The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-12-04
Otherwise.

The semi-annual interest on the 81.
100000 per cent Cuban government
bonds was again defaulted.
The ministerial alliance of Salt Lake
has adopted resolutions strongly OPP
posing the proposed election to the
United States senate of Reed Smoot
Steps are being taken in New York
for the establishment of a Chinese hos
pital. which, it is believed, will be the
first regular tipstitution in this coun-
try.
About fifty of the pupils Of the Sir
Walter Scott school in Chicago, re-
Gently went on a strike 10 secure
longer recess in the morning session.
They were forced back.
Proceedings have been instituted at
Rockford, H., against forty.tive gro
GERS and fruit dealers, charging them
with the sale of impure vinegar, spices
and syrups.
Meyer Kreeger, the seven-year-old
son of Mrs. l.. Kreeger of CHICAGO, who
was operated upon by Prof. Lorenz for
"wry neck" has recovered the use OF
his neck.
Nightmare is believed by his friends
to have been the cause of the death of
Timothy Kelly. thirty-three years old,
who was found dead in his bed in his
boarding house in Philadelphia.
Armour & Co. of Chicago are be-
lieved to be engineering a corner in
the potato market, which,. IL success
full, will send the price of the tubers
up to 90 cents per bushel within the
next few days.
A girl baby was born at Kokomo,
md, to Capt. Garrigus, aged seventy
one The mother is twenty-One The
father is past commander of the G. A.
r. The babe is the aunt of several
grown people.
C. Oliver Iselin, since his return
from Europe, ten days ago, has spent
most of his time at Bristol studying
the plans of the new cup defender and
hustling the work of construction for
ward.
The Methodist conference of the NJ.
e. church south, by special committee,
exonerated Rev. G.. w. Briggs of Pa
ducah, KY 1t is alleged that Briggs
stabbed and slightly wounded I. j.
Carr, a hotel man of that city.
The freight transport Dix has sailed
from San Francisco for Puget Sound,
where she will take on a cargo of g.
600 900 feet of lumber for Manila, part
OF a lot of II 900, 600 feet recently con,
tracted for by the government.
It is now generally understood that
the proposed malleable iron combine
will be capitalized at $7,500,000, in
stead Of $20,000000, which was men
toned before the National Malleable
Iron company of Chicago declined TO
enter into the merger.
A circular has been issued by the
Amalgamated Society of Painters stat
ing that 1t has planned national as
ISOLATION, to be known as the National
Association of Amalgamated Painters,
Decorators and Paperhangers of Amer
lea, with headquarters in New York.
A lockout has been declared by the
Builders and Contractors association
of New Rochelle, N. Y, which forced
all the building trades workmen in
suburbs north of New York from Mt.
Vernon, N. Y, to the Connecticut line,
to quit work. The number of men out
Is ABOUT l,Ouu.
The cruiser Boston has arrived at
Santa Barbara, Cal, from Southern
waters. II is stated that the Boston
will remain there two or three weeks,
for target practice, and that the New
York and Marblehead are under or
ders to Join the Boston in Santa Bar
bara channel as soon as possible.
Upon exhuming the body of man
named Mitchell, who had died mystic
riousIy at Chihuahua, Mex, after hav-
ing been held up by several men now
In Jail at lei Paso, Tex, charged with
defrauding the New York Life Insur-
ance company. the discovery was made
that The man had been buried alive.
Another story of hardship, hunger.
sickness and death among the Indians
of Alaska comes from the Copper riv-
err. Its authenticity is vouched for by
Rev G.. S. Clevenger of Skaguay, who
recently returned from. valdes. He re-
ports that the restitution among the
Copper river tribesmen is greater than
In any other Alaskan tribe.
Ethel Barker, the fourteen-year-old
daughter of Aid. Barker of Evanston,
H., proved herself heroine when, py
playing a lively march on a piano In
the Lincoln school during small fire
in the basement. she ayerted panic
among 400 scholars.