The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1886-02-12
been murdered. His charred body va.
found in the ruins Of the house, which had
heen hNrned

bsen burned.
Forty Of the sixty.eight Modoc and
Sioux Indian children who for three years
past have been receiving instruction at the
expense Of the United States government
in the institute five miles ,uth Of Wabash,
Ind. are now being prepared for return to
the Indian Territory, having completed the
course Of study assigned them.
August Belmont, the New York banke.
got judgment by default for $154. .451, to
gether with costs and disbursements,
aeainst Ben Holladay in Portland, Or.
Some years ago Belmont sued Holiday in
the superior court in New York city, and
got judgment. Ben Holiday never settled
It, SO recently the suit was renewed In
Portland.
Queen Victoria has received u present
from the United States ola quarto volume
lnamc not stated) bound in sealskin, with
lining OF damask satin, and q ahand.painted
inscription. The work is regarded as n
triumph Of American book. binding, and
copies have been presented to the German
emperor and to the emperor OF Russia.
The Winnipeg c0uncilmen propose topay
,ess for the electric lights Of that city or
else do without them.
Wallace Ross and Fred Plaisted say they
will make an attempt next August to 70
through the Niasara whirlpool In a boat.
They claim that Capt. Webb was drowned
through an accident, and that the boat they
have contracted for in the United States
will carry them through safely.
A young man named James Isaacs, who
lives on the Frazer river, has confessed that
he shot his brother, whose recent mysteri.
ous shooting created Q sensation in the
province.
A dispatch from Victoria, B. c., says the
snow blockade has been raised on the Can
adian Pacific and all tho trains are rum
ming on time again.
Queen Victoria has chosen az tho
date OF the performance OF ''Mors ct
Vita" which she will attend at the
Royal Albert hall. Friday. March 26,
that being the eve OF tho third anniversary
Of the death Of John Brown.
Commissioner Sparks records an opin-
Homestead colony" which promises for
q fee OF 90 to take q person into member
ship and provide him q homestead in Ok.
lahoma, 10 q fraud.
Gen. Haxen, the chief signal officer, has
made contrat with Prof. King, the ae-
ronaut, to write out his experience in max
Ing balloon ascensions and to prepare a
treatise upon the atmospheric conditions
above the clouds. He 10 to M paid 800
for the job.
p. NJ. Smith, well known attorney of
Elizabeth, Stearns county, was shot by r.
U. kempfer. The cause OF the shooting
grew out OF n divorce SUIT pending, in which
Mrs. kempfcr is trying to secure u divorce
from her husband. Smith was acting as her
attorney. 1t is supposed that Kcmpfer
was delirous with drink Mt the time Of the
shooting. Kempier met Smith at Burson's
store, and without q word oi warning, shot
at him five times, three shots taking effect
one in n shoulder. one in the abdomen,
which came out at his back, and one in the
side. kempfer was secured and is now in
Jail. Smith will pro ably die.
Peter H. Smith, Tower City butcher, is
missing, and his chief creditor, Mayor SUIT
phin OF Duluth, is anxious about him.
The Tucson, Arix., Star claims that the
killing Of Capt. Crawford by Mexicans was
premediti ted. The war department at
Washington thinks it was purely accident.
al.
Hon. John D; Philbrick, formerly super.
intenrlent Of the Boston schools died ut
his country home in Danvers, Mass. Of
paralysis. in his 6sth year. Mr.. Philbrick
was born in Deerfeld, N. H. He was grad.
uated ut Dartmouth.
w. H. Jackson, private secretary OF
Louis Riel, has arrived in Chicago to 80.
cure aid Tor the prisoners still held for com.
plicity in the Northwest rebellion.
James Howard Mcmillan of Detroit is
the richest sophomore at Yale college and
he spends Sc, 900 pin money year.
Senator John F. Miller OF California,
now dying, is worth S6,0O0,OOO.
Ohio senators have agreed upon plan
OF compromise at Columbus.
A desperate convict at Pittsburg serious.
ly wounds two Of his keepers, but is over.
powered before injuring them fatally.
A Cleveland youth is charged with forging
his mothers name to $4,000 worth Of
paper.
The normal school at Madison, OAK.
succumbed to the flames.
James Donnclly and Tom Flynn, two
well known heavyweight pugilists, fought
a short but bloody fight in room up towp
at New York. Flynn was the victor.