The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1901-04-25
LATER NEWS,

A match factory, independent Of the
trust, having a capacity of $50, 600, 900
matches a day, will be put in operation
at Terre Haute, Ind, juno l.. The
buildings r nearly completed, and
the machinery is being installed.
BY the explosion of the boiler on the
steamer Ramona at Vancouver
B. c., four persons were killed outright
and six others seriously injured. The
dead include two women who We're
passengers on the steamer and two
deck hands.
Gen. Wade succeeds Brig.-Gen. John
c. Bates in command of the depart
ment of southern Luzon. Brigadier-
generals Bates, Robert II. Hall and
Frederick D. Grant return to the Units
ed States.
The Tennessee Legislature has passed
a bill to impose an ad valorem tax on
all cars owned by corporations other
than railroads. This law affects the
Pullman, Standard Oil, Fruit Dispatch,
Refrigerator and all other corpora
tions owning or leasing their cars.
A severe blizzard ragged throughout
southwestern Missouri the 18th. Bust
ness was generally suspended.
Four people were run down by the
fast mail train near Vinita, l. T.
The secretary of war has notified
General Macarthur. commanding the
troops in the Philippines, that con-
gress has made the same provision for
sending home the remains of civilian
employees of the government who may
die in the Philippines as has heretofore
applied only to officers and men of the
army.
Fire at Birmingham, Ala. destroyed
S125,O00 worth of street car property.
Col. Abad, insurgent leader in Mar
induque, nine officers, 10 soldiers, 24s
small arms, surrendered to Mai. Fred
erick A. Smith, April l. They were
oathed with impressive ceremony and
released. This ends instruction
there.
Two men with revolvers held up Ben
Marsh's gambling house at Memphis,
Tenn. They spent three minutes in
the place and secured over S., 900.
Germany, the United States Great
Britain and Spain have refused the
Venezuelan courts as fit tribunals to
adjudicates claims involving the rights
of foreigners.
An explosion caused a panic in the
Roman Catholic church of st. Michael,
in Berlin, Germany, and a soldier and
two boys were severely injured.
/. The winter palace of the empress
dowager of China was destroyed by fire
and General Schwarzkof. chief of Count
Won Waldersee's staff was burned to
death. 4
The English budget adds two pence
to the income tax and places a duty OF
4s Cd per hundred upon refined sugar
and a shilling per ton on exported coal.
Augusta, a little town in Ohio, was
almost wiped out by fire.
Aguinaldo has reconsidered his prom
Use to issue an address to the insur,
gents under arms, advising them to
surrender and accept American sover.
eighty.
Two big engines attached to a pas.
senger train were struck by a huge
snowslide near Ward, Colo, and hurled
into a chasm below. -Four trainmen
were killed.
The Kansas Wholesale Egg Dealers
association met in Abilene and accept.
ed a contract to ship 100 ears of eggs tc
Cuba for the island trade.
A mass meeting was held in New
York to form a new political party tc
be called ''The Greater New York De.
mocracy." The party is formed to
fight Tammany Hall.
Burglars broke into the Academy OF
Fine arts at Santiago, Chile, and cut
out of the hangings ten of the finest
paintings, costing 1O0.0 900 pesos.
The five largest stationary en- gine
manufacturing companies in the United
States are to be consolidated into one
gigantic combine, with a capital of S25.
OOO, 900.
There will be no strike in the plants
of the American. Sheet Steel company
The trouble that broke out in the De
Wees Wood plant, in McKeesport, Pa.
and which, for a time, threatened tc
cause a general strike of all union iron
and steel workers in the country, has
been settled in an amicable manner.
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