The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-17

A BILL was introduced in the Michi-
gan senate providing that no person
who is not able to read and write the
English language shall be permitted
to vote in the state.
WILLIAM BENZ was killed and his
wife and child fatally injured at a rail
way crossing in Bloomdale, o.
HENRY M. BURR IL Co., one of the
largest wholesale and retail millinery
stores in Boston, failed for 800, O00.
WILLIAM w. TAYLOR, treasurer of
South Dakota, was said to have alb
seconded with $3.50, 900. The bank at
Redtield, of which he was president,
had closed it's doors.
AN epidemic of grip is raging in New
York city.
p. G. MCLoUGHIIN, an old and highly
respected member of the Chicago
board of trade, dropped dead on the
street.
The governors message. submitted
to the legislature of Oklahoma, de-
clares for immediate statehood.
AT Lewiston, Pa, Wesley Paulding
shot and killed his wife and 4-week-old
child and then went to the barn and
hanged himself.
ORsoN w. ROLLINS and his wife were
found dead at their home in Minneap-
oils under suspicious circumstances.
Gov. MCKINLEY sent a car load of
provisio1 rs to the starving miners of the
Hooking valley in Ohio.
THE whole number of immigrants
that arrived in New York during De-
cember was IL. l06. OF this number 166
were debarred entrance as paupers and
tifty-three as contract laborers.
The Wyeth horse collar factory was
burned at st. Joseph, Mo-, the loss be-
ing $50, 600.
THREE men were instantly killed by
a nitro-glycerine explosion at st.
Mary's, o.
w. w. KENT was elected president of
the Western Baseball association at
Des Moines to sscceed David Rowe.
Rev. w. +. HINsHAw was seriously
and his wife fatally wounded by thieves
at their home in Belleville, Ind.
THE Fidelity Loan and Trust com
pany at Sioux City, Ia, passed into the
hands of receivers with liabilities of
81, 20O, 900.
AS A result of eating poisoned cheese
Pa, were sick.
THE Cooley fourmill and an elevator
containing 10000 bushels Of wheat
were destroyed by fire at Scottsville, n.
Y, causing a loss of S125, 900.
Gov. UPHAM sent his first message to
the Wisconsin legislature, discussing
various state questions.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND election clerks
were found inefficient at New York
and will receive no pay.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggre-
34S the previous week. The increase,
compared with the corresponding week
in 1894, was AZ.
ACrUATED by insane jealousy, Louis
Gross shot and killed his wife and him
self during a quarrel in their home in
New York city.
A TREASURY statement shows the eX-
penditures SO far this month exceed re-
ceipts by S6,2l3, TAB, which makes the
deficiency for the fiscal year up to date
500, IT'S, 2O4.
Gov. RUDD was inaugurated at Sac
ramento, Cal, a parade of civic and
military organizations preceding the
ceremony.
JOHN f. MOORE, landing agent at
Ellis Island, N. Y, in his report for
1894 says that during the year 90, sol
cabin passengers and 1873, 164 steerage
passengers landed at Ellis Island.
BOBBY" WOODEN and George Mappe,
both colored and murderers of Marion
Ross, were hanged in the Jail at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
TWENTY buildings were destroyed by
fire in the mining town of Foster, la.
RESOLUTIONS calling for the revision
OF football rules to prevent brutality
were adopted at a meeting in Chicago
of presidents of northwestern univer-
sites.
Gov. MATTHEWS read his biennial
message at a joint session of both
houses Of the Indiana legislature.
SAMUEL ID. PETERSON, of New Ulm,
Mimi, was given a verdict for SlO,O 600
against the Western Union Telegraph
company, which transmitted an anony-
nous libelous telegram.
III. c. FRICK retired from the presi-
dency of the Carnegie Steel company
at Pittsburgh, Pa. John G. A. Leish-
man is his successor.
Gov. UPHAM, of Wisconsin, placed ex-
Gov. Peck on the retired list of the
national guard with the rank of COM
mander-in-chicf.
The Norwegian Lutheran seminary
located in the suburbs of Minneapolis
was burned to the ground.
THERE were 42O business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS