The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-04-22

aries were slain in the massacre of
Armenians and Christians by Moslems
at Adana, Asiatic Turkey, were re-
ceived. One report said 400 were
slain.
Democratic senators held a confer
n c and decided not to delay the pas.
sage of the tariff bill.
Indictments charging the Cldahy
Packing Company with violating the
ol~eomargarine laws were returned by
the federal grand jury at Topeka, Kan,
A sensation was created in Tokyo
when nine members of the Japanese
diet were arrested on charges OF &C
cepting brides.
Joan of Arc, the heroine of France,
was beatified in st. Peters, Rome, in
Inc presence of many Catholic dig
nitaries.
At a banquet in Chicago, alumni OF
the University of Michigan honored
DR.. James B. Angel, the retiring pres.
ident.
The Altoona County Savings bank at
Altoona, Mich, was robbed by burglars
who blew open the safe and stole
$4,000.
Cigarette" Baker, who fed from
Indiana when charged with attempt.
ing to bride a member of the legisla.
ture, returned to Indianapolis and sur.
rendered to the sheriff.
Mrs. Marie Bartels of Chicago was
beaten and almost killed by thieves
who looted her apartments in Paris.
Adolphus Busch, president of the
Annheuser Busch Brewing Company
OF st. Louis, limited that the company
would move to Illinois if Missouri
votes on statewide prohibition.
Fire In the stockroom of McCurdy
Brothers department store, in Phila.
delphia, caused a loss estimated at
$15O,OO0.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray has designated Muskogee, Okla,
as a reserve city, under the national
banking law.
Attorney General Wickersham said
ne had not decided whether he can
take action against James A. Patten
and other brokers who have cornered
wheat.
By issuing invitations to a tea, Mrs.
James S. Sherman, wife of the vice
president, stirred up the row in the
Daughters of the American Revolution
over the election of a president gen
eral.
Two men we're killed when a nitro
glycerin factory at Gordon, Ill.,, was
blown up. The roar was heard rs
miles away.
A report received in Constantinople
said 5000 Turks, to avenge the muir
der of two Moslems. had massacred
many Armenians at Mersina, Asia
Minor.
Former President Roosevelt and his
party arrived at Alden, Arabia, and
went ashore while the Admiral was in
port.
Society women of Washington
turned white wings" and helped to
clean the streets of floating paper and
debris.
The trial of Joseph B. Kline, mem
Der of a Chicago militia company,
charged with killing Earl Nelson at
Kankakee last summer, was begun at
Paxton, III.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
bank at Woodlawn, ILL.,, and stole
$1,000.
Gov. Carroll signed the bill which
will prohibit Salome dances and i'm
moral shows in Iowa.
Richard G. Hughes, president of
Ripon college at Ripon, Wis, has re-
signed to become a farmer.
James Shepard Cabanne, seven
years old, was kidnapped from the
home of his grandmother in st. Louis.
John Barrett, director of the Inter
national Bureau of American Repub-
lies, gave a banquet in Washington in
honor Of Secretary Knox, chairman,
and other members of the governing
board of the organization.
The Billings bill giving Illinois wom-
en- the right to vote was reported out
of committee with a recommendation
that it be passed by the senate, after
several hundred suffragists had
stormed the capitol.
Frank Gotch, worlds champion
wrestler, successfully defended his
title against Yusiff Mahmout, a Turk,
whom he defeated in two straight
falls.
Margaret Clark, supposed to have
been from Brooklyn, and Annie Miller,
whose residence has not been learned,
committed suicide on the liner Lucania
at sea
The steamer Virginia was wrecked
and sank in the Ohio river al Wells
vile, o., the crew saving the lives of
SO panic-stricken passengers.
Harry A. Axtell, former city treasur.
er of Bloomington, Ind, was convicted
Of embezzlement.
A report from Mombasa, Africa, said
smallpox has broken out in the district
which former President Theodore
Roosevelt intends to visit.
Gov. johnson signed the bill which
prohibits the sale or giving away of
cigarettes in Minnesota.
Turkish troops revolted in Constant.
nople, stormed parliament and killed
II persons.
Election of United States senators
by the people is not favored by the
general assomh1v ~ Co,,, n