The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-12-29
General,

Inc province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba,
is now under the Stars and Stripes.
Andrew Carnegie, it is rumored. will
establish a great shipyard near New
York.
A movement for the purchase of
street railway lines by the city has
been started in Chicago.
1t comes to light that the people of
Porto Rico have been badly swindled
by the Spanish government in the
finances.
-Four American war vessels have
been ordered to Havana, with the hope
that they will have a quieting effect
upon the people.
The steamer Rosalie arrived at Ia
coma, Wash, brings news that an eX-
odus of men is taking place from Daw-
son City.
A severe blizzard is raging all over
Texas. Wire communication is more
or less interrupted south of Dallas by
heavy sleet.
Mai. Gen. Merritt. Mrs. Merritt and
the generals aid-de-camp. Lieut..
Strothers. sailed from Liverpool for
New York OH board the steamer Luca-
mia.
Ground is soon to be broken at Pc
oria, Ill. for the Great Eastern distil-
lery. to be erected by Jacob Woolner.
The contract is let.
Col. Picquart's release is still de-
layed. owing to judicial bubbles be-
tween the civil and military author-
ties.
Gus Dunn was acquitted at Pittsfeld.
ILL.,. of the murder OF Alice Grimes. 1t
Was his second trial for the crime. He
was formerly a merchant in Nebo, and
Miss Grimes was Il teacher there.
The alumni of Princeton University
presented to the gunboat Princeton. mt
the Brooklyn navy yard, a large bronze
bell a library of GOO volumes and
massive punch bowl and ladle.
The ashes of Columbus were trans
ferred with military and sacredotal
ceremonial from the cathedral ut
Havana to the Condo de venadito. and
the cruiser sailed for Cadiz conveyed
by two gunboats.
The Ge1man-American Debentura,
another one of the New Orleans con-
Germs promoted by Jasper w. Ross,
who left the city just prior to the eel
lapse of the Metropolitan Bond ard
Looming association, is in bad way.
The insular cabinet has decided to
secure an efficient American supern.
tendent of the Porto Rican schools.
Gen. John Eaton, the we'll known edu.
Gator. and formerly United States COM
missioner of education, has been Sc
lected and sent for.
The biggest sale of wheat in many
years on the st. Louis exchange has
been made by Mike Shane, we'll
known trader. He disposed of 100000
bushels in five equal lots. Dan Miller
was the purchaser, and the price paid
was 6S 1-S cents.
Among the passengers arriving at
New York on the French line steam
Ship Champagne was Bisop Tikhon,
rewly-appointed head Of the Russian
church in America, although nominally
he is bishop Of the Aleutian islands
/ and Alaska.
Cubans residing at Lima are prepar-
ing to give an enthusiastic reception to
the United States battleships Oregon
and Iowa on their arrival in the north
ern passage along the coast, en- route
to join Admiral Dewey's squadron ut
Manila.
The New England Shoe and Leather
association has announced the assign
ment Of the Nudge Shoe company, with
factories at Newburyport and East
Rochester, N. H. The liabilities are
estimated at $125.OOO The capital of
the company was $125,OOO.
The Cnited States flag was unfurled
over the city hall at Mariana at 1890
o'clock Dec. 10, by Col. Young, COM
manding the battalion Of engineers, of
which detachment was drawn up in
the square, presented arms, and the
American and municipal officers pres
ent stood with barred heads during the
ceremony.
The schooner Middlesex. owned by
E. A. Shores Of Ashland, Wis, which
was caught in the ice foe at Pelee
island, Lake Erie, and badly crushed,
was towed into Cleveland completely
] waterlogged.