The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-02-17
General News Items,

fat hhieh anu John T.. Glow sign articles
Tor a fight to a finish for 81 900 side.
All the roads do IL general slashins ot
rates between Chicago and st. Paul,
Omaha and Kansas City.
Callan and Hnrkins, the Americ dyn.
ainiters in London, are convicted and sen.
fenced to fifteen years penal servitnde.
In the Kentucky senate strong resoll.
TONS protesting against the passage of the
Blair hlll by congress were adopted by Il
vote OF 81 to s.
"Old Bnckskin." the horse rode by
Lieut.. l.. b. Baker OF Lansing, Mich. in
Booth, died there recently.
President Ingalls, OF the senate announ.
ces the select committee of five to deal
with the Pacific railroad funding matter.
and Senator Davis is member.
John oConnor. pine broker of Chippe.
wn Falls has just completed u large sale
OF land for II. =. Christy of Detroit Mich.
The purchasers 'are Boswortl n Reilly,
and the price paid Sl2o,oo0.
Out OF the 81 O0n, 600 Montana Central
railr"ad first mortgage bonds, principal
and interest guaranteed by the st. Paul,
Minneapolis II Manitoba railroad, tenders
Tor which opened Sl,5oO, 900 was allotted
to Clark, Dodge IL Co.
Tie supreme court of New York has
granted an additional attachment against
the property in that state oi james NJ.
Vail ~ Co, OF Milwaukee within II suit
brought by William Ahlernanser to re.
cover S2l ,ooo, moneys deposited
1t Is two weeks since any mail has been
received ut Nantucket, Mass. The sound
IL full of ice and it extends southwark as
fnr as the eye can reach A thrce.innstcd
il ri II,
ernnt shoals and is likely to be carried
ashore.
Capt. Rtchie oi the state Line steamer
State OF Indiana, was presented at Lon.
don. on behalf OF President Cleveland, ~
gold watch and chain, and Campbell. first
officer, IL binocular glass, for saving the
crew OF the ship Triumphant oi Boston,
abandoned at sea.
Rev. DR. Courtney, who WAS rector of the
81. James aristocratic North sid. parish
chicago five years ago, has nccc,,tcd tho
intrc OF Nova Scotia. DIR Courtney went
from Chicago to the rect orshipos St.Paul's
Boston. lie is Il Scotch Enslishmun and
still swears allcviancc TO Victoria.
Interest i'll the mysterious case OF Willie
DICKINSON, the son of Capt. W. l.. Dickin.
son, superintendent oi the Commonwealth
mine ut the town of Cummni,wculth. near
Florence. Wis, whp WAS supposed to hnvo
been abducted five years ago is in II fir
way To be cleared up by the return OF the
boy to his home.
The iEtcenronnd fight ut Duluth be.
tween Weir, the Belfast Spider, and George
Siddons OF Quincy. H., was ended in the
eleventh round, the referee ,.Iuhn Donald.
SOM giving the fight to Weir on the refusal
OF Siddnns to go on with the fight after he
had claimed II foul which the referee would
not allow.
Tho assembly chamber at Albany is
about to he vacated. The preliminary re.
port OF the commission appointed to cx.
amino the cclin. was made. They discov.
cred many serious movements of the st one
in the groincd arch. all OF tho main ribs of
the vault split. and many OF the stones
cracked clear through.
Judge Gresham. in the United States cir
cult court at Chicago entered Il final decree
Tor the foreclosure and sale of the Central
Iowa Halfway company Of Illinois. Til, III.
noIs division is bout ninety miles in !cn,
and runs mkeith>b,lrs to Peoria. The
Iowa division, with its branches, is about
$50 miles, and runs from kcithsburg to
Marshalltown, Iowa.
Dubuque Special: a. T.. Walker OF Dick
ey. Iowa. asked Revenue collector Byron
WEBSTER whether sweet cider can be sold
~ Ao"N' WI. h'DSlef lprWaruCu the let.
ter to Gov. l.arrabce for his views The
letter was returned with :he followin. no.
tation: 'Respcctiully referring back to
Collector Webster. William Larrnbce."
The collector t'Aen returned the letter TO
the n'ith"r with the following suggestion:
Tile governor declining to answer your
question. ! would respectfully refer it to
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster. superintendent III leg.
islation, Des Mnines, Iowa." And so the
important question rcsardin. the legality
OF the cider trailc in Iowa is still unun.
swcrcd.
Chippewa Falls. Wis, is excited over an
OUTRAGEOUS occurrence which took place
short time ago. very near ,l. business
center The story is told by Mrs. Sadie
llbhetts OF Eau Claire who claims that
she came TO the Fails To attend bail and
visit friends. At not II very late honr in
the evening she started for the depot
without an escort, and while passing A,
alley was forcibly seized by man, who
smothered her cries and, despite her stru.-
gles, dragged her into building near bv.
There she was locked III u dark room. AMI
repeatedly assaulted. At first she clamcd
that there were ten rnen, and that three o.
them she could not identity. John Wc;ncr
says that being IL friend OF the assalants.
they desired him to pay Mrs. Tibbi,ts
Sloo to hush the matter up, and that he
took her to the office OF County Judge
Stafford, in Chippewa Falls, where she
signed the receipt for the same. and that
afterward she demanded 81, 900, which