The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-12-18

Samuel j. Heron as postmaster. The
Office Is twenty-eight miles north Of
Chflkat and 100 miles southeast Of
Juneau.
People In Print.
Patrick Mcguire, the distinguished
political leader and editor, died at his
home In Roxbury, Mass, from the eff
fects Of a paraytic stroke: s ~
Cardinal Satolli has denied that he
made any report to the pope concern
ing Archbishop Ireland or any other
Catholic dignltary.
+ DR.. Charles j. Lafflin Of New York
has been made insane by African fever
contracted while with Bishop Taylor
in Africa.
Charles Cushman, the only brother
of the late Charlotte CushmAn, the
great American actress and dramatic
reader, died in London. He was sew
enty-six years old. Z.
Mrs. Angelina Allen, better known
in the theatrical profession as
"Curves," from the symmetrical pro-
insane retreat in Hartford, Conn.
james Wesley Dorsey, an old colored
man Of Springfield, Ohio, has fallen
heir to a large fortune left him by
Peter Shaffer, wealthy planter Of
Frederick county, Md.
A. T. Hatch, at one time the greatest
orcllardfst in the world, has suffered
reverses which will probably result in
the loss to him Of his extensive orchard
of $50 acres in the Suisum valley, Cali
fornia.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Wilson, widow of
Henry Wilson of st. Louis, is dead at
Montclair, n. ]. She was sixty-five
years of age. Mrs. Wilson was d.
rect descendant of Rev. Judah Cham
pion, of revolutionary fame.
The reports circulated in the United
States that Max .Alvary, the tenor, is
critically i'll are misleading. The sing
or recently underwent a successful OPP
Grafton which resulted in a complete
cure. g
Casualties.
William Cooper, living at Clay City,
ILL.,, while out hunting recently had
three fingers shot off his left hand and
his eye shot OUT
II lEe III IuC COdl SuSelS VI CuO A1OStOA
& Maine railroad at the rear of the
$4,000 damage.
Natural gas wrecked the $40, 600 resi-
dence of v. A. Weaver Mt Moundsville,
w. Va. The inmates OF the house cs-
capped with slight injuries. :
The residence of United States Chap
lain N. G. Blaine at Fort Ringgold,
Tex, was burned and both Blaine and
his daughters were burned to death.
The home of Luther Greenman. a
farmer of Perry, N. Y, burned and the
entire family, consisting Of five per-
sons, were burned to death.
The steamer Dallas City, plying be-
tween Portland and the Dalles, struck
on the rocks in the Columbia river and
sunk. Her passengers were saved.
Five prisoners in the Bedford, Ind,
fail started q fire to burn their way out.
but the fire was discovered before It
got much Roadway.
Engineer Henry Sloss end Brakeman
Jan.s Bolden were seriously injured
in train wreck ON the Fittsburg, She
mango 4 Lake Erie road, near Spring
bOrO, Pa.
A very destructive cyclone struck tie
town of IkalstOn, on the Arkansas
river, fifty miles northeast of Perry,
Ok, Thursday night, and nearly wiped
out the town Of about 200 houses.
The fires which have been raging in
the asphaltum mines of a st. Louis
company near Fort Cherne in Utah,
have been extinguished, and prepara-
tions for recovering the bodies Of the
dead will be begun at once.
Alexander Rioux, master mechanic of
the Dollar Bay (Mich.) smelling works,
fell thirty feet from q ladder and sus-
tanned compound fracture of the
: thigh. His recovery is extremely doubt
full. q. stssgzsssYy
w. F.. Heron, sheriff Of Plymouth.
county, Iowa, was found dead. by the
side Of the railroad track between Mer.
rill and Lemars. Marks In. the, snow
show that he fell or was knocked from
train. III ~, ~ ! ~ x
F. Advert, young and sturdy. Ger
man living near Hinsdale; H.; rescued
four young women who had broken
through the ice while skating fin Salt
creek this afternoon.
AS the result Of q head-e4d@ collision
between two electric cars near Pasa-
dena, CAL, p. G. E.. Frost, a Chicago
capitalist, lies at the Westminster no
tel in Los Angeles in critical condi-
ton
The wife Of 'ex-Mayor Joseph $.
Brown of Somerville, Mass, was
burned to death III q. fire which de-
stroyedi the family residence. Mr.
Brown was also severely burned, and
!. II. Winds, o ledger in the house, only
escaped by jumping from his chamber
window to. the ground. .f7f.15 4.
EVIL Doings. I.
z burglars blew open the door Of the
vault OF the. Relleyille, Kan, bank but
failed to get into the money safe.
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