The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1900-08-09
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bill to amend the interstate commerce.
law.
Secretary Long has taken the fifsf
step towards carrying out ms project
for the consolidation Of the naVai pu.
reaus under one head and has prepared
bill to be introduced Immediately I'D
congress for that purpose.
Attorney General Griggs has made
ruling holding that the adjustment OF
free delivery through the reduction OF
gross receipts below the minimum re-
auired by law to entitle u town to free
delivery is compulsory and not option
al with the postmaster general Let
ter carriers thrown out by abolshing
free delivery are not, under the civil
service rules, entitled TO reinstatement
on restoration Of free delivery. Il
Otherwise.
Many young Irish-Americans VIII go
to Africa to fight the British.
Canadian banks withdraw their mon
ey in New York to loan in London.
Connecticut cotton manufacturers re-
Gently advanced cotton operatives
wages.
The Rothschilds have purchased the
Alamedan quicksilver mines, near San
Jose, Cal
The Sioux City & Northern railway
was sold to j. Kennedy Tod & 90. of
New y DIRK.
American art space at the Paris ex-
position will permit the hanging OF $50
oil paintings.
The Prohibitionists have decided to
hold their national convention in Chi
cago June q.
The National Jewish home for con-
:su1nptives, located at Denver, has been
formally dedicated. I'll
It is sought to make Montreal the
seaboard terminal for an all-yater
route for grain from the West.
Joseph r. McPhee, associate superin-
tendent Of the Salvation Army, is to
erect a poor mans hotel in Baltimore.
An advance Of 10 per cent was an
nOunced in the wages Of the Slater cot
ton mill employees of Worcester, Mass.
A new strawboard trust will be
launched at Terre Haute the first Of
the year in opposition to the old trust.
Buffalo Bill" says Roberts should
be given his seat in congress. He is
very indignant that anyone should OBJ
ject.
y H. G. Frick will build steel plants
near Pittsburg. Chicago and Superior
and on the Atlantic seaboard. Carne-
gle may sell out.
X It is reported at Memphis that a
movement is on foot to form a combs
nation of all of the big cotton gin man
ufacturing concerns Of the country.
The commissioner of internal reve-
nue. has decided that aerated distilled
water is entitled to exemption from
tax even if advertised as remedy or
cosmetic.
The dramatic version of Henry ST.
cnckleWicz's 'sQuo Vadis'' received its
initial production at McVicker's thea
ter, Chicago, recently, and was regard
ed as a success.
The executive committee of the antis
trust conference decided to hold an
antitrust meeting in Chicago Feb. -
No formal call has been issued as yet
for the meeting.
The claim is made that the banking
business Of Detroit suffers from over
Capitalization, and an effort is being
made tc consolidate. making one bank
at $2,O0O00O and surplus $4GO 900.
An 1lpheaval among the manufactnr-
ers OF Tin plate is proposed with an
early change in the market, the over
throw of the trust and the forna ton
Of an organization to take its place.
The National Protective Society Of
nj, hos. init ri
TO restrain Insurance Commissioner
O'Shaughnessy from canceling its IL
cense to do business in Minnesota.
Senator j. l.. Rawlins and others,
representing the Utah Volunteer Mon
ument association, have invited the,
president to lay the cornerstone to be
erected in honor of the Utah volun-
teers
DR.. H. Baxter Wilson was sent from
Chicago to the Chester asylum for in
sane criminals He was once a we'll
known physician in New York and was
made the surgeon of Roosevelt's rough
riders.
Lieut.. Stacke of Tennessee. OH land
ing in New York from Manila, made
the startling announcement: .The
Eulllputt 1lSHG llAG IL 10
understood the lieutenant has been un-
der a CALLING fire.
Acommittee appointed by the gener-
nj conference Of the Methodist Protest
ant church at Kansas City in 1896, to
make thorough examination of the
discipline of the church, has begun it's
work at Baltimore.
According to the preliminary state
ment issued by the board of agricul-
ture the total yield of wheat in Great
Britain for 1899 is estimated at G5.259,-
325 bushels, compared with 73,02SS56
bushels lest year.
The bar of Keokuk county, Iowa,
passed resolutions urging President
Mckinley to appoint Hon. Judge A.
r. Dewey of Worthington. Iowa, to
succeed the late Judge John 5. Wool
son, of the federal bench.
AS soon as several patent suits now
pending upon fruit jar glass blowing
machines are disposed of a trust Of
fruit jar manufacturers, it is said, win
be formed. Ball Bros of Muncie, Ind,
are engineering the concern.
Trades unions embracing all of the
building trades at Pittsburg. with IA