The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-05-28
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.

DOMESTIC.
President Roosevelt left San Fran
cisco for a visit to the Yosemite val
ley. A plot to assassinate the presi-
dent during his visit to Oakland, a
San Francisco suburb, was disclosed
to the mayor through an anonymous
letter.
The navy department has suspended
recruiting indefinitely, owing to the
prevalence of contagious diseases at
stations and IN receiving ships.
Two persons lost their lives and
many more were injured in a fire
which destroyed the Westchester
fats in Chicago.
The African Methodist church in
Evanston, ILL.,, was wrecked by dyna-
mite, presumably because of the
stand of the pastor on the gambling
evil.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the seven days ended on the 18th
aggregated $2,o4s, 973,o 79. The de-
crease compared with the corre-
spending week of last year was 14.O.
There were 1876 business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the 18th, against 22S
the same week in 1902.
William McCarty, wife murderer,
who was to be hanged at Lexington,
KY, committed suicide by taking
poison.
John Black (colored} was executed
at Louisville, KY, for the murder of
his uncle, Archie James, aged IS
years.
The diocese of Arkansas, Protest.
tant Episcopal church, voted against
the proposed change in name of the
church.
New York employers met and took
steps for united resistance to the de-
mands of the labor unions.
Joe Adair, Wash Turner and Dave
Freddy died at Hot Springs, Ark,
from drinking m~oonshiner's grog.
Ten Chicago laundries that tried to
resume work were besieged by strike
pickets and the workers assaulted.
A fierce race war is in progress near
Burns, Miss, and one white man has
been mortally wounded and severaln ne
groes killed.
Gen. Shafter has been elected de-
partment commander of the G. A. R.
for California and Nevada.
Weekly trade reviews declare the
industrial situation exceptionally en-
couraging except for the army of
strikers.
Developments in the Yeager murder
case near Kokomo, Ind, show that the
crime was committed by two women
and a man, all unknown.
Gov. Mickey, of Nebraska, an
nounced that he had been offered 81, 900
each for four positions under the state
government.
Forest fires have done great damage
in the New York counties of Warren,
Essex. and Hamilton.
Lightning struck the Methodist
church at Rockton, ILL.,, and three
persons were seriously burned.
Oliver L. Sherwood, cashier of the
Southport Comm national bank, is
said to be short $1OO, 900.
Burglars entered the private office
of Jack W. johnson at Birmingham,
Ala, and carried away $1,000 from
the safe.
Iwenty-one persons were injured
by the o~verturning of a car at Mar
ion. Ind.
During one week the settlement of
strikes in Chicago resulted in the re-
turn to work of 1000 wage earners
a.. u Tho poroorforoe of H. lz---11
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 18th were: New
York, .696; Chicago, .667; Pittsburg,
.6o7; Boston, $50; Cincinnati, 500;
Brooklyn, .4sO; ST. Louis, .296; Phila-
delphia, $40.
Reports tell of a general snowstorm
prevailing throughout Montana.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the American league for the
week ended on the 18th were: Chicago,
.652; Philadelphia, $50; Boston, .522:
Detroit, 500; st. Louis, 500; New York,
AIS; Cleveland, 400; Washington, 1854.
Albert Palmer shot and killed Mollie
Beck at Bairdstown, Pa, because she
refused to marry him, and then killed
himself.
The centennial anniversary of the
admission of Ohio into the union is be-
ing celebrated at Chillicothe.
A report on post office scandals will
be made in three weeks by the as
slstant postmaster general. Hundreds
OF cases of corruption have been
found.
Mayor Mulvihill, labor %unionist ex-
ecutive of Bridgeport, Conn.,, may be
superseded in authority as the result
of a riot.
here have been 1860 deaths from
pneumonia in Chicago since January
i last
A fierce blizzard in Montana caused
the death of tens of thousands of
lambs.
Three men were killed and one in
jured in a wreck at the Whitney
mines near Latrobe. Pa.