The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-01-17
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Foreign Gossip.
1t Is rumored that King Prempeh of
| Ashantee has been depOsed and his
younger brother proclaimed king.
The New South Wales parliament
has renewed for three years the sub
| sidy for the direct Canadian-Austr1-
liam steamship line.
The Turkish complications have
made Russia even more desiIous Of
completing her railroad. To accom-
plish the object she has sent h COM
mission to negotiate with American
contractors to assist in constructing
the great highway.
The Mexican government has grant
ed concession to George e. Detwiler
Of Chicago and Emil B. Barry Df Bos-
ton to build railway along the Pa
citic coast from Tehauntepec to the
Guatemala frontier. They get about
IS, 100000 subsidy. Contracts have
been given for 100000 worth OF
bridges on the Tehauntepec railway.
All doubts as to the safety of the
Australian steamship MiOwertl have
been set at rest by advices recently re-
ceived by Canadian Pacific railway
officials from Port Gamble, Where the
lumber vessel Gompers has just ar
rived, and reports that she sighted the
steamship during the day of Dec. %,
100 miles off Cape Flattery.
Mrs. Garrison Smith of Chicago is at
Quebec, having run down frpm OF
tawa, where she presented to Sir Mac
kenzie Bowel, prime minister and to
the members of the Canadian govern
ment, the petition Of the Sons of the
Revolution, asking permission Of the
Canadian authorities to erect q monu-
ment here to the brave, but unfortu-
nate Gen. Richard Montgomery, who
met his death in his aboftive attempt
upon the city on the 31st of December,
1775.
Miscellana Ous. ~. =
The government will Immediately
prosecute the Eastern trunk line pool.
West Superior is after the Wiscon-
sin semi-centennial celebration.
A strike of workmen in the Western
New York & Pennsylvania shops at
Buffalo was inaugurated.
The Baltimore & Ohio and Wiscon-
sin Central Railroad companies have
had a quarrel over rentals in Chicago.
A large portion Of the northwest Of
Stoddard county, Mo-, is excited over
the supposed discovery Of gold.
The New York Yacht club commit
tee has concluded the Defender inves-
tigation.
All the zinc smelters in the country,
with the exception Of four have
formed a combine with q capital Of
$2yAOO,OOO.
William J. Weeks of Yaphank, L. l.,
aged seventy-three, has issued chal-
lenge to all persons over seventy years
of age to skate him from so to 500.
tits estimated that 500 claims in the
Cripple Greek district on which own
ers have failed to do full assessment
work;in 1895, have been jumped.
Gov. Mckinley il satisfied with the
emergency measure passed by con-
gress upon the appeal Of President
Cleveland for aid.
The American China Development
company was Incorporated at Trenton,
N. o., with a capital Of $1,OOO,OOO. The
objects Of the company are to estab-
lish and operate steam and electric
railways and steamship, telegraph and
telephone companies in China.
The Sweets Manufacturing company,
iron and steel manufacturers Of. SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, that went into the hands
of a receiver last Saturday, resumed
operations by order of the court. The
company employs nearly 500 men.
It n stated in New York that the
Minnesota syndicate, in Venezuela got
Its concession on an agreement to aid
Venezuela In her trouble WITH Eng
land, and that the company has strong
political hacking.
Sculptor ]. Massey Rhinds' heroic
bronze statue Of John C. Calhoun as
ready Tor shipment to Charleston. i.
g.. and WIN be sent from New York at
once. The statue Of the famous South
ern statesman is thirteen feet higi, and
10 considered to be a remarkably line
reproduction Of sculpture.
Citizens Of Helena, Mont. have or
ganized the Rocky Mountain Postal
telegraph company, to purchase tile
plant Of the Old Rocky Mountain Tel
egraph company which has been oper-
ated for several years In Montana, and
will extend it's lines to- Ogden, Salt
Lake and Denver.
William A. Michael of st. Joseph.
Mo-, has obtained an injunction from
Judge Horton In Chicago. restraining
the Chicago bonrd Of tr.lde, the West
ern Union Telegraph company and the
Gold and Stock Telegraph company