The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-01-22
Miscellaneous News Notes.

Chicago papers state that Baltimore ia
now getting the bulk Of the east bound
grain shipments from that point.
j. F. shulate & Co., booksellers Of Gin
cinnati, have assigned. Assets, $25. 900;
liabilities, $40, 900; preferences, SIG, 600.
There as great excitement at Redfield,
OAK, over the arrest OF prominent citizens
for alleged stealing Of the county records.
Louis Reinath, OF Chicago. wholesale
dealer in toys, failed, with estimated lia-
bilities Of $75, 900 and assets about $6S,.
900.
D. +. Swan, formerly local treasurer OF
the Northern Pacific, and convicted OF EN-.
bezzlement, has been pardoned by Gov.
Hubbard OF Minnesota.
A bill is pending in the Mississippi legis.
iature providing for an annual pension OF
$50 to each crippled confederate soldier
who enlisted from Mississippi.
Rev. ]. c. Clark, pastor OF st. Paul's
Methodist church at Hazelton, Pa, has
been acquitted by an ecclesiastical court
on the charges OF immortality and theft.
James w. Murray, editor of the Legal
journal, and one Of the brightest young
lawyers at the Allegheny county bar died
in the Pittsburg Jail OF delirium tremens.
Mrs. Mary Humphrey has been arrested
money as widow for the past ten years,
though having second husband all that
time.
Kirk Gum, known to the gambling fra
ternity OF Chicago as the proprietor OF the
rooms at No. 9S Randolph street. was a
poorer man by S12, 1000 recently because
he tampcred with the tiger.
The Chicago associated press agent sends
out an elaborate special plea for Milton
Weston, Chicago citizen convicted in
Pennsylvania as accessory to murder
growing out OF land title contest. He
wants apardon.
large number OF Russians, who have
made their headquarters in Bon Homme
county, have been up to Campbell and
filed on land which they will go on in the
spring. The eastern part OF the county is
being entirely taken up by them. They
will SOW flax very largely in the spring.
The commissioners appointed by the
wrecking OF the steamer Algoma in Lake
Superior last fall have reported, censuring
Capt. Moore and Chief officer Hastings.
Capt. Moore's certificate is to be Cancelled
Tor nine months, and Hastings certificate
for six months.
Asensational divorce suit was commenc.
ed at Davenport, Iowa, entitled Margaret
Burt VS.. Herman Burt" The plaintiff
AYERS that she was married to the defend.
ant in December in that city, md has since
learned that he married her only for the
purpose OF gaining possession OF her money
and that he has now four wives living in
various parts OF the state.
In an address recently before the Amer.
ican Temper ance association in Chickering
hall, N. Y, Joseph, Cook, OF Boston, said
We are the most drunken race ON the plan
ct. and the palm for red noses should be
awarded to Irish, Germans and Amcri-
cans. To make the knowledge OF alcoholic
effects on the human system compulsory
in the schools was the way to take the bulls
by the horns.
In the United States district court at
Dubuque Judge Shiras rendered an oral
opinion, remanding the liquor injunction
cases transferred from the state district
court back to that court for trial. Judge
Shiras followed the opinion ofJudge Brewer
III the Kansas cases and his rulings were
identically the same. He overrules the de.
csion OF the state court that the case did
not come under the provision OF the civil
rights portion Of the amendment and that
portion Of one Of tho earlier amendments
guaranteeing trial by jury.