The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-04-26
LATER. NEWS.

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LATER NEWS.
Gen. Warren has been ordered hons
from the Transvaals
The transport Sumner, conveying 8
large, number of officers and recruits
to Manila, arrived at Malta in good
condition.
While playing Wild West at St, Louis,
Isaac Steinard, l6 years old, shot and
instantly killed Arthur Prince, aged
IA years.
King Oscar and the queen of Sweden
and Norway have arrived in London.
All immediate hope of acquiring the
Danish West Indies. has been aban-
doned by the administration.
1t is, announcedcin thelocal,presssat
Kingston, Jamaica, that in conse-
quence of the failure of the banana
crop in the parish of st. Thomas, wide
spread and acute suffering exists in
that place and anumber of deaths from
starvation have occurred.
Helen Gould will attend the Dewey
day celebration in Chicago.
The bubonic plague has made it's APP
pearance at several ports on the Red
sea.
The Anti-Imperialistic League tele-
graphed its congratulations to Senator
Hoar upon his recent speech against
the retention of the Philippine islands.
The wire mills in the Pittsburg dis
trict have resumed operations.
Mr.. Pettigrew has introduced a bill
bill in the U. S. senate providing $780,
600 for the purchase of a herd of buff
falo and for fencing certain portions
of the Black Hills reserve for their
confinement and preservation.
Two Russian admirals and 40 other
Russian naval officers of high rank are
reported to have been arrested at Sc
bastopol, owing to Irregularities in
the construction department and to
the e~mbezzlement of millions. All
the ships in Black sea harbors are
being ordered to Sebastopol for inspec-
ton.
Reports received in Denver from the
grazing regious indicate hat heavy
losses of livestock will result from the
prolonged rain nd~snowstorm. The
losses of sheep in the vicinity of Trini-
dad will aggregate 20, 900 head.
The passenger list of the European
steamships out of New York show that
in spite of the reports of the scarcity
of accommodations few of them carried
anything like a full quota of passen-
Igers.
The deaths from plague throughout
India during the past week slightly
decreased in number, but the aggre-
gate is still upwards of 40, 600.
The German government, after look
ing into various reichstag propositions
for raising taxes to meet the expenses
of the naval augmentation bill, nov
says that the only taxes available for
this purpose are those on lotteries and
bourse transactions.
Henry Demas, one of the best known
negro politicians in the south, is dead.
Demas was a prominent figure through
out reconstruction times, and was a
member of the Louisiana senate until
eight years ago.
The preliminary step toward the Or
~ganization of a gigantic farmers trust
to embrace all of the farming commu-
mites of the Mississippi valley, were
taken at Abilene, Kan. al
An alleged gambling house was raid
ed in Chicago and a number of women
arrested by the police.
The United States transport Sedg-
wick arrived at New York from Cuba
with 1886, 600 in French gold.
SPANS minister to the United States,
Duke d'Arcos, is to be invited to at
tend the national encampment of the
G. A. R. to beGheld in Chicago in Au-
gust.
An unknown woman, but a victim
of starvation, was found dead in a pew
in st. Stephens church, in New York.
More than nine miles of track has
disappeared beneath the water near
Chotawa, Miss.
Governor General Wood announces
that the Cuban elections will be held
June 16. The census will soon be made
public.
On account of dissensions mon its
members, a cabinet has been formed
in Spain.
The Indians in the village of Odanah,
Wis, on the Bad river, are in a sorry
plight. The river has overlooked its
banks and half the town is submerged.
Many of the inhabitants have been
driven from their homes.
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