The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-06-06
TILE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending May 81.

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The eruption of the volcano at Keloet,
Java, killed ISL persons.
Fire at Kindred, N. D.. destroyed % build
ings at a loss of 800, eco.
Eliza Taylor (coloreG) died in Charles
town, Ind, aged los years.
Ohio democrats will hold their state con-
%vention in Columbus July 8.
The bank at Collision, ILL.,, was robbed
by burglars of 1,e00 in cash. 81
l.. f. Loreee has been elected president
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The liners St. Paul and Teutonic left
New York for a race across the ocean.
The Pennsylvania republican state con-
Vention will meet at Harrisburg August q.
An explosion in a coal minc at Sem
ghenYdd, Wales. caused the loss of 72lives.
James Post and his mother and nephew
lost their lives in a fire at Havelock, Ont.
The Peoples state bank at G~othenburg,
Neb., closed its doors with deposits of $780,
600.
Gypsies kidnapped a young girl near At
lantic, Ia, presumably to get ransom for
her. @ @
The United States supreme court has adj
journed until the second Monday in Octo-
Der.
The thirteenth anniversary of the Amer
lean Sabbath union was celebrated in New
York.
Robbers wrecked a bank at Bowling
Green, KY, with nitroglycerin and secured
$4,000.
Lieut.. Col. Francis Michler, military sec
rotary to Lieut.. Gen. Miles, died in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe celebrated her
eighty-second birthday at her home in
Boston.
A Chinese student won the oratorica1
prize at the Vanderbilt university in Nash
Vile, Tenn.
A revolution has been ~inaugurated In
the state of Guerrero, Mexico, by political
malcontents.
Four of the children of George H.. Bran
hall, pianist and composer, died in Chicago
within two weeks.
Twenty-Five %Icelander fishermen were
drowned by the capsizing of a boat near
West Mamma islands.
The American colony at Paris decorated
the tomb of La Fayette, Ambassador Por-
ter making an address.
Ninety houses in Bakersville, N. c., and
vicinity were swept away and four lives
lost by the recent flood.
Frank Reeves, a negro, was hanged by
a mob near Georgiana, Ala, for attempt
ing to assault a white girl.
Bank notes to the value of $3.50. 600 were
stolen from the Singapore branch Of the
Hong-Kong and Shanghai bank.
Fifteen of the crew of the Norwegian
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of that vessel near Sable Island.
William Campbell (coiored) was lynched
by a mob at Pond Creek, Okla, for shoot
ng Deputy Sheriff George Smith.
Gen. John B.. Gordon was reelected COM
mander of the Confederate Veterans as
ISOLATION at the Memphis reunion.
The Presbyterian general assembly in
Philadelphia elected DR.. Minton chairman
of revision committee and adjourned.
Gov. La Toilette has appointed DR.. Alma
J. Frisbie the first woman member of the
Wisconsin board Of university regents.
Gen. Weyler proposes to reorganize the
Spanish army by establishing three army
corps, capable of repelling any invasion.
Under the operation of the new commuta-
ton law about 1000 c%onvicts will be re-
leased from the prisons of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Clark, a Harvey (Ill.) laborer,
wounded his wife and then killed himself
with a revolver. Jealousy was the cause.
The five cadets recently dismissed from
West Point may enlist In the army as pri-
Yates in hopes of getting commissions
later. ~
A defect in the new crlmina law in the
state of Washington is said to invalidate
1t as to all persons now under sentence of
death.
Fire on the steamer Fannie C. Hart on a
trip from Escanaba to Menominee caused
a panic among 200 excursionists. No one
was hurt.
The battleship Wisconsin was presented
in San Francisco with a silver banquet
service, the gift of the state whose name
she bears.
A Paris dispatch says that the duke OF
AbruZzi and DR.. hansen will shortly start
a joint polar expedition in one Italian and
one Swedish vessel.
Because she would not marry him Jacob
Utters killed Mrs. Henry Kegelmeyer, a.
wealthy widow of ~Leavenworth, Kan, and
then killed himself.
Thomas A. Edison has discovered how
to make Portland cement" at extremely
small cost and cheaper houses and rents
are predicted as a result.
Both houses of the Michigan legislature
suspended business after having been in
session since January l. Final adjourn
ment will be taken June 6.
Prof. George d. Heron was married In
New York to Miss Carrie Rand, the Iowa
woman who for several years has aided
him in his socialistic work.
enator Beveridge, of Indiana, has de-
parted from London for Russia, where he
will continue his Investigations of for
eign commercial conditions.
An Italian anarchist under arrest in Rome
persists In the statement that a plot exists
to assassinate Gear Nicholas, Emperor
William, President Loubet and the queen
of Italy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton scathingly ar
raigned the Christian church for its treat
ment of women and demanded an expur-
gated Bible. Her paper was read by Susan
B. Anthony at a meeting of the Woman's
Suffrage association at Minneapolis.