The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-11-16
Other. News Jottinss.

SIMON Chdermeyer, m attorney Represent
ing an English syndicate which is snid to e
endenvorih9 to secure control of the lending
breweries Of this country, visited st. Louis
and approached the leading brewers there us
to the purchase of their property by the syn
dicate.
DR.. Porter announced to the executive
committee of Jacksonville that government
guards will ie plnced ut all functions md
transfer points on railroads leading to
Jacksonville ut Baldwin. 1.-Two Oak, Way
Gross. .les,p, ETC., and that detectives will
I've employed to spot my refugees intending
to reach the city under Mise pretcnses. The
tickets to jacksonville for the present.
Miss Jennie Quick, formerly a sewing girl
in the employ OF Lewis Naylor, dry goods
dealer of kansns City was awarded 81 400
| against him. Some months ago Naylor
rendered her check in payment for her
services. She wanted cash, and in the quar-
rel which ensned Naylor elected the girl.
breaking her r., arm. She sued for $4,000
damages. The jury returned IL verdict for
$1,000 after ten minutes dcliberatiOn. |;
While workmen we're clearing out the cellar
o!the postoffce nj ntJackson. Mich, they found
over II dozen sacks of unticvcred mnil. be-
sides thousands of Public documents lyinr1
around loose under the stairs, but covered
up with oil cloth. Among these nre many
with the franks Of Senator Thomas W. Palm-
or, Senator W. 6. Chnndlcr and Senator NJ.
S. Quay. The documents were directed to
well known people of Jackson, and has
probably lain in the Office for months. i
The steamship Saginaw, which cleared
from New York for Snn Domingo city and
other ports in Hnyti, had certain arms and
other contraband goods on hoard. Color
WIS given to the rumor by the fact that the
steamer came to off the lightship aud re-
nm lg1t l,o
reported passing the Scotland lightshipgoing
south. The Haytan consul made request to
the customs authorities that the steamer Ike
Intercepted, and the revenue cutter W. T..
Chandler, Capt. Smith commanding, was
sent down the boy to arrest the steamer if
possible. But il is thought that the Saginaw
lind too much the start to be overhauled by
the Chandler.
Twenty-seven years ago the daughter and
only child Of DR.. J. B. Edgar. a wealthy citi-
zen Of Greenville, Pa, had u quarrel with
her father and left home. She did not return
DR.. Edgar searched all over the United
States for his missing daughter, offering
large rewards for information as to her
whereab bouts but never found any trace OF
her. Seven years ago lie died. He left mn
incomplete will, saying in the document that
he would return to earth in few years to
attend to the final disposition of his prop,
erty. The document was declared void. An
other search WINS then made for the missing
daughter, who was sole heir to the property
i she was alive, but she could not I've found,
The property was then divided by order Of
the orphans court among relatives of the
deceased man. This was two years ago
The order Of the court had scarcely been
carried out when o woman, claiming to be
the Observation-Disclosures appenredin Green
willie. She was married to man named
Hoyt. She at once laid claim to the Edgar
estate, and those i'm possession disputed her
claim. The case has been in litigation ever
since. The claimant succeeded in proving
her identity and esta blshng her legnl right
TO the property. and the orphans court Inns
just decided that it is hers. The estate is
worth 800, 900.