The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-11-29

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the United States will be continued
by Rev. 6. Campbell Morgan, of Lon
don.
Advices from Picking say that the
edict ~inficting punishment is milder
than the first reports suggested.
Prince Tuan and Prince Chwang are
only banished, and not imprisoned.
The foreign ENJOYS cannot accept the
edict, owing to the inadequacy Of the
punishments.
In the Black sea a boat containing
3S Turks. secretly leaving Russia,
foundered, and all were lost but one
boy.
To collect 100000 from Turkey the
battleship Kentucky has been ordered
to Smyrna.
In his first speech as chancellor Won
Buelow denies that Germany has ter
%ritorial designs on China.
In Washington it is known that
matters are drawing toward a crit
ical point in China. Minister Conger
has been instructed not to join a de-
mand for punishment beyond the
power of China to infict, and it is
said that if the allies persist in a pol
icy calculated to drive China to des-
peration the only thing left for the
Washington administration to do will
be to enter into independent nego-
tiations with the Chinese govern
ment.
The British liberals were planning
a united attack on the Salisbury gov
eminent over the Boer war.
A dispatch from Manila says that
100 picked natives, supported by
American troops, were preparing to
start out to capture Aguinaldo.
In South Africa Gen. De Wet was
putting into operation a counter move
to Gen. Kitchener's methods.
LATER NEWS.
The United States will decline to
take part in any partition of China.
Gen. Tung Flu Hsiang, condemned to
death by edict, is reported at the
head of an army ripe for rebellion in
China. The dowager empress is also
reported to have issued an edict or
dering the viceroys to prepare for inn
mediate war.
Snow blocked railway traffic in the
west and a hurricane did great dam
age to buildings in Colorado cities.
The official vote in Ohio gives Nc
Kinley a plurality of 69,O36. against
51,109 four years ago. Bryan received
exactly the same number of votes that
he did in 1s96-474,ss2
Gov. j. c. w. Beckham, of Ken
lucky, was married to Miss Jean RAJ
phael Fuqua at Greensboro.
The official vote for president in Ala
bama gives Bryan a plurality of 37,496.
A storm caused numerous disasters
on the great lakes, many vessels being
sunk, driven ashore Or badly crippled
and several persons were drowned.
Ambassador Choate has asked the
British foreign office to put the Fill
Pine junta out of Hong-Kong.
Five people were killed near Santa
Barbara, CAL, by the upsetting of a
stage.
Lampson p. Sherman. brother,of the
late Senator John Sherman, of Ohio,
died in Des Moines, Ia. aged 70 years.
Republican members of the ways
and means committee have decided
to reduce the wal revenue taxes $780,
OG0.Cco a year.
The official vote of the state of
Pennsylvania gives Mckinley a plural
ity of 252,11O. s
Later advices say that the cyclone
in Tennessee and Mississippi killed at
least 80 persons, injured over 100 and
demolished v e $50 buildings.
The census gives New York state a
population of 7.26s,O12, an increase of
1,270,159 in ten years.
A severe windstorm swept over
western and northern Ohio, doing
much damage to property, but no lives
were lost.
The state board of transportation
OF Nebraska has been abolished by
the supreme court as Illegal.
Six masked men robbed an Iron
Mountain passenger train neal Gift
ford, Ark, but secured little booty.
Lord Roberts vas slightly hurt by
being thrown from his horse. The
Beers surprised an outpost of British
near Balmoral, killing five and wound