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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
FUSION IN N. OAK.
POpULiSTS AND DEMOCRATS GET TO-
GETHER ON A TICKET.
OF the Principal once. the populi.,s
secure Governor, Secretary Of
State and Judge OF the Supreme
Court, and the Democrats Arc
Given the Lieutenant Governor
AID Treasurcr-An Adjournment
for Day.

Fargo, July 31.-The Populist party
OF North Dakota took advantage Of
the leap year and proposed remar-
riage to the Democratic party of this
state, after having once been divorced.
The fusion committee reported that
1t had been unable to agree at the
Grand Forks conference and adjourned
until this morning. and after Ed Wal
lace of Hope had been chosen tent
pOrary chairman and Finley Grant Of
Fargo and w. A.. Patterson Of For.
man secretaries, the conference COM
mittee asked and were granted more
time to interview the Democrats.
The routine report of the different
committees were quickly made, the
only one that attracted attention be-
Ing the platform committee. 1t In
dorsed the nominees Of the national
Populist party, declared for 16 to 1,
favored prohibition, union labor and
woman suffrage. The main plank in
their platform was the one relating to
railroad assessments. They roasted
the present Republican board of equal
ization for reducing the assessment to
$500 per mile, where the railroads
had agreed to accept IN assessment
of $500 per mile. Aside from the
question of free silver the railroad as
sessment question will be the leading
one of the campaign.
The fusion committee later reported
to the conference and stated that they
had chosen the Offices of governor, Sec
rotary Of state, auditor. commissioner
OF agriculture, judge of the supreme
court, three presidential electors and
two of the three railroad commission
ers. The Democrats were allotted the
lieutenant governor, treasurer, attor-
ney general, commissioner of insur-
ance, superintendent of public instruc-
ton and one railroad commissioner.
This insures united opposition to the
Republican state ticket and cuts out
the pace of the campaign.
The convention adjourned until to.
morrow. The leaders of the Pepulist
party declare there is no slate made
up and oil assert their inability to
name the ticket that will be nominated
tomorrow. 1t seems that either DIR.
Bentley of Bismarck or Richardson Of
Drayton will head it. though LELAND of
La MOure has considerable following.
Ex-Gov. Shortridge's friends deny he
is in the field. The Democrats say the
personnel of the affair will not be ar
ranged much before their convention
Aug. II. The entire day was spent in
talking, and the only result is fusion
and the basis upon which it shall be
carried out.
There Is said to be O movement on
foot to select T.. NJ. Epson as the CUB
ernatorial candidate. He is a bonanza
farmer Of Cummings, Trail county,
and has lived in Grand Forks for tho
Popullst for years and stands well
with the party.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
Democratic Headquarters.

Washington, July 31.-The location
Of the national Democratic headquar-
tiers will be decided in q few days.
Senator Jones, chairman of the COM
mittee. is expected here tomorrow or
next day. There is strong DISPOSE
ton at present to locate the head
quarters here, and unless Senator
Jones' trip to the West has changed
his ideas on the subject it seems
reasonably certain that Washington
will be selected, although the head
quarters ut Washington would be an
entirely new departure, there are
many reasons, with the conditions
which hedge about the campaign,
which point to this city as the most
available from which to conduct the
coming campaign.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
People Talked About.

The remains of Col. d. E. Hunger
ford, father of Mrs. John w. Mackay,
who died in Rome, were inferred in the
Protestant cemetery there.
George Mitchell, the we'll known post
master and Democratic politician at
Batesville, Ind, dropped dead from
heart trouble. He was an ex-state
representative.
After 4 courtship Of twenty five years
George H. d. Gibson, judge of the
Clark county UndD circuit court. and
Miss Jennie Van Hook, one of the most
prominent ladies of that section, We're
married ut Charlestown.
Rear Admiral William Evasluntsoff,
of the Russian navy, is in this country
ON an extended leave Of absence. He
is ut present in San Francisco, trying
to interest capitalists in the erection Of
large salmon cannery ut Avasha bay,
Kamschatka.
Gen. Josiah Siegfried died ut Pott-
sonville, Pa, aged sixty-six, from kid
ney trouble and nervous prostitution.
Gen. Siegfried was one Of the promi-
nent military men and philanthropists
in the state. He was the leading Re-
publican politician Of Schuylkill county.
Joseph Wesley Harper died in New
York after an illness of three weeks.
Up to last year he had been the senior
member of the firm of Harper Bros,
publishers. Mr.. Harper was born in
Brooklyn, March 16. 1880, and entered
the firm Of Harper Bros. In 1863.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
1T IS "CONTROLLED."
Ho the Exchange bankers Prevent
the Gold Leak

AAO INC GASuWhBc UunkeES tESVent
the Gold Leak.
New York, Aug. IA representa-
tive of the Associated Press was in
formed this morning by an influential
member of the syndicate Of foreign
bankers formed to control the ex-
change market, that signatures would
be attached to the contract to-day. In
addition to the exchange houses, q
number of outside business interests
will be added, including several infll-
entail corporations. One of the firm
of j. F. Morgan L. Co. said that the re-
ports purporting to give details OF the
exchange deal operations were entire
~ inaccurate and misleading. Mr..
Morgan personally said in reply to the
report from London suggesting that an
advance in the premium on gold at
New York to per cent would start
imports of gold eagles from London,
said that imports of gold from Europe
were not needed here at this time, and
that an inflow of foreign gold would
greatly complicate the existing Diff
culties.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
MURDER IN TEXAS.
A Prominent Man at Austin XIII,
His Family

"A prominent Man at Austin Kills
His Family
Austin, Tex, Aug. lone of the
most heinous crimes ever committed
in this city was brought to light ut
1870 o'clock this morning. w. 3. Burt,
a member of one Of the best and most
respectable families of the city, MUIR
dered his wife and two children, aged
2 and 4 years, last Friday night and
placed the dead bodies in q cistern.
His residence adjoincd the business
portion of the city, and the foul stencil
led to an investigation. He left the
city Saturday night following the ter
rible deed, and Informed several of the
neighbors not 10 drink the water, as it.
was polluted by dead cat. His rela-
tives became alarmed at the disap-
pearance Of his family, and when he
departed something was suspected.
The wife was asleep. He bound her
in blanket, after tying her feet and
necq together, and then dropped her
body into the cistern. Both children
had their brains knocked out. His
brothers have offered q reward of $500
for his apprehension.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
OtAcrwIac.

| Senator Teller writes Mr.. Bryan,
pledging his support.
| 1t is believed that filibustering ex-
petition will soon sail from New York
or nearby port for Cuba.
| The Schaeffer Piano company of Chi
cago has assigned to E. Jennison. The
failure was, it is said, the direct result
of the failure of the Hallet & Davis
company.
Gen. RoSecrans, president of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland.
announces that it's next annual reunion
will be OH Sept. % and "a ut Rockford,
Ill.
A business mems campaign commit
tee to promote the election of McKin-
ley and Hobart was organized in Phila-
delphia with ]. H. Converse, president
Of the Baldwin Locomotive works, as
chairman.
o. j. Salisbury. member of the Re.
publican committee for Utah, has for
warded his resign ltion, giving as his
reason that he cannot accept the finan-
| cial plank adopted by his party at st.
Louis.
The National tin plate plant ut An
| uCA SOAS AAOs, ASouAACus 1uC Olu scale
will be in force, with a concession to
! the. men allowing them to work longer
time. Three hundred locked-out men
will be re-employed.
| For the purpose Of diverting the great
bulk of the tea trade from the Suez
route, and from Puget sound ports to
San Francisco. freight rates OH tea will
in few days be reduced to little more
than one-hah what they are now. All
lines to the lower coast have Joined in
the cut.
DR.. Hageman Of Cincinnati has an.
piled for patent OH an invention
which promises to create sensation
among musicians. 1t is Il mechanism
to be applied to the piano for the pur.
pose of correcting the false notes OF
that instrument which have hitherto
been regarded as necessary evil.
Two young people who move in the
best society circles Of Buffalo ana Chi
cago gave the first named town Il tonic
by running Off on their bicycles to q
minister's house and getting married.
Tie bride is Miss Katherine Han,lin,
the second daughter of William Ham
lin. who Is Il partner with his father.
Cicero j. Haml'''. in the manufacture
Of glucose and III breeding trotting
horses.
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Present for Mcktnlex.

Canton, Ohio, July 81. = To-day a
committee from the University of
Chicago arrived in this city and called
on Maj. Mckinley. They came rs the
representatives OF the Republican club
of that school to pay their respects to
the Republican non inee and to present
to him a life-size marble bust Of HIM
self. The bust was made by Hans
Hirsch, the noted sculptor of that city.
The bust Is finished in American
Parian marble, mounted on q mahog-
any plaque.
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D ., ! I 4, u sronili1. I


rs UYkV031o,
Athens. Ohio, Aug. 1.-The most de-
structtve storm In the history OF the
Sunday GREGG valley occurred ut Glou-
ccster. n mining town ~ miles north OF
here. Inst night, whlcn resulted In the
almost total destruction of. one OF the
principal tllorTNghfares of the city and
doing damage In other places to the
extent of thousands Of dollars. The
storm, which came FROM Tile northwest,
struck the town without nny warming
whatever. The fury Of the wind Is In
describable. Buildings were rGppled
over, trees torn up by the roofs, aud
the town to-day is scene If desola-
ton. j. L. Dapgherty, who was in
front OF his grocery when the stOrm
WIS raging ut it's worst. was struck by
q section Of plank walk which was
lifted up by the wind and instantly
killed. Four other persons are re-
ported dead and several others seri-
o,isly injured, but the details are very
meager and it is impossible to learn
names. A livery stable with six
horses, vehicles, ETC., was blown into
the creek and swept away. Nearly
every building in the town is damaged
and many are completely demolished.
The streets are filled with broken lum-
Der and debris of every kind. To add
to the horrible scene, Sunday creek
is sweeping everything before it. Sew
eral houses have been washed away,
and two persons are reported to have
been drowned. Later reports say that
the list Of dead will reach Is.
A Wall Of Water.
Steubenville, o., Aug. IA severe
storm like cloudburst occurred west
Of this city this afternoon, and within
q period Of thirty minutes mighty
torrent of water had spread desolation
along both Barnum's and Fishers run
in the lower part of the city. No lives
were lost, IS there were persons along
the creeks who saw the water coming
down the valley, who ran from house
to house warning the people. Every
body fed. many wading knee-deep in
water from, their homes to the hills
which line the runs on both sides. Two
hundred people are homeless tonight
rs a result of the flood. The damage
will aggregate 100000. The water
came down the creeks 20 feet high,
sweeping before the flood houses, out
houses, barrs, brio ges, and trees.
Around Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Aug. This city and vi
cinity was visited by another severe
storm of wind and rain this afternoon.
In the immediate city the damage in
flicted was slight, compared with the
storm: of the 9th, but reports are COM
ing in from the surrounding towns
telling Q fgreat damage to property
and the loss of two lives have been re-
ported. They are John Schiller of
Homestead and q young woman at
Duquesne, whose name is not US yet
known. Schiller, with several COM
panions, was in the cellar of his board
ing house, drinking beer, when the
storm came up. A bolt of lightning
struck the house, carrying destruction
with it on its way to the cellar, and
just as Schiller was in the act of rails
ing glass of beer to his mouth he
was struck by the lightning and in
stantly killed. His three companions
escaped dnharned. The storm in and
around Duquesne and other towns as
sumed the nature Of cyclone, doing
great damage.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
Foreixn GOSSIP.

There were 393 new cases Of cholera
in Egypt in two days and 1888 deaths
from that disease. including those Of
three British soldiers at Wady-Halfa.
Mr.. Balfour will probably resign tho
Liberal leadership in the British house
of commons and enter the house Of
lords. The parliamentary session has
been a compile tizzle.
In the British house Of lords it was
announced that the royal assent had
been given to the diseases Of animals
bill and the agricultural land rating
bill.
The storthing, the representative
body Of Norway, has rejected the bill
for the retention of the temporary in
crease of the duties on petroleum and
sugar and for an imposition of duty on
meat.
Pierre Lorillard's American horse
Magica won the Weston two-year-olds'
selling plate, worth $50 sovereigns. at
Leicester, Eng. Taylor Sharp's Red
Mob was second and Lord Crewes' Mrs
Proudie third.
Frith's well known series Of five
pictures, "The Race for Wealth"
l)diuleu III >SU, WIS SO1u III uuClIOu III
London the other day for 80 guineas,
or much less than the price obtained
sixteen years ago.
NJ. Michael Revon, professor of law
of the Imperial university, and coun-
selor to the minister Of justice of Toxic,
Japan, is in Washington. NJ. Revon is
a literateur as we'll as lawyer and
diplomat, and one of the proprietors Of
the Independence Beige.
Ten Christians have been massacred
ut Heraklion in the island Of Crete.
French and English men-of-war have
arrived there. Serious disturbances
have taken place at Gambia. Several
Christians. it is added, were killed dur
ing the affair. All the shops are closed
and the inhabitants have asked the pro-
lection Of the foreign warships.
"Marmaduke," in London Truth,
asks If it is not time that the custom
of burying murderers in rlnconsecrated
ground should not cease? When the
criminal has paid the extreme penalty
of the law. it is ludicrous for the state
to pretend that it can in any way af-
feet him in the next world; whilst, even
if it We're in it's power, it would he
abominable to do so.'
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
Heat Prostrotions.

st. Louis, July 31.-There seems to
be no abatement in the terrible heat
that has prevailed here since Sun
day. More than twenty-five persons
suffering from heat prostraticn were
treated at the city hospital dispensary
and at the various hospitals through
out st. Louis ,o-day, and others were
cared for at their homes. In the ma
jority of cases the prostrations were
not serious. but two delths are re-
ported and ii is feared four or five of
the victims will die
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Favored Prisoners.

London, July 31.-Dr. Jameson and
his fellow prisoners. who were convict
ed and sentenced yesterday for viola
ton of the neutrality laws and invad-
ing the territory of the South African
republic in December last, have been
made first-class misdemeanants. which
allows them to have their meals from
outside Holloway Jail. to dress in their
own clothes. to have their mental work
done by other prisoners and to have
a small allowance of beer or wine.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07

The people who are waiting for a bet.
Ter bicycle might as well give it up.
There may be something to take the
place Of the present wheel, but as a
bicycle It has passed through all the
Efagss of evolution that purely me.
hanical contrivance can expect to en-
10y. When an invention reaches the
fage where men, women and children
adopt and use it, 1t must be supposed
HIP be nearly perfect.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
Crime. ,ud CrImiunr,

Mrs. Moore of New Martinsville. w.
va. is under arrest. charged with pois-
oning her stepson. Oley Moore.
A man Of Quincy, ILL.,. shot his uncle,
living at Kingston, south of the city,
and on being refused forgiveness by
the injured man, deliberately blew out
his own brains.
J. H. Tolt1ec. who was Grover Clevc-
lands secretary while lie was mayor
Ut Buffalo. GO unlitte.l suicide mt Ma
jave, CAL. by drinking carbolic acid.
1t is supposed that lie was temporarily
insane.
Lewis Council. TN old resident and
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
Accidentn, Hnppeninxs.

A fire in Ashtabula, Ohio, occasioncd
loss of $4,000.
\ half-million dollar fire occurred at
Terre Haute, Ind.
The street railway car barns in Chi
cago were burned, with a loss Of $780,
COO.
Walter Nunnemacher of Milwaukee,
Wis.,, was drowned in Lake Nago-
wicka.
Forest fires are devastating farms in
British Columbia. The smoke is so
dense along the coast that navigation
is impeded.
The body of Prof. Miller. a German
music teacher from Green Valley, was
found floating in the Illinois river near
Pekin. 1t is believed that he drowned
himself.
Mrs. Henry Leslie. blind in one eye,
did not see an approaching train ut
Springfield, ILL.,, and was killed. She
was As years Of age and leaves IL fam
lily.
William Skea fer fifteen years con-
ductnr on the hannibal st. Joe rail-
road, living at Hannibal, NO., was run
down and killed by train at Palmyra,
Mo.
Milton Rarger, 4 wealthy resident of
Shelbyville, Ind. slipped and fell head
foremost into cistern. He was res
cued alive, but will die from injuries
sustained.
The British bark Durdonald FROM
San Francisco, for Hull, which was IN
collision with the steamer Santaren:
on June IS, has arrived at Queenstown.
The Dundonald's top masts ARE gone
and hole was stove III her bow.
In consequence of the recent fire at
Fort Wingate, N. NJ, which destroyed
some of the barracks, it has been found
necessary to reduce the size of the gar
rison at that post and transfers are be-
ing made.
Heavy rains throughout West Vir-
ginia did damage to the extent Of
100000. Clarksburg, Weston, Glen
vile, Buckingham, Morgantown, Fair
mount and Piedmont suffered heavy
losses.
The people Of Malvern, Ark, are
much excited over a disastrous fire,
which almost wiped out the town. A
negro and two white men have Deen
arrested as incendiaries. and the Off
GERS of the law had some trouble to
keep them from tho hands of the mob.
The body of boy about II years Of
age was. found floating in the Ohio
river at Cairo. The question of his
identity was not solved for some time.
when it was found that he had fallen
into the river from a ferry boat some
weeks ago.
Miss Bessie Engle. a prominent
young society girl of Philadelphia. was
drowned at Ocean City. n. j., while
bathing. The body was rot recovered
The accident WAS witnessed by many
persons on the beach, and fog time
the greatest excitement prevailed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pheny Schwant OF
York township. Mich, partook of toad
stools, thinking they were mushrooms.
Mrs. Schwant is dead and the hus-
band is fatally i'll. NJ. and Mrs. Isah
Musscr and their son. J. +. Musscr,
and their hired man. John Long, par.
took freely Of the supposed mushrooms
and are seriously i'll.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-07
PRIVILEGES CURrA1LED.
DR.. Jim and His Fellow Prisoners
In NORWOOD Scrubbs Prison.

in NORWOOD Scrubs Prison.
London, Aug. DIR. Jameson and
his companions, Maj. Sir John Will
loughby, Col. Reginald Grey, Col. II.
y. White. Maj. Il. White and Capt.
Henry Il. Coventry. who were con-
victed and sentenced on Tuesday for
violating the neutrality laws in invad-
ing the territory of the South African
republic, have been removed to the
Norwood Scrubs prison. where all
will be treated as second-class INSIDE
meanants. The announcement made
yesterday that they had been made
frst-class misdem ell ants ut Holloway
prison, which allowed them to have
their meals from outside the Jail, to
dress in their own clothes. to have all
their mental work done by the other
prisoners, and to have small allow.
Ance of beer end wine, was only
temporary arrangement.
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NORTON for I,r..i0ent

Omaha, Neb.. July Billion. J. ster.
lirS Morton will be in Omaha to-mor-
row. 1t Is generally understood among
Nebraska Democrats that his presence
Is for the purpose of a conference rel.
alive to his presidential candidacy on
the gold standard ticket.
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retired farmer Of Aurora, m, commit.
ted suicide at PaWpaw, ILL.,, IN . at Of
dependency caused BY the death Of
his wife. He drank carb0lsc acid and
died In great agony.
James Griffin, twelve years old,
stabbed aud killed his sixtecn-year-Oltl
brother, Joseph Griffin, with a pocket
knife ut New York, during q quarrel
over the possession Of q base ball
mask.
Chinatown, San Francisco, is in q
furore Of excitement. War has been
declared among the factions of the SEQ
Yup company, and the murder Of Lee
I'll Is only an incident In feud which
is not expected to end until more blood
is shed.
Anton dishonesty, wealthy Bohe-
milan. shot bullet into his head ut
Omaha, Neb.. because he could not for
get. the terrible scene incident to thA
wreck at Logan, Iowa, few days
ago, In which so many people were
killed.
A few days ago Mrs. Raymond Sis.
sci and Mrs. Rich Dove, residing neaE
Xenia, ILL.,, were gathering blackber
ries. The two became quarrelsome
and conimenccd fighting. Mrs. Dove,
it is alleged, used a case knife on het
friend. Mrs. Sissel died from tho
effects of the wound.
When the people who are accustome3
to worship at the Pleasant Valley
church. in Barton county, Kansas, az.
senlbled there, they were surprised to
find that thieves had entered the build
ing and taken, the organ, which tho
congregation had paid for with the
proceeds of church socials and other
entertainments.
A report comes from Pike county,
Ky. that in fight between a party Of
revenue men, under command of KiI
Greer of Floyd county, and moonshtn-
ers. on Elkhorn creek, three Of the
raiding party and two of the sinners
We're shot, though how badly is not
known.
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THE NEWS RESUME
DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.

Comprehensive Review Of the
important Happenings OF the
Past Week Culled From the Tel.
eSraph Reports-The Notable
Events 1t Home and Abroad THAT
Have Attracted Attention.
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eace hath her victories no less re-
9Wned than those Of war;" The An
ut and Honorable Artillery company
~ oston has captured London without
ne u shot.
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1.-THE Hindoos burn their dead, and the
Fson who sets fire to the pile has him
slt shaved in every portion Of the
I'D and face, except only his cue;
nt if the person deceased, whether
|lnale or female, be younger than he,
(1hen he does not shave his whiskers.