The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-04-24
Evil Doings.

| Evil Dolngs.
Hiram A. Waite, city controller Of
Fort Huron, Mich, Is missing and 1t ID
feared he has been foully dealt with.
Mrs. Mary Alice Fleming (nee Liv-
ingston) will be put on trial April 20 at
New York for the alleged murder of
her mother, Mrs. Bliss, by poisoning.
Jesse White, charged with the MUIR
der Of Mrs. Hester Curtis last Deem
Der, was found guilty at Lafayette,
Ind. He will go to prison for life.
Investigation shows TINT the embez-
element Of Barnard, the cashier Of the
Fort Stanwix National bank in Rome,
! n. T., who committed suicide, aggre-
gates 100000.
The case of j. G. Yetzer Of Des
Moines, convicted of fraudulent bank
ing, was affirmed by the Iowa supreme
court. He will go to the penitentialy
for five years.
Henry Jacques. seventy eight years
lives on toast and water, tried to COM
init suicide by jumping from a Staten
island ferryboat at New York.
Hayde Sheriff, a boy thirteen years
old, is under arrest for starting num-
her of fires ut Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He
has made partial confession, and
there is no doubt about his guilt.
At Bow street police court ut Lon
don. Matthew Arnold, fifty-two years
Of age. we'll dressed, was remanded on
an eXtradition warrant charged with
embezzling the sum of $4,000 in Den
yer, where he said he had been clerk
in civil and criminal courts.
Attorneys for the Taylor brothers
of Carrollton. Mo-, against whom the
sentence of death for the murder Of
the Meeks family has just been upheld
by the state supreme court, have de-
cided to ask the supreme court for q re-
hearing Of the case.
A month ago p. Scott, a prominent
merchant Of Toronto, committed sui
eide by jumping of the Rosedale
bridge. A week later ]. Long, the head
waiter Of the Albany club, initiated
him with fatal results, and now John
Strachan. one of the locked-out tailors,
has made the same terrible leap. Al
though fatally injured, he is still liv-
ing.
One of the most atrocious crimes
ever committed in Hamilton county,
ILL.,, occurred in the Gornay settle
ment. Ben Boehmer, well-to-do farm
err. 40 years old, cut his wife's throat
and hanged his six-year-old son to q
rafter in his stable. After committing
these deeds he covered the bodies with
fodder corn to hide his crime and made
his escape to the woods.
From Foreign Shores.
King Oscar Of Sweden has arrived
at Genoa. 4
The English think Chamberlain is
tritling with the Egyptian question,
The municipal council Of Barcelona,
Spain. has decided to equip battalion
Of volunteers.
The Indians in some parts of the
State of Oaxaca, Mex, have risen to
protest against the increased state
taxes.
South and Central American presi-
dents have almost unanimously en-
dorsed the stand taken by President
Diaz on the Monroe doctrine.
The Cape Town Argus publishes a
dispatch from Salisbury. Matabele-
land, which says Cecil Rhodes is sick
of a fever.
There ia every reason to believe that
Walter Dygert, the young American
who has been held under arrest at
Guines, Cuba, under suspicion Of CON-
plicity with the revolution, will be a
free man in a short time.
The London Times publishes a dis
patch from Singapore which says that
III Hung Chang has abandoned his
American tour, but that after the
cars coronation at Moscow he will
proceed to London to see Lord Sails.
bury.
miscellaneous.
The Transcontinental Passenger asSo.
citation has been reorganized.