The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-05-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending NAV ~,

For n week EnuinS May IL
The total population of Greater London
Is now 6,57S, 7S4.
Andrew Carnegie gave $685. 900 for dis
trict libraries at Glasgow.
An epidemic of smallpox is reported at
Sitka and among Alaska Indians.
J. d. Rockefeller will give Oberlin college
$4,000 if others contribute $500, 900.
Nine shipwrecked sailors were eaten by
their companions in the Indian seas.
A government line of transports between
New York and Manila is to be established.
James Hillman and John Fletcher, rival
lovers, killed each other in Springville.
Ky.
Miss Mary Emma Woolley has been in
a~ugurated president of Mount Holyoke col
lege.
The Pennsylvania road has acquired con-
troll of the Baltimore & Ohio by purchase of
stock.
The proposed Root-Carter prize fight at
Oshkosh, Wis, was prevented by the gov
| ernor
The Ohio prohibitionists nave nomi-
ernor
Fire destroyed 652 houses and shops in
Brest, Russia, causing a loss of II, 900, 900
roubles.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, has start
ed on a trip to Russia to study trade con-
ditions.
DR.. Charles O.. Day, of Boston, has been
elected president of Andover theological
seminary.
Robbers entered the Hart county deposit
bank in Munfordville, Ky. and stole 50, GOO
in money.
Every gambling house in Montana has
been closed by an order of Attorney Gener-
al Donovan.
The Santa Fe railroad has agreed to
| "a G {IN -,o~r~ - 3 Do~ ,l>,r no 80
tire system.
Four railway workmen were killed and
one fatally injured in a tunnel near
Roanoke. Va.
Robert D. Wagstaff, marine editor of the
Free Press for IL years, died in Detroit,
aged "a years.
The Wisconsin legislature, after the long
est session en- record, 126 days, has adj
journed sine die.
A portion of a mountain near Acerenza,
Italy, fell, burying ten houses, and Is per-
sons were killed.
Joseph Bizkowski, 102 years old. died in
Chicago from injuries received from a
horse In a street.
The "encampment of the Illinois veterans
at Peoria elected Capt. N. B. Thistlewood.
OF Cairo, commander. De-
Capt. Milton Garrigus, of Kokomo, was
elected commander of the Indiana depart
ment of the G. A. r.
E. L. Chetwood, teller of the banking firm
of Brown Bros. & Co., of New York, con-
fessed to embezzling SIC, 900.
Joseph Hush, living near Mishawaka.
Ind, celebrated his one hundred and
eighth birthday anniversary.
The Alaskan, the largest merchant
steamship ever built on the Pacific coast,
was launched at San Francisco.
Henry Johnson, a negro. was lynched
at Valdosta, Ga. He had fired at a young
white man. but did not hit him.
Porto Rico exports from January l un-
til May l akf0unt to IS, $50. 400, of which
s5.2S4,Sl went to the United States.
James Brown (colored), charged with as
saulting Miss Della Garrett, of Springville,
! Ala, was shot and Killed by a mob.
The war department Is seeking to have
the national guard ~reorganized to permit
their use by the national government.
Samuel Flower, teller of the Hibernia
national bank of New Orleans, was ar
rested, charged with a shortage of $36, 900.
The cruiser Buffalo arrived at New
York from Manila, bringing SOL seamen and
81 marines, the most of whom will reenlist.
Judge Baker, of Chicago, virtually up
held blackpsting by deciding employers
may agree to refuse to hire certain per-
sons.
Gov. Nash. of Ohio. who went to Cali
fornia to assist in the launching of the bat
tleship Ohio, was seriously Ill in San Fran
cisco.
DR.. Rufus G. Burlson, probably the best
known Baptist preacher and educator in
the south, died at his home in Waco, Tex.
aged Is years.
Spectators and investors have rallied
from the recent furry In Wall street and
are quietly buying railroad and other
stocks at current levels.
Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, sailed for
Russia to study commercial conditions
there with a view to working for closer re-
lations between that country and America.
Commissioner Powderly will ask congress
to double the one dollar tax on immigrants,
to enable the department to construct
buildings needed in their inspection at ar.
rival ports.
Harvey B. Young, the famous landscape
artist. died Of congestion of the lungs at
his home in Colorado Springs, Col. He was
born at Post Mills, VT, and was IS years Of
age. He leaves a widow and four children.
There is mystery in the supposed MUIR
der of James S. Ayres, of Michigan, who
was found dead in the Kenmore hotel,
Washington. An unidentified woman was
seen descending the fire escape in night
clothes.
Edwin II. Conger, minister to China,
speaking at a New York banquet, dilated
upon the tremendous opportunities for
American commerce in the orient, and
urged congressional aid for ships and
cable service.
The south enjoys unparalleled prosperity
because of the high price of cotton and
the sections growing trade. Rapid prog
ress is being made in extending manufac-
turing. an important factor in bringing
about comfort and contentment.