The pioneer express., 1903-08-07

Carter's mother.
General.
Plans for consolidating the surface
car lines at Chicago have reached an
advanced stage.
Charles Derrick, a millionaire con-
tractor and builde/ of Buffalo, is dead
from surgical Operation.
The first bale of cotton of this years
crop sold at l7aw Orleans for $136, or
at the rate o22O7a cents a pound.
Rev. S. osborne, eighty years old,
dropped dead at camp meeting of
Seventh Day Adventists at Lexington,
Ky.
A panic occurred on river steamer
at Philadelphia. No lives were lost,
although passengers were taken off in
small boats.
Miss Clara Hough of Dublin, Ind,
put snail on her toe as cure for a
corn. Blood poisoning developed and
she may lose her foot:
The operators and miners in the
New River coal fields in West Virginia
have settled their differences after an
eighteen months strike.
Hundreds of human skeletons, many
arrow heads and spears and other i'm
plements of Indian warfare have been
found near Beeville, Tex.
Because some militiamen made some
remarks about a girl who had accom-
panied him to the encampment at st.
Joseph, Mo-, Marvin Winton whipped
eight of them.
James A. Boyd, aged seventy-two, is
dead at the printers home at Colorado
Springs. He was we'll known as
newspaper man of Milwaukee, st.
Louis and Chicago.
Seventeen representatives of the
Paulist order from various states have
assembled in New York for the annual
conference called for by the rules
adopted five years ago.
Mrs. G. A. Parker and Mrs. James
Court, society women of Kalamazoo,
Mich, broke the swimming record on
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covering the distance in 32:14.
Work has begun on the ship canal
which is to be built from the Buffalo
harbor near Stony Point to the new
Buffalo & Susquehanna iron plant.
The waterway will cost $1,O00,OOO.
The body of William J. Fritz, lum-
herman, was found by the crew of
freight train in car half filled with
lumber at Chicago. Death is thought
to have been from natural causes.
Frederick w. Hollis, secretary of the
American delegation to The Hague
peace conference, and more recently
member of the international court,
died suddenly at his home at Yonkers.
Louisville will be a candidate for
convention honors next year. A COLI
scum will be built to accommodate 49,,
900 people, and both the Republican
and Democratic conventions will be
sought.
Prof. Smiley, the Smithsonian insti.
tuition photographer, will take pictures
of Prof. Langley's flying machine. The
camera has been made especially for
the purpose and is operated like a
gun.
Estimates received from all parts Of
the state show clearly that Nebraska's
wheat crop will exceed any previous
crop in her history. The acreage.
which is Is per cent greater than last
year, will yield at least 80 900 900
bushels.
In the report made public by the
bureau of industrial statistics the pro-
duction Of steel in Pennsylvania in
1902 compared with 1896 is as follows:
Production, 1902, 8,511,195 tons
against production in 1896 Of 3.345,-
529, gain of 1914 per cent.
!, The American Fisheries society at
Woodshole, Mass, dedicated the mass
i've boulder erected on the lawn or the
United States fish commission station
there as a memorial to the late Spen.
Ger F. Baird, the first United States
commissioner of fish and fisheries.
Jared o. Smith, United States spe.
cial agent In charge of Hawaiian ex-
pertinent station, has been successful
in his experiments in growing cotton
and sumatra tobacco. He believes
such articles may become q product
of the island.
Nine. Lavelle, the subject Of q
man named Holt, was buried alive re-
Gently near Camden, N. j. She was
to remain In the pravo fwo 10 ,,o ht,f,
on the second day a terrible rain
storm came up and the water began to
flood the woman's coffin. Holt was
at the grave and heardt the woman's
screams through the tube, and 1t took
half an hours hard work to dig her
up. She was nearly frightened to
death. IA s4s
m. shepp editor Of the stand
ard Herald Of Warrensburg, No. (, va
1lned $500 becailse cf his criticism ~
4 the supreme court Is the Oglesby Gaze.