The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-09-23

ventlon OF the League of Iowa Munich
palities, which was held in Fort
Dodge, Mayor T. ]. Phelps of Ottum-,
wa, presiding.
The second annual national good
roads convention opened in Cleveland,
o., under the auspices of the Ameri-
can Automobile association, the Ma
tional Grange and other national
bodies interested in the improvement
of highways.
Hundreds of experts on taxation
met in Louisville, KY, in the third in
ternational conference on state and
local taxation. Forty-three states and.
i've Canadian provinces were repre-
sented, besides many colleges and
universities.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, in a wireless
message sent from the steamship Os-
car II on which he reaches New York
Tuesday, assured the American peo-
pie of his ability to prove his claim
to the discovery of the north pole.
Prof. Donald B. Mcmillan of Wor-
%cester, Mass, one of Commander
Peary's aides, was accidentally
wounded in the shoulder by the dis
charge of a gun which one of the 9th.
er explorers was cleaning on board
the Roosevelt.
Bandits held up a Denver & Rio
Grande express train near Leadville,
Col, and dynamited an express car,
but, according to officials, obtained no
booty.
Nat Nakala and Isaac Santi were
killed in a mine 800 feet below the
surface neal Bessemer, Mich, when a
miners candle accidentally set of a
quantity of dynamite. Two others
were cut off by gas.
Announcement was made at a meet.
ing of the Cincinnati Aero club that
two wealthy men had pledged them
selves as hackers to the extent OF
100000 to secure the international
aerial meet for Cincinnati in 1910.
Considerable excitement was
aroused at the. national negro Baptist
convention at Columbus, O., by a re.
port that a resolution had been of.
fered withdrawing the privileges of
the floor to DR.. Booker T. Washington.
American business men are plan.
ming to organize a Russo-American
chamber of commerce in St. Peters
burg. The state department in Wash
ington favors the move.
Ferdinand Pinney Earle, the artist,
whose divorce from his first wife that
he might wed his "soul mate" brought
him much publicity, has returned Sc.
cretly to his home at Monroe, N. Y,
from Europe, and is denying himself
to callers.
Imports from te United States into
New Zealand fell off nearly 48 per
cent. in the first quarter Of 1909, com.
pared with the first quarter of 1908,
according to a report by Consul-Gen.
eral William A. Prickitt of Auckland.
Commander Peary told of new OBJ
servations at the north pole and
stood pat on his declaration that DR..
Cook had handed the world a gold
brick"
Each of the 100 words in the will
of Edward H. Hartman is worth ST.
100000 to his widow, who. under its
provisions, probably becomes the
wealthiest woman in the world.
Fire in the Ernst Kerns dry goods
store at Detroit did $4,000 damage.
Fire destroyed the flour mills and
elevators of Iglehart Brothers of Ev-
ansville, Ind. The loss probably will
reach 100000; partly covered by in
surance.
David and Bascom Bogges, brothers,
We're instantly killed and App Garner
SO badly injured that he died a few
hours later by a boiler explosion at
a saw mill at Middle Fork, w. Va.
HE is not the man," was the dis
%couraging declaration made by little
Fanny Infusino to the authorities
when Michele Rizzo, the man arrested
as a suspect in last Sunday nights
double murder at Utica, N. Y, was
brought before her for Identification.
While officers and relatives at Canal
Dover, O., Investigating the death of
Miss Florence Weber, whose body was
found in the Tuscarawas river, are
unable to build up a theory Of murder,
they are equally at a loss to find a mo-
tive for suicide.
A petition seeking the annulment
of a franchise granted the Vicksburg
Waterworks Company was filed in the
Mississippi city. The proceeding fol-
lows numerous "breakdowns'' at the
plant and plans the taking over of
the management of the plant by the
city.
Lieut.. Moon of the artillery corps,
who pleaded guilty to having failed to
return books borrowed from the corps
library, was ordered by a court-martial
reprimanded and confined within the
post for three months.
Fraternities and sororities in the
high schools of Washington will be
allowed to flourish and multiply so
long as they continue to be conducted
in an unobjectionable manner.
A central bank with a capital of
500, 600, 900, the government to share
in its profits, was urged in the annual
address of George N. Reynolds, presi-
dent of the American Bankers asso-
citation. in Chicago.