The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-02-22

1eisssalaassus 1sws Hesse:
The Emerson, Nan, custom house il $500
Kentucky negroes own ss,sso, 400 worth o
property.
q, stovemsking fell OF IA per cont last year i,
this country.
4 by City, Mich, factory makes Z. 400 wash
DR. Marshall, Mary Anderson's blaekmailer
Was acquitted.
The Ohio Legislature appropriated 5000
\ for flood relief.
Letters sent by courier from Coer d. Allen
cost 80 cents each.
Tho first state election of the year will b
that OF Oregon June g
Boston man has portraits Of his famil
painted on his china.
N. y. Bullock, Dallas, Ga, has lost thre
daughters by elopement this winter.
The house in which Gen. Grant was born. a
Point Pleasant, Ohio, was taken OF In the food
At New York, George Parsons, TOW dealer
M has assigned. Liabilities, 430, ,OO; assets, go,
Solomon Isaacs and Jacob Samuels, clothing
ssis, sss asSI s$ '' '''''''' as ''' ' actual as
Edward Pilsbury.s Sons, cotton commissio,
merchants, New Orleans, have failed. Iisbili
ties, 4l40, 600
Gen Jo Shelby of Missouri, the noted ex con
federate, has just been fined 80 for carrying
concealed weapons.
Seventeen hundred Chinese OH the Gree,
River road, near, Seattle, struck becsus
Of reduction from 81 10 50 cents day.
John Hadley. Albany, N. Y, left 100000 4
Miss Louisa Whipple, young lady of goo,
name in Troy. Hadley's divorced wife objects
The amount of relief funds thus far forward
ed from Philadelphia is s6, 75N Tho pennsyi
yania railroad company transports all good
free.
james u: Scripps, the publisher of tho De
troit @ Evening News, has paid to DR.. Donal,
| libel suit
Hartford, Conn, drum major cum toss Iii
baton over an electric lamp wire forty feet up
and catch it again without breaking step in til
procession.
Two handsome negroes attended fashion
able white folks masquerade in Stamford
Conn, and two pretty white girls tainted whcl
they unmasked.
In Atlanta there arc $4,000, 600 wortl, of ncy
buildings in the hands Of contractors and arcl,
~,
started during the spring.
In Savannah, Sl,OOO,OO las been cxpcnde,
during the past year in improvements, mucl
OF which has gone into the river front ant
much into private residences.
Treasurer Wyman received from an Obi,
bank two packages purporting to contail
81 200 each. Ono was found $3.50 short, IN,
tho other contained two pieces of flannel.
Tho Etna Life aud Travellers Insurance
onsou .,f
$500 for tho relief of tho flood sufferers akin.
total of about 81 800 subscribed there.
Executor Townsend finds difficulty in set
thing the affairs of Rev. DR.. Mercer, the mil
!ionnaire clergyman of Newport, Il. l., because
llo cannot supply $500, COO bondsmal.
Il D. Mowry & Son, cotton factors, Charles
ton, y. e., have suspended. Liabilities, slhO,
0oO; nominal assets, s:s@5, 600 The suspen
sion is due to bad crops and investments.
~ Schedules asd.! in the assignment Of John raret
tiles of s2ll 600; actual assets $l5,OO Tw,
other firms, headed by John Parct, also as
signed.
The will of Col. Hunt, millionaire lumer
man OF Rosconlnon county, Mich, contains he
quests of s., OOO to Caroline Brown, mother %
Artemus Ward, and similar amounts TO Eli Per
kins and josh Billings.
The committee Of citizens in Philadclphi,
1oaSAnS !unu luF tue suHercth llaS Qeclttcu II
make Galiipolis the distributing point for s,lp
plies. The chairman announced contribution.
to date amounting to s5,G4s
louis J. Jennings is engaged in writing lif,
of john Wilson Crocker, a prominent politcia,
OF u generation ago He will give letters from
tho duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel
written during the carly reform agitation.
Judge Dickey, of the supreme court of ILL
no!s, has granted super sedeas in the cas'
knp tn k1,S,
for ten years for stealing sl5, coo from Preston
kean 4 Co, Chicago bankers, which neccssi
tatcs new trial
In case before the Michigan supreme cnnr
where the point i'll controversy was whcthe
the elopement Of wife from her husband
with another man, bars her from. claim Il
her rights in her deserted husbands estate, til
court claimed that it did.
Ex-Gov. Butler has profound disregard fo
petitions. "Ion could get in Massachusetts 10.
!OO men to sign a petition to have me hanged,
lle says, and half the number would sign
petition to- have themselves hanged withou
knowing what they were doing"
Mr. Douglass, who has had charge of tl,i
district as special agent Of the treasury de
have his headquarters at st. Paul. Minn. Hi
district now includes Minnesota, Dakota, Mon
tana and Idaho and the port of La Crosse
The Virginia senate and house, bya stric
party vote, passed fill rcdistricting the stat
for representatives III congress. The bill wa
immediately enrolled, signed by the presiding
officers, and sent to the governor. The retlis
tricting shows eight districts democratic an,
two coalition
Mayor King, Of Philadelphia, has forbidden
the collection of political assessments from
members of the police department, and de
claros that he will discharge any policeman
who pays one. 81 have never permitted as
sessed for political purposes"
At Buffalo Mrs Prcndergrast has sued Mrs
Anna II: Fargo, the former wife Of W. G. Far
go, and now Of T. i. Fargo, to compel her I.
surrender the possession Of the twin clildrel
of W. Ii. Fargo Jr, and wife, both deceased
Tho twins are both bright children, and al,
said to be equally fond of both grandmothcrs
At Kansas City. Glessncr 4 Ross. cracke
and candy factory, was closed by the sherif
loaned by Nathan Hill Tho firm has not ye
assigned The liabilities are supposed to be
$4o, 900; assets unknown. a receiver has beer
appointed. The liabilities are s35, 900, and as.
sets about $3D,OOo.
Ice, which went ont OH tho ljtl, gorged jus
below the city of Albany. A rapid rise Of tn
rivcr was checked by cold weather. Many o.
venience is caused the railroads, merchants
and others Many business houses arc flooded
but tho damage is not heavy. The lumber dis
trict is completely under water.
DR.. George Marshall, charged with attempt
ing to blackmail Mary Anderson, was acquitted
in the United States district court at Pitfsburl
recently. The court ruled TINT the offcnse dil
not come within the provisioos of the law pro
viding penalties for using the mails for tn
purpose to dcfraud, and, under instructions o
the court, a verdict of not guilty was rendered
George W. Cable recently told q friend, VIII,
warned linn that he travelled too much, that b,
wOnld rather be in the cars than at u hotel
His reason was that in tho former case III
pie, he said, hunted him out-book agents
people with pet hobbies which they wante,
him to take up and advocate, and other varie
ties Of genus bore.
Mrs. Marion Laverre of New York, Offer
part of mausoleum which sho possesses 4
Eastport, l. ]. ., as a resting place for tho bod,
of Commander De Long. Mrs. Dc Long re
piled that she understood that arrangement
were pending to bury her husband in Wood
lawn cemetery and that steps would Ike takel
to erect a monument over his grave. Other
wise she would gratefully accept Mrs Laverre'
offer.
Advice from Hempstead, Tex, give mcage
details of fearful encounter, in which on
ed. For some reason Or other, Win Wheelc
and John Ellison, late city marshal, commence,
shooting ut each other in Hewes' bar-roon
Friday night, the 18th. Capt James I. Brown
ing interfered and tried to make peace. Whel
tile firing ceased it was discovered that Brown
ing was shot dead and Wheeler and Ellisol
were in such condition that they will prob
ably die
There was al exciting scene at circus q