The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-05-03
LATER NEWS.

Three persons were killed and three
injured in a tenement house fire in
New York. The dead are: Hannah
Liebowitz, IS years old; Amelie Liebo-
WITT, II years old; Joseph Liebowitz, 6
years old.
In a labor riot in Chicago, Peter Mil
Ter was shot through the head and in
stantly killed. John Mcclure was shot
through the arm and cheek, but not
fatally. Six others sustained slight in.
juries. The shooting was done by Fl.
c. Baster, who gave himself up when
the police arrived.
The news was officially given out in
London by the war department. that
Wepener had been relieved. The re-
lief was accomplished by Gen. Bra
bant.
In despair because her hair would
not grow long, Mrs. Blume attempted
suicide at Philadelphia.
The Constantinople correspondent OF
a London paper says that Russia has
intimated that she will oppose any at
tempt to enforce the United States
claim against Turkey.
One man was blown almost to atoms,
two men received injuries which will
probably prove fatal, and eight men
and a girl received serious injuries by
an explosion of several cans of blast
ing powder and dynamite at Larimer,
Pa.
R. W. Clark, night superintendent of
nouilcor Rr0e ~o~L1o -~u1,, =. ~:
cago, was beaten into insensibility by
three men while going home from his
work.
In view of the steps taken by the
Uuited States government in regard tc
the claims arising out of the Armenian
'massacres, the embassies of Great Bri.
tain, France, Austria, Italy and Ger.
many have asked their governments
for instructions as to their similar
claims.
Ten thousand Boxers have lately
gathered near Paoting Flu, eight miles
southwest of Picking, and as their
number has increased they have be-
come disorderly. Bishop Favier re
ceived a telegram saying that the i'm
perial troops have fought a pitched
battle with the Boxers, killing sixty
and taking many prisoners.
The indecisive action and slow prog
ress of Generals Hart and Brabant are
relatively unimportant, when COM
pared with the progress of General
French. It is now evident that Lord
Roberts wishes not only to defeat the
Beers but to pen them in, as at Paar.
deberg. To this end, 40, 900 British
troops are concentrating II the south.
eastern portion of the Orange Free
State and are operating according tc
carefully devised plans in which the
delay may be as much due to strategy
as to necessity.
A woman vas sold at auction at Gal.
weston, Texas, for $40. She and others
are said to have been imported from
Belgium under contract to the man
who sold her. The federal authorities
are searching for the parties involved.
BY the collapse of a two-story frame
house in Chicago, five persons were in
jured, two seriously.
Employees of the laundries in Paris,
France, are all on a strike for higher
wages.
Railroad traffic is again badly inter
rupted in portions of Texas on account
of washouts.
Burglars secured SIS, 600 from the
vaults of the bank of Coulterville, Ill,
and made their escape.
The transport Sherman arrived at
San Francisco from Manila.
Mrs. Jessie Adams was acquitted of
the charge of murder at Cincinnati.
She recently killed her husband there
in the presence of their two children
and of the sister of Mrs. Adams. The
evidence showed that Mrs. Adams had
suffered from cruel treatment and was
acting in self-defensc.
The Fifth Avenue Hotel and the
Madison Square Theater building in
New York were sold in one parcel at
public auction for 81, 225. 900, the pur-
chaser being w. P. Emo, son of the
original owner.
Five square miles of territory burned
over; more than 1850 dwelling fac.
tories, mills, stores and other build.
ings destroyed, entailing a loss esti.
mating to reach $40, 900, 600, and be-
tween 10, 900 and Is, 600 men, women
and children homeless is a summing
up of the havoc wrought by the fire
which occurred at Hull and Ottawa,
Canada, the Goth.
MARKETS.
Minneapolis, Mimi, April 90.
Wheat-No. / northern, 63@64c,
No. 2 northern, 62@63c; May 65Lc.
Oats-No. 8, white, Bic.
Corn-No. 8, SOC.