The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-05-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May 81.

Tor the Week Ending May Fl.
The village of Stoutsville, Mo-, was de-
stroyed by fire.
A cyclone struck Fort Mill, S.. c., and
many houses were wrecked.
The Baldwin polar exhibition will start
for the arctic regions in June.
Mrs. Leah A. Robinson died at Victoria,
ILL.,, aged 101 years ard 4 months.
Former Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes
is to be fitted up as a training ship.
The annual crow hunt near Elgin, ILL.,,
'esulted in the killing of ,0S4 birds.
The national congress of mothers opened
1t the Auditorium in Columbus. 0.
Nearly the entire business portion Of
Lily Lake, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
Four persons were hurt in a Rock Island
passenger wreck at West Wyanet. Ill.
Archibald A. Gibson, lieutenant governor
of Illinois in 1874, died in Wichita. Kan.
King Humbert of Italy had a narrow es-
cape from death in an elevator in Rome.
Iowa prohibitionists have nominated A.
U. Coates, of Dallas county. for governor.
Russian warships have been authorized
to buy stores in the United States free Of
duty.
Fred MCNEIL, of Ashley, H.. rode 266
miles to Chicago on a mule to enlis; in the
navy.
The Ohio prohibitionists have romi-
aated E. j. Pinney, OF Cleveland, for gov
ernor.
Sir Thomas Upton has asked that the cup
races be postponed until the first week in
October.
A thoroughbred Hereford COW brought
So, 900 at a sale in Chicago, the highest price
on record.
Charles T. Yerkes has sold the Chicago
Inter Ocean to George Wheeler Hirman. its
editor in chief.
rrr.o ,,,e,, r--,o 1-;1,l ,xJ Jl,no fataII1-
injured in an accident at the steel works
in Youngstown, O..
Admiral Schley, whose return from EH-
rope was FASTENED by illness OF his soa,
has reached New York.
The police in San Ygnacio. Mexico. un-
earthed a complete outfit for making coun-
telfeit American money.
Mrs. Charles F. Gunzert shot ard killed
her l9-year-old son ard then committed
suicide at Tacoma, Wash.
Census returns for Ireland show a popu-
lation of 4, ass. 546, a decrease Of SO per ceEc.
since the previous census.
A registered letter containing 5000 sent
from Kansas City to Great Bend. Kan,
mysteriously disappeared.
The United States cutter Grant was
wrecked in Saanich inlet. near Victoria,
and may prove a total loss.
Fire damaged the plant of the w. D.
Boyce Paper Mills company at Marse!lles,
ILL.,, to the extent of $500, O0O.
The Sovereign Camp Woodmen of the
World has voted to eXpel members who en-
gage in the liquor business.
Weston Rowland, the discoverer OF the
method Of refining petroleum, died at Fair
haven, Mass, aged sc years.
A national tax conference assembled at
Buffalo, N. y. to discuss reforms in fed
eral, state and municipal methods.
Edison has perfected 4 storage battery
-I;- a g. H., -;ll ;--,- l.
use of electricity as a motive power.
Sergt. Maj. Butler, a British officer.
craZed by his experiences in South Africa,
killed four of his children in London.
Elmer Lane cut his wife's throat at Os-
ceola, Ia, and then used the knife on him
self. Domestic trouble was the cause.
Emperor William has issued orders eX-
Guiding newspaper reporters from all pub
lie functions where he intends to speak.
Under the operation of the new comnluta-
ton law about 1000 convicts will be re-
leased from the prisons of Pennsylvania.
The British census shows that Irish emf
grafton has fallen more than one-half since
1885,, when 81 ass persons came to America.
Two more bodies were recovered from
the wreck of the City Of Paducah near Car
bondale, Ill.,, making the total loss OF
life q.
The country home Of Thomas 3. Wanna.
maker at Meadow Brook. Pa, was struck
by lightning and burned, the loss being
$500, 900.
Senator M. A. Hanna has been mustered
in as a member of Memorial post of the
Grand Army Of the Republic in Cieve.
land, o.
James B. Kicks (dem.) was elected to the
Illinois supreme bench from the Second
district, to succeed the late Justice Jesse j.
Phillips.
Benjamin Atkins attempted to stop Den
mis- D. Mccarthy. in Chicago. from beating
the latter's son and was killed by the father
by a fist blow.
Promoters of the Charleston exposition
say they lave ample resources and
that the display will be ready for the open
ing in December.
Treasury officials are taking steps to
Cuba to prevent Mongoiians coming to the
France expects to develop a second Egypt
along the course of the Niger river. The
government expedition proves the river
to be n%avigable and the country fertile.
The government will curtail the business
of San Francisco pension sharks, who are
found TO have induced soldiers returning
from the Philippines to swear falsely.
The Kate Shelley bridge. which spans the
Des Moines river near Boone, Ia. has been
formally opened. 1t was named after a
young woman whose heroic act several
years ago saved a passenger train.
Sir John Edmund Commerell. admiral of
the British navy since 1892, is dead in Lon
don. During the civil war he caused the
union forces of America much annoyance