The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-01-31


asainst Cs1sass Mallsri for elO0, 900 dsa.
aSs tbs bssach os psoniss 81 sassiass n.
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plaintiff for e12, 600. A motion Sor . nm
trial vas dsojsd and . notion for IN allow
ence Tor the PLAINTIFF attornsys was granted.
Daniel Doughsrty was counsel for tAo plain.
ttR and Col. 3. g. Engsssou for the dssend.
ant.
It 10 stated upon good authority that the
English Arm Of Armstrong;, gun makers,
intend to establish an Immense ship yard In
the United States and bid, through Amsri.
cans interested in the enterprise, for the con-
struction Of the ironclsd vessels which It 10
proposed to build for the Unitsd States
navy. The claim 10 made by thu Armstrongs
that they can probably compats With the
American shtpbuilders on their own ground
and easily command the American Influence
necessary to secure contracts.
"A special from 0aiussville, Tex, says
Wild hogs entered the cabin Of farmer IN
the Chickesaw nation, near Arbuckle, and
devoured little child which was alons in the
house. tbs rest Of the family being short
distance In the cotton 6sld. The child was
8 years old and when the mother rsturnsd
to the house wild boar ran out at the door
ana into the bushy swomps near BY, carrying
one Of the legs OF tho child In its mouth. The
rsmafnder fths body had been eaten upin the
house. The mother is crazy with grisf
Grave fears are entertained in Colorado n.
garding the probable fate Of the Howard
Atheneum company Of variety artists, who
are In the snow blockade on the Central Pa.
cidc. Nothing definite can b lsasnsd. Ad.
vices from Utah points say the road may
not be opened In three weeks. A train with
the theater troupe on board 10 believed to be
buried under demolished snow sheds ls-
twetn Reno and Truckee. 1t 10 question
whether the entombed passengers can be
rescued before they perish Of hunger and
cold. The mercury y 80 to 40 below zero
out there.
A San Antonia, Tex, special says that one
OF Judge Longenecker's assistants In the
Cronin trial ut Chicago was brought to the
San Taroa hospital in an insane condition.
Tho man 10 possessed by the hallucinatiou
that the Clan.na- -Gaslis after him with knives
dripping with blood. He becomes 90 violent
TINT it is necessary to put him In straight
jacket. He gave his name as Babeock, but
this Is not believed to be correct, and It 10
known that one OF Cronin's prosecutors vas
the train. He had leit Chicago to go South
for his health.
A family Of fscaudinavians who recently ar.
rived at Hallock, Ninn., applied to the
authorities for their arst meal IN the Uuited
States. Six cases Of lsprosy have developed
among this class ofemigrants. one Of which
is now in the last stage Of wretchsd putrsfac-
tion. IL isintimated that the steamship con-
panies have been sending undesirable passsn-
gers over the boundary through this locality
on the supp0sition that the o6lcial forcs u
lower In this vicinity than it 70 around New
York, nsupposition which the Kittson county
commissioners ask the customs omcers to CO.
operate with them in correcting.
The Cunard steamship Catalonia, which
sailed from Boston to Liverpool Jan. II, ar.
rived at Queenstown in condition bstoksn.
ing her experisncs with storms oiextraordin-
ary severity. She reports having been struck
by a hurricane, accompanied by fierce snow
fall, lasting twenty hours. During the storm
four of her boats we're swept away, her ven.
tilntors, bulwarks and deck houses were bat
tered and stove, seven Of ler furnace fires
were extinguished by the seas, which breach
ed over her, and her intermediate cabin was
80 thoroughly flooded % to BE- incapnbIs OF
occupancy. Several seameu and two steerage
passengers were injured by being knocked
down or struck by flying objects, and by the
bursting OF steam pipe three men were XIII
cd and . fourth badly scalded.