The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-11-07
HERE AND THERE.

| STcasc, to.Ocl.
a high license, local option liquor bill.
with provisions similar to those of the law
| now in force in Massachusetts has b cen ill.,
| trohuced in the Vermont legislature
The population O: the State of Maryland,
as shown by the census Office. is !. OF O,3O3,
an increase over tile census of 1890 OF 1O5,.
3GO.
1t is announced that million dollar hotel
to rival the Auditorium in architectural
beauty is to be built at the corner of Mich.
| i.san avenue and Park Row on the lake front,
| Chicago.
| The organization of an ass ocintion OF
cattle men to control the market for their
stock, regarding which so much has hrcn
| said recently, is said to have been nearly
completed in st. Louis.
I! The claim is made that the Person al
Rights league Of Omaha, IN ntiprohi lition
organization. has paid the fees for the M
turalizatiOn OF six hundred persons. aud
that this amounted to bribery. The courts
will be nsked to inquire into the matter.
1t is rumored that Edwin Norton OF Chca-
go and party Of capitalists from that city
will soon utilize the old Abbott rolling mills
property at Canton, Md. to establish, u
mandatory for tin cans and pressed tin
| ware ON !nrge scale.
Judge Mcdonnell holds that the Chic ago
Gas Trust has no right to buy or hold the
stocks of any Of the gas companies which
| joined to form it. IL is understo toul hat n
Judgment of custer will be issued in Il few
days.
A bill has passed the lower house OF the
Chocktaw council depriving all citizens o. tho
| Chockt aw nation who take the oath to le-
come citizens OF the United States of the
right to vote, hold Office or sit on juries in
| that MI ton.
At Monticello. ILL.,, Thomas B. Carson,
Democratic candidate for the legisi ature, has
begun $40. 900 damage suit against j. c.
Myers Clinton, for stating over his own
signature that Carson had offered Myers II
5000 bribe while in the legislature.
The supreme court of New York has refused
to vacate the order for the examination OF
Col. William W. Dudley before trial in his
suit for libel against the World for damages
for publishing tile famous "Blocks Of Five"
| let ters.
| Under instructions OF Judge Ru1dici, at
Mason City, Iowa, the grand jury have re-
turned two indictments for selling intoxi-
cunts. A Wholesale brewing firm sends word
| for its agent to continue business and they
will bond themselves to defend in ease ofiur-
| tlcr litigation.
Over 800 OF tile most prominent women
in New York city have Joined hands and
pledged themselves to do all in their power
| to make their male friends work and vote eior
the Peoples Municipal league ticket. They
| have not been invited to work for the re orm
movement. They have gone mt it from pure
love o: good municipal government and IL
desire 10 aid in the overthrow of Tnmmany
| hall. America has never seen nythng like
| this movement before.
That the Catholic clergy in their opposi-
ton to the public school intend to poll the
full strength in the approaching election in
| Wisconsin is best evidenced from the regis
tering in the Sixth ward OF Milwaukee twen-
ty.two trars of the st. Francis Capuchn
convent. Never before hevc the Capnchin
monks in Milwaukee had sufficient interest in
nm election to go to the polls, but now they
| intend to cast their full strength against the
Bennett law.
Postmaster Van Cott OF New York. makes
the announcement that the act oi congress
excluding lottery matter from the mall pro-
hibits not only the mailing OF lottery tickets,
circulars, ETC., but also newspapers or o thcr
publications containing any advertisement
of any lottery or gift en- terprise any kind,
| Offering prizes dependent upon ella nee: and
furthermore, that the law officer o the post
Office dcpaI Itment has decided TINT advertise
ments OF European government bonds come
within the provisions of the new law.
Walter A. Ross of Minneapolis arrived at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, expecting to be married
to Minnie Cullny. the daughter of n promi.
ncnt business man. Ross had been engaged
to the young lady for some time, and had n
cosy cottage in Minneapolis ready for her
occupancy. He was astounded to find that
his prospective bride is now the wife of FreI
Reese. n former lover to whom she had been
engaged before she met Ross The girl had
changed her mind mt the last moment, and
persuaded her father to accompany her TO
Sioux City. where she va. married to Reese.
News comes from the Chickasaw nation.
that much dissatisfaction exists among the
Indians there because of the grant ng OF Il
charter l,y the Chickasaw government to
about twenty men. giving them absolute
control of oil gold and precious mineral
found in n section OF the Arbuckle noun.
tains twenty. five miles square. They claim
that this charter has been granted to n lew
scheming white men, and that a number Of
the legisa tors, with Gov. Boyd have been
taken into company on the ground floor,
md that the whole proceeding is wrong
In his annual report Gen. Ruger Of st.
Paul gives decision by Judge Advocate
Groesbeck OF the subject OF deserton from
the army. 1t is shown that desortions ar.
most common by newly enlisted men and
from places which nre within easy reach of
railronds. or the recruits from the army
departments u little over 81 per cent. have
deserted within IL yenr. and of the recruits
from the stution at ST. Paul little over
10 per cent. The judge advocate says that
the men enlisted ut St Panl should be sent
to the depots for instruction when this is
possible. Surgeon Alden discusses the
grippe md its ravages last year. 1t ap
peare,l at oil the posts except Fort Pembina.
No death resulted Immediately, and but one
from pneumonia afterwari. During the
year there were twenty three deaths at Fort
Smelling from typhoid isver.