The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-09-04
TclegrapIlic SUMMARY

1olcS F&tplllC summary
Prof. Call, of the Iowa university Greek
chair, is dead.
Secretary Lamar says he will not take any
vacation; he has too much to do.
Mrs. Sarah Althca Hill proposes to pub.
llsli her recollections OF Sharon.
Mrs. A T.Stcwart has subscribed 81 900
to the Grant monument fund.
There was IL hard frost in the Red river
valley. but crops were too far advanced to
receive damage.
Hon. James q. blaine will tnke trip
through several counties in Ohio Just be.
fore the election.
Paul Baucr's Concy Island hotel is run at
daily expense Of $1,000, but he clears
$780, 900 ~ season.
AZ Washington, Ind, during an alter
cation Walter Meredith shot nnd mortally
wounded Daniel Fascns.
The Nashua (N. lI.) Telegraph SAYS that
biennial sessions Of the legislature in that
state have effected u Gavin. OF $75, 900 u
year.
Germany gOotl-naturcdly cxplnincs to
! Spain that she took the Caroline islands
because they seemed to be lying around
loose.
Most OF the Grape used in draping build
iiiss in memory of Grant has been sold to
the shotdy mills where it is worked into
cheap cloth.
1T is reported that John NJ. Palmer OF
limos is tn he appointed minister to Aus
trIa. 1t is not known that lie has applied
for the Office.
Rev. John p. Stri,lcr, u. d., ofStaunton,
| W., has been elected professor OF moral
philosophy and bellies lcttrrs in WASH
| lnHt ON and I.un mi
The house OF John Curlcy, near Graf tan,
Mlrtl., was burned. Mr.. Curlry, seventy.
eight years old, was alone in the house ut
the time, and persisted in the flames.
Ex-tiov. Seymour OF New York, altlle ugh
sevcnty-tivc years old, made the most
vigorous and ringing speech at the recent
canal Improvement mcctin. at Utica.
| There will lie civil service examinations
at Miiwnukcr, Sept. 3; bismarck, Oak,
Sept. $; Helena, Mont, Sept. Is: Portland,
Sept. ID, and Seattle, Wash, Sept. %.
An ablc-hnlie,l young man has boon up,
pointed postmaster at Milford, Ohio, In
place oT Miss Boyer, who has held the posi-.
ti"n since Gen. Grants second presidency.
Maj, u, 7, Gum, proprietor and editor Of
!hc Transcript. published at Olympin,
Wash. died afteru breif illness, of neuralgia.
0f the heart. Maj. Gllnn was an old and
| prominent journalist.
| The steamship Alexandria reports the
wreck oi the Scotch steam tlr,,lsc beaufort
ON Aug. y, OFF the Bermuda slntls. Capt.
Penny aud the crew of ten or twelve are Es-
licvc'i to llaveal bcGn lost,
Ecv. $. $. ltlluman, minister ~ the NJ. r,
church at Green Springs Run. w. Va, COM
ihited suicide BY jumping from window,
fislctu,ing hisskul llcwas laborins under
II III OF temporary insanity.
The iirstcontrolcr oftl,c treasury dccidts
taat the empl"ylmcnt of 81 OF the persons
ON The rolls "f the Alabama claims court il
illegal, and refuses to grant warrants for
the payment OF their salaries.
| The postal cards this wear will cost the
government Sl7.7l per Thousand, Last
year they cost 50 ,l3. Two-crnt postage
was 1" hard blow I" .li" postal cards, Tho
issue has been gradually decreasing ever
since letter postage walls reduced
| A freight train Oh the C,csapcake, & Ohio
rtilroad ran into another freight train
standing on a sidetrack seven miles west
oi Newport. Va. wrrcking both engines u nd
killing Engineer Spottswiit and Brakeman
George Wheeler. and fatally injurins 1'honl-
as lIalloran.
The acting ostnnaster appointed the fol,
lowing fourtt-cl;lss postniustcrs: Dakota
Stanton, Mrs. L.. A. Frazer, Iowa,
Western College, Jacob Kaufimann; Ossiun,
DANES MalloN. Orogun--M Mw,furd, u. II.
Miller Goshen j. W. Mntlock; Newport,
Edward &. i'holps.
Indian Agent Stotts}cimcr of the South.
crii tic agency at lsnacio, Colo, has sent
IN his resignation. Gen. Miles will recon.
mend that an army officer DO appointed to
take flI:iise al affairs at the agency, and il
Ii Thought President Cleveland will carry
out the recommendation.
Proceedings have been commenced in the
court OF ch,nccry by Washington Il. Will.
i;lms, receiver OF the dcf,lnct Cisy Bank oi
Jersey City, \. T., against the direct ors and
oihccrs Ia '"c'lrct Ahnut S2OO, 900 lost by
INC .s,uk, owing to the cmbczzlcment OF
b"yce, the president, and Shaw, the casl,ic;,,
Three children of j. ii. Mct,uman of Tail.
lodesa, Ala, saw .!.eir father kill and dress
II pig. The next day the children wished to
.epcnt the act, and, having no pig, two oi
them took the younger one and cut its
throat and then hung il up by the feet as
,hePlg had hung, when they were discovered
by the mother.
Mrs. Lucrctia W. Davis, claiming to bs
the widow Of the confederate General Davis
who once owned Davis addition to Chcn.
60. i;..s commenced suitagailist II large mum.
per on the property owners Of the blocks
lying between Lake and Fulton streets and
Western avenue and Seymour street fot
,,er right nf dover. The tract embraces u
hundred lots or moro,
rreaistunt Cleveland is camping out at
Willis pond, IN the Adirondack mountains.
three days journey from the nearest rail.
read depot He has as companions Dr. S,
n Ward and Mr.. Il. r. Bacon. a. New
York. The president was i'll s..r the t,.st
lew days he was in c.,nil, but 10 now look.
ing well, fishing curing tha',.ay, and in tho
eveHias vl'I"Ss IL social game OF eucl,re.
\ car filled with specimens ofOrcgon agri.
cultural prod!!s;s started on an eastern
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