The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-05-28

United States Minister Coz had . three
hours interview with the sultan. The
American minister presented to his majesty.
giits sent BY President Cleveland, consist.
ing Of . thousand views Of scenery In differ.
ent parts Of the United States, portraits Of
the last census reports. The sultan was
we'll pleased and requested Mr.. Cox to
thank the president for the valuable gifts.
His majesty said he had recently ordered
the taking OF the Turkish census, and
asked Mr.. Cox to cooperate in the work
by giving the benefit Of his American ex.
perisnce. This he promised to do. pro.
ment permitted him. The sultan express.
ed himself as greatly interested in the pro.
eress OF America and ordered that Mr.. Cox
be shown his private grounds and gardens.
The sultan will give q banquet to Mr.. Cox
ON the 26th inst.
Henderson OF Iowa has introduced a bill
to locatsA branch home for disabled volun.
tssf soidisss at some point In Iowa on a
tract ot land not less than $50 acres In ex-
tsnt;. $26. 900 was appropriated Tor the
erection Of the necessary buildings and the
improvement Of the grounds.
Cholera in q violent form has appeared
In Bretagene, Francs, where fishermen az.
semble together under unfavorable con.
ditions.
There are now 400 unconfirmed nomina.
tions, about 175 having been confirmed
and Is rejected. The senate is clearing up
the calendar az rapidly ~ possible. and
will make clean thing Of it within few
weeks.
The navy department hes sent Lieut.. 8
G. Lemley from Washington to Yokahana
Japan, to act az judge advocate oil court
martial convened for the trial Of Paymastel
George R. Wilkins.
The announcement OF the appointment
of Capt. George F. Towle, Nineteenth in.
fantry, and Lieut.. A. b. Johnson, Seventh,
infantry, as aids on the staff Of Gen. Terry
has been made in orders from division
headquarters. Lieut.. johnson has been
confined to his quarters by illness for the
past three weeks, but il now convalescent,
and left recently for Chicago to report for
duty.
At Omaha the body Of a murdered man
was found lying near the Union Pacific
track, on the outskirts Of the city, near
the residence Of John Millner. For several
feet around the ground was soaked in blood
Around the house was u trail OF blood.
The man evidently had been murdered.
Postmasters commissioned: Iowa, Bed.
Perry, D. c. West; Bowen, =. X. Flint.
Dakota. Larrabes, H. B. Smith. Mime.
sofa. Odessa. r. j. Hill. Wisconsin, Peeh.
les, J. J. Talmage. New offices.-Dakota,
Hazlebrook, Hidden county; Minnesota,
ST. Anthony Park, Ramsey county, r. A..
Pickard. Mr.. Pickard is agent Of st. An.
thony Park Town Site company. The
president nominated Anton Klaus post.
master at jamestown, Oak.
The German government has presented q
report to the reichstag in justification Of
kho eovhSIIs,,~ fI,o hi -
meetings In Berlin, Potstlam and environs
without permission from the police, OBJ
tanned forty y.eight hours in advance. Tho
report takes the ground that meetings Of
workmsn are utilized to disseminate So
cialist propaganda, and fatal results to
the public may follow.
The officers Of twenty national trades
unions met at Philadelphia with closed doors
to take united action to resist the en-
croachments being lnadeupon open unions
by the Knights of Labor. The thirty.two as
ters were claimed to have ~ total mcmber-
ship Of 1857 ,736. The represent ative ofeach
organization presented it's grievance. A
set OF terms was drafted with the object Of
| securing harmonious relations with the
Knights OF Labor. They will be presented
rs q treaty for the consideration Of the;
Knights.
The senate Indian affairs comnitte has
! decided to report adversely upon the nom
OF Indian affairs. and Mr.. Ingalls,, who las
the nomination in charge, will make the re-
port. The opposition to Thomas is based
| upon the charges against him by the Civil
Service Association OF Baltimore, and they
are the same that were made to the s.crc-
tary Of the interior at the time he was up.
pointed and investigated by assistant Sec,
retary jerks.
After q fortnight's struggle the strike o.
the planning mill employees in Chicago for:
eight hours' work at ten hours pay has
ended. The men formally asked to be tnkel!
back at the old terms, stipulating only that
their wages be paid weekly. This was agree
| to-.
William NJ. Springer was nominated for
congress for the seventh consecutive time
at Springfield, III.
At the Republican county convention,
John Dalzell was nominated for congress,
from the Twenty-secondd district, and Hon.
Thomas N. Bayne from the Twenty third
| district.
Maxwell coniesses that he killed Prellcr
in st. Louis, accidentally, while treating
him as his doctor.
Murat Halstead has son in each Of the
four classes OF Princeton college.
Archbishop Gibbons, OF Baltimore. has
received an official communication from
Cardinal Jacobini, papalsecretary Of state,
informing him Of his elevation to the car.
dinalate by Pope Leo XIII. The above
announcement, coming as it does from the
Vatican, with the "fsllerman's SEAL" il
the consummation of what has been re-
garded 80 fixed fact ever since the fall Of
| 1883. It has been the intention OF the
pope to have conferred the dignity on Arch.
bishop Gibbons in March last, but the con-
sistory usually held in that month was
postponed, and the official notification
was withheld until May 6, the date VI Car
dinal Jacobini's letter.
All the troops have left Cincinnati.
While some classes OF men there are re-
turning to work, others hold out and others
are coming out.
Plymouth White alias Frank Parke,
alias "Plum' White, the notorious con-
fdence man, has just died at his brothers
residence at Reading. Pa, from o car.
buncle on his neck at the base Of the brain.
White was in the front rank Of confidence
men, and had succeeded in the last twenty
two years in fleeing business men, grangcra,
and c0n6nding women out Of more than
$1,60O. 900.
| with debts. IL yet able to sell his royal
mother land which she wants to add to her
Balmoral estate, and for which the queen
pays Wales 1926, 900.
News was received at Tient Tsin April z.
that one OF the imperial palaces about
forty miles from Pekin, on the imperial
road, had been destroyed by fire. The
palace was built in 1850. Loss, over $2,-
OUO. 600.
Postmaster commissioned: Minnesota
-Hagan, G. Graham; Lake Wilson, Ora
Engebretson. New offices established
Bloomfield, Hennepin county, Minn., A.
| Scholze.
Representative Payson has prepared q
long report on the bill to prevent aliens
from acquiring real estate.
It 10 reported the president and bride
will spend the honeymoon at the soldiers
home, near Washington.
Senator Blair introduceda a bill TO restore
to officers Of the army and their widows
and minor children tho rate OF pensions
they received prior to July 25, 1866, at
which date certain classes Of pensions were