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

htN N6N6UAAS
The Indian Messiah = declared to be Capt.
jack Wilson. alias Ws-vo- kar, alias Co-we-jo,
aged twenty-five, who iivss In Nevada.
Mrs. Lucy Parsons, the anarchist, charged
With melting riot In Newark. MI, tsw
wesks ago, hos been discharged.
An attempt to make arrangements for the
reception Of the Irish ENJOYS in Kansas City
has proved futile. owing to split on account
Of the Pariell affair.
At Mcndon, Ill.,, Mrs. sam Hardin tainted
while she and her husband we're being charjy.
arietl. Thinking his wife dead, the husband
went insane.
The liabilities Of John T. Walker. Son L
Co.. Of New York, recently failed. are %, ,094..
2Os; nouonal assets, 81, ,433, ,352, and actual
assets, 81 ,0O9.540.
Areport that Joseph Pulitzer had sold tue
New York World and the World building to
Georgc, w. Childs and A. ]. Drexsl 10 denicd
by all parties interested.
Dr.. Mary Walker is very III ut Bunker Hill
few miles from Oswego, N. Y, and 10
thought to be dying. She IL said to be sut.
fering from disease contracted in Libby
prison.
In the court Of appea Is ofNsw York in the
case Of Campbell vs. Arhuckle, for breach Of
promise. thsjudgment Of the lower court has
| U6tu bIurIu6u, auu Gn6F8IOf0 C04 COmDI0lu.
ant RECEIVERS $45, 900 damages.
At meeting Of representative citzens
| Calgary, the future of Canada from three
length, and. after q prolonged debate, the
meeting decided in favor Of annexation to
the United States.
Mr.. Lodge of Massachusetts will introduce.
in the house q bill to regulate immigration,
The first section OF the bill excludes from the
United States any person who 10 obnoxious
in any wny to the existing laws of the United
States, including what Is known rs the
''alien contract labor" law.
Judge Brown in the United States court in
New York hos declined to grant writ OF
the negro murderer who is to be electro
cnted at Sing Sing. An appeal to the
United States Supreme court was at once
taken.
The inquiry of the census into mortgage
indebtedness is nearly completed. total
of something over $3.50, 900, 900 in mort.
gages has been found, the largest number In
the Western states. Relatively speaking the
Southern states were found to b much freer
from these membranes than the Northern.
The question "Shall women be admitted
into hegeneral conference o. lay delegates?"
has been submitted to the congreg ations Of
ell the Methodist churches in the United
States and the Philadelphia Methodist says
that enough Of the returns have been re-
ceived to show that the women have carried
the day.
A. L. Johnson Of POttawattamie ounty,
Iowa, husked and cribbed 40 bushels Of
corn in ten lours. thereby winning the cham
Polnsn,p o. the wst Stsss and one aundrea del!
county washis opponent, aud succeeded IN
but the Judges usciueu mat Johuson's work
was the cleanest. Over q, 900 Vas wagsssd
on the contest.
The Chicago city council adopted an ordi-
nance authorizing the issue Of $5. 900, 600 of
municipal bonds in aid OF the worlds fair.
The bonds will be dated Jan. 1, 1890, poyn-
ble in ehirty years and benr interest at rer
cent No bonds will be sold until the sxposi-
tion directory collects 100000 on it's
stock. It ID provided that the city shall he
repaid from the proceeds OF the fair to an
equal extent with the etockholders, ana the
city's proportion be devoted to the redemp.
ton Of the bonds.
| Sopewhnt Of sensation, was caused in
correction with the doodle" aldermen
cuses in Des Moines, Iowa, when Judge Bishop
summoned the grand Jury before him and
rend n lengthy communication, citing the
facts brought out in the brady trial and
| suggesting that the matter be investigated
with view to indictin9 oil the aldermen and
city officials connected with the case for con-
spiracy to defraud the city. II carried to its
logical conclusions this suggestion would in.
cluds all officials as far back as 1876, since
which time the practice OF voting extra com.
pensation has been in vogue