The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1898-09-15
otherwise.

ten. Smarter mas assumed COtnnlaHu
at Camp Wikoff.
The Democrats elected Il full state
ticket in Arkansas.
The q. n. Il. encampment ut Cincin-
aati was a great success.
Gen. Brooke reports an increase of
sickness ut Porto Rico.
The troops which will garrison Cuba
will be principally regulars.
The city OF Pana, H., is under mar
tial law because Of the strike.
Gov. Black of New York will make
determined fight for denomination.
Surgeon Hurter reports thirty-tive
yellow fever cases ut Norwood, Miss.
The Eighth Ohio volunteers have left
Camp Wikoff, l.. l., bound for home.
Joseph Letter has cleared up his
wheat deal. Every creditor has been
paid.
Chaplain Mcintyre of the Oregon is
to be court martalcd for crticiSinS
Admiral Sampson.
The fifth peace commissioner has
not yet been selected. Senator Gray
Will not serve.
The United States transport Mime
waSka has sailed from New York for
Santiago and Ponce.
The latest estimate is that the wheat
crop, which is the largest on record,
will not equal expectations.
Gov. Lord of Oregon has issued n
proclamation calling a special session
on Monday. Sept. ~, TO elect Il United
States senator.
Col James A. Sexton of Illinois WAS
elected cOmmander-in-chief Of the &.
A. X. The next encampment viii be
held in Philadelphia.
Hall Caine intends. when he arrives
in this country, to make several adj
dresses urging the necessity of an
Anglo-American alliance.
Steps have been taken by the Lake
Carriers association for the abolition
of tolls on the Welland and other
Canadian canals.
State Health Officer Blunt Of Texas
has raised the quarantine against Gal
weston and the city was never more
healthy than at present.
The executive committee OF the in
ternational pressmen of America meets
in Chicago Sept. 5 to decide upon put
ting into effect a nine-hour day.
The United States gunboat Benning-
ton has been ordered to PagO Page
bay, Samoa, according to Mare Island
reports. to make n survey for a coal
ing station.
The camp at Admission. Ala, in COM
mand of Gen. Frank, has been named
Camp Shipp. in honor Of Lieut.. Will
lam f. Shipp, Tenth cavalry, who was
killed before Santiago.
Gov. Holcombs request to have the
| Third Nebraska Organs regimenU
mustered out has been denied, because
Nebraska's quota TO be mustered out
had already been designated.
| Rev. DR.. Thompson. secretary of the
! Presbyterian home mission board, has
received an anonymous donation Of
500, to be applied to inaugurating the
work OF the board in Puerto Rico.
The directors of the Chicago, Milwau-
! kee e. ST. Paul railway have declared
the regular semi-annual dividend OF
: = 1-2 per cent on its common stock and
3 IL per cent on It's preferred stock.
| The seventeenth annual convention
Of the National Association Of Station
AIRY Engineers began at Carnegie hall.
Pittsburg. Nearly 800 delegates from all
parts Of the country are in attendance.
The stockholders Of the Chicago 4
Great Western held their annual meet
ing at Chicago and reelected A. b.
St.ckney. +. Il. Weyerhauser and Ar
mold Kalman directors for the next
three years.
The members Of the expedition
which sailed from San Francisco on
the schooner Volcan in June Of last
year, to buy reindeer for the United
States government In Siberia, have re-
! turned