The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-03-22

Flames wiped out the entire bust.
ness portion Of the village Of Spauld-
ing. Mich.
Fire destroyed the residence of Hen
ry Speckerman at Saginaw, Mich, and
two of his children were cremated.
FOREIGN INTELL1GExCE.
France is hurrying troops and arms
to Madagascar, fearing British attack.
The Davis amendment to the Hay
Pauncefote treaty has been rejected
by Great Britain, and that convention
is practically dead.
According to the latest reports
Lord Roberts was only IS miles away
from Bloemfontein, the Orange Free
State capital. It is reported that Sails
bury has rejected peace overtures.
The British casualties up to date
amount to 1857. (
The peace overtures from Presidents
Kruger and Steyn have been rejected
by Lord Salisbury and the war will
continue until the republics are
crushed. The British forces under
Lord Roberts have control of the rail-
ways from Bloemfontein and expect
o o to occupy the capital.
Hadedze, the sultan's daughter,
eloped with Niedjar, a Turkish poet.
Gen. Otis has appointed Brig. Gen.
William A. Kobbe, United States vol
unteers, military governor of the prov
ince of Albay, Luzon, and of the island
of Cataduanes.
The last of the insurgent leaders to
hold out, Col. V~iscarra, has been killed,
and the whole of Peru is now tranquil.
In the Balkans, Turkey, outrages
against the Christians have been re-
newed.
Paris papers predict blowing up of
mines and other disasters when Brit
ish troops carry the wal into the
,Transvaal. ,.-.
LATER NEWS.
Lord Roberts occupied Bloemfontein
the 18th and placed the British flag
over the capital. Col. Plummer was
within 40 miles of Mafeking.
The president has signed the fnan-
cial bill, thus making it a law of the
land.
While wild with rage, Olaf Polleson,
a painter in New York, stabbed and
killed his wife, murdered little Julia
Hengesbach and murderously assaulted
Mrs. H~engesbach. When arrested he
narrowly escaped being lynched by a
mob.
The Illinois Manufacturers associa-
ton has decided to start an agitation
looking to the repeal of the war rev
enue act.
Judge Taft, president of the new
Philippine commission, has notified
his fellow commissioners that the COM
missioners that the commission will
convene in Washington March 81.
The state department has been ad-
vised formally of the willingness of
the French government to extend the
ratification of the pending French re-
%ciprocity treaty.
The New South Wales government
has proclaimed ST. Patrick's Day a pub
lie holiday as tribute to the bravery of
the Irish soldiers in South Africa.
Fire at Miamisburg, Ohio, destroyed
the big Rothschild tobacco warehouse
and damaged other adjacent buildings
buildings. A Chicago firm owned the
ware. Loss estimated at $3.50, 900.
A boy was born to Mrs. Patrick Law
cry of Bridgeport, Conn.,, which at
birth weighed 2414 pounds.
Organizing of the threshing manu-.
facturers into a trust, with a capital
of SIS, 900, 600, has been abandoned.
Two fremen were caught under a
falling wall at a fire at Indianapolis,
and M of them, Frank Mankin, was
badly crushed and burned.
Emperor William of Germany has
presented Commander J. M. Miller, of
the U. S. navy, a gold watch and chain
for services rendered during the Sa-
moan trouble.
Advices from Samoa, dated Feb. Il,
report that the German flag was hoist
ed at Apia, on the conclusion of the
treaty. Dr.. Solf is governor. Herr
knipping, formerly vice consul at Sgd
ney, will act as chief judge and vice
governor.
Fire destroyed the scythe nanufac-
turing department of the American AK
Trust Co.,, near Baliston, Spa, Sara
toga, N. Y. Loss $40, 600.
The Standard Oil company the 18th
distributed $40, 600, 600 in dividends.
The stock of the company the same day
was quoted at 53s bid.
John A. Janinsky walked off the
cars atsLaCrosse, Wis, and was ground
to pieces under the wheels.
The Chicago and Denver flyer on the
burlington road was wrecked near
Ottumwa, 10. No one injured.
Representative Ray of New York in
troduced in congress an amendment to
the constitution providing that con
gress shall have power to regulate and
repress monopolies and combinations;
to create and dissolve corporations and
dispose of their property; t o make all
laws necessary and proper for the exc
cution of the foregoing powers. Such
powers may be exercised by the sew.
eral states in n manner not in con-
fict with the laws of the United
States. The object of which is to reg
ulate trusts.
There was a mass meeting of Boer
sympathizers at Cooper Union, New
York. Montagu White, the Boer rep
resentative; John E. Mulhulland and
P. Louter Vessels, a representative OF
the Orange Free State, made speeches.
Flores, Aguinaldo's secretary of war,
has surrendered to General Macarthur,
Aguinaldo's infant son, who was
captured in November and who has
beenssuffering from smallpox, is dead.
A private cablegram from an unim-