The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-03
miscellaneous News Note..

Theodore Thomas lost S., 900 by the re-
cent San Francisco concerts.
A. s. Turner & Son, Elmira, N. Y, lum.
bermen, make an assignment.
California is suffering considerably from
the ravages OF the grasshoppers.
James II. Austin, an insurance agent OF
Boston has failed for $35 600; assets, So.
600.
Portland finds herself with a bigger
crowd Of G. A. II. on her hands than she
had counted on.
Richard Henry Stoddard, in n rather pep.
perry interview in the Post says lie will not
go as consul general TO Athens.
The lawyer who conluctsdtheeu suit against
Nilsson declared that the lady was first
class business woman, and intimated that
she was shrewder than her counselors.
The Minnesota Editorial association will
convene in st. Paul July 2S, at IL a. m.
On the day following, at Va. m, the party
will leave Tor Lake Minnetonkn on an ex-
cursion.
The wives Of three naval officers having
joined their husbands in Japan, the latter
have been detached from duty for violating
an order iorbidding naval officers from hav.
ing their wives with them in foreign stations.
Lucy Ann Slater, has just died in New
York state insane asylum. She was fifty
years old, and u few years ago was famous
all through the Delaware river counties a
the female hunter OF Long Eddy.
The will OF Mrs. Rosana Calvin OF Du.
buque who was murdered by her daughter
and the latter g son for her money last fall,
was probated. 1t bequeathes all her prop:
erty to another daughter, Mrs. GeaslinR,
The murderers are still in Jail.
The fiscal year closing June 80 will show
n greater uumber Of renewals Of national
bank charters than heretofore, the number
being between 600 and 700. Seventy new
banks were chartered during the year, and
there are 300 in operation through tho
country,
The governor ii New York has ordered
the police magistrate to investigate the ar
rest OF Thomas n. Doutney, temperance
lecturer, and his removal, under protest,
Doutney has been released. Much indigna-
tion was arouse4 st Troy by the kidnap-
ing.
Frederickson g. Co., OF Ohio, have pur.
chased 300, 900 acres Of land in Tom Green,
Howard and Mitchell counties, Texas, from
the Texas & Pacific railroad. Frederick.
son e. Co., represent three organization Of
colonies, American, German and Bohemian,
by whom the land will be laid off into
farms.
In the town oi Camden, Me-, the largest
ship, except one, ever built in the United
States is nearly completed. She is 2G3 feet
keel, 2s5feet over all, and As ieet:beam with
2sh feet total depth Of hold, sh h'feet of this
being between decks. Fhess Dimensions in
dicate that she will measure over 5000
tons net register, the Great Republic com.
ing first in point oi size, being down in the
register for 1886 tons
A romantic marriage was solemnized at
Dubuque. Miss Esther Fisherman arrived
from Russia in search of her lover, Aaron
Powanchr, to whom she was engaged in the
employment in Russia she promised to fol-
low him to America as soon as her mother
died. The death occurred two weeks ago.
and the girl kept her promise. The brides
relatives are said to be wealthy, while hsr
husband has no money.