The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

The stockholders of tile New York elevated
railroads have adopted resolution author
ring the procurement of n mortgage Of $40.-
OOO,0OO on their property.
The assignee Of the GIamorgan (Ohio) Iron
been lost in gaming by the deiaulting treas
urer OF the frm.
The establishment Of Charles C. Carpenter,
manufacturer Of rubber goods, etc., New
York. hns been seized on ex scution. Liabili-
ties, 100000; assets about the same.
Application for authority to organize the
German National Bauk of Ripon, Wis.,, has
been filed with the cont roller Of the currency
by T. d. Stone and his associates.
The special train conveying the Abbey
Grand Italian Opera company nom Mexico
to Denver was snow hound for several hours,
and us result Patti IL suffering with a severe
cold and has high fever.
The Illinois Republican League clubs met
at Springfield and elected forty. two delegates
Thurston Of Nebraska. president Of the M.
ti0nal league. delivered an address.
A. G. Leonard Co., boot and shoe manu-.
ossets and liabilities given nt 100000 each.
Ono Of the reasons assigned by the firm is The
embezzlement of large sum Of money by an
employe
Bishop Hennessy, Of tue Catholic diocese OF
Iowa, has issued pastoral letter ordering
all the priests OF the diocese to establish par
ochial schools. under penalty Of dismissal
from their charges. The letter intimates
that Catholic parents who fail to send their
the privileges of the church.
fsonk T,xno- ~ <L> A-n.sno.
Harry Prescott. reports that on Feb. 8, in
latitude 81. longitude IS. lie hove to nenr
the wreck Oft three.masted schooner. dis
masted md water logged with her boats
and sails gone and the sea making a clenn
sweep over her. Four men were clinging to
the after house. Owing to the dangerous sen,
Capt. Turner says he was unable to render
them my assstance and when last seen the
wreck was drifting toward Hatteras shoals.
There is to be complete revision of the
Canadian customs tariff. Probably one OF
tho most important changes affecting the
United States will be an increase Of from 80
to 75 cents barrel on wheat flour and the
removal Of the duty on Indian corn import
ed into Canada from the United States At
present the duty on wheAt -four is only 50
tity of wheat-at Is cents per busliel-re.
quirsd to make one barrel of flour is 72 cts.
The coroner's inquest on John Leininger,
the farmer who died under suspicious circum.
stances near Madison Wis. Feb. 10, wns held,
and chemist testified that he had been un.
able to find any tracs of poison in tho dead
mans stomach. hence the widow, who has
been held on suspicion. will be released. She
is o devout Catholic, and fOuehtlika tigress
to keep the doct ors and officers out OF her
house at the time of her husband g death. II
is said that she had some religious scruples
about permitting an autopay, and this is
why she tried SO desperately to keep the body
out of the doctors hands.
Almost remarkable case of displacement oi
the vi:al organs OF the body was revealed in
the autopsy held in New York City on Albert
L. Johnson, thu old inventor who dropped
dead in the Equitable building. Deputy Cor.
oper Jenkins made the autopsy and found
that the heart. which wns abnormalIy fat,
had moved over to the right side; the stom.
ach, spleen, pancreas and greater portion
of the large and small intestine had passed
up into the left pleural cavity and consider.
ably compressed the left lung. The heart be.
sides being displaced was compressed, and
there was general dislodgement, all result.
ing from an old diophragc hernia for which
the deceased had received much medics; |;
treatment.