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The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
SENT TO THE. SENATE.
Cullom Is Reelected In IlIinois-Result II
Other States.

Other States.
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.-Dispatches state
that legislatures elected United States
senators on Tuesday as follows: Illi-
nois, Shelby NJ. Cullom (rep.); Wyoming,
Francis e. Warren rep, long term)
and G. D. Clark rep, short term); Ore
son, j. N. Dolph (rep.); Kansas, Lucien
Baker (rep.); Texas, Horace Chiffon
(dem.}: New Jersey, William J. Sewell
(rep.); California, George c. Perkins
(rep.): South Dakota, Richard F. Petit
grew (rep.); Tennessee, lsham G. Har-
ris (deln.): North Carolina, Marion But
Ter (rep.); West Virginia, $. i. Elkins
(rep.).
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
LATER NEUVe,

LATER NEWS.
"A SERIOUS riot occurred near Buda
Pesth, Hungary, growing out of the
arrest of a labor agitator. The police
were attacked by crowd who tried to
free the prisoner. The huzzars were
called out and they charged the crowd,
wounding many. The ringleaders
were arrested.
TIE Tyler hotel at St. Louis, Mo-,
burned the 2Sth. About 25 guests were
in the house and all escaped in safety.
THE funeral of Lord Randolph Chur.
Ichill occurred at Blenheim Park,
Woodstock, England, the 2Sth.
HEAVY snow storms were general
throughout England and western Eu-
rope the 2sth. Five inches of snow fell
at Nice.
Mrs. CASTLE, of Collendcr, 10, who
by mistake was elected justice of the
peace, has resigned. She tried one case
and became disgusted.
The president the 2sth sent mes
sage to congress asking for legislation
that would improve the financial situ-
alton.
In congress, the 2sth, Mr.. Srringer
Dem. llls.), introduced bill designed
to carry out the recommendations of
the president in his message to congress-
The bill provides for the issue of three
per cent bonds payable in gold, fifty
years after date; for the redemption
and cancellation of legal tender and
treasury notes; allowing national banks
to issue circulation to an amount equal
% the par value of bonds depositcd for
the retirement of silver certificates of
larger denomination than ten dollars
and for the issue of small notes in their
place, and requiring payment of all inn
port duties in gold.
A PASSENGER train on the Vandalia
| road was wrecked at Coatsville, Ind,
the 2S.h by the rear car jumping the
track. This was followed by two others
and all three cars rolled down a ten
foot embankment. j. w. Norton, a
theatrical agent, was killed, also Mrs.
w. S. Towers, of Carthage. Mo. About
80 were injured, among them being
Zelda Seguin Wallace, the operate
singer.
A coAsTlNG party Of eight young peo-
pie collided with a cable car in st.
Louis, Mo-, the evening of the 2Sth.
Seven of them were injured.
The gold reserve in the treasury the
:sth was $50, 55s, 173.
SEVERAL residents of the town Of Gu
plea, adjoining the Choco territory and
department of Panama arrived at Pa
mama in open boats, having had to
abandon the town, owing to the almost
continued earthquakes from Jan. IL to 10.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
FROM WASHINGTON,

In his esth year Brig. Gen. Stephen
V. Benet, U. S. A. (retired), died sud
denly at his residence in Washington.
AT the leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
S917, 7,oos.s47. against s977, s02, 2,646 the
previous week. The increase, com
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1913.
TOTAL gold shipments for the seven
days ended on the 25th were over S14,-
100000, leaving the treasury reserve at
$4,000, 900.
In the United States there were 1863
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 25th, against 373 the week
previous and 430 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
THE urgent deficiency bill, which
includes the income tax appropriation,
was signed by the president.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

The Boston Herald. commenting on
the Kansas case in which hypnotism was
made the excuse for murder, says: ut
is tolerably manifest that the defense
of hypnotic influence offers great op-
portunities for murderers, whether
acting by themselves or through the
agency of others, but justice falls be-
twiXt the two stools"
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

A New YORK paper assures us that
Miss Virginia Fair, Daughter of the de-
ceased millionaire, has "a tip-tilted
nose" This is important. if true.
That it is important is shown by the
fact that great journal of alleged civ
i.ization takes time and space to say it.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
Financial.

At a recent meeting of the state audi
tor and treasurer with the governor a
place was devised for disposing of all
the floating Indebtedness of the state
up to the first of the year. There were
then about SlaO,0OO in warrants out
standing against the general fund
About 100000 has since come in, and
parties are understood to have offered
to make short time loan to cover the
balance at per cent interest. The
warrants bear per cent, so that big
saving will he effected. State Auditor
Briggs left for ST. Paul yesterday, and
his errand is understood to be to ar.
range this loan.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

THERE are four poets in Canada who
have attained more or less prominence
They are Bliss Carman, Charles G. D.
Roberts, Duncan Campbell Scott and
Archibald Lampman. Roberts has pro-
posed Carman for the laureate of the
dominion and Carman has proposed
Roberts. Scott has proposed Lampman
and Lampman has proposed Scott.
Was ever mutual admiration society
more cleverly managed?
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

KING HuMBERT of Italy is reported
to spend more in charity than any
other European monarch. He gave
the poor $4,000 at Christmas and
abandoned the second ball at the Quir-
inal to save expense. For year and
half he has not touched the income
OF the crown.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

QUIN1NE, which used to sell for FIVE
dollars an ounce, now sells for twenty
five cents and has sold as low as sixteen
cents an ounce. The amount of this
drug used is enormous. Wholesale
druggists buy it in bulk. In places
where few years ago few ounces were
sold now as much as five hundred thou
sand ounces are sold. A medical
journal cites the instance of family
which buys quinine pills for home con-
sumption regularly in five hundred
OTIS.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

A NEWSPAPER correspondent in China
relates that he recently saw fifty carts
loaded with bows and arrows for the
troops going to the front, and he says
that a large portion Of the Chinese
troops are thus armed. 1t is hardly to
be wondered at that the japanese win
the battles.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
Nationality.

OF the thirty-one members of the
state senate, twenty-five We're born in
the United states, six in Canada, two
in Norway and one in Wales. Of the
siXty-two members of the house, thirty.
one were born in the United States
twelve in Norway, eleven in Canada
two in Scotland, and one each in Eng
land, South Wales, Iceland, Germany,
Sweden and Denmark.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

BY vote of the Greek chamber OF
deputies the whole Of this years crop
of currants will be detained and de-
stroyed. This is intended as heroic
measure to save the currant trade from
the utter ruin threatened by overpro-
ilction
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
Brazil has 1900 900 square miles. or

BRAZIL has 100000 square miles. or
about the area of the United States,
excluding Alaska.
FROM recent developments it is claim
ed that Leadville's gold belt has been
as yet barely touched upon. 1t is said
to have an extent of three miles by
ten.
A BUcKsroRT Me.) trapper has a
unique commission from Boston
house to catch as many moles, shrews,
deer, mice ard flying squirrels as he
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

WOMEN who pose as professors of
palmistrv in this country will be glad
that they are not residents of England,
where woman has recently been con-
victed for such a performance. The
conviction was under an old statute as
"a rogue and vagabond," and would
seem to have had some underlying
motive. for the young woman was only
practicing her character reading as a
supplementary attraction to an ex-
hibition of pictures.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
5000 to California

Is price Of double berth in Tourist Sleening
Car from Minneapolis on the famous
''Phillips-Rock Island Tourist Excursions y
Through cars OIL fast trains leave N1inneap-
and Ell Paso, superb southern route.
Write for particulars to A. PHILLIPS & Co.,
1l3S Guaranty Loan Bldg, Minneapolis.
-. JOHN SEBASTIAN, G. P. A., Chicago.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
Lord Churchill Dead.

LONDON Jan 25. Lord Randolph
Churchill died at O'Clock this morn
ing. Lady Randolph Churchill and the
other members Of his. family ,were$*.nt
his bedside when the. end came. lie
was unconscious for ..:hours before
6aafb
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
JUST TEN YEARS
Since a Remarkable Happening.
An Interesting Interview With Proml-
nent Commercial Traveller.

The newsgatherer on his daily search for
items of interest often comes across happen
iugs of more than passing note. 1t was dur
ing recent conversation with MIR. A. ID.
Cransby, the well-known commercial trav-
eller, with the Cochran Lumber Company,
that reporter of the Commercial learned Of
a wonderful case. Mr.. Cransby is well
known in Memphis and surrounding coun-
try, and now resides at l5S Kerr street. -
'Just ten years, ago. said he, my wife
Thought nothing of it, but it increased in
size rapidly, and soon broke through the
skin, and comm epced to discharge. She
was putilnder treatment Of the pest nhysi-
clans, but they very soon found that they
could do her no good, and simply prescribed
her grandmother and aunt, by the way, had
died with cancer, and when apprised of this
fact, the doctors told me that they would
not attempt to save her; that she. was in
time become deep seated and her health
very low, had one of the most noted spe-
cialists of New York to treat her. After
treating her awhile, this doctor admitted
that the case was hopeless and further
treatment useless. 1t is difficult to imagine
how respondent we all became, knowing
that she must die, and unable to sgive her
anvreGef. l had spent over five hundred
dollars with the best m edical skill to be had,
and felt that there was no further hope.
'sOuc udy udppCuCu W AStto al ouSOA oAoC-
ment of S. S. s., recommendingth that remedy
for cancer, and in view of the failure of the
most eminent physicians in the country,
confess had little faith left in any human
agency However, | purchased bottle of
s. S. S., and to my delight, it seemed to ben
eft her; after she had taken a couple of
bottles, the cancer began to heal, and aston
ishing as it may seem, few bottles more
cured her entirely. You can probably bet.
ter understand how remarkable this cure
was, when l explain that the cancer had
eaten two holes in the breast two inches
deep. These healed up entirely, and al
though ten years have elapsed, not sign Of
the disease has ever returned, and we are
assured of the permanence of the cure,
which we at, first doubted.
81 certainly regard S. S. S. as the most
wonderful remedy in the world, and it is
truly God-send to those afflicted with this
terrible disease. Yes SIR" he concluded,
"you may be sure that shall always be
gratefulto that remedy, for without it my
home would now be desolate and -a1fy chill
dren motherless. ."-Memphis, Tenn, Com
nlercidl. o.
LADY ITO her husband)-''I am growing
50 fat that Lam beginning to feel quite
alarmed about it.. have just discovered
that I weigh two hundred and forty
pounds" ':Two hundred and forty pounds!
And where did,you get weghed?" ''On the
butchers scales" 'Oh, then, calm your
self, You weigh exactly half, lie Figaro.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

TIE czar of Russia has liberated or
reduced the punishment of 10000 pris-
oners since he was proclaimed, and his
mercy will probably be extended as
much more in the near future.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

81 sEE," said Mrs. Wickwire, "that two.
million boxes of oranges We're frozen on the
trees in Florida. 1 don't understand it."
'Don't understand it7" echoed Mr.. Wick.
wire. 1.-THE statement is plain enough"
"Yes, but do they grow in boxes on the,
trees es2,-Indianapolis Journal.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
Fastest Time Ever Made from Chicago to
Jacksonville, Fla.

The Monon Route L.,N A. & c. R'y) has
placed in effect the fastest schedule ever
made between Chicago and Jacksonville,
Fla. Train leaves Chicago at 32 p. M, ar1
riving at Jacksonville. Fla, at :55 a. m. the
second morning, making direct connection
at that point with the morning departures
of all diverging lines, and arrives at Interior
and Southern Florida Points by Daylight;
st. Augustine and Palatka before noon !;
Ocala, Orlando, Sanford Winter Park, Bar
tow and Tampa early in the afternoon; Titus
vile and Rockledge before supper, and Lake
Worth before bedtime The trains are YES
tibuled, Pintsch lighted and steam heated,
with the finest Dining and Sleeping Car
Service in the world.
For further information regarding Rates,
E. Pamphlets, and Through Sleeping Car
Tickets, address FRANK j. REED, G. P. A.,
Chicago.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
Frozen to Death,

HoUeHroN, Mich, Jan. 25.-Adam
Bette, Finn, aged 35, was found
frozen to death near Jacobsville, this
county. Thursday morning. It 10
thought he lost his bearingA
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

''IDoN'r see how you ever managed to cut
up that boarding house turkey;'H Said the
fork to the knife. 1T was rather tough.
job," replied the knife, ''but l managed to-
keep my temper. Harlem Life
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

PROF. ELLEN HAYES says that the
new woman is not going to have new
dress We think she will, however, as
long as she can get around to the dry
goods stores.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

PARvExu HOSTESS ito stable boy, attired
as waiter for, he occasion of dinner party)
flames, why do you not fill Mr.. De Glut-
tonnes. glass2" James--sLor', ma'am,
what's the use! He empties it as fast as 1
fill it.n-Truth -,
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

''DAH ain no doubt" said Uncle Eben,
"'bout contentment bein' better'n riches.
But mos ebrybody now. days seems too
p'lite ter want de bes' fob hissef. ."-Wash-
ington Star. '''
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FlFTY-TtllRD CONGRESS.
Proceedings of the Second Session

4TOCccumSS IA LA0 ScCOnu ScssIOus
TUESDAY, Jan. o2.- The policy of
the administration as to Hawaii was
again the subject of sharp attack
and defense in the senate. Petitions
We're presented from citizens of Ala
! bama claiming that they were de-
prived of a republican form of govern
ment and asking the intervention of
congress. In the house the Indian ap-
| preparation bill was passed, as was also
bill to authorize the appointment be-
fore March 4 of a cadet to the naval
academy from each congressional dis
trict not actually represented. The
conference report on the urgent de-
| ticiency bill was adopted and the meas.
ure was passed.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. %. - Bills We're
| introduced in the senate for an amend
ment to the diplomatic and consular
| bill providing $4,000 for the survey of
cable route connecting the Hawaiian
islands with the United States; to pro-
vide for a nonpartisan currency com
mission of twelve members to make in
vestigations of fiscal questions and for
| an issue of bonds to produce revenues
for the government. Senator Jones
(ArlS.) introduced his financial and cur
rency bill. In the house the sundry
civil appropriation bill (S3s, $40, ,72D was
discussed. A joint resolution was re-
| ported to amend the constitution so as
to provide that the president shall be
eligible to service but one term.
! THURSDAY, Jan. Ex-senator Chan
| llar ;,,f, ~,
to punish persons who steals news in
transmission by tapping wires. A
resolution was offered looking towards
the annexation of the Hawaiian
islands, and that in the meantime IL
sufficient naval force should be main
tanned in Hawaiian waters. In the
house bill was reported providing for
officers of the regular army to give
military instructions in public schools.
| The sundry civil appropriation bill was
further considered.
FRIDAY, Jan. 25.-1n the senate the
Nicaragua canal bill was passed
by vote of 81 to 81. Senator
Burrows, Nlich.) introduced a bill to
regulate navigation on the great lakes
and their connecting tributaries. SEN
ator Allen (Neb.) spoke in favor of the
resolution for the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands, and Senator Mills
CTex.) upheld the administration pol
icy. In the house the sundry civil APP
preparation bill was passed with an
amendment authorizing the secretary
of the treasury to retire and cancel the
gold certificates and make them nom
receivable for customs dues after July
l next.
SATURDAY. Jan. 26.-The Vest sub
stitute on the Hawaiian question in
dorsing the course of the administra-
ton and advising non-interference was
adopted in the senate by a vote of
"a to 90. The bankruptcy bill was dis
cussed. In the house the bill to repeal
the ditferential of one-tenth of one
cent per pound imposed by the tariff
act on sugars imported from bounty
paying countries was considered,
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

AN authority says that Americans
are eating less pastry and more fruit.
In other words, the banana belt is
overlapping the pie belt.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

GIVE been ponderihg oyer very singular
thing."., "Wliat is it!' "1How putting
ring on a woman's third finger should place
you under that wolilan's thumb."-Life.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

II DON'T believe in that proverb, Marry
icus. .Why not!" asked. Ritterhouss. s:IS,
strikes me as being good" "Ah, *sahr'
Cynicus, "but you forget. The married
man has no ure.''-Harper's Bazaar.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

MATRIMoNY is the name of a post
office in North Carolina.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

STAMAlERING is practically unknown
among uncivilized people.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01
NORTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Lands For Taxation.

Ex-Atty. Gen. Standish has received
q letter from Judge Hall, of the inter.
ior department, that department stat.
ing that the department just ordered
patents for all the Northern Pacific
place lands in North Dakota, aggregat-
ing 2,373,025 acres, as suggested by
him. These lands are now beyond all
question taxable in the future. Con-
cernins Gen. Standish's communica-
ton relating to The indemnity lands IN
this state selected by the Northern
Pacific, the letter stated that they ag-
gregate 3,531,OO0 acres more and that
they will be acted on by the depart
ment very soon, making total of S.
9O4, ,025 acres in all.
This will be great boom to the state
at large and to all the counties clear
through the state south of Nelson and
part of Eddy-with the exception of
,Fraill and Steele, which secured pat
ents years ago through special counsel,
but it does not settle the Northern
Pacific tax suits now pending.
| If these lands We're not taxable be-
fore this action of the land department,
the state and county will lose all
taxes assessed on them heretofore, and
that is the matter to be determined in
the suit decided by Judge Thomas,
which is being taken up by the North
ern Pacific to the court of appeals.
In making up future estimates of
sources OF revenue, the taxing power of
the state will be justified in banking
upon this vast area of nearly G,ODO, 900
| acres -
| State Valuation.
| The total valuation of the lands of
North Dakota, as eGualized by the
state board of equalization this year,
is 45,sS7, 30S. exclusive of improve
ment. The number of acres upon
which this valuation is figured is 49,
92S. 1876, making an average value of
the land of the state of about $3.50 per
acre. The improvements on these
lands are valued at S2,60s,0l6. The
town and city lots in the state are
valued at S4OO,642, and improvements
thereon at SO, 56,33l, making the total
real value of the state of all kinds and
classes S67,652, 492. The total value of
property in the state exempt from tax
ation is IS, 659, ,G34.
The Hope pioneer., 1895-02-01

The new governor of South Carolina
is only RI, the attorney general 25 and
the adjutant general "a.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1895-06-28

Swift and Company, of Chicago. built
the largest cake in the world to advertise
their Cotecuet at the opening of the new
department store of A. M. Rothschild /
Co 1t was cut into 10000 pieces and
served to every one who came. A series
of eighteen cash prizes was offered to
those VINO guessed neares: the weight oi
1t. The cake was advertised liberally
by reading notices and display and as
nearly as anything can be, it became the
talk of Chicago. At every door in the
store young lady was stationed to hand
a card to every lady who came in, invit-
ing her TO get slice of the cake, and in
the large space allotted to the display
young ladies served tie cake to the mul.
tude of visitors and registered the guess.
es at the weight Of it..
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1895-06-28
Fifty.five Years Ago and Now.

AT one OF the memorable meetings OF
Last week in London o' the Worlds
Woman's Christisa Temperance 5nion.
backward glance was given 10 the yesr
is40. Wendell Phillips & William Lloyd
Garrison came AZ that time as delegates
10 great mesting in London, and Lu-
eretis Mott OF Philadelphia came with
them She too had been elected q dele
gate 10 the English meetiusz, tn: her
credentials were refused, and because
sAe was q woman she Was ielegaied to
the gallery as a mere TO observer The
two brilliant men who accompanied her
whose names are Low immor;al,-de-
clined to sit Sc delegates With Ten who
had shown sueh injustice. aud vent
themselves to the gallery Sith their sis
ter, whose name. -disavoved in that cir
Gle OF reformers become q siar OF
the first magnitude in the galaxy Of the
great reformers.
That was fifty Eve years ago. and te-
day Lady Henry Somerset said in her ad-
dress st this convention "we welcome a
shiplosd Of American women who are
among the most Thoroughly equipped
and best known women reformers OF the
world" Tie British mind is 20 enlarged
that mere than two hundred pu!piis and
mission halls are open - them in con-
servstire Old London, and they will
speak 10 thronsiRg audiences in the larg-
est auditorium that the worlds capital
can furnish. Is,
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1895-06-28
Who Did 1t.

Crime should be hunted down. Per-
sonal safety and liberty depends upon it.
Recently residence was burned in Cor
Wallis, there was no question that 1t was
incendiary. Who d.dit? Corvallis au-
thorities do not seem to be firing them
selves out hunting for the culprit accord
ing to the Times; which ssys:
There is gust cause for alarm, when
there is in the community wretch or
wretches depraved enough to seek re-
vengs for real or fancied wrong with a
firebrand. To steal out under the friend
ly cover of the darkness of night, pile up
q mass of combustibles and then with
malice and aforethought and with de-
liberate Intent to destroy, apply the torch
and reduce to ashes structure that
mems hands have builded, whether the
act be from motives of revenge or an
overflow of the vile deviltry that satur-
ates and permeates the carcasses OF some
alleged men, is an act of cowardice, Of
treachery, of fend malice that the de7ll
himself would spurn, and that would
disgrace he'll to have it transpire within
it's birthstone borders. Who is the man
in our midst, who has done this deed
what individual was away from his
usual haunts from nine until ten O'Clock
last Tuesday night? Who skulked away
from his companions in the early even
ing. set fire to judge McFadden's house
and then skulked back again? What
man was missed before the fire, and af'
forwards seen furtive and restless under
the suspicious gaze of companion
These things all happened, and ii every
citizen of the town had been alert in tn;
duty he owes his own property and his
family, in the protection he owes hi'
neishbor's property, this villain wat
sneaked out on q mission OF destruction
would have been missed, suspected anC
Jailed. The scoundre. ought to be hunt
ed down. The community cannot sffort
to have such despicable events happen
The community's good name, ills law an'
every man in it has been insulted, out
ragged by this heinous crime.