The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-09-16

Inc MISSOURI waterway COMMISSION
elected W. X. Kavanaugh of st. Louis
president and M. L. Jones of Kansas
City vice-president.
The post Office department has de-
cided that a mail carrier need not
deliver mail at a house where a
vicious dog is kept.
Despite the efforts of their father
and a small sister and brother to save
them, three children of Robert A.
Walsh died in fire which destroyed
their summer home at White Bear
lake, MINI.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
at Malakoff, Tex, was robbed Of ST.
500 by men who blew open the safe.
William Starr, a bridge builder from
Chicago, was killed near Kenosha.
Wis, by a collision of a freight train
with a caboose.
A terrific rain and thunder storm
in the vicinity of Harrisburg, I'LL, did
great damage to fruit and shade trees.
Five hundred delegates will attend
the Baptist state convention which
will be held in South Bend, Ind, Oc-
tober ~ to Is.
Jacob Wagner, a wealthy farmer OF
Posey county, Indiana, drank a bottle
of carbolic acid in the presence of
his family and as he did so remarked:
Here is my last drink" He died.
When James Atkinson stepped from
a train at Kewanee, Ill, upon return
ing from a visit in Nebraska, he was
Mortified at seeing men dragging the
body Of his dying son, Samuel, from
under a freight train. The young
man had gone to the depot to meet
his father and fell under the freight
cars.
Admiral o Rooster will sail for
New York September IL to command
the German squadron at the Hudson
Fulton celebration.
Pieces of the skeleton of a preh1s-
toric monster have been found IN a
farm near Pendleton, Ore. One of the
teeth is IA inches long.
President Taft has taken up the
Ballinger-Pinchot row and upon his
decision probably will hang the ques-
ton whether the secretary of the in
terror or the nations chief forester
will resign from public service.
The National Federation of Post Of
flee clerks, In convention at St. Louis,
discussed plans of obtaining shorter
working hours.
During the fortnight ending Satur.
day, September 4. there were "a bu-
bontc and IS cholera deaths in the
city of Annoy, according to an official
announcement.
Twenty-three miles was cut from
the distance between Chicago and
New York over the Michigan Central
and New York Central by a change
In the Niagara Falls branch from
Rochester.
I. N. Chapman was shot and killed
by Earle budding, a Huntington Nv.
Va.) business man, as the result of a
controversy following the arrest of
Chapman's daughter, who was en-
ployed in buildings store.
Frankfort, KY, is quiet after a
clash Saturday night between civil
1ans and soldiers, in which two men
were killed and three severely wound
ed. A company of troops is guarding
the city.
With Mayor Stoy under a $4,000
bond to appear before the grand jury,
Atlantic City IN. J.) saloons all were
open Sunday and the reform move
ment was defed.
Fifty thousand Irishmen living in
the United States are expected to
make a pilgrimage to Ireland, accord
ing to plans of F. ]. Kilkenny Of
Washington, national president of the
Home-Going Pilgrims.
For the first time since the Spanish
American war 200 armed men from
the Fifth Canadian artillery arrived in
Seattle to participate in the celebra-
ton at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifc ex-
position.
Nearly 1000 soldiers Of the war
with Spain, representing nearly every
state in the union were in Tacoma,
Wash, for the sixth annual encamp-
ment of the United Spanish War Vet
Grams,
At it's annual convention in Birming.
ham, Ala, the Farmers union decid-
ed to ask congress to remove the tar
III on jute bagging, the union also de-
nying that a minimum price of Is
cents on cotton had been agreed upon.
Mount Robson, the highest peak in
the Canadian Rockies, was climbed
successfully August 10 by Rev. George
Kinney of Victoria, B. c., according
to an announcement made at Winni-
peg.
Scott Sprague, a machinist, was
found slain in Cincinnati, and his
bride, whose marriage to Sprague took
place in Chicago a few weeks ago was
held by the police. The man was shot
in the side in such a way the police
say 1t could not have been suicide.
Mrs. Sprague was a Miss Cross of
Rockford, Ill.
Corporal James M. Tanner inform I'd
the Union Veteran Legion at Washing.
ton that organizations of old soldiers
will make a complaint IN proe;aa,+