The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-12-05
IN GEM ERAL,

IN GENERAL,
Officers Of tho Erie road have refused re.
quest for an advance in wages. The men re.
fuse to say whether they will strike.
DR.. Talbot Jones of St. Paul leaves for
Berlin to familarize himself with Dr.. Kocl'e
consu mption cure.
Under dccisionofthe Warrington state su.
preme court all criminals convicted under the
statelaw for crimes acommittedibefore the new
constitution went into effect will be released.
1t ia reported that Oscar Nesbe, the an.
archisti will be liberated from Joliet prison.
where he has been serving fifteen yenr sen.
tence for completely in the haymarket riot.
Mrs. Charles Wykon. ut Mount AStna,
Ind. gave birth to pound and y au arte.
infant. After two weeks the child weighs q
pound and hall. and seems quite healthy.
The Oregon lmpr ovement company,
through solvent, will apply for the ap.
pointment OF a receiver. This Is due to the
condition ofthe money market.
In Chicago Peter Mueller, and old man, n.
puted to be worth e750, 900, has been sent
to the bridewell for sixty days for begging
on the streets. He has lived In BIZ
manner for years.
A street cur to he run by an electrical
storage battery is being tested in Chicago
The batteries ore capable of running the chr
fifty miles ut fifteen milsa an hour without
being recharged.
The committee Of the reorg ganizotion 0i
the sugar trust announces chat M ,jority
Of the certificates hive already been deposit.
ed under the proposed plan Of reorganixa.
ton.
Corning IN. w. is undergoing panis.
Several failures have occurred recently. and
while none were for largs amounts the az.
gregate was considerable and there IL grent
excitement.
President Adams. OF the Union Pacific, re.
signs and is succeeded by Sidney Dillon, thus
showing that jay Gould and his financial
friends are in absolute control Of the rail.
road situation.
In Chicago Oscar Friedman hos been given
verdict for $40, 900 damages against the
Wabasha & Western. Friedman was Dor.
mnnently injured in wreck on the road at
hirksville, Mo-, two years ago.
F. b. Croker. president Of the Denver
board Of public works, who has been miss.
ing for several days, hns not l,een heard of.
IL is now generally believed that he became
insane over public matters, and has wander.
ell away and committed suicide.
Notwithstanding reports to the contrary,
r. 7. Barnum is still very sick man, and
his condition excitcs the alarm Of the family.
1t may be said with certainty that the old
ahowman's dnys aeem to be drawing to q
close.
A sequel to the ksmmler case, tllat Of a
Japanese murderer, is argued in the supreme
court. the contention being that the exeeu.
tion Of kemmler shows that eicctrocution I,
shocking and cruel method of executing
tho death penalty. =,
Elbert Rapplege, the correspondent of ths
Mnil and Express Of New York, has arrived
in Astoria, Ore, having made the journey
from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean in a
canoe. with the exception Of o few short
portages around the rapids.
The failure of the banking 3rm Of Oosten.
dorp of Antwerp wasahnouneeJ. Tho firms
liabilities am cunt to 1000, 900. Its as.
sets consists largely oflAnd In the Agsntine
Republic. A large number of firms are O..
iected by the failurs.
The story of Indian troubles at the Kashe
no agency, Wis, when sherry's camp was
said to have been surrounded by,Indians,
outbreak was started by some Of Sherry u
men in order to create excitement and make
themselves heroes in the eyes Of the people.
1t is stated on good authority TINT the
Union Stock Yards and Transit company ul
Chicago have declared war on Armour,
Swift. Norris md Libby, the "Bix Four
packers who recently purchased large tract
o. land in Indiana tor the purpose OF erecting
stock yards In competition with the Union
stock yards OF Chicago.
DR.. Fritz Dnum OF Kansas City has rs.
ceived from Berlin some OF Dr.. Koch's con.
sumption virus, md inocuiatetl 8. T. An stjn
Of Kansas City, Kan, aman In an advanced
stage of consumption. The effects were nj.
most immediate. The circulation was bet.
ter, and in few minutes the cough decreased.
and the expcctoration of the patient was
much ensier Inter in the day he found Mr.,
Austin much improved in health, and admin.
istercd another halfdrachm. The same
good eifects were noticed.
Agent Wright. of the Rosebud agency, In
South Dakota. who was some time ago sus.
pended. was rcinstatcd by Secretary Noble.
special agent recommended Wright's sus.
pension l'cnding IN investigate OF the
cause of discrepancy Of about two thou.
sand in the number Of Indians for whom
Wright lad been drawing rations. The can.
sus showed 5.4OO; Wright's roll called for
rntiOns for $500. Investigation showed
that the list was the ono given Wright BY
lis Predecessor. Spencer. Ifrations we're is.
sued for more Indians than were on the rss.
ervation, the extra quantity was divided nm
by tho lndians, who had good thing il,
thus perpetrating q fraud on the govern.
ment