@44f79f;
Il Mkhart, Ind. reports that the inter-
urban lines have suspended the opera
tion OF trains because of snow which
in places has drifted higher than tho
roofs of the cars ~ '''F7 ~ 80 '"F a'-'
Fire practically destroyed the in
tsteriorS Of . three-story brick. building
on Hennepin avenue, Minneapolis,
Mimi. 'Theglosss issestimated between
$4,000 and 100000. 3 A# q
At Kansas City. Mo-, Charles BIGGER,
aged 81 years, fatally stabbed his in
valid wife. Emma BIGGER. aged AZ years,
after which he severed his own jugular
vein,' dying instantly. a
Four men killed and IA injured, OF
whom three are in a critical condition,
was the result OF two explosions on
board the British submarine boat
"A-5" in the harbor at Queenstown,
Ireland.
The strikers in St. Petersburg now to
tai about 10000. The temper of the men
is more threatening and Cossacks and
other troops have again been drafted
into the city. The police are arrestinE
the fringleaders. f.
A collision between trains on the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road at Mo
line, ILL.,, killed Engineer William Doc
lin, of Chicago. and fatally injured En-
gineer Charles Stapleton, of Rock Island.
No passengers We're hurt. 4
., John Shaw residing on farm. about
20 miles northeast Of Quincy, III, shot
and killed his wife. and then ended his
own life with the same weapon. Legal
and domestic troubles extending over
several years are responsible for the
tragedy. n.
Funds with which to prosecute the in
laqHiry into the methods; Of the Standard
OIL company in Kansas were asked Of
the house by Secretary Metcalf, of the
department of commerce and labor. In
his communication the secretary says
that this inquiry cannot be completed
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