The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-04-03
Foreign Gossip.


Foreign Gossip.
Nicaraguan rebels have been defeat
ed by the government troops in hard
battle.
The minister Of finance intends to
ask the cortes for authority to convert
the entire Portuguese debt.
Austria has agreed to help Germany
with an army should the latter coun-
try be attacked by France or Russia.
The Templemore has arrived at Liv-
erpool. She left San Francisco on Oct.
| 10.
Thomas O'Brien, the American
''bunco king" gets life sentence in
France for murder.
The agricultural products bill passed
its second reading in the house Of COM
mons after q multiplying amendment
had been defeated by vote Of 239
noes to 50 ayes.
The car, NJ. Pobedonostzeff, pro-
curator Of the holy synod; Gen.
Gourko and the prince of Montenegro
have sent congratulations to the Ne
gus.
Evidences of great activity, political
and commercial, in the affairs of
japan, China and the countries Of the
far East come to the legations in
Washington.
The papers in the city Of Mexico de-
clare that the ties between the Next
cans and Spaniards tighten daily and
that Mexico's position makes her nat
urally the vanguard against yankee
encroachment upon Latin America"
Earl Richard, residing few miles
west Of Toronto, has become raving
maniac from attending religious re-
commanded him to kill his wife and
!. Otherwise.
An inmate Of the Cleveland poor
house has fallen heir to $25O,O00.
The final scores Of the international
chess match by cable were: Ameri-
cans, AZ; Britishers, 81.
The United States steamship Ben
nington has arrived at San Francisco
from Honolulu.
Hon. David A. Daggart has been ap.
pointed assignee Of the Granite State
Provident association Of Nashua. N. Fl.
The new Salvation Army has taken
the name Of Goods American Volun-
teers."
! The Aurora cotton and wooden mills
Of Robert Callahan, Philadelphia, have
been seized ON execution. Liabilities
| $3.50, 600; assets, $55O,OO0.
Horace 8. Clark, one Of the promi-
nent candidates for the Republican
nomination for governor Of Illinois,
has issued q card Withdrawing from
the race.
Life insurance companies have ap-
piled for an injunction restraining the
state superintendent of insurance ct
Missouri from levying the = per cent
tax assessed by a recent law.
An unknown man who was found
dead in bed at the Hotel Carlton, Buff
falo. was identified by his relatives
as Edward Cullen, seafaring man of
Cleveland.
The inaugural bench show Of the st.
Louis Kennel club opened at tue ex-
position building with nearly 500 dogs
of which about 800 are owned in St.
Louis.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease g being strongly
urged as q candidate for the Populist
nomination for encouragement Of
Kansas, but she says she will not &C.
cept it.
The New York World has made a
poll Of nearly every state in the Union
and as result predicts the nomination
Of William Mckinley by the st. Louis
convention.
Owing to the bad run Of business
since leaving Philadelphia the Gus
tave Heinrich Opera company, which
has been playing French and Italian
opera at st. Louis, has decided to
abandon its engagements in the West.
\ phenomenon occurred at New
York. While it was yet showing there
were a number Of flashes Of vivid
lightning and heavy peals Of thunder.
The lightning appeared to be very
red.
Prof. Calvin Thomas, professor of
German in the University of Michi-
gan, has been made the choice of the
trustees Of Columbia university to I'LL
the chair Of Germanic languages and
literature, which has been vacant
since the death Of Prof. Hjalmar
Hjorth Boyesen.
Julius NJ. Vile, assignee Of Roths.
child, Baum & Stern, New York, has
filed his schedule Of the assets and liza.
bilities Of the firm. The assets foot
up as follows: Total nominal assets,
$4SG, GO128; total actual assets, 1884,.
rS:t2. The direct liabilities foot up
$37S, 15444.
The will Of Henry q. Bowen. late