The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-07-02
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law, Capt. Daniel Taylor, ordnance corps,
will almost surely bs appointed. He 10
now on special confidential duty in the OF.
fice Of the secretary OF war.
Tho money paid by President Cleveland,
$21, 500. for his country place, has been
saved from his salary since he became
president.
The proposed visit Of 500 Sioux to the
Crows In Montana will he prevented by the
government.
Capt. John Pitman 10 ordered to the de.
partment OF Dakota as chief ordnance
officer, relieving Capt. James Rockwell. Jr.
John Randolph Tucker is credited with
being the most accomplished representa-.
tive from the south in congress. He likes
society, is q great ladies' man, and is q
good story-teller.
The bill providing for bridge across the
Mississippi at Dubuque, to be constructed
by the Burlington & Northern, passed the
house. 1t has the usual provisions made
for the construction Of bridges, and was
substitute reported by the committee on
commerce for bill introduced by Mr..
Weaver OF Iowa.
Postal changes in Dakota: Established
Medbury. Hattie A. Medbqry, postmaster.
Johnson; Harrison, L. Markas; farmine.
ton, Hayden B. Westcott; Sentinel Butte,
Robert Pickering.
The house committee having in charge
the bill accepting from Joseph w. Drexel
the gilt OF the Drexel cottage on Mount
McGreg or, in which Gen. Grant died, haye
decided to report it favorably.
The yield of all grain crops in North Caro-
lima this year is expected to bs one-third
greater than last season.
Mrs. Storey's lawyers have petitioned the
court to remove Mr.. Patterson 90 business
manager Of the Chicago Times.
Mrs. Catharine v. Waite OF Chicago has
been admitted to the bar by the Illinois su.
preme court. Twenty years ago she was
refused admission to q medical college sim
ply because she was q woman.
Secretary Lamar has accepted aninvita.
tiOn to deliver the memorial address at the
unveiling Of the Calhoun monument at
Charleston, 8. c., next November.
1t IL expected that call for the redemp
tion OF $4O0. 100000 3 per cent. bonds will
be issued in a few days.
Archibald Forbes, the we'll known CORE
spondent, is married in Washington to the
daughter Of Gen. Meigs.
Capt. u. H.Murdock, OF the Sixth infantry,
was accidentally drowned while crossing
Grand river, Utah.
The Queen Anne house which Justice
Gray is going to build at Washington will
cost about $4,000.
Hon. Thomas Simons, until recently as.
slstant attorney general, is lying at the
point OF death in Washington, having been
i'll about two weeks with typhoid fever.
Senator Morgan Of Alabama is tired oi
politics and wants place on the supreme
bench.
Hugh Campbell OF Dakota was married
at Richmond, recently.
William Farrell beat his wife, shot q con.
stable and killed himself at Avoca, Iowa.
Mrs. c. j. Boutelle, millinery and ladies
furnishing goods, Chippewa Falls, Wis.,,
has assigned to F. NJ. Bazzell for the ben
eft OF her creditors. No particulars can bs
had.
On motion OF Mr.. Nelson bill was pass
ed providing for an inspector Of hulls and
boilers at Duluth, MINI.
Benjamin Moran, who was James Buch
anan's private secretary when he was
American minister to London in 1854,
subsequently for nearly two years secre
tary OF the American legation in London
and more recently minister resident in
Portugal, is dead. He died at the residence
oil oshua Num-, in Braintree, Essex county,
England.
Associate Justice Matthews, OF the su
preme court. was married in New York ut
the residence OF Mrs. Pnrsons, the tlnugh.
ter oi the late Justice Swayne, a few days
ago, to Mrs. Theacker, the widow Of the
former commissioner Of patents.
MIR. Strait introduced n bill providing
for pension to Catherine Ham, widow oi
Michael Ham, Ninth Wisconsin.
Surgeon j. c.. Dewell has been ordered
from Newport barracks to to the depart
ment OF Dakota for assignment.
The senate has draft ed an extratlition
treaty with Japan, and one for the resur.
yey Of the boundary line between the
United States and Mexico.
The brothers at the monastery near Du.
buquc lost 700 head Of hogs by cholera.
A call Tor 81 100000 per cent. bonds
was issued. The following is q dcscrip.
sued under the act Of congress, approved
July ~, 1882, and numbered as follows:
Fifty dollars, original number 1876 to orig.
inal number 147, both inclusive, 500, or.
iginal number 1918 to original number
1883, both inclusive, and original
number 1922 to original number
1926, both inclusive; $500, original num-
Der S25 to original number S43, both in.
elusive. and original number 4, 226 to orig.
inal number 4, ,228. both inclusive; 81 600,
original number 1903 to original number
ber 23. 73O. to original number 23.737,
both inclusive; $4,000, original nun.
ber 1896 to original number 1894,
both inclusive, and original number
2s,2O9. Total, $4,OO0,OOO.
Col. s. l. NJ. Mayor, for many years u
prominent legislator and newspaper man,
died at Frankford, Ky.
The Taylor brewery at Albany, N. Y,
burned. Loss, 81 so, 600; insurance, 1885,;
600.
The anarchist Parsons surrenders in
Chicago, and the trial OF the conspratori
begins.
A fire in Boston accompanied by loss Of
life destroyed the New England in,
stitute fair building on Huntington avenue,
The building was purchased by the Met
ropolitan Street Railway company for
$500, 900, and has since been used as a
place for storing and repairing cars. 1t ia
believed that the building was set on fire
IN several places by discharged employees.
Sixteen persons are missing.
In an encounter at Clinton, Iowa, be-
tween saloonists and Prohibitionists -four
Of the former, named Farsee, Fillcrson
Hart and Roads, were shot. but none oi
them fatally. Marshal Judge and Frank
Hillerman were jailed, charged with doing
the firing. The saloon element are
threatening to lynch Judge and Hitler.
man, and declare the jail will be blown uE
II necessary to get them.
Rev. Waldo Messares. pastor Of the
Northwestern Independent Presbyterian
church. OF Philadelphia was arrested for
an alleged attempted criminal assault on
the wife OF Charles w. Conlston, a member
OF his congregation.
One hundred and eighty persons are ~.
ing dangerously i'll in the vicinity OF Lean.
ington and Pottsville. n. j. They attend
ed a picnic recently and partook heartily
Of sandwiches in which canned ham was
used.
The senate has concurred in the house
joint resolution providing for the printing oi
IL, 900 copies OF the eulogies on the late
Joseph Rankin OF Wisconsin, and provid.
ing that $500 be expended in securing a
portrait OF the late congressman to he
used in the work.
Senator Mcmillan introduced bill
granting an increase OF pension to w. F.
Mcmillan OF Sparta, Wis. The beneficiary
is no relation to the Minnesota senator.
He was q member OF the Third Wisconsin
cavalry