The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-04-19
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LATER NEWS,

The board of regents of the Nebras-
ka university elected Supt. E. Benja-
min Andrews, of Chicago, chancellor
of the University of Nebraska.
Theigulf coast ard the greater part
Of mississippi was visited by a storm
~ the form of a tornado in some sec
lions and a cloudburst in others.
James Francis Smith, a messenger
boy, sailed from New York for Pre-
toria with a message of sympathy to
President Kruger signed by %, 1854
school boys.
The will of the late Archbishop Hen
messy, of Dubuque, To-, is to be con.
tested by his brother, Michael Hen
messy.
Osborne Deignan, who was one of
the crew of the Merrimac when that
vessel was sunk in the harbor of Santi-
ago, has been appointed an acting
boatswain in the navy and assigned to
duty On the gunboat Marietta.
w. w. Bramble, mailing clerk in the
Decatur, ILL.,, p%ostofice, was arrested,
charged with tampering with the
mails.
Eleven thousand residents of Cuba
have announced their allegiance to
Spain.
The U. S. senate passed a bill appro-
priating IS, 900, 900 for the construction
of a cable line between San Francisco
and Honolulu.
The casualties to the British army in
the Transvaal amount to nearly 90, 600
officers and men.
The Porto Rican tariff bill passed
the lower house of congress by a vote
of 161 to 1853. AS amended by the SEN
ate and agreed to by the house all re-
strictions on goods coming into the
United States from Port Roico are
eliminated and certain foodstuffs and
other articles which heretofore have
gone into Porto Rico free by executive
orders are excluded from the opera
ton of the Is per cent duty imposed
on goods entering the island from the
United States. A complete scheme of
civil government for the island is also
attached to the measure.
Paul Wagner, the lover of Ida KEEL
Ter, who vas shot at Chicago by Rein
hard Tom, committed suicide after
viewing the girls corpse, Tom shot
and killed Miss Keller because she re-
fused to mary him. He then shot him
self, and is now dying in the hospital.
Not less than 10, 600, and perhaps as
many as Is, 600 horses for military SER
in South Africa, are to be purchased
in the Chicago stock market by the
British government.
The residence of Peyton W.. Rublee,
at Daisy, w. Va, was burned and two
inmates persisted.
The>Puerto Rican tariff bill has been
signed by the president, Speaker Hen
derson, and Frye, president pro TEN of
the senate, and. is now a law.
Advices from Seoul, capital of Korea,
announce that Russia has presented to
the Korean government renewed de-
mands referring to Masanpho.
Half of a four-story brick building
at Pittsburg, Pa, occupied by Arm
strong, McKelvy & Co., wholesale paint
dealers, collapsed. Several people
were killed and a number injured.
A dispatch from E~landslaagte says:
Fighting was renewed beyond Glands
laagte this afternoon (the 11th). The
Beers steadily advanced upon the Brit
ish positions, There was a continuous
rifle fire and the Boer big guns werein
action. The British replied effectively
and after two hours fighting the Beers
were checked.
Mr.. Burrows (Mich.) in the u. S. SEN
ate spoke in opposition to the seating
of M. s. Quay, on the ground that to
allow him to be seated under all the
circumstances would be exceedingly
dangerous as a precedent.
Mrs. j. F. Schumacher, until recently
of the Howard Hotel of Sheldon, To-,
was horribly burned while starting a
fire in a stove. Enveloped in flames
she ran down stairs and was saved by
two men who were passing, one of
them wrapping her in his o~vercoat
and rolling her upon the ground.
AS the result of the wreck of a fish
ing boat on the north Cornish coast,
England, three fisherman and eight
lifeboat men were drowned. The life
boat went to the rescue of the imper-
lied fishermen and was upset in the at
tempt to a " their lives.
Judge William R. Warner, republi-
can, was nominated for congress on
the 4O1st ballot, eighth district of
fOhio.
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Minneapolis, Mimi, April 10.