The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-03-20
Eoreixn Gossin

Foreign Gossip.
Dr. Bull. who was vice president Of
the reichstag in 1889, died ut Died
esclleim.
Reports from Rio JaneirO. Brazil. in
dictate that the total number of deaths
from yellow fever daily is sixty.
The massacre Of thirteen Armenian
families is reported from the district
OF Aloosh. and five Armenians are said
to have been killed at Kirchehir. in
the AngOra district.
The trial Of Engineer schorcn.
Lieut.. Pfeife and newspaper man
named Ringhauer, charged with be-
1l1ylng military secrets, began at
Leipsic behind closed doors.
The king Of Corea is still at the Rus
sian legation In Seoul. Internal up-
risings continue. 1t is rumored that
Japan is making advances to Russia
With the view Of arranging for dual
control of Corea.
The visit Of the sultan to the Ton.
kapou palace in the STEAMBOAT Quarter.
upon the occasion Of the mid Ramazan
festival, to perform the ceremony of
Kissing the prophets mantel, passed
on without any hostile demonstration.
1t is reported in Pekin that the
French government is supporting the
o1cr of syndicate loan of 100, 600, 900
taels. France to guarantee the interest
on the loan, on the security Of Gus
toms and other concessions.
Admiral Richard Meade, in q lecture
In New York on the "Carribean Sea-"
said that in case Of trouble between
the United States and Great Britain
over Venezuela, the first shot fired In
anger would sound the death knell of
the British empire.
A correspondent in Guayaauil. Ecua-
dor. wires that Gen. Plutario Bowen
has arrived at Tumaco and has issued
proclamation denouncing Alfaro as
man incapable of governing the
country and as rObber of the public
treasury.
Father, write articles. They will
bring more fruit than sermons. for
where the preachers words cannot
reach there newspapers do reach, and
people read them who never go to
hear a sermon" This is the advice
which Pope Leo MIL. according to
the Verona Fedele, recently gave to a
celebrated Italian preacher, Father
Zocchi.
Othervise.
Judge Clifford Stanley Sims of the
New Jersey court of errors is dead of
paralysis.
DR.. w. r. Palmer, one of the best
known of Virginia antiQuarians, is
dead in Richmond.
Eastern creditors Of the Waldo Park
Motor Railway company Mt Kansas
City, have asked that q receiver be
appointed for the property. 81
The state temperance union Of Kan.
sas has refused to adopt q resolution
denouncing Gov. NORTH for his failure
to enforce the prohibitory liquor law.
The strike of the painters and dec
orators Of Pittsbury and Allegheny for
uniform wages of s. per day, nine
hours a day and 50 cents an hour for
extra work has been virtually won.
At a conference held at st. Louis be-
tween representatives Of t0bacco firms
not members of the American Tobacco
company, it was decided to manufac-
ture cigarettes in competition with the
big Eastern combine.
Out Of twenty officers and men quar-
antined at the Ionia (NIich.) prison only
one so far is sick with smallpox, from.
exposure by A. s. Pettingill, who was
turned out Of the Detroit house OF cor.
rection and finally brought to Ionia.
A call has been issued for q meeting
of the Illinois Republican state com.
/ mittee to be held March 8 to choose a
successor of the late w. J. Campbell
as Illinois member Of the national com.
mittee.
e. II Sellers, president Of the Ma.
tional Council Of Patriotic Associa.
tons Of the United States, issued an
address at Detroit protesting against
the receiving by the government Of the
statue Of Pere Marquette, which has
been unveiled in the national capitol.
! The news of the decision Of the Stan
ford case caused the widest enthusi
asm among the students at the uni
versity at Palo Alto. Cal. They turn
ed cut on the campus in hundreds
cheering wildly and there was q great
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