The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-09-11


Adirondacks.
Parker Pepper Of Philippi, Barbour coun.
$4,000 to 100000.
Postmaster General Villas loaned Secrc.
taay Lamar his stylish turnout during his
absence from Washington.
A postoflicc inspector succeeds in run.
ming down two very successful young mail
robbers in North Carolina.
Gen. Stone reports that there will have
to be paid, to complete the pedestl Of tho
Bartholdi statue, $69,27O.23.
The caving in Of mass Of rock in min
ing shaft at Wilkesbarre, Pa., kills three
men and wounds seven Others.
A big gold strike has been made twenty.
five miles south of Lander. Wyo., where
the vein has been searched for since 1869.
George II. Cooper, son Of Rear Admiral
Cooper Of the Brooklyn navy yard, was ar.
rested in New York ON Il charge OF ofburgary.
At Carthage, C., Benjamin Cole, (white)
aged seventy, was sentenced to he hanged
OH Sept. 80. His crime was poisoning his
wife.
At Louisville, Ark. u mob broke into
the Jail and hanged George Crcnshaw, a
negro who murdered Hurry Paup, u white
man.
Gen. Logan will deliver the address Mt the
Grant memorial services held in Washing
ton under the auspices of the q. A. Il. on
Oct. 1.
No evidence can he obtained ut Galenn %
convict Banta, who recently confessed that
he murdered NJ. $. Prichard OF Cherry Val
ley, ILL.,. IN 1879.
Sheriff Thumm, who shot and fatally
wounded Deputy United States Marshal
Fred Wiggle, while resisting arrest ut Cus.
trovillc, Tex, has fled.
Emory Storrs admits that he will act as
counsel forthc Mormon polygumists y in their
fight against the government. His retaining
fGe is said to he enormous.
few days ago IL train on the Chicago e.
Alton in Missouri was boarded by robbers
who took small sums from the passengers
OF ono eur and disappeared in alarm.
7. A. Flannelly, editor Of the Evening
Jones OH account OF a sc,lndalOus article
published about Mr.. Jones futhor In the
News.
Miss Augusta. de Verney, IL young actress
who lost ull her diamonds while drunk Mt
COney Island, went to New York aud got
married saying she meant to settle
down.
general advertisement will be issued ON
the fifteenth by the postmaster general,
calling Tor proposals for rendering steam
boat mail service in ull points of the United
States.
General Freight Agent Hannafort, Of the
Northern Pacific, says that the wheat yield
oil Washington Territory will not only bu
lnrgcr than ever before, but the quality will
be better.
Posts London cable: Mr.. Parnell's
speech ut the Mansion house dinner at
dublin was simply IN answer to the mar
quis OF Hartinstons words "inlpossiblc"
and 'never,"
Experiments are i'll progress at the Rid
eau range near Ottawu, by the Canadian
militia, to settle the question as to the
amount of execution that can be done with
u Gatling gun.
The Northern Pacific's gross earnings for
the month OF August were: Freight earn
tngs, SGl9,42S; passenger. $2S9, l52; mail,
express, etc, SGG,7i0. Total gross earn.
ings, $975,3l9
Gen. Newton, chief of engineers, estimates
that an appropriation Of 81 x, 900, 900 or
$50, 100000 will DO required to continue
hewOrk Of river and harbor improvements
during the next fiscal year.
The fifteenth anniversary Of the German
victory over the French at Sedan was celc-
brated in Berlin by IL military display.
The emperor and empress drove ahead of
the troops in the procession.
At IA fire in Albany all the buildings on
the block bounded by South Pearl, Hroad
and Alexander streets, and Fourth avenue,
were burned, except three brick ones OH
Pearl street; loss $4,000.
l'ronnsnls were recently invited for the
construction Of IL life-s,lving station at
was rcceivcd-tllnt oi Angus McGillis al
Norway, Mich, ut $65.OOO.
The trial OF Henry Stair and wife, Muret-
lis young son at Nevada, Mo-, has rcsultetl
i'll AZ verdict OF guilty, Tho jury recon-.
mcnded the woman to mercy.
Darwin G. Pierce, a transfer mail agent in
the t'e'ot Mt Rutland, VT for eighteen
years, WAS n,r.sted, charged with robbins
the mail and put n Ter 81 OO) bonds. Val
uable letters have been missed.
Fire destroyed the Kimball Carriage
company's factory in San Franciaco, and
a number Of adjoining buildings. Tho fac
tory was owned by l., s0ule. Total loss,
STA, 900; insurance Is unknown.
W. u. Sncll formerly business man OF
Clnrksvillc, Tenn, WAS found III the house
oil Malvinl Hiser, IL cOurtcsan Of Nptculf
county, ky., with his throut cut and hor-
ribly, gashed about his head unl body,
Gen. Logan and vito arrived from the
Thousand islands and report that the
highly entertaining story about their mar.
row escape from drowning while their pho.
tosraph was being taken is pure roman
In Baltimore. Walter Wclch drove tiity
Italians out Of his saloon, whero they were
creating disorlcr. They returned ind at-
tackled him with dagsers, whom hc shot the
loader, Frank Antoni, dead, and TIL. rest
fled.
AT Brighton Beach thirty-onc horses
started in IL race, and Jockey Lee had his
neck broken, and two othera were badly
hurt. In the next race two more jockeys
were thrown, and one probably fatally IN.
jurcd:
Inspector Henderson. OF the postofiice
department, has just returned from North
Carolina. where he caused the arrest OF two
mail rahhors, who, though mere lads, had
bafilcd tho skill of the inspectors for IL long
tiMe.
The secretary Of state has received u
telegram from Consul General Woods at
Rome, reporting that there have been four
deaths from cholera, at 1, place nine miles
from Naples and five at Trcvis, about fifty
miles north OF Naples.
Mr.. Parnell. in his recent s,meoh, ridi.
cnled the theory set up by Emrlishmcn that
the Tories and Liberals 'wouIi .sron their
party differences in order to unitcdly COM
bat the Irish party in parliaMent tn their
struggle for Irish Independence.
Hepry ". Qn,irntonk, editor Of the
lIeMplhead, y. u, Inquirer, died, aged six
". lie was son Of the late Right Rcver-
end B. J.. Omder,lonk, Irotcstcnt Episooc
pal bishop of New York. and wa. at one
time member of the Wisconsin senate,
Rev. Richard +, Marian, son ot Justice
Harlan 0t thl United States prenc court,
will sureee.i pf, Christie in the rustorage OF
thu l.auisyillo church, which the latter re-
signed to accept the pastorntc Of the House
OF Hope Presbyterian church of st. Paul.
Among the passengers Of t!;o s,caruship
Werra, which sailed i..eently from New
York. were MIR. aud Mrs: Jesse II. Grant,
and Mrs. Sartor,s formerly Misa Nellie
Grant: They are gains to southampton,
the ioriner on o whit, the latter to her home.
The corner stone Of the new Georgia capi.
tol was laid at Atlanta with imposing
ceremonies. Gov. Mcdaniel, on bci..I 81
the capitol commission, ,aa,ented the
building to the l"siallturc. Gen. A. II.
Lawton Of Savannah made the Grafton OF
tie day.
In response to a telegram from, Su,.erin.