The Bemidji pioneer., 1901-09-05
General.

All grain rates from Chicago east will
| be advanced Oct 4. s
| Americans have captured the British
market for many products. #
| Forty-seven deaths by violence In one
| month is the record made in MISSISSIPPI
/ pi.
The Chicago board Of review raised
| Alexander Dowie's assessment from
! $4,000 to 100000. E.
| The new around the-world line, to
compete with Hill and Morgan, seems
to be certainty. 4
United States Senator Patterson Of
Colorado was blackballed by the Amer
lean Bar association. fl III rs
| DR.. John Wesley Fill has begun q
movement for constitutional amend
ment abolishing polygamy.
r. w Clayton Of Oskaloosa, Iowa, has
been chosen chairman Of the Repub-
iican state central committee.
Gen. John r. Brooke has been elected
first national commander of the yeter~
ans of the Porto Rican campaign.
Justice Barnard, Of the supreme
court, holds that a white man does not
lose his citizenship when adopted by
Indians.
The Virginia constitutional conven-s
ton plans to disfranchise nearly all
the negroes for I'LL time and leave the
white voters untouched.
Grand Master Lloyd has been sus-
/ tanned In decision that Knight
Tamplar must maintain his standing In
/ both chapter and lodge
"a Kansas woman has sued for di-
vorces on the ground that her husband,
.'wilfully and maliciously,' refuses to
net, caress, kiss or otherwise show his
affections.
Mrs. Johanna Lovelace of Turner,
Kas.. has made an offer to the Kansas
city (ISas. theological seminary of
free gift of ninety acres Of land, valued
at $4,000. lying just outside the limits
of that city. 5s{
Director of Works Isaac s. Taylor OF
the Louisiana purchase exposition said
recently that the ground plans are prac-
tically complete, and that no time will
be lost in submitting them to the exec
utiye committee for formal approval.
Big preparations are being made
at the Brooklyn navy yard for the test
OF the new Gathman gun to take place
at Sandy Hook in September. Two Inn
anense targets, costing about $4,000
each, are being made. They are made
to represent the side Of the battleship
Iowa.
Mrs. Carrie Nation went to New York
police headquarters recently, where she
had an interview with Police Commits
sioner Murphy, who told her she would
be arrested IL she violated the law IN
that city. Mr.. Murphy was much an-
noyed because Mrs. Nation called him
father"
The steamer st. Paul has arrived at
San Francisco from Nome, via st. MI
chaels. with 81. 500, 900 in gold dust. She
brings information that Judge Wick
ersham will not hold court at Nome
during the temporary absence OF Judge
Noyes, and that cases now, pending
there will be tried at Unalaska.
A wedding ceremony, In which the
contracting parties agree that IL they
tire of each other they shall be df-
vorced without opposition from either
side. was performed at Baraboo, Wis,
by Justice of the peace. The parties
are Mary Elsie Lippit and Rogerald
Rathwen Reynolds. both agnostics
Notice has been received at the
Omaha office of the American Smelling
and Refining company of the shipment
of gold ore from Chile. 1t is the first
shipwent of ore from the South Amer
lean country to the smelling company's /
plant and is in the nature of an expert
ment. The ore is said to be very rich