The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-23
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Milan T. Hurlbert of Brooklyn, y. Y,
has been appointed chief Of the depar-
ment of manufactures Of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition
c. g. Emerson Of st. Paul has been
chosen vice president OF the National
League OF Commission Merchants, IN
session IN Philadelphia.
The marquis Of Duiferin and Ava,
formerly encouragement of Canada,
is seriously III at Clandeboye, his resi-
dence in County Down. Ireland.
Delegate Griffith. Republican, intro
duced in the Maryland house, of dele
gates a bill To appropriate $4,000 to pur-
chase and erect IN the state house a
life-size bust OF Admiral w. $. Schley.
Mr.. Joseph r. Vooris OF Bedford Ind.
has received a letter from Andrew Car
negie, saying he will give Bedford Sl5,-
900 for a library. The city already has
a fine library. and the present site VIII
be used.
A ordinance has been passed by the
Cleveland ohio city council, over the
veto of Mayor Johnson, to bond the
city for 500. 900. the money to be used
to purchase "A site for a new city han
building.
The appointment of Whitelaw Reid
as a special ambassador to represent
the United States at the coronation OF
King Edward fras been received with
some satisfaction in official and unOffi-
clal circles in London.
At Dunkirk. n. Y, more than 1900
men were thrown out OF employment
by the stoppage Of the intake pipe in
Lake Erie which supplies that city and
many OF its industries with water The
pipe is filled with slush ice.
The officers OF the steamship Edith,
which arrived at Seattle, Wash. from
San Francisco report having seen.
eighty miles north OF Cape Mendocino,
life-raft from the Inflated Walla
walla. There was no one on the raft.
Herr Wolff. the Pan-German leader
whose colleagues in the Austrian
raichsrath recently insisted on his res
ignation on account of a social scan
dal, has been reelected to that body,
at a bye-election held at Rautenau, Bo-
her1ia.
Edwin Gould and others OF the West
ern Union Telegraph company, have
formed a company TO carry on the
messenger service of the Western
Union, which was formerly performed
by the American District Telegraph
company.
A man with his heart on the right
side instead of the left has just been
discovered by the pension board Of
bloomington. I'll. The man is George
w. Hurst of Lexington. a veteran of
the Civil war, who recently applied for
pension.
Ex-Gov. James ID. Porter has been
elected chancellor OF the University OF
Nashville, Term. He was, few months
ego elected president CT the Peabody
rcrmal college, and is now the official
head of both institutions, which are
conducted as one.
Cart. Richmond p. Hobson has not
resigned from the navy. He has mere
Iy applied for years leave OF alb
sence. and expects to devote his time
to lecturing. having had many hand
some offers made him to enter upon
this line of work.
A. p. Hooker. an American Express
messenger for thirty years, was found
dead in his car when the Michigan
Central train from Chicago arrived
Kalamazoo. He had died while the
train was between Chicago and Kala-
mazoo. Mr.. Hooper leaves family In
Buffalo.
Frauein Katie Brandt grand
niece of Richard Wagner, and a MEM
Der OF Herr Conreids Irving Place
stock company. who came to New York
lately from Berlin. submitted to an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis at a private
hospital I'm that city, and II Ia feared