The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-03-05
Miscellaneous Items.

$500 week.
Boston has raised 81 500 for the Mrs.
Gen. Hancock fund.
Claims for over half a million dollars for
damages by rioters have been filed by the
Chinese.
Marquis de Mores is working upa scheme
| to do away with middlemen in the dressed
meat industry.
Mayor Pillsbury OF Minneapolis says
| under no circumstances will he ,lcceDt an
other nomination.
Young Maurice Rosenfeld Of Chicago has
just paid $3O,O for q seat on tie New
York stock exchange.
| The immense plant Of Brown. Bonnell &
Co., at Youngstown, Ohio. will be sold antl
the receivership discharged.
Commodore Kittson issues stirring D.
peal to horsemen to sustain the North
western Horse Breeders association.
Tennessee has marketed n per cent
loan and Kentucky has just placed a
$500, 900 4 per cent loan above par.
The Grant fund in New York has only
reached little over $115, 900. 1t will
take over ten years to raise the $1.O00,.
600 at that rate.
| Bishop Welles Of Milwaukee confirmed
the rumor that DR.. Nicholson Of Philadel.
phia has declined to accept the presidency
| OF Nashotah seminary.
The Wlehe breach OF promise suit in Chi
cago was decided in favor OF Miss Moran
$25, 900. Miss Moran is 26 and Wiehe 90.
| by an attachment from a Milwaukee cloth
ing house; also one from Nelson county to
secure county funds. which are found to be
short several thousand dollars.
Philip Hastings, son Of o wealthy farmer,
OF Silver City. Iowa, was found sitting up.
right in his chair ut his fathers house, with
q bullet hole through his head. A 38-cal-
iber revolver lay at his side ON the floor.
The Hancock memorial COMMITTEES OF
Norristown, Pa, has decided to erect an
equestrian statute in bronze OF the '..superb"
Hancock similar to that Of Gen. Reynolds
at the north end OF the Philadelphia city
hall. It will cost $4,000.
It ia said that the ex-governor Of Texas
who is now minister to Japan, asked free
passage for himself and iamily-seyen per-
sons in all-and iree freight Tor his house.
hold goods from san Francisco to Yoko-
hama, on the Pacific Mail steamer.
Nancy Sears, Luman Loveland, David
Blyth and Oliver Blyth, operatives in twine
and ne factories In Moodus, Conn.,, have
been informed that they are heirs to the
late Thomas H. Blyth, who died in 1883 in
California. leaving an estate OF 90, ,OOO, 900.
The strike at N. NJ. Scores Northw estern
trunk factory at Racine, Wis.,, wherein 125
men demanded an advance OF 26 per cent.
to replace recent cut Of 35 per cent, cul.
minated in the knights Of Labor declaring
a boycott against all goods manufactured
at this establishment.
With the object Of obtaining better pay
1 lu1sr ~ Ro,
| the Knights OF Labor in st. Louis are pre-
pairing to boycott the street car compa.
nies. One road is to be boycotted at q time
and brought to terms. il the boycott is
successful. The employees failed last o..
tober to obtain their ends by striking.
New York special: Gov. Hauscr OF Mon.
tana, said to a reporter in regard to the
admission OF Montana as q state: Mr..
Clark who is chairman Of our com.
mittee, has been in Washington several
weeks. He told me that he believed that
Washington, Dakota and Montana would
all be admitted together, making three
states. 1t will be sort Of political COM
promise.
An important ruling was made few
days ago in the federal court Of Utah by
Chief Justice Zane. Heheld That under the
Utah statutes, which compels u wife to tes.
tiiy to injuries inflicted upon her by her
husband, the wife must testify against her
husband in unlawful cohabitation cases.
That crime, the judge decided, is one Of the
most serious injuries which a man can in.
f1ict ON his wife.
Rev. Father Bette, the st. Louis clergy.
man who recently played the role of Marc
Antony over the dead body Of the Rev.
Mr.. Jnrdine Of Kansas City. and charged
the bishop OF Missouri with being accesso-
ry to the murder oi the dead priest, has
the bishop until he retracts. Father Belts
declines to retract, und while in open re.
bellion has secured a parish in neighbor.
ing diocese.