The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-03-12

PEMBI
Washington Special COMMITTEES on
claims recommended that H. Z. Belding
bs paid 81 500 for carrying mails from
1858 to 1869 ON the route from Browns.
vile to Carimona. The committee have
also been asked to act promptly on the
claims 81 Thomas George OF Lake Benton
for 81, ,OSO for loss OF his crops in the Sioux
outbreak OF 1862. Isaac slocu,n OF Blue
CURED during the Sioux outbreak in 1857
and Tor property unlawfully taken from
him by the United States marshal. Tho
committee on pensions recommends that
pension he granted to Mrs. Bridget
Smith, mother Of Patrick ]. Smith, Tenth
Minnesota, and John L. Hunter, First
Minnesota mounted rangers. The follow.
ing have made applications for pensions by
First Minnesota; Betesy '' Bartholomew, t%sss,
widow Of Lament Bartholomew, Second
Light artillery, Minnesota volunteers;
Jacob Nix, who wants an increase oi pen.
sion. Mr.. Strait has with the military
committee bill providing that in recogni-
tion OF the valuable services Of John Jones,
late captain Of the First Minnesota bat.
terry, especially in the defense OF Fort
kdgely when attacked by the Sioux In.
to place him on the retired list Of the army,
with the rank and pay Of q captain.
Congressman Wakefield OF Minnesota
has submitted to the committee ON post.
offices plan to simplify and economic the
collection and management Of the postal
revenues. He proposes that: The post.
master general be directed to select from
the first and second-class postoffices such
number as he may deem adequate for the
purpose, to be do de.ignated as .oepositories
and depots, for the depositing Of postal
other postoftices. He will thon arrange the
postoffices into districts convenient to
said repositories, and they shall there.
after deposit all postal funds with and oh.
office supplies are to be furnished by the
department to these repositories only. All
postmasters shall thereafter he paid a fix
ed yearly compensation, and the salaries
OF postmasters OF the fourth class shall
range from $12 to $1,000.
A German colony has purchased 21, 900
acres Of land in Kansas, which will be de-
voted exclusively to grape culture.
remarkable temperance revival il in
progress il Clay county, Indiana. In one
the pledge, including many saloonkcepers.
Four Ursuline nuns left Cleveland recent.
ly Tor work in Montana.
w. A. Witcher, a well known orator and
politician in West Virginia, was lynched for
wife murder.
The bodies oiColman and Patten, prom.
lneht Seattle citizens, assassinated by anti
Chinese agitators, are recovered from LIKE
Washington. w. T.
The committee on military affairs refuse
20 recommend that a branch Of the nntion.
alhome for disabled volunteers be located
in Minnesota.
Zach Montgomery Of the interior de-
partment, charges Senator Ingalls, with
grossly misstating his sentiments in the
senator's y recent speech.
The senate committee OH public lands
will report favorably upon the bill to al
low homestead settlers within railroad
limits who acquired only eighty acres to
take an additional eighty acres adjoining
the original claim il any adjoining land re.
mains vacant.
At Wapheton, OAK, Judge Mcconnell
sentenced o. G. Schoeneman to three years
each, and Julius Ebel, the hired man, for
Tour years. Mrs. Dill the principal Offend
er in this case, ia now serving q life SEN
tence in the penitentiary.
E. .. +. Graham, aged thirty-five, a
book-keeper employed by Kirkentlalc &
Brown at Butte and Helena, Mont, for rthe
pnst two or three years. committed suicide.
Graham stated to u friend that while in
Helena lie was engaged to the young lady
who recently became the wife Of Thomas
Cruise, the Helena mining millionaire, md
that she cast him off on nacount OF Cruise 9
wealth. 1t il supposed that d;sappoint.
nlent was the cause Of suicide.
Prince Pascal dc Bourboun, brother of
the ex-king Of Naples, has just figured in a
police court. being charged with fraud in
giving mortgage for $15O,OOO upon his
villa, which he had already mortga;ed to
its full value-$3O, 900.
Prince krapotkine, the learned and
famous anarchist recently released from IL
French prison has decided to make his
home in Hampstead, England, and ex-
poets to spend there in peace and quletudc
the closing years Of his adventurous and
troubled life. He intends, however, le.orc
resuming his studies to make IL tour of
England and America delivering lectures.
A strong effort is being made Mt Ottawa
to repeal that portion Of the Canadian Pa
cific railway charter which refers to the
construction OF branch lines south to the
central boundary line.
In Vienna Capt. Gerstcl Of the Austrian
army, was tried by court martial for Il
slight osfense and convicted. light zen
tence was imposed upon him. lie heard
the sentence with composure, and bowed
respectfully to the court, then drawing IL
revolver and placing it to his head tired
two shots, and fell dead.
Ex-Collectors Arthur and Robertson, Of
the port OF New York are to be sued for
technical shortug 9.
An earthquake shakes up Coscnza, Italy,
with fatal results.
The German government unearths u con.
spiracy to sell the plans Of German fortifi-
cations to France.
Mr.. Gladstone is steadily eifacine the
factional Liberal opposition to Ills Irish
remedial programme, in which land pnr.
chase bill stands first.
The name Of tho man who fired off his
pistol in the Paris bourse is not Petrovich,
but Gallot. Formerly he was q chemists II
assistant, and frequent speaker at pub
lie meetings. In 1879 Gall0t WAS convict
ed Of coming and circulating counterfeit
money. The police examined Gallot's
apartments and found materials ior the
manufacture Of explosives, and number
III DOIlUN. Auc AutuOEllleS HTt CONVINCED
that Gallot belongs to an organization Of
conspirators and are endeavoring to find
his accomplices.
An earthquake has occurred at the city
Of Cosenza, Southern Italy. A number oi
houses were thrown down, one person kill.
| ed snd several wounded.
In new text book which has been order.
ed by France to be used in all the French
schools, there is q paragraph which teaches
| that il every French youth does his duty the
republic will some day be strong enough
to regain Alsace-Lorraine.
Frank Humphreys of Mill Grove. Ga, is
arrested, charged with numbering Miss
Rains and Miss Humphreys. his sister.in.
law. and outraging Miss Humphreys.
Alexander Stewart, the Vermont farmer
who claims to be an heir Of the dead mill.
iOnaire Of the same name, has filed O com.
plant in equity in the United States court
against Judge Hilton to recover 5000, 900.
Stewart had been adjudged IL lunutic in his
native state and action is brought by his
guardian, Benjamin +. Whelden.
Everett 8. Smith, well known compos.
itor and secretary OF the Nashville Typo
graphical union, committed suicide recent.
w. and was found dend with a hnliet