The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1897-06-25
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Overflow From the Wires In a Con.
ilenacSl Form.

Overflow From the Wires in n Con.
lenncd Form.
Russia has agreed to assist The Unit
q! States in the better protection of
seals in the North seas.
a formidable movement is on foot to
Dust Russell Sage from tho presidency
of the Iowa Central railway.
Giuseppe Verdi. the celebrated conf
poser. now in the cighty-third year of
his age. is reported seriously i'll at
Rene.
dispatch from Paris announces the
marriage of Puvis dc CEavanneS. the
famous painter and Princess Canta-
cllZcne.
Elmer Dahl. eight years old. son of
Martin Dahl of La Crosse, was
drowned by going into the river over
his depth.
Within Il short time three furnaces
in the Mahoning valley, Ohio. which
have been out of blast for some time.
will resume.
Judge Joseph Siblcy died at Quincy
ILL.,. aged eighty years. He was ON
the circuit bench from 1850 to 1879 and
served two years on tho appellate
bench.
James Ocstcrlr. one of the pioneers
of Sharon, Portage county. Wis. co.n-
mitted suicide by shooting himself il,
the right temple. lie was eighty-rwo
years Of age.
John NJ Francis. senior proprietor
and editor-in-chicf of the Troy Times,
ard eN-ministcr of the United States
to Austria. Greece and Portugal died
ut his home in Troy. y. Y.
Richard Oates. proprietor of tho Con-
trail house. Calumet. Mich. left for
Chicago one month ago yesterday,
promising to return in five days. No
word has been heard from him and
foul play is suspected.
Rev. Lorenzo ID. AIcCabe. u. d., Ill.
D.. for fifty years Il professor in the
Chic Wesleyan university and dis
tinguished author and theologian in
tho Methodist church. died at Della
ware, Ohio, in his eighty-tirst year.
The tdcll WOodcnwarc Company of
st. Louis. whose stock for the third
time liz as many years was burned last
week, filed Il general assignment for
the benefit of its creditors. The lia-
hslitics are $S0OOO; assets. SS:,ON
Henry b. Stone. formerly vice presi-
dent of the Chicago. Burlington Il
Quincy railroad. and for the last sevsll
:yz Ss president q tpe G9ieage re l.,
service in July, having other plans in
view. g.. .r-s. 4. -
Mrs Marion Kelly, handsome
young widow from San Francisco. has
brought suit at Butte Mont. for So
coo damages for breach OF promise
against Oscar Bell, mining engineer.
and to get title to $:,O.OoO worth of
property which he had promised her
and which she is now in possession of.
The Mexican official gazette de-
nouLces the report published in the
United States that the government has
granted a charter for gambling houses
at Tijuana. Lower California. The re-
quest was recently made by some
| Americans for Il charter for lottery
in Lower California but the govern
mcnt did not consider the petition.
The statement that Julia Marlowe
and her husband. ,obc~t Tahor. will
Star. separately fitxf Season sea S true rue
Miss MarlUwe has gone to Europe to
secure some new plays and will APP
pear under the management of Mr..
Frohman next season. This in nowise
affects tho domestic relations of sir.
and Mrs. Tabor Mrs. TaDcr will
| Stage he.' plays.
DESPITE the fact that lie was COM
PEELED to testify i'll the Davis will case
to the effect that he believed the sig
nature to the alleged will to be n
forgery. George NJ: Xwell. after twenty
wears service as paying teller for the
First National Bank of San Francisco.
has been sumnarily discharged for
having violated the confidence OF that
Institution in his startling testimony.