The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-05-02

missionaries and children We're slain
during the Boxer revolt in China.
The British parliament refused to
permit the establishment of a Roman
Catholic university in Ireland.
A device to prevent outsiders listen
ing to telephone conversation has
been constructed by a Swedish in
ventor.
Near Charities, France, five chill.
wounded by robbers.
Headed by J. P. Morgan e. Co., an
American underwriting syndicate
took $50,O00,0 900 of the new British
loan.
Indemnity to be paid by China has
been fixed at $500, 900, 900 in gold.
The foreign officials in China have
demanded the b%eheading of four lead.
ers and the exile and degradation OF
so additional Boxers. :
A decree has been signed by the
gar for the expulsion of Count Tol.
stoi from Russia.
Louis GODDARD, the French aeronaut.
will attempt to cross the Atlantic in
a balloon carrying nine persons.
China has abolished the privy coun.
Gil and a new body substituted there.
for called the general board of state
affairs with Prince Ching as presi-
dent. This is the first of the new
reforms.
The steamer Saxonia sailed from
Liverpool for Boston with 1880 pas.
sengers, the largest number ever
crossing the Atlantic in one vessel.
Chinese troops retreated from the
Shan-Si district, thus avoiding a fight
with French and German forces
marching against them.
Beers captured a cattle train near
Stormberg.
LATER NEWS.
Robbers wrecked a train at DAY.
EXPORT, Tex, and Engineer Monahan
and Fireman Hicks were killed and
four passengers seriously injured.
The police at Peru, Ind, have brok-
en- up o gang of alleged counterfeit
ers.
The secretary of wal made public
the names of 5SS men selected for
first and second lieutenants in the
regular army organization bill.
Several stock exchange seats in
New York were sold for 6 5000 each,
a new record price.
American Pugilist Smith died from
the effects of his fight with Roberts
in London.
A report was current in London that
Boer emissaries in the United States
were inoculating with deadly disease
horses bought by Britain for use by
troops in South Africa.
The New York legislature has adj
journed sine die.
The flood outlook in the middle Ohio
valley is more serious and much alarm
is felt at many points.
Fire destroyed II business houses
at Danville, Va.
An electrician at Portland, Me-, shot
four persons fatally in an insane
frenzy.
Andree Boyne de Lasar, son of a
farmer at Dodge City, Kan, is said to
be the rightful heir to the Servian
throne.
Gaetano Bresci, assassin of King
Humbert of Italy, has been driven
crazy by the brutality of his %jailers.
Jake johnson (colored), who killed
his wife last July, was hanged at
Natchez, Miss.
Ohio republicans will holdtheir state
convention in Columbus June 25.
Abraham Lincoln's body was trans
ferred to the tomb in the recon-
structed monument at Springfield, Ill.
Gen. Quentin Salas has surrendered,
and reports from Manila say this is
likely to end the revolt in the island of
Panay.
The commission from the Cuban con-
stitutional convention arrived in
Washington.
Two men were killed and - hurt in
a Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
wreck near Dayton, O.
Foreign ENJOYS in Picking say the
Chinese indemnity will reach $685.
900, 900.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, Mrs. Lucy Will
hite, Mrs. Julia Evans and Mrs. Lydia
Muntz, charged with wrecking sa-
looms at Wichita, Kan, went to Jail