The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-07-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
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X For the Week Ending June %.
The Ninth regiment sailed from Manila
for Talu.SA g@
Forcstsfires were doing great damage in
Wisconsin and Minnesota.
In a mine explosion at Champion,
Mich. four men were Killed.
The democrats Of Arkansas have nom
mated Jeff Davis for governor.
Vermont republicans nominated w. w.
Stickney. of Ludlow. for governor.
The republicans of Maine have nominat-
cd John r. Hill, of Augusta. for governor.
Bob Davis. a negro desperado. was
hanged by a mob at Mulberry, Fla. for
murder. " . a@H%
Pickpockets stole SIS, 900 worth OF nego-
table bonds from Harry K. Duffield in
Chicago.
William and Rose Ruby. aged % and 10,
We're killed by lightning near Oska-
loosa, la.
A cyclone wrecked two churches, the
female academy and other buildings at
Eutaw, Ala.
Martin J. Russell, editor of the Chicago
Chronicle, died at Mackinac island, Mich,
aged IS years.
Jeff Gilmore, shot and killed three per-
sons in u quarrel over a game of cards
at Granite, Kan.
Maj. Schaefer, a retired army officer,
committed suicide in the cemetery at
New Prague, MINI,
Traffic was resumed on all st. Louis
lines Sunday and neither passengers nor
crews were molested.
Francis T. Wheeler, inventor of the first
machine for the manufacture of paper
bags, died in Chicago. EI&&{E
The schooner Everett was wrecked on
St. Lawrence island and five of her crew
OF six starved to death.
Every street in Mobile, Ala, was sub
merged by a cloudburst, in some places
to a depth Of five feet.
Five persons were killed and great dam
age was done to property by a cyclone
in Beaver county, Okla.
William Nahrwald. a barber, killed his
wire and himself in Fort Wayne, Ind. No
cause is known for the deed.
The worlds Women's Christian Tenn
perance union in session in Edinburgh
reelected Lady Somerset president.
Andrew Dekas, 13 years old. a veteran
OF three European wars of the early por-
tion OF the century, died in Chicago.
Gus Rubin, of Akron, O., knocked out
rom Sharkey, the noted sailor-pugilist, in
the fifteenth round at Coney Island, N. Y.
Congressman j.. A. T. Hull was renom-
mated by the republicans of the Seventh
Iowa district. There was no opposition.
Solomon Scruggs and Philip Hilpot, COM
mercial travellers, fought with pistols in
a saloon in New York and both were killed.
John Thomas. a negro who attempted
an assault on Mrs. Keene, a widow liy.
ing near O'Brien, Fla, was hanged by O
mob. -
James II. Eckels says business condi-
t1enS arc better than admitted, farmers
are prosperous, and trade will continue
good.
Ferry Wagner, a convict in the peni-
Tertiary at Rusk, Tex, was hanged for
the murder of a fellow convict last o.
tober.
Postmaster General Smith issued an
order removing Estes G.. Rathbone, di-
rector general of posts in Cuba, from
Office. - "a. ~ ! i
The American derby at the Washington
Park race track, Chicago, was won oy
Sidney Lucas, a twenty to one outsider,
in 2:4Oh. ws.Ir
Louis M. Stein. a South Bend Qnd.)
merchant, was slugged and robbed Of
$4,000 while waiting for a street car in
Chicago. l.Ta #@4 @ '45& ~
President Mckinley will be officially in
formed of his nomination for president of
the United States at his home in Canton.
O., on July u. a@nfi r" tt#t
In Boston Rev. Francis f. Clark has been
reelected president of the United Society
of Christian EndeaVor, which now has g.
500. 900 members.
The federal court issued an injunction
at st. Louis restraining the Street Rail-
way Mems union from interfering with
the running of mail cars.
A mob in Livingston parish. Louisiana.
lynched Frank Gilmore, a white man, for
the murder of an aged woman who was
supposed to keep money in her house.
l. Republicans made the following con.
gressional nominations: Minnesota, First
district, ]. T. McCleary: second. J. A.
Tawney; Third, Joel Hearwole. Michi-
gan, Sixth district, S. w. Smith.
The Ohio supreme court handed down
a decision adverse to the Toledo centen-
NAL project. The court holds that the
5000, OOO. which the centennial board seeks,
Is not available. The decision will prob
ably kill the centennial: movement.
The secretary of the navy has author
lied the following names for the new
battleships and cruisers: Battleships, Vir-
ginia and Rhode Island. Armored cruis-
ers, Maryland, Colorado and South Da-
kota. Protected cruisers, St. Louis, Mil.
waukee and Charleston.