The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-03-06
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DS d silly joke.
Trade conditions of the week have
been favorable.
McGovern and Young Corbett" have
teen signed to fight.
Denver Ed" Martin won the decision
over Childs in Chicago.
Grasshoppers in thous ands interrupt
ed Chicago school clat SEES.
There is talk of consolidating the va
ridus passenger associations
Terry McGovern knocked out Dave
Sullivan in the fifteenth round.
Chicago co eds protest against the
food served in the dormitories.
Cornell sophmores kidnapped the
POSTMASTER Of the freshman banquet.
Daughters of the American Revolut-
ton go on record as opposed to polyg-
amy.
The widow of Capt. Jacob Vanderbilt
married a forger just released from
prison.
An clipping couple at Springfield, H.,
rode forty-five miles on the front end OF
a baggage car.
A st. Bernard dog in New York State
finds a freezing babe, drags it TO his
kennel and enlists human aid.
Charles Curtis was renominated for
congressman by the first district at he
Republican convention at Holton, Kan.
An Ohio farmer has been reunited 10
his kidnapped daughter, after twenty
seven years, by matrimonial adver-
tisement
Tom Tracey OF Australia was given
the decision over Rube Ferns OF Kansas
at the end of the twentieth round at
Portland, Or.
The volcano Kilauea, in HRwaii, Is
showing signs of renewed activity. WIS.,
itors to the crater last week found new
ly-risen lava and great heat.
News from the sealers which have
been sealing off the California and Ore
gon coast tells of stormy weather with
wrecks and a poor catch. The winter
season promises to be the worst In
years.
officials OF the Burlington railroad
have started a campaign against In
toxicants with a view to eradicating
their use by the employees of every de-
partment not only on duty, but also
while off duty.
The agreement to voluntarily advance
the wages of mill operatives at Fall
River, Mass, received its full quota of
signers, and the increase will go into
signers, and the Increase will go into
effect in April.
The Rock Islaad railroad will prob
ably build a cutoff ninety miles long
from Fairbury, Neb, to Harrington,
Kar., making a direct line from Omaha
10 Ell Paso and cutting off 100 miles be-
tween there and Harrington.
The National Association OF Letter
Carriers, until recently with headquar-
ters ct Washington. is on the verge OF
split, and carriers in cities of less than
rs 900 population are now planning TO
effect a separate organization.
The Washington executive commit
tee OF the Fourth general conference
district, Epworth League convention,
which VIII be held in Washington In
June. has formulated elaborate plans
FOR the entertainment of the conven-
ton.
Judge Thomas G.. Johnson of Mont
eomery, whom President Roosevelt late
ly appointed United States district
Judge of Alabama, has accepted the m
vitation to deliver the Grafton at Gen.
Grants tomb, in New York city on Me-
mortal Day.
1t was announced in New York by Jo'
seph III. Hoadley that the controlling in
terest IN the American Ordnance COM
pany of Bridgeport Conn, has been
torght by the Hoadley- Cramp cyndi-
cate. Charles r. Flint, who was presi-
dent of the company, has resigned, ana
Joserh II. Hoadley has been elected 10
succeed him.
The New Jersey assembly. after
long and humorous debate, has passed
the auito-extermination bill by
vote of As to 9. The bin appropriates
$4,000 to the state experiment station
for the purpose of making a scientific
investigation of the pest.
The New Jersey assembly has passed
the MOSQUITO determination BILL IL
appropriates $4,000 to the state expert
ment station for the purpose OF max
ing scientific investigation Of the hap-
its. origin and breeding places OF mos,
ou,toes and their relation TO malariai
and other diseases.