The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-10
GENERAL NEWS GOSSIP

Tor lmploYlng Inc harbOr at Duluth
$27o,65l have been expended prior to Jan
Is, 1881. Since that time SIG, 600 has beer
expended. 1t is believed, from past expert.
ences, that it will be necessary to do Iaree
amount OF dredging each year. For dredg.
ing at;Superior,s Wis, $44, 461 " as available
during the, year, $21, 1876 of which was or.
pended. The estimated amount to com.
plete the project is $262, 900, of which ito.
goo can be used the next year.
fhe cunard Steamship Company has
contracted for the building of the two steam
ers on scale which it is said will be in ad.
vance of anything which has yet been de-
vised for the Atlantic service. The ships
are to be of 5000 tons burden each and OF
i5,OW horse power. The price is excess OF
$500. 600 for each, and it is designed that
the TWO vessels shall make speed of nine
Teen knots per hour. or to cross the Allan.
tic in less than six daye.
In connection with the recent failures in
Boston the rumors of the amount of paper
held by banks there have been greatly ex.
aggerated. The total capital of the banks
OF Boston is $50, 600, COG and no SINCE, bank
mas anything approaching large percent
age OF It's capital invested in any Suspended
paper. Very many banks do not hold a
The monthly report of the st: Paul post
Office for. July shows total business of
$3O5. 263.19, ar increase over the cores
pondlng month of 1882 amounting to $685.
SO9.56. The postofice business Of a civ
more than any other statistics show its i'm
Pertance as com mercial center, and 81.
Paul may well be proud of the evidence
thus presented of her substantial growth
and prosperity.
ct the inquest on the body of Capt. Webb
recently, his widow, several physicians, his
manager and various persons who wit
messed the swim, gave their testimony. The
jury returned the following verdict: eve
End that Capt. Webb came to his death
while attempting to swim the whirlpool of
the rapids OF the Niagara river"
Unless the late departed Mr., Inkster of
Grand Forks has been writing letters from
that bourne whence the mails do not run
regularly, he is still alive and not bad
lcoklng corpse in the Mouse River valley.
A. Mr.. Matthies had a letter from HIM two
days after his supposed death.
A story is sfoat in Indianapolis that the
late Peter Goelet of New York, who left an
immense fortune, and was believed to he a
was in 1845 married to Jadv in
Parke county, Ind, who gave birth to
daughter, who now lays claims to an estate
" orth many millions.
6 Edward Gamble, hosiery manufacturer of
has made an assignment to
L. c. Beatty for the benefit OF his creditors.
and Enoch Blood OF the same city, also a
hoisery manufacturer, assigned to James T.
Hay. The liabilities and assets are small
American travellers spend, it is estimated,
s1oo, 600, 600 III Europe every summer. The
;. 500, GOO inhabitants OF Philadelphia, New
York and Brooklyn spend SIS, 900, 1000 dur
ng the season upon the strip of Sand be-
;ween Cape May Point and Long Beach.
John c. Simoret, upholsterer and furni-
lure dealer, corner ofSeventh and Rob,rt
streets, st. Paul, has made an assignment
for the benefit of his creditors to E.. II. Ha-
oighorst.
Shaw & Co., of Boston, the biggest tanners
IN the world, are under the bankruptcv
cloud. Liabilities are So, 500, 600; and from
70, 600 to 1900 people are thrown out of
work.
Mr.. Surgeons serm ons will not be div.
ng under the Atlantic to reach American
newspapers for a few weeks to come. Hei,
aid up with what some people call govt.
King Solomon's Lodge of Masons, of
Mass, will celebrate its Tooth
on The 18th of September
le1t.
The final deposit of 81, 900 side in the
'rize fight between Slade and Mitchell has
,een made.