The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-05-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending May 8.

For the Week Ending May 8.
California has a Chinese population Of
5000.
Fire destroyed 50 buildings in the village
of Gridley, Ia.
Mariana Ignacio Prado. ex-president Of
Peru, died in Paris.
Twelve persons were injured In a trolley
collision at Akron, o.
The cup defender Constitution was
launched at Bristol. R. !.
Jackson Harris (colored), aged 100 years,
died at Terre Haute, Ind
The village of Kendall, N. Y, was almost
completely destroyed by fire.
Fire swept away % business houses and
their contents at Lufkin, Tex.
Hickman Rich and wife were instantly
killed by a train at Sullivan, Ind.
A formal offer has been made to sell the
Panama canal to the United States.
Saloons in Kansas City, Mo-, were closed
tight Sunday. the first time in six years.
EX-Empress Eugene has presented
Prince Louis Napoleon's cradle to Paris.
Ohio republicans will hold their state
convention in columbus June "a and %.
Judge j.. j. Healy, of Aberdeen, S. D., was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
The Minnesota prison board has recon-
mended the parole of the Younger broth
ers. a. . III W- "a
John c. Wallace, a wealthy farmer at
Warren, N. ", killed his wife and hired
man. Z"
Fire at Ewart, Ia, practically destroyed
the entire town, including a big grain ele-
vator.
Raphael Straus, the well-known artist.
died at his home in Cincinnati, aged 7a
years. .
Reports show that the winter and spring
wheat crops ofsthe country are in fine con-
dition. # 4S
The total catch Of seals during the sea-
son just closed was $4,000 valued at
$500. 900.
Five men were fatally injured by an ex-
plosion Of powder in a mine at Wilkes
barre, Pa.
The Cuyanoga savings bank at Cleve-
land, o., suspended business with deposits
of 1914, 946.
wife killed themselves in Chicago by in
haling gas.
Policemen Sheehan and Mosher were
found guilty in Chicago of robbing Hugh
McDougall.
The annual encampmcnt of the depart
ment of the Ohio G. A. Il. convened at
Bellefontaine.
The annual report of the Michigan Gem
trail railroad shows an increase of 81, 1885,
900 in earnings.
Manuel Mess, q constable at IIebronville,
Tex, killed his wife and himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
In a hotel fire in Montreal. Cam, Octave
Lussier and his wife and Mrs. Brunette
lost their lives.
The Standard Oil company has secured
control of the Mexican Central and will
reorganize the road.
Thomas Ledden, one of the oldest
captains of the lakes, is dead in Chicago.
at the age of GO years.
Ann M. Rathbun was sentenced to life
Imprisonment at New Haven, Conn, for
numbering her husband.
The Illinois legislature. after passing sem
atorial and congressional apportionment
bills, adjourned sine die. -e
Rev. Henry Scadding, D. D.. celebrated
Canadian historian and antiquarian, died
at Toronto. aged So years.
Former President Grover Cleveland made
$500, 600 by the skyrocket flight of Northern
Pacific stock in New York.
Four Winnebago Indians who served In
the civil war applied for membership in a
G. A. r. post at Sioux City.
The tug Tecumseh foundered off Gore
Bay, Ont. and Capt. John Wylie and two
other persons were drowned.
In a fit of insanity Mrs. Freeman Ran
die killed her two-year-old daughter and
herself near Edwardsville. III.
Jesse r. King shot his wife of two
months and killed himself near Millheim,
Pa. Jealousy was the cause.
Industrial interests of Cuba urge annexa-
ton to the United States. fearing disaster
If they lose American markets.
Six men and a woman in Macon county,
Mo-, were charged with swindling fire in
surance companies out of $40, 900.
The Illinois Central railroad raised the
pay of its 5000 employees in the machinery
and car department five per cent.
Fire destroyed the block owned by the
Southern Rock Island Pillow company in
Dallas. Tex. the loss being $500. 900.
Gen. Chaffee at a Smoker in Picking
declared In a speech that the British and
Americans would never fight each other.
Washington politicians urge the neces-
sity of liberal reciprocity treaties to still
the growing jealousy of European nations.
The battleship Ohio is to be launched at
San Francisco on May is. Mrs. Mckinley
will press the button setting the ship
afloat.
George Kellogg died in New Hartford,
Conn, aged so years. He was the father
of Clara Louise Kellogg. the well-known
opera singer.
Adolph S. Ochs. proprietor of the New
York Times. has purchased the Philadel-
phia Times and will conduct it on straight
democratic lines.
A cigarette started a fire which burned
the st. Louis ball park grand stand dur
ing the game Saturday. Many were
bruised in the panic which followed.
Col. William P. Hall. adjutant general
of the Department of the Lakes, has been
ordered to Manila to succeed Gen. Thomas
IL. Barry as adjutant general of the De-
partment of the Philippines.