The Bemidji pioneer., 1900-07-12
Otherwise.

| Otherwise.
Many young h-Americans VIII go
/ to Africa to fight the British
/ Canadian banks withdraw their mon-
ey in New York to loan in London.
Connecticut cotton manufacturers re-
Gently advanced cotton operatives
! wages.
The Rothschilds have purchased the
Alamedan quicksilver mines, near San
Jose, Cal.
The Sioux City & Northern railway
was sold to ]. Kennedy Tod q 90. Of
| New York.
American. art space at the Paris eX-
position will permit the hanging of 700
oil paintings. b
/ The Prohibitionists have decided to
| hold their national convention in Chi
cago June q.
The National Jewish home for con-
sumptiyes. located at Denver, has been
formally dedicated.
] It is sought to make Montreal the
| seaboard terminal for an all-Water
| route for grain from the West.
| Joseph r. McPhee, associate superin-
| tendent of the Salvation Army, is to
erect 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.
A new strawboard trust will be
! launched at Terre Haute the first OF
| the year in opposition to the old trust.
| Buffalo Bill" says Roberts should
| be given his seat in congress. He is
very indignant that anyone should OBJ
| ject.
III. C. Frick will build steel plants
near Pittsburg, Chicago and Superior
and on the Atlantic seaboard. Carne-
| gle may sell out.
| It is reported at Memphis that
movement is on foot to form combi-
nation of all of the big cotton gin man
ufacturing concerns Of the country.
The commissioner of internal reve-
nue. has decided that aerated distilled
water is entitled to exemption from
| tax even if advertised as remedy or
| cosmetic.
The dramatic version of Henry ST.
| encklewicz's quo Vadis" received it's
initial production ut McYicker's thea
| c1,FS W
| ed as a success. #
| The executive committee Of the anti
trust conference decided to hold nm
antitrust meeting in Chicago Feb. H.
| No formal call has been issued rs yet
for the meeting.
The claim is made that tho banking
| business of Detroit suffers from over
capitalization. and an effort is being
| made to consolidate, making one bank
at $2,O00,00O and surplus 100000.
An upheaval among the manufactur-
ers of tin plate is proposed with an
early change in the market, the over
| throw of the trust and the formation
OF an organization to take it's place.
! The National Protective Society Of
Michigan has applied for an injunction
| TO restrain Insurance Commissionar
| O'Shaughnessy from canceling its IL
| cense to do business in Minnesota.
Senator J. l.. Rawlins and 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. - @se 3"
DIR. II. Baxter Wilson was sent from
I Chicago ito the Chester asylum for in
sane criminals. He was once a WE'LL
known physician in New York and was
made the surgeon Of ROosevelt's rough
/ riders. f. r,.
Lieut.. Stacke Of Tennessee. on land
| ing in New York from Manila, made
| the startling announcements: '"rhe
PHILIPPINE soldiers fight like HI 1t is
| understood the lieutenant has been un-
der CALLING fire. ~.
Acommittee appointed by the gener-
al conference cf 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.
! According to the preliminary state
ment issued by the board of ayricul-
ture the total yield of wheat in Great
| Britain for 1899 is estimated at G5.259.-
325 bushels, compared with 73,O2S,S56
bushels lest year
The bar of Keokuk county, Iowa,
passed resolutions urging President
Mckinley to appoint Hon. Judge A.
r. Dewey of Worthington, Iowa. to
succeed the late Judge John s. Wool
son. of the federal bench.
/ AS soon as several patent suits now
pending upon fruit jar glass blowing
machines are disposed of "a trust Of
fruit Jar manufacturers it is said. will
be formed. Ball Bros Of Muncie. Ind;
are engineering the concern.
Trades unions embracing all of the
building trades at Pittsburg. with a
i combined melnharshin nf $4,000. have
| decided to make q, >.~..t.ss I'd for IN eight
hour day. The employers will be given
until April to grant the demand.
The statement of the exports of do
nestle products for November of this
year, prepared by the bureau of statis,
tics, shows that the total exports
amounted to S644.026.34O, as against
| S69G.50O, ,235 for the same month of
1903.
That the American Steel and Wire
company will build it's immense &c.,
100000 plant on Neville island, sub.
urb of Pittsburg, is now settled fact.
Ground has been broken for the first
of the 600-ton Bessemer furnaces to be
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