The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-05-29

long and excited chase they ran down
Chester Gray, saw mill employe.
F0reix n Gossip.
Great Britain asks clemency for the
filibusters sentenced to death by the
Spaniards.
The Spanish minister for the colo.
MES, Senior Tomas CastellanO, intends
to resign.
The lockers strike at Rotterdam has
assumed an ugly aspect. The civic
guard, police and marines have been
called out to protect the workers.
Capt. Napiers column, while on its
way to escort Cecil Rhodes column,
had skirmish with and repulsed the
Matabele tribeSmen.
The British steamer Woolwich, Capt.
Baebun. which sailed from New York
April 5, for Jeddah, Alden, Singapore,
ETC., is ashore on Shab-el-keger reefs.
The Abyssinians have liberated the
Italians who were made prisoners at
Agama, and it is said that Ras Man.
gasia will liberate the balance within
q week.
In addition to the two infantry regi.
ments ordered from India to Suakim
for garrison duty, a regiment of caval.
ry, a mountain battery and detach-
ment of engineers will proceed as soon
as possible to Africa. $50
The university at Budapest, in COM
memoration of the millenial celebra-
ton, has been authorized by Emperor
Francis Joseph to confer the honorary
degree Of doctor Of medicine on DIR.
John Shaw Billings of Philadelphia.
The correspondent in Guayquil, Ec-
uador, telegraphs that earthquakes of
some violence continue at intervals in
the mountain provinces of Manobi and
Bahai. Two slight shocks were felt in
Guayquil.
The London Daily Courier confirms
the report that Dr. Jameson's raid into
the Transvaal failed because Cecil
Rhodes wished the reformers to revolt
under the union jack, while the latter
insisted upon the Transvaal flag.
The students of the polytechnique in
Rio de Janerio raised a serious disturb.
ance. They maltreated the professors,
shouting death to the Directors!"
down With the Monarchyw Long
Live the Republic!'
A Rome dispatch to the London Daily
News says that there are rumors there
that Mgr. Galimberti, whose death oc
Cured on May Z, was poisoned. A post
lOrtem examination of the remains has
been demanded.
Sir John AIillais, president of the
Royal academy, is reported to be suf.
fering from cancer of the throat. Sur.
geons operated upon the distinguished
patient, and the alarming symptoms in
his case were much relieved.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Sinla, India, says that native troops
are being ordered to Suakim for gar
rison duty, and that two infantry regi.
ments will start from there for Suakim
as soon as possible.
Sir Hercules Robinson, governor of
Cape Colony, will sail for England May.
20, for the purpose of discussing the
South African situation with Joseph
Chamberlain, secretary of state for the
colonies.
According to the official returns, the
French customs receipts for the first
four months of 1896 show increases in
imports to the amount of 1877 100000
francs and Of exports to the sum of
100000 francs, as compared with the
same period Of 1895.
Miss Gloria de Cespedes, only daugh-
ter of the late Charles Manuel de Ces.
pee cs, first president of the Cuban re-
public. and twin sister of Carlos Man
uel de Cespedes, now governor Of the
Oriental province, Cuba, was married
to Charles Abon de Lima in New York
.>.--
Otherwise.
The pallium was conferred upon
Archbishop Kahn at st. Louis.
According to the government report,
the condition of winter wheat is Sc
points above the April average.
Prof. Langley, of the Smithsonian
institution, has invented flying ma
chine which is completely successful.
The Monterey (Mexico) Waterworks
company has been organized, with a
capital of 100000.
Adams & Pettingill, shoe manu-.
facturers Of Amesl,ury, Mass, as
signed. The factory was closed Satur-
day by Sheriff Reynolds.
About 100 employees Of the Salem IN.
j. knitting mills, which are owned by
John p. Shepard, went on q strike on
account of q reduction in wages.
President NJ. NJ. Garland, of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, has announced the com.
mittee to settle the iron wage scale.