The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-02-22
General.

The Oregon, Idaho and Delaware SEN
atorial deadlocks continue.
Miners of the sAiassillon district de-
cided by a vote Of S54 to 551 to stick to
their national organization.
Owing to the strike Of the tonnage
men the Illinois Steel company has or
dered Its Joliet mills shut down.
Gov. Mckinley announces he 10 not a
candidate for Senator Brice's seat, leav-
ing clear field to Foraker.
Over 800 negro em'grants from Geor-
gia passed through san Antonio Tex,
to-day ON their way to Mexico.
Mrs. Milton Shear of Plano. Ill.,, aged
forty mine, guvc birth to her nineteenth
child.
Australian Billy Murphy, III pounds.
completely knocked out Kid McGraw
in four rounds in Cincinnati last night.
The bill to take the Detroit health
board appointments out Of Mayor Pin
gree's hands was ordered to third read
ing in the Michigan senate.
The contract Of the largest tow barge
In the world. has been taken by the
Chicago Shipbuilding company.
Madison Brant, living near Terre
Haute. Ind, prevented his daughters
marriage by burning the license in the
presence Of the guests.
The famous Lyons county Qowa)
bond case was decided by the United
States supreme court in favor Of the
county.
An epidemic Of measles prevails in
Akron, Ohio, with thirty-seven children
sick in the Summit county children's
home.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
union of Columbus, Ind, has cstab-
lished an Industrial school for unem-
ployed boys.
Illinois lines having Joined in recon-
mending adoption of the official classi-
ficatiOn by the railroad and warehouse
commission, Chicago shippers have
withdrawn their complaint.
The Brooklyn board Of aldermen re.
voked the grants to the trolley road
companies. The demonstration PLAN
ned by the strike leaders was pre-
vented.
/ Chicago. Great Western & Eastern
Illinois employees have been notified
that they must not drink or gamble or
board at places to which a bar is at
tached.
Archbishop Kahn Of st. Louis has iu-
thorized the Catholic society Of Queens
Daughters to cooperate with the Young
Woman's Christian Temperance union
in temperance work.
NJ. Clifford, a leading dry goods mer-
chant of Stevens Point. Wis. has made
I'M assignment. The liabilities are ap-
proxlmated at $500 and the assets at
about $4,000.
The striking runners and drivers of
the Lehigh Valley Coal company at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, to the number Of
900 returned to work this morning.
The company granted nearly oil the de-
mands.
At the regular meeting Of the Chi
cago live stock exchange the sum OF
$1,000 was turned over to the board of
directors to be used at their discretion
for the benefit Of the sufferers of South
Dakota and Nebraska.
william Waldorf Astor ordered
blanket of lilies Of the valley to be
placed on his wife's coffin every day
for year. The contract was for $751;
600. The florist rushed to the newspa-
pers to get big pun" He got 1t. but
Mr.. Astor. displeased ut the notorlety,
has Cancelled the order.
Three cars of halibut, just in from
Cape Flattery banks. have been ship
ped from Tacoma to Boston as result
Of recent fast shipment, when a car
was sent through to the city In eight
days. The fish are packed on ice and
will 60 through to Chicago by passen-
ger train.
James ]. Hill. the president of the
Great Northern railway, is In England,
and the object Of his sojourn, 1t Is said,
Is to manufacture sentiment In that
country which will block the efforts of
the Canadian Pacific people to extend
the Duluth & Winnipeg road into the
North Dakota wheat fields.