The Hope pioneer., 1899-08-17

industries.
At Dublin, Va, Noah Finley, ne
gro who robbed and attempted to kill
Maj. Darst, was sentenced to be hanged,
the jury having been notified that il
such a verdict was not rendered Finley
would be lynched.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
The second trial of Capt. Dreyfus,
charged with revealing army secrets,
began at Rennes, France.
In a collision on the Orleans railway
at Juvisy, France, II persons were
killed and 81 injured.
In Madrid the supreme council of
war acquitted the officers charged with
the responsibility of surrendering San
tiago to the Americans.
At the second trial in Rcnnes, Franco,
of Capt. Dreyfus, the accused man tes-
tilted that he was innocent of the
charges against him.
The insurgents in the Philippines de-
mand $7.OOO,O00 for the release of the
Spanish prisoners held by them.
In Santo Domingo an armed uprising
in support of the presidential aspira-
tions of Juan Isidro Jiminez is said to
have begun.
Under Gen. Macarthur a force of
1000 men pushed forward from San
Mia met 6,ooO Filipinos. who were de-
feated with heavy loss. The Americans
lost 20 killed and wounded.
At Leicester, England, the amateur
swimming champion. \. Jarvis, swan
mile in 25:13 2-5. beating the worlds
record
An appeal to the powers for rccogni-
tion of Filipino independence has been
made by Aguinaldo.
LATER NEWS.
The Canadian Atlantic express bound
from Montreal to Ottawa jumped the
track at st. Polyear, Canada, and seven
passengers We're killed and ten in iured.
Four tiremen lost their lives in a
blaze in a small building at Omaha.
The fire itself was insignificant the
fatalities resulting from contact with
live wire.
According to Hongkong advices an
agreement has been reached between
Great Britain and the Chinese govern
ment that the United States shall have
an executive settlement at Hankow.
The number of cnlistments on the
9th inst. for the Philippine regiments
was $50, making a total of 1927. The
regiments who have their full quota
have begun the wedding out" process.
The reports so far received from sub
treasury cities indicate that the call
for gold certificates in exchange for
gold coin will be considerably less
than the treasury officials expected
A tidal wave burst into the bay at
Valparaiso, Chilli, tearing down the
embankment and sweeping off num-
ber of ears, locomotives, and tons Of
merchandise. The loss is estimated
at 1000, 600.
Several boys living near Cincinnati,
Iowa, got into a fight. One named
Linder was cut across the face with a
butcher knife, losing an eye. Linder's
father attempted to stop the row and
was stabbed with a pitchfork.
Five hundred business men of Cleve-
land. O.. held an anti-boycott meeting
in the chamber of commerce rooms; a
fund of $4,000 was started to ferret
out the criminals who are dynamiting
cars and creating discord in the city.
The residence of Joseph Sylvester of
Fairhaven, Minn., was entered by
burglars, one of whom fatally shot
Mrs. Sylvester. The robbers were
pursued by the hired man and, turn
ing, shot him in the leg.
Charles II. Bond, IS year, old was
placed under arrest at Cleveland, O.,
upon the charge of placing explosives
on the tracks of the Big Consolidated
tracks during the strike on the road in
June last.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden has decided upon plan for
the registration of valuable mail mat
ters by letter carriers at the very door
of persons in the residential sections
of large cities having the free delivery
system.
The transport Sheridan sailed from
Manila the 18th, with the Thirteenth
and the South Dakota rcgi-
ments on board.
hurricane swept over the southern
coast of Porto Rico, doing great dam
age. At San Juan four lives were lost.
Admiral Dewey advises the London
Daily Mail that it will be impossible
for him to visit England.
The steamer Morgan city sailed from
San Francisco with 675 recruits for the
army in the Philippines.
Gen. Otis captured letters from high
insurgent authority, exhorting inhab-
itants to hold out Il little longer; that
European recognition will be granted
by Aug. 81, and that the present United
States administration will be over
thrown.
Manley Weaver. a l4-ycar-old boy,
tagged an excursion train near Dead
wood, S. D., and saved it from running
into some distractions on bridge and
being wrecked.
Kid Mccoy had two fights in one
evening at Davenport, To-, winning
both.
Reuben. the 1O-year-old son of W.
Follett. postmaster at Dewar, To-, was
smothercd to death in a bin of shclled
wheat.
Southern Traill and northern Cass
counties North Dakota were visited
with an awful hail storm, causing
great obstruction to growing crops, es-
pccially wheat. The storm formed in
eastern Eddy and Griggs counties and
passed eastward. crossing Cass, Trail
ana northern Barnes counties, and
passing through into Clay county,