The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-01-09

Wash Conner figures utJay Gould's income
ss $S,OOQOOoa year.
The total railway construction for 1884 was
So7O miles, the lowest since 1873
The anthracite coal conference agreed ON
SHVOaOOO tors as tho production Of 1855.
B. Platt Carpenter, governor of Montana
aeathis home at tPoughkeopsie, N. Y. for Holenn.
Henry Biswanger of Philadelphia dropped
dead while sitting at table telling joke to .
friend
The Louisiana sugar crop is said to be very
POOR, and planters arc gioomy over next years
pr0spcctA q
Col Wolf has been called 10 Washington 10
tell what became Of that e22sOO Of Cherokee
appropriation.
Miss Ophelia Glover, Of Bismarck, while
temporarily. deranged, committed suicide by
taking strychnine.
New York newspapers are sad to be in
very hard-up condition, owing to sadly de-
Fients of the Blair etlucational bill say they
1ntcnd to push it to tho front in the house soon
Alter the reassemb)ing of congress.
Amsn who registered Is Arthur Peter son of
bturgis committed snicide at the Overland
hotel, Desdwood, by taking morphine
An Gamma Of Washington found deeds
IL sn old trunk substehtsting claim to s15,-
un.OOO worth Of property in Philadelphia
Hra Lucia W. Roebling, widow of tho late
John A Roebiing, tho famous engineer, died
recently after sprotracted illness af New York
Z. Gen. wolseley has received small piece of
paper With Con. Gordon's genuine seal on the
.OaGk- dated "a aAvin0 Kharko ...pl I
right -.
Ncrrells L Co lumber dealers Of Pittsneld
sre embarAesed Liabilities, $4,000 to ESQ.,
CU. lsrgelyto Western lumbermen aud IN
d0rsers. t..
Chester Holcombe, secretary Of the American
legation st Pekin, asserts that the Chinese re-
gard the United States moro highly than any
other nation. -
Ex-Gov ordwsy has organized Dakota
banking and investment company, with .
Dranch once In Washington and headquarters
st Bismarck.
TIE Christmas club, . benevolent and char
table institution Of which Miss Nellie Arthur
70 president, gave Christmas dinner to GOO
poor children
It is reported that Hon. J. W. Morford Of
Watertown, Oak, has made arrangements to
!eave his extensive farms and return to Owa-
t0nna to reside
The newspapers Of New York are said to be
experiencing season of very hard times, nearly
~ OF them having suffered seriously from
loss Of subscribers.
Cards are out at Gordonville, Va, for the
marriageof Master Willie Scott Of Gordonville,
eyed fOuI years aud Miss Jennie Perry OF
Charleston, w. Va, aged six years.
.
the affections and the fortune of Widow Crom-
10 now missing with her e10O,OOG
Treasurer wyman says that the department
at Washington is still able to furnish one and
the redemption Of mutilated currency
Mis-, Tiny Willer died at Papillion, Neb.
from an abortion produced by drugs purchased
IN omaha An effort 10 being made to discover
her seduoer, who is supposed to live in Omaha
1t is said at Omaha that Superintendent
Havens, Of the Union Pacific bridge division,
suicide with morphine He has been sick for
some time
In the Christ church cathedral, Berlin. re-
Gently, Lord William Conyngham Plunket. lord
bishop Of Meath, was consecrated archbishop |
Of Dublin The bishop of Limerick performed
the ceremony.
Victcriano Nienex, millionaire of Carmen.
Mexico, celebrating hls ,lden wedding recent.
y, sent 45O0, ,OOO In . lump to the locust eaten
district, and gave his government $1,000 to |
help pay its debts
Sylvester Narsh, protector and president Of
the Mount Washington railroad, died At Con-
cord, n. h, recently, aged eighty -one. He
xas one Of the pioneers in the pork packing
Gen. Fremont is going to Mexico to examine
tho title to Is 000,00 acres of land purchased
~ an American syndicate. Il Is proposed to
bring over from Europe colony Of 1900 per-
Tho ting Admiral exploded at Chicago. As
soon q the smoke cleared away search was
m made 1 for the cIew, three in number. They
Hogan and William Bone, 6refnaa
: Thswin Of Rev. Henry Do Koven, who died
r. s.itzerlsnd lsst July, VI. hled in Chicago
aso oood worth Of personal property, and leaves
It al to his wife, Charlotte De Koven.
Prof Doremus of New York says the Epvp-
tan obelisk in Central Park is steadily aud
surely dis,ntegrating under the influences Of
American weather. He predicts that in 500
years the heroglyphics will be illegble.
Building and other improvements in Fureus
Falls tho past year were ss follows: Business
blocks. es25 900; residences. eS5,nOO; street
improvements, $4,000; churches, s4,lOO: to-
tai city improvements testimated), 9824. .OO. >
The deficit Of the last worlds exposition in
Paris was upsard Of $1,000, ,ooo, and that of
Vienna in 1Si8 was over 80 ,OCO- The
Phjlsdelphis fair In 1876, vas tho only one
since that Of London, in 1859. that paid expoa-
An important contract has been made in New
York. which calls for the dcliyepe of about
2,O0o, ,00O pounds of Lake Superior ingot cop
per. Deliveries are to be mado monthly for
tue hve months next ensuing, beginning with
January.
The marriage Of Lent A. g Frost, Twenty