The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1913-08-07
Domestic.

The average age of death in this
country is 38.S years. !,
The business section of the town
of Honeoye, N. Y. was thrown into
a panic when dynamite which John
Everett val carrying through the dis.
trict in a basket exploded. Everett
was killed. but no others were injured.
Julian Hawthorne. and DR.. William
]. Morton, serving a years sentence
in the Atlanta %penitentiary for mis-
use of the mails, have been recon-
nlended for parole by the parole board
and the question OF the release is now
under consideration by Attorney Cen
eral McReynolds.
Having crossed the Pacific ocean
in a sixty.foot Sampun. with a six
inch map of North America and q
primitive compass to guide them on
their seventy-day voyage. eight Japan
csc captured at the village on the
coast north of Vancouver, B. c., were
deported.
DR.. H. F. Asbury a member of the
lower branch of the West Virginia
legislature, was found guilty by a
jury at Webster Springs, w. Va, Of
having accepted a bribe' for his vote
in the recent contest for a United
States senator. Asbury is the third
of seven legisltors to be convicted.
A constitutional amendment to en-
power congress to regulate marriage
and divorce has been proposed in a
joint resolution by Representative Ed.
monds of Pennsylvania. The amend
ment would provide that congress
have the power to establish uniform
laws on the subject of marriage and
divorce.
The discovery at sea of the head
less body Of an extensively dressed
young woman was reported by Cap
tain Charles White of the schooner
Jennie Gilbert upon his arrival in
Boston from a sword fishing trip: To
the captain it appeared that the head
had been skillfully severed with a
sharp knife.
Litigation at 80 cents a case is the
unusually cheap price Kansas City. Mo.
paid in settling 5,534 legal cases in
the last twelve months. That record
was achieved by the city's free legal
aid bureau. The cases included the
collecting of $10,962 in 1896 wage
claims, the handing Of 3O4 nonsupport
cases and.17S child and wife abandon
ment asses.
Major Beecher B. Ray Of the army
pay corps has applied: to the district
supreme court to enjoin Secretary
Garrison from certifying to the presi.
dent for promotion any other officer
who would thus be Jumped over
him,
Thomas q. Hayden of San Fran.
cisco, associate counsel for the gov.
eminent in the Diggs.Caminetti white
slave case. against whom strong pro.
tests recently were made on the
ground he was too inexperienced as
a criminal lawyer to participate in
the case. has rendered his resignation
to Attorney General McReyholds.
Cuba has become the twenty.third
nation to accept in principle secre.
tary Bryan's peace plans.
Alaskan purchases from the United
States proper have grown from
$4,000 in 1879 to- $S.644,0OO in 1893
and to $20.00O.0OOO in 1912.
Nine electric engines for the New
York Central will haul l.000-ton trains
at a rate of sixty miles. an hour.
Francis B. sayre. IMAGE Of Miss
Jessie Wilson. the presidents daugt.
er, says he has been offered the posi-
ton of secretary to President Garfield
of Williams college, but has. not yet
decided whether he would accept.
"Wee Willie" Sudhoff. one-time star
pitcher Of the st. Louis Browns, ia
reported violently insane.
District Attorney Rotan Of Philadel-
phia said that he would investigate
the raising Of the price of anthracite
coal by retail dealers.