The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-09-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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III. q.
Miss Isabel Hanson, formerly his pri-
vate secretary.
John 6. Kettlerman of Ida Grove,
Iowa was the lowest bidder for the
construction of the new public building
at Blair, Neb. His bid was $2S,64O.
Shipping firms Of London engaged In
the Canadian trade have agreed TO an
advance of 10 per cent In freight rates
because of the advance in coal and oth-
err steamship stores.
II is said in court circles at Berlin
that Queen Victoria will visit Dowager
Empress Frederick next month unless
the Iatter's condition meanwhile should
considerably improve, which is not
probable.
Thompson Kingsford of Oswego, N.
Y, head of the Kingsford starch works,
boiler works box factory and Oswego's
leading business man and manufacture
er. is dead after a brief Illness, aged
seventy-three.
The rain in India is favorable to the
crops. A general rain has fallen In all
the famine districts and a good crop
Is now assured. The number now re-
ceiving relief is something like 4,ooO.-
900 In all sections.
DR.. Cando, in the Peruvian senate,
brought forward a proposition making
Peruvian pound pieces, as well as
English sovereigns legal tender at the
ratio Of ten soils, and also authorizing
the government to coin half-pound
pieces.
The semi-official ReichsanZeiger an
nounces that the German ministry of
state has decided in view of the de-
ficiencies Of the coal supply, to facili-
tate Importation by introducing every
where a raw material tariff to continue
ct least two years.
Miss Grace +. Bradley of Minneapolis
was appointed assistant matron at the
Cheyenne River Indian school in South
Dakota. at $3.50 a year. Miss Mime
haha Thomas of Indiana was appoint
ed Kindergarten at the Fort Totten,
N. D., school, at 5000 a year.
The Berlin censor has forbidden the
production of die Strengen Herren"
(Stern Masters), q comedy by Blumen-
thai and Kadelburg, which was to have
been performed at the Berliner theater
on account of it's sarcastic references
to the so-called Lex Heinze,"
The English salt trade is excited over
the report that an American syndicate
covets control of the British salt mar
ket. Brokers are said to be quietly
buying shares of the Salt union, COM
bination of producers which has a
monopoly of the industry in the United
Kingdom.
A 4 I'll
chief of the bureau of navigation, wiz
recommend to congress that the en-
listed force of the navy be increased
to $4,000 men and boys. Should this
recommendation be adopted it will
mean that the enlisted strength of the
service will be Increased by 1900
men.
From reports of family physicians of
Chicago it is probable that rs per cent
of the population has been passing
through a most extraordinary period
of suffering from an epidemic OF
cramps. For the week ending Sept. !,
there were III deaths from stomach
troubles. The excessive heat was the
cause.
The officials of the navy department
home to the United States for inter-
ment the remains Of officers and en-
listed men of the navy and marine
corps who We're buried outside the con-
tinental limits of the United States
since April 2S, 1893, the official date Of
the beginning OF the Spanish war.
Pittsburg and associate interests
have taken costly and determined
steps to insure the development OF an
export business in iron and steel. A
rush order has been placed for the con-
structior of ten great freighters TO
ply between Lake Erie ports, between
the Welland canal and the Gulf of st.
Lawrence, across the Atlantic. The
fleet will cost something like $3,5O0,C0o