The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-11-11
General.

The Cuban evacuation limit has been
extended by the president to Jan. /.
The National Council Of Women be-
gan its executive meeting at Omaha.
During the past fifteen months there
were 632 deaths out of 700 inmates Of
the Mazorro insane asylum at Havana.
The board of health of Memphis,
Tenn, has raised the quarantine, and
that city is now opcn to all points.
Chairman Babcock. of the Republic
an congressional committee, figures
out majority Of twenty-seven in the
next house.
The United States supreme court has
pronounced the joint traffic associa-
ton an organization in violation of the
antitrust law.
| The strike Of the ccmpositors against
tue typesettfng machenes at Antwerp
is extending, most of the papers being
unable to appear.
The Iowa supreme court decided
there can be no refund Of the mulct
liquor tax after liquor business has
been conducted more than six months.
Five more lake vessels have been
taken to the ocean for transportation
purposes. This makes forty nine lake
vessels taken to the ocean within
month.
The First National Bank of Lima, O.,
was closed by the directors. H. ].
Childs, who has been the cashier for
twenty years, has not been seen since
Thursday morning.
Heavy rain storms last week, caused
some damage at Havana. The water
vas over four feet deep in many of the
streets. flooding out dwelling houses
and stores.
Naval Constructor Hcbson, it is
said, is going to Washington to obtain,
of raising the sunken Spanish cruiser
Vizcaya.
Gen. Whittier, the collector Of GUS
toms at Manila, has been ordered to
proceed to Paris for the purpose of
testlfying before the United States
peace commission there.
At a meeting of the newly elected
board CT directors of the Union Pacific
railroad, the present officers We're re-
elected. The executive committee was
reelected, with E. II. Hartman as
chairman.
Gen. Harrison returned to Indian
apolis Saturday. He said he was too
lusy to enter the campaign. The gen.
eral said the Venezuelan commission,
after meeting in Paris in February, as
required by treaty, would probably
adjourn until Nav.
It is reported to the Boston Shoe and
Leather exchange that the Boston Rub
Der Shoe company has been absorbed
by the United States Rubber company,
and that Mr.. Converse. it's president,
will become director in the new cor
poEation.
1t is stated that the expected reor-
ganization Of the Union Pacific and Or
egon Short Line and the Oregon Rail-
way & Navigation companies will have
the effect of consolidating the short
line and the Oregon Railway & Navi-
cation concerns into one system to be
operated from Portland. Ore.
The will Of the late Mrs. Joseph P.
Smith, wife of the late secretary Of the
bureau Of American republics, names
President Mckinley, Solicitor General
j. X. Richards and Edward F. Hutches
as executors Of the estate. The Presi-
dent was warm friend Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Smith during their lives.
The Alabama state health depart
ment, officially declared OF all quaran-
tines by ths< state Of yellow fever In.
fected districts and relieved from duty
the quarantine officers on all trains.
This Will enable railroad traffic and
commerce, which, has been badly hand
icapped, to be fully resumed.
David L.snfder, sone Of two bachelor
brothers, who gave Springfield, Ohio,
valuable park, is dead, aged eighty.
two, leaving an estate worth 5000
GOO. The other brother, who died two
years ago, left $1OO,O00 for the sick
lpoor Of the city. Il. NJ e, .5-7 \