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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28

When We got to jursey sity par Good.
ent find his carpit bug altho the cullered
porter helpt him oil lie Good until par
sed he wood shute sum dam nigger then
they found the carpit bag. They didn't
find my kap so hnd to go on to the
ferry hote with handkerchief tide
round my he'd.
Ireckon that porter has = boy bout
my size hoo eeds kap awfool bad.
When We was on the ferry bote q
nirishman scd bcdad thims immigrants
becos my he'd was tied up. Par sed sum
kuss words but mar replide hennery,
henncry. remember you sre not In texts
now, but 10 civilized kommunitee 60
par sed bosh.
Twill rite agin.
TOMMY PETERBY.
p. S.-The sleeper is u car in which
the travellers lay awake at nitse and
kuss. T. p.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
ANNUlTIEs FOR INDIANS,
A Bill Providing for the Payment OF
Large Sums to Four Tribes Of
Sioux.

A Bill Providing for the Payment OF
Large Sums to Four Tribes Of
Sioux.
WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, Mar CHI 81.
Senator Pettigrew to-day introduced a
bill to ratify the agreement made by three
commissioners last summer with the Sissc-
ton and Wahpeton Indians. and to appro-
pirate money to buy all their lands and pay
them their annuities due for many years.
The bill differs in some respects from all
the propositions heretofore made on the
settleIn ent with these Indians. Tho agree
ment made by the commission calls for
s342,77s37 due certain bands Of
scouts who were loyal to the United
States at the time OF the Sioux
uprising and for the payment to the four
tribes Of $ls.40o annually as annuitics due
under former agreement until July l.,
1901. The general provisions Of the agree
ment by the commission and the Indians
have been published. Ono Of the principal
ones, which cuts large figure iii the bill
introduced to-day. is the payment OF $3.50
per acre for the entire reservation, except
such as is needed to give the Indians their
lands in severalty. To carry out this clause
and make the payments above named the
government is asked to appropriate 81, 2s4, :
503. OF this, $53i $40 is TO be Immediately
available to pay annuities,. the balance
when settlement is made OIL the transfer OF
tho lands
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
FOREIGN FLASHES.

Thecommittee ofths Berlin labor conference
presided over by Jules Simon has agreed to
the exclusion Of children under twelve ftom
factories. :
The Cologne Gazette threatens war to the
knife against Prince Bismarck II the chan.
cellor forms an alliance with Dr.. Windthorst,
tile leader oft Clerical party.
Advices from Apia report everything quiet
In the Samoan islands. King Malistoa has
not yet formed permanent government,
preierring to wait until the arrival Of the new
chief justice provided for in the Berlin treaty.
The Austrian government hos granted tho
demand Of the archbishop Of Vienna to ex-
elude the ''Old Catholics from the Roman
decree. This decision obliges the "Old Cath.
olics" to constitute themselves on entirely
separate religious society.
Reliable advices from Tomsk, Siberia, the
central depot for Siberian prisoners. have
been received in London. The prison ut
that place Is capable Of accommodating 400
healthy and 275 sick exilss. but the ct tatistics
from 1886 show that several thousand were
detained there each year, md that there was
enormous mortulity from fever, many beds
being made in the open air, though the
weather was intensely cold.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
Where Cigars Are Carried.

have good deal of quiet fun to
myself watching where people put
their Gig RS. OF course your business
man has his cigar-casc or he puts his
cigars in his vest pocket. But there
are some characters. Take tho Irish.
man who is a laborer, for instance. He
sticks his surplus cigar in his hat band.
l have seen a policeman buy three or
four cigars and put them on the inside
of his hat. 1t isn't often that q China.
man smokes a cigar. believe it is a
rule that no Chinaman shall smoke
a cigar until after he has cut his queue.
Before that he smokes the cigarette.
/ never knew where John kept his
cigars or his cigarettes. You see him
walking along the street and all at
once no makes motion, Us if he were
going to dive, and he comes up with
his cigar or cigarette. as the case may
be. and is smoking before you know it.
1t is still a question among the best
smokers as to where is the best place
to carry cigar ii you aro not smok-
ing it.-ChicaQ0 Tribune.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
AMONG THE MISSING.

DIsappearan CO Under Suspicious
Circumstances Of Glenville Man.
ALBEIT LEA. Special Telegram, March 81.
"A sensational story comes from Glenville,
little. village of 200 or 400 people eight
miles south OF this city, that one Park Lilly
is missing from that place under suspicious
circumstances. The story is that several
persons who were not friendly to him in
duced Lilly to go to the granary Of neigh
Dor, bore hole and let the grain run
out, the parties to have a string on
his arm TO pull il anybody approached.
Several conicde-atcs were in waiting to
close in upon him at the proper time, and
lie was to be arrested At what was ex.
pected TO be the proper time the string was
pulled. Lilly jumped and ran, getting
away from his pursuers. Several shots were
fired, and one or two others were more or
less injured. blood being found in the vi
cinity, but Mr.. Lilly is yet among the miss
ing. The question now arises, what has be-
come OF hiin? Was he shot and killed acci-
tentally, aud his body concealed. or has he
run away to escape arrest for boring the
hole to let the grain run out? ills not
known wh -ther any search 10 being made,
and the whole matter 10 shrouded In the
deepest mystery. !.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28

few minutes and whom As ssaia entered an
.sxploaion took plaee which knocked hin
eenseless. 6kidmors'a fAcs was larsratsd hy
saSoss1 III o. "a s3sssass 4 ! y " = isjssse.is 81 s
b supposed IN enemy put . esa ofeiaAt pow.
der In tn cabin during Ekidmors's temper
ory absence and lighted q slow fuse.
The murder of"I.ucky" Morgan ut Dodo.
willie, small town in Missouri, has Just bern
discovered. Morgan had been missed by his
friends for day or two and search discov-
cred hs body at the bottom Of his well. Tie
circumstances surrounding the crime show
that be was sitting before the ars when his
murderer struck him from behind, knocking
him into the fire. His face was burn9i to q
crisp. His throat wns cut from ear to ear
de was . rich old bachelor, and the murder
was doubtless cUmmittsd Tor the money
which he was known to carry with him in
large amounts. Great excitement has been
occasioned by the crime.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

Tho bill abolishing separate Catholic
schools in Manitoba carried ip the legislature
-25 to IL.
In Charleston, 8. c., the mercury was down
to "a deg. 1t is feared that great damage
hos been done to the truck crop.
A strike 10 impending among the plumbers
in Chicago. The journeymen assert that
their pny is insufficient, and hove made o
formal demand tor an increase.
Reports from the great tobacco counties
In Western North Carolina show that Mt
least one-third Of the plants in the beds have
been killed by the cold weather.
The iumbermen OF Bavaria and the upper
provinces Of Austria have formed close
combustion with a view to enhancing tho
price of their product.
Pratt & Kelley. millers, doing business Mt
Gaylard and Osborne Kan, have tailed for
lurge amount Their affairs arc said to be
in had shape, their liabilities greatly cx.
ceeding their assets.
Information from Southern and Central
Illinois indicates more or less damage TO the
wheat crop by freezing within the past week
or ten days. The fruit crop has been al.
most entirely destroyed.
Union carpenters of Chicago have issued q
circular notifying union carpenters through.
out the country that they expect to strike
April for eight hours and asking tina. men
be prevented rom coming to Chicago.
The Democrats have bean given two impor.
tant decisions in thesu perior court ofIndiana
in their fight with thegovernorforp possession
Of the Office of chief of the bureau ofstatistics
and state mine inspector.
The Indian bureau has information that
white men in Minnesota ore not obeying the
order of the interior depart ment to keep of
the Chippewa reservation until the land 10
surveyed and the Indians given their allot.
ments.
The dockers on strike at Liverpool ore be-
coming boisterous. Though the saloons with.
in the municipal limits are closed Sunday,
those in the suburbs we're open and were tile
headquarters for many noisy assemblage.
The strikers remain firm, and it was unani.
mously agreed to continue the fight.
At o meeting of Chicugo stock yard labor
ers and packing house employees, President
O'Neil, Of the packers union. intimated that
\ formal demand would be made within q
fortnight for the establishment of the eight
hour day for oil classes Of labor in Packing
town commencing May /,
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A goods train fell into the river at Elber-
fsld, Germany, and several of the train hands
were killed.
Two workmen was burned to death and
several Others injured in n FIRE which destroy
ed q railroad mems boarding house on the
Pennsylvania road near Johnstown. Pa.
A mad dog ran through the streets Of
New York and bit two boys and man. The
dog was finally killed by policeman. The
injured persons had their wounds dressed at
hospitals.
Fortytwo bodies have been recovered
from the Inflated Morsa colliery in Wales. 1t
10 doubtful ifths hundred odd remaining will
ever be recovered, US fire hos broken out
afrcsh in the ruins.
An old wooden bridge across the Hudson
river connecting Glens Falls with South Glens
Falls gave way, precipitating seven work
men to the rocks beneath, distance of
thirty feet. Two men were instantly killed
and four workmen severely. injurel.
e A shocking accident occurred in John Tal.
tvs quarry at Dubuque. 10. Three or four
blasts were fired and after the lapse Of halt
an hour preparations were made for aiourth.
Frank Secry, q young man from Wisconsin
employed in the quarry, filed q hole with
powder and wns about to lay the keg on q
bench of rock when it exploded in his hands,
blowing him down hillside fifteen feet.
His hair and inustacle were taken of, his
. ares burnt from the hands to tho elbows
Sand his face and neck tfight:ully burned.
Hhs attending physicians soy that his in
ries are probably fatal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
CROOK SURRENDERS,
- q 81
The Great Indian Fighter Dies
Suddenly in Chicago From
Heart Trouble.
Hardships of His Indian Cam.
paigns Laid the Founda-
ti0n of the Disease.

The death of Maj Gen. George Crook was
sudden and grievous, and removes from
command one ofthe most unique figures in
the military history OF tho nation. He was
universally loved by tho army, and was
also favor'te with the citizen Us we'll as
the soldier. Ee was sigularly pure
minded man, whose life and military CO.
reer were Que OF nobility and greatness.
Modest by nature, quiet in dcmcanor. he
betrayed at all times by speech and act the
moral elevation Of his character. Though
not religious man, he was never heard to
utter an oath during his life. He COM
bined the simplicity of child with the
qualities that ranked him among eminent
American commanders. He is known i'll
military annals as the greatest Indian
fighter who ever lived. The Crook family
is one of the oldest and most re-
epected in Ohio. Thomas Crook, the
father of Gen. Crook, took part in
the war of 1872. and at its close epigratcd
from Maryland to Ohio. where hc carried
on farming ON an extensive scale. The
subject of this sketch was born lear Day
ton, Ohio. in 1893, and the house iil which
hc first saw the light is still stand dfng, and
was, until the day Of his death, an Object of
passionate interest, to which lie n,A1e irc-
qucnt pilgrimages to revive the mel Xi,ories
of his boyhood and visit the surviving
members Of his family, who reside there
still. The early life of Gen. Crook was
spent on farm, and he received his train
ing at q country school in the neighbor.
hood Of his birth. He attended college
for year to prepare himself for
admission to the military academy
at West Point. TO which he was
appointed by Representative Bell in 1sls
He graduated four year, later and was
appointed a second lieutenant Of the Fourth
infantry in 1858. His early service was
spent in Now York state. Gen. Crook was
engaged in many of the memorable battles
of fthe Rebellion, held high command dur
ing the struggle and was seven times
brevetted for gallant and meritorious ser
vices on the field of battle and in arduous
campaigns. He is held in loving rcmem-
brance by his comrades of the camp, and
his transfer to higher station and other
fields served to gain him more friends and
win him fresh laurels. He was nearly forty
years old when he married Miss Mary
DAILY, who still survives him. His parents
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long until the uprising which they all
looked forward 80 eagerly to should occur.
Hergnis e. Shevitoh spoke in Eng
itsh: He related some Of the Ind.
dsah Of the Paris commune Of 1874. Ths
We. received With bursts Of sppisuss ..
pecially when he referred to tho probabil-
tty OF revival of the same thing In the
United States. Speculators, land
holders. thieves, gamblers, pros
atgtss and murderes he classed together
Paris, and when the commune drove them
out honest working men took possession
Of Paris. The SAME "beasts in human
shape" existed In New York, he said, and
were known Is the upper ten or
the 4@. He referred to the destruction
me vendome, and said there existed In
Chicago much more Objectionable kind
be destroyed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
BISMARCK RESIGNS.
Prince Biemarok Said to Have Re-
signed all His Posts.


BERLIN, eSpecial.-It is stated that both
Prince Bismarck and Count Herbert Bis
marck have resigned and that the emperor
accepted the resignation of the chancellor.
AL kilograms are vigorously inspected by
the authorities, and are stopped If they 90
beyond announcing rumors. The imme-
diate and ostensible cause of the rcsigna-
ton Of Prince Bismarck is divergence Of
opinion between the chancellor and cmp mperor
concerning factory inspectors. 1t is 70
ported that the emperor has refused to ac-
cept Count Herbert Bismarck g resignation.
Gen: Won Caprlyi is mentioned as the sue.
cessor of the chancellor. Something must
have occurred in connection with tho
labor conference to cause Prince Bismarck's q
unexpected action. The duke of Saxe-Co
burg-Gotha, Who arrived yesterday, ap-
pears to have tsiled in his attempt TO me.
diate between the emperor and the chancel-
lor.
COLOGNE, Spccial.-The Gazetto's CORE
sPondent in Berlin says he believes that
Prince bismarck will Immediately retire
from all the posts now held by
him. A meetin 9 of the cubinei,
this afternoon. at which Prince Bismarck
presided to deliberate upon tho position
which would arise from, tho chancellor's
resignation.
:. LONDON. Spccial.-The Standards Ber-
lin correspondent saya: 1.-THE German off,
cialh decline to forward my message"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
LOADED WITH ouNPowpER.
Citizens Charged With Placing a
Loaded Stick Under q Lawyers
Woodpile.

Loaded stiok Under q Lawyer's
Woodpile.
HowARD lLAxE Special Telegram,
Great excitement was caused to-day by
the arrest Of Miles Wagner and Henry
Zundberg charged with maliciously placing
alsrHe quantity of gunpowder in q tick and
causing thereby an explosion in the law
once Of \. =; Latham. 1t appears from
the evidence that on Feb. "a last, while scy.
efM people were present, Mr.. LathaM's
stove was blown to pieces by loaded stick,
put the hre, through pronptness, was ex-
augufshed. Very great efforts have been
made TO discover the offenders, and by the
aid Of detectives It Is alleged the matter
has been brought to light. Il was
claimed by the prosecution that admissions
Of guilt were made by the prisoners to the
detectives, ono Of whom was staying with
one OF the prisoners, that second attempt
was made on another stove and that o load.
cd stick was found in the wood pile at the
Herald Office, and that the prisoners con.
tessed their completely to the detectives.
Evidence was produced tending to show
previous enmity. Wagner was Committed
70 jail, the offense not being bailable. and
Lundberg acquitted. The evidence Of
Thomas Wilson, q Minneapolis detective.
with regard to the loading of other eticks
With gunpowder was of an exceedingly
damaging character against Wagner. The
maximum penalty is ten years.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
A Br.kelnan Cut in Two.

ASHLAND, Wis, Special Telegram,
Frank Aiken, brakeman twenty.sev-
en- yeas old employed on the Wisconsin
Central road. was killed at Glidden, about
fifty miles south of here. The entire train
remains were shipped to lis mother at Ar.
gyle, this state, and will be buried under
the auspices of the A. o. q. w.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
RIorISG STRIKERS.
THEY WANT BLOOD.
Accounts Of Rloting and Bioodshed
AxnaxAd SSkI&k, Aaaselaia& Gtaaxa

Accounts Of Rloting and Bioodshed
Greeted With Anarchist Cheers.
NEW YoRk, special.-A celebration
commemorative of the Paris Commune was
held in Cooper Union hall here tonight by
tie anarchists and advanced socialists OF
the city. Red was the prevailing
color, and was to be seen on all
sides. A little red-faced old woman, at.
tired In red hat and red shawl that GOV.
cred her from head to her heels, went hithel
and thither among the audience crying
out blood and doing away with landlords
Augustus Delsbsr was the chairman and he
sxprssssd tho hope that Il would not b
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
AHoRRIRLE DEATH,
An Aged Couple Near Austin Burned
to Death In Their Residence.

AUSTIN. Special Telegram.-F. Augustus
Carll, was an early settler in this vicinity,
living about one mile north of Lansing vii.
lage. He was about seventy years old.
Yesterday morning the neighbors discov-
been entirely Consumed by fire. Among
the smoldering ruins we're found the
charred bodies of Mr.. Carll and his wife.
As late as 0 o'clock on Saturday nightIit is
known that everything was right about tho
premises. Nothing is known in regard u
the origin of this terrible calamity, tho
coroner finding no evidence. It's generally
and not discovered by the inmates until
escape was impossible Three married
daughters survive. He had considerable
property.
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cooden't doc. Par sat ia a chair and
laft while mar packt the trunk madde1
than wet hen.
When the trane was In tho Injuu Ter.
ritory mar sskt the conductor wen va
wood git TO sent Loois. He replide don'0
ask me madame ask the trane robbers,
90 par askt the sleepin' car porter but
hs didn't no. We arrived safe at sent
Loois on time which was the only acci-
dent on the trip altho We went 90 sloW
sumtimes that par said he Good msik .
better line OF raleroad outer too close.
pins and brick.
When We got to sent Loois the slesp.
in. car porter said change here but pas
said no moro change from mo for / euV
you adollar las mite, and the passengers
all laft.
We ct meal in the dining car. II kos,
20 much after that We ct at tho luntch
kownter. Tho trane stopt only 20 minits
60 didn't hsv time to eat Q pi which
was harder than faro's hart. Ny 9th
stuck In the pi. which made mo howell,
but tho gurl at the kownter gloated over
my sgoony sec the pickture. mads
NO impreshun on her cethur, becos ims
only q boy it seems.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
ENGLISH LABOR TROUBLES.
strIkes Of Gigantic Proportions
Among Workmen In ENGLAND,


Among Workmen In England.
LONDON. special.-Ten thousand miners
in North Wales have Joined the strike, and
gineers. Several mills in Lanca.
stop work on account of the scarcity of coal
arising from the strike of the miners, and
others are running on short time for the
same reason. Most of the miners
who went on the strike in Noting
ham have resumed work, tho masters
having conceded an advance Of 5per cent
mine owners of Lancashire. Yorkshire,
to grant the mems demands for
an advance of S per cent in their wages now
and further advance of 5 per cent on July
themselves show that upward of $50 600 MEN
constitute the fighting torce confronting
them and the fact that this formidable
body is well supplied with funds and deter.
mined and able leaders is also taken into
consideration as evidence that the struggle
must end in compromise or victory for
the men after a bitter fight, and perhaps
bloodshed.
RIorISG STRIKERS.
LIVERPOOL, special.-The striking dock
laborers have become riotous. Thirty
Thousand of them marched through the
streets in procession to-day and assumed an
attitude so threatening that the magistracy
were impelled to invoke the aid of the
niiitara. The coal carriers here have Joined
the strike. At mass meeting OF dock
men to-day Mr.. Houston, . ship owner,
to work when he accepted the union rules.
received a charus OF shouts that no man
would work while others starvc. The strik-
crs overturned q passing grain lorry stabbed
the drivers end pelted the police with stones
and brickbats.
AsNALL ADVANCE.
BERLIN, Special.-The strike Of the coal
miners in brunswick has ended, the en,-
ploycrs conceding the men. small advance
In their wages. They have, however, dis.
missed 100 Poles, who were the ringlesders
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
Broke Throurh th. Ic..

Sioux CRY, Special Telegram
George Mills. aged twenty-five, was drowned
In the Big Sioux river about eighteen miles
from this city to-day. He started TO walk
across on the ice and broke through. He
ioatcd under the ice about four rods and
then came up and clung 70 the ice nearly
ing he became exhausted and went under.
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PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Gov. Miller, ofNorth Dakota, has vetoed
the bill extending the time for the redemp-
tion Of property cold under foreclosure. He
says It conflicts with both the constitution
ofthe the state and Of the United States.
Edward Perkins OF Salem, Mass, member
ofthe common council, and teller Of the Bev.
erly National bank died OF typhoid pneu.
monia. His wife died the night before Of the
sumo disease, and their two children ore
quite sick with 1t.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
A AMorHER's DEVOTION.
Death inlowa Of a Remarkable Freak
Of Nature.

OF N0tuT6s
DUBUQUE Special Telegram
On Sunday occurred the death of remark
able freak of nature. Thirty-two years ago
there was born to Silas Hall and wife Of
Parkersburg, Iowa. a boy baby; It was
normally developed. with the exception
that the head was very large in proportion
to the body. After two wears the body Of
the boy did not grow. Tie head developed
until j. vas as large as that Of an ordinary
thirty years the freak has been tied in Q
chair, and it had to be fed with spoon.
Its mother was obliged to get up three or
four times durlng each night to attend its
wants. It could never speak word. but
rewarded its mother with grateful look.
before her boy, and no one be lett to wait
on him. The other children of the family
are perfectly normal.