The Bemidji pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minn.) 1896-1917, 1900-08-23

900. 1t will be seen that trees age
has not merely scientific interest. but
that 1t is of the utmost economical i'm
portance. Among the Paris trees there
are 25,2S7 planes, 17,136 chestnuts, 1855
elrns 9,Ts6 alders, $3.50 naples, 5,125
planemaples, 1927 locust trees, or false
acacias, % linden trees and 1904 paul
ownias.s Generally speaking, the NOR
tally of the trees in the center Of the
city is almost double that Of the trees
in the outskirts.
Domestic.
Apple crop in Southern Iowa.is q fail
ure.
George r. Leefeldt, Waukon, Iowa,
is dead.
Earthquakes in California increase
size Of rivers.
West Superior Wis. banks will not
lend city money. "
There was s4o, 900 blaze at Hudson.
Wis, recently.
Catholic sisters will open school at
Lead, s. D., next month.
Elmer Dayton OF ST. Cloud is report
ed missing at Manila.
The glass works at Muncie, Ind, will
resume work Sept. l..
There was a s1.0oO,O00 fire at Glens
Falls, N. Y, last week.
Dwight L. Bell, a pioneer railroader
of Bridgeport, Conn, is dead.
Milwaukee will try to secure Bryan
and Roosevelt for Labor Day.
Sidney Whittier Of Springfield, Ill,
shot and killed his sister-in-law.
William Beeman, a Wolf Creek, Wis.
farmer, was killed by lightning.
The new fast lake steamer viii run
direct between Buffalo and Detroit.
The abductors Of little Hazel Peter
son were caught at Waukegan, Ill
Vineyard owners in France shoot
cannon at clouds to protect crops.
Cecil Rhodes is planning to have Chi
namen work the South African mines.
There are twenty-four cases of small
pox among the Indians at Oberon, n.
D. a.$
One thousand families Of the Russian
sect, Mallakus, may come to Mime
sofa. 4 h, s .ss s$ Fl.
Mrs. w. r. UPTON Of La Crosse, Wis,
accidentally shot herself through tha
foot. ssss
Soldiers sick in Manila number 5, 1a9.
Augustus L. Barber, New York. is
dead
The 1o-year-old daughter Of Henry
McCann was drowned Saturday ut Jims
Falls, Wis.
The White Star liner Cymric has ar
rived at New York. She was on fire in
midocean.
Company A, First infantry, stationed
at Fort Logan, Ark, is ordered to San
Francisco. @f
Companies G and .. First infantry,
Kansas, leave for San Francisco, en-
route to China.
Charles Worth son Of a Standard Oil
official, is missing from his home at
Chadwick, N. J.
The treasury statement shows an
available cash balance OF s14o02S, 174;
gold, $74,5SS,276. .. &%
The state investigation committee
finds irregularities in the Chicago ele-
VatOr companies. 's.s'-u E# p Hal
Lady Seymour and Lady Pole Carew
passed through Winnipeg, Man, dur
ing the past week. @-. er&HE &S
George 7. Baker of Des Moines, Ia,
ann ounces that he will not be candi-5
date for secretary Of state. # @#
Gov. Shaw of Iowa will appoint a
United States senator to succeed the
late Senator Gear Immediately 0
! Robert S. Hughes, president of the
| Rogers Locomotive company, is dead
| at his home at Paterson. N. ].
William Fl. Gravenhorse, the Neither
lands consul, is dead from heart dis
ease at his home in Brooklyn. .
The Deutschland, the swiftest steam
| er, crosses the ocean in five days, eley-
en- hours and forty-ve minutes.
Time-worp lightning rod swindle has
recently been worked extensively in the
neighborhood Of Cumberland, Wis. .s
! The taxable property of the State of
South Dakota is much greater than
| last year, according to the assessment
board. .
| Eight million one hundred and sixty
| two thousand dollars in gold bars were
| shipped from New York to England
| last week. SE4.a 8&
Rain has fallen over the greater part
| Of Nebraska. Reports indicate that
| the corn crop will be nearly an average
one all over the state. @
The defendants in the suit of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas Railway COM
pany are restrained from further steps
toward consolidation.
| Their is a decrease of $51, SS5 SEA in the
| assessable, or one-fifth valuation of the
| real property in Cook county, Ill.,, as
| compared with last year. ~
| Italian societies in Chicago held a
great demonstration in commemoration
| of King Hunlbert.
| A fire at Glens Falls, N. Y, destroyed
over 100000 worth of property. Among
| the property destroyed was the Glens
Falls electric light and gas plant.
1t was announced at big Salvation
Army rally at Asbt,ry Park that Mrs.
! Booth-Tucker was dang rously i'll at
her summer home at Spring Lake.
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