The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-09-28
Otherwise.

The National Irrigation congress
meets at Missoula. Mont, Sept. p.
The national Colored Baptist conven-
ton has selected Richmond, Va, as the
next meeting place.
X. J.. Reams has been elected nation
al agent of the Chicasaw Nation at
Ardmore, Ind. 7.
c. c. Ryan of New Goshen, Ind,
has found copper ore on his farm and
is investigating further.
Leading Odd Fellows are assembling
in Detroit, Mich, for the seventy-fifth
anniversary jubilee Of the order.
Mayor Jones of Toledo. in his annual
message to the city council, advocates
municipal ownership and free baths.
The Dewey home fund has reached
the 100000 mark, and is expected TO
pass the $40, 600 mark in few days.
Canadian Pacific railway earnings
for the week ended Sept. IA were S545, :
coo, same period last year, $511 900.
The will Of the late Cornelius Wand
erbilt will not be probated until the re-
turn OF Alfred Vanderbilt from Europe.
Work on the extension Of the In
diana Southern railway into the union
station at Terre Haute will begin at
once
The Steger & Singer Piano company
of Chicago has taken its $50 employees
into partnership on the cooperative
plan.
Gen. john Il. Gordon has declined TO
allow New Orleans confederate veter-
ans to rebuild his home recently de-
stroyed by fire.
The International Brotherhood of
Stationary engineers, in convention at
st. Louis, has decided to meet ut Pc
oria, ILL.,, next year.
Rock Island. H.. officials offer re-
wards of $50 for the arrest of horse
thieves, $50 for cattle thieves, and So
Ter poultry thieves.
has been acquired by st. Louis syn
dictate, which will conduct it next year
on an extensive scale.
The Association of Iron and Steel
Sheet manufacturers las advanced the
price Of sheet from $40 to 1925 a
ton. to take effect at once.
Gen. III. V. BoyntOn is i'm Chatta-
nooga as representative of the govern
ment to accept the Indiana monument
to be dedicated at Chickamauga.
Sixteen copper mines i'm HOughton
county. Mich, have been assessed for
taxation at $149, 100000, while the
county is assessed at only $42 900 600.
The appraisal of the personal prop
erty Of the late Roswell L. Flower
puts its value ut $3,7S1 800 on the
basis Of what stocks were worth May
II last.
The British steamer Angalo cleared
from New Orleans with 16S.172
bushels Of corn and 100000 bushels OF
oats. This is the largest cargo of grain
ever taken from that port.
The United Railways company has
filed with the secretary of state Of
Missouri a certificate Of increase of
its capital from $5,OOO,OOO to $40 OOO.-
600. The fee paid was $4,000.
An order temporarily restraining the
enforcement Of the department store
law, enacted at the recent session Of
the Missouri state legislature, was
issued by Judge Zachritz at st. Louis.
The National Steel Company of
Youngstown, Ohio, has let contracts
Tor -FOUR furnaces to be erected at once.
one at Youngstown, one at Newcastle,
, "a, and two at MingO Junction, Ohio.
The proprietOrs Of the new Madison
hotel ut Toledo. Ohio, which Is to be
one or the largest in the West. an-
hounce that the plan includes free au-
tomoDiie service, the first hotel EN-.
Iloyins the machines.