The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-05-14
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
st Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
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There were 2o3 business failures in
the United States during the seven
days ended on the LIST, against 1s6.the
same week in 1902.
President Roosevelt was given an
enthusiastic greeting at Kansas City,
Mo-, and at Kansas City, Lawrence,
Topeka and other Kansas cities.
Killing frosts were reported from
nearly every state in the middle west
and fruits and vegetables apparently
are ruined.
Weekly trade reviews say there is
much activity in manufacturing, with
the exception of some textile mills.
Sales are reported good and collections
prompt.
Especial honors were shown foreign
guests on international day" by Off
GERS of the Louisiana Purchase expo
sition.
April insurance losses for the United
States totaled $13. 149 $50, against $13,-
100000 for 1902.
The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased $66S, sol during the month,o
April. Cash in the treasury, $373,326,-
1877. Total debt, less cash in the treas
ury, $685., o35,41s.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the 1st aggre-
gated $2,115,173,733. The decrease,
compared with the corresponding
week of last year, was III.
The fifth anniversary of the battle
of Manila bay was celebrated by flying
the largest flag in the navy from the
navy building in Washington.
Forest fires in the Adirondacks
north of Utica, n. Y, damaged uncut
timber, camps and villages to the ex-
tent of ST. 900. 900.
]. Wells Champney, famous artist,
was killed by falling down an ele-
vator shaft in New York.
Government receipts for April We're
$43,326,100 and expenditures Sal, 763,-
S14, leaving a surplus for the month
of $1.563,2 s6.
On April go the total circulation of
national bank notes was 1901. ISL, 72S,
an increase for the year of 1884, G4,-
329.
George Williamson Crawford, of
Birmingham. Ala, a negro, is one of
the winners in the Francis Wayland
prize debate at Yale.
Mrs. Jennie James has been SEN
fenced to six months in the Cranston
OR. ~ prison as a common scold. She
was prosecuted under a law enacted in
1856, also under a more recent statute
relating to ~railers and brawlers.
Mrs. Louis Piatt, aged 80, and a nine
year-old grandchild lost their lives in
a fire which destroyed the home of
Mrs. Piatt, neal West Union, o.
President Roosevelt spent Sunday
quietly at Sharon Springs, Kan.
Fire.destroyed the building at151-153
Wabash avenue, Chicago, causing a
loss of over $15O,OO0.
Safe blowers robbed the post office
at Middlesyille, Mich, securing 81, 900
in stamps and $50 in currency.
Bob Bryant and Will Morris, the as
-sassins of W. H. Legg. were hanged by
a mob to the Yazoo bridge at Haynes
Bluff, Miss.
Rev. Walser Ferdinand, of Toledo,
was arrested at ,Lorain, O., on the
charge of the murder of Miss Agatha
Reichlin, and was taken to the jail at
Elria. The evidence against him is
purely circumstantial.
Saturday was the lastday of the ded-
ication exercises of the exposition.
Address were delivered by several gov
errors. a great civic parade was held,
and sites for state buildings dedicated.
A National Civic federation branch
will be established in Chicago to aid
in the settlement of labor disputes. 1t
will have 100 members and meet
monthly.
The body of s~ix-year-old Paul Pa.sz-
kowski was found in a sack at Grand
and sixty-third avenues, Chicago, with
bullet wound in the head. Two play
mates, Julius WiltroX and Willie Elack,
have been arrested.
A fast passenger train on the Grand
Trunk road plunged into a crowd of a
thousand merrymakers at Detroit,
mangling scores of persons. Seven are
known to have been killed and 40
injured.
The Institutional Methodist church,
in Chicago, was partly wrecked by a
dynamite bomb after Rev. r. C. Ran
som, the pastor, had preached a stir
ring sermon on the evils of policy play
ing n started a crusade against that
form of gambling.
Inc percentages Of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 4th were: New
York, .6s2; P%ittsburg, .6ss; Boston.
.6ss; Brooklyn, 81; Chicago, .535:
Cincinnati, 400; St. Louis, .374; Phil
adelphia. .313.
III Arrangements are practically com
pleted for the ninth annual conference
on international arbitration which will
open at Lake Mohonk, N. Y, May 27 and
%sonsinne fnr three days.