The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-02-26

Secretary Root and Senators Lodge
and Turner have been selected as
American members of the commission
to arbitrate Alaska boundary dispute.
Memorial services were held at
Gloucester, Mass, over the "A lives
sacrificed in the fisheries from that
port during the past year.
David Shaub killed Mrs. Ira Baker
in Lebanon, Pa, and in resisting ar
rest killed Cyrus Shaffer, a police
man.
A receiver has been appointed at:
Cleveland for the National Comput-
ing Scale company, capitalized at
$275, 600.
1t is estimated that fully 5000 cat
tie are starving to death on the
range in Morgan county, Col.
The president has signed the de-
partment of bill and the
general staff bill.
Attorney General Knox says anti
trust legislation at the present SEES
sion of congress is satisfactory to
the administration.
A complete system Of wireless tele-
graph is to be installed on the bor-
ders of Lakes Erie and Ontario the
coming season.
Eight persons were killed and four
injured by an explosion in a cane fac
tory at Fostoria, 0.
John j.. Ryan, head of a "get-rich-
quick turf concern, was arrested in
ST. Louis.
Organized labor in Chicago welcomed
John Mitchell, Clarence S. barrow and
Henry Lloyd at a meeting in the Audi
torium.
A oma school teacher at Thayer,
I'LL, saved the lives of pupils by drop
ping them from q second story win
dow of the burning schoolhouse.
The Indiana legislature defeated a
bill allowing Sunday baseball in that
state.
George B. Cortelyou has been nom
mated and confirmed as secretary of
the department of commerce and la
Dor. William Loeb will succeed him
as secretary to the president.
The southern Illinois normal uni
versity at Carbonate, owing to the
scarcity of coal, was forced to close.
The new battleship Maine left the
League Island navy yard to join the
NorthZAtlantic squadron at Galveston,
Tex.
Oliver Nichols a ~lumbArman. shot
and killed Mrs. Ira Shaffer near Eddie,
Pa, and then killed himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
Conductor John Summers, Engineer
Benjamin Spencer and Switchman w.
b.. Rogers were killed in a railway
wreck near Leadville, Col.
The national golf championship
for women has been awarded to the
Chicago Golf club.
Lieut.. Gen. Miles, with Mrs. Miles
aHlsSICol. Maus, of his staff. and Mrs.
Maus, have returned to Washington
after their tour of the world.
"a Western railroad pass war has,
been started by Rock Islands de-
cis IS to issue passes and
nnerchaii11tts. -
Upon reports that conditions in
Honduras are threatening American
interests Secretary Moody has decid-
ed to send Admiral Coghlan's fleet
of cruisers and gunboats, now cruis-
ing in the Caribbean, to the gulf
coast of Honduras.
A Syracuse IN. W banker celebrated
his birthday by giving a unique party
to 1875 widows.
"A bill in the Minnesota senate i'm
poses a penalty upon newspapers
which publish details of crimes.
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Miss Root
were shown special honor by New Or
leans residents at the Mardi Gras At
lantean ball.
A protocol for settlement of the
United States claims against Vene-
zuela has been signed at Washington.
Intense cold, the most severe of the
winter, prevails over the entire coun-
try.
The passenger steamer Olive was
struck by a cyclone on the Chowan
river, near Edenton, N c., and IS per-
sons were drowned.
Dayton, Springfield, Urbana, Sidney,
Piqua and a score of smaller towns in
Ohio are suffering greatly from a fuel
gas famine.
Former Secretary of State John W.
Foster has been selected to take
charge of the case of the United. States
i'll presentation of the Alaskan boun-
dairy question to the commission.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
DR.. J. L. NJ. Curry, n of the most
prominent educators in the south,
died in Asheville, N. c., aged 70 years.
William J. Bryan, in an interview
in New York, said he would not be
a candidate for the democratic pres
idential nomination next year.
Mrs. Katherine Lyons diedin Bloom
ington, Ill, aged 100 years.
Denis J. Sweenie, former chief of the
fire department, died in Chicago, aged
60 years.
Rear Admiral Lewis W. Robinson.
U. S. n, retired, died at his home in
Philadelphia of typhoid pneumonia,
aged SO years.
Charles Davenport, who invented the
first serviceable railroad passenger
coach, died at East Watertown, Mass,
aged 90 years.
Rev. C.G Trusdell, superintendent of