The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-04-09
A WEEKS RECORD.
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 27th
aggregated S., 9Oo, 31S,131. The de-
crease compared with the CORE
spending week of last year was 80.
During the first 25 days of March
49,162 immigrants arrived in New
York, being 1000 more than during
the same period last year.
Michigan railroads have begun suit
in the federal court to restrain the
state from collecting taxes on the
ad valorem system.
The Mills & Knight company of
Boston, n of the oldest printing and
book houses in New England, has as
signed.
Alfred A. Knapp, charged with muir
dering four of his wives, has been
indicted 1T Hamilton, O., for murder.
The weekly trade reviews report
business accelerated by the early
opening of spring.
Diamonds valued at $4,000 were
stolen from a Minneapolis jewelry
house by unknown persons.
A. L. Bedding was hanged at Port
land, Ore, for the murder July 10,
1902, of his wife, his mother-in-law,
Mrs. McCroskey, and Frank Wood
ward.
The Cuban government has been no
titled by President Roosevelt that an
extra session of congress will be called
to ratify the reciprocity treaty if the
island congress accepts it as amended
by the United States.
Will Dorsey (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, for highway
robbery.
A break in the levee at Greenville,
Miss, flooded a large section of fine
farm Ian and many lives were report
ed lost. a woman and five children
perishing in one house.
PRESIDENT Roosevelt will start April
1 on his tour of the west. He will
travel $4,000 miles, visiting 20 states
and two territories.
The National Council of Women, in
session at New Orleans, elected Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, of San Francisco,
president.
The United States armored cruiser
West Virginia will be launched at
Newport News April 1s.
Z. K. G. Billings entertained his
friends in New York at an equestrian
feast, guests dining while seated on
the backs of horses.
The total expense of the coal strike
commission was about $3s, 900.
The arrival of 1869 immigrants at
Ellis island broke all records for Sun
day in the history of the harbor of
New York.
President Roosevelt has arranged
a series of speeches for his western
trip. The keynote of his addresses
Will be tariff revision, for which he
seeks a pledge from his party.
Fourteen of the largest tanning
firms IN Chicago have organized an
employers association so as to oppose
the demands of union employees.
The seventy-first legislature of
Maine has adjourned
James S. Harlan, of Chicago, called
on President Roosevelt to resign his Of
ice as attorney general for Porto
Rico.
The St. Louis exposition dedicatory
pioBidlnIne Will include q military
parade on April 30 and dedication ad-
dresses by President Roosevelt and
Grover Cleveland. "F
The Mississippi river food is rising
at G~reenville, Miss, and people are
rowing through the streets in skiffs.
Senator William B. Allison in an in
terview predicted that tariff would be
the issue of the next national cam
paign.
A rich anthracite coal mine has been
discovered ten miles south of Hayre,
Mont.
Gold finds in the Tanana district in
Alaska are said to be richer and more
extensive than those of the Klondike.
A violent storm which prevailed at
Newport News, Va, for "a hours did
muchsdamage.
Lieut.. w. H. Henderson. u. S. N. in
charge of the dredging work at Fall
River, Mass, committed suicide by in
haling gas.
Frank Robertson, a negro in Jail at
Bradley, Ark, charged with arson, was
tynched by a mob.