The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-10-31
HERE AND THERE.

1uo pOpulatlOn OF leX0S ID S,ZS1, 22U, an
increase OF GAO, All.
Mount Etna is in state Of eruption.
The whole eastern side of the mountain is
covered with thick layer OF cinders.
new strike In tho great Sheridan tunnal
at Telluride, Col, has put $15, ,OOO, 900 in
sight. The ore carries brittle silver and cop
per and runs high in gold.
The anarchists of Chicago will commemo.
rate or Nov. IL the deuth Of Spies, Fischer
Engel and Parsons, who were hanged on that
day three years ago.
At Leavenworth, Kan, the. grand jury o!
the United States circuit court, las returned
indictments against Charles Benson and Mrs.
RnutzahE, for the murder OF Mrs. Hettman
Judge stoneman of the superior court oi
Iowa, decided that the state prohibitory law
was null and void as far us the sale OF origi.
nal packages is concerned
Private Frank O'Neill, of Battery c. Fourth
United States artillery. has just died of hy.
drophobin ut Fort McPherson, ca. 1t took
seven men to hold him in his last struggles
The headlcss body OF NJ. F. Hageman, who
recently left Virginia, ILL.,. 100000 short in
his accounts has been found on the railroad
track near Fresno, Cal.
1t is snid that when the affairs of r. C..
Peters& Co., who recently failed Mt Manistee.
are sifted to the bottom, it will be found
that tho big lumber firm may be able to pay
dollar for dollar.
Samuel Gompers. president of the Ameri.
cnn Federation of Labor, has issued call
for the tenth annual convention Of the or.
ganization, which will meet ut Detroit, Mich,
Dec. y.
The public schools mt Oxford, Blooming
ton Grove, and other villages in Orange
county, N. T., hive been closed owning %
diptherin.
1t hns developed that there is doubt o. the
reward of$1O,OO0 offered by the state gov.
ernment for the capture nd delivery Of Rube
Burrows to an officer will be paid. because
he was not turned over to lawful officer
before being killed.
The body OF Helen Settley still lies ut her
mothers house ut New Holland, Ps., The
mother SO far has refused to hive it inferred
ns she still thinks her daughter is in trance
1t is known TINT the girl. who was u bud
character took poison at Mount Vernon,
Ohio.
NJ. L. Billings the Waverly attorney coll
victed of the murder of W. 8. Kingsley, and
sentenced to the Iowa penitentiary for lie,
Inns been admitted to bail in $4,000 to ap
pear before Judge Leneian ut Waterloo Nov
3. 1t is almost certain that the case will he
dismissed when called up in Judge Ienehan's
court, and that Billings is now virtually q
free man.
East Superior capitalists have necured
large iron working plant, which will be- To-
Gated near that section of the city. Tie
Kentucky Steel Works and Rolling m ills
which have been announced to go into New
Duluth or Oneotn, were secured. The hunus
consists OF five acres of land Tree, five acres
Mt cost price, $4,000 in cash, to l,c usetl in
building. and a subscription to the capital
stock, which is 81 ,OOO.OOO.
Acting Land Commissioner Stone has is
sued to registers and receivers oflocal land
Offices a circular calling for reduction o
contingent EXPENSES in their otfices. Tile
acting commissioner calls attention to the
fact that while the nnmlHr of entries made
has decreased from 252.479 in 1888 to 1G3..
463 in 1890 and the acreage and cusll re-
cripts have correspondingly de.rensed the
amount expended has increased from $147,
600 in 1888 to :17G,229 in 1890.
A rumor has reached Milwaukee, which, i
correct. means the cons olidnton of the Unit
ell States and the Adams Express com .oanies
For some time quiet rumors have beer circu
lated around among the ofiicers aud general
t.sents of the Adams and the United states
companies in the West that negotiations
have l'een pending looking to complete
consolidation of these two corporations.
The rumored consolidation il to t in the
nature of q merging of the United Statss in.
Il. the Adams by the trans er oil stock
A somewhat plain 'ul problem prtsebts it.
ae!t in connection with the death Of the inte
Justice Miller as to what is to become Of his
widow. There is no son to support her. She
Inns two married daughters. one widowed,
herself without adequate means Of support
1t is stated rs a positive TACT by those in
position to know that the wife of the great
;urist, Abraham Lincoln's friend, will either
have to keep boarding house or rent or
sell her homestead TO make living. Justice
Miller lett no property of any amount ex-
cept his house on Massachusetts street.
A gentleman in Mason City, Iowa, who
stands in close relation with the administra.
tion says that if the supreme court of Iowa,
in the appeal in the original package cascs
holds similar to the Kansas United States
circuit court, which it doubtless will, the
governor is prepared to call an extra
session OF the legislature. Iowa could in no
other way get relief within eighteen
months. Under the Kansas decision the
original package dealers, under the strength
Of this decision, ore opening up saloons
everywhere.
A scheme to rent bell punches to cable
road conductors, whereby the companies
would lose more than they did BY the
"brother.n-law," was nipped in the bud by
Detective Curtin. who lett San Francisco for
Denver with W. Il. Robertson. n Missourian,
who noted as agent in introducing the
punches. He made n confession, impicat-
ing Patrick kelIum of Denver as his princi.
pal. According to his story. kellum sc.
cured Beadle and Meakers' punches from the
manufacturers, and his scheme was to hire
out tue genuine registers for $40 q week
each. The conductor by using a double
regiatry and an extra slip could EN- bezzt
without fear Of detection.
A physician living at Fort Pierre has re.
turned from n visit to band of Indians
some twenty-five miles from there whittier he
WAS summoned by u squaw nun who informed
him that the entire band Of 200 Indiane
would die off unless something wns done fol
them. Thirteen have already died and many
of them are down with mountain ever
These red skins have been preparing
for the coming OF the new Messiui
by fasting and executing ghosts dances
without stint for two months, until
they are now without food and suffering from
disease. 1t is the same band that claim
Ten Hands. who recently tried to pass him
self of AZ the Messiah, and was nut in thu