The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-04-27
Unfortunate , Events.


Mind IAremen are killed and others in-
S7Gred at theater fire in Milwaukee.
The bursting Of a steam pipe causes
fatal panic in Il Chicago public school.
A terrible storm, attended by loss Of
life, RACES along the Atlantic coast :
A girl in an Iowa town is buried alive
and smothers in her grave.
r. & w. II. Carnahan's dry goods store
burned ut Findlay, Ohio. LOSS, $7O,OOO.
Three men were killed and fourteen
i.jured by the premature explosion Of
Il blast at Brinton, Pa.
The schooner Benjamin Il. Church
was wrecked off the MecOX Light, Long
Island. The crew was rescued.
'.The Bcwely' ut C0ney Island, N.
Y, burned. Loss. $4,000. A dozen
buildings We're destroyed.
Harvey Vail. six years old. was killed
at his home near IEl Porte, Ind, by the
accidental discharge of Il gun.
Enormous hallstoncs fell in a storm
ut Empoli,i, Kan, and the windows Of
nearly every house IN the town were
broken.
A passenger train on the Lake Erie
& Western road was derliled near Iy-
ner City, Ind, and John Shaw, Il brake
Imam, was Killed. Several persons were
injured.
Two large cans Of powder exploded
in Frederick Morplock's store at Mount
Verron, Ind, during fire. The build
ing was wrecked and three men were
injured.
During wind storm at Sloan
Springs. Ark. the house OF John Simp-
son, living one and Il nalf miles from
there, was blown away and w. s. Simp-
son, brother, killed.
People in Print.
G. Frank Smith, one of the best
known lawyers of California, died ut
San Francisco from heart disease.
Morgan G. Colt, son Of the inventor
of Colts revolver, dropped dead on the
street at Summit, N. j.
Judge Thomas Coke Sharp. one of the
oldest newspaper men in the West died
mt Carthage, Ill. He was seveuty-six
years old.
Richard Wistar of Philadelphia who
had lived like II pluper, though worth.
Jointly with his brother, $S,OOO,OOO died
ut Atlantic City.
Archibald Forbes is Of the opinion
that the war in Europe, which SO many
believe to be impending will not occur
until 1886.
Col. Bob Ingersoll, it is said will real
ize ut least $50,OOO from his lectures
this year; and he makes less money on
the platform than by his law practice.
The John Scott legacy medal and pre-
niuin WAS awarded to John Il. Wilken,
q Connersville. Ind, mechanical ell
sineer, for his method of generating
and planning cycloidal surfaccs.
The Oldest men In the senate arc. Nor
rell Of Vermont, .vho Is e:ghty'four:
Palmer of Illinois. "a: Hlrris of Tennes-
see, 76: Pugh Of Alabama. "a. ami SIHt-
man Of Ohio and Iiunton Of Virginia,
a.
Russisl's two Erede -, Tur-
genefr and Tolstoi, We're st1 1t the
University of st. Petersburg, which
celebrated Its jubilee OH Feb. 8. But
Tolstoi was sent away on the ground
OF ''incapacity." ~
Thomas ELLIS. the new ThheraI whip.
is the son Of IL tenant farms Wales
and so thoroughly Wels6l Ii that he
learned English us a foreign language.
BY temperament. too. as well AZ by
origin, he Is democratic.
Seayern Tcakle Wallace, who was
= active in politics. in Maryland in ante
war times, is dead at Baltimore Mt the
age of seyenty-cight years His ardent
secessiOnism caused his incarceration
for fourteen months by order of the
. Washington government
Joshua Thomas Of Baltimore, who
was member Of Cen. Lees staff, has
: given to the Ahn ~, Confederate
home the camp - "a the gen..
eral. 1t is Il much worn f6liing chair,
captured originally from United States
troops.
= Count de Ragousa Soustchevsky of ST.
Petersburg is in Washington, making
q study of tile patent system of this
government. 1t is expected that tile
patent system Of the cars country will
be organized on plan similar to that
of the United States.