The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1900-12-20
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manufacturer of New York. is deaa.
Michael G.. Mulhall, the statistician.
is dead in London. He was born In
1885.
John Lawrence Manning Irby. form
serly United States senator, died at his
home In Laurens, S. c., of Bright's dis
ease.
+. Peter Dunno, creator Of ''Philoso-
pher Dooley,' who has been i'll with ty-
phoid fever in Chicago. is reported to
be on the road to recovery.
Phil Spooner. brother of the senator,
denies emphatically that his brother
will go into the cabinet, saying that II
he continued in public life, he would
prefer the senate to any other. place.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, commander Of the
Department Of the Missouri. has ac-
cepted the invitation Of the commercial
club to be its guest at John Jay BAN
quet to be held in Kansas City Jan. 8.
The regents of the University Of Cali
fornia have formally appointed Prof.
W. w. Campbell director of the Lick
observatory. Prof. Campbell has been
acting as director since the death OF
Prof. Keller.
An .enga cement shortly to be an
nounced is that Of Miss Martha Hich-
born, daughter of Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Philip Hichborn, and James g..
blaine, youngest son Of the late secre-
tary of state.
j. Henry Miller, a noted breeder and
turfman and for many years secretarys
cf the Kentucky association and man
ager of the Western Bookrnakers' assoc
citation. died from stroke OF paralysis
at Lexington, Ky.
Prof. Alex. Czeke, talented violinist
and prominent citizen Of Montgomery,
Ala, fell dead Just as he was conchld-
ing sonata on his violin. He was en-
gagged for many years in giving con-
certs in company with such artists as
Nine. Essipoff, Nine. Trebelli and Ru-8
dolph Willmers.
otherwise.
The Yale football team has elected
Charles Gould captain for the next
year
Andrew Carnegie favors the isthmian
canal. but opposes any treaty with
Great Britain on the subject.
I An uprising is being investigated at
the University of Alabama. They COM
plain of certain strict military features
OF discipline.
President Mckinley. at the White
House. touched the button which form
ally opened the territorial exposition at
Phoenix, Ariz.
Hawaiian statistics of immigration
for the past two months show that
there is a considerable movement OF
Orientals away from the islands.
The Young. Peoples union, United
Presbyterian church. has selected Wi
mona, Ind, as the next place Of meet
ing in 1901, to be held the second week
In August.
The Ohio supreme court has dismissed
the contempt proceedings brought
some time ago by the attorney general
Of Ohio against the Standard Oil COM
pany.
A Washington dispatch to the New
York World says that there is to be
another coal strike next April, and that
every coal miner in the United States
VIII be called out.
At Frankfort. KY. Gov. Beckham
was inaugurated for term. of three
years. The inaugural ceremonies We're
the most elaborate witnessed In the
state in the present decade.
a deal has just been consummated
whereby the Standard Oil company ac-1.
cures Ell of the interests of the Pacific
Coast Oifcompany. The purchase price
is said to be in the neighborhood OF
81, 000, 900.
The directors Of the American Steel
and Wire company have declared div
idend on the preferred stock of 3-4 per
cent. and directed the payment OF the
quarterly dividend OF ga per cent on
the common stock.
The transport Hancock has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila. via Naga-
ski. with the bodies of about 1.5o0 SOL
diers and sailors who either died In bat
lie OF suecumbed to disease in the Phil
oppines, China, Guam and Honolulu.
William Boulton. said to be the son
of a we'll known Englishman, dropped
dead in Vancouver, b. c.. on being con-
fronted by woman who claimed 10
have been his wife, and who alleges
Boulton deserted her in England for
another woman. Physicians who ex-
ined Boulton's body state that he died
from fright.
The German squadron. commanded
by Prince Henry of Prussia, has arrived
at Laurvig, Norway. Thence 1t VIII go
to Kicl. and, later, to Holland. where
Prince Henry will attend the wedding
of Queen WHhelmina.
The Pekin correspondent OF the Ber-
lin Deutsehc Zeitrng writes that sever
al German marine officers discovered
Sir Claude Macdonald. former British
minister at Pekin, and Lady Macdon-
aid personally experimenting coolies
who were carrying off treasure from
the Chinese imperial palace to the
British legation buildings.