The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-05-09
FOREIGN FLASHES

Aatqulo 10 M0re0 N WellknOWn In the North.
west, having been steckman in Dakota for
several years.
FOREIGN FLASHES.
The Russian government has refused to
grant the request Of the ameer OF Bokhara
that foreign goods for Bokhnra be allowed
to pnss through Russia free Of duty.
Il is reported from San Antonio, Tex, TINT
Chicago syndicate has purchased ali the
street railroads in that city, the purchases
amounting to $1,500,O00.
A revolution hos broke out in Paraguay.
several persons have been killed and many
wounded. Telegraph communication is in.
terrupted, md the details that have been re-
ceived are meager.
The condition Of general business through.
out the dominion Of Cannda is not consider.
ed by bankers to be at oil satisfactory. and
If the crops this year should prove u failure
the outlook will lte gloomy. In fact. it is
Well known that the Bank of Montreal, which
ls to Canada what the Bank Of England is
10 Great Britain, 10 warning merchants to
curtail their imports.
There is apparently good authority for the
statement that the governments Of the United
States and Great britain ore now further
apart on their negotiations in regard to the
question as to whether or not Belrng sea is
closed SEQ than they have hcen at any time
States maintains that it is closed sco, and
was made so by the treaty of 1925 while the
British government contends that treaty
does not ut oil cover the case.
MISCELLANEOUS,
At Lincoln, Neb.. the large clothing estab.
iishment Of George W. Simmons was closed
BY the sheriff, Liabilities $115, 900; assets,
f75 900.
The new one-ccnt daily paper, the Evening
Graphic, has appeared in New York. The
editors and publishers are Western journal.
lists. 1t is Republican.
Tho large nail mills and iron factories-the
Waugh Nail Company of Beleville. ILL.,, the
Valley Steel works Of the same place and the
Tudor Iron Works of East St. Louis-have
been consolidated.
The Michigan supreme court has dc cided
Michigan liquor license Low unconstitutional
on the ground that the bill Us passed by the
Legislature was different in wording and provi.
sions !ro m the bill as signed by tile governor.
Girard assembly, Knights of Labor, Of
Powderly Aln.. has withdrawn from the or.
der. They claim that the executive hoard oi
the n. OF l.. is corrupt, and used the most
dishonorable means to drive out of the order
nll honest workers.
A project is on foot among leading Demo.
cratic politicians of Detroit, Mich, to secure
the Democratic national convention in 1899
for that city. l. NJ. Weston OF Grand Rnpds,
chairman of the Democratic state central
committee, is Chief mover in the matter, and
Don n. Dickinson's aid is also being counted
on.
1t is reported Tint Judge Hilton OF Ne "
York has taken steps to prosecute the Worl d
for it's publication of articles referring in nm
offensive way to him in connection with the
Stewart property. The World cont aimed nm.
other article OF the serious, the substance be-
ing that A. T Stewart's sister, Mrs. Hugh
Scully: was allowed to live and die in power.
ty in New York and her children received but
u pittance from the estate.
The Farmers alliance of st. Joseph, Mo-,
has undertaken gigantic scheme to advance
the price of wheat. A large elevator is to be
built for the farmers who are members of the
alliance, and the wheat is to remain stored
until it can be sold Mt 81 n buslel In order
to tide over the farmers who have their wheat
thus stored, q new bank is to Ike tablishe.l
at st. Joseph with q capital Of $50, 900, and
the money will be loaned to members at u
very low rate of interest.
In the McCalla trial at New York Lieut..
Ingersoll testified that he never heard the
articles of war read aboard the Enterprise.
The Walker episode was the most remark.
able one he ever witnessed in his twenty-six
years experience in the navy. Commander
McCalla with his own hands threw bucket
fulls OF water in Walkers face and struck him
with his sword while the man was gagged,
kneeling, with hands tied behind his back.
Walker has begun a civil suit against the
commander for SIS. 900 damages.
The federal irrigation committee at Huron.
S. D., examined the artesinn well that fur.
nisiles water to the city, and which has nn
estimated flo " of 1 $50 gallons per minute.
The exnminat ion OF the well on the Day.
Harrison farm indicated n flow of 600 ral.
Ions per minute, with 12O pounds pressure
to the square inch. The fire department
gave an exhibition Of tho power Of the city
well for fire purposes, throwing an inch and
pronounces the well the grandest yet exam.
ined by til eni.
Frederick Wismer, OF Newark, N. j. cashier
Of the water commissioners an son of the
chairman of the board, has resigned his DO.
sition, and It is said, that his father h as made
good deficiency OF $2,5OO in his accounts.
About month ago there was rumor oi
de:alcation in the board. but Mayor Haines
and all the other members of the hoard de-
MED the story. 1t ls stated that he was al.
lowed to remain in the Office after the defcer-
cy was revealed in order to prevent scandal,
md will now be permitted to go without
prosecution on account of the high esteem in
which his family is held
The supreme court of the United States
rendered decision in the casc OF Leicy, beer
Manufacturer of Peori,, ILL.,, aganst Marsl,nl
Hardin. OF Kcokuk, To-, who had seized beer
imported from Illinois to Keokuk, adverse
30 the econstitutionalty Of state laws provid.
ing for the seizure O. liquor brought into the
state in original packages. Such laws, the
court holds, are IN interference with interstate
commerce After the liquor becomes the prop.
erty of the importer the state may under it's
police powers regulate or prohibit sale, but
it has no power in the absence cfexprsss con-
Rgressional authority to prohibit the trans-
portntion OF the article from another state
bud it's delivery to the importer.