The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1886-02-19
E. S. SEYMOUR, County Clerk.
News Notes.

N0WS Notes.
California produced 900 boxes of raisins
last year.
The Canadian governments deficit is over
$5,O0O,OOO.
A violent form of hog cholera is raging
around Hillsboro, I'll.
Shocking revelations of immortality in the
New Jersey state prison continue to be made.
Mayor Pillsbury, Of Minneapolis, has pesl-
lively declined denomination for mayor
Of that city.
The California refinery has reduced the price
Of sugar. Prices are the lowest ever known in
San Francisco.
New Orleans is the first city in the world to
discard all ether means OF lighting the city and
depend entirely on tho electric light.
Striking brakemen on Morgan's Louisiana
Texas railroad stopped all freight trains at
Gretna, opposite New Orleans.
The secretary of tho New York state board of
health says the smallpox is sharply ravaging
certain districts in that state.
Gen. John M. scbofeld, new senior major
general Of the United States army, entered
West Point in 1858, nine years after Hancock.
A farmer named Wales Doolittle, Of Bethany,
Conn.,, beat one OF his farm hands, William
Ford, to death for falling to mend some har-
ness, Saturday.
French economists conclude that state me-
nepoy Of the sale Of alcohol In France would
produce an annual revenue of $3.50, ,000, ,OOO.s
Marquis do Mores has bought in New York
two Spencer magazine guns with rifle barrels,
for bear hunting. He will use dynamite car
tridges.
The military committee of the house decided
to recommend the construction Of soldiers
home west Of the Rocky mountains, to cost
100000.
The proposed tunnel between New York city
and Hoboken, under the Hudson has been
abandoned for the present, although much Of
the work has been done.
Two children of David Funk OF La Sale, Ill.,
are dangerously i'll from eating pork infected
with trichine. Six other cases have been re-
ported In that vicinity.
T. P. OConnor has drawn up bill allowing
the free cultivation of tobacco in Ireland,-
where the weed was successfully grown until.
the English government forbade it.
"ouoh OoWuo, VI NoItHVlHoy II. L., ndb Gull
soled himself for the loss of his wife, who,
eloped last year with one Of his deacons, by
marrying a Miss Leola Downs, member Of
his flock.
The British board Of trade returns show that
last year the wheat imports from India into
England exceeded those from Russia by 115,-
604 cwt. The United States is the only coun-s
try supplying England with more wheat than
India does
1t is stated that reports regarding losses by
recent storms inKansas are greatly exaggerated,
that the number Of persons frozen to death
within territory of 140 by 100 miles was six
teen, and that the loss of cattle will not be 2
per cent.
Hon. George C. Bates died in Denver re-
Gently. He was one Of the founders Of the Whig
party, and friend Of Henry Clay. He be- 4.
came famous in defending John D. Lee, leader
Of the Mountain Meadow massacre in Utah.
He was seventy -one years old.
House bill 5,518, introduced By Congressman
Springer, Of Illinois, has been read twice. and
referred to the committee on territoEies Tie
object Of the bill is sto enable the people Of
Dakota east Of the Missouri river to form q con-
stitution and state government, and to be ad-
mitted into the Union on an equal footing with
the original states"