The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-12-21

William S. McWilliams has con.
fessed to the murder of his wife and
five children, whose mutilated bodies
were found in their home near hide
pendence, Iowa. McWilliams says that
he committed the act because he be-
lieved his children better dead than
alive and could no longer live with his
wife, whom he accused of driving him
to desperation with Ter demands for
money and her jealousy.
Foreign.
The Austrian foreign Office expects
that the porte will Immediately acqui-
esce in the demands of the powers"
The Vienna correspondent Of the
London Daily Telegraph says: "The
International fleet has occupied the
Island of Lemnos, in European Turkey.
The Nobel prizes committee is I'M
derstood to have decided to award the
prize for literature to Henryk Sien-
kiewisz and the prize for medicine to
Prof. Robert Koch.
Henry Burnett, a, representative OF
Chief Engineer Stevens Of the Panama
canal zone, arrived at Kingston, ia
maica, to engage several thousand la
borers for work on the canal.
Over a thousand Chinese who are
merchants in a small way at Singapore
attended a meeting at which a consid-
cradle sum was collected for the pur-
pose of continuing the boycott on
American goods.
The Belgian steamer Phillipville,
from Antwerp for the Congo, reports
sinking a steamer, lame not given,
southeast of Dungeness. The Phillip
vile picked up seven Of the crew of
the sinking steamer.
Gen. Weyler has taken personal Of
tense at a speech delivered by Gen.
Luque, the new minister of war, in
which the latter said he proposed to
restore discipline in the army. Mill
tary men foresee the possibility of an
encounter between the two generals.
Nine. Sarah Bernhart and her com,
pany. left Quebec recently under police
escort after a mob had made a vicious
attack upon the French players, throw
ing rotten eggs and other missiles.
The attack was the result Of uncom-
plimentary remarks made by Sarah
Bernhardt about. French-Canadians
and the influence of the clergy.
An official memorandum issued by
the British admiralty states that as
the result Of recent reforms the text
estimates for the navy will show a re-
duction of $500, 900, beyond the reduc-
ton of SIT, 800, 900 made last spring.
The admiralty considers that the pres
ent strategic requirements will neces-
state the building of four large ar.
mored ships annually.
General.
Woodbury. Kane, widely known in
social, yachting and club circles, died
suddenly at his home in New York.
The right Of a theater managertto
refuse tickets sold by a sidewalk D
ulator was upheld by the New York
court of appeals.
Directors of Swift & Co. have voted
to increase the capital stock of the
company by $3.50 0 900, which will
bring the total up to 100000, 900.
Delegates from all parts Of the
United States were present when the
fourth triennial convention of the Ma
tional Council Of Jewish Women net
in Sinai temple, Chicago.
A. R. Meyer, a widely known capital
list, one of Kansas City's most prom
inent business men and the founder OF
Leadville, Colo, died at Kansas City
of rheumatism of the heart.
Minister Griscom, Americas dirlu.
matte representative at Toxic, who ar
rived at San Francisco last week o.,
the Manchuria, confirmed the report
that Admiral Togo proposes to visit
foreign waters.
Miss Elisa Williams, believed to
have been the oldest spinster in Ame.-
lea, died at the home of her nephew.
0. A. Summers, in Kokomo, Ind, at the
age of 1O1 years. She was born Nov.
1, 1904, at Connellsville, Pa. She NOV
ed with her parents to Indiana when q
child.
Bones Of a primitive giant have been
unearthed by Alonzo Lewis, a farmer
living neal Sulphur Springs, Ind. Tha
skeleton is more than seven feet in
length and the skull has horns about
an inch and a half long projecting up
ward from a point just behind the
ears. Several similar skeletons have
been found here in the last few weeks.
All the peculiar bones were found in a
gravel pit on the Lewis farm.
A retriever belonging to George
Adams, the alleged embezzling cashier
Of the federal assay office at Seattle,
has led detectives to $4,000 in gold
dust concealed In his home.