The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-04-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

King Edward and Queen Alexandra
were met at Gaeta, Italy by the king
Of Italy.
Robbers dynamited the safe of a
bank at Bixby, !. T., securing several
thousand dollars.
The Hotel Campbell at Athens, Pa,
was destroyed by fire and n man
was burned to death.
!: Fire in two garages in st. Louis
destroyed about 100 automobiles, the
total loss being $225,O0O.
/: The constitution framed for the
proposed state Of Oklahoma was
adopted by the convention.
Rev. DR.. Teunis S. Hamlin, pastor Of
the Church of the Covenant, Washing
ton, died in a New York hospital.
The Ancient Order of United Work
men was ousted from the state of
Ohio on the petition of Attorney Gen
eral Ellis.
Ex-Congressman John V. L. Findlay
died suddenly of heart disease at his
home in Baltimore, Md. He was 67
years old.
Mrs. Aggie Myers was taken to the
p%enitentiary at Jeffersonville, Mo, to
begin her life sentence for numbering
her husband.
Safe-blowers wrecked a bank at
Weston, ILL.,, with three charges of
dynamite, terrorized the town and es-
capped with $4,000.
Two hundred and thirty natives of
the Ululthi group, Caroline islands,
persisted in a typhoon and famine
threatens the survivors.
A new board of three members has
supplanted the indicted officers of the
Uncle Sam Oil company in the man
agement of the concerns affairs.
A Nickel Plate passenger train was
derailed at Fostoria, o., when the
body of a bridge foreman, who fell
under the wheels, caught in the rear
trucks.
Heavy snow fell over eastern Ne
braska and Iowa and while it dam
aged the small fruits, it was said to
benefit the wheat crop by killing the
green bugs.
The Illinois supreme court declared
invalid the Mueller act authorizing
the city of Chicago to issue certif.
Gates for SIS, 100000 to purchase the
street railways.
Regis H. Post was inaugurated gov
ernor of Porto Rico in succession tc
Beckman Winthrop, who retired to be
come assistant secretary of the
treasury at Washington.
The Columbus CO., grand jury re
turned secret indictments against the
members of the "ice trust" in thai
city on the ground that they had con
spired in restraint of trade.
Ten horses were shot to death by
policemen to end their sufferings in {
fire in the barn of the A. M. Forbes
Carriage company, Chicago. The pc
licemen and firemen saved 10 horses
William M. Chase, who vas presi
dent of the old Society of American
Artists, has issued a statement telling
of plans to pay a tribute to the mem
CRY of Stanford White as an archi
tect.
The Seattle Labor council has adopt
ed resolutions ~denouncing Presiden
Roosevelt for his criticism of Moye:
and Haywood. The resolutions accust
the president of prejudging the twt
men.
L. F. Ford, of Philadelphia, superin
tendent of construction of the Penn
sylvania railroad, committed suicide
by jumping overheard from the Clyd'
line steamer Comanche off Jackson
vile, Fla.
The American Academy of Politi
cal and Social Science began it
eleventh annual meeting in Philadel
phia, the general topic for discussion
being American colonial policy an
administration.
Thomas M. Huntington, Ami E
Todd and Fred Hoyt were convicte'
in the United States court at Oman;
on charges of conspiracy to defrau'
the government of about half a mi
lion acres of public lands.
An attempt vas made to kill Rev
Matthew Yankola, pastor of the Sla
Honic church at Hazleton, Pa. His pal
sonage was blown up by dynamite blu
he escaped. Parish troubles are be
lieved to have caused the attempt.