The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-07-19
Otherwise.

4 Otherwise.
Many young Irish-Americans will gG
to Africa to fight the British.
4 Canadian banks withdraw their mon
ey in New York 10 loan in London.
4 Connecticut cotton manufacturers re-
j Gently advanced cotton operatives
wages
! The Rothschilds have purchased the
4 Alamedan quicksilver mines, near San
4 Jose, Cal M n ri
4 The Sioux City & Northern railway.
was sold to J. Kennedy Tod g. Co. Of.
New York
i American art space at the Paris ex-
4 position will permit the hanging OF 25O
oil paintings.
The Prohibitionists have decided to
4 hold their national convention in Chi
cago June %.
The National Jewish home for con-
sulnptiVes, located at Denver, has been
formally dedicated. II, Il
!, 1T is sought to make Montreal the
seaboard terminal for an all-Water
route for grain from the West. .a;
Joseph r. McPhee, associate superin-
4 tendcnt Of the Salvation Army, is to
/ erect.a poor, mans hotel in Baltimore.
An advance of 10 per cent was an !
nounced in the wages of the Slater cot
ton mill employees of Worcester, Mass.
1 A new .strawboarIl trust will be-
launched at Terre, Haute the first Of
i the year in opposition to the old trust
Buffalo Bill' says Roberts should
Ia I,te
very indignant that anyone should OBJ
4 ject.
H.tIC. Frickg will build steel plants
near Pittsburg, Chicago and Superior
and on the Atlantic seaboard. Carne- \
1 gle may sell out. ,t-lt.,s i3tk5
1T is reported at Memphis that a
movement is on foot to form a combi-.
nation of all Of the big cotton gin man
ufacturing concerns Of the country.
M The commissioner of Internal reye-
/ nue. has decided that aerated distilled ,
water is entitled to exemption from
tax even il advertised as a remedy or
cosmetic. 4; Nh + + sisssF
! The dramatic version of Henry ST.
enckleWicz's Quo Vadis" received it's
i initial production at McVicker'sl thea
/ ter, Chicago, recently, and was regard
! ed as a success.
Tie executive committee Of the anti
trust conference decided to hold an
! antitrust meeting In Chicago Feb. II.
A No formal call has been issued as yet
for the meeting. VII isa35f
The claim is made that the banking
business of Detroit suffers from over
capitalization. and an effort is being
i f.tr lp 10 yi7,rr L.
at So, 100000 and surplus $400G00.
An uphcaval among the manufactur-
ers of Tin plate is proposed with an
j early change in the market, the over /
4 throw of the trust and the formation
of an organization to take Its place.
The National Protective Society of
Michigan has applied for an injunction
to restrain Insurance Commissioner
O'Shaughnessy from canccling it's IL
cense to. do business in Minnesota.
Senator ]. T. Rawlins aud others,
representing the Utah Volunteer Mon
| ument association, have invited the
president to lay the cornerstone to be
erected in honor Of the Utah volun-
! teers. t5 &t&li Iis 3E:lGAf q lEGE
j Dir. II. Baxter Wilson was sent from
Chicago to the Chester asylum for in
sane criminals. He was once 4 we'll
known physician in New York and was
made the surgeon of Rooseyelt's rough
1 riders. r
Lieut.. Stacke of Tennessee. on land
ing in New York from Manila, made,
4 the startling announcement: '"rhe
PHILIPPINE soldiers fight like Ill 1t is
understood the lieutenant has been I'm.
der a calling fire. 4,l
Acommittee appointed by the gener.
i al conference Of the Methodist Protest.
ant church at Kansas City in 1896 to
make a thorough examination of the
discipline of the church, has begun it's
work at Baltimore. 4a tsffS.#5 !It
/ According to the preliminary state
ment issued by the board of agricul-
4 .ture the total yield of wheat in Great.
i Britain for 1899 is estimated at 5,259.-
325 bushels, compared with "a, 028,S56
bushels last year. s'sa y
The bar of KeokulS county, Iowa.
l.passed resolutions urging President
4 Mckinley TO. appoint Hon. Judge A.
r. Dewey Of Worthington, Iowa, to
succeed the late Judge John s. Wool
4 son, Of the federal bench.
4 B3 As soon as several patent suits now
pending upon fruit jar glass blowing
machines are disposed of trust of
i fruit Jar manufacturers, it is said, will
be formed. Ball Bros of Muncie, Ind.
are engineering the concern. <zl4sssJ. IN
Trades, unions embracing adj of the
building trades at Pittsburg, with n
confined membership of 12,0O0, have
decided TO make demand for an eight
hour day. The employers viii be given
until April 1 to grant the demand.
The statement of the exports of do.
nestle products for November of this
year, prepared by the bureau Of stats.
tics, shows that the total exports
amounted to S644.O2G,340, as against
S69G:00,235 for the same month of
1885, e
That the American Steel and Wire
company will build it's immense Sc,
o0o.0o0 plant on Neville island. sub.
urb of Pfttsburg, is now a settled fact.
Ground has been broken for the first
of the G00-ton Bessemer furnaces to be
erected. When complete the works
will employ over 5000 men.