The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-09-02

The flftieth anniversary of the first
oil well in the world was celebrated
at Titusville, Pa, where Col. Edwin
w. Drake struck petroleum by drilling
on August %, 1859.
Fire, following an explosion in the
Kelly canning factory at Waverly, Ia,
caused the death of George McRob-
erts, fatal injury to Mrs. Walter
Davis, Irene Lockley and George Mil
Ter and the manning of a score of
others, the loss being 100000 and
100000 cans of corn.
A man said to be Santo Grace, is
now in Jail at Jamestown, Pa, charged
with being one of the quartet who in
July, 1904, held up Patrick F. Camp
bell, a mine paymaster, and secured
$500 after killing Charles Hays, the
driver, and seriously wounding Camp
bell.
twenty-five kegs of beer detied
the a~nti-canteen law by floating into
Fort Slocum, near New York, on an
ocean wave. The beer was seized
quickly by the thirsty soldiers. Fifty
kegs had been carried overheard from
a small steamer.
A death pact, entered into because
Frank E. Williamson, aged 10, could
not obtain work, will result in the
death of the young man and his
sweetheart, Florence Lillian Wood, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. Williamson shot the
girl and then himself.
Harry S. Bates, member of a San
Francisco shipping firm, will test the
law forbidding the %chartering of a
foreign vessel to carry a cargo be-
tween two American ports.
The Isthmian canal commission
will receive bids September 16 for
the French junk which has accumu-
lated along the line of the canal. The
amount is estimated at from $4,000
to 100000 tons.
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president of the United States, and
Rear Admiral G. B. HARDER were re-
ceived by the prince regent of China
in private audience within the For
hidden City.
The fourth warning of an impending
hurricane given ships on the Gulf of
Mexico within a month reveals the
fact that in September and October
of each year a number of devastating
storms strike that section of the
tropics.
The national insurance commission.
ers In convention at Colorado Springs,
COL, decided not to interfere with fra
ternal insurance methods, but to al
low the fraternals to work out their
own salvation.
Pearls and diamond earrings valued
at $1,000 were found by customs in
spectors at New York concealed on
the person of Miss Catherine Mckee
OF Harrisburg, Pa. She was arrested
on her arrival from Europe.
The government is to pay 5000 a
month for a farm of 100 acres e
College Park, Nd, to be. used for an
aerial experimental station.
The police of St. Louis denied the
kidnapers of the two Viviano children
had written a second letter to the
parents demanding that negotiations
be resumed. The Vivianos declare
they have obtained no news of the
children.
The quartermaster's department Of
the army at Washington decided that
too great publicity had been given the
plan to exhume the body of Lieut..
James N. Sutton and has withdrawn
Its permission. The dead officers
mother desired to have c~onsecrated
the ground where he was buried.
Ann Odelia Diss de Bar, notorious
s~pfritualist swindler, who operated in
chicago a few years ago under the
name of Vera P. Ava, was discovered
In New York under an assumed name
as n OF the teachers in the school
OF the Mahatmas." She has disap.
peared.
Consular agents have been instructed
to make collection of the commercial
laws of all Central and South Ameri.
can republics. The laws will be
printed in English and distributed in
the United States to encourage trade
with the Latin-American countries.
The harbor of San Francisco can
be mined and the port rendered safe
from invasion in 48 hours, according
to Capt. Ferguson Of the coast artil-
lery who had charge of the practice
laying of mines in the bay.
The centenary Of Hannibal Ham.
Inns birth was celebrated in Paris
Hill, Me-, by many present and former
residents Of that state, the fea.
ture of the days ceremonies being the
unwilling of a bronze tablet on the
house where the statesman was born.
The United Bohemian Turner's be-
gan a four-days' tournament in Chi
cago.
A report from Buenos Ayres said
200 lives had been lost when steam.
ships loaded with excursionists, most
ly women and children, colided at the
entrance of the harbor at Montevideo.
Homer Cassube of Logansport, Ind.
committed suicide in New York after
writing a letter accusing his wife, a
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