The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-09-12
HERE AND THERE.


Wales have formed an association to fight
labor unions.
The Panama Railroad company having
agreed to ray the laborers the former rate
Of wager, the strikers have returned TO work.
The contract for digging tunnel around
Niagara Falls for developing the water pow
er has been let to u New York firm.
Frances +. Willard has written u letter
denying that the W. Z. 7. l.. is contemplate
ing an alliance with the Salvation Army
Ayoung Swedish woman near Harvard,
ILL.,. has been asleep for over two weeks A
slight sunstroke is thought to be the cause.
The National Union of the Swedish Evan
Cclical Mission Churches of the United States
has begun in GalesburS, ILL.,. its sixth annu-
al meeting.
Representatives o. fall the trnding ant hracite
coal companies have decided to advance the
price OF coal Sept. L. 10 and IL cents n ton
and to limit the output to $3.50, 900 tons.
The anniversary of the landing OF the first
German immigrants in America will be cpe-
bratpd on grand scale in Evansville, Ind,
on Oct 6, and all German societies OF the
city have combined to prepare for the event,
The Denver News says all English syndi.
cate headed by c. c. Morgan has secured an
option on all the Leading silver mines near
Aspen. Colo. and places the figures ut the
enormous sum OF s27.OOO,OOO
The whole of the property and assets of
the Union Ferry Company of Brooklyn have
been sold at auction for $3.25O,OOO. 1t is
said that II. B. Hollins 4 TO-, and others
were the purchasers,
There il some apprehension felt in regard
to the vessels Ryan and Yosemite which
passed the $500 about u few days ago
and have not since been henrl fr ON. They
were going to Ashland to load lumber,
F. ]. Woodward. a former conductor OH
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, had
his neck broken in n wreck July 10. His
neck is kept in position by br ace His
general health is good.
At Williams G rove Pa, 5000 persons at
tended grangers' national exhibition o
witness the formal opening. One of the
principal features of the exhibition is the
display OF cereals. etc, by the Northern Pa
cific.
St. Louis doctors have made an nppIica-
tion for the appointment OF n commission OF
lunacy in the case of Mrs. Maria B. Mood
worth who has been conducting rsviv al
meetings in large tent on tho outskirts of
the city
) 1t is believed in some quarters that the
Canadian Pacific is back OF the sc.ie me to
build an important line from Butler to Chi.
cagos and that it will eventually own the en-.
tire Detroit division of the Wabasla, but
this is mere conjecture.
Partinl returnes and estimates received
from thirty of the seventy.H counties in
the stat ii Arkansas Indicate increased ma
critics for Gov. Eagle md the Democratic
state ticket over two years ago, when his
I h,,,
state by from $4,000 to 30, 900 majority
Rose Gertrude, the young English nurse
who created such sersation last year by
volunteering to go to the Moloksi leper sta
tion. will leave the leper receiving station in
Honololu. She has recently cured several
well defined cases ofleprosy. The disease is
considered by mnny doctors to be incurabc.
An important change in it's official roster
took place at the annual meeting OF the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Kansas City road Mt Du-
buque. The change consisted OF the creation
Of an enlarged directorate, OF which A. B.
Stickney was chosen chairman, and the elec.
tion of John n. Egan to the presidency.
The dead body OF an unknown man wear
ing soldiers uni orm was 20 und in an obscure
| corner Of Washington city. Some papers
found on his person indicate that his home
was in Walla Wnlla. Wash. The man was
about five feet six inches, wore reddish
brown beard. A wreath and dancing girl
were tattooed on his lett arm. An autopsy
| revealed the fact that death was caused by
co nsumption.
William S. Davis OF Lowell, Mass, recently
received letter from Gull orna containing
inform alton that his father, who left his
mother md little children nt Me-, in 1s49.
was living but very i'll at Rockland, Cal.
william ". Davis the father, who is now
eighty years of age left his home with the
gold seekers OF 40. telling his wife that he
would return rich, She heard nothing of
him afterward. About twenty five years
ago she heard he was killed by the Indians
and then she married n man named Plum.
mer, with whom she now lives at Pittsfeld
The sealing schooner Matte G. Dyer hos
arrived fro1l the North for repairs She was
seized at Ounnlasku June 1S by United
States Deputy Collector Emmons, the
steamer having gone there in distress on the
day previous. The captain and crew were
taken ashore md confined n the old Baranf
castle. where they gere kept for three weeks.
The authorities took uway the skins, sails
! and oil vessel findings. The grounding has
caused her to leak badly. and she came here
to be overhaulpd. The captain said the seals
seized had been taksn at least thirty miles
from any shores on the North Pacific, and
that the man who made the seizure was
new official.