The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-11

Damery's skull was fractured. He
was lying near the street car tracks.
Sins and Sinners.
Robbers. blew the safe of the only
bank in the town of Moore, a small
village seven miles southeast of Okla
homa City, and escaped with $1,000.
The grand jury at Cincinnati has
returned a joint indictment against
representatives of the leading coal
companies doing business in Cincin
natl.
Geodge M. McKelvey, one of the
most prominent men of Youngstown,
Ohio, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head while sitting on
the bed in his room while his family
was at church:
Miss Elsie Smith of Albany, N. Y.
who was queen Titania" In the Al
bany Halloween carnival of 1904, has
reported to the police that she re,
ceived through the mail a box of candy
containing poison.
Miss Lulu Bowen, a clerk employed
at Satisfaction No. 1, Oakland post
Office, has been taken into custody at
Oakland, Cal, charged with embez.
element. Her accounts are, it is
charged, short $4,000.
Abraham H. Hummel, the lawyer
convicted of conspiracy in the Dodge
Morse divorce case and released on
$4,000 bail, has been re.arrested and
released again, that the district attor-
ney might question the right of the
supreme court to admit him to bail.
-Four pawnbrokers, one a woman
were arrested at East St. Louis for
displaying brass "knuckles' and sling
shots of the kind usually known as
"billies," in their show windows. The
Illinois statutes make it a misde-
meanor to offer such articles for sale.
A bloody riot among negroes oc-
CURED at Ewing, Ga. The riot was
the result of a Christmas frolic among
negroes who had been drinking. A
general fusillade occurred and prob
ably fifty shots were fired. Two ne
groes were killed outright, three were
mortally wounded and died later, while
eight others received bullet wounds.
Domestic.
Lexington, ILL.,, has been put under
quarantine regulations by the state
health department because of the dis.
covery of four cases of smallpox.
The 'lid' was on tight in Burling
ton, Iowa, Sunday. The town was dry
| for the first time in it's history, and
not an intoxicated person was arrest.
ed.
Lewis Graham, aged eighty-four, a
Mexican war and Civil wal veteran,
and president of the National Typo
graphical union, died suddenly at New
Orleans.
Louis N. Megargee, well-known
newspaper man and writer, died at his
home in Narberth, neal Philadelphia,
of pneumonia. He was fifty years of
age.
Mrs. Almira, Pierce Johnson, one OF
the Oldest members Of the Women's
Relief corps in the country, and Of the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton, is dead at Milford, Mass, at the
age of 1O1 years and six months.
A letter from Walter Scott, the COW
boy miner who was reported murdered
in Death Valley some time ago, was
received by a friend in Los Angeles,
stating that he had been shot, but was
not seriously hurt.
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Justice Walter Van Dyke of the su
preme court of California died at Oak
land after an illness of oAly twenty
four hours. Justice Van Dyke was
born in New York state in 1923. He
was a resident of California since
1849.
The Akron, Ohio, Gas company, one
of John R. Walsh's properties, is in the
hands of a receiver, the petition being
signed by Squire, Dempsey & Saun-
ders of Cleveland, on a claim of s5,7O3
for coal furnished by the Youghio.
gheny & Ohio Coal company.
John Mccarthy, undertaken, died al
his home at Syracuse, N. Y, aged
fifty-nine years. He was known
throughout the country as an enthusi-
astic Democrat. In 1884 he bet ev.
erything he possessed, ever his
hearse, on Grover Cleveland. He was
a warm supporter and personal friend
Of William J. Bryan.
Jack O'Brien, the pugilist who re.
Gently defeated Robert Fitzsimmons
authorized the issuance of a challenge
to James J. Jeffries, the retired
heavyweight champion. Any terms
that Jeffries may demand, he says
| will be accepted.