The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-02-23
Otherwise.


Gen. Egan is suspended for six years
when he will be retired.
Five additional cases OF small pox
are reported in Washington, nearly all
colored persons. Most OF them are or
mild character
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany of Joliet Ill, will advance wages
Of all mill men 10 per cent. This ef-
fects several thousand men.
Inspector General Breckenridge has
discovered among the rations issued to
the inhabitants near Havana hundreds
Of cases of spoiled beef.
The directors of the ST Paul & Du-
luth railway have declared a semi
annual dividend of 3 IL per cent on
the preferred stock, payable March !,
The owner Of the vessel loaded with
arms and ammunition for the tilipiI
nos, and which was seized by Admiral
Dewey, is an American, instead OF
German.
The Akron sewer pipe manufactur-
ers report n hitch in the plan to form
combination of sewer pipe interests.
They say the formation of the trust is
now very uncertain. -
A mortgage for S20,0O0,O00, given TO
the Central Trust Company of New
York City by the Colorado & Southern
railway, was filed in Denver. The rev.
enue stamps used aggregated $35,250
Negotiations are in progress in New
York for the formation OF candy
trust, composed Of about forty Of the
reading manufacturers Of staple con-
fpctiQnS in the VIpitpI States
In the assembly at Albany, N. Y, the
resolution urging the unseating OF
Congressman-elect Roberts because of
his Identification with polygamy, was
adopted by viva voce vote.
Lieut.. Col. Curtis Guild has declined
TO accept the appointment recently ten
dered him as member Of the colonial
commission. Col. Guild has deter
mined not to make a statement at
present.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
Of Atlanta, Ga, 100000 for a free.
public library, the conditions being
that the city furnish the site and de-
vote $4,000 per year 10 the maintenance
of the institution.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany, Cleveland, has advanced the
price of wire and wire nails So per
ton, making the price $1.45 hundred
base at mills to jobbers, and wire nails
$1.60 a hundred.
a loving cup was presented to Mrs.
Sampson by the commanding officers
who served under Admiral Sampson
during the late war. The presentation
took place on board the flagship New
York.
The miners at Rendville, Ohio, who
have been on strike for some months,
have broken away from the Independ-
ent Mineworkers association and gone
to work at 40 cents, u cents less than
the scale.
Roundsman William Nesbitt, Of the
Wakefield station, New York, the
ing his beat to preach a sermon, and
If found guilty will be punished the
same as IL he were found drinking in a
salCCn.
AS result OF the consolidation or
the Mattock company Of Trenton, N.
v. and the American Potteries compa-
ny, the combination of the Ohio con-
Germs is said to be well under way.
with prospects that the deal will be
closed within a few days.
The Central New York Brewing
with capital stock Of S4,-
100000 and n bonded debt of x2,2OO.-
GOO is about to be organized under the
laws Of New Jersey. This means a
cor solidation of the nine leading brew
cries Of Syracuse, n. Y.
Mrs. Botkin's attorneys gave notice
ut San Francisco OF an appeal from the
and sentence of life impris-
Dnment recently passed upon her. Ten
days stay of execution has been al
lowed, and twenty days in which 10
prepare bill of exceptions.
Judge Gildersleeve. in the New YORK
supreme court, ON the application or
he district attorney, issued an order
for the elimination of the body or
Henry Crossman Barnet, who died on
Nov. 10, 1898 and who Is believed to
nave been poisoned.
The executive committee of the Ma
ional Municipal League has decided to
old the next annual meeting OF the
aague at Columbus, Ohio, Nov. -, III
nj IL. The Civic League OF santa
barbara and the Good Law League OF
Detroit have been admitted to afiii-
ted membership in the league.
A company TO lay direct cable be-
ween Germany and the United States
ow seems definitely assured. : The
apital, 200O0,0O0 marks, hns been fur
ished by number OF banks and pri-
ate capitalists at Berlin. The German
overnment Is understood to be favor
~ this.