The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-04
The News Of the Week
Accidental Happenings.

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Fire at Des Moines destroyed the
Rothwell block, causing a loss esti
mated at $150,0O0. The building is
one of the largest business blocks ir
the city.
Charles B. Eames, founder and vice
president of the st. Louis credit clear
ing house, was instantly killed at his
residence by a shot from an old rifle
that he was examining.
Fire in Chicago caused losses aggre.
eating $4,000 in a five-story manufac
turing building. The principal losses
were: Lantz, Owen & Co., leather
dealers, $4,000; the building, 100000,
A fuse blew out on a street car in
Cleveland, Ohio, setting the vestibule
of the car on fire. A dozen passengers
made a rush for the exit, and in doing
SO trampled to death a 1~3-year-old
girl.
The boiler of a freight engine on
the Wilmington & Northern railroad
blew up neal Birdsboro, Pa, killing
William E. Hesser, the fireman, and
fatally scalding H. w. Leinbach, the
engineer, and a brakeman.
Mrs. John Lashaway, her daughter,
in-law, Mrs. L. l.. Lashaway, and the
latter's t~wo-year-old baby were killed
at Weston, Ohio. A carriage in which
they were riding was struck by a
south-bound passenger train at the
Main street crossing.
Fire in the military post at Fort
Myer, Va, destroyed the bachelors
quarter and caused considerable ex.
citement at the post. All the nine
bachelor officers were asleep, but they
were aroused and escaped from the
building.
Thin ice on the Maumee river at
Toledo was the cause of the death of
three boys who were skating there.
The boys skated over the channel of
the river where the ice was thin and
went through. They were seen to dis,
appear, but when rescuers reached
them they were dead.
Mrs. William Ostrum and her two
children, aged one and two years,
were burned to death in their home
on the outskirts Of Charlevoix, Mich,
and the authorities consider that the
circumstances surrounding their death
warrants an investigation. Mrs. Os-
trum was subject to epilepsy. 1t is
thought she may have been seized
with an attack while holding a lamp
and have dropped it, causing the fire.
Foreign.
Torpedo boats No. 20 and No. 2S1
collided violently during the maneu-
vers in the harbor at Brest, France,
Both vessels were badly damaged.
Miss Olive Ross, aged fifteen years,
was instantly killed and Bert Brooks,
Misses Tracy, Ross and Agnes Mil.
lard were more or less seriously in
1ured in a runaway at Ottumwa, la.
Hermosillo advices state that a
band of Yaqui Indians waylaid Fer.
nando Maytorona, one of the most
wealthy merchants in Sonora, Mex,
on the outskirts of the village of May
torena, and killed him and his driver.
Acting Gov. Gen. Ide will invite
William J.. Bryan, on the %latter's arriv-
al at Manila from China, to be a guest
of the Order of Elks. Mr.. Bryan will
be lavishly entertained by the Elks and
will deliver a lecture to them on the
topic of "The Prince of Peace"
The duke and duchess of Aosta,
cousins of King Victor Emmanuel,
while on an automobile trip ran over
a woman. The car was Immediately
stopped and the duchess took the
woman with her to the home of a doc
tor, who said that she was in a danger
Gus condition.
Edward Joris, the Belgian, and
three others charged with participa-
ton in the attempt to assassinate the
sultan last summer, were sentenced
to death by the native court at Con-
stantinople.j Other alleged accom-
plices were committed to penal servi-
tude for life, and ten persons charged
with the same crime, who have not
yet been arrested, were sentenced to
death.
The unexpected visit of Emperor
William to Brunswick to confer with
the regent, Prince Albrecht, and the
recent visit of the duke of Gutenberg,
father of the betrothed wife of Prince
Eitel Frederick, the second son of
Emperor William, to the same capital,
has given rise, the Tageblatt says, to
the belief that the emperor's plan is to
have Prince Eitel take the throne of
Brunswick, Prince Albrecht resign
ing.
A fire almost totally destroyed the
Bovard block, Grant avenue, Du Ques.
ne, Pa, causing a loss Of $50, 900.
Mrs. Sadie Bedell, a telephone opera.
tor, was partially suffocated by smoke
and was carried from the building
unconscious. The fire. is supposed
to have been of incendiary origin.
The department store of NJ. Weisberg
sustained a loss of $4,000. The 9th.
er buildings adjacent were damaged
by smoke and water.
Gov. Toole of Montana Is not a can,
didate for the senate to succeed w. A.
Clark. He made an announcement to
that end, DENYING a repOrt that he