The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-05
GENERAL NEWs N0yES.

It is said that the largest shipments of
Hour ever reported in one day by the rail.
roads leading from Minneapolis, Mum.
Wers those reported on the 9th, being 17s
car loads, containing %, $50 barrels of -four.
Inc shipments OF nillstuf filled twenty
four cars containing 292 tons. Countinp
twenty cars TO the tain this would make
ten trains, which, with the ten locomotives.
would make y solid train 8, 2lO feet. or near.
~ one and one-tifth miles in length. TIE
Other sbi rments of freight reported sg.
gregated 222 car loads, which, made up in.
to trains with the mill shipments, would
MAKE aol1d train OF 4O7 cars and 81 loco
motives of total length of two and half
miles
Mrs. Phillips of Rochester, Mass, had a
lively fight with hen hawk that was after
her chickens, the other day. Her clothes
we're torn. and face, neck and hands severe
y iscerated BY the terocious bird. After
nghtlng brover fifteen minutes, Mrs. Phil
lips dispatched the thief with blow from
an oak cart stake. The bird measured
win his wings outspread, from tip to tio.
six feet four inches. 1t is the first case or,
record whrr- hen hawk was ever known
to battle with a. human beings
Attorneys for Catherine Moore Lucy N.
Abbot, William Mui,ord K-ys, Luther q
Keys and William aalsey claim to be heirs
o+Caroline Q Fillmore, widow OF .x-Pres-
1dent Fl lmOre, made q melton in the s,,r.
Toea e,s court at Buftolo, New York recent.
~ for tie appointment of q temporary ad.
mipist' ator tor the Widows $4,000 estate in
place OF George Gorham. The surrogate de
MEG the motion, holding the petitioners
asst was possible they might cot eventually
oe and therefore could not be concerned in
the estate
The opera of Martha at Mankato, MIMI,
recently, YVES hot one, Miss Abbott was
stung once by wssps during the evening,
compelling her once to leave the STAGE and
once during the evening some part of the
scenery caught fire which was promptly
extinguished without an alarm.
Commissioner Carman, of the Central
Iowa association, announces that the lines
In Iowa have decided to adopt the Joint
western classification On local business.
shipments which have heretofore been
governed Ivy revised joint classification will
after to-day be made subject to the Joint
western classification.
An assignment for the benefit of creditors
has been filed in the county clerks Office
atNew York by the frm of Ziderbach,
49, ~ 0OsS eAosA4A04c, ~ 1l1AM SulZ-
bach. Ths firm give preferences amounting
TO $ll8.792. The liabilities are betTeen
$a50,0O0 and $4O0. 1000.
The coroner's Jury hold the Long Island
railway directly responsible for the death
OF Robert Smith and Edward Aubury,
killed II the collision between the Manhat.
tsn Beach and Flushing trains, Sept. IL.
Engineer Glenn was released from arrest.
The total wheat crop of the United States
is estimated by the Kansas agricultural de.
Eartn4ent at but 4OO, 600 900 bushels. a
shortage of 104, 100000 compared with that
OF 1882 and OF 50, 900, 600 coin pared with
the average for the past Eve years.
Rand, McNally & Co., the Chicago print.
ers, made contract with the Lumberman
newspaper to print no pamphlets in the in
terest OF the lumber trade for other parties.
The firm has been enjoined from its intend.
: ed violation.
Two Rice's Point men claim to have dis.
covered silver ore in richly-paying quaint.
ues, somewhere on the hillside near that
part CT Dulutb. They refuse to tell where
the vein is located until they secure title to
the property. 49,. : '-''e ~
Inc Hermosillo, Mex, authorities abso-
iutely refuse any information about yellow
lever At that place or state the number of
9eatns that have taken place. The fever ia
believed to he on the increase.
Choice grapes are selling in California at
$4o per ton. An acre of fair land there will
produce SIX TONS while fifteen to twenty
IONS per acre is not an unusual crop.
The turnkey of the st. Louis Jail was d.
Iected TO discharge an alleged burglar. By
error ne let out the wreng man, who had to
20 hunted up and rearrested.
fox hunt is to come off at Cote Brill.
ante race track, st. Louis, Saturday. The
humane society wants to stop it,"