The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-05-06

1t has been discovered in Rome that
! a satchel containing jewelry valued at
$4,000, which raj recently stolen
from a train there, was the property
of Princess Won Buelow of Berlin.
The w. G. T. u. of Cincinnati will
ask Mayor Markbreit Of that city to
forbid the moving-picture shows to
present scene showing the electrocu.
ton Of women.
]. w. Fowler. receiver for the First
National bank of Carroll, Ia, brought
suit for $264,292 against the estate OF
W. F. Culbertson, former president
of the bank, who committed suicide
last October.
The twentieth annual congress of
the Sons of. the American Revolution
was held in Baltimore, delegates be.
ing present from AZ states.
John A. Benson Of San Francisco
was acquitted in Washington on a
charge of bribery in connection with
land frauds. 81
William H. Reynolds, a Brooklyn
millionaire, who sailed for Europe, took
a negro quartet with him to entertain
him and his guests aboard ship and in
his tour abroad.
New York Is to have a hotel at
Forty-second street and Madison ave.
nue 81 stories high, to cost 81, 500, 900
Hiram Webster, 65 years old, a sec
ton boss on the Michigan Central, lost
his life at Hastings, Mich, while try.
Ing to remove a hand car in the way
of an approaching special.
Six hundred feet of the west wall
at the Indiana state prison at Mich.
igan City were blown down by a cy-
clone. The prisoners made no attempt
to escape, but the militia has been
ordered out.
Porter Smith of Chicago shot and
killed Miss Helen Marden at Sommer.
vile, at Smith college, Northampton,
Mass, and then killed himself because
she had Tilted him.
Nadir Pasha, an aide to Abdul
Hamid, deposed sultan, was hanged
and $50 other conspirators shot at
Constantinople.
Mrs. Harry Thaw was fined $3.50 for
contempt of court in New York and
given five days to pay the amount or
go to Jail.
-Four men were killed by an ex.
plosion in a powder factory at Rey-
nolds, Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Grifen, a widow,
was slain with a fatiron in her home
at Winnebago, near Rockford, III.
Two Chicago firemen were killed
while fighting flames which destroyed
an Illinois Central elevator which had
been struck by lightning.
President Taft officially recognized
Mehmed ", the new sultan of Tur-
key, in a message sent to Ambassador
Leishman.
The Red Cross society has sent
$1,000 to relieve the suffering of refu-
gees from the massacres in Asiatic
Turkey.
Beach Hargis was convicted and
sentenced to serve a life term in the
p%enitentiary for Staying his father at
Irvine, Ky.
The body of Maj. Pierre Charles
L'Enfant, who laid out the city of
Washington, was taken from the
grave at Digges farm, Maryland, and
buried in Arlington cemetery.
Policeman Kroeger of Logansport,
Ind, and an unidentified pickpocket
were slain in a pistol duel following
n performance of a circus.
One person was killed and many
hurt by a tornado which swept Doug
las, Udall and Rock, Kan.
The miners in the tri-district con.
vention at Scranton, Pa, decided to
accept the old agreement with the an.
thrac1te operators and authorized
their officials to sign it.
An anarchist named Verdier was ar
rested at Monte Carlo and charged
with plotting to kill President Fal-
Heres of France.
h defense in the case of James
Boyle decided to call James P. Whitla,
father of the kidnapped boy, to testify
In the prisoners behalf.
President Taft has signifed his in.
tention of witnessing the, information
al yacht races between American and
German boats, to be sailed off Marble
mead the first week in September. His
newly-selected summer home at Bev.
erly is only three miles from the
starting point.
Abdul Hamid H., for 80 years ruler
OF Turkey, was deposed and his
brother, Mehemmed Reschad Efendi,
assembled the throne.
Fears were expressed by the Aid.
rich faction of the senate that the de.
bates on the tariff bill will prevent
ina action on the measure until late
In the summer.
President Taft, speaking at the
Grant dinner in Philadelphia, praised
the soldier-president and pleaded for
closer ties between north and south.
The National Federation of Reli.
g1ous Liberals held its first annual
conference in Philadelphia.
Russia has decided to accept the
American proposal to revise the treaty
OF 1882. Her answer will express as
sent to the negotiation of a new treaty
provided that the old agreement re.
main in force until the new n ia
ratified.
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