The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-01-01
General News Notes.

| The First National bank of Ashton has
been organized with Il capital OF $50, 900,
| There were !, 1S5 land entries in Dakot,
during November, an increase OF fifty over
October.
| At Quebec, Leser & Bcrfret, wholesale
dry goods, have suspended. Liabilities,
! The Holmes Lumber company at De.
troit made u voluntary assignment to n,
Dennis. Liabilities, S45. 900.
Gen. Paine, former owner of the Puritan.
is arranging to build Il new cighty-five-fo
sloop which will beat the Puritan or any
other craft.
O'Fcrral & Smith, manufacturers OF
agricultural implements, Pigua, Ohio. have
assigned. Liabilities, $50, 900; assets
about the same.
The catalogue OF the University of Cali.
1ornia ehowsa property value of $1,000
600, well equipped scientific departments
and 27, 900 volumes in the library.
A strong effort is making to defeat the
confirmation OF Gov. Swincford OF Alaska
He is charged with crookedness in con.,cc.
tion with the New Orleans exhibition.
The Mormon Delegate Cane says that
Cannon and Taylor, the two fugitive
polysanists, are hidden so securely in Utah
that they can't be arrested by the federal
| authorities.
Hon. Allan G. Thurman was selected as
| umpire before the mining arbitration boa rtl
at Columbus, Ohio. The judge w;,s suy-
gestcd by the miners and readily accepted
by the operators.
In January Archbishop Heiss of Mil
waukce will convene the bishops OF the
province for the purpose OF nominating
three clergymcn for the bishopric at Green
Bay, left vacant by the death of Bishop
krautbauer.
There is considerable excitement at AL
toona, Iowa, over rabies. Afarmcr n;lmcd
Pierce was bitten by a dog, which also bit
two horses, and the horses bit two sows.
The horses have died from rabies. Pierce
has gone to Missouri in quest OF u mad
stone.
The Montana Cattle company has lea scd
the MoIssand ranch, containing ., 600 acres
OF land leases expect to place about
20, 900 head OF cattle from their northern
ranch on it, also their thoroughbred cattle
now at Big Coulec on the ranch, and "a NUN.
Der OF imported thoroughbred horses.
There were 1913 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's q during the
week ending Goth against 227 the pre-
ceding week and 27S, 26O, 242 and 145
in the corresponding weeks OF 1854, 1883,
1882 and 1881, respectively. About 81
per cent. were those OF small traders whose
capital was less than IS, 900.
Chief Inspector Rodky, OF the Baltimore
corn and -four exchange, has returned
from his general grain inspection tour
throughout the West. A summary OF his
observations shows that west Of the Mis-.
sissippi the corn is in excellent condition,
and the grades east of the Mississippi arc
getting into condition under favorable
winter weather.
The Baptist church has excluded NE.
Reed, the attorney who is accused OF hav-
ing tried to induce the pastor daughtcrto
elopc with him. Reed has gone to Eau
Claire, Wis, and if he returns it is the in.
tention Of many leading citizens to hold a
public meeting and give him u limited time
to leave the city. The lawyers are moving
for his disbarment.
Sheriff Barton OF Faribault is visiting
Mrs. Fannie Twyman in Independence,
DO. Mrs. Twyman is an aunt OF the
Younger boys, sent to the Saltwater peni.
tentiary. Burton had churge OF the Jail in
Faribault, whore the Youngers were first
imprisoned. His visit to independence il
to ascertain how the people feel about a
pardon for the boys.