The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-05-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending May 10.

For the Week Ending May 10.
Mariana Ignacio Prado, ex-president Of
Peru, died in Paris.
Evan Williams, ex-governor of Nevada,
died in San Francisco.
Justice King, of the Ontario supreme
court, died at Ottawa. j,
The cup defender Constitution was
launched at Bristol. r. /.
Harvard trustees voted to make Presi-
dent Mckinley an LII. D.
Jackson Harris (colored), aged 100 years,
died at Terre Haute, Ind.
The village of Kendall, N. Y, was almost
completely destroyed by fire.
Three men were burned to death in a
boarding house fire at Ottawa, Ont.
Seats collapsed In a circus at Oil City,
Pa, badly injuring a dozen persons.
Gen. Weyler ordered instant shooting of
all engaging in disorders in Barcelona.
Maryland's corrected census figures re-
luce the population of the state to 1,1Ss,044.
Raphael Straus, the well-known artist,
died at his home in Cincinnati. aged u
years.
Reports show that the winter and spring
ditlon.
Engineer Monk and Fireman Addison
were killed in a railway wreck near Jop-
lin, Mo.
New Jersey prohibitionists have NOM
mated Joel w. Brown, of Jersey City, for
governor.
Prof. J. II. George, of Montreal, has been.
elected president of the Chicago theological
seminary.
Five men were fatally injured by an ex-
plosion of powder in a mine at Wilkes
barre. Pa.
Cardinal Martinelli was invested with
the red berretta by Cardinal Gibbons at
Baltimore.
J. H. Halperin, aged 20, and his young
haling gas.
Policemen Sheehan and Mosher were
found guilty in Chicago of robbing Hugh
McDougal.
In Mrs. Mary E.. Owens Chicago has the
only patrolman in the world doing daily
police duty.
Franklin Carter, for 20 years president
has resigned. d,
Col. E. +. Taggart, of Akron, has been
elected commander Of the G. A. R., de-
partment of Ohio.
Treasury officials declare that legitimate
commercial enterprise is not affected by
the furry in stocks.
Prof. r. G. Moulton told junior students
at the University of Chicago that fiction
was truer than fact.
All factories of the National Starch
company lave been ordered closed because
Of the corner in corn.
Expulsion of Italians from lola, Kan,
in a labor fight is to be investigated by
the Italian government.
Charles G. Seymour, one of Chicago's
best known newspaper men, died at Ell
Paso, Tex, aged 80 years.
Rev. Henry Scadding, D. D., celebrated
Canadian historian and antiquarian, died
at Toronto, aged S. years.
Former President Grover Cleveland made
100000 by the skyrocket flight of Northern
Pacific stock in New York.
John NJ. Carroll, who was a member OF
the Forty-second congress, died at Johns
town, N. Y, aged Is years.
The Thirty-second infantry, United
States volunteers, has been mustered out
of service at San Francisco.
The tug Tecumseh fourdered off Gore
Bay, Ont, and Capt. John Wylie and two
other persons were drowned.
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.
Minister Conger, in conference with the
assistant secretary of state, went into the
details of the Chinese situation.
The Illinois Central railroad raised the
pay VI II o,oeo C1llp1OyCS III IL LloSAlLlGA J
and car department five per cent.
Efforts are to be made at the next SEES
sion of congress to give the interstate
committee more power.
A decision of the comptroller of the
treasury will make 1t easier hereafter tc
keep out Objectionable immigrants.
Charles Foster, of Fostoria, O., former
secretary of the treasury, filed a petition
in bankruptcy with s747, 00S liabilities.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
plans to spend millions in improving the
northern division of the Omaha road.
: Washington politicians urge the neces.
sity of liberal reciprocity treaties to still
the growing jealousy of European nations.
The great ice jam in st. Clair river has
been broken and vessels waiting above and
below are moving rapidly in either direc.
ton. l
Three thousand farm districts are now
served by rural mail carriers at a cost Of
$500, 900 a year. More routes are pro.
jected.
George Kellogg died in New Hartford
Conn, aged so years. He was the father
of Clara Louise Kellogg. the well-known
opera singer.
Scott R. Wellington was arrested in
Chicago, charged with proposing marriage
to over a score of women and obtaining
their jewelry.
Adolph S.. Ochs. proprietor of the New
York Times, has purchased the Philadel-
phia Times and will conduct it on straight
democratic lines.
Andrew Carnegie double his recent gift
of $50, 500 to the Iron and Steel Institute of
London. In an address the donor declared
England must adopt American methods.