The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-12-10

Peter Niedermeier, Harvey Van Dine,
Gustav Marx and Emil Roeski, Chicago
bandits, were arraigned before Justice
Kers:en and all pleaded not guilty ex-
cept Marx.
The main building of the Jewell Lu-
theran college at Jewell Junction, Ia,
was destroyed by fire and Bert Melang,
of Randall, persisted in the flames.
The wages of GA, 900 cotton textile op-
eratives in Massachusetts, have been re-
duced.
Cashier Francis D. Wright, of the de-
funct Dundee (Ill.) First national bank,
has been arrested for the alleged embez-
element of $50, 900.
Forty-four persons were killed in Cook
county, ILL.,, during November by rail-
ways and los injured, and AZ committed
suicide.
The historic Academy of Music, the
largest theater in Brooklyn, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
900.
H. o. Wright, of Pendleton, Ind, a
Purdue student, died at Indianapolis,
making II deaths from the Big Four
wreck. on October 30.
Maria Rhodes shot Frederick Hayden
in Springfield, Ill.,, and then killed her
self.
Phil Davis, Walter Carter and Clint
Thomas, all negroes, were lynched near
Belcher, La, for shooting Robert Adger.
Secretary Wilson says that the balance
of foreign trade in favor of the farmers
of this country during the last IA years
has been s4,SO6, 100000.
The government receipts in November
were $44, 692, 594 and expenditures Sat-
427,788, leaving a deficit for the mohth
of s2,735,194.
The United States transport Logan
sailed from San Francisco for Manila
among the passengers being 10 brides,
all married to army officers within a
year.
Receivers in bankruptcy for the prop.
erty of John Alexander Dowie at Zion
City, ILL.,, were appointed on the petition
of creditors. Dowie's immediate liabili.
ties are placed at 1886 900, and he claims
that he has ample funds to pay all debts
Delegates from eight western states
met in Chicago and enthusiastically ap.
proved the plan for an alliance of the
farmers.
Circus Dixon, a young white man, was
hanged at Trenton, N. c., for the murder
in March, 1901, of Godfrey Weber.
The annual report of Director Roberts
of the United States mint bureau shows
that the coinage last year aggregated
206,S72,482 pieces, breaking all previous
records.
The United States b%attleship Missouri
has been placed in commission.
Detective Driscoll, shot by young Chi.
cago desperadoes during their pursuit in
Indiana, is dead.
The public debt statement issued on
the LIST shows that the debt increased
S. ,999 during the month of Novem-
Der. Cash in the treasury, 1868, 237, 429.
Total debt, less cash in treasury, $685.
1929,
The total circulation of nationa,
bank notes IN November 80 was $421,-
LOG, 1919, an increase for the year of $780,.
252, 465. .
Thousands of bituminous coal miners
will be laid off in Pennsylvania, Ohio
Indiana and Illinois unless a 20 per cent
decrease in wages is accepted by mine.
workers.
The Rockefeller-Gould combination is
said to have gained actual control of the
Pennsylvania lines, as well as other vas
railway interests.
The government report on the condi
ton of crops says winter wheat is no
satisfactory, and that corn is uneven il
quality.
Alfred Bayliss, state superintendent
of public instruction, says that ovel
100000 pupils were enrolled in Illinois
schools last year.
Fred Strube, murderer of Miss Alice
Henninger, of Havana, ILL.,, was cap
tured in Missouri and confessed hi
crime.